Five hours after the match between China and Australia, the other semi-final between Japan and South Korea was over.

In the end, Japan and South Korea were tied 1:1 in 90 minutes, with one goal each scored in extra time, and 120 minutes of the game ended in a 2:2 draw and entered the penalty shootout.

In the penalty shootout, Japan's first two players scored, but the first three penalty takers of South Korea's players all missed penalty kicks, and Japan eliminated South Korea 3-0 in the penalty shootout.

In this way, the Japanese team will meet the Chinese team in the final.

The final of the 2004 Asian Cup was repeated......

After this result came out, the Chinese media and netizens were boiling.

Countless people have reopened the Asian Cup final seven years ago at this moment, giving science to those who have not watched it before, or don't know about that final, the grievances between Chinese and Japanese football.

In the eyes of the Chinese, this year's Asian Cup will be the best chance for the Chinese team to take revenge. Because our morale is booming, our state is just right, and at the same time, we still have the big killer of glory, and we must ask Little Japan to pay off its debts that year!

Of course, there are also a lot of national emotions mixed in here, because as we all know, China and Japan have a deep blood feud in history.

Although everyone likes to say something to keep politics away from football.

But it never really happened.

When the Chinese team plays against the Japanese team, it will definitely be mixed with a lot of national emotions. Not just football, basketball, volleyball...... This is true for a qiē sport as well.

Who called competitive sports "wars in peacetime"?

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The Chinese players, who had already returned to the hotel from the court, were the first to know their opponents in the final.

"Japan!"

", that's great! Be sure to have a good job with Japan! ”

"I'd love to touch South Korea, but Japan is also a good opponent!"

Everyone was very excited to talk.

Rong Guang saw this scene next to him, and asked Sun Hai a little strangely: "Why is the opponent in the final against Japan so happy?" ”

"Hey, that's a long story...... You know the eight-year war of resistance, right? ”

Rong Guang nodded—this is a household name in China.

"It has something to do with this. Also, we've played against Japan many times in football, and we always lose, whether it's the national team or the club game. We've been left behind by Japanese football, so it's more like beating them...... In the Asian Cup final seven years ago, we were with them, and we lost 3-1 to them on our own home soil, when the Japanese scored a handball...... If it weren't for that handball, I don't think we would have lost to them! ”

As soon as Sun Hai said this, he was indignant.

He was the only player from the national team to play in the 2004 Asian Cup on home soil, and he was supposed to be a substitute in the final against Japan, but later when Ali Khan needed to step up his attack, he was sent on to replace winger Yan Song.

However, his appearance on the court did not change anything, and the Chinese team still lost the game.

It should be said that the entire Asian Cup was like a thorn in Sun Hai's heart, not just the semi-finals.

Because in that Asian Cup, Sun Hai, who was considered one of the best players in the Chinese team, was pressed on the bench by Ali Han and missed the start.

Sun Hai always felt that he didn't play any strength at all in that Asian Cup, and in the end, he ended the Asian Cup held in his home country and lost the opportunity to win the Asian championship.

He didn't think he would ever get any closer to the Asian champion in his lifetime...... In the 2007 Asian Cup, although Sun Hai also participated in it, he was still the main force, but the Chinese team was eliminated in the group stage. After that, he faded out of the national team for a while.

If it weren't for Glory joining Manchester City, he might not have been able to participate in this Asian Cup at all.

It's not that he has gained a lot of opportunities to be exposed in front of the media with Rongguang, but because there is such a pervert as Rongguang around him, Sun Hai also pressured himself to train hard, maintain his condition, and be able to participate in high-level games as a substitute in Manchester City, which means a lot to him.

And the reason why Gao Hongbo chose to bring him to the Asian Cup is also because he has maintained his good form at Manchester City. So a special case recruited a veteran like Sun Hai.

Now that Sun Hai has reached the final of the Asian Cup again, does he still have a chance to touch this highest honor in Asia?

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Rongguang suddenly fell silent when he saw Sun Hai talking, and turned his head to look at him and found that he had fallen into a state of distraction.

"Brother Sun?" He called.

Sun Hai was called back to God by Rongguang: "Ah, I'm sorry. Anyway, everyone thinks that this final is the best to meet Japan, and that gives us a chance to get revenge. ”

However, Rongguang then asked a question that made Sun Hai speechless: "The Japanese team ...... Is it strong? ”

Sun Hai choked on saliva and coughed.

