The Ball at Your Feet

Zhao Yaning had not left Liverpool when the club's senior officials discussed matters. ankanshu

On May 29th, it was a friendly match between Juventus and Liverpool. He needed to go to the scene to watch the game. On May 30th, Gerrard celebrates his birthday. He also needs to congratulate him. On May 31st, Vieira gets married and he is also present-although the season is over, but these big and small things, he Gotta go.

Moreover, there is one more thing. At the beginning of June, when the Chinese Embassy in Monaco was completed, Prince Albert II of Monaco, the former Prince Albert, needed to go there to meet the Chinese ambassador.

Zhao Yaning really didn't know why he had to go there. He and Prince Albert have only met a few times in total, and they don't know much about it, although Prince Albert was once his boss. Moreover, the so-called embassy in Monaco is basically all part-time by a group of people in France. Why do you go there to go there? However, for some reason, he became a ‘bridge of friendship between the Chinese and Moroccan peoples’.

Looking at other people’s table tennis, they are building a bridge between China and the United States. In a place similar to the size of a town in Monaco, this bridge is really cheap.

There have been so many things this summer, how can I be in the mood to keep busy with these things?

Zhao Yaning didn't know the thoughts above, and had no time to think about it. This summer, Zhao Yaning still has a lot of affairs, and he still has more things to solve. First of all, this summer, there are still three games to play in the World Preliminaries. These three games are directly related to whether one can go to Germany to participate in the World Cup next year. Secondly, there is a Confederations Cup game to be played this year-if you can't make it next year, then this year you will really be a warmer. In addition, at the end of July this year, the Chinese team will participate in an East Asian Football Championship. Last summer, he played two games on behalf of the team, but that was because there was a youth team like the Olympic Games. But this time, although he doesn't need to think about the World Youth Championship anymore, in theory, there are still two matches to play.

Fortunately, when he was busy abroad, Zhang Yuan had already helped him with dredging work.

"East Asian semifinals, you don't have to go." Zhang Yuan was very proud when he saw him. "In these few games, the Football Association has come forward and told the head coach that you are not allowed to look for you. After all, when the game started, everyone It’s the end of July. Doesn’t Liverpool still have the UEFA Champions League play-offs to play? You are now a symbol of Chinese football. You have to pay more attention to your career. You don’t need to come back for the East Asian semifinals. Anyway, it’s just a friendly match. Friendship first, second in the game, whether you come back to play or not, it doesn’t make a big difference."

This reason is really bad. //.//In fact, the East Asian semifinals ended on August 7th, and the third round of the Champions League play-offs started on August 10. After all, Liverpool is a Premier League team, the Premier League points are high enough, Liverpool played in the play-offs, but also started directly from the third round. Liverpool didn't need to play in the first two rounds, and naturally there was no conflict in game time. Of course, Liverpool also had friendly matches, but the quality of these friendly matches was lower than that of the East Asian semifinals.

And with Liverpool's European war points, it is estimated that the play-offs will not be a strong team. After all, in the play-offs, the seed teams are divided according to European points. Liverpool just won the Champions League. If you count the five years of European war points, there are 21 years of UEFA Cup points. In any case, Liverpool must be a seeded team. Can't draw a strong team.

But Zhang Yuan didn't want to think about these things. He only knows that other national teams know that they cannot easily recall players from Europe, for fear that the club will be upset and begin to suppress the players, not giving the main position, and no longer employing people. However, the Chinese national team must recruit Zhao Yaning in almost every game. Zhang Yuan has long been unaccustomed to such a thing.

Last year, although it was said that Zhao Yaning won the Champions League, after all, the wings had not hardened. At that time, the Football Association could still control Zhao Yaning. But this year, Zhao Yaning won the Olympic champion first, was named in the General Administration of Sports, and then Liverpool won the championship. Moreover, Liverpool is a giant after all. This reputation and influence are absolutely extraordinary, as everyone said in UEFA. The Chinese Football Association does not dare to be arrogant anymore. In addition, this time, he has also participated in foreign affairs activities. The people of the Football Association now dare not provoke Zhao Yaning anymore. Zhao Yaning is now able to negotiate with the Football Association not to play some minor matches.

"If you say that, this summer, what is really important is a world qualifier."

Although there are still Confederations Cup matches to be played this summer, Zhao Yaning does not think there is much possibility of winning the Confederations Cup.

This time the participating teams are still the intercontinental champions of all continents, that is, China in Asia, Tunisia in Africa, Australia in Oceania, Mexico in Central and North America, Brazil in South America, and the six European champions Greece, plus Argentina, the runner-up of the America’s Cup in the last 24 years, and the host country of the World Cup in 26 years, is also the host country of the Confederations Cup. Germany-according to regulations, because the World Cup winner and the America’s Cup winner are required to participate in the competition, and Brazil won both. Champion, and the remaining seats should be replaced by runners-up. Germany competed as the host, and the remaining seats are naturally the runner-up of the America's Cup, Argentina.

