Chapter 812: Subversion and pattern

The England national team is stationed in a well-established training base in Tokyo, Japan. In theory, they can participate in all the games. Except for a 3/4 finals in South Korea, all other games, group games, after promotion The knockout games will be conducted in the Japanese division, so I chose to prepare for the battle in Tokyo.
Although the games are all played on different stadiums in different cities, it is obviously impossible to change one place with one shot and change the city back and forth. Firstly, it will cause players to travel hard and adapt to the new environment every day. Secondly, Japan itself is not big. The game is in Saitama against Sweden, from Tokyo to Saitama, but only half an hour's drive, and they will be helped by the World Cup Organizing Committee, this time will be shortened.
Japanese football In the past few years, when Aldridge led Millwall to the Toyota Cup, he had a brief exchange with the senior officials of the Japanese Football Association. At that time, Japanese football began to flourish. The golden generation represented by Tosuke Nakamura is no accident.
To develop football, the infrastructure must be kept up. The English national team chose to stay in the training camp this time, but the training venue is borrowed from the training base of the local Japanese football club. The facilities are quite complete, and other aspects will also be Handed over by the team of the England national team.
Three meals a day, the national team is responsible for the bathing facilities of the players training recovery, the national team greeted the hotel in advance.
One day before the opening of the World Cup, England was already familiar with the environment at the training base, the players adjusted the jet lag, and the training was on the right track.
Outside the training base, Fleet Street reporters were the most observed, and then there were South American reporters, with Argentina the most.
This is to probe the enemy!
Aldrich is unprecedentedly serious, meticulous in training, but a bit mean. He spends more time observing and carefully examining the status of players.
The English national team's record in the warm-up before the World Cup was bad, for innate reasons.
The team is incomplete!
Scholes, Beckham did not play, even Owen, was also placed on the bench by Aldridge to rest, these three, if it is important, without Scholes the most influential, followed by Owen, the last is Beckham, while the three are absent at the same time, it is conceivable that if the England warm-up match can be played beautifully, then hell!
To be precise, Aldridge took over the national team in a year and a half, not much, much.
At this stage, he will no longer instill tactical ideas in the players. This job was started in the past year and a half and should be done well!
At this time, to talk about any tactics, then this team has no hope. You are not going to play the league. You can adjust after losing one or two games. You need to steadily play what you are good at and get used to from the beginning.
But at the end of this day's training, Aldridge looked frowning.
Jenson saw it and asked curiously, "What are you worried about?"
"Scholes."
"He? He looks fine."
"The reaction he gave me caused me some worry."
"What reaction?"
Aldridge sat at the table and lifted his head lightly: "I told him that we need to observe the rhythm of the game on the court, grasp the rhythm difference that is invisible to the naked eye, and cooperate with our counterattack to maximize the power of the attack. .. Then, he just nodded, nodded quite normally."
Jenson was surprised for a moment, and immediately smiled: "You are too nervous. In the past year and a half, he was like this. What you said to him, he nodded when he understood, and he didn't ask much. On the contrary, If he doesn't understand, he will have other reactions."
Aldridge's eyes rolled, and it seemed to be the case.
Ah……
Turns out I was nervous? !
Back in the hotel room in the evening, most of the players stayed in their rooms, either making phone calls with their families or reading news in the room to learn about other World Cup teams. They will usher in the first World Cup in three days The show, all players are calmly waiting for the game to come. Probably, there is only one exception. Lu Xiaofan, he is lying in bed after finishing a phone call with Colin and his family in the room. Fading away, looking at the unfamiliar world outside the window, he wanted to go out and see the cultural features of the Eastern Kingdom, but Joe Cole, who was in the same room, was reluctant to accompany him. Joe Cole’s mentality was very different from Rooney, he looked forward to In the game, I hope he can debut, and Rooney, he feels that his chances of playing the game are very small.
Aldrich leaned on the bed, he was in a separate room, holding a laptop to video chat with his family who also came to the East.
"Hi, Dad, am I cool?"
Looking at the video footage of Earl wearing a toad mirror and wearing an England jersey, Aldridge nodded with a smile and said, "Well, it's cool! Do you have my share?"
"Yes! Look."
Earl picked up a brand new pair of sunglasses and shook it in front of the camera. The Burt next to him was not dressed up to be different. The two brothers had opposite characters. Earl was lively and active. Burt sometimes made people feel dull. Aldridge would That is understood as quiet.
The two sons came to see the World Cup under the leadership of grandparents, but did not come to Japan. They first went to South Korea first, planning to watch the opening game played by the defending champion France tomorrow.
After Aldridge talked to them, he picked up his phone and called Ivan, who was far away in London.
At 11 o'clock in the evening, Aldridge fell asleep.
The following day, Seoul, South Korea, the opening ceremony of the World Cup was grandly held, after which the defending champion France team debuted, against the same group of opponents Senegal.
Zidane did not play due to injury. Senegal, who is very strange to the world, has played in the World Cup for the first time.
With the goal of Diop, the new African team scored a small victory over the losing French defending champion!
The 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup kicked off with a subversive opening from the first day of the opening ceremony.
