Chapter 235: The Visit of the National Youth

And Barcelona's events are frequent, and recently they are two matches a week, and Han Sen's mind is not on this at all, because the back-to-back home games with Basel in midweek will be Barcelona's Champions League group qualifying battle, and the weekend is a league game with Valladolid. And just when the competition was dense and full of gunsmoke all the way, Zhang Linfan also called, saying that he had been selected for the national youth team to compete in the final stage of the U-19 Asian Youth Football Championship held in Saudi Arabia in November, striving to impact the Shijie Youth Football Championship place, and the team has now set off from China for a series of overseas training, and will rush to Barcelona in midweek, after the Champions League in midweek, a warm-up match will be held with Barcelona's youth reserve team, and then it will go to Saudi Arabiato start the official competition. At the beginning, the players who were selected in Shanghai East Asia with Han Sen and Zhang Linfan are Cao Yunding and Wang Yunlong, which are teammates that Han Sen has never seen since his transfer, even Zhang Linfan, who is often in contact, was just a quick glimpse at the Shanghai 80,000 Stadium for the Olympic Games, and it was too late to talk deeply.

In this year's U-19 Asian Youth Championship, the participating teams will be national players born in 1989-1990, and will also participate in the 2012 London Olympic Games qualifiers, if they have outstanding performances in the final stage of the Asian Youth Championships, they will qualify for the 2009 U20 World Youth Championships. The Olympics is now a lingering complex for Han Sen, not to mention that with his current fame and strength and the unprecedented success of the Beijing Olympics, it is entirely possible to enter the Olympic team in four years as an overage player. So in this way, Han Sen can be said to have a different kind of feelings for this team.

And Pep Guardiola played the whole game for Hansen. There seems to be a reason for this, as the midweek game against Basel has been followed by a three-game winning streak. The group stage has accumulated 9 points, and it is facing the opponent who won 5-0 in the last game, and the qualification is almost worry-free, on the contrary, the league is only 1 point ahead of Villarreal, and the league still has 29 games and 87 points to fight, the advantage is weak. Therefore, most of the main forces, including Han Sen, watched from the sidelines. Samuel Eto'o, Lionel Messi and Xavi's current top three goalscorers are all on the bench. Han Sen did not enter the squad directly.

At the beginning of the game, Basel let Barcelona pass continuously, and they were not in a hurry to counterattack. The ball always runs in the Basel half. Unlike Barcelona's previous games. The first 10 minutes didn't go well for the goal. But without Xavi, Barcelona can only reach the possession midfield, but there is no rhythm and precise distribution. Iniesta and Victor? Sanchez's double forward midfield made Barcelona lose balance on the left and on the right. Interestingly, Barca, who are taking the initiative in attack, must wait for the opponent to attack to find a counter-attacking goal, or wait for Busquets' position to push forward and make short contact with Hleb, otherwise Barca will remain paralyzed on the right side. The unreasonable allocation of firepower. Made the football of Barcelona a bit boring in the first half. Including Puyol as a right wing-back is also difficult to polish. While Puyol assists positively, so what? Puyol only gave Alves a rest, and his cross was not as powerful as centre-forward Bojan was short and the second-tier attacking team couldn't keep up. Set-pieces, however, can pose a bit of a threat to Basel. In the 34th minute, Max's direct free kick was high. In the 35th and 42nd minutes, Barcelona issued indirect free kicks, and Henry and Pique's headers were held by the opposing goalkeeper. Pep Guardiola made a change in the 60th minute, bringing on Xavi and Messi at the same time. Coming on for Victor Sanchez and Bojan, his substitutions were immediate. Only 1 minute passed. Messi turned around on the right rib and broke through, and Henry at the front of the penalty area played a quick kick to the wall, Henry turned his back to do it, Messi pushed his left foot into the lower left corner from 17 meters in front of the goal, 1-0, scored 4 goals in 4 games in the Champions League; In the 81st minute, Silvinho took a free kick from the right side, Marquez nodded the ball to the back post, and Pique hit the post with a header from 3 meters in front of the goal! However, Basel equalized a minute later, when Calitos crossed from the right and substitute Deldiyok swept a right-footed shot between two defenders nine yards out, the ball bounced into the top corner of the near post to make it 1-1. The goal ended Barca's recent 11-game winning streak in all competitions, but it didn't stop Barca from qualifying for the Champions League with a draw! Barcelona's winning streak was ended, which did not make Barcelona fans feel much sadness, the most important thing for the team at present is not the winning streak, but the team can win the championship at the end of the season, not to mention a draw is enough for Barcelona to advance to the round of 16. In fact, the most difficult thing for Barcelona fans to accept is the injury of midfielder Andres Iniesta in the game, the post-match examination showed that Iniesta has a muscle tear in his right leg and will have to be out for one and a half months, which is equivalent to saying goodbye to the 2008 game early.