This session of the Confederations Cup, of course, is still hyped as the strongest in history, but speaking of it, it is truly the strongest in history, probably a Brazilian team.

Ronaldinho, Robinho, Adriano, Kaka, Ronaldo... Brazil's strongest offensive players are all here, and Brazil's frontcourt can indeed only be described as luxurious.

In contrast, Argentina's lineup is much worse. Crespo did not come, Samuel and Ayala did not come, Aimar and Saviola both had injuries. Although they went with the team, they may not be able to play. They are really big names, except for Zanetti and Heinze's two defenders, Riquelme and Cambiasso.

It's the other two names of Argentina that surprised Zhao Yaning. One is Bernardi, his teammate in Monaco, this time he was also selected for the national team. And then there is Gabriel Milito, he is the younger brother of Diego Milito and the main defender of Argentina this time.

However, no matter how weak Argentina is, it has nothing to do with the Chinese team. The Chinese team is divided into Brazil, Greece, and Mexico.

Strive to qualify for the team-this is Zhao Yaning's greatest expectation.

Brazil and Mexico are hard bones, and Greece, although Zicos once told him that after the European Cup, the Greek team will no longer have the unity and sincere cooperation before the European Cup, but no matter what, they are also the European Cup champions. In such a group, the future is indeed very difficult.

However, after Zhao Yaning won the second Champions League, his confidence was greatly expanded. After all, the victory of this Jedi counterattack in the Champions League has also made him realize one thing: victory in the game is largely due to the spirit and will to not give up, fight to the end and see how it turns out.

And after the Champions League final, his strength has been further enhanced.

This time in the Champions League final, the card given to him was a "Ukrainian nuclear warhead" card. The card ability is shot 1, header 1, running position 1, bounce 1, composure 1. A complete shooter card, which allows him to get a hand, and his strength is greatly increased, except for the header 1. , Bounce 1 is dispensable for him, the other three are all extremely important, and the ability to send charcoal in the snow.

And to say something meaningless, that night, he also exchanged jerseys with his opponent. And the person who exchanged his jersey was Maldini.

The card he got was a ‘Red and Black Soul’, and its function was Loyalty 5—the second record holder Zhao Yaning saw was an plus 5 card. But what he didn't know was what Maldini's record was.

The most appearances in Serie A? Longest time playing in the same club? The most European wars? The longest time to participate in the World Cup finals? The most derby times in Milan? he does not know. Maldini has too many records, he doesn't know which honor this card is for.

The card is useless-he doesn't know how to add loyalty to the card, but he doesn't want his loyalty to come from this way. Love for a club should never come from cards.

But he has no regrets for the exchange of a jersey. Maldini's jersey is commemorative after all. After all, he is the only surviving witness of the Milan dynasty, and playing against him is extraordinary.

The steady improvement of strength has made Zhao Yaning more confident. Moreover, this time, the domestic media public opinion was surprisingly good and did not cause him much trouble. He didn't even have the pressure anymore, he was naturally more relaxed.

In this grouping, it is rare that the Chinese media did not mention the death group-there were two groups in total, and the other group was Argentina and Germany. Compared with this group, it was not much weaker. Participating in this kind of competition, in which group, you are stepped on. According to the Chinese media, this competition is also focused on participating. It is unrealistic to talk about winning or competing.

And the Football Association did not announce any pre-match tasks: the Chinese team this time is the world champion, the North American champion and the European champion. It seems that none of them can be won. The Football Association can never issue a task. Say: Your task, yes Lose one, lose two, lose three, lose less when you win... Such stupid things, the Football Association will not say. What they want to do is to take the past achievements, but not to let people use them as targets.

Moreover, for them, compared to the Confederations Cup, the world preliminaries are more important. The Chinese team will now play two games, one is the away game against Uzbekistan on June 4th, and the other is against Saudi Arabia on June 11th~www.ltnovel.com~ These two games won, China Even if the team loses the last game, it is estimated that they can qualify early. They can't get a world-class trophy like the Confederations Cup, and they are not wrong. But the world preliminaries appeared, this is a big event.

When Zhao Yaning played against Uzbekistan on June 4, it was too late to come back. But Uzbekistan is not a strong team. Although it is an away game, Zhao Yaning feels that even if he does not go back, they will not have any problems. What Chinese football is afraid of is only the four countries of Japan, South Korea and Saudi Arabia. When facing Uzbekistan, even if Zhao Yaning does not go back, he still has a lot of wins.

As long as I go back and finish the home game against Saudi Arabia, maybe, I won't have to come back for the World Preliminary against South Korea in August.

But the development of the situation still exceeded Zhao Yaning's imagination. When he finished his work in Monaco and was about to return to China, he suddenly received a call, and what Zhang Yuan told him made him unable to laugh at once.

The Chinese team lost 1-2 away to Uzbekistan. The world preliminaries were once again in trouble.