Chinese fans are not surprised by Aiello's declaration of winning the Asian Cup.
In their impression, Aiello is the kind of top player who is full of motivation to win any competition.
What is even more valuable is that he does what he says and then follows through.
In addition, the configuration of this Chinese team is quite luxurious, so winning the Asian Cup is not a problem at all.
More than half of the twenty-three players recruited this time are players from Europe.
Among them, Ai Luo, Wang Xiaolei, Wu Xi, Hao Junmin, Gao Lin, Feng Xiaoting, and Peng are playing in the five major European leagues, and they are all main players.
Players such as Zhao Xuri, Jiang Zhipeng, Yang Xu, Yu Hanchao, Yang Xu, Wu Lei, Zhang Xizhe, Tang Miao, and Ji Xiang have also worked hard in other European leagues to secure a main or main substitute position.
Therefore, the lineup is much more luxurious than other national teams in Asia, and the Chinese team also has the world's top superstars like Ai Luo, which is unique in Asia.
If it weren't for the rule that the Asian Footballer of the Year can only be selected within the scope of Asian professional football, otherwise Aiello would have won the Asian Footballer of the Year every year since his birth.
Players from other countries have no hope at all, so in On the day Ai Luo returned to the team, the AFC official website updated: It is hoped that the favorite Chinese team can win the first Asian Cup championship in history.
In fact, the AFC does not need to say this.
The current Chinese team knows how to do it, and the Chinese team captain Ai Luo has already expressed his desire to win the championship in an interview with reporters.
Thinking of Ai Luo's words, it is not Many Chinese fans are mentally prepared to welcome the Asian Cup champions.
Because Chinese fans have been waiting for this championship for too long.
Since participating in the Asian Cup in Iran for the first time in 1976 and winning third place, the Chinese team has failed in the Asian Cup knockout rounds many times.
Among them, the best results were the 1984 Singapore Asian Cup and the 2004 local Asian Cup.
Both reached the finals, but missed the championship.
Especially the 2004 Asian Cup finals at Beijing Workers Stadium, the whole game was 60 times.
Six minutes ago the score was still 1:1.
But then a very controversial scene occurred.
Shunsuke Nakamura took a corner kick from the right, and Koji Nakata, who was ambushing in front of the goal, blocked the ball into the goal with his hand.
Multiple slow-motion replays can clearly see that it was a handball, but The referee on duty turned a blind eye and had to accept a 1:3 home defeat to Japan, finishing second.
Everyone knows that the Chinese team is the strongest team in Asia, but not all national teams think that the Chinese team will win the final championship.
The new head coach of the Japanese team, Italian Zaccheroni, is in Singapore’s preparation team for the Asian Cup.
In an interview with reporters during the game, he said: "The Chinese team is indeed very strong, but this is Asia.
The top competition, the Asian Cup, coupled with the characteristics of the football game, a strong team may not be able to win the final championship.
I think the Japanese team has a high championship temperament.
In the past 1992, 2000 and 2004, they all are champions, and so will the Asian Cup in Qatar next January."
In addition, Australian head coach Holger Osik and South Korean head coach Zhao Guanglai both believe that you can't win the championship by just talking, and can only be announced after the specific game is over.
At the same time, they also believe that the national team they coach can go to the end and win the championship.
Win the Asian Cup trophy.
The day after Gao Hongbo returned to the team with Ai Luo and Wang Xiaolei, the Chinese team conducted a week-long closed training at the Kunming training base.
The training content was mainly based on passing and cutting to cooperate with offense.
Of course, the tactics still revolve around Aiello, who has the strongest scoring ability in the team.
No coach will ignore a player with such a strong scoring ability like him.
On the contrary, he will focus on utilizing it, because as each team improves their performance, Pay attention, defense becomes more and more important, and breaking dense defense becomes a problem that strong teams need to solve.
Now this Chinese team is among the top in Asia.
Therefore, even if Gao Hongbo thinks about the problem with his toes, he knows that the three opponents in the group stage will definitely use intensive defense to deal with the Chinese team.
Therefore, before the start of the Asian Cup group stage, he must Strictly formulate and master a set of tactics with Ai Luo as the core to break dense defenses.
Before heading to Doha, the Chinese Football Association found an opponent for the Chinese team in a warm-up match.
The opponent was Saudi Arabia, a veteran Asian team.
The match location was Hofuf, a Saudi Arabian city close to Qatar.
The purpose of the warm-up match is very obvious, that is, to adapt to the weather in Qatar before the start of the Asian Cup in Saudi Arabia.
Because the players of the Chinese team either play for European clubs, or play for the Chinese Super League, K-League, or J-League, they are all in a cold stage at this time, and Qatar has a tropical desert climate, with hot and humid summers, strong light, and the highest temperature.
The temperature can reach 50 degrees Celsius.
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Only the winter months from November to March are cooler and suitable for competitions.
