Starting with playing defensive midfield for Evergrande

Chapter 82 (Two-in-one chapter): An exaggerated five goals in a single match, the battle to crush Japan has officially begun!
Just as Li Youli said, the day after Su Hao met with Raiola.

He then met Jorge Mendes, the super agent who had the world's top football stars under his control.

Unlike Raiola's江湖 (jianghu, a term referring to the world of martial arts and chivalry) style, Jorge Mendes negotiated a formal agent contract with Su Hao through Su Hao's guardian, Su Bai.

Moreover, throughout the entire meeting, Mendes focused entirely on Su Hao's future commercial value.

To be honest, according to Mendes' plan, Su Hao even felt that he might be able to surpass Messi and Ronaldo in terms of commercial value in a short period of time!

Hey!
This is troublesome. They each have their own advantages, and Su Hao doesn't know which one to choose.

Fortunately, there was still a long time before the end of the season, so he wasn't in a hurry and dragged things out without refusing or agreeing to either side.

The national team friendly match has ended.

Su Hao naturally wanted to return to the league and the AFC Champions League as soon as possible.

However, just the day after Su Hao returned to Guangzhou, before he could even officially report back to the club...

He suddenly received a call from Wang Feng, the team leader of the national youth team, from the Chinese Football Association.
As for the content of the phone call...
It was actually the national youth team leader who asked me if I was willing to play in the AFC U-7 Championship in July!

Su Hao was dumbfounded!

He...isn't he already a member of the national team?
How can this be the national youth team?
On second thought, damn it, it seems that for someone his age, the AFC U-19 Championship and even the FIFA U-20 World Cup only have age restrictions; there's no rule that says you can't play in the AFC U-19 Championship or the FIFA U-20 World Cup once you're in the national team.

Of course, even though he was qualified in every way, Su Hao still did not agree to Wang Feng's request.

After all, he still has Chinese Super League matches in July, so how could he have time to play in the AFC U-19 Championship, which has no real substance?

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Su Hao had already refused, but Wang Feng on the other end of the phone kept saying that Su Hao's name should be registered first, and whether or not Su Hao went would be up to Su Hao's own decision. The national youth team would definitely not force Su Hao to do anything!

Hearing the pitiful tone of the national youth team leader on the other end of the phone.

Su Hao ultimately didn't completely reject him, after all, Su Hao thought that what he needed most right now was playing opportunities to raise his passing value to the talent ceiling as soon as possible.

July is a long month with only three league matches, while the AFC Champions League doesn't start until August.

Having the Asian Youth Championship as a mini-experience-farming event doesn't seem like such a bad thing.

Su Hao agreed, and Wang Feng on the other end of the phone was so happy he almost kowtowed to Su Hao three times.

After all, he had inquired with the Football Association beforehand, and the Football Association clearly stated that athletes like Su Hao, who are key national athletes, cannot be arbitrarily called up to play in unimportant matches, such as the National Games or provincial games.

Wang Feng was genuinely dumbfounded after hearing this.

He'd been in the football world for more than a year or two, and he'd never heard of these kinds of rules before.

However, just as Wang Feng was about to press for an answer, the person opposite simply pointed to the roof.
The call ended!
Without a second thought, Su Hao turned around and told Zheng Zhi about it.

Zheng Zhi's opinion was similar to Su Hao's, since the Asian Youth Championship was the only way for the national youth team to qualify for the World Youth Championship.

With Su Hao lending a hand, the Chinese national youth team might be able to qualify for the World Youth Championship again after a ten-year hiatus!

ten years?

Upon hearing Zheng Zhi say that the national youth team had not qualified for the World Youth Championship for ten years, Su Hao also looked quite emotional.

No wonder that ever since players like Feng Xiaoting retired, the Chinese national football team has completely become one of the weakest teams in Asia!

So that's where the root was!
2013 6 Month 22 Day.

The 13th round of the Chinese Super League is approaching.

Guangzhou Evergrande played against Changchun Yatai at home.

They are currently second to last in the league.

At Tianhe Stadium, Changchun Yatai, unsurprisingly, fielded a five-defender formation and adopted a defensive strategy.

However, having a player like Su Hao, who possesses both long-range shooting and heading abilities, is like having a magic weapon specifically designed to break down a defensive wall.

