In Utrecht, the Netherlands, the players of the Chinese national youth team deepened their understanding of "how much attention and welcome Glory has in Europe".

Every training session of the Chinese team that is open to the outside world will be surrounded by reporters.

Among these journalists are a large number of foreign journalists.

Obviously, they're all here to report on the glory.

However, the vast majority of the players in the national youth team are not jealous. On the contrary, it is actually a good thing for them.

Of course, these people are here to see the glory, but if they perform well in training, will it also make these people look at themselves a little more?

If you perform well in the game, can you also be glorious, favored by the European media, and even attract the attention of European teams?

An honor is equivalent to an advertisement for everyone in the national youth team.

Therefore, the players of the national youth team also performed very hard in training.

Except for one person - Dong Zhuofang.

Dong Zhuofang's attitude in training was relatively lazy. He has always been like this, it was like this before Rongguang came to the team, and it didn't seem to make him feel a sense of crisis after Rongguang came.

He and Rongguang are in a similar position, it stands to reason that they should be competitors, and he should work hard.

But perhaps Dong Zhuofang felt that it was impossible for the team to play a single striker tactic, so he must have a position.

Compete with Glory for the main position? He didn't think about it, but it shouldn't be a problem to compete with the rest of Gao Lin for a starting striker position.

As the only two foreign players in the team, do you still let me sit on the cold bench if I don't start? So why should I come to the World Junior Championships?

I'm the top scorer in the second division, so it's impossible to not even start in the national youth team, right?

Dong Zhuofang has such self-confidence.

Below the glory, you are the best!

Seeing that the first group stage of the World Youth Championships is approaching, Dong Zhuofang has no sense of crisis at all.

He looked down on those players who played in China, and even more so on those who couldn't play in China and could only come to Germany for training.

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With two days to go before the opening game against Turkey, Krauchen drew up a starting line-up for the Chinese team. If nothing else, this will be the starting line-up that everyone will see in the game.

As the leader of the team, Feng Mingjian also saw the list, and then he asked: "Why is there no Xiao Dong?" ”

Crouchen shook his head: "Because he doesn't meet my requirements, his competitive state and physical condition are not up to standard." ”

"But...... He is one of only two foreign players in the team, and his quality is outstanding. We should try our best to start players with outstanding strength...... "Compared with Rongguang, Dong Zhuofang is the player that the Football Association really values, because he is a person who really comes from the Chinese football system, and compared with Rongguang, he will naturally be regarded as "his own person" by the Football Association.

Crouchen didn't care about that: "No, Feng, you are wrong. The starting lineup is not based on who is stronger, but on who is in better shape. Dong's condition is too bad to let him play. And you can also see the football that the team is playing now, which has high requirements for speed, and Dong will definitely not be able to keep up. ”

Feng Mingjian felt that this statement was wrong: "Xiao Dong Ke attracted the attention of Manchester United with his speed, how can he say that he can't keep up?" ”

"I'm not talking about the speed of his running, I'm talking about the speed of his race. The speed with which he gets into the game, the speed with which he passes the ball in the game, the control of the pace of the game, he can't do it. If he plays, there will be a slow in the uniform fast, which will disrupt our overall rhythm. So he can't start. ”

'If he can't start, then what are we calling him in?' Feng Mingjian was annoyed by Crowchen's stubbornness.

"I don't know if he's going to be like that." Crawford spread his hands.

Feng Mingjian was so choked that he didn't speak.

But he's also making excuses.

Because from a technical and tactical point of view, he said that he could not win against Crawford, and he had to admit that Crawford was right.

Dong Zhuofang's problem is not that he can't see it, but he ...... Sometimes, the problem of Chinese football is not just the problem of football.

He finally found an excuse: "But Dong Zhuofang is very popular among domestic fans and media, and he is almost not inferior to glory." If you didn't start him, what would the media and fans think? It's fine if you win the game, but if you lose......"

It's not the first time that Crouchen has dealt with Feng Mingjian, he has been training here for more than half a year, and the two of them have been constantly clashing and colliding, how could he not know what Feng Mingjian wanted to say.

So he immediately said categorically: "I said, if I lose the game, I will take full responsibility, and I will resign voluntarily." It's like I said when I recruited Rong. ”

"I hope you don't joke about Chinese football, Crouchen."

"I never joke about football!" Crowchen's tone was resolute, not giving in the slightest.

Feng Mingjian looked at this stubborn old man and opened his mouth, but in the end he didn't say anything.

Because he knows very well that if the Chinese team suffers a defeat at the World Youth Championships, it will definitely not be done by Crowchen's resignation...... As an insider of the Football Association, he knows too well the ability and style of the Football Association.

If the Chinese team loses, then Crowchen's stubbornness will be the best...... Excuse. The Football Association is very good at finding scapegoats, which is similar to the English media.

