■ On February 12, Chinese player Luo Jia (first from the right) attacked during the match. Xinhua News Agency
Yesterday, the Chinese men's ice hockey team (hereinafter referred to as "Chinese men's ice hockey") achieved a major breakthrough, although the team lost 2:3 to Germany in the second round of the group, but the team scored in the Winter Olympics, which also made history.
■ New Express reporter Gao Jing
This competition is the first time that Chinese men's ice skating has appeared on the stage of the Winter Olympics, and the team has made extremely full preparations for this, the whole team first went to Russia for competition and training, and promoted by competing in the Continental Ice Hockey League (KHL).
In the first game, the Chinese team lost 0:8 to the United States, but the team was not discouraged and prepared for the second game with higher morale.
In the first quarter, the Chinese team fell behind 0:2, and the team conceded another goal in the second quarter. In the face of the unfavorable situation, the players have not given up and are still tenaciously attacking the German team.
At the end of the second quarter, the Chinese team's Fu Shuai scored in front of the goal, which was the first goal in the history of the Olympic Games for Chinese men's ice.
After the goal, the morale of the Chinese team was greatly boosted, and Wang Taylor scored another goal in the third quarter. At the end of the game, the Chinese team attacked with all its strength, but unfortunately failed to score again, and finally lost to Germany 2:3.
The fu coach who made history said after the game: "It was a team victory, everyone was trying their best to score goals, for me, this is a great honor in life, I will always remember this moment." ”
Looking back on this game, Fu Shuai said: "The Chinese team played a lot of opportunities throughout the game, when the opponent led by 3 goals, we did not give up, and fought until the last moment, and then we will continue to go all out and do our best in the next game." ”
Wang Taylor, who scored the second goal for the Chinese team, said: "I am very happy to be able to get the score one step closer, we have improved a lot from the first game, everyone was a little nervous in the first game, but this game we adjusted ourselves very well, and scoring goals is a good encouragement for us. ”
China goalkeeper Smith was very excited after the game: "From this game, we got into shape, had confidence and played a decent game. I'm really proud of all the players, everyone comes together as a team to play. ”
According to the schedule, the Chinese men's ice team will play against canada, the last opponent in the group stage, at 9:10 tonight.
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Chinese male ice goalkeeper Smith:
People who have seen the game will be proud of us
According to Xinhua News Agency, on the 12th, the Chinese men's ice hockey team at the Beijing Winter Olympics stubbornly pulled back two goals in the case of conceding three goals first, and kept the suspense of the game until the last second, and finally the Chinese team regrettably lost to germany 2:3, and jeremy Smith, a goalkeeper who played well in the Chinese team after the game, said that all those who have watched the game will be proud of us.
Smith said: "From this game we got into shape, had confidence and played decent games. I'm really proud of all the players, everyone comes together as a team to play. I think if you watch the game, you'll be very proud. I hope China is proud of us. ”
"Most of the players in the team who grew up in China have not played ice hockey, this is the real first generation of Chinese ice hockey people, we are all the first people who wrote the first page in the history of Chinese ice hockey, this is a huge honor, it is a very proud thing." He said.
Smith loved the crowd cheering on the team. He said the whole team did a really good job today, moving in the right direction and the spectators felt it too, they were celebrating wildly when the team scored, it was a great feeling!
Smith also referred to head coach Zanata Ivano's inspiring speech in the dressing room: "The head coach told us to believe that we belong here, that we can stand here not because of luck, we belong here! We worked hard for a long time to get here, and we deserved to be on the same ice as these teams! ”