Even with five defenders, Changchun Yatai still couldn't withstand Guangzhou Evergrande's attack in the first twenty minutes.

16th minute of the match!

Su Hao then broke through the defenses of Yatai's No. 1 goalkeeper, Mi Tianhe, with his third long-range shot.

1: 0!

Evergrande took the lead.

Seeing that there was no hope of even a point, Changchun Yatai's head coach Li Shubin, on the sidelines, naturally made a desperate move, changing the five-defender formation to a four-defender formation, hoping to intensify the attack and perhaps get lucky and score a goal.

However, it was Li Shubin's wild idea that led Evergrande to once again unleash a frenzied massacre on the pitiful Yatai.

24th minute of the match!

Changchun Yatai's attack was intercepted, and Su Hao delivered a beautiful long pass to Muriqui's feet.

Fully recovered from his injury, Muriqui left the Yatai players in the dust, his solo run down the left flank making the score 2-0!

36th minute of the match!

This time it was Elkeson.

After a smooth, fluid combination between Conca and Suho in midfield, Conca played a through ball to Elkeson in the penalty area.

A right-footed volley!

Elkeson made it 3-0!

The 44th minute of the game.

Gao Lin, who hadn't scored in a long time in the league, also took the penalty won by Muriqui and sent the ball into Changchun Yatai's goal for the fourth time.

At halftime, Guangzhou Evergrande once again dominated their opponents with a 4-goal lead.

At halftime, Lippi did not hesitate to substitute Su Hao and Muriqui.

In the second half, Liao Lisheng, who once again replaced Su Hao, also demonstrated his extraordinary talent in the defensive midfield position.

In the 59th minute of the match, it was Liao Lisheng who delivered a Su Hao-style long pass over the top, helping Elkeson complete his brace.

It was this pass that earned Liao Lisheng the nickname "Little Su Hao" among Evergrande fans.

6: 0!

Evergrande, as always, dominated and slaughtered their opponents.

At the post-match press conference, Li Shubin, the head coach of Changchun Yatai, slammed his fist on the table in front of numerous media outlets and began to complain about the unfairness of the Chinese Super League.

For example, Evergrande, due to its financial resources, has brought all the players of the Chinese national team under its wing, and even the substitutes are national team members. If this model continues, the Chinese Super League will definitely be ruined by this abnormal development model.

Li Shubin spoke with righteous indignation, and even went so far as to mention the Chinese Football Association.

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The next day, Li Shubin and Changchun Yatai received a total fine of 20 yuan from the Chinese Football Association.

Furthermore, the Chinese Football Association emphasized its fairness and authority in the Chinese Super League!
Forehead.
After seeing the Football Association so drastically penalize Li Shubin and Changchun Yatai in the club's canteen, Su Hao suddenly remembered Wang Feng, the leader of the national youth team. Why was it that, even though they were both from the Football Association, this guy was so humble when he called him?
Could it be because I, as a transmigrator, possess an innate, extraordinary physique?
6 month 26 day.

That is, four days after Evergrande thrashed Changchun Yatai.

Lippi led the entire Guangzhou Evergrande team to Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport.

Shanghai Shenhua!

This is Evergrande's opponent in the 14th round.

After making a high-profile signing of two superstar foreign players, Drogba and Anelka, last season, many Shanghai fans began to dream that their team could overthrow Guangzhou Evergrande and reclaim the top spot in the Chinese Super League.

However, their dream lasted for less than four months.

In November 2012, Didier Drogba publicly addressed the issue of unpaid wages at Shanghai Shenhua in front of the media.

This was followed by the departures of both Anelka and Drogba.

Although Drogba and Shenhua each had their own version of events, overall, Shenhua's actions not only wasted their 2012 season, but also significantly damaged their credibility in the transfer market.

Of course, these miscellaneous matters have nothing to do with Evergrande.

Upon arriving in Shanghai, the entire Evergrande team maintained their relaxed and relaxed atmosphere.

Even though their opponents have a superstar manager like Batista!

2013 6 Month 29 Day.

After three days of preparation, the Chinese Super League showdown between Evergrande and Shanghai Shenhua finally kicked off.

Facing Guangzhou Evergrande, whose strength far surpasses their own, Shenhua's head coach Batista showed no intention of playing a defensive counter-attacking game.

Hattib, Dadi, Moreno!

