Sampdoria, who returned to Genoa from Amsterdam with a point, decisively rotated in the next game against Turin.

Whether Di Francesco admits it or not, everyone knows now that Sampdoria has indeed given up on the league this season to ensure the results in the Champions League.

Most of the main players who played in the last game of Ajax were not in the lineup this time, so Gao Zheng was naturally not there either.

Two consecutive high-intensity games are indeed a great loss for the physical fitness and energy of Sampdoria players.

In the end, Sampdoria shook hands with Torino 2:2 at home.

After seven rounds of the league, he still ranked 13th.

This shows that the Champions League has a deep impact on Sampdoria.

This was not the case with Sampdoria in the league last season.

However, they will definitely win if they give up. Their performance in the league was not good, but their performance in the Champions League was amazing.

After returning from Amsterdam, even those who were usually unhappy could only remain silent at this time, and they were really not bad. However, Juventus, which has always been sought after by the media, performed disappointingly.

After the match against Turin, the club competition was suspended completely and the national team match day was coming.

This time, Gao Zheng did not continue to stay at the Mugnaini training base, but boarded a flight to Milan to Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia. In fact, Sampdoria played against Turin. Gao Zheng didn't even enter the roster and flew one day in advance. The head coach Di Francisco considered that he had a long journey and was struggling back and forth, and was afraid that he would not have enough rest time, so he simply let him go one day in advance.

Anyway, he didn't plan to let Gao Zheng play in the game against Turin.

So at the end of the match between Sampdoria and Turin, Gao Zheng had already appeared at the airport in Jakarta.

At the airport, Gao Zheng was warmly welcomed by media from China and Indonesia.

This is not the first time Gao Zheng has worn the Chinese team's jersey, but this will be his first adult national team bet.

Such a commemorative competition is naturally attracting much attention from the media.

In fact, China today really needs experts like Gao Zheng to come back and help.

This year is a tragic fate for Chinese football.

Originally, everyone thought that after the fight against organized crime and evil in 2010, Chinese football should improve. The Chinese team led by Gao Hongbo did perform well in the 2010 East Asian Finals, giving people hope. This time, fans even began to look forward to the qualifications for the 2014 World Cup finals.

But just when Gao Hongbo just led the team to the top 20 of the Asian qualifiers in the World Cup, the Chinese Football Association made a fool of itself, and they replaced Gao Hongbo, who led the team well under the will of the sponsor, because Gao Hongbo is a local coach, and they did not believe in the ability of the local coach, so they replaced him with a foreign coach Kamacho.

As a result, Camacho, who hastily taken over the Chinese team, led the Chinese team to not even pass the top 20 Asian games, let alone the qualification to participate in the World Cup finals. The hope of a four-year rotation was ruined by the rash change of coaches.

In 2013, there was a very famous game in Chinese football, and the Chinese national team lost 1:5 at home to the Thai national team, which is basically composed of youth team players.

Both the players' performance on the court and the performance of head coach Camacho have aroused public anger.

Finally, after this game, the famous Spanish coach Camacho was dismissed.

The coaching position of the Chinese national team is temporarily taken over by Camacho's Chinese assistant coach Fu Bo.

The first game Fu Bo took over was the East Asian Cup, which was the previous East Asian Final Four.

In this kind of game, both Japanese and Korean teams do not recruit foreign players, and they are all local players. Naturally, the Chinese team cannot recruit Gao Zheng to come back to participate, so they are all international players playing football in the local league.

Unexpectedly, Fu Bo's Chinese team performed well. Since losing to the Thai team 1:5, the national team has been under tremendous pressure and being scolded so much that it was bloody. All kinds of jokes on the Internet are used to mock them.

But in the East Asian Cup, the Chinese team tied Japan 3:3 in the first game, tied the host South Korea 0:0 in the second round, defeated Australia 4:3 in the last game, and finally won the runner-up in the East Asian Cup.

Fu Bo's national team gives people a refreshing feeling.

In the warm-up match, they also defeated Singapore and Malaysia 6:1 and 2:0 respectively.

However, these are not important competitions, and the real test is still the qualifiers of the Asian Cup.

