Unlike Shi Wuyin, Mai Zhaocheng has never considered not recruiting overage players - if he really leads the team to the Olympics.
Because he knows very well that in comparison, the overall strength of the Olympic team he has is indeed not as good as the previous one.
What Shi Wuyin has in his hands is almost the "golden generation" of Chinese football.
Most of the players in this Olympic team have now become major players in Chinese football. Not to mention those who have studied abroad, they are now firmly established as main players in Chinese Super League clubs.
Such a high success rate is rare in many previous Olympic teams.
His Olympic team cannot compare with Shi Wuyin's, and he certainly doesn't have the confidence of Shi Wuyin, and he doesn't recruit any overage players.
So he does not exclude overage players.
But if you want to recruit people, who should you recruit?
"In view of the outstanding performance of the last Olympic team in the Olympics, it greatly promoted European clubs' understanding of our Chinese football... The Football Association hopes that this Olympic team can continue to play such a role..." Team leader Ran Ran
Jiachang said.
Mai Zhaocheng understood that he hoped that if he wanted to bring over-age players, he would bring some players who had the opportunity to study abroad, rather than old players who were completely dead.
It may be cruel to say this, but as Hu Lai and others gradually become more famous as Chinese players in European football, the Football Association now wants to strike while the iron is hot.
We want more Chinese players to go abroad and play football in Europe.
So how can you be noticed by European football?
In the past, Chinese football was like an unknown player in a remote place far away from the center of the world.
No one knows, no one understands.
Unless people from the center of the world take the initiative to turn their attention to Chinese football, they will not know what happened there and what players were born.
To sell goods, you can hold some sort of trade fair to promote your goods to the world.
So the Olympic Games is like a world trade fair for Chinese football.
Of course, the influence of this trade fair is not as good as the World Cup, but it is also a rare stage for Chinese football to showcase its capabilities in front of the world.
Didn’t Hulay and Luo Kai become known to European football through the Olympics?
If he had not participated in the Olympics, perhaps Hu Lai would not have gone abroad to play football so early.
Mai Zhaocheng understood what Ran Jiachang meant and what the Football Association wanted him to do.
Who else in China is expected to be successfully promoted?
Do all three candidates need to be used for promotion?
Shouldn’t the team’s performance be considered?
After much deliberation, Mai Zhaocheng gave his answer: "I plan to recruit Lin Zhiyuan as an over-age player."
As the main goalkeeper of the Chinese national team, Lin Zhiyuan is actually not yet 22 years old.
It can be said that he is quite young.
In fact, it stands to reason that he was a player of the right age during this Olympics.
He was supposed to participate in the Los Angeles Olympics.
But because he has shown great talent since he was a child, he became the main goalkeeper of the Chinese Olympic team only four years ago when he was 17 or 8 years old. He not only participated in the Olympic qualifiers, but also participated in the Olympic Games.
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According to the rules, as long as a player has participated in the qualifiers, regardless of his age, he cannot participate in the Olympic qualifiers again. He can only participate as an over-age player during the Olympic Games.
Therefore, Lin Zhiyuan did not participate in the qualifying stage of this Olympic Games.
Ran Jiachang was not surprised by this choice. He nodded: "Okay."
Lin Zhiyuan is currently the most promising player in China to go abroad. He himself plays football abroad.
If he wanted to go abroad, he would have gone abroad long ago.
Because of the special nature of the goalkeeper position, he has stayed there until now.
If he can perform well in the Olympics and attract the attention of more teams, it may be possible for those European teams to put aside their inherent prejudices and be willing to place greater bets on Lin Zhiyuan's potential.
So the choice of Lin Zhiyuan is not surprising, it is even a must-choice.
But then Mai Zhaocheng's second choice surprised Ran Jiachang.
"For the second person, I want to choose Zhang Qinghuan."
"Zhang Qinghuan? He has already gone out..."
Mai Zhaocheng explained: "In order to help domestic players go abroad, we cannot select three over-age players who are all playing domestically. I think the team's strength and performance must be guaranteed. Otherwise, if our performance is too bad, others will also
He won’t look at us twice. Besides, Zhang Qinghuan has never participated in the Olympics, so I think he will definitely be willing to come.”
Ran Jiachang was convinced.
After all, recruiting overage players is not just about whoever the Olympic team says they want, they must come. This is a two-way choice.
When the Olympic team is interested in a certain player, it has to seek other people's opinions.
The Olympics are not the World Cup, so they are not that attractive to professional players.
Zhang Qinghuan has already participated in the World Cup. If he can participate in the Olympics again, it can be said that he has participated in all the world competitions.
He shouldn't be too resistant to recruitment.
"What about the third person?" Ran Jiachang asked.
"The third person..." Mai Zhaocheng hesitated and said, "The third person, I want Hu Lai."
Ran Jiachang took a breath: "Lao Mai, you are very ambitious!"
Good guy, this is about moving the forward combination of the national team to the Olympic team!
Mai Zhaocheng smiled: "If possible, of course I hope to go as far as possible in the Olympics."
Ran Jiachang shook his head: "I will report the person you want, but I dare not give you a guarantee as to whether it will work."
"Okay." Mai Zhaocheng just nodded and said nothing more.
Because he doesn't know whether the future he imagined can come true.
He has moved the central axis of the national team to the Olympic team.
If Shi Wuyin hopes to train young people, then Mai Zhaocheng is more inclined to get results.
When it comes to cultivating talents, Mai Zhaocheng is not as good as Shi Wuyin, and he probably won't have the chance to lead the national team to participate in the World Cup.