With all three of Shenhua's foreign players on the field, Batista was determined to have an attacking battle with Evergrande at his own Shanghai Hongkou Football Stadium.

Batista's idea was good, but the outcome...
The match has just begun.

Playing at home, Shanghai Shenhua, under Batista's decisive gesture, immediately pushed their entire formation forward.

With three foreign strikers anchoring the attacking line, not only did Batista feel that his team's attacking prowess was approaching that of Guangzhou Evergrande, but even the tens of thousands of Shanghai fans in the stands felt that today would be a super battle between two strong teams.

but
Just a few minutes later, just as Shanghai Shenhua's first attack failed and they were about to return to their own half, the game ended.

After receiving the ball, Su Hao made eye contact with Muriqui and then launched a super long pass that spanned the entire field.

With a passing rating of 89, Su Hao delivered the ball with perfect speed to the space between Shenhua's center-back Li Jianbin and goalkeeper Wang Dalei.

This most awkward position means that Wang Dalei can neither attack nor simply wait.

at last.
He could only watch helplessly as Muriqui used his speed to get past Li Jianbin and then sent the ball into his own goal with a low shot.

"Beep!!!"

The referee blew his whistle!
The more than 40,000 Shenhua fans at Hongkou Football Stadium immediately fell silent.

1: 0!

The game has only been going on for 5 minutes!
Shenhua fans really didn't expect that even with three foreign players on the field, they would still be so vulnerable and have their goal so easily breached by Evergrande.

Of course, since they had only conceded one goal, Shenhua fans quickly composed themselves and began cheering loudly for their team once again.

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In this year, we will engage in an attacking battle with Evergrande.

No team in all of Asia can beat Guangzhou Evergrande, let alone Shanghai Shenhua, whose players are mostly unqualified except for their foreign players.

In addition, there's Su Hao, a super midfielder who's practically a bug in the Chinese Super League.

Unsurprisingly, it only took half a game.

Evergrande quickly took a clean three-goal lead over Shenhua.

Besides Muriqui's first goal, Su Hao scored another header, helping Elkeson to score an easy shot with no one marking him!
During halftime, Batista roared at his players in the Shenhua locker room, giving them a full 15-minute pep talk.

However, aside from letting out a couple of shouts, his players remained half-dead in the second half.

5: 1!

This is the final outcome.

Perhaps feeling sorry for Shanghai Shenhua, after leading 5-0, Feng Xiaoting committed a foul that helped Shenhua score a consolation goal.

Since then!

中超14轮战罢，恒大13胜1平，以夸张的40分超过第二名的江苏舜天足足15分继续跨次元的领跑着积分榜。

It was this very match that led to Batista's resignation, after he had only managed a paltry four wins in the first half of the season.

Including Batista, this is the third Chinese Super League head coach to resign from Guangzhou Evergrande this year!
The league has ended.

The highly anticipated draw for the AFC Champions League quarterfinals was also held at the AFC headquarters in Kuala Lumpur.

The representatives sent by Evergrande were club general manager Liu Yong and player department director Li Youli.

During the draw ceremony, due to the principle of avoiding teams from the same country, Al Ahli, the Saudi team that reached the AFC Champions League final last year, was drawn first and placed in position number 1.

Next up is Saudi Arabia's Al-Shabab, who was drawn into the number 6 position.

Guangzhou Evergrande was drawn to play the number 7 position. According to the rules, the team that draws the first position will play the home game first and then the away game. This means that the first match of the AFC Champions League quarter-finals will be held at Tianhe Stadium.

After the complicated draw, Evergrande's opponents were revealed.

Al Ahli!
A traditional powerhouse from Qatar.

With this, all matters concerning June have come to an end.

The entire Evergrande team will also usher in the most comfortable July.

There are no AFC Champions League matches, and the league only has three matches, all between weaker teams.

However, while everyone else was at ease, Su Hao found himself in trouble.

It wasn't anything else, but because Su Hao had promised Wang Feng that he would add his name to the Asian Youth Championship registration list.

it's good now!

Wang Feng actually revealed to reporters that Su Hao would be leading the team to participate in the Asian Youth Championship held in South Korea.

从7月3号到7月18号，足足15天的时间。

Su Hao, who had just arrived at the club early in the morning and changed into his training clothes, was stunned when he saw this news.

