The Chinese media have supported and recognized the fact that Gao Hongbo did not choose to let four overseas returnees, including Zhou Yi, return to China to participate in the game. Everyone believes that there is no need to recall them in such a tight time to play such a game that is not a critical battle.

Considering the time difference and the physical energy waste of long-distance flights, even if they are recalled, they may not be able to perform at any high level.

Moreover, in the past, the Chinese team always let those players who played overseas come back for a long flight to play a friendly match, which has been criticized by the media and fans for a long time.

How can such mistakes be continued and become the "tradition" of Chinese football?

More importantly, in everyone's opinion, the situation of the Chinese team in the top ten is very good, and there is almost no suspense to qualify. This time, it will face Qatar, which ranks second from the bottom at home. Can't we still win?

Even Gao Hongbo had this idea, believing that when the group was first, there was no need to let all the overseas returnees come back to participate in a game. With this time, it would be better for them to train and learn to rest in their club.

Even domestic players alone may not be able to win Qatar in poor form at home. Besides, he is not a returnee player and has not even been called. Didn’t he call back a He Ying?

With He Ying's state in the last national team game, this time it is worth looking forward to.

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In this way, the Chinese national team, which is almost all-Chinese, welcomed Qatar, the second-to-last place in the group at home.

Before the game, both the media and the fans were optimistic about winning this game. The media and fans also said that they should not always count the credit for winning the game on overseas returnees. Our local players are also very powerful. The higher the professional league in China, the better. The level of local players trained with high-level foreign players has also made great progress. This game is an excellent opportunity to show the world their style.

As a whole, winning the national team is never a credit for one person or a few people. While trying hard to praise Zhou Yi, don’t ignore the local teammates around them. Maybe they are not as good as overseas returnees who can enjoy everyone’s cheers and attention in the European arena, but they are also indispensable.

No media has compared the returnees of the national team to the eye-catching parts of a beautiful house, and compared the players in the domestic league to the cornerstone of this house. They are buried deep underground and unknown, but they are very important for this house. We call on everyone to give confidence and support to these players in the national league.

These principles are quite right, and they are spoken beautifully, which resonates strongly.

Everyone expressed their hope that the all-Chinese team will perform a wonderful performance on the stage of the top ten competitions.

But just twenty minutes into the game, the Chinese team conceded a goal...

They were scored by Qatar using a counterattack!

At their home court, in front of tens of thousands of Chinese fans who are full of confidence and expectations for them, the Chinese team lost the goal and fell behind!

The atmosphere suddenly became a little different from before.

The entire stadium was filled with ease and expectation. While everyone was cheering for the national team, they were looking forward to the appearance of goals.

The result is now good...

Can you not be tired after kicking like this?

"I'm disappointed that I haven't been able to win the game..." he said, shaking his head.

The reporter asked: "I was favored before the game but lost the game. What do you think is the reason?"

He Ying gasped for a few breaths and said, "The reason is very complicated and I can't explain it clearly in a few words. But for me personally, I feel that my performance is not good enough, and this is the reason for losing."

As a player, He Ying took the initiative to take responsibility. Although he didn't actually need to do this, he still did this. This is not that he was making a show, but that he had high requirements for himself. He does think that as the only overseas returnee player who came back to participate in the game, the Chinese team failed to win the game, and that was his own responsibility.

Gao Hongbo took all the responsibility for losing at the post-match press conference: "The failure to win is a problem of tactics and personnel arrangements. As the head coach, I am fully responsible."

A reporter asked: "Does the problem with personnel arrangement mean that all the overseas returnees have not been recruited?"

Gao Hongbo shook his head and denied: "It has nothing to do with this."

"So if the returnees are recalled in this game, can we ensure victory?" the reporter asked.

Gao Hongbo continued to shake his head: "You can't make such a guarantee. Football matches are not that simple, not like this or that."

