Chapter 174 The pinnacle of Asian football
If a Korean reporter interviews Son Heung-min, there will naturally be a Chinese reporter interviewing Gao Zheng, wanting him to talk about the showdown with Son Heung-min.
Like Son Heung-min, Gao Zheng does not think that this game has anything to do with the Sino-Korea battle in the Asian Cup: "This is a club-club game, and it has nothing to do with other things. We lost the first leg, so when we return to home, we will definitely strive to win and advance to the quarterfinals. All my performances in the game are for this purpose. Son Heung-min? He is very powerful... It is a good thing for the entire Asian football team to have a high level of players. Our improvement in our level can also allow Asian football to win more say in the international arena, such as the World Cup quota..."
Gao Zheng raised the topic to a higher level, not talking about what the reporters wanted him to talk about at all.
But it is different from Son Heung-min who deliberately ignores his true thoughts and hides his true thoughts.
What Gao Zheng is talking about is his true thoughts.
From the overall perspective of Asian football, it is indeed a good thing that China and South Korea have produced high-level players.
Although the Korean team can participate in the World Cup finals every time, it is difficult for them to enter the knockout stage. So far, they have only used their home advantage to enter the knockout stage in the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea. Previous World Cups have stopped in the group stage.
Such a performance is really unreasonable. As the top representative of Asian football, he can't even make the group stage in the World Cup. How can he benefit Asian football? With regard to the performance of Asian teams in the World Cup, how can he be ashamed to compete with South America for more qualifying places?
Now the South Korean team has Son Heung-min and the Chinese team has Gao Zheng. If the Chinese team can also enter the 2018 World Cup, can we look forward to the performance of the two teams in Russia then?
If they perform well, that is of course a good thing for Asian football as a whole.
During the Asian Cup, East Asian teams and West Asian teams can still play hard. However, when going to the World Cup, there should not be any distinction between East Asian and West Asian. Everyone should show their best performance, try to achieve good results, win glory for Asia, and make Asia's reputation stronger in the future when FIFA is splitting the cake.
In general, this is also for the good of Chinese football. When allocating places in the World Cup in the future, if Asian teams can earn more places for Asian football with excellent performance, wouldn’t it be so difficult for Chinese teams to enter the World Cup finals again?
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Although Gao Zheng was telling the truth, it was still regarded by the media as a cover-up word.
Everyone seems to be more willing to believe that he and Son Heung-min are competing with each other.
So before the game, the media of China and South Korea were desperately hyping up the grudges between the two.
In response to this situation, Gao Zheng complained to Feng Shiyao on WeChat, "The media is so small. Am I so concerned about personal grudges!"
Feng Shiyao replied with a smile: "Of course it's."
Gao Zheng didn't expect Feng Shiyao to answer like this. He thought the other party would agree with him, so he protested: "Why am I?"
"Who has been to Ji Chengyong across half the stadium in the Asian Cup? And it's two consecutive times?"
"Who must have a barb in front of Park Joo-ho?"
"..." Facing Feng Shiyao's series of rhetorical questions, Gao Zheng was speechless.
"But I believe you have no personal grudges against Son Heung-min."
"A soulmate!"
"Because Son Heung-min didn't mess with you. In the last round, although Leverkusen won you, Son Heung-min did not play and scored no goals."
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"But it's hard to say about this game. Who knows whether Son Heung-min will score a goal? Who knows whether he will do anything to celebrate with you after scoring the goal?"
"...How come you know me so well!"
"To put it nicely, I'm the roundworm in your belly."
"...This sounds nice? What if it sounds ugly?"
"As soon as you stick your butt, I know what you want to shit."
"..." Gao Zheng was speechless. "Goodbye, I'm going to take a shower!"
"Go, I wish you a successful advance to the quarterfinals tomorrow."
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"Spectators, welcome to Vincent Calderon Stadium! A key battle in the Champions League quarter-finals will be held here. Atletico Madrid faces Leverkusen at home... Although Atletico Madrid lost to Leverkusen in the Bundesliga away in the first leg. However, in the nine Champions League home games played by Diego Simeone coaching Atletico Madrid, Atletico Madrid won eight games. The only exception is the Champions League semi-finals last season, Atletico Madrid drew 0-0 at home at the time..."
"Only two of the nine home games have conceded goals. So far, they have maintained their 460-minute consecutive home court in the Champions League. The last player who broke through Atletico Madrid goal at Calderon was Gao. He scored in the Champions League quarter-finals last season, and he scored three at one time. Atletico Madrid only conceded four goals in the Champions League home court, three of which were Gao's... But now he has transferred to Atletico Madrid, Simeone doesn't have to worry that Gao will break through Atletico Madrid again. Hahaha!"
"Historical data is also more optimistic about Atletico Madrid's elimination of Leverkusen. First of all, Atletico Madrid reversed the opponent in the Champions League and advanced to the Bundesliga team, which was against Schalke in 2008. Secondly, although Leverkusen maintained five consecutive victories in the recent official matches and did not lose one goal, he lost five away games in the last six Champions League away games. Since they reached the Champions League final in 2002, they have once again
He reached the Champions League quarterfinals three times, but was eliminated by big score: the total score of last season was eliminated by Paris Saint-Germain 1:6; the total score of 2011-2012 was eliminated by Barcelona 2:10; the 2004-2005 season lost to Liverpool 2:6... In addition, since defeating Espanyol at the penalty shootout in the 1988 League Cup final, Leverkusen faced the Spanish team four times in the European game, and was eliminated!"
"Atlancia Madrid lost only one goal in the first leg, which laid the foundation for the reversal of the second leg. As long as Atletico Madrid performs normally, I believe they will eventually advance to the quarterfinals!"
When the commentators were introducing some backgrounds of this game, the players on both sides were already standing in the player channel and ready to play.
Gao Zheng felt Son Heung-min's gaze again, this time the latter was not staring at him behind him.
But when Gao Zheng walked out, he had a gaze contact with Son Heung-min who was already standing in the passage.
The two people looked at each other, and Son Heung-min's eyes were hot and full of aggressiveness. The provocative meaning was completely unconcealed, or Son Heung-min didn't want to hide it.
And what about Gao Zheng?
He glanced at Son Heung-min, smiled at him, and naturally withdrew his gaze.
If Son Heung-min thinks he is afraid, then let him do it.
Anyway, football is not kicked with eyes.
Chapter completed!