The Malaysian referee finally blew the whistle to the end of the game.

The scoreboard of Shaanxi Provincial Stadium shows an exciting score, four to zero.

International practice: the home team is in front and the away team is in the back.

With Wu Lei's double score and Huang Baiwen and Gao Lin's goals, the Chinese team defeated Qatar with four goals at home.

Although everyone knows that the one who went to China was not the complete main force of Qatar, they are still excited and excited about this game, because this is a team that is reluctant to play in Maldives and Bhutan. Now they can beat Qatar, the first in the group with four goals. How can they not be excited?

More importantly, the results of the other games in the top 40s were also released one after another. North Korea lost to the Philippines, Iran defeated Jordan, and the Chinese team ranked second among all the second teams in the top 40s and successfully advanced to the top 12 with the last two consecutive victories.

It's been fourteen years, and it's been fourteen years!

The last time the Chinese team entered the second stage of the World Cup qualifiers was already in 2001.

Since Milu led the Chinese team to the 2002 World Cup, the Chinese team has never entered the second stage of the World Cup qualifiers, but now it has miraculously entered.

When the news came, tens of thousands of fans in the entire provincial stadium stood up from their seats and sang the national anthem in unison.

The live broadcast camera swept through the fans in the stands, and many people couldn't help but burst into tears.

They have been waiting for this day for too long.

After the team drew with Hong Kong, China by zero, they had even completely lost their confidence and hope to advance. But at the critical moment, Gao Han stood up, bet on honor and disgrace for his whole life, turned the tide, and successfully led the national team to break out and advance smoothly.

If there is really a savior in this world, then Gao Han is the savior of Chinese football.

Countless fans were singing hoarsely. They raised the cards in their hands high, with all kinds of blessings written on them, and the most common thing was to give them to the head coach of the national team Gao Han.

From the embarrassment of the first six games to the glory of the last two games, in the past six months, the Chinese national football team has been riding a roller coaster, which is incredible. Everything that happened in front of them seems to be dreaming.

Only those unscrupulous tears fell down drop by drop, silently.

The international players on the stadium were also hugged each other, and some players couldn't help crying.

I'm afraid even they themselves can't imagine that they have actually advanced.

Gao Han felt very uncomfortable either.

Promoting to the top 12 is just a matter of course for strong teams such as South Korea, Japan and Iran, but for the Chinese team, it has already exhausted all its strength and even used up all its confidence.

After the past two months of coaching, Gao Han felt more deeply that the gap between Chinese football and Asian teams, and even the world's top teams, was all-round and could not be made up for overnight.

But no matter what, since the national team has been taken on, Gao Han will have to go all the way to the end.

He quickly calmed down. He first walked to the visiting team coaching seat, shook hands with the Qatar coaching staff, then walked into the stadium, hugged the internationals on the stadium one by one, and asked the captain Zheng Zhi to lead the internationals to the stands to thank the fans.

The game was over, but the fans in the stands were still singing the national anthem, never stopping and never leaving.

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"It is a great honor that the national team was able to successfully advance from the first stage of the group stage. This is the first time China has entered the second stage of the group stage in nearly a decade. We are all proud of this game tonight."

Captain Zheng Zhi spoke on behalf of the national team players when he was interviewed by domestic media reporters in the interview area after the game.

He first expressed his gratitude to the fans for their support in the past two games, and also said that everyone in the national team has done their best to play every game well, and everyone has made great contributions to the team's promotion.

"I think, at this moment, the one we should thank most is of course our boss, head coach Gao Han. Although he has only been in charge of the team for two months, it has brought a fierce concept impact to each of us. He makes us all feel what the world's advanced football philosophy looks like."

"To put it simply, at our current level, we can't play at all."

When Zheng Zhizai said this, his face was filled with gloom.

He is a veteran, and this will be his last time to compete in the World Cup. Gao Han's arrival brought him hope, but at the same time he also saw the gap, which was a gap that he could not make up for in his entire life.

"I still remember that during a private chat, I asked him if there are any players in our team who can gain a foothold in the four major European leagues?"

Zheng Zhi talked about the past with a wry smile, and the media reporters at the scene were also very curious.

"He said that from the perspective of strength, there are as few as five or six people, and as many as ten people."

The media reporters on the scene were a little surprised, but they didn't expect Gao Han to have such a high evaluation of the national football players.

"But he quickly told me again that even if these players really entered the four major leagues, they still couldn't play. I asked him strangely, why? He told me, the idea."

"Our players are not much worse than European players in terms of technical abilities. What can cause huge gaps between us come from behind in our philosophy, and then extend from philosophy to thinking and various details."

"It's like the passing of Hao Junmin to Wu Lei just now, which sharply tore the defense line, but what you may not know is that behind that passing, there are a lot of details. For example, Wu Lei is the right-footed player, how fast is he? After rushing, how much advance amount should be left for his pass?"