He was just saying it casually back then. Who would have thought that Wang Feng would actually take it so seriously?
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Forced into this situation, Su Hao had no choice but to board a flight to South Korea.

Although the AFC U-19 Championship could provide him with more match points, he felt that the level of the AFC Champions League was too low. He was worried that if he went to the AFC U-19 Championship, he would be criticized as a max-level player stomping on newbies.

"Su Hao!"

"Su Hao!"

"Su Hao!!!"

Su Hao looked gloomy on the plane, but after he got off the plane, when he saw a large group of international students at the airport holding up their posters and other things to welcome him, Su Hao's face immediately lit up with a bright smile.

There's nothing we can do about it; 70% of today's fan group are female.

"Su, Su, I'm really sorry, but you know the AFC U-19 Championship is crucial for us to qualify for next year's FIFA U-20 World Cup, so I..."

The fans were chanting Su Hao's name loudly.

Wang Feng, the national youth team leader who personally went to Seoul International Airport to pick up Su Hao, explained to Su Hao with an embarrassed expression.

He announced Su Hao's participation in the Asian Youth Championship directly to the media, which was a decision he made without consulting them first.

However, Wang Feng had no choice, since he knew very well that the national youth team he was coaching was the worst batch in recent years.

If I don't manage to lure Su Hao into this team, then this national youth team won't even make it out of the group stage, let alone compete in next year's World Youth Championship.

"It's okay, it's okay, Brother Wang. It's all for Chinese football. I'm still very happy to be able to join the national youth team!"

"Haha! Xiao Su, that's the right way to think. I've already spoken with the coaching staff. You'll be the captain right away. With your experience and skills, no one will dare to say a word against you!"

Got it!
Su Hao was also surprised that the captain had already arranged for him to meet his teammates from the national youth team before he had even met them.

However, even though this captain position was filled by someone who was parachuted in, it is still Su Hao's first captain in his professional career, so it is still very memorable.

After exchanging pleasantries with Wang Feng, Su Hao naturally took out the pen he had been carrying with him ever since someone asked him for an autograph.

Then he walked into the crowd of fans and signed autographs and took photos with each of the excited female and male fans.

It took Su Hao more than forty minutes to finally get most of the fans in attendance satisfied.

Having appeased the fans, Su Hao finally got into Wang Feng's car, who was practically bursting with impatience from waiting.

Banyan Tree Seoul Hotel.

One of the most luxurious hotels in Seoul, South Korea!

Although it was just the Asian Youth Championship, the Chinese Football Association still gave this national youth team the highest level of treatment in terms of scale.

Su Hao originally thought he would just meet with the coaching team at the hotel, but Wang Feng unexpectedly called the whole team to the lobby entrance.

This time it was embarrassing.

Su Hao spent over forty minutes signing autographs for fans at the airport. Doesn't that make his teammates on the national youth team think he's acting like a big shot?

However, to Su Hao's surprise, these young members of the national youth team had clearly been waiting for him in the hall for so long, but their eyes were filled with admiration when they looked at him.
Especially Zhang Xiuwei, the former captain of the national youth team and now number 10 in Lyon's youth academy. When he shook hands with me, he almost wanted to ask for an autograph right away.

Well, at this point, Su Hao finally understood his status in the Chinese football world after signing Wenger and with top clubs like Bayern Munich vying for his signature.

Putting everything else aside, in the eyes of these young players, I am at a level they can only dream of!
2013 7 Month 3 Day.

That was on the third day after Su Hao joined the national youth team.

The opening match of this year's AFC U-19 Championship for the Chinese national youth team has officially begun.

China's U-20 national team vs. Vietnam's U-20 national team.

In the past few days, due to Su Hao's last-minute addition to the team, even betting companies have lowered the odds of this national youth team winning the championship by several points.

In this first match, Su Hao truly proved to all the fans who follow youth competitions the gap between the level of adult players and the youth team.

At the start of the match, Su Hao, who was placed in the single attacking midfield position by the Chinese youth team coach, managed to complete an exaggerated 1v3 maneuver while being surrounded by three Vietnamese youth team players: Phan Van Long, Nguyen Van Toan, and Nguyen Cong Phuong.

Not only did he effortlessly retrieve the ball, but he also delivered an absolutely dreamlike rainbow flick over the top to Tang Shi, who was unmarked on the left wing.

