When you are in Al Ain, it is so green that it is hard to believe that this is a city located in the heart of the desert.
Away from the ocean and close to the border between the United Arab Emirates and Oman, Al Ain is the second largest oasis in the emirate of Abu Dhabi. Although it is not as prosperous as Dubai and Abu Dhabi, the greenery is much better. Inadvertently, date palms and palm trees
The dense al ain will even give you the feeling of a tropical rainforest city.
After two consecutive victories, the Chinese team moved to Al Ain, where they played against Kyrgyzstan.
Al Ain played against Manchester City in the Club World Cup final half a month ago. The club is located in Al Ain, but the Sheikh Khalifa International Stadium where China and Kyrgyzstan battled was not Al Ain’s home ground. It was called Hasha Zayed
The stadium is a professional football field and is also the venue for this year's Asian Cup.
The entire oasis has a population of only 700,000, and there is only one football team in Al Ain, but Al Ain likes to build two large stadiums. The happiness of the rich is so unpretentious and willful.
The area of ​​the UAE is about the same as that of Chongqing. It has one-tenth of the world's oil reserves and its population is less than one-third of Chongqing's. If you walk on the streets of Abu Dhabi, Dubai, and Al Ain, you will find that they are equally lively and not at all like the lack of people.
In fact, there is no need to be surprised. Most of the people you see are foreigners like you, and you almost never see locals.
If you are reincarnated in this country, let alone become a noble, even commoners will be so wealthy that it is difficult to understand why there are so many quarrels in other parts of the world.
Needless to say, education and medical care are all free for life, just getting married and having children. In the United Arab Emirates, as long as you get a marriage certificate, the country will provide you with a villa, and by the way, you will be given a wedding fee of about 500,000 yuan.
One child is given an apartment of 100 square meters, and there is no upper limit for how many apartments are given. The state will pay alimony to each child from the time he is born, and it will be paid every month until the child grows up, gets married and gets a villa, and the cycle starts over and over again.
The United Arab Emirates is a 'backward' feudal aristocratic chief republic, and Somalia has completely copied the various systems of the beautiful country. Look at it. From a certain point of view, happiness really has nothing to do with the country's structure, it only depends on whether the country is rich or not.
rich.
In sharp contrast to the UAE is Kyrgyzstan.
Kyrgyzstan is close to China, and its entire territory was the main territory of the Anxi Protectorate of the Tang Dynasty more than a thousand years ago. Kyrgyzstan is the birthplace of Li Bai, the three immortals of "Poetry, Sword and Wine", and is also where Yang Yi and Wu Huiqing lived in seclusion for 16 years.
The location of the year.
Kyrgyzstan is two and a half times the size of the United Arab Emirates, about the same size as Guangdong, but there is nothing in the country except for the Kumtor gold mine. The gold mine contributes more than half of the fiscal revenue. The per capita GDP ranks 157th in the world.
The grain output is impressive, and we rely on imported wheat from Kazakhstan; the national income is impressive, and the foreign exchange depends on the labor force going to work in Russia; the industrial capacity is extremely impressive, and infrastructure construction relies on China. Even the A4 paper we commonly use, Kyrgyz's light industry cannot produce it.
Kyrgyzstan is known as the Switzerland of Asia because of its mountainous interior. When it first came out of the former Soviet Union, the whole country thought so too. So, everyone was so happy that they slaughtered and ate more than half of the sheep.
In the Soviet Union, Kyrgyzstan was responsible for raising sheep, which at that time could provide meat for the entire Soviet people. However, after such a boom, the number of sheep has not been restored to that time until now.
It is said that in the past, when they were separated and each lived independently, Tajikistan was the strongest in football among the five Central Asian countries of the former Soviet Union, followed by Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan could compete for third place, and Kazakhstan was the worst.
Times have changed, and now Uzbekistan is the leader of the five Central Asian countries, Kazakhstan has gone to follow UEFA, and Kyrgyzstan is like their sheep, which has never recovered.
The main ethnic group of Kyrgyzstan is the Kyrgyz, accounting for 70% of the population. However, due to historical reasons, it is difficult to clarify the national origins of most people, which makes it easier for Kyrgyz football to naturalize.
However, because the national presence is too weak and there is no way to spend a lot of money, it is naturally impossible to recruit too strong personnel. Currently, of the seven naturalized players in the team, four are from Russia and two are of German descent.
There is also a Ghanaian.
The country's top star is German forward Vitali Lux, who was born in Kyrgyzstan. He currently plays for Ulm in the Bundesliga Bundesliga. Core midfielder Edgar Bernhard is also of German origin and currently plays for Poland's First Division.
Most of the Kyrgyz national football players this time come from Bishkek Dodoy, the top team in the Kyrgyz domestic league, but there are still 8 players who have studied abroad. However, one player studied abroad and another did not study abroad. The eight players are all in the Russian League, Uzbekistan Super League, and
An Indian Super.
Generally speaking, Kyrgyz is not strong, but it is not weak either. In the first group stage of the World Cup preliminaries, Kyrgyz also forced Australia to scramble.
The last time the Chinese team played against Kyrgyzstan was at the end of 2014. In order to prepare for the last Asian Cup, Jieshuai's national football team warmed up with Kyrgyzstan twice and won 4:0 and 2:0 respectively.
Zhuo Yang did not participate in those two games. He had not had any accidents at that time, but he was upset because of his marriage to Kou Kou, so he did not go.
Obviously, Kyrgyzstan must be stronger than four years ago. Four years ago, Russian coach Kristinin just took office, and the two games against the Chinese team were his first games.
Alexander Kristinen, who is just 40 years old this year, was a mediocre defender when he played football. He basically played in the Russian low-level league during his career.
In 2009, the 31-year-old Kristinen retired and then came to the Kyrgyz League to coach Kochkol Atta Petroleum. Now he has served as the coach of the Kyrgyz national football team for four years, and also serves as the coach of the domestic giant Dodoy.
Four years ago, Kyrgyzstan was ranked 170th in the FIFA rankings, and now it is ranked 92nd, which can be considered a rapid improvement. Playing more games and less cuteness is the secret to Kyrgyzstan's progress.
In the Asian Cup qualifiers, Kyrgyzstan was in the same group as India, Myanmar, and Macau, and Kyrgyzstan qualified first. Coach Kristinen said that this time in the Asian Cup, the goal is the quarterfinals.
As for the 0:4 defeat to Saudi Arabia in the first game, it was an inaccurate encounter.
After Kristinin took office, he led the Kyrgyz national team to follow the path of the former Soviet Union. The selection of players focused on strength, and the tactical style was mainly tough, fast and concise.
Saudi Arabia is a Spanish country in Asia, and its players are generally well-behaved and look easy to bully. Therefore, Kyrgyzstan couldn't help but want to take advantage of his body, and as a result, the whole audience was beaten by the Saudis.
The 3:1 victory over the Philippines in the second round showed the true strength of Kyrgyzstan. The team displayed the characteristics of resolute defense and fierce counterattack. Although the style of play is old, old prescriptions can cure diseases and are good medicine.
To be honest, Zhuoyang and Sforza have no doubts about the youth team's victory over Kyrgyzstan, but they are not sure whether they can play their own style from beginning to end in front of the veteran team.
Kristinen said: We respect the Chinese team, they are a world powerhouse and third place in the World Cup, but Kyrgyzstan’s goal of the quarterfinals will not change.
Zhuo Yang said: We will have no objection to whoever enters the quarterfinals, because the Chinese team’s goal is to win the championship.
Chapter completed!