Journey to the West: Sharjah Victory for the Chinese Men's Football Team
In Sharjah, UAE, the Chinese men's soccer team defeated the Philippines by a score of 2-0 in the early morning hours of Beijing time on the 8th, successfully topping a crucial game in the top group of the World Qualifying 40. Despite some twists and turns along the way, the final result has brought a new day of joy to the fans. It's safe to say that
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The victory not only made all the efforts meaningful, but also at this moment, let people deeply realize the power of "united hearts, move mountains".
(1) Expedition to Sharjah, the sands are as old as the land!
From Suzhou to the United Arab Emirates, whether it is within the national football team or all parties concerned about the national football team, the first feeling is: "
Where is home when home is no longer home?
"The objective conditions of high temperature and high humidity coupled with the psychological level of the impact, undoubtedly make the preparation of the national football team in the United Arab Emirates appears to be more difficult. However, the expedition overseas is an established fact, how to make Sharjah become the national football team's "second home"? How to make the national football team feel the warmth of home on this piece of land? This is undoubtedly the CFA in the game before the start of the primary thinking problem. In addition to ensuring the food, clothing, housing and transportation of the national football team, how to create a home atmosphere in the game? At least from the point of view of the first match against the Philippines, the FA's efforts in this regard can be described as "extreme".
Since the match between China and the Philippines was preceded by the match between Syria and Guam, the members of the CFA delegation arrived at the Sharjah Stadium early in the day at noon to set up. As the organizer of the match was the CFA, the Sharjah side actually rented the stadium to the CFA, which allowed the federation to set up the stadium as they envisioned. Therefore, members of the delegation arrived early, before any of the local managers were in place at the stadium, to lay the five-star red flag on the stands in temperatures of over 40 degrees Celsius.
From the point of view of epidemic prevention, after the game was moved to the United Arab Emirates, the CFA decided to empty the stadium for the game. Although the local Chinese community in the UAE would have liked to be there to cheer for the national team, they understood the decision to leave the stadium empty. At the same time, in order to express their support for the national soccer team, the local Chinese diaspora prepared 22 national flags and six banners in advance and sent them to the FA's premises. But how to place the flags on the pitch so that the international players could feel the home atmosphere? The members of the FA had a lot of trouble. They rushed to the stadium at noon in order to set up the flags and banners in advance.
When I rushed to the stadium to watch the match between Syria and Guam, I only saw a huge "unity is strength" banner opposite the podium, which is also the new "slogan" after Li Tie took over the national football team. However, when I walked into the stadium again after the match between Syria and Guam and the post-match press conference, I suddenly realized that the five-star red flags around the stands had all been unfurled, including the large flags on the stands behind the goal on both sides of the goal, and there were also 20 flags lined up, all displayed on the stands. Moreover, all six banners had been spread out.
At least, the moment the internationals stepped onto the pitch, they were able to feel:"
This is our home turf!
"In the game, as long as the players look up will be able to see our flag, so that the flag has become the strongest backing of the players, the so-called "see the flag as see people", millions of people are still the strong backing of the players! However, who would have thought that it was more than 10 staff members of the CFA who braved the scorching heat at noon that day and fixed the flag with their own hands, and then put it away again and hid it well, and then quickly unfolded it after the match between the Syrian team and the Guam team was over. Although there was some hard work and bitterness, everyone was of one mind when the national team took down the Philippines 2-0:
At least all that hard work wasn't in vain!
② Incarnation of fans, the voice of the national football team cheering!
When miles away from the domestic fans stay up late to watch the national football game, may be able to constantly from the broadcast screen and the background sound to hear "Go China", "Go China" shouts, although not as loud as when Suzhou out of the game, but the cheering has been The cheering has never been broken. However, who would have thought:
These cheers and boos came from more than 10 staff members of the CFA delegation throughout the 90-minute match?
When these staff members set up the national flags and banners at the scene, they suddenly turned into "fans" of the national soccer team and began to shout "Go China" in the way of fans. Therefore, when the national football team began to warm up from entering the stadium, the cheering sound at the scene never stopped. What is even more touching is that:
These staff members were all around the stands, constantly changing the orientation of the stands, and sending out the sound of "Go China" from every corner.
