Chapter 299 Preparation for the knockout stage, 9000 million euro super shooter!

After the 17m preliminaries ended in the morning, Su Bingtian advanced to the semifinals with the th place. Jiang Yuan immediately went to the locker room to express his congratulations to Su Bingtian.

Of course there is also Bolt, but there is no point in congratulating this guy. Jiang Yuan thought about it carefully and finally decided to go to the Olympic Village with Neymar and Bolt.

The Netherlands, Jamaica, and the United Kingdom hosted a pool party in the Olympic Village, which sounded like a lot of fun.

It just so happened that all three of us had nothing to do this afternoon, so we went together.

Jiang Yuan was wearing shorts and holding a bottle of orange juice, sitting comfortably on the sofa. There were nearly 8 athletes from 40 countries in the eight swimming pools. Each one had a better figure than the other, and of course there were a few who were good at throwing, and their physiques were at least three times that of the average person.

In the swimming pool closest to Jiang Yuan, Neymar guided the water ball behind his head and then threw it out with a "swish".

"Snapped!"

The water ball hit Jiang Yuan's chest.

"Junior, I'm gonna fuck you!"

Jiang Yuan threw the water ball back. His body, which had just been wiped dry, was now wet again!

"Hey, Jiang, you're just going to stop after one round?"

Bolt gave Jiang Yuan a middle finger, and the latter shrugged: "You guys are having so much fun, aren't you training tomorrow? Can you learn from me and have a good rest!"

After saying that, Jiang Yuan looked around for a towel to wipe the water off his body, but he couldn't find one. Just as he was about to wipe his body with a tissue, a hand reached out, holding a pure white towel.

“I think you need this.”

The person who spoke was a girl with blonde hair.

"Ah, thank you!"

Jiang Yuan took the towel and asked, "Excuse me, who are you?"

"You should let me sit here first, right?"

"Oh, sorry sorry!"

Jiang Yuan made room for a seat, and the blonde girl sat down decisively, extending her right hand to Jiang Yuan: "Ellen Hogg, Dutch women's field hockey"

"Jiang Yuan, China"

Jiang Yuan imitated Hogg and introduced himself while wiping his body: "Hockey? I've heard of it, but I've never played it."

"You can try"

"Is it fun?"

"It was definitely fun at first, but I got a little tired of it. You know, I've been playing hockey for 22 years."

"Year 22?"

Hearing Hogg's words, Jiang Yuan's pupils suddenly dilated: "Older than me!"

"Wait, have you ever been to the Olympics before?"

"Ha ha"

Alan Hogg laughed: "This is my third time participating. I participated in BJ in 08 and London in 12."

"I can't tell!"

Jiang Yuan nodded. This was his third time participating in the Olympics. So Alan Hogg should be about 30 years old, but this guy's skin didn't look like he was 30 at all.

She does have a nice figure though.

"You're amazing for participating in three consecutive Olympics!"

Jiang Yuan gave Hogg a thumbs up and started searching on Wikipedia.

Ellen Hoog, born in March 1986, is a key player of the Dutch women's field hockey team and a gold medalist at the 3 Beijing Olympics and the 2008 London Olympics.

I...oh shit!
"Double gold medal in the Olympics?"

Seeing Jiang Yuan's surprised expression, Hogg laughed: "It's just that my teammates are good."

"really?"

Jiang Yuan showed the screen of his mobile phone to Ellen Hogg and recited: "The main player of the Dutch women's field hockey team. And you are actually 30 years old, you really can't tell, I thought you were only 20 years old"

Jiang Yuan was telling the truth. Hogg was only a little over 1 meters tall. With his good skin and figure, he looked no different from a 6-year-old.

"I look 20, but you are not even 20"

Hogg took out his phone and the two of them added each other as WhatsApp friends.

"Alan, are you guys taking a break today?"

"Just like you, we have a day off because we advanced to the knockout rounds, but we have one day longer than you."

"Then I'll treat you to dinner tonight?"

Jiang Yuan asked tentatively, and Hogg held up two fingers: "Just the two of us?"

"Does it matter if there are more or fewer people?"

"Of course it does matter!"

Hogg put his phone on the table and stood up: "If it's two people, then I'll accept your invitation."

“Of course it’s two people.”

……

The training on the second day did not start in a hurry. Li Shubin first introduced the situation of the knockout stage to the players.

First, the upper half: Portugal vs China, Brazil vs Colombia
Then comes the lower half: Japan Olympic Team VS Denmark Olympic Team, Nigeria Olympic Team VS Germany Olympic Team.

