3-2 kill vietnam, the national football team won the first victory of this year's round of 12, Li Tie sighed after the game: "Luck is on our side."
Luck is a very mysterious thing, sometimes not.
The last time the national football team played against Saudi Arabia, it has been more than 6 years, and that 1-0 game ended the embarrassment of 18 years of unwinnable opponents.
Years later, looking back at that game, I can't help but sigh:
"Luck is really on our side".
Took office
After leading the national football team home 1-5 Thailand, the "working emperor" Camacho left, and later he took 30 million yuan in liquidated damages from the Chinese Football Association.
On February 28, 2014, the national football coach finally ended the 8-month "empty window period".
The romantic Frenchman Alain Perrin, at the Evergrande Hotel in Qingyuan, Guangdong, took up his post.
It is said that during that time, Lippi was implored three times to take over the national football team, but the silver fox refused.
At the inauguration press conference, Perrin said: "I am very grateful, the Chinese Football Association can give me the opportunity to work as the head coach of the Chinese national team, which is a very big responsibility for me, I am not working for myself, I am working for the whole of China, China is the largest country in the world, I am very willing to cooperate with Chinese, I have my own work experience, I am willing to integrate with the Chinese team in culture and football, and complete a good coaching." The Chinese people will make my job easier, I love Chinese culture very much, and I often eat Chinese food in France. ”
"More importantly, I share the same values as Chinese, discipline, and hard work. My personal goal and the Goal of the Chinese Football Association are to enter the 2018 World Cup in Russia and help the Chinese national team improve its FIFA rankings. It's not an easy job, China is a big country and we need a lot of work to improve the level and ranking. ”
Wei Jixiang, who was then vice chairman of the Chinese Football Association, said: "First of all, the new foreign coaches require a friendly attitude towards Chinese football, sincerity, frankness and enthusiasm, good at listening to different opinions, high comprehensive understanding of football, and high tactics. Management level. Coaching track record, overseas experience and achievements; reasonable remuneration. ”
"The manager was selected from more than 40 candidates, and finally a list of 10 people was finally selected, and Alain Perrin was selected, because the coach advocated offensive and defensive balance, technical play, and emphasis on defense. The technical aspects of French football are also unique in Europe. The team spirit and overall cooperation are more in line with the technical status of the national team. ”
When not on twice.
This time, the Chinese Football Association left a heart eye, unlike the last time to choose Camacho, let him do whatever he wanted.
"The assessment of the new coach, including the improvement of the international ranking, the results of the Asian Cup, the winning rate of the warm-up matches, the progress of the players in terms of technology and tactics, the overall defense, etc., is a comprehensive consideration system."
As for Perrin's salary, Wei Jixiang also responded simply:
"The salary is confidential and certainly at the level of a European first-line coach, not as high as Camacho, but not as low as previously said."
Monitoring Team
Five days later, Perrin took office for the first match, and in the final round of the group stage of the 2015 Asian Cup qualifiers, the national football team played Iraq away, as long as it was tied, it could ensure that it qualified.
The game is played in Sharjah, UAE, and Fu Bo, who was previously the acting coach of the national football team, is more like the actual conductor.
Perrin said: "For me, I just got on the national team's speeding train, hoping that I could complete this race with Fu Bo's guidance. ”
In that game, the national football team lost 1-3, Lebanon defeated Thailand 5-2, and the national football team qualified with a slight advantage of 1 more goal difference.
After the game, Perrin said: Satisfied with the qualification, but disappointed by the performance of the game itself, especially the first half of the national football team, there was a slight improvement in the second half, and overall the performance of the Chinese team was worthy of the qualification.
In May of that year, the list of the "Pei I" national team was announced, and Li Tie, who was the assistant coach of Evergrande at the time, entered the national team and assisted Pei Lan as a Chinese coach.
At that time, the Chinese Football Association recommended four people to Perrin, namely Li Tie, Li Ming, Yang Chen and Gong Lei, and finally Li Tie won, and Lippi, who was the manager of Evergrande at the time, helped a lot.
Then, Perrin and the national football team began to train and warm up, run into each other, and prepare for the 2015 Asian Cup in Australia, which is his real "big test".
Brisbane, January 10, 2015, China faces its first group stage rival, Saudi Arabia.
Before the game, Guangzhou Evergrande Club, which has 7 international players, once again sent a supervision team to Brisbane to monitor the performance of the international footballers.
On January 9, Kang Bing, then the general manager of Evergrande Club, led the Evergrande football supervision team to convene Zheng Zhi, Gao Lin, Zhang Linpeng, Zeng Cheng, Yu Hanchao, Liao Lisheng and Mei Fang for a small meeting.
The supervision team conveyed the requirements of the two bosses, Xu Jiayin and Ma Yun, to the international footballers, hoping that they would go all out to win glory for the country, and at the same time let them study again and take seriously the "Eight Regulations of Evergrande Football".
Before the supervision team went to Australia, Evergrande Club had already fined Feng Xiaoting and Li Xuepeng, who failed to enter the 23-man list of the Asian Cup due to their own reasons, 200,000 yuan each according to the "Eight Regulations of Evergrande Football".
There are penalties and there are rewards.