Thinking of this, Feng Mingjian suddenly felt a little sorry for this old man. Feng Mingjian is also a professional, and he can see that many of Crowchen's actions are right, but Crowchen is fighting against the Football Association...... It's a bureaucracy, and there's a lot of stuff in it, and it doesn't mean that if you do the right thing, it's necessarily the right thing.

As the Chinese team leader, there was a lot of friction in the process of cooperation with Crowchen, but in fact, none of the two of them had a conflict because of personal grudges, because Feng Mingjian had to represent the voice of the Football Association in this team.

And the Football Association will definitely turn Crawford into conflict, especially after they don't want to continue working with Crawford.

Crowchen, a stubborn old man, still fantasizes about leading the Chinese national youth team to achieve good results, and then being able to coach the team to continue to prepare for the 2008 Olympic Games?

Then he was really dreaming.

Feng Mingjian, who knew the inside story, thought so in his heart. Some things end in a predetermined way......

Feng Mingjian was also helpless in this regard. It's just that as a person in the system, even if he wants to change, he is powerless.

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As the first match approaches, so does the attention paid to the World Junior Championships.

CCTV has also opened a new column called "Tulip Football", which reports in detail on the preparations of the Chinese national youth team in the sports news at 6 p.m. every day.

The day before the competition, they broadcast a video of Rong Guang being interviewed by reporters.

In the interview, Rong Guang talked eloquently about the World Youth Championships.

If you only watch his interview, you will definitely not believe that Rong Guang did not know anything about the World Junior Championships before.

This is naturally due to Debola. After receiving the news of the interview, Debora specially collected all the information about this World Youth Championships for Rongguang, and asked him to make up for it, so as not to ask: "What is the World Youth Championships?" "Such an idiot's question to ......

Rong Guang showed his confidence in front of the Chinese fans, and many fans were also full of expectations for the future of the Chinese national youth team in this World Youth Championships.

As the most famous star of this World Youth Championship, Glory should not disappoint them, right?

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Then the first round of the group stage of the World Youth Championship of the Chinese team came like this......

On June 10, it was the opening match of the World Youth Championships, and Benin from Africa drew 1-1 with Australia from Oceania in Coclyde.

Japan then became the first team in Asia to play and welcomed hosts the Netherlands on the same field.

They ended up losing with a score of 1:2.

On this day, the players of the Chinese national youth team were gathered in the conference room of the hotel to watch the match between the Japanese team and the Dutch team.

In Asian football, Japan has always been the imaginary enemy of Chinese football – no matter how strong they are, but Japan is an eternal enemy. Especially after losing to Japan in the Asian Cup final on their home turf.

Japan is the best and strongest youth football player in Asia.

But they all lost 1:2 to the Netherlands.

This made the leaders of the Football Association who came with the team to supervise the game show a little nervous look on their faces.

The opponent of the Chinese team on the second day, Turkey, was the runner-up of the European Youth Championships!

After the game, the two leaders mobilized the players of the Chinese team before the game.

Crowchen sat next to him, his face gloomy – he hated these things, but as the head coach of the Chinese team, he had to put up with them. It made him feel bad.

The first to speak was Xie Longya, the new full-time vice president of the Chinese Football Association, who continued the tradition as his predecessor Yan Duoshi liked to mobilize before the game.

And even what is said is no different from the style of the predecessor.

What "the youth team has no other way out, if you want to qualify from the group, you must fight to the opponent", what "you have to be worthy of yourself, don't leave regrets for the World Youth Championships"...... Wait, there's not much new.

Compared with Xie Longya's cliché, Cui Linda's mobilization was a little exciting.

"Boys, be like AC Milan's Kaka, in the Champions League final, with the spirit of not admitting defeat!"

Rongguang has never watched the final of the Champions League so far, and I don't know why Kaka refused to admit defeat at the last moment...... But is this Kaka's sissy style?

Glory couldn't help but feel a little fugue.

And Cui Linda's mobilization continues: "...... We must learn from the Chinese women's volleyball team and women's tennis, and fight tenaciously in the game! ”

But he didn't just say the big words, he also mentioned the real thing: "Utrecht is home to a lot of Turks, and there will definitely be a lot of Turkish fans at the game. In the game, the team has to overcome the disadvantages on the pitch and get the mentality right. In addition, don't complain about each other, resolutely obey the head coach's arrangement, and resolutely stop the occurrence of disunity! ”

Speaking of which, he pointed to head coach Crouchen.

Signal that the man is the head coach and everyone should listen to him.

Crowchen smiled back.

And Glory is almost asleep......

What a boring pre-war mobilization.

He thought to himself.

This is the first time he has participated in the pre-war mobilization of the national team.

It's completely different from the club team.

In the club, the coaches will talk about very practical things, such as bonuses, such as holidays...... That's what everyone cares about the most......

What is the spirit of women's volleyball and women's tennis...... I don't even know how to learn!

Glory complained silently.

He felt that this kind of pre-race mobilization was really an ordeal, and he just wanted the game to start quickly.