Among the eight teams, the total value of Chinese players ranks third, only behind Brazil and Germany. From this perspective, China has great hope.

But that is not actually the case. According to the analysis of the coaching staff, China, Japan, and Colombia are the three weakest teams among the eight teams in the knockout stage.

“Take one step forward if you can”

Li Shubin said that for the Chinese Olympic team, being able to enter the knockout stage is already a very good result. The chances of beating Portugal are indeed small, but we still have to try.

Immediately afterwards, Li Yi took out his notebook and announced the starting lineup for the match against Portugal.

"The goalkeeper is Dalei"

"As for the defenders, Shi Ke, Wu Xinghan, Hao Lun... and Lin Peng"

"The midfielders are Xiao Chang, Xiao Liao and Xiao Fei"

"Forward: Xiao Jiang, Bin Bin, and Xiao Lei"

This is the same lineup as the previous match against Mexico. Jiang Yuan was a little surprised that Wu Xinghan returned to the central defender position, but he didn't say much.

This was Li Yi's decision and had nothing to do with him.

The game is in three days, which is neither long nor short. In order to avoid the impact of training on the players' physical strength, the intensity of subsequent training will not be particularly high.

For example, today, everyone had shooting training together, plus Jiang Yuan and Liao Lisheng had exclusive free kick training.

Of course, there is also corner kick training by Xie Pengfei and Chang Feiya.

Jiang Yuan discovered that when facing Portugal, Li Yi attached great importance to set-piece tactics, from free kicks to corner kicks, and finally to penalty kick training.

Obviously, Li Yi believes that if the Chinese team wants to win, they need to use some "cleverness". The training of the National Olympic Team is proceeding in an orderly manner. Meanwhile, the Brazilian Olympic Committee has also warmed up for the men's football knockout match.

The reason is simple. Because there are two big-name stars, the men's football event in this Olympics has received more attention than ever before.

Jiang Yuan's leaving the club to play in the Olympics naturally led to a wave of ridicule from the British media, the most impressive of which came from The Sun.

The Sun's front page headline: Chelsea's new king played three games in a row at the Olympics but did not return to the club for matches. He is not up to the task and may have sunk!
If I remember correctly, this is Jiang Yuan's third time of being dismissed from The Sun.

But it doesn't matter. As for The Sun... well, as long as the newspaper doesn't put Jiang Yuan's photo on the cover, it's fine, because Jiang Yuan is worried that the Sun newspaper with his photo on it will be used as a cover-up by others.

As the Olympic football event was about to enter the knockout stage, the Premier League also began.

In the first round of the league, Chelsea, based at Stamford Bridge, drew with their opponent West Ham United with a score of 1:1.

Chelsea's performance in this match can be said to be very frustrating, not because of the players or tactics, but because of the referee's problem.

Referee Anthony Taylor was like a god descending from heaven and blew away two goals for Chelsea, one of which was a penalty kick and the other was a foul after Chelsea scored first.

Immediately after the game, Chelsea’s Instagram account was also blasted.

Anthony Taylor, is your mother dead?

[Everyone, please stop scolding him. He is a disabled person. We should treat disabled people well, otherwise we will be complained by the Disabled Persons Protection Association! ]

[Pogba's foul happened 10 seconds ago, why was it called for Ibrahimovic's goal? Anthony, are you an asshole? 】

[Hurry up and fire Anthony Taylor. As long as this guy is in the Premier League, we Chelsea will not be happy.]

[You are right, I suggest the FA sack Anthony Taylor]

[Impossible, the FA would not do anything to its own son. The whistle in Taylor's hand is the hand of an FA official]

[What are you afraid of? We still have Jiang. When Jiang comes back, it will be useless for you, Anthony Taylor, to brag again.]

[Hazard is so good at playing as a front midfielder, I feel like Chelsea has hope this season! ]

[Hazard is back in form, playing well with Jiang, Anthony Taylor is only fit to lick the dick of us Chelsea fans! ]

[Taylor is so shameless, I want to cum on his face]

Jiang Yuan didn't watch the game, but he probably knew what Anthony Taylor had done. The reason was simple: after the game, Zouma found Jiang Yuan and cried about it on WhatsApp.

According to Zouma, if a different referee was used, Chelsea could have won the game by five goals.

In this regard, Jiang Yuan said yes.

【clown】

……

At 8:16 p.m. local time on August 2, the match between the Japanese National Olympic Team and the Danish National Olympic Team in the lower half of the group kicked off.

