Chapter 388 Fighting for the Country
It was already past 10pm when Jiang Yuan arrived at the dormitory. Li Yi brought Gao Hongbo to visit Jiang Yuan. Li Yi also understood very well and apologized to Jiang Yuan for the conscription order immediately. The latter was quite polite.

"Nothing, nothing"

Jiang Yuan waved his hand. There were only three days between the FA Cup match against Manchester United and the league match against Stoke City. Even if Jiang Yuan could participate in the match against Stoke City, he would only play as a substitute. In this case, it would be better to return home earlier. The national team's call-up order directly helped Jiang Yuan avoid communication with the club, which was really good.

After apologizing, Li Yi asked about Jiang Yuan's physical condition.

"Yes, if you feel good, I will try to arrange for you to start the game."

Li Yi was sitting on the sidelines of Jiang Yuan, while Gao Hongbo was sitting on the chair opposite. After Li Yi said this, both of them had expectant expressions.

"no problem"

Jiang Yuan agreed very readily, and then without any hesitation, he asked Li Yi directly about the starting lineup for the next game.

"Forehead……"

Li Yi was silent for a moment, then he turned on his cell phone and showed Jiang Yuan his memo.

[Changsha's starting lineup against South Korea]

There were basically no problems until Jiang Yuan saw the three words "Zhou Wencheng".

"..."

Jiang Yuan raised his head and looked at Li Yi: "Brother Tie, I remember this guy is a newcomer, isn't he? A newcomer will start directly?"

Zhou Wencheng was temporarily called up to the national team along with Han Qing and Tian Zhong at the end of last year, and it has been almost three months now.

If Zhou Wencheng played well during training, Jiang Yuan would not have any objection.

The problem is that as a midfielder, Zhou Wencheng’s ability to hold the ball is really poor!
“This, this is the result of our consideration.”

Li Yi glanced at Gao Hongbo, and finally smiled with Jiang Yuan: "On paper, we are not as strong as South Korea, so I think we need some more creative midfielders. Wencheng may not be good at holding the ball, but his creativity in passing the ball is really good. Well... my idea is to give you the feeling of being in the club."

In the club, Pogba often makes wonderful penetrating passes to Jiang Yuan, which is why Jiang Yuan feels comfortable playing.

But you, Zhou Wencheng...

Jiang Yuan knew something was wrong, but since the head coach Li Yi had said so, it would be bad for Jiang Yuan to do anything else.

So Jiang Yuan nodded and agreed.

ok!

Li Yi took back his phone.

The starting lineup that I came up with got Jiang Yuan's support, so there won't be any problems later.

The day before the national team game starts, Li Yi has to report the starting lineup to Chen Shuyuan. If Chen Shuyuan disagrees, Li Yi can move Jiang Yuan out, and Chen Shuyuan has to agree even if he disagrees.

Steady!

"Then you should rest early, and we will see you at the training ground tomorrow."

Li Yi patted Jiang Yuan on the shoulder and then stood up.

"What time is training in the morning?"

"Start at eight o'clock"

Li Yi smiled and walked out with Gao Hongbo one after another.

call……

Jiang Yuan let out a long breath. He remembered that when he first met Li Yi last year, this guy was quite timid. He didn't expect that he would become more and more active after becoming the head coach of the national team.

Although Li Yi wanted to lead the team to qualify for the World Cup, Jiang Yuan always felt that if Li Yi really reached that point, it would not be a good thing for the national team.

Combining his understanding of the trial of Li Yi's case in his previous life with a little help from outside, Jiang Yuan has found some evidence about Li Yi, but now Jiang Yuan is facing a very realistic problem.

If Li Yi is dismissed, the Chinese men's football team will not be able to find a suitable coach in a short time.

The original head coach Gao Hongbo... Gao Hongbo took the initiative to resign from the position of head coach because of his poor performance as the team leader. His characteristic is that he is too mediocre. The Chinese national football team is now in the sprint period of growth. What is needed is a capable or radical head coach. If Gao Hongbo really comes, the results may not be as good as Li Yi's.