The "home field" power is realized by their small voice. With their small voice, let the international players feel the power of the motherland and the people, realize the power of the "home field"! Despite the empty stadium, despite the far away in the United Arab Emirates, but the night of the Sino-Filipino battle in the Sharjah Stadium, in addition to more than 10 local stadium staff in the United Arab Emirates and a few officials of the AFC, the other admission of almost a hundred people can be said to be almost all Chinese people!
As the organization of the tournament by the CFA is responsible for, so responsible for the game of the other staff of the Football Association also quietly put the site of the radio speaker microphone under the podium side, as that side are members of the CFA delegation, their cheering through the microphone, the site of the radio broadcasting spread to every corner of the stadium, and almost no one to make the national footballers feel unfamiliar.
In the stands of the Chinese Football Association's work team is almost only 10 people, but these 10 people's best efforts to send out the "Go China" shouts resounded over the Sharjah stadium, which is not only in the national football team shouting, but also the display of China's power! Although many staff members were hoarse after the match, they knew that they were representing hundreds of millions of domestic fans behind them. At any time, as long as there are Chinese people, unity can overcome everything, can burst out unlimited power! In such an atmosphere, who says that Sharjah Stadium is not the home ground of the national soccer team? When the national soccer team finally took down the Philippines 2-0, who can say that the
Is this win just for the National Football League?
(iii) The bench tactics, the national soccer team goes one step further!
The Sharjah Stadium was said to be the "home" of the national soccer team, but there was one more detail. Because the game was empty, and for the sake of epidemic prevention, many players and staff on the bench of the national football team could only sit on the bleachers behind the bench. In the first half, because the national football team is from the left side of the podium to the right side of the attack, so the national football team on the bench shouting and cheering sound is quite normal. However, in the second half, I obviously felt that the shouts of the substitutes and staff of the national football team suddenly increased.
At first, I thought it was just cheering for my teammates, but slowly it felt wrong because the shouts sounded Spanish or Portuguese or German. And, the goal is very clear, seems to be aimed at the Philippine team players on the field. Suddenly, the author reacted at once:
This is a "brand new tactic", the sound made by the international substitutes is not "cheering", but "yelling and cursing", the purpose is to disrupt the attention of the Philippine team players, and even "arching fire" to provoke the opposing players. The purpose of the "arching fire" to provoke the opposing players.
In fact, I'm sure many fans watching the broadcast should have noticed details like this:
De Muga, the Philippines' No. 3 center back, had already received a yellow card for a foul in the 36th minute of the first half, and by the 77th minute of the second half, De Muga was replaced.
But before being substituted, Demuga's attention was no longer on the pitch, but screaming curses towards the national team stand bench! Demuga was born in Spain to a Spanish father. Although I don't understand Spanish or Portuguese, it's clear that the national team's "bench tactics" are working.
Not only the No. 3 Demuga, the Philippines team's No. 18 Patrick Reichert in the second half even once rushed to the national football bench in front of, and is ready to with the national football assistant coach theory, the fourth official on the sidelines had to rush forward to block. Obviously, "provoke the other side, distraction", this tactic of the national football team is successful! And this in modern soccer, especially when watching high-level soccer games in Europe and the United States, often able to see many teams are using such tactics.
I do not intend to exaggerate the role of this tactic, but just want to say that, although the national football team has lost its home ground in Suzhou, but after moving to Sharjah, both the Chinese men's national football team and the staff of the Chinese Football Association, because everyone's heart is the same, the goal is common, everyone is doing their best to accomplish this goal. Therefore, Sharjah has naturally become the national football team's "home field"! In the past, the Chinese soccer team was perhaps too lacking in the spirit of "unity of purpose, the mountain will move". But this time, when the national soccer team encountered unprecedented difficulties, due to the unity of hearts, Chinese soccer regained control of its own destiny! This is probably the so-called "self-esteem" and "self-improvement".
