Gao Zheng was speechless about the pre-match preparations of the Chinese Football Association.

He flew directly from Madrid to Doha, Qatar, because his national teammates had arrived in Doha in advance.

In order to prepare for the match against Qatar and adapt to the local hot climate in advance, the Chinese team came to Doha a week in advance.

Every day, I wait until the sun sets in the evening and the weather is a little cooler before going outside for training, and during the day I choose to train physically in the gym.

What's wrong with such preparation?

Adapt to the climate and venue a week in advance, and carefully prepared the chefs with the team.

It looks very attentive.

But when the Chinese team players stepped on the turf at Jassim bin Hamad Stadium, the venue of the game, preparing for the last warm-up before the game, the Chinese team players wearing short-sleeved shorts couldn't help but shudder and they felt cold!

You should know that for other countries in temperate zones, the temperature has begun to cool down at this time, and the temperature is gradually cooler. However, for Doha, a country located in the Middle East, the average temperature is still in the thirty degrees, and the highest can be close to forty degrees.

It is precisely because the local temperature is very scary that the Chinese team came to Doha a week in advance to prepare for the game, so that the players can adapt to this temperature in advance.

Even if this game is held at night, the earth that has been exposed to the sun for a day will continue to emit heat, making people feel hot.

On the day of the game, the temperature was around thirty-six degrees.

How can such a temperature make people feel cold?

But every Chinese player who walks out of the player channel and comes to the court's first reaction is to hold his arms with his hands and use the temperature in his palms to make himself feel warmer...

cold.

This is their first feeling.

Very contrary to common sense, but it is real.

Many players looked up and looked around strangely. Hamad Stadium has no closed ceiling and is connected to the outside world. So why is the temperature here completely different from the outside world?

They still remember the scene of taking a bus to the stadium in the hotel. It was only a dozen meters away from the hotel lobby to the bus parked outside. But when they walked out of the hotel lobby with air conditioning, the oncoming heat wave almost made them fall... Everyone trotted and quickly got on the bus with air conditioning while "oh" and then they felt that they had come back to life.

It felt like a fish that was out of water...

But now this stadium gives them the feeling that it is full of air-conditioned hotel lobby.

Turn on the air conditioner?

What a joke!

How come this stadium has air conditioning full?

But Gao Zheng, who was sharp-eyed, pointed to the dense round holes in the stadium stands and said to everyone: "Are those air conditioning air outlets?"

Everyone looked at it and found that the round holes were spraying white smoke outwards, but it might not be smoke, but because the hot air around encountered the cold air blowing out from the holes, and the water vapor generated by the condensed water was like a person breathing outdoors in the winter...

It was not until this time that the staff of the Chinese Football Association on the rostrum discovered this that the Jassim bin Hamad Stadium in Qatar was actually equipped with air conditioning!

Some people remember that after confirming that they won the 2022 World Cup, Qatar has upgraded their stadium, which seems to include the installation of air conditioners...

At this time, a player found the current temperature in the venue on the big screen of the stadium at zero and twenty degrees Celsius!

Twenty degrees?!

Gao Zheng felt like he was a dog.

Twenty degrees should be used to play football in the league. The coaching staff should remind players to pay attention to maintaining their body temperature. Why do you find that even in April and May, you can see that the players on the bench wear thick coats that look thick. It is not that the players' bodies are worse than ordinary people and are more afraid of the cold, but that they need to keep warmer, otherwise they will be very prone to injury after the body becomes cold.

As a result, the Chinese team players are now wearing short-sleeved shorts jerseys and run directly onto the court.

This shows that the staff of the Chinese Football Association did not understand enough information before the game.

Is it a secret to installing air conditioners in Hamad Stadium?

Not necessarily. As long as someone who is interested goes through the news, you will probably know, but the Chinese players only knew about this when the game was about to begin.

This completely caught the Chinese team off guard.

The temperature of the game was twenty degrees, which meant that the hot weather that the Chinese team had adapted to in Doha a week in advance was gone, and preparations for the game for a week became a joke.

Thinking about the previous arrangements against Hong Kong and against the Maldives, Gao Zheng couldn't help but sigh to the sky and was really a group of pig teammates.

But at this time, swearing cannot solve any problem.

Gao Zheng said to his somewhat confused teammates around him: "Everyone should be more active than usual when warming up. You must move your body and never let your body cool down."

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Although Gao Zheng reminded, the Chinese players also worked hard to warm up.

But the temperature at twenty degrees is too low.

After warming up, when we returned to the locker room with more air conditioning, we were busy putting everything we could on, including thin coats, blankets, and towels.

But the effect is still very limited.

The thin coat of cloth could not stop the air conditioner from blowing through the gap between the fibers and blowing onto the human body.

After all, when you come to such a hot place in Doha, no one can bring a down jacket.

The temperature in the stadium is twenty degrees, but the stadium is so big that the average temperature reaches twenty degrees. Think about how much cold air should be blown out from the air conditioner outlet?

In such a small place in the locker room, you can imagine how low the temperature is...

Some Chinese players even doubted whether Qatar deliberately turned the temperature of the air conditioner in the visiting team's locker room to be particularly low.

Such a low temperature makes it almost useless for the Chinese players to shoot, and even makes many Chinese players want to return to the court immediately. At least the 20-degree stadium should be a little warmer than the locker room...

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In this way, the Chinese players who played were obviously not as adaptable as Qatari players, and their movements were a bit stiff.

Qatar took the opportunity to launch a fierce offensive and constantly instigated an offense to attack the Chinese team's goal.

In the seventh minute, Sebastian received a straight pass from his teammate on the right side of the penalty area. He shot when he broke through to the corner of the small penalty area. The football hit the side net. But it scared Chinese fans very much because from the perspective of live TV, it looked like a football entered the goal.

Then Moussa broke through on the right and forced a breakthrough, and made a cross from the bottom, which was resolved by Chinese goalkeeper Wang Xiaolei.

In the ninth minute, Hassan's shot from the left was blocked by Zhang Linpeng again.

In the twelfth minute, Qatar got a free kick opportunity. Hu He shot directly, hit Mei Yuan's head and made a refraction, flew towards the goal, and was then lifted out of the baseline by Wang Xiaolei with one hand.

At this time, the ball possession rate of both sides was played under the live TV screen. Qatar was as high as 73%, while the Chinese team only had a pitiful 27%...
Chapter completed!