Chapter 299: The One Who Knows the Times is Junjie (10100)
After this article by Zhang Wendong of "Sports Weekly" was published, it also attracted hype and attention from the media. The two sides debated the issue fiercely.
Those who support Rongguang's participation in the Asian Cup think that Zhang Wendong is secretly changing the concept and talking nonsense. The Chinese team is not the French team, Alihan is not Jacques, and the glory is not Cantona - it is almost the same to say that the glory is Zidane. Now there is still half a year before the Asian Cup, and it is completely possible to start running in the team's lineup and tactics from now on.
Those who oppose Rongguang's participation in the Asian Cup believe that the current Chinese team is not weak, and it is playing at home and has a great chance of winning the championship. There is no need to be any more powerful. In order to enhance such strength, the lineup and tactics that the team has worked so hard to run in have been overturned and restarted, which is to pick sesame seeds and lose watermelon, and the gains outweigh the losses. And Rongguang suddenly joined the team as a pure newcomer, how to deal with the locker room relationship? In terms of achievements, although he has only played professional football for two years, he has won more heavyweight championships than all other international players, and his value is also the highest in the history of Chinese football. It's just that you say that he is an old qualification like Hao Haidong, but he is still a raw melon egg, how do you let those old international players face him in daily training and games!
So judging from the atmosphere in the locker room, Rongguang is qualified to be selected for the national team, and he can't ask for it.
Destroying the unity and stability of the team, no matter how strong he is, it is useless. Football is an eleven-man sport, and even if he really stands out from the crowd, if he doesn't have other teammates on the pitch to help him, he can't play his strength.
Both sides have their own positions and reasons, and their reasons are very convincing and reasonable.
So no one can convince anyone.
Of course, among the fans, those who scold the Football Association still account for the vast majority, and they will not understand and support the Football Association's approach just because "Sports Weekly" endorses the Football Association.
Scolding the Football Association is a "politically correct" approach among Chinese fans.
Anyway, it's right to scold the Football Association.
It's just the scolding of the fans and the pressure of public opinion that can't change the mind of the Football Association.
In the midst of the controversy, the Football Association remained silent.
What they want to say has already been said through Zhang Wendong of "Sports Weekly", so there is no need to bother to speak. All along, they have been this noble and cold image.
They don't care what the media says about them, and they can't care what the fans think. In the media and fan groups, there are many black histories of the Football Association, and I have not seen them come out to say or do anything.
Moreover, they did not dare to have the media call the Football Association in person, so that they could explain clearly about the glory.
When the Asian Cup was about to be held, no one in the Chinese Football Association dared to offend in person.
So the Football Association can remain silent in the face of media doubts.
No one can shake them - it is not the Chinese football scene that will set off the storm in ten years.
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In the media and on the Internet in China, everyone quarreled about whether Rongguang should be selected for the national team to participate in the Asian Cup, but Rongguang didn't care about this at all - he didn't even care.
He still trains and competes step by step.
During this time, he played a German Cup match. Although he didn't score, he still used excellent attacks to help the rest of the team contain most of the opposition's defensive attention.
In the end, Werder Bremen defeated Grett from the Bundesliga 3-0 away game.
But there is not much to say about this game, everyone has begun to get used to the performance of Glory.
However, another German Cup quarter-final became the focus of attention.
The match was Bayern Munich's away challenge to German second division side Aachen.
Bayern Munich, who played away in the first half, fell behind by two goals, and the score of 0:2 put them in a big crisis.
And even worse was the performance of the Bayern Munich players on the pitch.
Heathfield played the main force in this game, a group of experienced and powerful veterans, this squad is not not weak.
Bayern Munich have fallen too far behind in the league and Heathfield will be hoping to seize the opportunity of the German Cup to at least have a title.
He has decided to leave Bayern Munich after this season, but before he does, he wants to win at least one title to keep his reputation alive and prove to those who have been questioning and laughing at him that he is not old enough for them to insult!
That's why he's very important about the German Cup.
But who would have thought that the Bundesliga boss who was the main force in the first half would achieve this dick......
In the away game, he was beaten by the second division brother Aachen and couldn't hold his head up, and conceded two goals in a row!
Heathfield stood on the sidelines, watching the game, and what chilled him more than the score was that he couldn't see the possibility of his team winning on the pitch.
Even if it is an away game, there is a big difference in strength between the two sides, how can it be played like this?
He looked at the veterans.
Are they really losing momentum?
Is it really no longer possible to rely on these old guys who fight the world with themselves?
Seeing that the first half was about to end, Heathfield, who was standing on the sidelines, closed his eyes.
He felt a pain, the pain of a collapse of faith.