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After the game, Gao Hongbo's on-site command and lineup arrangement in the game were criticized by the media. Some media questioned why Gao Hongbo only summoned He Ying back to China, while no other overseas returnees were called. Some media questioned his substitution adjustments in the game, and some media simply questioned whether Gao Hongbo's use of an all-Chinese team in this game was for some people to get money to enter the national team. After all, the national team has performed well now, and the national team has changed from a bad bun that no one wants before, and a quota of international players has become valuable.

This failure is too sudden for the Chinese team, too sudden for the Chinese media and fans. Against the backdrop of not being at a disadvantage against Japan and winning Australia, this failure is too unreasonable.

Some people think that this failure is because Gao Hongbo did not choose to recruit all overseas players, and completely forgot about the pre-match public opinion, but he did not recruit overseas players, and he wanted to give trust and respect to the whole Chinese team. Now he has pushed the responsibility for losing to the muddy all Chinese team players who cannot support him.

Some people also believe that the failure is not because of the lack of overseas players, and the strength of all-Chinese players is definitely not as insufficient as reflected in this game. The main problem is that the head coach Gao Hongbo, the chef, did not use good materials and cook well. Therefore, it reflects the low level of the head coach.

Some people think further and think that since the level of domestic head coaches is limited, should the Chinese team reach the Brazil World Cup finals in the future, should they change to a high-level internationally renowned head coach to lead the team? Only in this way can Chinese football achieve a historic breakthrough in the World Cup?

A failure seemed to destroy all the warmth and tacit understanding that had been established before.

Although there are also reasons why Gao Hongbo is a head coach with limited level, there are probably deeper reasons.

That is, when everyone's appetite is lifted by the previous victory, how should we face such a huge psychological gap?

There is a new problem with the Chinese team, or Chinese football, now that is a kind of "blind optimism and confidence". If Chinese football used to be blindly inferior, then now it has gone from one extreme to another.

The historic gold medals at the Olympics seem to make Chinese fans and media believe that the golden age of Chinese football has arrived. The first four games of the top ten matches were three wins and one draw, ranking first in the group, which made many media and fans cheer and made football people very optimistic about the future of the Chinese team. They strengthened their previous judgment and felt that Chinese football would stand up from now on.

What are you worried about playing Qatar, the second-last at home?

But in fact, I don’t know how many people can clearly realize that the current performance of the Chinese team cannot truly reflect the level of Chinese football. It can only be said that it is Chinese football, including him, Gao Hongbo, was lucky to meet the "golden generation" that fell from the sky at this time. It was those young players who changed the performance of the Chinese team.

But they can only improve the competitive performance of the national team, but they cannot change the entire face of Chinese football.

If this golden generation is not available, what will Chinese football become?

It's still the same, there will be no change.

These people can only win glory for China on the football field, but they cannot change Chinese football from the perspective of system, culture, and economy. These basic things remain unchanged. Even if they are lucky, how can they continue to produce outstanding young players?

So whether it is the Olympic gold medal or the group first in the top ten, it is not the victory of Chinese football, but the victory of the golden generation of players. However, they were trained by European football. Their success actually has nothing to do with Chinese football, and it does not prove that Chinese football has left since then.

In fact, Chinese football is still the rat crossing the street that everyone shouts to beat. It can be seen from the failure of this home court against Qatar...

Whether it is extreme inferiority or extreme self-confidence, it is ultimately because of lack of true self-confidence. This is the impact of the image of Chinese football being poor and weak in the past few decades.

If Chinese football does not undergo some fundamental changes, if you want to achieve any results in the future, you can still rely on God to favor it, and a group of genius players will appear. But God will not always favor China. Brazil's football foundation is so good, and genius players have emerged one after another, but there are not many people who can truly be called the "golden generation". Looking at the changes in Brazil's football over the past ten years since the World Cup in 2002, it is really sad. Even football kingdoms like Brazil will be in a state of disagreement. What qualifications do Chinese football have to rest assured? (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!