The last World Cup champion, plus the new team European Cup champion France team encountered Waterloo, after a night, the World Cup fever really began to heat up.
People are hotly discussing the impact of Zidane's absence, discussing the French team's way out, and re-evaluating the strength of the new African army.
With the French team's first show after the shocking upset, England's players are more serious in preparing for the battle, as if others have learned from the past, sounded the alarm for them, treat the World Cup, really can not have the slightest intention and underestimate the enemy.
On the day of Children's Day, the second match day of the World Cup is coming, and Audridge attended the pre-World Cup press conference for the first time.
He swept away the breezy expression of the past and put on a serious expression.
The scene brought together media reporters from all over the world, regardless of whether England is underestimated by the outside world, but at least they have the most famous coaches and players, Aldridge and Beckham.
Unsurprisingly, there were still many reporters on the scene inquiring about the transfer of Millwall’s four Italian stars. He ignored them. He waited until the reporters were angry, saying: "I am now an English country. The coach of the team, I only answer topics related to the England team."
On Fleet Street, there are also some mainstream European journalists who are not surprised. Most of those who ask for nothing are mostly journalists who do not understand the style of Aldridge.
"What is the goal of the England team to participate in this World Cup? The British media said that the FA's internal demands on you are to reach at least the quarterfinals. Is this true?"
Aldrich said in a deep voice: "We come to the World Cup with only one goal to achieve our dreams. If we can't achieve our dreams, we will fall into the quarterfinals, quarterfinals, and even the finals. What's the difference? Except for the champions, the rest are meaningless."
"Huh? Does the England team want to win?"
An Asian reporter was clearly taunted.
Many other reporters also felt that Aldridge was too full of words.
Aldridge looked at the Asian reporter and asked, "Are you Korean? Japanese?"
"I am Korean!"
"Okay, Mr. Reporter from South Korea, then I ask you, what is the goal of South Korea to participate in the World Cup?"
"Ranked into the top 16."
"Well, this is your goal? Realistic and very utilitarian. But what if you reach the top 16?"
"Of course, try to enter the top 8!"
"Well, it's still very realistic. Take a step by step, this is South Korea's plan. But not the England team, we want to go to the end, work hard to the end, from the very beginning, our eyes turned to Yokohama after 30 days. In that final, if we failed halfway, it doesn’t matter. If we come back four years later, we will still aim to reach the end and fight forever until we reach the goal of going there."
The reporter on Fleet Street nodded frequently, and the South Korean reporter suddenly realized that Aldridge’s words were not ironic, but they reflected the difference in the football pattern between England and South Korea. This did not mean any ridicule, but just spoke of reality.
Maybe England does not have a champion, but England has always had championship dreams and ambitions, but a country with a backward football level has no such ambitions and dreams, and even the courage to dream! Can only watch step by step.
For example, the Chinese team’s expedition to the World Cup in Korea and Japan is also the best plan to advance to the top 16 with Brazil. If they can make it to the top 16, they can be called the most brilliant in history. Compared to the "failure", the Chinese team will get the runner-up than the mainstream powers, and the semi-finals will be a victory!
What is the championship appearance? It won't appear out of thin air.
The French team has a championship appearance because they were champions four years ago and European champions two years ago.
Spain and Argentina have champions, just look at their crazy performances in the qualifiers to know why.
Italy has champions, and the heaviest lineup is the bottom line.
Even the German team, which is slacking in the west, and the Brazilian team that stumbled out of the qualifiers, will have more championship appearances than England. The former is the foundation, the latter is the talent.
What is there in England?
Has Beckham? Have Irving? Have Aldridge?
This is not enough for the outside world to include this team in the top five of the championship hotspot, especially if they are divided into the death group!
But even so, the dream of England’s championship cannot be lost, and the pursuit cannot be reduced because there is no champion. This retrogression of ambition will have a huge impact on the national team of an era, unless, really, it is necessary for a high-rise building to become a ruin. Brick and tile rebuilding.
Aldridge made a serious statement and won the appreciation of Fleet Street. In their eyes, Aldridge was the best coach of the Three Lions.
They will not be too harsh on him, and even if he brings a 16-year-old Rooney wasting places, they still tolerate him.
why?
Because he made the Three Lions even in a bad situation, it made people have to look forward to the future and cherish the most precious expectation!
Aldridge was reluctant to quarrel with reporters. When talking about tomorrow’s first game, he still looked serious, saying: "People are saying that England have beaten Sweden in 34 years, 34 years, a long period of time, but in fact The two teams have not officially met many times in the competition. In the past, on the stage of the World Cup, the number of matches between the two teams was zero. The record is a record, but that only represents the past. The Swedish team will be a strong opponent. In this death In the group, 3 points are very important to qualify, but in the first game, no one wants to lose, to avoid the situation becoming passive. To decide the outcome of the game tomorrow, I think it may be in the use of positioning ball, the England team has a big We have a little advantage for a star with such a free kick ability."
The reporters froze.
Even the reporters on Fleet Street couldn't understand whether Aldridge's words were true or false.
Have you made a mistake?
The first game is more conservative, it is not difficult to guess.
But you directly told the outside world that England will focus on positioning tomorrow?
Is it true or false?