In the summer of this year,

There's so much fun, so much fun.

For example, Greece, which has the highest odds, won the final European Cup.

Beckham missed the penalty when he took the penalty because the turf was too slippery,

And Dong Fangzhuo really wanted to call Rooney,

Tell him

Beware of Ronaldo.

But he didn't think it was necessary, what should have happened still had to happen, and then Rooney and Ronaldo were not still friends?

But

Dong Fangzhuo didn't see it, because he remembered it wrong, Ronaldo pit Rooney was the quarterfinals of the 06 Germany World Cup, not the 2004 European Cup.

But England's results weren't good.

Of course

He still saw Cristiano Ronaldo's tearful cheeks as he lost the European Championship at home.

this

It's our football youth at the beginning.

Guys,

Don't worry

When I get back to England,

I will work with you to rebuild the Manchester United dynasty.

will resist Chelsea's rule together,

will fight together against the attack of the Cosmos team Barcelona.

And then

It was the 2004 Asian Cup.

This is an Asian Cup to be held in China.

When he reported to the national team, Dong Fangzhuo did not receive a cold reception.

In this team, there are too many Liaoning and Liaoning players, and his teammates take good care of him.

He has a different future in football, and everyone takes good care of him as a little brother.

Moreover, the attitude of the national team to call him into the national team on a temporary basis speaks for itself.

merely

Take care of it, in terms of arranging the starting lineup, Dong Fangzhuo is still a marginal figure.

It can't be that because he has scored a dozen goals in Europe's third-rate league, he can sit in the main position of the national team.

Hao Haidong is still the core of the national team's striker.

Dong Fangzhuo was already very lucky to be able to sit on the bench.

Of course, Dong Fangzhuo didn't care about the starting position,

At least for this year,

He doesn't have the ability to compete for the main position, and watching Big Brother play on the bench is actually a pleasure.

In the opening match on July 17, 2004, the national football team was unfavorable.

Facing the newly rising West Asian upstart Bahrain, the national football team played quite hard.

In the 41st minute, the national football team conceded the first goal;

In the 58th minute, Zheng Zhi equalized with a penalty kick and scored the first goal of the national football team in the Asian Cup;

In the 66th minute, Li Jinyu scored a goal to overtake;

Dong Fangzhuo got the opportunity to appear in the last five minutes and represented the national team early.

But

His appearance did not change the fate of the national team.

The Bahrain team still staged an equalizer before the end, making the national football team's hopes of getting off to a good start in front of the home fans.

But Dong Fangzhuo is not worried, because according to the development of history, the Chinese team can at least reach the final round.

The defeat in the first game made the second game of the national football team even more inmissible, facing Indonesia, the weakest team in the group, the national football team not only had to win, but also won big, and the national football team finally achieved this.

Shao Jia, the new core of the national football team, made a big show in one game, scored two yuan alone, and Hao Haidong also scored a goal.

The veteran Li Ming, who had unfortunately lost the South Korea-Japan World Cup list, staged a corner kick and scored directly, and the substitute "Emperor" Li Yi was the icing on the cake, and the national football team won this key victory 5-0.

Dong Fangzhuo went on for another five minutes, but he still didn't make any achievements......

"Xiao Dong is really here to brush up on the appearance time!"

"It seems that his injury is not actually good, it is purely a brush of time."

Chinese fans are even more convinced that Dong Fangzhuo was summoned to brush up on playing time and fight for labor certification.

After that, they played three more games in a row until before the final.

Originally, he wanted to be silent about what was about to happen, as he did with Rooney, but this time, because of his patriotism, he decided to do something.

In the final against Little Japan, of course, we can't sit idly by.

But what can you do yourself?

Ran to Alihan and said, can I start and score for the Chinese team?

Dong Fangzhuo has no bottom in his heart.

What's more, from the beginning of joining the team, Alihan told him very seriously,

Considering that his injury has not fully recovered and there is a possibility of a recurrence, he will not let him start.

On August 7, 2004, the Chinese national team stood on the stage of the Asian Cup final for the second time in history.

20 years ago, the national football team reached the final, but ultimately lost to Saudi Arabia;

20 years later, can the new generation of national football team realize the dream of their predecessors?

No

Or not.

Dong Fangzhuo could only remind his teammates in training that the Japanese team's set-pieces were terrible, and he must be careful of the Japanese's set-piece tactics.

But

Tragedy still happened.

At that time, the Japanese team was led by the popular Shunsuke Nakamura, and Noho Kawaguchi, Takayuki Suzuki, Tsuneyasu Miyamoto, Mitsuto, Yuji Nakazawa and others were also meritorious players who made a historic round of 16 in the South Korea-Japan World Cup, and it was not easy for the national football team to defeat this opponent.

In this competition, Li Weifeng, the main central defender of the national football team, was injured and absent, and Sun Jihai, who played the main team in Manchester City, was actually substituted! And the veteran Hao Haidong in the semi-finals made a comeback.

In the 21st minute, Shunsuke Nakamura used his iconic free kick to cause chaos in front of the national football team, and Takashi Fukusai received a teammate's header to score a goal, and the national football team fell behind by 1 goal;

Only 10 minutes later, the national football team equalized, Yan Song broke through on the left side and made a low cross, and the veteran Li Ming met the ball with a low left-footed shot, 1-1!

In the ensuing game, the two sides reached a stalemate.

The balance was shattered by a controversial scene in the 66th minute.

It was Shunsuke Nakamura's free kick that created a killing opportunity, Koji Nakata played the "Hand of God" in front of the goal to score the ball, but the referee ruled that the goal was valid, and the national party fell behind again in such a wronged way.

In the 78th minute, the national football team got a great opportunity to equalize again, and Li Yi, who came on as a substitute for Hao Haidong, got a single knife, but he did not choose to shoot directly, but chose to try to dribble past the opponent's goalkeeper Kawaguchi Nenghuo, and was finally destroyed by the latter.

The national football team lost a great opportunity to equalize, and Li Yi also became the finger of a thousand people after losing this single knife.

In the final moments of the game, the national football team poured out of the nest to try to equalize, but the emptiness of the defense cost them.

At the last moment, Dong Fangzhuo went into battle, but he played soy sauce again!

In stoppage time, Shunsuke Nakamura provided an assist again, Keiji Tamada shook Liu Yunfei with a single knife and easily scored an empty goal, the Japanese team won 3-1, and the national football team lost the Asian Cup championship at home!

"What if! If it was Dong Fangzhuo who played first, not Li Yi, would Dong Fangzhuo be able to score that goal? ”

Fans are assuming.

But

There are no assumptions on the football field.

Even if Dong Fangzhuo was the first to play, he couldn't guarantee that he would be able to score that goal.

or

Probably not even this opportunity.

history

It still hasn't changed.

And then

The nightmare begins......

It's not terrible to lose the championship, but what is terrible is that in the more than ten years since the defeat against Japan, Chinese football has lost generations of young talents in a mess.

Maybe

The only thing that makes Chinese fans happy is that

After six rounds of the national team,

Dong Fangzhuo finally successfully obtained the labor certificate......