The Chinese team was separated into a group with Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Indonesia.

Before Camacho was dismissed, he led the Chinese team to two Asian Cup qualifiers. The Chinese team lost 1:2 away to Saudi Arabia and 1:0 at home.

He scored three points in two games and ranked second in this group. However, like them, Iraq, with three points, the goal difference and the goal scores are exactly the same. The Chinese team has the advantage in terms of mutual victory and loss relationship.

When the results of this grouping came out, domestic media exclaimed that the Chinese team had entered the "Death Group", and it was probably difficult to even guarantee the qualification for the Asian Cup main competition.

According to the rules of the 2015 Asian Cup qualifiers, except for the five teams that enter the main competition directly, the remaining teams are divided into five groups, with the top two in each group and a third in the best-scoring group qualifying for the Asian Cup held in Australia.

Why is this group the death group?

Because the seed team Iraq is a former Asian Cup champion, its strength cannot be underestimated. At the same time, Saudi Arabia is the strongest among the third-level teams. With the level of the second-level team in China, it is really difficult to break out of this group.

If you want to break through the siege in the competition with Iraq and Saudi Arabia, you must score six points against the weakest Indonesian Chinese team in the group. Otherwise, it will be difficult to say whether you advance to the main competition.

But Indonesia is not willing to be soft persimmons that are pinched casually.

Although they are the weakest team in this group, they also have their own ambitions.

In FIFA ranking, the Chinese team is currently ranked 99th, while Indonesia is ranked 170th. Judging from the ranking, the two teams are not in the same level at all. However, since the Chinese team once lost to the Thai team 1:5, Indonesia, which is comparable to the Thai team, is naturally full of confidence. Before the game, Indonesian fans simply shouted the slogan of defeating the Chinese team "8:0".

When Gao Zheng arrived at the airport in Jakarta, he saw Indonesian fans holding 8:0 banners to "welcome" him.

The reporters asked him at the airport what he thought of the game.

Gao Zheng said with a serious look: "I don't think Indonesia is a soft persimmon, on the contrary, I attach great importance to them. This is a bit like the situation of Sampdoria in the Champions League group. Everyone thinks we are the targets of points, but we slapped those people in the face with practical actions. So if we think Indonesia is easy to deal with, then we are in danger."

Gao Zheng was so serious about Indonesia's opponent, which made Indonesian reporters feel very comfortable when they heard this.

But after Gao Zheng left, they came back to the point. Logically, shouldn't they hope the Chinese team will be proud and underestimate the opponent? If Gao Zheng was asked to do his best, this might not be something to be happy about, right?

Note: In fact, with Gao Zheng's influence and strength, he should have been selected for the national team and competed on behalf of the national team. However, that time was when Camacho was coaching the national team. Given that we all knew the ending of Camacho and my personal prejudice against Camacho, I really don't want Gao Zheng to join this national team.

After all, it is impossible for me to get Kamacho out of class. Just when Gao Zheng had already joined the national team, he wrote that they lost to Thailand 1:5 and that the Chinese team failed in the top 20 Asian competitions, right?

If the national team that Gao Zheng joined has not improved at all, what is the significance of Gao Zheng's existence?

But I was not happy to ask Gao Zheng to extend his life to Camacho. I said clearly that I just don’t like this famous Spanish coach. I was very unhappy that the Football Association had replaced Gao Hongbo after listening to Wanda’s words. In reality, I don’t care, but I don’t want the book I wrote myself to be like this.

At the same time, when Gao Zheng is so famous, it seems unreasonable that the Chinese team will not recruit him. Even if the Chinese Football Association is stupid, it will not even ignore the number one star, right? I have also thought about writing some plots to explain why Gao Zheng did not join the Chinese team.

But after thinking about it, I couldn't think of a suitable reason or a convincing and reasonable plot.

So in the end I simply erased this paragraph.

Don’t worry about why Gao Zheng didn’t join the Chinese team before. Just think that the Asian Cup qualifier against Indonesia is the starting point for his adult national team.

Camacho is gone, and Gao Zheng's Chinese team plot can also be unfolded normally.
Chapter completed!