Tom, You are damn right that Fan,Zhiyi should be benched for life. When I read the news earlier that he and his BMW slamed someone in Shanghai and beat the hell out of the other driver, I know what this and most of the chinese players are made of. Not much better than street scums. To have a big heart and some sportsmanship for them is beyond my imagination. They are simply weak! Tom Zheng wrote: > 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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