If they want to dismiss Li Yi, the Chinese national football team needs to find a capable coach, or let Jiang Yuan act as an intermediary to help contact some head coaches in European leagues. However, all major leagues in Europe are in a fierce game now, and there will be no unemployed coaches at least before June.
The next day came, and Jiang Yuan was originally planning to take a rest, but the Asian preliminaries were approaching, so after much thought, he decided it would be better to go to work early. After all, Jiang Yuan had just returned, and Li Yi would not arrange any particularly strenuous training for him.

"Fuck!"

Jiang Yuan got up from the dormitory, turned on his phone and checked it, and it was already 8:03.

It was only then that Jiang Yuan realized a problem, that is, he had forgotten to reset the alarm after flying back from the UK.

The only good news was that the training ground was very close to the dormitory. Jiang Yuan hurriedly washed, changed his clothes and ran to the training ground.

At 8:26 in the morning, at the Chinese Football Association training base, the players of the national first team had just finished their warm-up run and gathered at the edge of the grass to listen to Li Yi's arrangements.

"Let's do some stretching first. It's quite cold today, so we must warm up thoroughly, especially the iliopsoas and posterior muscles. These two areas are very easy to..."

"Sorry sorry"

Jiang Yuan hurried over with a sneaker bag in his hand: "I forgot to set the alarm clock. My problem, my problem"

"It's okay, don't worry, don't worry."

Li Yi took the initiative to greet Jiang Yuan and motioned him to put his sneakers aside first. Then he glanced at his watch and said, "It's only 8:28. You'll be late for 2 minutes. Don't worry!"

"what?"

Jiang Yuan was stunned for a moment and frowned: "Isn't it 8 o'clock?"

"8 O'Clock?"

"8:!"

Li Yi pushed Jiang Yuan to the team of players: "You must have heard it wrong. Training doesn't start until 8:. These guys like to come to the training ground early."

oh oh!

Jiang Yuan breathed a sigh of relief. He almost thought he was late, but he didn't expect that he would be late at the last minute.

"Brother Yuan!"

Wu Lei pushed Zhang Yuning away, then reached out and pulled Jiang Yuan's clothes, pulling Jiang Yuan to his side. The two Super League top scorers stood together, and the sense of security of the teammates around them was also fully increased.

Li Yi walked back and forth, continuing his unfinished narration: "When playing against South Korea, we don't need to say which road is the focus, because every road is relatively important..."

"Give it to me directly, give it to me directly!"

Jiang Yuan received the pass from Liao Lisheng and kicked the ball away from Ren Hang with the outside of his foot. Just as he got away from Ren Hang, everyone thought Jiang Yuan was going to go to the bottom line, but he just kicked the ball.

"duang!"

The ball hit the post, bounced out and went into the net. Wang Dalei touched his head in front of the goal line, a little overwhelmed. Then he reacted and yelled at Zheng Hanwen: "Fuck, can't you go up and block it?"

Snapped!
Wu Lei ran over and high-fived Jiang Yuan. Gao Hongbo signaled Wang Dalei to kick the ball off quickly. As a result, within 3 minutes, Team B, where Jiang Yuan was, got another good attacking opportunity.

Ren Hang and Zhang Linpeng came over to block at the same time. In this situation, Jiang Yuan should have returned to defend. So he looked back and saw that Jiang Zhipeng, who should have appeared behind him, did not appear. So Jiang Yuan simply used his body to push Zhang Linpeng away and raised his left foot to hit.

A "bang" sound was heard, and it was obvious that this was another goal scored from a blind spot.

"My day..."

Li Yi, who saw the whole process, reached out to touch his hair.

It is said that Jiang Yuan played so well in the Asian qualifiers because of his good physique. Now it seems that his physique is indeed a big part of the reason. Both Zhang Linpeng and Ren Hang are strong in confrontation, but when they compete with Jiang Yuan, it is like a wild ball emperor PKing a professional player. The professional player pushed his upper body forward, and the wild ball emperor was directly stunned.

"Brother Peng!"

Jiang Yuan turned around and helped Zhang Linpeng, who had just fallen to the ground.

"Okay, that's it!"

Gao Hongbo shouted on the sidelines that the intensity of the competition was quite high, and considering that Jiang Yuan had just returned, the training time certainly could not be too long.

Gao Hongbo then made an excuse to let everyone rest, and let all the athletes except Jiang Yuan return to the court 15 minutes later.