Andres Iniesta was injured in the 67th minute of the game, when he was uncomfortable feeling touching his right leg on the ground, and he offered to be replaced, and Pep Guardiola was quick to replace him with Samuel Eto'o. After an initial examination of Iniesta, the team doctor said that Iniesta had a tear in his quadriceps muscle and that he would need to rest for at least six weeks.

Barcelona will face Real Madrid at Camp Nou on 14 December, but Andres Iniesta will struggle to match the battle of the century, and Iniesta is likely to miss the full list of Barcelona fixtures - from 30 November to 21 December, Barcelona will play Sevilla, Valencia, Real Madrid and Villarreal in the league. Andres Iniesta has rarely been injured in the past, and experts believe it is likely to be related to his inability to get enough rest in the summer due to his participation in the European Championships. However, compared to previous seasons, Barcelona has improved a lot in terms of injury control, and this season, it is rare for the team to have major injuries. Moreover, Iniesta's injury does not mean the end of life for Barca, whose bench is extremely thick and Pep Guardiola's rotation system is also running quite well. Iniesta's vacancy, if it is on the left, then Henry or Hleb can be replaced, if it is a midfielder, Hansen, Busquets, Gudjohnsen and other players can fill it. Barca's quality will not be significantly affected.

It's just that for Han Sen, the first goal in the Champions League on behalf of himself and Chinese football was further delayed.

"Brother Sen! Over here! As soon as Zhang Linfan came out of the passage of Barcelona Airport, he waved to Han Sen who came to pick up the airport from afar, he was not the first national youth player to walk out of the channel, most people have already recognized Han Sen, including Han Sen, who also saw the arrival of the national youth team, but Zhang Linfan's move is nothing more than to let everyone see how familiar he is with Han Sen.

Han Sen also smiled and waved at Zhang Linfan from afar.

Although Han Sen is about four years older than these young people, for these eighteen or nineteen-year-old, second-tier players from various small and medium-sized clubs in China, the current Han Sen is a god-like existence for them. Now that I see the real person in front of me, I am naturally so excited that my face is flushed, and most people want to say something but can't say it.

"Whole team, whole team, don't go far." A middle-aged man wearing a baseball cap, his face was red and black, and he saw that he was also an athlete when he was young, first scolded the team members harshly, and then turned to Han Sen with a smile and said, "Hello Han Sen! My name is Liu Chunming, I am the coach of this team, thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to visit our team here. ”

"It should be, it should be." Han Sen thought to himself, he didn't play yesterday.

Zhang Linfan really didn't open any pot and mentioned which pot: "Hey, you didn't go to Barcelona last night to watch the Champions League!" ”

"Rotate!" Han Sen hurriedly said.

Liu Chunming also set aside Zhang Linfan, signaled him not to take the lead, and then introduced the players and working members of the team to Han Sen one by one, this time the national youth team came with a total of 23 players, 1 head coach, 3 assistant coaches, 1 team doctor and 1 manager. The squad comes from 18 clubs at all levels and is under the age of 19.

Speaking of Shanghai East Asia, the largest number of people were selected, Cao Yunding, Zhang Linfan and Wang Yunlong were selected, and Han Sen sighed: "Wu Lei, this kid!" He didn't make the cut? (To be continued......)