Chapter 469 Lebanon on and Off the Field

Ten thousand years ago, the ancestors of the Chinese people were cultivating the earliest crops with simple stone tools. They were united in the clan and worked hard to improve their lives through livestock raising, poultry and handicraft production.

Ten thousand years ago, the ancestors of the Germanic people still lived in caves, chasing wolves or being chased by wolves all day long.

Ten thousand years ago, the Phoenicians had invented navigation and trade, and they established the earliest cities in human history on the east coast of the Mediterranean.

Five thousand years ago, our ancestors established the earliest prototype of cities in the Yangtze River Basin, while the Phoenicians dominated the Mediterranean.

When Qin Shihuang swept across Liuhe, the Phoenician city was burned down by the Romans. It is said that the fire burned for seventeen days, and the ashes that fell on the ground were more than one meter thick.

The Romans were very profound. They dug up the ashes and sprinkled the ground with salt, leaving the Phoenician land barren of any grass. Therefore, the Phoenicians later starved to death.

Ten thousand years later, scientists discovered through genetic searches that modern Lebanese are the closest descendants of the ancient Phoenicians.

In their heyday, the Phoenicians built many cities along the Mediterranean coast to store trade goods, including Marseilles and Tunis, as well as Beirut, now the capital of Lebanon.

Lebanon is the most open country in the Middle East, and Beirut is known as the Paris of the East. Lebanese beauties are famous all over the world. In summer, the scenery on the beach here is even more eye-catching than that in Rio.

During the civil war 20 years ago, Lebanese women were the most sought-after refugees in Europe. Wherever they went, they were greeted with flowers and chocolates. They were not as disgusting as the Syrians now.

It's a pity that Lebanese women don't seem to like football very much. Zhuo Yang didn't find many beauties in the stands of Camille Chamoun Stadium today. In fact, only 15,000 people came to the stadium that could seat nearly 50,000 people. Not to mention women, there were not many men.

Five days ago, in the first round of the top ten, the Chinese team defeated Iran 1:0, Lebanon lost 0:1 to Qatar, and South Korea had a bye.

Zhuoyang is familiar with the German coaching community, but has never dealt with the famous Booker. Before he went to Hannover in 2002, Booker was already the head coach of the Lebanese national team.

After more than ten years of coaching, Bukele has brought Lebanon, whose national enthusiasm for basketball far exceeds their enthusiasm for football, into the ranks of strong teams in the Middle East, which can be considered an achievement. Bukele used to be a youth training construction expert like Krauchen in Germany.

The only thing Chinese fans know about Lebanese football is Antal, who once played for the Bundesliga and is now Shandong Luneng. However, apart from Antal, there is currently another person playing for Cologne in the Bundesliga, and that is their full-back Youssef Mohamed. Germany, a very popular name in West Asia.

This Mohan is the captain of Lebanon today.

In fact, it was after Bukele took charge of Lebanon that he used his personal connections to move Antar and Mohan to Freiburg. In this regard, he was very similar to Schlapner, when Uncle Shi operated Young. Chen, Xie Hui, Zhou Ning and Li Bing.

As early as the 2004-05 season, Antar and Mohan were known as the "Lebanese duo" in Freiburg. Therefore, Lebanese football is by no means as exaggerated by the Chinese media, just amateurs.

In fact, Lebanon has its own very mature professional promotion and relegation league, and many players in their national team play in surrounding leagues such as the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia.

It's already 2012, and there are basically no pure amateur players in any national team with a name. Chinese media said so,

It’s just habitual unreliable and random assumptions about praise and criticism. Compared with Chinese football, China’s football media has even less integrity.

The team that eliminated the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait in the top 20, you tell me that they are all lawyers, dentists and postmen, are you lying? If we have to put it this way, Zhuo Yang is also an amateur player because he is a piano player.

In this Lebanese national team, Zhuo Yang only had a slight impression of Antar. After all, he was known as the Asian King of the Bundesliga back then. As for Mohan, he doesn’t have that much time. The other players in the Chinese team only know Antal, but today Antal is absent due to injury.

The same goes for the other way around. The Lebanese players only know Zhuoyang, and everyone else looks like an onion.

Lebanese 20-year-old central defender Bilal Najariin plays for the Beirut Ahed team in the domestic league, and Ahed is not considered a strong team in the Lebanese League, so Najariin is not a powerful figure, even in Lebanon. In China, he is just an ordinary character.

But today Najarine came on the field with a task, and it was a very important task.

There was really nothing to say about the game. At the 17th minute of the first half, the German-born central defender Walid Ismail suddenly defected to the enemy. His clearance error turned into an own goal assist passed to Zhuoyang. It was an act of suicide in broad daylight. .

After Zhuoyang adjusted, he easily broke the net from a small angle, and it was the same as the 1:0 score.

But it didn't take long for the Chinese team players, who were deeply influenced by the country of etiquette, to retaliate.

In the 39th minute, Feng Xiaoting committed a needless foul at the edge of the penalty area, pushed Hassan Maketu, and gave Lebanon a well-positioned free kick.

There is also a clay Buddha in the small temple. Ali Sayadi's footwork is very good. His right foot penetrated Zeng Cheng's armpit with a low arc. The score was 1:1.

And this was also the final score of the game. Apart from these two goals, there are basically no images worth remembering from the game, but what happened after the game was a bit interesting.

Najariin walked quickly to Zhuoyang to complete the task he had today.

Najarine has a happy family, his wife is beautiful, and his son is very cute. They are everything Najarine has in this world.

Little Nadja likes football and Zhuo Yang. Tomorrow is little Naja's fifth birthday. He really hopes to have a Zhuoyang jersey. His father promised to take Zhuoyang's game jersey back as his birthday gift.

With a warm smile on his face, Najari extended his right hand in a friendly manner: "Hello, Mr. Zhuoyang..."

Before he finished speaking, Najarine was pushed aside by captain Mohan without giving him any face.

The 32-year-old Youssef Mohammed just transferred from Bundesliga Cologne to Al Ahli in Dubai this season. In the absence of Antar, he is the unquestionable boss of the Lebanese national team.

In the 2004-05 season, Mohan played for Freiburg and had two games with Zhuo Yang in the Bundesliga, and then he was demoted to the Bundesliga with the team. The captain is an old acquaintance. He thinks he is the only person qualified to talk to Zhuo Yang today, and his goal is also Zhuo Yang's jersey.

"Hi, Zhuoyang..." Mohan opened his arms enthusiastically, as if he wanted to hug him.

Zhuo Yang looked at the scene in front of him in confusion: Who are you?

Najali's face turned red with anger. Although he was a good old man, the Clay Man was still quite angry. Being bullied like this in public really annoyed him.

"Yusuf, what are you doing?" Najariyin asked his captain sternly.

"Go away, Bilal, you have no place to speak here." Mohan squinted his eyes.

"Yousuf, you should respect me. I came to Zhuoyang first."

"Go away, don't make yourself uncomfortable."

Seeing them quarreling in front of him, Zhuo Yang couldn't understand Arabic and talked about other people's territory, so he didn't get involved in other people's affairs, so he quickly raised his hands and stepped back quickly.

Staying out of the situation would prevent my teammates from the national team, who are better at causing trouble than playing football, from joining in the fun.