Even if Sun Hai and Rongguang have been teammates in the club for two and a half seasons, he still seems a little defenseless when Rongguang suddenly asks such a question......

But if you think about it carefully, such a question may only be asked by someone like Rongguang......

Because Glory really doesn't know much about the world of football that surprised him.

After playing in Europe for so many years, I know a little bit about European football, and I don't want to ask "Is Real Madrid strong?" "Who is Totti?" …… Such a question.

But he really didn't know anything about Asian football.

Even if he comes back to participate in the Asian Cup, it doesn't mean that he knows much about Asian football.

In fact, a lot of the time, he doesn't even know what the opponents and players on the field are called. He may not know any of the biggest names in Asian football.

He took the initiative to go to the Jordanian goalkeeper to exchange jerseys for Shafi because he admired Shafi......

After coughing, Sun Hai began to give Rongguang popular science Japanese football.

He started with the glory he remembered later.

In the beginning, the level of Japanese football was among the lowest in Asia. They only participated in the Asian Cup for the first time in 1988, and before the 1988 Seoul Olympics, their national Olympic team had just been eliminated by the Chinese Olympic team, which was also the first time in the history of the Chinese Olympic team to break into the Olympic Games.

At that time, Japanese football was basically beaten by Chinese football, and Chinese football was already suffering from "Koreanophobia".

In the 1988 Asian Cup, Japan drew only one of its four games and failed to score a single goal, losing the remaining three games.

Since then, however, the level of Japanese football has improved.

In the 1992 Asian Cup in Japan, they won one win and two draws in the group stage as the host, not only achieving the first victory in the history of the Asian Cup, but also entering the semi-finals of the Asian Cup for the first time. In the semi-finals, Japan's opponent was China.

And this time at home, the Japanese team eliminated the Chinese team 3:2 and entered the final. In the final, Japan defeated Saudi Arabia, the traditional Asian hegemon at the time, 1-0 and won the first Asian Cup title.

In 1993, Hideo Shimada, the seventh president of the Japanese Football Association, began to draft the "Centennial Dream of Japanese Football", commonly known as the "Centennial Plan", with the help of the Japanese team's Asian Cup victory. After losing the 1994 World Cup qualifiers, Japan's centennial plan was fully implemented, and the start of the J-League also put Japanese football on the fast track.

In the 2000 Asian Cup in Lebanon, the Japanese team defeated the Chinese team 3:2 in the semifinals to enter the final, and finally defeated Saudi Arabia 1:0 to win the cup, establishing its position as the new hegemon of Asia.

In the 2004 Asian Cup, the Japanese team had good luck in the knockout stage and finally reached the final, defeating the Chinese team 3-1 in the final to win their third Asian Cup title. And successfully defended his title for the first time.

The Japanese team also won the championship this time, and together with the old powerhouses Iran and Saudi Arabia, it became the team with the most championships in the history of the Asian Cup with three championships.

Japanese football has won championships and victories again and again, and the gap between it and Chinese football is getting wider and wider. They are no longer the objects that Chinese football could beat back then, but Chinese football has become the object of being beaten by Japanese football......

Today, many players play in the European leagues, and the Japanese national team has not missed every World Cup finals since reaching the World Cup in 1998. In the 2002 World Cup on home soil, he also set the best result in the quarterfinals in history.

When Chinese fans are still looking forward to the Chinese team being able to enter the World Cup again, they have become a force to be reckoned with in world football......

“…… In short, Japan is strong, very strong. I hate them, but I have to admit them - they are the best team in Asia! Sun Hai said with a stern face.

"Asia's strongest......" Rong Guang muttered in his mouth, muttering to himself and chewing on Sun Hai's words just now.

Then he clenched his fists sharply and nodded vigorously: "Sure enough, a good opponent worth defeating!" ”

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At the Khalifa Stadium, at this time, the stadium has become a sea of joy for the Japanese to celebrate their victory, with Japanese fans singing in the stands and Japanese players hugging each other to celebrate the victory.

Especially with a circle of Japanese players gathered in the stadium, it looked like they were celebrating a hard-earned victory.

But the Japanese players weren't actually celebrating the victory.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we have finally waited for this opportunity! In the finals, let's go all out and beat Glory! ”

Makoto Hasebe, the captain of the team, looked at his teammates and said with a serious expression.

Shinji Kagawa, Keisuke Honda, Yuto Nagatomo, Hohito Endo and other players of the Japanese national team also nodded vigorously in unison.

"Let us tell everyone that glory is not invincible!"