He is not the first person to lead a team to participate in the Olympic Games.
But he still wants to leave his name in the history of Chinese football.
After much deliberation, only the Olympics is suitable.
As long as he can lead the team to achieve unprecedented results in the Olympics, he will be able to realize his "ambition."
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"Ha, you really are a smart guy!"
Hu Lai couldn't help laughing after seeing Zhou Zijing's controversial goal against the Iranian Olympic team, and complained to his girlfriend Li Qingqing.
"This is really something a person like him can do."
"But it does relieve the anger." Li Qingqing smiled.
What the Iranian Olympic team did to the Chinese Olympic team back then was unknown to many football players in China.
But not everyone can take revenge like Zhou Zijing without caring about the consequences.
After Li Qingqing finished speaking, she saw Hu Lai pick up the phone and lower his head to send a message with a smile on his face. She curiously took a look at it to see what Hu Lai was talking about.
The result is:
"Congratulations to Xiaoyu for participating in the Olympics! Now everyone in our group has participated in the Olympics, ha!"
When Li Qingqing saw this sentence, he immediately pointed out Hu Lai's mistake: "That's not right, there is Brother Huan in your group who has never participated in the Olympics..."
As soon as she finished speaking, a message from Chen Xingyi popped up in the group: "Hu Lai, you are confused. There is also Brother Huan! Brother Huan has never participated!"
Hu Lai first raised his head and smiled at Li Qingqing, and then replied in the group: "Ah! That's right! And Brother Huan! And Brother Huan has never participated in the Olympics! Wow, how could I forget this! Huan
I’m sorry, brother, I really didn’t expect you didn’t even participate in the Olympics!”
"Okay, you did it on purpose!" Li Qingqing patted Hu Lai on the shoulder.
Just when Hu Lai thought he would see Brother Huan's famous lines next, Zhang Qinghuan jumped up and laughed and said, "Hey! I will go to the Olympics this time too!"
Hu Lai was stunned.
He turned to look at Li Qingqing, who also looked at him with wide eyes.
Chen Xingyi expressed his doubts in the group for him: "How come you also participated in the Olympics?"
As soon as he said this, Wang Guangwei answered for him: "Ah, Brother Huan participated in the Olympics as an over-age player, right?"
Overage players!
Chen Xingyi also reacted: "Damn it, I even forgot that there is such a thing as over-age players. We didn't even have an over-age player in that Olympics..."
Hu Lai suddenly realized that he didn't expect that he was not pretending to be cool.
Just then, his phone rang.
When I looked at the number, I saw it was from the Football Association.
So his intuition told him that it should be related to the Olympic Games.
Sure enough, the call he received was asking him if he was willing to participate in the Olympics as an over-age player. The caller was Ran Jiachang, the leader of the Olympic team.
Hu Lai glanced at Li Qingqing, and then said without any hesitation: "I am willing, leader Ran."
Ran Jiachang laughed over there: "Haha! That's great! That's great! I'm going to have to work a little harder on you this summer, Hu Lai..."
"What you said, Leader Ran, is it hard to serve the country? Isn't this what I should do?"
"Okay, that's good! Let's make an agreement then. After your league ends, you will have to come to the Olympics for training..."
"No problem, don't worry, Leader Ran."
After hanging up the phone, Li Qingqing said to him happily: "Great, Hu Lai, we can participate in the Olympics together again!"
Although the women's football Olympic qualifiers are not over yet, in Li Qingqing's mind, this ticket has been locked in advance.
So she does get to compete in another Olympics with Hu Lai.
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"Hu Lai was so frightened that he hasn't spoken since just now."
While everyone in the group was discussing Zhang Qinghuan's participation in the Olympics, Hu Lai did not participate in it, Chen Xingyi guessed with some malice.
As soon as he finished speaking, Hu Lai appeared and said, "Haha, I just answered a phone call."
Wang Guangwei: "What phone number?"
Hu Lai: "Little Star, I want to participate in the Olympics too! Biye.jpg"
Chen Xingyi: "???"
Xia Xiaoyu: "Ah? Really?! Brother Hu, are you also an over-age player participating?"
Morikawa Junpei: "Envy!"
Chen Xingyi: "Fuck? Why can't I... No, there are only two of you, Brother Huan, and there are at most three overage players... Maybe I will get a call soon! Hey! Just wait for Hu Lai,
See you at the Olympics!"
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"Whose phone number just now, Zhiyuan?"
Looking at Lin Zhiyuan who came back from answering the phone, his agent Qiu Xinrong asked.
"Leader Ran of the Olympic team."
"National Olympic team?" Qiu Xinrong was stunned for a moment.
"Well, Team Leader Ran asked me if I would like to participate in another Olympic Games..."
Qiu Xinrong quickly realized what this meant, and he asked: "Did you agree?"
Lin Zhiyuan nodded: "Yes, I agree."
"Okay!" Qiu Xinrong clapped his hands hard, "Perform well, Zhiyuan. Let's go out after this Olympics!"
Lin Zhiyuan smiled at Qiu Xinrong and said, "I think so too, Uncle Qiu."
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Hu Lai: "Five minutes have passed. Little Xingxing, have you received the call?"
Hu Lai: "Ten minutes have passed. Little Xingxing, have you received the call?"
Hu Lai: "Fifteen minutes have passed. Little Xingxing, have you received the call?"
Hu Lai: "Twenty minutes have passed. Little Xingxing, have you received the call?"
Chen Xingyi: "Damn, Hu Lai, are you boring?"
Hu Lai: "So we still don't know whether Little Star can participate in the Olympics."
