Football: The immortal legend on the green field

At the post-match press conference, Krautzen arrived five minutes late, but he left in a hurry before he even had time to warm up his chair. He only spoke a few words during the press conference, and no one had time to ask questions, but he answered all the questions.

"Thank you very much! We lost. Although we tried our best, the Brazilian's diving still ruined our efforts of several years. Of course, we are not making excuses for the failure. The excessive consumption in the last game was also the main reason why we failed to suppress the Brazilian."

"When two armies of men fight, it is only natural that if you kill one thousand of the enemy you will lose eight hundred of your own. We have lost our stronghold and our sharpest spear."

"I can leave with pride. I have passed on my experience to these kids. They have learned a lot of valuable experience through this World Youth Championship, which will be of great help to their future football career. I said before coming to the Netherlands that I don't care about the ranking. The key is to see how much we can learn from it. So far, looking back at those five games, I feel that the goal has been achieved and the mission has been accomplished. I am very satisfied."

"Finally, I want to say that cunning and deception are also part of football, just like Maradona's 'Hand of God' in 86, which is still being praised by the world!"

"Our children are so sincere. They come from an ancient country with thousands of years of civilization. Their kindness may not be applicable in the football world. Thank you again! Goodbye."

Krauchen's speech caused an uproar, embarrassed FIFA, and also caused dissatisfaction among many South American countries. Why are there so many people in football who take advantage of referees and rules? Why don't they give examples and drag Argentina over to criticize it like Brazil? This is totally unacceptable.

The coaching staff returned to the locker room, and there was no long speech. Only Gao Haiyang said a summary: "Thank you very much for everything you have done in the past two years. This summer is the best summer of my life. Now you don't need to accept the devilish training, you don't need to play every two days, and you don't need to be locked up for training every day. I will give you a holiday, go and have fun! You haven't been out since you came to the Netherlands, right? Go see the windmills, go see the tulips, and enjoy a rare vacation. But after all, you have just become adults, and there are many temptations here that professional athletes cannot touch. If you want to stay here for sightseeing, the Football Association provides you with a 7-day tour, sponsored by the domestic "Wahaha" and led by Mr. Ali Han. If you want to return to China, go back with the group tomorrow!"

After saying that, he turned around and left the locker room.

In the summer of 2005, the Chinese national youth team achieved brilliant results in the World Youth Championship, which made the Chinese people excited and proud. Their wonderful moments on the court were still replayed on TV decades later.

Because here emerged a football superstar who was admired by the whole of Asia. Whenever he was mentioned, people would always replay the story of the first time he showed the world his wings as a fledgling, the story of what happened to the future "King of Football" in the Netherlands this summer.

Shen Bin did not travel with the tour group, nor did he return to China with the group. Instead, he and Li Yan accompanied Tan Wangsong, Zhang Fanlin and Sun Ke to Italy to inspect AC Milan's youth training camp in Milan.

According to Li Yan, these three children who are going abroad for the first time and facing life choices for the first time need a signpost, and Shen Bin can be their signpost.

For the entire Chinese Olympic team, the summer full of passion, hope, laughter and pain came to an abrupt end at 2005 o'clock in the evening on July 7, 25.

Brazil, which later narrowly defeated China, lost 0:3 to Argentina, which was well-rested and led by Messi, in the semi-finals because they had consumed too much energy in this battle.

Later, Argentina defeated its opponent, the biggest dark horse of this World Youth Championship, the African Eagle Nigeria, 2:1 in the final as expected. Messi won his first world championship in his life as he wished, although it was in the youth group.

Brazil defeated Morocco in an extremely dull and negative third and fourth place final, and got a consolation third place for them.

In the individual awards finally announced, it was the Chinese National Youth Team that was the biggest winner. Perhaps out of compensation for the unfair penalty against the National Youth Team, or because of China's huge market, Shen Bin won the title of best player with 6 assists and 5 goals.

List of individual awards:

World Youth Championship Best Player: Shen Bin (China, 6 assists, 5 goals)

Top scorer of the World Youth Championship: Messi (Argentina, 6 goals)

Best goalkeeper of the World Youth Championship: Boukadi (Morocco)

Best coach of the World Youth Championship: Krauthen (head coach of the Chinese National Youth Team, German)

World Youth Championship Best Team: Goalkeeper - Boukadi (Morocco)

Defenders - Feng Xiaoting (China), Taiwo (Nigeria), Thiago Martins (Brazil)

Midfielders: Shen Bin (China), Fabregas (Spain), Zabaleta (Argentina), Deng Zhuoxiang (China), Maduro (Netherlands)

Forwards: Messi (Argentina), Volente (Spain)

When the list was released, Argentina went wild. How could a team that didn't even make the top four win the title of best player? Isn't the best player the one who leads the team to the best results? This is a shady deal. The Chinese bribed the journalists who participated in the voting. This is the biggest scandal in football in the new century...

When Messi returned to Barcelona and was interviewed by Mundo Deportivo, he said aggrievedly that we were rich before, but now we are poor and have no extra funds to do public relations, while the Chinese are rich now...

A single stone can cause a thousand ripples. Messi's words not only insulted the Chinese but also offended reporters from all over the world who were covering the World Youth Championship. For a time, his remarks were criticized by many domestic and foreign media.

No one cares about the Argentines' clamor, but Mundo Deportivo is the most unlucky one.

After a day of fermentation, Mundo Deportivo and Barcelona had to come out to clarify, but they maintained the same view in their words and deeds: Messi's remarks were immature and his words were misunderstood by people, but Shen Bin's winning of the best player was indeed difficult to convince the public based on his performance...

When the media wanted to contact Shen Bin, he seemed to have disappeared from the public eye.

On July 7, a private Gulfstream G27 belonging to Berlusconi took off from the Netherlands and flew over France. More than 550 years ago, when Frenchman Napoleon Bonaparte led his army across the Alps and appeared in the south of the mountains, an extremely glorious period in French history began. And when Shen Bin led three Chinese teenagers across the Alps to Italy in the south of the mountains more than years later, did it also mean that they would create an extremely glorious period in the history of Chinese football? Does history really have reincarnation?