2002年中国足球队取得了巴林四国赛的亚军。热身赛期间,东亚三强只有中国队取得了胜利,但是我们却无法高兴起来。因为韩日两国的对手分别是巴西和阿根廷,而我们的对手则是西亚球队,其中还不包括沙特、伊朗甚至是卡塔尔。尽管如此,中国队在与巴林队交锋中还是连丢两球,一度落后于对手。我曾经读过《荆棘鸟》这本小说,小说中写到有这样的一只鸟,一生都在寻找荆棘。当它找到之后,便义无反顾地朝着荆棘最密集的地方 In 2002, the Chinese football team won the runner-up in Bahrain’s four-nation race. During the warm-up match, only the Chinese team in East Asia won the victory, but we can not be happy. Because South Korea and Japan rivals Brazil and Argentina, respectively, and our opponent is the West Asian team, which does not include Saudi Arabia, Iran and even Qatar. In spite of this, the Chinese team in the clash with the Bahrain team or even lost two goals, once lag behind the opponent. I once read the novel “The Thorn Birds,” a novel in which I write such a bird and search for thorns all my life. When it is found, it moves toward the thorniest place