On the morning of June 10, Gao Hongbo, Liu Chunming, and Wang Ai arrived at No. A3, Hongshankou, Haidian District, Beijing - the National Defense University of the Chinese People's Liberation Army in a light vehicle!
Since yesterday's game in the Bird's Nest was irrelevant, the national team coaching staff began to divide their work after returning to China on June 7. Li Bing and Fan Zhiyi went to South Africa first to inspect hotels, stadiums, and training grounds to communicate with the organizers. They are fully responsible for the national team.
Tactical and technical Gao Hongbo, temporary team leader Liu Chunming and captain Wang Ai, went to Yan Shiduo to give a formal work report.
The national team's coaching staff had secretly set their goals for the Confederations Cup and World Cup when they were in Milan, but they only had a phone call with Yan Shiduo and had not yet formally followed the procedure. At that time, it was just an idea, but this time, it was serious.
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Nan Yong, Zhang Jilong, and Cui Dalin attended the meeting, and Secretary Liu attended the meeting to observe the minutes.
This is a big deal!
There are three major football teams in the basketball world. Any one who proposes to win the world championship will be a big sensation in the country. Not to mention the leaders of these sports outlets, except for the ambitious national team, even Yan Shiduo has a guilty conscience and dare not disturb easily.
Superiors.
What if a dumb bomb is fired? It would be embarrassing for the leader to be angry and not say anything, right?
In order to report this time, or to win the full support of the General Administration of Sports and the Football Association, Wang Ai, Gao Hongbo, and Liu Chunming reviewed and approved the "Feasibility Report on the Chinese Men's National Football Team's Winning the World Cup Championship", which has more than 20,000 words!
This report was taken away by Yan Shiduo immediately after the meeting and classified as a "top secret" document. In addition to the three members of the national team, the four people present and Director Liu knew the details.
Starting from the general development rules of sports, Wang Ai objectively analyzed the strengths and weaknesses of Chinese football, combined with the history, achievements, quality, and abilities of himself and the national team, and focused on analyzing the main opponents of the Confederations Cup and next year's World Cup.
situation, boldly proposed that the national team should transcend the inherent impression that the Chinese men's football team is weak, at least make bold assumptions under the current conditions, carefully verify, and launch an attack on the highest goal.
His words were so passionate that people's hearts were shaken when he heard them.
Omitting the "nonsense" information contained in many academic papers and known to leaders, Wang Ai still read for nearly an hour and continued to answer questions from several leaders just like he was very familiar with during his graduation defense.
Finally, I finished the report.
Yan Shiduo, who had discussed in a low voice with his left and right, smiled at Gao, Liu, and Wang across from him: "Out of respect for your outstanding work, even though I think you may want to talk big words, we still take it seriously.
.I didn’t expect that you guys are really reasonable.”
"First of all, I would like to express my position on behalf of the Party Committee of the Football Association." Yan Shiduo put away his smile and straightened his back: "The local owners are not afraid of long-term and capable workers. As long as you dare to think, dare to do, and dare to fight for it, the Football Association will not push back, and will do its best to fight for it.
Go. Tell me, what support do you want?"
Seeing the hesitation of the three of them, Director Liu's secretary smiled: "Although I haven't asked for the leadership's opinion yet, I just heard that your report is very formal and neat, with the flavor of an academic paper that is rare in the sports world.
Is it written by Xiao Wang?"
Gao Hongbo laughed: "Other than him, neither Lao Liu nor I can write."
"Since you have researched it more thoroughly, it means that in your opinion, there is still hope. In this case, I also want to listen to your requests on behalf of the leader."
Across a long table, Gao Hongbo put his hands on his thighs: "First of all, I would like to express my gratitude to the leaders for their support. Now the conditions are much better than before. The support provided by the state, at least at the level of our national team, is much stronger than in the past.
It’s not even much worse than some countries. If we raise this requirement again, I believe the country can solve it, but we believe that it will not be as helpful to this goal as before. For example, during our preparations for the Beijing Olympics, we held a meeting in Tübingen
For one year of training, the country spent tens of millions on us, which I could not have imagined when I was playing football. It is precisely because of this intensive investment and leapfrog growth that has boosted our good results."
Yan Shiduo looked unmoved, but everyone knew that this decision was made by him.
"But the distance between the Olympic champion and the World Cup champion is probably equal to the Chinese Super League champion and the Italian champion, at least in terms of competitive level." Gao Hongbo blinked his eyes: "So, just now the leader asked us what our requirements are, and we really did it this time.
We are asking for help, but the focus of the help is not on funds or venues, but on asking the Football Association to help us coordinate some things, and we have some new ideas."
"Oh? New idea? Who thought of it?" Yan Shiduo asked with interest, and then stared at Wang Ai who was drinking water at the side: "You?"
Wang Ai quickly shook his head: "We are collective leaders and make collective decisions. This idea was first proposed by deputy captain Chen Tao. Later, I helped enrich it, and the coaching staff finally improved it."
After finishing speaking, Wang Ai waited for Lao Gao, and Lao Gao waited for him.
Liu Chunming laughed: "Xiao Wang, tell me, young people need to work more."
Everyone laughed, and Wang Ai had no choice but to say: "Initially we held an internal meeting to discuss how to achieve this goal, and then Chen Tao proposed to participate in military training after the Confederations Cup. His reason was to learn from the People's Liberation Army how to defeat the strong with the weak, and to understand that China
Football has inherent weaknesses. On this basis, it is best to learn from the People's Liberation Army."
Several leaders looked at each other with surprise in their eyes. According to their views, the biggest problem for athletes is that they are afraid of hardship and being tired. Even if they are given more money, this is the case. This is human nature.
Offering to go to military training, this national team is really different.
"I haven't had much to do back home in the past two days, and I'm in a hurry to go to the Confederations Cup, so we took the time to study it. I think Chen Tao's ideas are still rough, but the general direction is right." Wang Ai took another sip of water to moisturize it.
Moistening his hoarse throat, he looked at the leaders across from him: "Our Chinese men's football team has learned women's volleyball and table tennis, but it's still the same as it should be. This shows that Chinese football has its own era and historical characteristics.
We and other projects can refer to each other, but we cannot copy them. In the same way, we are on the same level as foreign countries, we can refer to them, but we cannot copy them."
Some of the leaders frowned, while others nodded slightly.
Speaking of this, Wang Ai smiled: "Just like China's reform and opening up, there are many references, but until today, who are we like? We are different from anyone else. Our big country, this ancient country, the latitude and longitude of the times and history
It is destined to be Chinese characteristics. It is not that we seek to be unique, but that we are unique."
This chapter has been completed!