Chapter 66 New Challenges
After finishing the training for the new day, Xu Qi wiped his sweat and held a bottle of mineral water in his hand to go home.
At this time, he was called to the team's office.
At the same time, Yuan Weiwei, Zhou Haibin, Cui Peng and Han Peng were also called over.
Xu Qi probably guessed something. This is a major event in Chinese football this year, about the Olympic men's football roster.
After all, there have been a lot of rumor on the Internet, and Xu Qi is calling for selection very high, but Xu Qi feels it is still difficult for him to be selected. After all, he has never been selected for the National Olympic Team, and the probability of suddenly being selected at the time of the Olympics is really not high.
However, seeing that the club looked for him and those who were called together were all teammates who were basically confirmed to be selected for the Olympic roster. Xu Qi probably guessed that he might have been selected for the roster in the end.
"It seems that my performance in the league has won a lot of attention recently. Being selected is naturally a recognition, and I have to work hard." Xu Qi was a little excited.
According to previous news reports, Han Peng will compete in this Olympics as an overage player, and the remaining Yuan Weiwei, Zhou Haibin and Cui Peng are all players of the right age.
Including the younger Xu Qi, he is even more a player of the right age.
This time, the interim coach Yin Tiesheng was led by the National Olympic team. The previous coach Du Yi had some problems because of the locker room, and there were also huge conflicts with the Football Association, which was already undermined by the Football Association.
Luneng Club is obviously not particularly willing to be drawn so many main players in the process of the league, but this is a rigid rule after all, and they can only obey it.
Olympic Games are a big deal, and all domestic clubs have to make way for the Olympics, so the national Olympic team arranged a very long training camp.
In fact, what makes the club even more unhappy is that the team's foreign aid, Jivkovic actually wants to represent the Serbian national Olympic team as an overage player to participate in the Olympics. Fortunately, the Serbian national Olympic team does not need such a long pre-match training time for the Chinese national Olympic team, so Jivkovic does not need to miss Luneng's game.
"Next, you will participate in the Olympic training camp. You will miss the five rounds of league tasks. You must train well during this period and perform well in the national Olympic team." Han Gongping said a few simple words.
Then they arranged some time and received air tickets. The group made preparations for the whole day and set off for Beijing the next day to complete the assembly with the team.
"Are you going to participate in the Olympics?" Xu Qi was inexplicably excited. This was basically equivalent to the World Cup where the U23 national team and three over-age players participated. It was dominated by young players. Although its influence was incomparable to the World Cup, it was still quite popular.
Therefore, in the Olympics, there are countless geniuses in today's football world, and the most eye-catching one is Messi, one of the dreamy two-way forwards in Argentina.
Another one is Aguero, who is younger than Messi, but his fame is not as great as Messi.
Argentina also has an overage player, Riquelme, a great classical midfielder.
Of course, another South American team, Brazil, also has a Golden Ball like Ronaldo as an overage player, and also has a super genius Pato from Serie A giant AC Milan.
"It seems to be in the same group as the Brazilian team?" Xu Qi suddenly remembered that he had to check the opponents in the group stage of this Olympic Games.
The opponents in the same group also include Belgium.
This Belgium is known as the strongest Belgian Olympic team in history, with its core players including Kompany and Vermullen on the back line, as well as the most popular new players in Europe such as Mpensa who have played in Schalke 04, Hamburg and Manchester City.
Being able to win the top four European and Youth League games, this Belgian Olympic team should not be underestimated. It can be said that they are the biggest competitors to qualify in the group.
The goal of the National Olympic Team this time is to defeat Belgium and enter the semi-finals. It is obvious that they are a little confused about the situation.
"The Football Association is a bit too optimistic. No matter how you look at Belgium, you have extremely strong strength! This Olympic group stage will probably be very difficult!"
The Chinese Football Association, including many domestic media, is indeed very optimistic. They do not look down on Belgium very much. Instead, they believe that the national Olympic team, which has the platinum generation national youth team as the team, has the strength to enter the semi-finals, which makes Xu Qi a little helpless.
"But I finally have the opportunity to fight with this group of the world's top talented players in reality. This is still very important!" Xu Qi was obviously very excited.
At night, Xu Qi planned to try the strength of these opponents.
"I am already a national Olympic player now, right?" Xu Qi asked.
"Of course, so you can now use the National Olympic Team as the home team to conduct a free challenge, but the Olympics is not a European Cup, and you will not be qualified to challenge the challenge. The challenge opponent is limited to the national Olympic Team level team participating in this Olympic Games!" Ghost replied.
"Enough, I just want to challenge them!" Xu Qi said calmly.
"Who should I challenge?" asked the ghost.
"The biggest favorite to challenge the gold medal is Argentine National Olympic Team!" Xu Qi said confidently.
“It’s extremely difficult!”
"It's extremely difficult, it's extremely difficult! Although I haven't won the challenge recently, I have learned a lot. I feel that I'm making rapid progress." Xu Qi didn't mind at all.
After looking at the start of the Argentine Olympic team, Xu Qi found the most familiar figure, not Messi, but Mascherano. During this period, Xu Qi learned a lot of steals and interception tricks from Mascherano.
"This is Master!" Xu Qi said excitedly, "Very good, it's time to challenge him and see how big the gap between me and him is!"
Argentina's goalkeeper is Romero, and the defense is Sabaleta, Gare, Pareja and Monson.
The back midfielders are Mascherano and Gago.
The front midfielder is of course Riquelme, Di Maria on the left, Leonel Messi on the right, and Aguero is in the middle.
On the Chinese National Olympic Team, there are goalkeeper Qiu Shengjiong, and the defense line is Tan Wangsong, and the over-age players Li Weifeng, Feng Xiaoting, and Yuan Weiwei.
Midfielders Zhao Xuri, Zhou Haibin, Cui Peng and Xu Qi were almost in parallel, while the overage player Zheng Zhi stood slightly ahead of the four, and the forward in front of him was Gao Lin.
The challenge begins.
The Chinese team started, but they were stolen after just a few possessions.
Since then, Argentina quickly took the initiative in the scene, and this situation is of course normal.
Xu Qi and his teammates were squeezing wildly, but the opponent's midfielder led by Riquelme was extremely calm in controlling the ball, completely playing with the Chinese national Olympic team players in the midfield.
"It's just a kick! The gap is too big!" Xu Qi sighed. He found that he couldn't grab the ball at all. Moreover, when he was holding the ball, he had no way to make a breakthrough when facing a ball-grabbing expert like Mascherano.
It is difficult to even catch the ball calmly before.
The teammate's running position was not enough for him to serve him, so although the Chinese National Olympic team ranked five midfielders, they were still crushed.
"There's no chance." Even though Argentina hasn't scored yet, Xu Qi felt that this game was meaningless.
"This Olympic tour is probably very difficult, and there are too few teammates running without the ball."
The final result is five to zero.
Xu Qi did not give up on the game. He has been fighting with all his strength, but he is still unable to support himself, or he is not a one-on-one at all, because his current strength is not much stronger than his teammates of other national Olympic teams.
Maybe he has some breakthrough ability, but in the face of Argentina's defense, his breakthrough is simply a pediatrician.
How many teams can play Argentina?
"There are less than two months left before the start of the Olympic Games. Maybe there will be some improvement in these two months." Xu Qi said inwardly.
"I'll try to challenge Belgium next time, will the gap be smaller?"
"You no longer have free challenges. If you want to challenge the Belgian Olympic team, you need 80,000 gold coins!" Ghost reminded.
Chapter completed!