The Midfield Master

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During the holiday period, it happened that the Chinese Super League continued, and a game at Guangzhou R\u0026F's home court, Xia Ze was also invited by Wang Jingcun to watch the game at Yuexiushan Stadium.

When Xia Ze was in the Guangzhou R\u0026F Youth Team, as long as there was no game task, he would watch every home game of Guangzhou R\u0026F with Zhang Wei.

It's just that at that time they took the club's internal tickets and watched the game in the ordinary stands.

Now Xia Ze and Zhang Wei are already the best domestic overseas players, members of the national team, the courtesy they receive this time is naturally different from before.

Standing in the box, looking at the players on the court that I once looked up to, I was filled with emotion.

When Xia Ze was in the youth team, he was eager to have a place in the first team, and he was very satisfied to be able to enter the first team's substitute list.

In fact, two years ago, Eriksson, the head coach of the first team at the time, also inspected him and Zhang Wei, and believed that both of them had the ability to enter the first team, and planned to promote them to the first team in 2014.

It's just that before Eriksson's promotion, the two were discovered by Tenonio, and they stayed in the Portuguese Super League and moved to Maritimo.

After the transfer to the Portuguese Super League, the development of the two was unexpectedly smooth, so that they both gained a firm foothold in the middle and upper reaches of Europe.

After playing for one season in Maritimo, Zhang Wei joined the Portuguese Super League giants Sporting Lisbon, and quickly gained the position of the main central defender in the team. With his outstanding performance, he attracted the attention of many European giants.

After Xia Ze moved to Everton, he quickly became the core of the team's offense, and was even selected as a candidate for the best young player in the Premier League, which shocked the whole of China.

Compared with the reputation of the two, the Guangzhou R\u0026F players playing on the field at this time are much faster.

But for Xia Ze, he is still eager to play a game in Yuexiushan Stadium.

After all, Yuexiushan Stadium, for a Guangzhou native, is a football mecca and the heart of every Guangzhou fan.

If a Guangzhou player does not want to play a game at Yuexiushan Stadium, then he is in vain as a Guangzhou native.

So even though his prospects are better than these players on the field now, Xia Ze still envies them.

However, Guangzhou R\u0026F this season is not feeling well.

Although relying on their excellent record last season, they entered the AFC Champions League historically, and beat the Australian and Japanese teams away in the AFC Champions League qualifiers.

However, the depth of the team's bench is too weak, and in the case of two-line combat, the players are still exhausted.

After failing to keep up with physical fitness, both the league and the AFC Champions League have fallen behind.

The AFC Champions League even encountered the tragedy of being bloodbathed by Gamba Osaka 0-5 at home. After failing to qualify, the away game faced Buriram and sent a substitute lineup, which was also massacred 0-5.

The two consecutive disastrous defeats in the AFC Champions League were ridiculed by domestic fans as a tragic team.

The performance of the AFC Champions League also affects the state of the domestic league. After a series of invincible teams, the team has fallen to the middle and late stages of the league rankings, not far from the relegation zone.

So the pressure on the players at this time is very huge.

In this game, although Guangzhou R\u0026F players worked hard, they failed to win the game and had to draw with their opponents again.

It has been a long time since Guangzhou R\u0026F won at the Yuexiushan Stadium this season.

Xia Ze and Zhang Wei returned to Yuexiu Mountain, but they didn't wait for the team's victory, so they couldn't help feeling a bit disappointed.

After this match day, the league has also entered a repair period to prepare for the next World Cup Asian preliminaries.

Xia Ze and Zhang Wei's vacation has also come to an end temporarily, and they are going to report to the national team.

The first round of the World Cup qualifiers for the top 40 in Asia was on June 11. Because of the seeding team, the Chinese team had a bye in the first round.

The second round was on June 16. The Chinese team played an away game against Bhutan, the weakest team in the group.

Bhutan has a population of just over 700,000, which is slightly insufficient compared to some small counties in China, let alone a large country with a population of more than 1.4 billion.

The Bhutan national team is also quite weak like their population. The entire national team is all amateur players, and only one player has been to a professional team for trial training, and of course he failed to join a professional team.

Of course, their home field factors still have some influence on the players of the Chinese team.

First of all, Bhutan is a country located on the southern slope of the Himalayas. The average altitude of the country is two to three kilometers high, and it already belongs to the plateau country.

Therefore, the altitude of their home court is not low, which is not a small test for most of the national football players who live in the plains.

But I think the national football team also set up a home court in Kunming at the beginning, and wanted to use the plateau advantage to weaken the opponent's strength, but the result outweighed the gain.

Therefore, the opponent's home court is at a high altitude. As long as the absolute strength is much higher than that of the opponent, there is no need to worry about this problem.

As for the second factor, it is their home field, which is not natural turf, but artificial turf.

For professional players who are used to natural turf, this is quite a test.

Therefore, Lippi, the head coach of the Chinese national team, did not intend to stay strong. He began to convene national team players for training from June 5. The training place was Kunming, and the purpose was to adapt to plateau combat.

The training places are all artificial turf. After all, it will take a while to adapt from natural turf to artificial turf.

Ten days is not much, but it is enough for professional players to adapt to the field environment.

As for the members of the national team, all overseas players and outstanding domestic players who are not injured are called together. The best players in China are concentrated in this national team.

Xia Ze, Zhang Wei, Ai Huang, Gao Bo, Zhang Linpeng, Wu Lei and other overseas players have all been called into the national team.

Among the players playing in China, Zheng Zhi, Gao Lin, Huang Bowen, Zeng Cheng, Wu Xi, Yu Dabao, Hao Junmin and other outstanding players were also included in the national team squad as they wished.

When a lion fights a rabbit, he must do his best.

Although facing the Bhutanese team that does not even have a professional player, the world ranking is close to the bottom. But the Chinese team does not have any plans to stay strong. After all, no matter what, this is a World Cup qualifier. If you want to break out in this group, you must take every game seriously. Before, never underestimate each other.

Xia Ze and Zhang Wei carried their suitcases, boarded the plane to Kunming, and reported to the national team.