Vol 4 Chapter 985: Nanyang Powerhouse Philippines

Talking about the most thoroughly naturalized team in Asia today, the Philippines is none other than the Philippines. In the 23-man lineup participating in the Asian Cup, the Philippine football team has a total of 19 naturalized players with dual nationalities, and there are only 4 pure-players.
Even so, six players, including the number one star and Premier League goalkeeper Etheridge, did not return to the team because of the game in January. In fact, if the Philippines does not choose, it can easily form three sets of naturalized lineups, or even more.
However, Philippine naturalized players are naturalized by blood, which is much stronger than China. So the Philippine football world doesn't think it's naturalization, because they are originally Filipino children.
The Philippines has been a colony of Spain and the United States for more than 400 years. The native blood has long been impure. Now it is very easy to draw blood in the world.
Coupled with the huge output of Filipino maids, the branches and leaves should not be too extravagant. Moreover, the level of Filipino maids married to local people will not be too high, and their children will be more likely to be exposed to football.
The Chinese can't do it. Because of the respect for education in their bones, the descendants of the Chinese generally pursue the elite line. The higher they go, the farther they are from football.
When Filipino football captain Stefan Schrock was queuing in the aisle before the game, he took the initiative to use German to match Zhuo Yang with porcelain. Because of his very authentic accent, Zhuo Yang almost asked Zhuo Yang a stupid question like 'Where did he learn it from' .
Schrock is one year younger than Zhuo Yang, born in Germany, and has played for Bundesliga for 11 years, and has been in the Bundesliga for two seasons in between. Two years before leaving Fürth, Schrock even wore the No. 10 jersey and was nicknamed 'Philippine Hassler'.
In the 2003-04 season, Schrock, who had just entered the Fürth first team at the age of 17, witnessed the 19-year-old captain Zhuo Yang's Madi Fort on the bench, and two clashes with Fürth in the Bundesliga. In the two games, Madibao won one and drew one, and Zhuo Yang scored 4 goals.
However, in the first round of the FA Cup, in the 1/64 game, Fürth eliminated the defending champion Madiburg, who was absent from the Six Musketeers and led by Bantam Hussler, 3:0. Schrock, who came off the bench in that game, performed very well, laying a solid foundation for him to establish himself in the first team in the future. (For details, please refer to Chapter 205 of Part 1: The Entry of Old Monk Hasler)
Zhuo Yang naturally didn't remember such a former opponent, and Schrock didn't have time to mention it, because Philippine football head coach Eric had cut his teeth.
The 71-year-old Swede Goran Eriksson is undoubtedly a famous coach. He has coached the Swiss Super League, Portuguese Super League, La Liga, Serie A, Premier League, Chinese Super League, and the England national team. If you have seen it, you must have heard it, and it will definitely give you face.
At the end of 2016, Eriksson was dismissed from the Chinese Super League Shenzhen get out of class. After being out of work for almost two years, he became the head coach of the Philippine national team at the end of October last year.
Maradona's classic goal in the 1986 World Cup, the goal was past six England defenders, the last defender before goalkeeper Hilton was Terry Butcher.
Butcher is a famous tough guy in English football history, nicknamed 'The Butcher' in the past. The makeup photos circulating about him in the rivers and lakes are basically the fierce appearance of him with a bandage on his head and blood all over his face in the England-Sweden match.
In April last year, American Thomas Dolly, the meritorious coach who led the Philippines to a successful breakthrough in the Asian Cup qualifiers, did not want to renew his contract after his contract expired. In July, Terry Butcher, who was coaching in Thailand, applied for the Philippine national football coach, but for some reason, he resigned two months later and turned to assist Stojkovic in the new Chinese Super League Guangzhou as a defensive assistant coach.
The Philippine Football Association urgently hired Eriksson, but the old coach's shot was not amazing. In the 2018 Southeast Asia Championship that just concluded last month, the Philippines lost 1:2 to Vietnam in the semifinals and was eliminated.
Philippine football is not what it used to be. It used to be the last Asian player on par with the Maldives and Nepal, but now it is barely third-tier. Singapore and Indonesia, which used to cause trouble for the Chinese team, can now rub against them.
In this Asian Cup qualifier, the Philippines' ability to beat Tajikistan and Yemen to advance to the main game as the first place in the group can explain the point, although there are factors for the expansion of the Asian Cup.
