SINGAPORE — China’s team captain Zhang Linpeng has decided to quit his international football career following his team’s “humiliating” loss to the Lions in Thursday’s (Mar
China’s football captain quits after ‘humiliating’ draw with Singapore in World Cup qualifier, tells wife he can't accept it
“I thought about it for a long while. I think it’s time to end my national team career. We could not even beat the Singapore team. I think it’s unacceptable, and I find it humiliating,” he said in a news report by Hong Kong daily South China Morning Post. He continued:"I really feel like I cannot do any better than this anymore. Every day I am really putting in 100 per cent to 200 per cent effort but this result, I really cannot accept it, so let's just end it here."
The first two goals scored by China's forward Wu Lei looked to have dashed any hopes of a positive result for Singapore, before substitute Faris Ramli scored after the restart and Jacob Mahler smashed home a goal to level in front of a 28,000-strong crowd at Singapore's National Stadium. China's coach Ivankovic was quoted as saying after the match: “I told my players at the half-time that 2-0 is dangerous. Sadly, we did not do well in the second half.
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