Upon receiving the ball, Tang Shi immediately dashed into the Vietnamese team's penalty area.

Facing the flustered Vietnamese goalkeeper, Tang Shi didn't try to score himself; instead, he passed the ball back to striker Gui Hong in a triangular pass.

A powerful shot!
Just three minutes into the game, the Chinese U23 team broke through the Vietnamese U23 team's defense.

1:0.
It was this ball that made the Vietnamese monkeys in the stands suddenly tense.

They originally thought that after so many years of vigorously developing youth training, their national youth team would be able to compete with the once formidable Chinese national youth team, but what was the result?

Their team couldn't even hold on for three minutes before conceding a goal.

Vietnamese fans were heartbroken, but what truly terrified them was only the beginning.

five minutes later.

In the eighth minute of the match, Su Hao once again made a perfect interception in the middle, and the Chinese team launched a counterattack. Relying on Su Hao's accurate through ball, they directly broke through the Vietnamese defense.

This time it's Zhang Xiuwei on the right wing.

With a powerful shot from his right foot, the Chinese youth team extended their lead to 2-0.

The 18th minute of the game.

Su Hao still delivered a perfect 1v3 performance in the mid lane, especially after completing the final two-on-two with the retreating Zhang Xiuwei.

Su Hao charged straight into the heart of the Vietnamese team's backfield.

Seeing that there was no one interfering, Su Hao unleashed his signature powerful shot, extending the score to 3-0!

In just twenty minutes.

Because of Su Hao's emergence, the Chinese national youth team, which had historically been held to a draw by Vietnam, suddenly launched an absolutely bloody start with a massacre!

The Vietnamese fans in the stands cried.

They accused the Chinese national youth team of being shameless for bringing in the core players of the national team to bully their young players.

But there's nothing we can do. The core player of this national team is only 16 years old. Let alone coming to the AFC U-19 Championship, he's already an eligible player for the AFC U-16 Championship.

8: 0!

This is the first report card that the Chinese national youth team has submitted for the Asian Youth Championship.

Su Hao scored 4 goals and provided 4 assists, single-handedly accounting for all of China's effective attacks.

The situation caused an uproar in China once again.

Although everyone knew Su Hao was strong, they didn't know he was this strong.

Facing the Vietnamese monkeys, Su Hao was like a giant slaughtering a dwarf. Apart from one long shot, the other three of his four goals were powerful headers that barely required him to jump, all while standing in the penalty area.

That is, these four goals plus four assists.

After the match, nine out of the eleven members of the Vietnamese team burst into tears on the spot.

Of course, while Su Hao's performance caused a sensation in China, his two other opponents in the same group, Qatar's U20 team and Myanmar's U20 team, were also trembling with fear.

In their minds, Vietnam was already considered an evenly matched opponent.

Vietnam has already lost eight players to the Chinese youth team, and now it's their turn...
as predicted!

In the remaining two rounds of the group stage.

Led by Su Hao, a captain of phenomenal talent, the Chinese youth team swiftly defeated the relatively strongest Qatar youth team by 3 goals, and then beat the poor Myanmar youth team with a record-breaking 11-0 victory in the Asian Youth Championship.

In this 11-0 rout, Su Hao scored five headers.

Standing at 1.91 meters tall with a 0.86-meter balance, he faced a frail Burmese youth army.

Su Hao was like he had a cheat code; as long as he was in Myanmar's penalty area, any cross from his teammates would turn into an assist.

In 7 days and 3 group stage matches, the Chinese youth team scored a whopping 22 goals, with Su Hao contributing an impressive 10 goals and 8 assists.

The data is so exaggerated that it's hard to believe.

However, to any discerning observer, given that the opponents were weak teams like Vietnam and Myanmar, Su Hao, a key player in the national team and a player who could even hold his own against the Dutch national team, didn't perform too badly.

After the group stage, the Chinese youth team advanced to the next round with a strong record of 3 wins and 9 points.

Their opponent in the quarterfinals is the equally trembling Thai national youth team.

After Thailand's overall height was on par with Myanmar's U23 team, the Thai media started hyping the game even before it began, claiming that if it weren't for Su Hao's header, Thailand's U23 team would have easily defeated China's U23 team.

Forehead.
The Thai media had a good idea: they thought that by saying this, a player of Su Hao's caliber might be willing to save face and abandon such a bug-level tactic as a header during the match.

