Chapter 124 Before the Sino-Korea War
Under the craze of national sentiment, Gao Zheng's words in the locker room, "If you don't accept it, do it if you don't accept it" were circulated and quickly became popular on the Internet.
It has become the best slogan for the Sino-Korea war.
It was also reported by Korean media at the same time. Of course, everyone can think of the comment style below the Korean media news with their butts, which must be one-sided sarcasm.
Gao Zheng was quite surprised that his words were popular on the Internet. When the media found him, he said that he had no time to pay attention to what he said on the Internet: "Ah, I haven't been on Weibo for a long time... This shows everyone's eager hope for us... Pressure? Of course there is pressure, but facing pressure is the daily life of professional players. I don't think there is any need to amplify the meaning of this pressure... What does Korean fans say? How can I care about what they say? What they like to say? I am a Chinese player. Portraits? I'm not angry. This is a routine operation of Korean fans. Didn't we see it at the 2002 World Cup? They were the portraits of Klose at that time... Football still speaks with their feet. I believe we can defeat South Korea. I am healthy and have no Korean fear."
At the pre-match press conference with the South Korean team, Gao Zheng, as a player representative, talked about many recent hot topics.
At that time, a media reporter commented on his response: "Gao Zheng seemed very frank and sincere. He could not avoid those sensitive issues, nor did he do anything perfunctory. I believe that behind his frankness and sincerity is confidence. It is precisely because of his confidence that he is honest this time..."
Of course, the Korean media probably don’t think so. There are many Korean media participating in the pre-match press conference. In the subsequent news, they described Gao Zheng as an arrogant and arrogant guy: “… Gao Zheng may think that it is still the Ming Dynasty, but even at that time, we have the best naval general in Asia, Lee Sun-sen!”
Lee Sun-sin can be said to be a national hero in South Korea. The Korean media wants to refer to here is obviously Son Heung-min.
In terms of comparison between the two, Gao Zheng is better than Son Heung-min in terms of value and current performance. If you compare only two people, it seems to be a bit like the Ming Dynasty and the current North Korea. However, because of Lee Sun-sen, Koreans think that they can stand up straight when facing a "Ming Dynasty" like Gao Zheng.
Some Korean media believe that Gao Zheng slandered South Korean football and fans, and mentioned that the 2002 World Cup was to pour dirty water on South Korea.
Under this report, it is easy to imagine what the Korean fans' reactions will be.
However, after this press conference, Gao Zheng did not respond at all.
As the game gets closer, so you should speak with football.
On January 20, all the Asian Cup group stages ended, and in the end, Australia, South Korea, China, Uzbekistan, Iran, the United Arab Emirates, Japan and Iraq broke out from their respective groups and became the quarterfinals of this Asian Cup.
According to the principle of group matchup, the Chinese team will face South Korea at 9:30 pm on January 22, and before that, host Australia will debut, their quarter-final opponent is Uzbekistan.
On January 23, Iran faced Iraq, and the Iran-Iraq War on the football field. Later on the same day, it was a match between Japan and the UAE.
The first quarterfinal kicked off at 6:30 pm local time. After 90 minutes of the game, Australia, who played at home, defeated Uzbekistan 20 and entered the semi-finals first.
At this time, in China, some people could not wait to turn on the TV and wait for the game to start, although it was an hour and a half before the game began...
Because Australia implements daylight saving time, their eastern time zone is three hours earlier than Beijing time, and the kick-off time there is 9:30 pm, while China is actually 6:30 pm.
Many families have just had a meal.
For this game, many people either eat in advance or simply invite three or five friends to come to their homes, prepare good wine and dishes, and prepare to drink while watching the football.
For example, Director Zhao and Director Yang are like this. At Director Yang's home, the teacher's wife cooked a table of good dishes and invited Director Zhao and Guo Wei to the house to drink and watch the game.
And Gao Zheng's house was even more lively. When Gao Zheng bought a new house for the two elders, the two of them thought it was too big and said that there were not so many relatives and friends here, so how could such a big house be needed?