As for Jiang Yuan, he had been taken to the lounge by the staff to do muscle relaxation during the break just now.

Li Yi and Gao Hongbo are not fools. Jiang Yuan does not need too much adjustment to participate in the Asian qualifiers. As long as Jiang Yuan can stay healthy and maintain the competitive state he has in the club, it will be enough. Considering this situation, today's 25 minutes of training time is more than enough for Jiang Yuan.

When the training was about to end in the afternoon, Jiang Yuan received a call from Mourinho. During the call, Mourinho reminded him of some things, that is, he must pay attention to his body muscles. Mourinho did not trust the Chinese team's physiotherapy team, and he did not even trust Chelsea's physiotherapy team.

Obviously, William's fall and kick left a psychological trauma on Mourinho.

On the morning of March 3, a wide-body Airbus 22 took off from Capital International Airport and finally landed at Huanghua International Airport.

Almost at the same time, the Boeing plane from Seoul to Huanghua completed landing. At this time, the home advantage was reflected. The Korean players flew from Seoul and stopped in Qingdao for nearly 20 hours. Although they stayed in a hotel, the players' game status was still affected to some extent.

After arriving at Huanghua Airport, South Korea national team coach Stielike refused to be interviewed by local media. All players, including Son Heung-min, did not accept the interview and did not even enter the terminal. They got on the shuttle bus and slowly left the fans' sight.

The Chinese Football Association leaders stressed that the players stayed at the airport for about 10 minutes to sign autographs for the fans. The local fans in Changsha, including Chinese fans from other places who came to watch the game, were very enthusiastic. Jiang Yuan was holding a photo to sign, and the next second a female fan rushed up from the side and kissed Jiang Yuan on the face.

!!!

"Fuck!"

Jerome secretly thought that something was not good and rushed forward to push the female fan away. His mission was to protect Jiang Yuan, and in fact, this level of contact was absolutely not allowed.

"Ok ok, it's okay!"

Jiang Yuan reacted quickly and immediately blocked Jerome's hand, who glared at the female fan angrily.

“I said okay!”

Jiang Yuan pushed Jerome back. Although Jerome had good intentions, if Jerome's action just now really touched the female fan, she might be injured: "Be gentle, ok?"

"yes...sir"

Jerome shrank back, held down the headset with one hand, and reported the situation to his bodyguard colleague.

"My problem, my problem"

Jiang Yuan apologized to the female fan, thought for a moment, then reached into his backpack, pulled out a wrinkled piece of clothing, and wrote his name on it: "This is what I wear during training. If you like it..."

"mua!"

The female fan kissed Jiang Yuan on the face again, and Jerome hurried over. This time he did not forget what Jiang Yuan said. He just stopped the fan and did nothing else.

"Jiang Yuan, I want to kiss you too. Can you give me a piece of clothing you've worn?"

The special treatment given to the female fans made the surrounding male fans envious. Hearing this, Jiang Yuan secretly thought that something was wrong and ran out of the terminal with Wu Lei. While running, he did not forget to wave to the fans: "See you tomorrow, see you tomorrow!"

"Jiang Yuan, can we beat South Korea tomorrow!?"

"Can we win another game?"

……

At 3 p.m. the next day, a bus with the CFA logo drove out of the Grand Hyatt Hotel. At the same time, buses carrying special police and police officers also arrived outside the He Long Stadium.

The bus that the special police ride in is quite unique. It is all black, and the two big words "Special Service" are written on the side.

SWAT and police are the main force of this security mission, but for a football match, this level of security is a bit insufficient, so the company that contracted the security mission of this game also recruited part-time security guards.

150 a day, including two meals. These part-time security guards do not need to carry any weapons, and they do not have to go out if something really happens. The security company recruits them to show off their status and do some ticket checking and seat guidance work.

"Can we go inside the stadium then?"

When they gathered outside the stadium, Han Xiao asked their team leader a question.

“Of course not”

The team leader rejected Han Xiao's request outright: "There are full-time security guards inside. What are you doing in there? If someone rushes in, can you stop them?"

"Is full-time security really that powerful? If someone really rushes in, I will definitely stop him faster than the security inside."