But
To their surprise, the national youth team only used aerial bombardment tactics against them in this match.

Su Hao, the central midfielder, would only drop back to his own half once or twice when defending. Otherwise, he would basically pass the ball to the wing, then quickly rush into the penalty area, knock past the poor Thai girl, and finish with a header.

Four headers were scored in the first half.

This is Su Hao's record!

As expected, the Chinese U-20 team defeated the Thai U-20 team 6-1 and successfully advanced to the semi-finals.

By reaching the semi-finals, the Chinese U20 team has officially secured its ticket to the World U20 Championship.

However, after reaching the semi-finals, the real test for the Chinese national youth team has arrived.

Based on the result of another quarter-final match, the Chinese U23 team will face the formidable Japanese U23 team in the semi-finals.

The other semi-final match is between South Korea's U21 team and Uzbekistan's U21 team.

It was 7 p.m. on July 12, 2013.

The bus carrying all the members of the national youth team slowly drove into the internal passage of the Seoul World Cup Stadium.

After a series of resounding victories, even the AFC U-19 Championship, a youth tournament that is not considered a high-level event, attracted many Chinese fans to the stadium.

As soon as the bus appeared, the Chinese fans who had come specifically to see Su Hao immediately began shouting his name.

After being completely dominated by Japanese football for so many years, this is the first time that Chinese fans have come to the stadium hoping to see a resounding victory and cheer for their team.

"Su Hao!"

"Su Hao!"

"Su Hao!!!"

The fans chanted Su Hao's name wildly, and Su Hao, sitting inside the bus, smiled and waved to the fans outside the window.

Honestly, for Su Hao now, playing for the Japanese national team wouldn't be a problem, let alone playing for the Japanese youth team.

Su Hao was even considering whether he should give the young players a good lesson.

It wasn't because Su Hao was too arrogant; the key was that after the match against the Netherlands, Su Hao's sights were now set on the top five leagues, and specifically on the elite teams.

Dealing with a group of teenagers who can't even get into the top team of the domestic J-League.

He really is
8 p.m. local time in Seoul.

After the referee blew his whistle, the highly anticipated China-Japan match officially began.

The Chinese national youth team continues with a 4-2-3-1 formation centered around Su Hao.

The Japanese team, on the other hand, cautiously fielded a 5-4-1 formation.

There was no other way; because Su Hao's header was so monstrous, the Japanese national youth team coach Fujitagawa had no choice but to include Nakatani Shinnosuke, the tallest player on the team and a fringe substitute, in the starting lineup.

After the start of the game, although Japan had possession of the ball, under the instructions of their head coach Fujitagawa, they did not rush to play a passing and possession game with one-touch passing.

Fujitagawa's plan was excellent; he used quick ball distribution to find weaknesses in the Chinese national youth team's positions other than Su Hao's.

It must be said that Fujitagawa's tactics have indeed exploited the only weakness of the current Chinese national youth team.

The 8th minute of the game.

It was Fujitagawa's tactics that allowed Japan's national youth team midfield maestro, Kawabe Shun, to deliver a diagonal pass to his own striker, Ochi Yamato, who had broken into the Chinese penalty area.

A powerful, sweeping shot!
Ochi Daiwa unexpectedly opened the scoring for the Chinese team first.

1: 0!

This goal allowed the Japanese fans, who had been somewhat anxious in the stands, to completely let go of their mental burdens.

"Celebrating the New Year!!!"

"Celebrate the New Year!!"

"Celebrate the New Year!!!!!"

The enthusiastic Japanese fans chanted "Banzai!" while the thousands of Chinese fans in the stands looked completely bewildered.

what's the situation?
Didn't they say that with Su Hao, the Chinese national youth team could definitely defeat Japan?
Why is it that when they face the Japanese team, their own team is immediately brought back to its original form?

On the field, the Japanese players began to celebrate excitedly, and Su Hao, after glancing at the group of yelling Japanese players, called all his teammates to his side.

In the national team, Su Hao is still the youngest, but in the national youth team...
Su Hao, the official and formally appointed captain, began issuing orders to his teammates.

"Cheng Jin and Chen Zhechao, you two focus all your attention on the flanks. I'll handle the middle! Remember, once I get the ball, just keep pushing forward. If you can't get the ball to me, it's my fault!"