In accordance with the regulations, the Supervision Group awarded the "National Team Competition Fighting Award" and the "National Team Serious and Hard Training Award" to the 7 international footballers as a "foot gold medal" to show encouragement.
At the same time, the monitoring team also requires the players to work hard in every game of the Asian Cup, as long as they play well, there will also be a competition struggle award.
In addition to the supervision team, Evergrande also purchased 5,000 tickets for each game of the national football team at that Asian Cup, which were given to local Chinese fans for free, and also sponsored 10,000 fan cheering suits, so that the national football team can also feel the "Chinese red" in Australia.
Tickets and clothes, Evergrande spent about 1 million yuan.
Superheroes
Less than a month before the match with the national football team, Saudi Arabia changed coaches, and later the old acquaintance of Chinese football, Olaroyu, replaced Carlo, another old acquaintance of Chinese football.
Olaroyu is still temporarily loaned by the Saudi Football Association to the Uae's Al-Ahli Club to play in the Asian Cup.
At the start, Perrin lined up the 4231 "no front", goalkeeper Wang Dalei, defenders Zhang Chengdong, Zhang Linpeng, Ren Hang, Mei Fang, midfielders Zheng Zhi, Wu Xi, Arthur Junmin, Ji Xiang, Wu Lei, single arrow Yu Hai.
At the beginning of the game, the two teams were evenly matched, neither had a good chance, more of a fight, and in the first 34 minutes, both sides failed to complete the shot.
In the 34th minute, Zhang Chengdong forced a breakthrough inverted triangle pass on the right side of the penalty area, Wu Lei deliberately missed the front point, and Wu Xi's right-footed shot behind him was blocked by the defender, which was the first shot of the two teams in the whole game.
In the 43rd minute, Arthur Junmin passed the ball to Wu Xi, who started to buckle the defender before the arc and burst into the box to poke at the right foot, the ball rubbed the left upright out of the bottom line, this is the best opportunity for the national football team, half-time, 0-0, the national football team 2 shots, Saudi Arabia did not shoot.
In the 61st minute, Wu Lei lost the ball in front of the field, Saudi Arabia played a counterattack, Hazaz burst into the penalty area and was shoveled to the ground by Ren Hang, the Iranian referee took a penalty and showed a yellow card to Ren Hang, Hazaz took the penalty, the result was that the shot was weak, Wang Dalei, who had a birthday on the day of the game, blocked it with his knees, and after saving the penalty, he roared in anger and celebration.
There was also a small episode, before Hazaz took the penalty, Wang Dalei said a few words to the caddy behind the goal, the little caddy pointed to the left side of the goal with his finger, Wang Dalei also pounced on this side when he pounced on the penalty, and the little caddy also jumped up excitedly after the penalty was saved.
If the great difficulty does not die, there will be a blessing.
In the 79th minute, the national football team originally wanted to replace Liu Binbin and replace Yu Hai, but due to Mei Fang's cramps, he could not insist, and finally came off the bench against Jiang Zhipeng.
In the 81st minute, Wu Xi was violated in front of the field to win a free kick, Yu Hai left foot penalty, the ball hit the Saudi player's back folded line and bounced to the far corner, the Saudi goalkeeper was powerless, the national football team led 1-0.
A few minutes before Yuhai's goal, the famous Japanese AV actress Takizawa Lola also cheered for the national football team on social media: the Asian Cup opened, today's Chinese team played Saudi Arabia for the first time, this time the Chinese team was lucky, the group drawn is considered to be a sign, play well!
After that, the national football team withstood saudi arabia's attack, and when there was 1 minute left in full stoppage time, Xu Yang, a guest of CCTV5, said the classic words:
"There's not much time left for the Saudi team!"
From the fluttering point, to the failure to make a substitution, to the YuHai kill, "luck" all chose the national football team.
"Godfather" Huang Xiaoming posted: "1:0, 94 minutes, 18 years, the Chinese team is not a 'fast man', you are a superhero!" Come on, I support the Chinese team!!! ”
afterward
Later, the national football team won Uzbekistan and North Korea, no. 1 in the group, and once again qualified from the group since the 2004 Asian Cup.
Perrin directly canonized the gods!
In the quarter-final with Australia, the national football team lost 0-2 and failed to go further.
Because of the excellent performance of the Asian Cup, the Chinese football team and the Perrin team renewed the contract for 2 years, and it is said that the team's annual salary is 2 million US dollars.
Later, it was Perrin's "clubbing incident" at the East Asian Cup, and he once again stood on the cusp of the storm.
Translator Zhao Xudong said: Perrin is very fond of Chinese culture, the first book he read in middle school was Perefite's "When China Wakes Up", he was very interested in Confucius and Sun Tzu's art of war.
After that, Perrin took the national football team to lose to Qatar in the World Preliminary Round of 40 in the Asian Zone, two games 0-0 hong Kong, China, and the two national football teams in Hong Kong, China played a total of 8 goal frames, "luck" disappeared, and Perrin also left the class early.
On February 28, 2016, Perrin left China.
Cai Zhenhua, then president of the Chinese Football Association, said: "From my personal point of view, I should objectively evaluate The success and failure of Perrin in his work. ”
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