Vol 5 Chapter 552: Cockfighting and Wooden Chicken (2)

In the early morning of the next day, with the sound of waves coming from far away in the silence, the tired national team members woke up listlessly from their sleep and walked out of the bedroom to the restaurant on the first floor, yawning even after washing their faces.
"Huh? Steamed stuffed buns?" Yan Song picked up one strangely and took a bite: "It's still stuffed with sauerkraut?"
"What about millet porridge?" Yuan Weiwei was also surprised to find "Baby".
Yishui'er's Chinese breakfast immediately aroused the enthusiasm of the team members, and even Wang Ai came to his appetite and even took six tea eggs.
Since the three group matches have to change to three cities and all stay in the hotel, it is inevitable that there will be a lot of confusion. Therefore, Claude, who was hired by Leo Ni and Gao Hongbo, solemnly put forward his first suggestion to the national team: this trip Go to South Africa to participate in the World Cup and take care of the whole process, especially the food!
After he learned that the Chinese team will not play black hands against other teams, especially the Chinese team has no experience in black hands and the experience of preventing black hands, he thinks that instead of attacking and defending each other, it is better to block himself so that outsiders simply cannot intervene. . At that time, Yan Shiduo, who had not yet handed over his shift, approved this proposal after some consideration. Therefore, the houses where the Chinese team lived in at least three group matches after arriving in South Africa were all small estates rented through local Chinese-funded enterprises. Anyway, there are 23 people in the national team, 7 coaches, 4 team leaders, 6 defenders, and 1 interpreter.
As far as food is concerned, all are shipped by air from China, mainly meat and seafood. After Yan Shiduo and the others arrived early, they rented a refrigerated truck. Where did the national team go, and where did the refrigerated truck stocked with meat and seafood follow. As for rice, white noodles and vegetables, you can buy them everywhere.
This completely closed model maximizes the avoidance of opponents’ secret calculations and the delegation’s surprise. After all, South Africa’s public security is notoriously poor.
The previous national team was not so extravagant. Those who came from the poor years, even if they have money, they can save or save, and they can do it. After all, just five or six years ago, when the Chinese youth team went to Europe to play the Toulon Cup, they were still impoverished. They didn't even have a second set of clothes or even a training ball. Women's football is more miserable than the national youth team, and it is often just a suit of clothing to beat the world.
The arrival of Crowder has finally changed all this at an accelerated pace. Without his proposal, the national team would probably continue the past practice, which is to rent a hotel at will. Then the environment cannot be guaranteed at all, and the conditions are not as good as they are now. When the Chinese team participated in the World Cup in Germany four years ago, they lived in Tübingen for the whole process, but this condition is not available in South Africa.
After eating breakfast, Gao Hongbo announced that he would take a break in the morning. Those who didn't like to go out stayed at the manor, and when he was willing to go out for a while, he would take everyone to the beach to play. In the course of the World Cup for half a month, one match after another, one opponent after another, the schedule is tight and tight, and this string cannot be pulled all the time. What's more, I have been training in China for ten days before I came here, and everyone has played for a whole season before.
At nine o'clock in the morning, everyone was blowing the sea breeze on the beach. In June, South Africa was quite cold morning and evening, and it was about 20 degrees at noon. The temperature difference was not small, so everyone came in coats and waited for the sun to come up. Some came with the ball and kicked around on the beach, and some came empty-handed and just sat and chatted. Several coaches, team leaders, and captains like Wang Ai still gather together to study tactics. Although everyone's family members have followed, they did not live with the national team. Instead, they formed a "delegation". Unless the national team had something to say, they would play their own.
At noon, they returned to the manor to have a good meal. After an hour of rest, everyone took a bus to a middle school two kilometers away.
Schools in South Africa are on holiday, so the organizing committee contacted me and rented it for a few days. After arriving at the place, the accompanying reporters wanted to follow up and take pictures, but Yan Shiduo announced that the national team had entered a completely closed state. Everyone, whether they were reporters, local Chinese-funded enterprises, and representatives of overseas Chinese, could not receive them. The team leader was responsible for it.
Over the past few days, the Spanish team has been under fire all day long. All kinds of news are flying all over the sky. Although Spain was defeated by the Chinese team in the Confederations Cup last year, they then played the Chinese team 4:2 in the third place match. Even if the super shooter Wang Ai is still scary, he still lost. . The Spanish team used this game to tell the outside world what football is a sport for 11 people.
Whether it is the Spanish team or the Spanish media, the attention of the Chinese team is only Wang Ai, at most including Chen Tao and Li Weifeng, the rest is "deficient."
And the Chinese team is not thinking about any media promotion now, and everything is studying the game, studying tactics, and studying opponents. Isn't there a saying, everything is difficult at the beginning. Whether this new system can work or not, the key is this World Cup. If you want to work, then stand still. I dare not say that the Chinese team will play like this in the future, but it will definitely be embedded in the genes. But if it doesn't work, it's a joke.
However, the Chinese team is not without news. In order to interfere with the Spanish team’s sight, under Claude’s suggestion, the national team took the initiative to contact the local South African newspaper and released a lot of false news about what Wang Ai was injured, what and who Who was in conflict, who suddenly returned to China for investigation and so on.
Whether it’s Yan Shiduo or Gao Hongbo, I don’t know it’s useful or useless, just like I don’t know whether the news released by the Spanish team is true or false. Just prepare for war.
With regard to this treatment, the domestic reporters were so irritated, but there was nothing to do. This World Cup is not the same as in the past, and it's no good to talk nonsense as before, and the leadership won't let it go.
On the morning of the fifth day when the national team came to South Africa, the whole team went to the Durban Stadium to adapt to the venue. This was the first time that the organizing committee had arranged four opportunities for the Chinese team to adapt to the venue. In fact, the World Cup in South Africa has opened for three days, but the Chinese team is in the last group, so the kick-off is also the latest, until the day before the second round of No. 16 Group A, and the two games are on the same day.
Previously, Wang Ai's most worried thing was that the stadium was too slippery. The Chinese team was 3 centimeters taller than the Spanish team, so if the stadium really resembles the Bernabeu, it would be very detrimental to the Chinese team. Fortunately, after testing back and forth, it was found that the court was pretty good, and it would not slip and fall casually.
When the Chinese team went back at noon, it happened to catch up with the Spanish team's bus and arrived. They were in the afternoon, and they returned to the Chinese team tonight. Tomorrow morning is Spain, the Chinese team is in the afternoon, and then it will return to Spain in the evening. The organizing committee's arrangement is clear. But the two sides didn't even bother to say hello. The Spaniard had no expression on the Chinese team through the glass, and probably the Chinese team too.