Not disappointed, but pissed off. I am not too upset about the loss and our clearly inferior physical and soccer skills. They are technicalities that can be improved and corrected overtime(even over a long time). What was ticked me off the most was lack of showing of the fire and the fighting spirit to compete, this should come with the players themself, regardless how good or bad their soccer skills, especially true for any professional who has the chance playing in their sports' top show ground. Simply look how Japan and Korea played their games that follow, these chinese players ought to be ashamed of their showings in the previous game. Instead of only some runnings in the first 10-15 minutes, the players seem to have finished all the tasks on showing up for the game, even while they were trailing behind. Fast forward one game ahead, Japan faught even harder while behind one goal and eventually got back and led in less than 20 minutes, and they kept the fighting till last minute. Those Polish might not be a much stronger opponent for this cup but Korea still had to fight to keep the lead. Not that Japan and Korea players have much better all around soccer games than China, they had many bad passes and both of them may be likely to miss the 2nd round at the end. Still, the reason the people will feel that they played better than China are just because their players played hard, period. I admit that I hadn't watched China playing for too many times during last few years, but everything I read was that Chinese players had been much skillful and physically bigger lately. On paper it looks like all is true. The roster has only three players at 178cm and the rest are all 180cm+, and most of them are young players. You would image they will at least play the game at the same competitive level as Japan and Korea would play. But the pathetic showing last night is telling a totally different story, and I am wondering how these guys could get this far and just simply let themself get humiliated infront of the whole world (I clearly felt the announcers at ESPN2 were laughing hard on their backs. I wouldn't blame them, regardless how bad results US team will get, at least everyone knows that they will fight each game to death with their 120% effort). More depressing is that China will get two even tougher and mean opponents on Brazil and Turkey, I'd wish these Chinese players will put up at least one good fight to keep them off from the most un-inspired team award contention, let those Saudis have it. On individual players, I don't know about "Hao" Dong and Yang Chen, our forwards didn't show much, not sure if their physically are not better than their defenders or our mid-fielders didn't get the balls to them, may be both. And how these two could survive/serve at European professional leagues is still a mystery to me. My MVP of the game on China side is Li,WeiFeng, he may be the only guy who ran his butts off over entire game. If you care to review the tape, just counting how manys camos he got. He was everywhere, on both offense and defense sides. That keeps you wondering where everyone else was doing? My suckest player of the game vote is to Fan, ZhiYi, another center defender and is so called our top and most experienced player on the team, and the entire nation with 1billion people? B***S***. I don't care how he performed before, but I can prove to you(trust me, I studied the tape multiple times) that the two goals we got scored on were 90%, if not 100%, dueto his sloppy plays as the last defender. In addition, he did nothing during the game, most of time standing like a stick, and as the team leader, I didn't him do anything to motivate the teammates to fight harder. Oh well, he himself had not motivation what so ever. If w/o Li,WeiFeng's strong play, we might have lost even more goals. This POS should be benched for life. And how did he get to play in English Premier League, another mystery to me. Sorry for the long post, had to get it out of my mind. I thought I had long removed any emotional attachment with the national team, but I guessed I got sucked into the warmhole by the hype again this time, a clever crafted scam at its best. Just sucks to be a chinese rightnow:-( -- |-Tom Zheng tzheng@rsn.hp.com Hewlett-Packard WORK : (972)497-4202| |-Platform Software Architecture Laboratory TELNET: (+1)497-4202| |-P.O. BOX 833851, Richardson, TX, 75083-3851 FAX : (972)497-4245| |_______________________________________________________________________| On 0, John Dong <johndong@microsoft.com> wrote: > Agree! We are not mentally ready. And so slow. However I like Chen Yang > the best, he had a couple of very good pass, and unfortunately, we > didn't have anyone come in the middle. Look at performance from Japan > and Korea, I am so disappointed... > > -----Original Message----- > From: Qiang Bai [mailto:qbai@hotmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 9:26 AM > To: fzwangbin@yahoo.com; tzheng@rsn.hp.com; dcai@citlink.net > Cc: dragon@ez.swmed.edu > Subject: Re: Short msg from Korea > > Steve was very upset about the performance of team China. Especially > when all Korean people are celebrating right now. > > Simply, CHina is not at the same level at all. The fans were so great. > >From all of the world -- we had people from London, NYC, Guangdong, > Sichuan, ..., sitting around. Among the 20K+ audience for today's game, > at least 80% were Chinese and 95% cherring for China. > > Our best player is probabaly still Hao Haidong. Well, look at Korea and > Japan's attackers. > > Hey, who knows? Maybe China will beat Brazil and Turkey? ;-) > > I am going to go to Bushan for the game of France on 06/06. Seems > tickets > availabel. > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com
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