Chapter 19 The Specter Behind "11.17"

Both the compatriot Hong Kong team and the referee gave the Chinese team a chance, and even awarded a penalty kick to the Chinese team. The strange thing is that the Chinese player Zheng Zhi did not score this ten thousand dollar penalty kick. Unlike any previous defeat of the national football team, the failure on November 17, 2004 was generally regarded as a "mentally retarded failure". Facing the underdog and compatriots in the Hong Kong team, the national football team was not defeated by technology and body, but by He was defeated by an arithmetic problem so simple that even a third grader could figure it out clearly.

We try to explain this question as simple as possible: In the Asian group stage of the World Cup qualifiers, when only one team can qualify, and China and Kuwait have the same points and relationship, the final score should be compared.Before the final round, Kuwait scored 9 goals and conceded 1 goal, with a goal difference of 8 goals. The Chinese team scored 7 goals and conceded 1 goal, with a goal difference of 6 goals.This is a common sense question that is so simple that fans who have watched football for more than half a year can grasp it, but the Chinese Football Association has not understood it.They always thought it was enough to win the Hong Kong team by 7 goals. When the final score was 7-0, they thought they would play a play-off.

The final score was: Kuwait 6-1 Malaysia, China 7-0 Hong Kong.Although we are equal to Kuwait in terms of goal difference, but in terms of goals, Kuwait surpassed China's 14 goals with a total of 15 goals.The Chinese team has no chance, and God will not give a chance to those who can't even figure out the arithmetic problems. In fact, these two games were a game of tacit understanding. Both China and Kuwait are using the unspoken rules of football.Kuwait, which has a friendly relationship with the Malaysians, does not have the strength to beat their opponents 6-1. Of course, the Chinese team does not have the level to beat their compatriots 7-0.To be honest, the Chinese team and the Kuwait team just want to play roulette to see who will kill the other team, because no one dares to beat the opponent 10 to 0 just to get the goal difference and the number of goals. In the end, I won the advantage in these two values. Let’s use an analogy: It’s like being a bitch and building a memorial archway. Even if it doesn't matter, FIFA will intervene in this unscrupulous tacit ball.

At that time, both China and Kuwait sent personnel to the opponent's venue to monitor the real-time score to determine how many goals the team had to hit.The Chinese Football Association sent technical officials Li Feiyu and Zeng Min to Kuwait to watch the game. The only task was to broadcast the live score as quickly as possible. They used the Internet and mobile phones to ensure communication. To be fair, both sides started the game at the same time.But the Kuwaiti staged a "repair net record", because their side of the net is broken, according to the FIFA regulations, it must be repaired before the game can continue.Those who are knowledgeable know that this is just to buy time. Whoever delays the time by even 5 minutes can also decide how many goals to score according to the game situation on the other field.

Kuwait once played smoke bombs to let the Malaysians score. This was to paralyze the Chinese team and make the Chinese team mistakenly think that the Kuwaiti and Malaysians did not have a tacit understanding.Sure enough, after a while, the Kuwaiti set off a scoring frenzy, and finally ended the game 6-1. The Chinese team also adopted corresponding delaying tactics, such as being injured and falling to the ground, such as delaying the time to leave the locker room, and finally ended the game two minutes later than Kuwait. However, these precious two minutes did not allow the mentally handicapped Chinese Football Association and The national football team figured it out that it was not enough to lead the Hong Kong team 7-0, because at this time, although the goal difference between China and Kuwait was 13 goals, the Kuwait scored 15 goals and the Chinese team only scored 14 goals.

The national football coach Ali Han and the goalkeeper coach Xu Tao are still stretching out the number "7" on the sidelines. Some people say that this gives the players an illusion that 7 balls are enough.I asked Xu Tao a long time later, and he explained that he just wanted to tell the players that 7 balls were not enough.In fact, when Li Weifeng scored the 7th goal and ran to the coach's bench to celebrate, Li Shubin pushed him back hard and told him loudly that "one is short", but at this time, the Chinese team was still unable to open the opponent's goal. Some patriotic people were full of grief and indignation after the game, saying that during those two minutes, no matter what method they used, such as flopping, such as loudly telling their compatriots that the goalkeeper of the Hong Kong team would put one, it would guarantee the Chinese team to qualify.

But these are useless, because both the compatriot Hong Kong team and the referee gave the Chinese team a chance, and even awarded a penalty kick to the Chinese team. The strange thing is that the Chinese player Zheng Zhi did not score this ten thousand gold point. ball. Four years later, a player named Shao Jiayi also missed a penalty kick worth tens of thousands of dollars in Kunming, which caused the Chinese team to miss the qualifying. In the two World Cup qualifiers, two fatal penalty kicks were missed, and the two core midfielders, under the excellent situation, staged a two-pronged game.

We don't have any reason to suspect that there is a problem with these two penalty kicks, but it still can't prevent a saying that is entangled like a ghost. This saying is: Not only the World Cup qualifiers, but the Chinese team has repeatedly missed good opportunities in the competition, which is related to off-court factors.For example, in a game before "November 17", after the Chinese team led the opponent by one goal, they stopped trying to make progress. Even Ali Han bluntly said after the game that "I can't understand the performance of the players after the lead". If the game happens to be the Chinese team winning a goal, buy the home team's game and win money.

Of course, the premise is to help the Chinese team get at least 3 points, so that they are morally safe, and they have not betrayed the interests of the team, let alone the country.They are optimistic that the away game can still score enough points and small points, and the Chinese team will surely qualify from the group. However, in the away game against Kuwait, Sun Xiang lost 3 points because of a reckless sliding tackle, which completely changed the plan of the optimists.In all fairness, they did their best during the China-Hong Kong battle, trying their best to make up for their mistakes.

In other words, the mentally retarded tragedy of "11.17" with one less goal was actually doomed in a certain game a few months ago.