He realized that the one he had been sticking to was no longer working.
He has to make a change, or he could now say goodbye to this season's title race early and end up with nothing.
In the face of sticking to his principles and the brutal truth, what choice should he make?
Heathfield, who closed his eyes, came to mind the image of Bayern Munich's away game against Werder Bremen in the first half of the season.
It is the figure of Glory changing direction and sprinting back and forth in front of the world champion Lizarazu, and it is the figure of Lizarazu who was clumsy and hardworking but was finally shaken off his knee and fell to the ground.
The hard-working old guy is hurt, but the old guy who stays on the court is smart......
Young, young......
Eventually, Glory's energetic figure took over Heathfield's mind.
He broke past Jeremes, Ballack, Lizarazu and Link, and scored the ball into Kahn's goal, which was replayed over and over again in Heathfield's mind.
Heathfield, who closed his eyes, finally lowered his head, and he bowed his stubborn head to the harsh reality.
That's it.
Those who know the times are Junjie.
For the championship, for the dignity, for the fame...... Why make a change?
Towards the end of the first half of the German Cup quarter-finals, Heathfield, who was standing on the sidelines, suddenly looked like he was ten years older. He hung his head and his back was slightly hunched.
But he had already made a decision in his heart.
It's time for a change.
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In the second half of the season, Heathfield made three young changes in one go, with 19-year-old "Little Pig" Schweinsteiger replacing Salihamidzic, 21-year-old Misimovic replacing Pizarro and 19-year-old Trokhovski replacing veteran Sauer.
In midfield, Heathfield changed his previous rigid tactics and played a big move.
Schweinsteiger went to play right midfield, which is his job.
Trokhovski is a versatile midfielder who can play in any position, so it's normal to replace Sauer at left midfield.
Misimovic played as a second striker, but in reality the Bosnian excelled in the midfield. However, Heathfield did not have a forward position at all in this tactic - Glory was also changed from a forward to a striker by Heathfield at the beginning of Bayern Munich.
The substitution was made at half-time and Heathfield showed his mettle.
In the end, this seemingly devastating adjustment had a very good effect.
In the second half, led by three young men, Bayern Munich burst into great energy as they completed a Jedi counter-attack at the Tivoli Stadium.
In the 61st minute, Schweinsteiger suddenly shot a cold arrow outside the penalty area, and the football flew straight into the corner and flew into the goal of Aachen!
"Schweinsteiger! Nice long shot! He helped Bayern Munich pull a goal back! Now they're only one goal behind! To the cheers of the narrator Bella Reddy, Schweinsteiger ran with open arms.
He thought of what manager Heathfield had said to him at half-time.
"Use your strength to change this game, Schwein."
How could Schweinsteiger not know what this sentence meant?
In the first half, he watched from the sidelines in a hurry, and he didn't know how many times Lu Dao had thought about what he would do after he played......
Now that the opportunity has appeared in front of him, if he still doesn't know how to seize it, he really deserves to be a substitute for a lifetime!
This beautiful long-range shot made him clearly feel that he had seized his opportunity and choked fate!
A bright future seems to have been blasted out with this kick!
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"Little Pig" Schweinsteiger's long-range shot sounded the **** horn for Bayern Munich.
Misimovic then scored a goal to equalise for Bayern Munich, who was playing in a position he was not familiar with.
Bayern Munich's desperate counterattack in the second half frightened Aachen, and the Bundesliga team only remembered that it was not a nobody, but a dignified Bundesliga hegemon, Bayern Munich!
The huge psychological gap made Aachen's players unable to play in the following games, and in the end they were reversed by Bayern Munich 3:2 with a two-goal lead and failed to qualify for the semi-finals of the German Cup......
However, Bayern Munich came to a Jedi counterattack in the second half, a shocking reversal.
The best performers were naturally the three youngsters who were brought on at half-time. Schweinsteiger and Misimovic both scored, and although Trokhovski did not score or assist, his breakthroughs and passes on the flanks of the front field also put a lot of pressure on the Aachen backline.
They proved to Heathfield the strength of young people, and also strengthened Heathfield's somewhat wavering heart.
Rejuvenation is already an inevitable trend, and it is absolutely wrong to blindly ignore it, turn a blind eye to it, and avoid talking about it.
Heathfield have decided to use more young players in the upcoming league as well, to give them more playing time, to get them involved in the race for the main positions in the team, and to stimulate the old guys who don't seem to be hungry.
He hopes that the dynamism of these youngsters can make a difference in the backwaters of Bayern Munich.
If the rest of the game was played like the second half of this game, maybe ...... The league title, not entirely hopeless?
Heathfield's heart was alive again.