Chapter 172 The Trip to South Africa Is Over
When Zhuo Yang and the Chinese team returned to Shanghai, all the quarterfinals of the World Cup in South Africa had been produced.
Among the eight teams eliminated in this round, the Chinese team is the most regrettable. FIFA has abolished the 'sudden death for gold ball' and 'half-time death for silver ball' rules, returning to tradition. But Dutch team No. 8 Nigel de Jong's goal in the 120th+1 minute was still equivalent to sudden death.
Detu's goal gave the Chinese team no time to fight back. His last shot redeemed the Dutch's penalty kick nightmare and also gave his brother Zhuoyang a ticket home. Without Detu's decisive blow at the last moment, the Dutch would not have survived the subsequent penalty kicks.
Detu redeemed the Netherlands' most humiliating defeat and saved the dignity and glory of Dutch football. The Dutch media gave Detu high praise, saying that his goal was the most important goal in Dutch football in the past 22 years since Van Basten's zero-angle volley in the 1988 European Cup final.
Butcher De Jong deserves all this!
The Chinese team lost to South Africa with great regret. The reversal of the goal conceded in the last minute of the World Cup was unacceptable. Should Hao Junmin be blamed for his poor vigilance in passing? Or should Zhuo Yang be blamed for being blocked by Fan Umbrella and being a step too late to stop De Tu? Or should we blame Yang Jun for not being able to turn the tide? None of this actually matters anymore. We came to the World Cup, and we left again after reaching the top 16.
After the game that day, all the players on the field were crying. The Dutch were saved for the rest of their lives, and the Chinese regretted it. Only Zhuo Yang didn't cry. He felt a sense of relief at that moment. He couldn't explain why this happened, and Zhuo Yang was also worried about whether this emotion was correct, but he did feel a little relieved.
Brother Detu burst into tears, Zhuo Yang held him in his arms. Detu said: Brother, I'm sorry! Zhuo Yang knew that the butcher was emotional, so he patted him on the back.
After the game, Detu won the man of the match award. When facing the camera, he once again reiterated that Zhuoyang is the most outstanding player in world football. Detu dedicated this goal to seven people. He read their names one by one, but the names were all unfamiliar.
Zhuoyang and his brothers knew that these were the names of De Rong's seven friends who went to heaven in the boat capsizing accident that day 11 years ago. De Tu was the only survivor.
Zhuo Yang said: If you lose, you lose. There is no excuse. De Jong just did what he should do, and he has the ability to change the situation on the court, but he has always been underestimated.
"Of course I will cheer for my brother, why not? De Jong is the strongest defense I have ever faced in football, bar none. He deserves this win,
We will cheer for him. "
The brothers cheered for De Jong, and the whole Netherlands cheered for him. His living friends are cheering for him, and his dead friends are cheering for him too!
After picking up his mood, Zhuoyang ended his first World Cup trip. After two days of resting in Durban, the Chinese team left South Africa and flew back to Shanghai via Rome.
The Chinese quickly recovered their mood and welcomed the return of the national team like heroes. We just fell at the last second of the quarterfinals. We miraculously survived to the last second in a game that set a World Cup penalty kick record. We persisted in a game where two people were sent off. Last second.
I dare not say that I returned home with great honors, but it was by no means a failure with nothing gained.
Both the General Administration of Sports and the Football Association highly praised the national team's performance in South Africa. Comrade Wu Anxi praised Zhuo Yang and the national team for bringing glory to the country in the World Cup, and encouraged them to get out of the shadow of failure and make persistent efforts without arrogance or impatience. Flowers and praises from all walks of life came overwhelmingly, and various spontaneous rewards from merchants made all players and coaches, including bench substitutes, winners in life.
Detu's goal avoided a penalty shootout that plunged the Dutch into a doomed situation, but it could not prevent cruel penalty kicks from occurring in other arenas. Paraguay, which defeated the Chinese team in the group stage, encountered a strong resistance from the Japanese in the rematch and was helpless for 120 minutes. The Japanese team lost 3:5 in the penalty shootout. Perhaps they were more regretful than the Chinese.
The top three in East Asia, China, Japan and South Korea, all reached the top 16 of the World Cup, creating a grand event for Asian football, but they all failed in the top 16. South Korea was defeated twice by Uruguay's buck-toothed monster named Suarez, but the score of 2:1 was still a very honorable defeat.
The Six Musketeers left three times and stayed three times, Scar Erzhuo got out one after another, but Grandpa and Xiaozhu did not let Germany Tu Meimei. The German team defeated their old enemy England 4:1, which is a classic in the history of world football. Although Lampard's shot that crossed the goal line by one meter in the first half was misjudged as invalid, which gave the English people an excuse to vent their grievances, the 4:1 score cannot be justified by strong arguments.
At this point, the top three highest-paid coaches among the top 32 coaches in the World Cup have all returned home early, and Capello, Rijkaard, and Lippi are sympathetic to each other.
Like the German team, Argentina also showed an aggressive championship appearance. The Pampas defeated the Mexicans 3:1. Maradona is as proud as a summer flower, but Messi still failed to score. Do you think it's strange?
Also not scoring in this round were Kaka and Ronaldo. Kaka is not in a hurry, he is a midfielder, attacking the city is not his main job, and there are still opportunities later. Brazil's 3:0 victory over Chile is an understatement. Five-star Brazil goes straight to the championship.
But Ronaldo had no chance. Villa's goal ended Portugal's trip to South Africa. Spain won the Iberian Peninsula derby with one goal. As a result, among the four kings, Zhuoyang and Ronaldo, who have scored goals, have already left Nanshan, while Kaka and Messi, who have not yet scored, are still moving forward.
In another game, Ghana eliminated the United States 1:0 in overtime and became the only top eight outside Europe and the United States. This game has received too little attention, so it’s okay not to mention it.
The fierce battle in South Africa is still going on, and Zhuoyang's World Cup is over. He scored 8 goals in this tournament, and he must be the top scorer. However, some people say that Zhuoyang's record-breaking six-goal score in Cameroon was too obvious. Critics believe that excluding those six, Zhuoyang only has two goals left. This is not a very powerful statistic. Compared with his identity and worth, it is very mediocre.
The Chinese team scored 13 goals and conceded 10 in the four games this time, which perfectly illustrates Jie Shuai's balanced tactics of using offense instead of defense. Although the Chinese team is still an underdog, the Chinese team's games have begun to be enthusiastically followed, and it is not limited to Chinese fans, because this team has no shortage of stories and ups and downs.
After attending a series of celebrations and summaries in China, Zhuo Yang returned to Europe from Xi'an. There, his girlfriend was still eagerly waiting for him, waiting to start a long-awaited mysterious journey with him.