Han Xiao did not agree with the team leader's words. Although he was only a part-time worker, he was younger after all. If he really ran, Han Xiao would definitely run faster than the uncles inside.

In fact, the core issue is not who runs faster, but Han Xiao just wants to watch the game in the stadium.

"Forget it"

Han Xiao was stopped by Xu Wensheng: "It's only 100 yuan a day, there's no need to work so hard"

Then, he whispered, "We have security uniforms, we can sneak in and take a look when the time comes."

It's a good idea to sneak in and take a look.

The issue is……

"100 a day? Isn't it 80 a day?"

Xu Wensheng's words aroused suspicion from other part-time security guards around him.

80 a day?
Xu Wensheng was stunned for a moment, then reacted: "You are college students, right? Those agents like to exploit college students."

"If there is no commission, it is actually 100 yuan a day. The agent took 20 yuan from you. Alas, poor college students."

"Grass!"

The poor college student who was exploited yelled in anger. But when I thought about the fact that the agent only took the money for two meals, there was no need to be so angry.

This job is really good as I can come to the stadium to watch the game and make money at the same time!

"Alright! The admission has started, everyone get ready."

Ding Dong!

[Changsha Public Security] Tips for watching the World Cup qualifiers: actively cooperate with security checks; it is strictly forbidden to climb over the stands, rush into the stadium, and throw objects; watch the game in a civilized manner, shirtless, and without insulting slogans; leave the stadium in an orderly manner, and it is strictly forbidden to surround players and visiting fans.

……

Football Emperor: In the Asian qualifiers match between China and South Korea, Jiang Yuan and Son Heung-min started, while Wu Xi, Hwang Hee-chan and Kim Shin-wook were substitutes.

"China~China~"

"I fight for you, and I am proud of you~"

"China, China~"

"I shout for you, I am proud of you"

"..."

With one hour left before the game started, the big screen hanging above the stadium lit up.

China: South Korea

0:0
Immediately afterwards, the Chinese national team's substitute players and training team ran out of the player tunnel.

After all the substitutes had left, the starting players began to come on the court one after another.

"Wu Lei!"

"Jiang Yuan! Jiang Yuan! Jiang Yuan!"

"Jiang Yuan!!"

The ball boys from the youth training team had already placed the marking plates and footballs needed for training on the field. However, the players did not rush to warm up after stepping on the field. Instead, they jogged around the edge and gave applause to the fans in each stand.

The stands were all red, and if it weren't for the plastic track, Jiang Yuan might have thought this was Old Trafford.

clap clap clap!
Gao Hongbo gathered the players in the midfield and frontcourt together: "Grab the circle, Zhou Wencheng and Zheng Zhi go inside!"

Soon, the South Korean national team also came out. This was Jiang Yuan's first time to play against the South Korean first team. The only two players Jiang Yuan knew in the opposing lineup were Son Heung-min and Ki Sung-yueng.

These two guys are from the Premier League, and Jiang Yuan played against them during the Olympics last year. Jiang Yuan has a very deep impression of Qi Chengyueng, in large part because this guy committed a defensive foul on Jiang Yuan during the Olympics, which made Jiang Yuan very uncomfortable but he had no way to deal with it.

Both sides took one and a half court to warm up, and the whole process lasted about 20 minutes. After the warm-up, the players left the field. At this time, there was a sudden noise from the north stand of the He Long Stadium.

A red banner was suddenly thrown down from the protective wall at the top of the stands. With the help of the fans below, the red tifo was unfolded little by little, revealing the words "For the Country".

Continue scrolling down and "Er Zhan" is displayed.

“wwowwww!!!”

"wowww!!!"

Fighting for the country, this is what the tifo is all about. If it weren't for the plastic track, this tifo might even block the billboard below.

"Boom boom boom!"

"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!"

……

There was a lot of noise outside. The Chinese team's substitutes went to the bench and sat down first, followed by the starting players. Jiang Yuan reached out and pulled out the captain's armband on the cabinet, buckled it on his left arm, stood up and walked towards the player's tunnel, and Zheng Zhi followed behind him.

At 19:26, the camera turned to the player tunnel.

"China Media Group, China Media Group"

……

PS: There will be another chapter later

(End of this chapter)