As a result, they found that the house might still be smaller than the living room and the dining room were crowded with people, including leaders in charge of sports in the city and a large number of journalists. They carried the camera and squeezed the room full.
They all came to watch football with Gao Zheng’s parents.
Regarding this competition that people across the country are very concerned about, these leaders also want to take advantage of the popularity and show their faces.
But if they lose the game, they probably have to pretend that they have never been here...
If Gao Zheng was at home, he would definitely refuse such arrangements from his leaders. However, both the two elders and the two are honest people, ordinary people. Faced with the "high officials" who could only be seen on the news programs of the city TV station, they came up to shake hands with him, and expressed their desire to watch the football with him and cheer for Gao Zheng, and they refused to come.
So I could only sit next to the "high official", with a stiff smile on my face, and wait for the game to begin together under the watch of many reporters.
Feng Shiyao had already asked Xiao Yingying to turn down all the work on January 22nd. So on this evening, in her rental house, she and Xiao Yingying were curled up on the sofa in pajamas and hair disheveled. The coffee table in front was filled with various snacks that the two loved to eat, such as duck tongues, duck necks, chicken claws, braised vegetables, peanuts and melon seeds, fruits, potato chips, shrimp strips, etc.... There were a wide variety of them.
This is the "dinner" they prepare for themselves.
Xiao Yingying had a chicken claw in one hand and a duck neck in the other hand. She was eating vigorously. When she found Feng Shiyao, she held the water and asked, "Sister Feng, aren't you hungry?"
"I'll eat now, what else can I eat during the competition later?"
"Hey, you don't eat now. Do you still have to eat during the competition later?"
Feng Shiyao thought about it carefully and found that what Xiao Yingying said made sense, so she also picked up an apple.
At the same time, the warm-up scene of Chinese players being played on TV, and Gao Zheng appeared in the picture the most times.
He and his teammates pressed each other, and they were talking and laughing.
The host behind the back was saying: "It seems that the Chinese players have a relatively relaxed mentality, which is good news. In fact, we have played a lot with the Korean team, so we can say that we are already very familiar with them..."
While the Chinese team was warming up, the South Korean team was also warming up on the other side of the stadium.
South Korean fans and Chinese fans have already sat in the stands. In this game, the Chinese team wore white home jerseys, while the Korean team wore red home jerseys.
However, because the Chinese fans' cheerful shirts are mainly red, looking around, the stands are full of red. At a glance, I can't tell which ones are Chinese fans and which are Korean fans.
It can only be distinguished from the waving national flag. China's five-star red flag is mainly red, while South Korea's Tai Chi flag is mainly white. Looking at it this way, I found that there are obviously more Chinese fans than Korean fans. On the one hand, the domestic official organized many fans in this Asian Cup. To play such an important game in South Korea, there are naturally more Chinese fans coming from China to cheer for the national team. On the other hand, there are a large number of overseas Chinese in Australia, as well as Chinese people studying and working here. In the first three games, the Chinese team basically enjoys home treatment.
In terms of the number of fans, the Chinese team overwhelms the South Korean team.
However, football matches do not determine the winner based on the number of fans, otherwise the Chinese team would have been the World Cup champion for a long time.
Finally, it depends on the players on both sides of the field.
As the leaders of the two teams, Gao Zheng and Son Heung-min are the most concerned objects of the media. These two people frequently appear in the live broadcast.
A reporter from the Korean TV station was on the sidelines to report on the sidelines and analyzed the Korean fans in front of the TV: "... Although Son Heung-min is slightly inferior to Gao Zheng, the overall strength of the South Korean team is stronger and far stronger than that of the Chinese team. So when the two stars have almost the same strength, the overall strength will determine the outcome..."
Coincidentally, the warm-up half of the Koreans was a gathering area for Chinese fans, so a banner happened to appear in the live broadcast of Korean TV stations.
It seems that in order to avoid Korean players not understanding it, I also thoughtfully prepared another banner under the banner, which was written in the same large Korean language with the same meaning:
Chapter completed!