In order to allow the teams from various countries participating in the Asian Cup in Qatar to compete at a temperature suitable for the competition, the Asian Cup held in the summer was deliberately moved to January.
However, many players have adapted to the cold weather, and it will always take a process to adapt to the cool weather again.
Therefore, in order for the Chinese team to perform at its best in Qatar, the Chinese Football Association contacted the Saudi Arabian team, hoping to start the Asian Cup.
In a warm-up match before, the Saudi Arabian Football Association thought that Japan, a technical team in Group B, was similar to the current Chinese team's playing style, and the two sides hit it off immediately.
The Chinese team's first Asian Cup group match against Kuwait was on the 8th, so they flew to Saudi Arabia on New Year's Day.
In order to achieve good results in this year's Asian Cup, all the players of the Chinese team had to become aerialists on the first day of 2011.
Aiello also used his free time to post on Twitter and Weibo to wish fans across the country a happy New Year and express his belief in winning the championship.
Ailuo did not expect that in just a few minutes, it would be forwarded hundreds of thousands of times on domestic Weibo.
It must be said that with the development of smart phones, more and more people use their mobile phones to access the Internet directly.
Therefore, Ailuo has become more and more confident in WeChat, which is developed by its Internet mobile software company in cooperation with Penguin.
Closer to home, the Chinese team played a warm-up match with Saudi Arabia on the 3rd.
After ninety minutes of fierce battle, the Chinese team, which played with all its main players, defeated Saudi Arabia, which also played all its main players, 4:1.
Therefore, Chinese fans watching the live TV broadcast also became more confident in the Chinese team's journey to win the Asian Cup.
And those other Asian giants who were paying attention to the Chinese team's preparations were surprised.
This Chinese team was really more difficult to deal with than they thought.
Saudi Arabia, which played with all its main players, was defeated by intensive defense despite having the right time, place and people.
We played a 4:1 game, what about the game that was also played on a neutral court?
I shudder just thinking about it.
The AFC official website was updated simultaneously, praising the Chinese team as a well-deserved favorite to win the championship.
At the same time, Valencia, far away in the Iberian Peninsula, began to live without Aiello.
Even though they faced the Spaniards in the middle of the league at home, they played very awkwardly.
If it weren't for David Villa's last-minute strike, If the free kick is scored, then Valencia will get a draw in the first league game after the winter break.
The Chinese team took a flight to Doha in the afternoon after finishing the warm-up match with Saudi Arabia.
It was half a day later than the Saudi Arabian national team that flew to Doha in the morning.
In other words, the Chinese team, which is full of confidence, will be in the 16th round of the Asian Cup.
The national team finally arrived in Doha.
In this regard, Gao Hongbo shrugged when interviewed by the official AFC reporter and said: "Although we are the last to arrive in Doha, we are definitely the last team to reach the end."
The implication is that the Chinese team is the last to arrive and will win the final Asian Cup championship.
But when these words reached the ears of Zaccheroni, Holger Osik, and Zhao Guanglai, they were aggressive and did not take the national team they led at all.
The Chinese team in Doha did not conduct closed training like other national teams, but conducted open training in a generous manner, but the premise was that it could not affect the normal training of the Chinese team.
Being able to train in the eyes of the public, naturally it will not be any secret tactics, it will be the most common practice of crossing and outflanking.
The night before the game, that is, the night of the 7th, Tang Shun, chairman of the Football Association, who came to Doha to supervise the game, held a small meeting with all players and coaches in the hotel conference room accompanied by head coach Gao Hongbo.
Sitting in the middle of the conference room was Tang Shun, chairman of the Football Association, who did not put pressure on the team, but kept the story short: "As the old saying goes, it takes a day to raise an army, but it takes a moment to use it.
We will start the 2011 China Team Asian Cup journey tomorrow afternoon.
In the first group stage, we are fortunate to be The biggest favorite to win the Asian Cup, but I hope everyone will face themselves, take the game seriously, take every game seriously, and never relax.
Don’t forget that there are hundreds of millions of Chinese fans in China waiting for our triumphant victory.
So we cannot let them down."
Tang Shun's impassioned performance made many members of the Chinese team full of energy and even wished they could compete in the Asian Cup soon.
However, the Chinese team's first Asian Cup group match will be held at 45:45 tomorrow afternoon, which is 9:15 pm Beijing time, so they can only compress the mood of this game and save it for tomorrow's game.
On the night of the meeting of the Chinese team, Valencia played against Villarreal in the second round of the Copa del Rey 18 finals.
With a 4-0 victory in the first round, everyone thought that Valencia, who was a guest at the Love Song Stadium, could It would be very easy, but Valencia, who played with half the main force, unexpectedly lost 0:2 As everyone knows, this is the aftereffect of adapting to Aiello and suddenly not having Aiello in the game.
Aiello shook his head while watching the live broadcast of the game, as if the team would not be able to operate well without him
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