"This seems easy, but in fact, we practiced repeatedly in training and games. The coaching staff gave a lot of reference data, but there were still many mistakes. The pass was good, which was Hao Junmin's assist just now. Wu Lei hit the goal, but it was not passed well. Wu Lei was not easy to deal with after getting the ball, and it may eventually turn into a mistake and miss the opportunity."

"There are still many details in the past two games. I can't count them one by one here, but what I want to say is that the most correct decision made by Chinese football in the past decade is to hire Gao Han as the head coach of the national team."

"I am the captain of the national team. I want to say that Gao Han has brought unprecedented huge concept impact to our entire team. I hope that all fans who love Chinese football can be more patient, give him better space, and give him more time. I believe that he will bring us rewards."

Zheng Zhi's words made the media reporters around him silently.

Everyone could hear that Zheng Zhi was not optimistic about the prospects of the top 12 national team. It was not because Gao Han’s coaching ability was not good, but because the current national team’s level was just like this and could not reach that level.

On this good day when the national team entered the top 12, it was not appropriate to say such things, but Zheng Zhi said that this represents his attitude. He was afraid that after the team performed poorly in the top 12, the national media reporters and fans lost their minds and pointed their finger at Gao Han.

I don't know how many times such cases have happened repeatedly in the past. The head coach of the national team has changed one after another. Isn't this worth waking up? He really doesn't want the Chinese team to miss such an excellent head coach.

If he fails this time in the World Cup, he will retire from the national team. Whether Gao Han will remain in office will have nothing to do with him. But at this moment, as the captain of the national team, he still said what he said in his heart.

This is his responsibility as the captain of the national team.

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Gao Han is also not optimistic about the prospects of the top 12 national teams.

At the post-match press conference, Gao Han praised the players' outstanding performance in the past two games. He believed that the team was able to advance smoothly and everyone made great contributions, but he also advised everyone that the Chinese team took the last bus to enter the top 12, and the real test had just begun.

When the media reporter briefly conveyed the comments from Zheng Zhi’s post-match interview to Gao Han, Gao Han solemnly expressed that he was very grateful for Zheng Zhi’s support and affirmation, and at the same time said that Zheng Zhi is the most important member of the national team at present.

"In fact, I think not only our national team, but our league, are still trying to learn how to play football, such as running without the ball."

"As we all know, football is a team sport composed of eleven people. A player takes only a very small amount of time on the court, and he is in a state of no ball. Therefore, the running of the player in a state of no ball determines the overall performance of this team."

"Let me give a simple example. The fourth goal in this game is pretty, right?"

All the media reporters present nodded. The goal was a team cooperation and scored very beautifully.

"But think about it, what really led to the goal?"

Without waiting for media reporters to answer, Gao Han had already revealed the answer.

"It's a running without the ball. A player takes the ball and his teammates around him quickly dispersed. This not only can open the defense for his teammates and create space for the ball, but also can provide teammates with more contact points for the ball. Just imagine, if Gao Lin does not retreat, if Zhang Xi does not run over to meet Gao Lin after passing the ball, can this ball still happen?"

"Our biggest shortcoming at present is this, and it is also the biggest gap between us and South Korea, Japan, and the world's strong teams."

Gao Han's words made everyone present suddenly realize.

In fact, if you are familiar with the domestic league, it is easy to find that domestic players really don’t know how to run.

In February, when the national team was training in Guangzhou, the reason why Chinatown players led by Gao Ren and Yang Xin were able to bring such a strong shock to the international players on the indoor football field was not only because of their superb passing and receiving skills, but also because of their outstanding off-ball running.

On the other hand, when the international players reached their feet, their teammates around them didn't know how to run. After the ball was passed, they didn't know how to run. The entire unball-free running system could be said to be chaotic.

The national team has never given the national players this kind of concept and systematic training. On the contrary, Gao Han practiced the most after taking office, so he made the players' positions. For this reason, he divided the areas on the training ground and taught step by step.

But it was at this moment that media reporters realized from Gao Han’s mouth that the backwardness of Chinese football is all-round and cannot be solved overnight. What is needed is unswerving reform and long-term accumulation.

"Today is a good day. After waiting for more than ten years, we finally returned to the top 12 games, but this is not the final result we want. We are still on the road, and we should not be satisfied with it."

Gao Han looked at all the media reporters frankly, "According to the top 12 is our real beginning. Our real test lies in how to play the top 12 in half a year, because there is not much time left for us."

"As the team's head coach, my mission is to do my best to improve the team's strength and lead the team to the top 12 games as much as I can. I sincerely hope that everyone can continue to support me like in the past two games and create a better and more relaxed environment for us."

Gao Han knew that this remark tonight would inevitably cause a huge response in the country.
Chapter completed!