The Chinese Captain

In the world of football, every team has its own hero. Raul of Madrid, Maldini of Milan, Toti of Bahrain City...

For the Chinese, they now have their own hero, that is Yin Jun.

With Yin Jun's rapid rise, he conquered more and more fans, and as the motherland, almost every football fan in the country has become Yin Jun's fans.

On July 17, the 13th Asian Cup kicked off. The opening match will be played against Bahrain.

In this world-renowned game, more than 80,000 fans from all over the country flocked to the Workers' Stadium to witness Yin Jun's debut in the Asian Cup.

This is the most crowded audience since the Workers' Stadium was built, and it is very likely to be the record of the peak of this stadium. Because according to the plan, the stadium will be renovated in two years to prepare for the Beijing Olympics four years later.

According to some rumors, after modernization, the Workers' Stadium can only accommodate about 62,000 to 65,000 fans.

This is China's first Asian Cup. In the opening ceremony about half an hour before the game, important VIPs such as FIFA President Blatt and AFC President Harman came on stage to speak, and the opening ceremony ended in a peaceful atmosphere.

China's mission for this Asian Cup is very clear, which is to strive to win the championship.

Head coach Alihan made certain adjustments to the starting lineup. Sun Jihai unexpectedly did not start. Dong Fengzhuo and Li Jinyu formed the front line, young player Zhou Haibing unexpectedly started, Yin Jun, Yan Song and Zhao Junzhe were the other three midfielders; Zheng Zhi and Li Weifeng were the titles, Zhou Ting and Wei Xing were the left and right full-backs, and the goalkeeper was Liu Yunfei.

Before the game, the media unanimously optimistic that China will defeat Bahrain. This is not only that the current world ranking of the Chinese team is far higher than that of Bahrain, but also related to the historical record of the two teams. In the last four matches, China has a slight advantage in 2 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss.

The referee of this game was Mohad Salh from Malaysia.

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When the Chinese team made their debut, fans found that Yin Jun was the first to walk out of the player channel, and he wore the captain's armband on his shoulders!

The fans were excited, but unexpectedly, Alihan made Yin Jun wear the captain's armband in the first Asian Cup.

Everyone knows that with Yin Jun's current fame and status in the world football world, it will be a matter of time before he wears the captain's armband of the national team, but he did not expect that this day would come so early.

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At the beginning of the game, the players of the Bahrain team launched a crazy attack on the Chinese team and frequently created murderous intent. Goalkeeper Liu Yunfei became the busiest player on the defense line.

But there are Zhou Haibing, Zhao Junzhe and Yan Song at the forefront of the penalty area, and the Bahrain team can only threaten by long shots. Although neither the Chinese team's defense line nor Liu Yunfei made any mistakes, it still gives people a feeling of storm.

Especially when Bahrain launched an attack from the left and hung the ball into the penalty area, Liu Yunfei quickly abandoned the goal and took the ball out of the air before the opponent's forward, which shocked everyone in a cold sweat.

Afterwards, Liu Yunfei had no extra time to think and kicked the ball forward with a big foot. He wanted to pass it directly to Yin Jun, but at this time, Yin Jun was still in the half of the team and could not catch up at all. The football went out of bounds and became the Bahrain team's out-of-bounds ball.

This was a mistake by the Chinese team. Liu Yunfei made a mistake in his busy schedule. Although it did not cause any losses, it also caused the team to lose the right to the ball.

The goalkeeper of Yindu raised his left hand high and apologized to all his teammates.

Yin Jun clapped his hands hard and encouraged his teammates not to be discouraged. As long as he stayed up for this period of time, the team would be stable!

Everyone in the Chinese team has been mentally prepared for this situation. Alihan said before the game that Bahrain is likely to attack. This period may be ten minutes, fifteen minutes, or even twenty minutes if it takes a longer period.

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When Bahrain's head coach Yulisic saw Liu Yunfei pull the ball out of bounds, he couldn't help but applaud and shouted: "That's great! That's what we have to do, continue to put pressure on them!"

After he finished calling, he turned around and walked towards the visiting team coach's seat.

The opening attack was a game strategy he formulated, with the purpose of disrupting the rhythm of the Chinese team.

The Chinese team, which has Yin Jun, the European Golden Ball winner, is undoubtedly the strongest team in Group A. It can be seen from the world ranking that the Chinese team ranks 39th in the world in the latest world ranking, much higher than the 51st-ranked Bahrain team and Qatar, which ranks 54th.

The slogan that Bahrain team shouted to the outside world was victory, but in fact, what they wanted was a draw. As long as they could tie the Chinese team with the strongest strength in the group, Bahrain team's chances of qualifying would be much greater.

"Alihan obviously guessed that we would attack, so even if we were playing at home, their start was relatively stable." The assistant coach held a small notebook full of notes and said to Yulisic, "The Chinese midfielder with Yin Jun is definitely the only one in Asia. Yin Jun is really outstanding, with both offense and defense. When playing against Asian teams, the Chinese team plays one more player."

Yulisic nodded constantly, and he also observed that the Chinese team's midfield was very stable and very solid.

"Then you can only go to the side and then turn from the side to the middle." Yulisic said.

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Five minutes before the game started, the ball was more controlled by the Bahrain players. But the Chinese team also made sufficient preparations for this, and Alihan even thought of the Bahrain team's opening attack.

Therefore, at the beginning of the game, when Bahrain launched a large-scale offensive against the Chinese team, most of the Chinese teams still mainly retreated.

In this game, Alihan adopted a 4312 formation, with Zhou Haibing, Zhao Junzhe and Yan Song forming three midfielders, Yin Jun broke forward and ranked behind the second player on the front line.

Zhao Junzhe and the other two performed very actively after the start of the game, and used large-scale running to block the Bahrain team's attack.

Bahrain team could not break through the Chinese team's defense and could only frequently use long shots on the periphery. In the first ten minutes, Bahrain team got a total of three or four long shots, but none of them could create a threat, and all three shots missed the goal.

After supporting the start of the Bahrain team's attack, the Chinese team gradually stabilized its position and began to plot against the attack.

After all, this is a workers' stadium!

The entire Workers' Stadium completely turned into a turbulent sea of ​​raging waves. The stadium was like a small boat that was rising and falling with the waves in the vast ocean.
Chapter completed!