9 years ago, today's Asian Cup national football team 1-0 Saudi Arabia, how many starters do you recognize?
The following is a group photo of the national football team's starters, which was on January 10, 2015, 9 years ago today. In the first round of Group B of the group stage of the Asian Cup held in Australia, the national football team played against the Saudi Arabian men's football team, a veteran team in West Asia.
In the years before this game, the national football team experienced the defeat of the World Cup, the coach changed from Gao Hongbo to Camacho, after the 1-5 defeat to Thailand, Camacho was resigned, after the transition of Fu Bo, the Frenchman Perrin became the new coach of the national football team, and the Asian Cup is the first major tournament that Perrin participated in after coaching the national football team.
Before the game, the national football team was not favored, and many so-called fans and media believed that the national football team would go home early. Although the national football team has a superior record against Saudi Arabia in the World Cup qualifiers, it is difficult to find a win against Saudi Arabia in the Asian Cup.
Perrin chose a 4-2-3-1 formation, with goalkeepers 23-Wang Dalei, 17-Zhang Chengdong, 5-Zhang Linpeng, 2-Ren Hang and 3-Mei Fang forming the backline, the captain 10-Zheng Zhi and 15-Wu Xi forming a double back, 11-Hao Junmin, 14-Ji Xiang and 7-Wu Lei forming the forward line, and 21-Yu Haiding acting as a single arrow on the front line. It's a solid counter-attacking formation.
After the start of the game, the national football team showed a very positive performance, instigating many offensives, and the two teams drew 0-0 in the first half. In the 61st minute, Hazaz burst into the penalty area with a single knife, Ren Hang tackled and put it down, the referee sent a yellow point package, Hazaz personally took the penalty, but was saved by Dalian goalkeeper Wang Dalei!
In the 70th minute, Dalian Yiteng Youth Training 1987 good brothers Yu Hanchao and Yang Xu came on at the same time to replace Hao Junmin and Zhang Chengdong. In the 79th minute, Jiang Zhipeng replaced Mei Fang.
The national football team began to strengthen the attack, in the 80th minute, the national football team won a free kick in the front, Yu Hai hit the goal directly, the ball touched the opposing player and bounced into the net, and the national football team was lucky to take the lead.
Since then, the national football team has maintained a score of 1-0 and defeated the strong rival Saudi Arabia in the Asian Cup for the first time, and at the same time made a good start.
Nine years have passed, so where are the 14 players who represented the national football team at that time?
Wu Lei, who used to play for Espanyol in La Liga, has returned to China and played with Zhang Linpeng for Shanghai Port, the number one local tyrant in the Chinese Super League.
Zheng Zhi and Mei Fang, who played for Guangzhou Evergrande (now renamed Guangzhou FC because the parent company cheated money for years and faced a collapse), have retired, and Zheng Zhi now serves as an assistant coach of the national football team.
Wang Dalei and Ji Xiang play for Shandong Taishan, Zhang Chengdong plays for Beijing Guoan, Ren Hang and Jiang Zhipeng play for Wuhan Three Towns, and Wu Xi and Yu Hanchao play for Shanghai Shenhua.
Yu Hai, who has just chosen to retire, serves as the assistant coach of Shanghai Port's U21 echelon. Hao Junmin became a free agent.
Yang Xu, who chose to retire, is engaged in football youth training.