"Also, don't try to play footwork with the Japanese. If you can't beat them, just lob the ball into the air!"

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When Su Hao spoke, his teammates surrounding him naturally nodded seriously.

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This is when the real battle between China and Japan truly began!

As soon as the referee blew his whistle, Su Hao received a back pass from his own striker.

On the Japanese team's side, following Fujita's instructions, Ochi Yamato and Sekine Takahiro immediately rushed towards Su Hao.

However, facing the two attackers, Su Hao simply flicked the ball lightly and then used a feint to stop and accelerate.

In just one exchange, Su Hao easily broke through the first line of defense formed by the two Japanese players.

After getting past Takahiro Sekine and Yamato Ochi, Su Hao immediately accelerated and began sprinting towards the heart of the Japanese team's backfield.

And just as Su Hao was about to rush into their own backcourt.

The Japanese team's two defensive midfielders naturally charged towards Su Hao from the left and right.

However, this time Su Hao did not choose to confront directly. After observing for a moment, Su Hao immediately turned his body and made a diagonal pass.

The ball landed precisely at the feet of Zhang Xiuwei, who was making a high-speed run down the right flank.

After receiving the ball, Zhang Weixiu followed Su Hao's instructions and did not use any footwork techniques with the Japanese players.

After taking a few simple long steps, seeing that Su Hao had already rushed into the penalty area, Zhang Xiuwei immediately unleashed a powerful right-footed shot that sent the ball directly into the air above the Japanese team's penalty area.

With a height of 1.91 meters and a balance of 86, he would absolutely dominate even the first-team starters of the teams these young players belong to.

How could these teenagers possibly resist?

Nothing unexpected or the miracle that Japanese fans had hoped for happened.

Surrounded by three Japanese national youth team players, Su Hao leaped high and delivered a powerful header.

This was Su Hao's umpteenth header goal in the tournament.

"boom!!!"

Accompanied by the referee's whistle.

The thousands of Chinese fans who had traveled from afar immediately forgot the gloom of conceding the goal and began waving their red flags wildly in the stands.

1: 1!

The Chinese national youth team quickly equalized the score using the simplest long pass and cross.

And it was this goal that led to the goal.

This can be seen as the starting horn for the Chinese team's scoring spree.

The 19th minute of the game.

After the Japanese team's tedious back passes and so-called possession-based attacks failed to produce results.

China continued to use the most straightforward crosses from the wing, and Su Hao, a player known for his unpredictable scoring ability, scored twice, putting China ahead 2-1.

The 35th minute of the game.

China scores again.

This time, however, it wasn't Su Hao's violent headbutt.

32 meters from the Japanese goal!
The Japanese players, who were trying to defend against Su Hao's pass to the wing, forgot that Su Hao also had an absolutely world-class long-range shot.

And so, after a heavy cannon shot.

Japan's goal has been breached for the third time.

3: 1!

The Chinese team scored three goals in quick succession, extending their lead to two goals.

The cheers for the New Year's celebrations have faded.

At this moment, the only sound in the Seoul World Cup Stadium was the resounding cry of "Go China!"

5: 1!

Facing the Japanese national youth team.

The Chinese U-20 team achieved the most lopsided scoreline since the two teams met in 1975.

Su Hao was once again named MVP of the match thanks to his hat-trick.

However, at the end of the match, Su Hao's happiness was not at all because he had won a lousy youth tournament MVP.

Instead, his system, which hadn't been activated for a long time, suddenly spoke up after the referee's whistle!
"Ding dong!"

"Triggering a nostalgia quest for the host!"

"Winner of the World Youth Championship!"

"Rewards will be distributed based on the host's performance throughout the entire competition!"

"The mission can unlock a single top-tier ability (talent) in the panel!"

What the hell!

Upon hearing the system's description of the task, Su Hao was immediately dumbfounded.

What? What is a nostalgia quest?
This... this means that their own dead template participated in the World Youth Championship, and even won the World Youth Championship?
If you calculate it this way...
Isn't this template exactly what I guessed before?
But, clearly, this guy wasn't dead when he was thirty!
PS: I estimate we'll be getting to the top five European leagues soon. The AFC U-19 Championship is just a transition. There will be one more bonus chapter for monthly votes tonight, and then it'll be over.

As always, I'm begging for your monthly votes, dads!

(End of this chapter)