Chapter 356: Leaping to the top of the league
After playing against Huelva, the league suspension period was two weeks after the league was suspended, which was the FIFA national team match day.
As a "big international player", many of Ibiza's international players set off from Ibiza Airport, flew to big cities such as Madrid, Valencia, Barcelona, etc., and then flew to their respective national teams to report.
The lively Ibiza training base was quiet again, and Fang Jue had to transfer some players from the youth team and reserve team to the first team to barely complete the basic tactical training.
"Is it decided?" Fang Jue asked.
"Yeah." Sun Jihai nodded, and Lao [Lingling Books.com.] expressed his expression a little lonely, "It's time to say goodbye."
Sun Jihai invited Fang Jue to dinner, and his family had moved from Manchester to Ibiza. Fang Jue brought Miss Papa to the banquet. After establishing a relationship, Miss Papa appeared in this private occasion as Fang Jue’s fiancée.
Sun Jihai finally made a difficult decision, and the 31-year-old veteran will announce his retirement from the national team.
Thirty-one is already relatively old for professional athletes, but if they maintain their athletic and physical condition, they can play for another two years. Logically speaking, Sun Jihai does not need to retire from the national team in such a hurry.
However, the veteran finally made the decision.
This is because Sun Jihai himself doesn’t know when his next national team game will come.
In June this year, in the World Cup qualifiers between the Chinese team and Qatar at home, Sun Jihai, who failed to play, protested excitedly because he had objections to the Lebanese referee's penalty, and was sent directly by the referee. In the subsequent match against Iraq, at the pre-match joint meeting, the game supervisor notified the Chinese team that Sun Jihai would definitely suspend the game.
At that time, the Chinese national team thought that Sun Jihai would only be suspended for one game. Therefore, after losing to Iraq and completely missing the World Cup, Sun Jihai continued to stay in the team and was preparing to go to Sydney to participate in the last game against Australia.
However, soon, the FIFA Discipline Committee held a meeting and made an additional punishment for Sun Jihai. In a fax from FIFA to the Chinese Football Association, FIFA said: Sun Jihai suspended the referee for five games because of his disrespectful words and deeds. Given that the Chinese team has missed the next stage of the World Cup qualifiers, this punishment will continue to the official international competitions that the Chinese team will participate in in the future.
It is precisely because of the suspension of these five games that Sun Jihai was unable to play in the Olympic National Olympic Team as an overage player.
Moreover, because he was not able to enter the roster of the National Olympic Team, the three group matches of the National Olympic Team were not able to win three suspensions for Sun Jihai.
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Speaking of the Olympics, the ambitious Football Association leader Xie Yalong once looked forward to the strategy of "gambling" the Olympics. Before the Beijing Olympics began, it was said that the Football Association spent 20 to 30 million yuan on the national Olympic team.
In this way, the national Olympic team became the number one darling of Chinese football in a "deformed manner", and everything had to make way for this team. Compared with the Beijing Olympics, the important World Cup qualifiers became the second place. In the end, the Chinese team was eliminated in the group stage of the top 40 of the World Cup qualifiers. In the end, at the Beijing Olympics, the men's football team became the only team that caused trouble for the Chinese people without any suspense. The strategy of betting on the Olympics was finally left with a mess.
The upcoming 2009 is a busy year for the strong teams in Asian football. World Cup qualifiers, Asian Cup qualifiers, World Youth Championships, and World Youth Championships one after another, but this "happy worries" do not exist for the Chinese Football Association, because next year, China's "national" teams will have no balls to play except participating in the Asian Cup qualifiers that are like a useless Asian Cup qualifiers.
This also means that with Sun Jihai's age, it will definitely be impossible to get the chance to compete for the next World Cup and the 014 World Cup. After considering it over and over again, he chose to retire from the national team.
"It's good to retreat." Fang Jue nodded and said, "Concentrate on playing football in the club, and see if I take you to win a few championships."
Sun Jihai laughed and said, OK.
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The next day, Ibiza's old Chinese international Sun Jihai held a press conference in Ibiza and announced that he had officially retired from the national team.
Sun Jihai's statement did not cause much trouble. On the one hand, it was because the group of veterans in the 2000 World Cup had been retired one after another, and the media and fans were used to it. On the other hand, no one really cared about it.
That night, Sun Jihai came to the study alone and carefully folded the national team's robe he had worn during the 00 World Cup that he had collected and collected. On the wall behind him was an old poster, with a Yugoslav named Milutinovich smiling in the middle. Behind him were Sun Jihai and his teammates, and everyone had happy smiles on their faces.
It is conceivable that the photographers, the fans and reporters who were shooting were also smiling.
Such a smile has disappeared since then.
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On October 18, the first game of the 7th round of the La Liga was the Madrid derby. Atletico Madrid, which had just been blood-slaughtered by Barcelona away, carried forward their traditional spirit and fought with Real Madrid at home, and the field was overwhelming. In the end, Real Madrid defeated Atletico Madrid in a difficult 2-1 victory, and the two sides also had a small-scale conflict after the game.
"Atlancia Madrid has four games in one season. At Calderon and Real Madrid fought desperately, at Bernabeu and Real Madrid fought desperately, at Camp Nou, and at Calderon and Barcelona were given heads." After the game, "Radio Sell" said sarcastically.
In a focus match that followed, the league leader Villarreal was tied by Espanyol on the road.
This also made Fang Jue very happy, which means that as long as Ibiza wins Getafe at home in this round of the game, their points will be able to surpass Villarreal and become the leader of the La Liga.
In view of this, the two latest games in this round: the match between Ibiza and Getafe, as well as the away match between Sevilla and Almeria, have become the focus of media attention.
As long as Ibiza and Sevilla win, the two teams will tie Villarreal, and the three teams will tie for first place. Moreover, given that Ives has many goals and goals, it is very likely that he will rank first in the league by virtue of his goal difference.
Athletic Stadium in Ibiza.
The whistle sounded at the end of the ninety-minute game, and the small court burst into huge and crazy cheers.
Getafe's Spanish talented scorer Soldado scored the first record for the visiting team. As Real Madrid's younger brother, Getafe has many Real Madrid-produced players.
However, before the end of the first half, Modric's beautiful world wave score helped Ibiza equalize the score.
In the second half, Aubameyang scored a push shot in the counterattack and overtook the score.
In the end, with the goals of Aubameyang and Modric, Ibiza defeated Getafe 2-1 at home. This somewhat difficult victory ensured that the points of this newly promoted La Liga team tied Villarreal, and they will surpass Villarreal with the advantage of goal difference and become the leader in La Liga!
After the seven rounds of the La Liga, Fang Jue and his team ranked first in the La Liga standings as newly promoted players, putting Villarreal, Sevilla, Barcelona, Real Madrid and Valencia under their backs, which shocked the Spanish football world, European football world and everyone.
Chapter completed!