The Philippine Football Association attaches great importance to this Asian Cup group match against the Chinese team.
The new Chinese Super League will start the Dragon League and Tiger League this year. The Philippines hopes that the Philippine League champion can directly participate in the Dragon League equivalent to the Champions Cup with a wild card like Japan and South Korea, or start from the Dragon League qualifying round and receive the same treatment as the fishing port champion. Because the Philippine self-perceived football level has surpassed the fishing port.
The Chinese league development company is only willing to give the Philippine champion a Tiger League wild card equivalent to the UEFA Cup, and it starts from the qualifying rounds. At present, the two sides are still wrangling over this matter, and the Chinese League Development Company is very firm.
The Philippines hopes that the team can have a good performance in the "China Second Team" led by Zhuo Yang, showing the progress of Philippine football, so as to add weight to the wrangling. The world knows that Zhuo Yang has a very high voice in all matters of Chinese football, and the eldest sister Tou Zhuo Qiu is the controlling boss of the China League Development Company.
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"Zhuo Yang, now the Manchester City club has become great and legendary because of you. As the former coach of Manchester City, I am very happy to see the current achievements."
"Thank you. You are welcome to visit Manchester City often."
When Zhuo Yang was in Milan, Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra bought Manchester City and hired Eriksson, who has been out of work since the England national team, as head coach.
But after only one season, he left because of poor results. In fact, Eriksson didn't want to leave at that time. He still had two years of a high-paying contract, and Thaksin paid the penalty to leave.
It can be said that Eriksson, who has made brilliant achievements in Lazio and reached the peak of coaching in the England national team, has obviously gone downhill since he coached Manchester City.
"I watched Manchester City's game the day before yesterday. It was very exciting. I believe that Manchester City can win the Premier League title again." Eriksson said: "Good luck to Manchester City and good luck to you."
"good luck."
Manchester City snapped a losing streak in front of Liverpool.
The day before the game, the veterans headed by Kompany, Aguero and Derby organized the entire team to hold a player locker room meeting, asking everyone to actively cooperate with Guardiola during Zhuo Yang’s departure from the team to participate in the Asian Cup, and to support him absolutely. All training decisions and tactical arrangements for Laogua.
"Everyone has to show their faces. Zhuo Yang's achievements in the first half of the match, but when he came back, he found that the champion had become Liverpool, shall we explain it?"
After unifying the team's thinking and conveying the unconditional support of the entire team to Lao Gua, Manchester City welcomed Uncle Slag's Liverpool at home.
In the first half, Aguero, who came back from injury, took the lead with a small-angle burst, and then Fabinho was kicked by the fierce Kompany and replaced by Henderson.
In the second half, Deby Xi directly dismissed Mane, so Mr. Pig got angry. He couldn't get angry with old man Deby Xi, so he put a black foot on Jing Duo. Kicked off the field.
The brutality on the pitch was comparable to World War I, and Manchester City played a rare bloody. Debich, who replaced Fei Bird as the starting midfielder, locked Salah in the audience, and he was so tired that he urinated blood after the game.
But Uncle Slag's team didn't give it for free, and within five minutes of the second half, Firmino's header and Tu Ye's penalty took the lead 2:1.
In the last 20 minutes of the game, Manchester City was as crazy as a primitive man who was smiting wolves with bare butts, forcing Uncle Slag to once again withdraw President Pig back to the back line to form a third central defender.
In the 88th minute, Aguero broke through and earned a corner kick. In the chaos, Debich and Lao Kong scrambled for Van Dijk in the penalty area to make the scene even more chaotic, but also allowed Sane to seize the opportunity for a supplementary shot. In the end, the two sides played 2 :2.
On the same day, Tottenham easily defeated Cardiff City 3-0. Although Manchester City fell to the third place with 49 points-Liverpool 51, Tottenham 50, they stopped the losing streak in the key game and did not open the point difference. Even more important than simply winning.
Manchester City has retained the hope of winning the championship, and then Zhuo Yang will fight for the national team's first championship trophy. Whether the match against the Philippines is an appetizer or a touchstone, Japanese referee Hiro Kimura blew the whistle, and the outcome will be seen in 90 minutes.