In a pre-match interview, Moriyasu Hajime said that Japanese football was improving rapidly, and everyone thought he was bragging, but it turned out to be true. In this game, the Japanese Olympic team defeated the Danish Olympic team 2:1 and became the first knockout team to enter the semi-finals.

“Really amazing”

Jiang Yuan watched the entire game on his mobile phone at the training ground. The level of the Japanese Olympic team was average, but their cooperation and passing were very good. In addition, Denmark underestimated their opponent, so it was not surprising that Japan won the game.

"Portugal will underestimate us, and we will qualify, just like Japan!"

Zhang Yuning gave a thumbs up. So far in this Olympics, this young man has played for less than 10 minutes. Although his playing time is not much, his enthusiasm is the highest.

Jiang Yuan lay flat on the grass: "If we want to win, the most important thing is that we are in good shape. We can't control the rest. We just have to win if we can."

"When you say that, I feel like you're the one who wants to win the most."

Zhang Yuning sat next to Jiang Yuan, deliberately taking a position and using his body to block the sun from shining on Jiang Yuan.

"The Olympics only come once in a lifetime..."

Although Jiang Yuan will still be an athlete of the right age for the next Tokyo game, there is almost no possibility that the club will release him to play in the Olympics when he is in his 20s.

It can be said that this year's Rio is Jiang Yuan's last Olympics.

This is true for Jiang Yuan, and it is also true for other members of the National Olympic Team.

“We can beat Portugal”

Zhang Yuning wanted to go up and comfort Jiang Yuan, but suddenly realized something was wrong and retracted his hand.

"Ding dong!"

Just then, Jiang Yuan's cell phone rang again.

"Damn it, what the hell is Zuma doing again?"

It was another message from Zuma, but this time he didn't show off. Instead, he sent a URL.

Oh?
Seeing the familiar string of letters, Jiang Yuan, who was originally lying down, squatted up.

"Brother Yuan, what's wrong?"

Zhang Yuning leaned over and saw Jiang Yuan copying what Zuma sent and opening it on Google.

Because he had played it many times, Jiang Yuan knew how to operate it. First, he clicked [Club], then [Premier League], and finally [FC.Chelsea]

The value of all Chelsea players was refreshed 14 minutes ago!
"What the hell, what do you mean?"

Seeing that it was an update on his market value, Zhang Yuning moved his head closer, directly blocking Jiang Yuan's screen.

"Hey, Brother Ning, please make way, I can't see anymore"

Jiang Yuan turned Zhang Yuning's head away and then turned the page.

E.Hazrad75M——
Jiang Yuan90M↑15M
P.Pogba80M↑5M
N.Kante80M↑10M
K.Zouma25M↑8M
T.Courtois40M——
C.Azpillicueta20M——
……

F. Fabregas20M↓10M
"9...9000 million euros"

Zhang Yuning took a step back and looked at Jiang Yuan as if he was looking at a monster.

This is only one tenth away from breaking 10 million!
“Well, not bad!”

Jiang Yuan was quite satisfied with this increase in value. In fact, he did not expect that he, who was originally worth 7500 million euros, would become the player with the highest increase in value in Chelsea.

9000 million euros, just one step away from the billionaire. This result is incredible for an Asian.

The headline of China Football News: Total value of 9000 million euros! my country's 18-year-old young player Jiang Yuan broke the Asian record he created.

The Sun’s front page headline: Chelsea’s new king, the most expensive player in the team. What is Jiang’s ceiling?

The Times' front page headline: Hazard's 7500 million euros worth has not changed. After Pogba's joining and Jiang's worth increased, Hazard became the third most expensive player in Chelsea. Before that, the Belgian king's worth was the highest in Chelsea.

Football Expert: Transfermarkt updated the value of the Chinese Olympic team’s starting lineup at 9750 million euros, surpassing Germany to become the team with the second highest value of starting players in this Olympics!
Wonderful comment from the Football Emperor: The Chinese Olympic team’s cooperation is average, but the value of the starting players will definitely not disappoint you.

transfermarket: The front page features Chelsea football star Jiang and Spanish tennis star Rafael Nadal.

……

PS: Regarding the issue of updating, I updated one chapter a day in the past few days. Some people said that I was slacking off, but that’s not the case.

I basically update 10,000 words every day, but sometimes I update once, sometimes twice. The update volume remains the same, so you can rest assured.

In addition, this book was put on the shelves in mid-April. It has been on the shelves for three months now, and the number of words has exceeded 4 million. Basically, it is 120 words every day (I did not take leave last month and this month)
So...can I ask for a monthly ticket?

(End of this chapter)