In Zhao Kangming's opinion, Hu Lai and Wang Guangwei returned very timely.
Because the Chinese League One will temporarily suspend one round due to the international match day, and the next game will not be played until April 1.
They have more than ten days to recover and practice with the team again to find a sense of coordination.
Otherwise, he would have no choice but to not select Hu Lai and Wang Guangwei into the fourth round squad and let them rest at home. However, this would entail the risk of not winning the fourth round of the league.
Either the two of them may be forced to go on the field to face league opponents before their physical fitness has fully recovered. After that, they will never be able to stop. There will be no time for them to rest until May.
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This year, because the 2023 Asian Cup will be held in June, domestic leagues have to be suspended in early May to make concessions for the Asian Cup.
After all, the national team still needs to gather for training, which always takes about a month to prepare. It is impossible to suspend the league just before the Asian Cup starts, right?
The Asian Cup will be played at the end of June.
Calculating this way, there are two months of missing match days this year. In order to compress the schedule, there are often double matches a week.
Under such circumstances, if players are not physically prepared, they are likely to get injured during the intensive schedule.
Now, Hu Lai and Wang Guangwei have had a good rest after returning. When the league resumes, they will be in full swing, and the fatigue of continuous East Asian Cup games has been wiped away.
Fortunately, the Flash Stars are a Chinese League One team and don’t have a single international player in the team.
Last season's international match day was an opportunity for the Stars to make adjustments. Many people had no concept of international match days at all.
Hu Lai and Wang Guangwei performed well in the East Asian Cup, which is a good thing for the players, but for the head coach Zhao Kangming, it may not be entirely a good thing.
In fact, before the East Asian Cup was over, Chinese fans were already discussing whether Hu Lai was qualified to play for the real national team.
It stands to reason that Hu Lai, who completed a hat trick against South Korea and helped Chinese football break the 41-year-long Koreanphobia
Woolen cloth?
It is for this reason that everyone enthusiastically fantasizes about Hu Lai joining the Chinese national team.
If it weren’t for the international match day immediately after the East Asian Cup, with no rest time at all, some fans would suggest that the Chinese team recruit Hu Lai now...
Zhao Kangming certainly has no objection to his players playing for the country, but from the standpoint of head coach Hu Lai, he still feels that it is too early for Hu Lai to be selected for the national team.
After all, it is impossible for the national team to let Hu Lai play the main role in the national team. Being a substitute and serving as the national captain is meaningless for Hu Lai, who has already won the East Asian Cup championship with the Olympic team - he can't play.
There is no need to go to the competition even if it is for the national team.
In addition, as the club's head coach, Zhao Kangming is not willing to transfer Hu Lai to the national team, because that will greatly affect Hu Lai's performance in the club.
He is actually worried about the national team's overuse of outstanding young players.
Because there are many precedents for this in past history.
After some young players emerged and performed well, they were quickly promoted to the national team. The players were sent to participate in training camps for friendly matches and warm-up matches. As a result, they were unable to play in games. Frequent transfers to training camps also disrupted the club's preparations.
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After all, no head coach is willing to entrust a player with important tasks who always leaves the club to participate in national team training - when the club needs him, he spends too much energy due to frequent call-ups to the national team and loses his status.
Absolutely nothing. Considering the interests of the club, why would the club reuse such a player who has no way to contribute to the team?
When a young player cannot gain attention in the club and cannot play the game stably, it will be difficult for his level to improve.
And when the national team saw that this young man couldn't play in the club, why should I recruit him?
In this way, both parties gave up.
As a former youth training director who brought out many young players, Zhao Kangming has seen too many such examples.
He believes this is a deformed way of cultivating young players because Chinese football has lagged behind for a long time.
After all, Chinese football has lagged behind for too long and is in urgent need of young talents to stimulate the public's attention and increase everyone's confidence.
This will cause a young man to nod his head slightly and be targeted by fans and media across the country, as well as by the Football Association.
If this player performs well, then the national team will use it hard, even to death - anyway, fans and media are happy to see such young talents playing for the country and improving the team's performance.
A 19-year-old player has to participate in the national youth, national Olympic and national team competitions of the third-level national team. After playing in the Asian youth team, he will play in the Asian Games, and after playing in the Asian Games, he will play in the national team games. He will not stop until he is injured.
After this player is injured, another young player can continue to use it.
It's really hard to say now, if Zhang Qinghuan hadn't fallen for himself, whether the national team and the Olympic team would have used him in both directions until they were useless.
Thinking about it this way, maybe Zhang Qinghuan's self-degradation actually protected him. At the most critical moment when he was growing up, he was not injured due to heavy competition tasks...
It was out of this consideration that after Hu Lai and Wang Guangwei returned to the team, Zhao Kangming specifically talked to them alone.
There is the Asian Cup in June this year. He is now particularly worried that the national team will recruit these two young people to participate in the Asian Cup. Although it is almost impossible to let them play in the game, he will give himself a holiday in these two months and stay at home.
Wouldn't it be good to take a good rest and recuperate your tired body?
Young people may have different ideas from him, and would rather hope to wear the national team jersey, play for the country, and participate in competitions such as the Asian Cup.
That's why Zhao Kangming had to make it clear to these two people that he did not recommend or want them to participate in the Asian Cup, and he would also ask the national team through personal relationships not to recruit them to play in any national team game, even a warm-up match.
Friendly matches are not allowed.
He explained clearly to the two of them why he did this, so as not to create a rift between master and disciple, and to prevent Hu Lai and Wang Guangwei from thinking that Zhao Kangming was deliberately blocking their way to the top.
Of course, if after listening to his explanation, Hu Lai and Wang Guangwei feel that he is just making excuses, but in fact he just wants to intimidate two young players who have just performed well in the East Asian Cup to facilitate his management... that is also their fault.
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Zhao Kangming would not choose to hide it just because he was worried that they would misunderstand.
As for what the young people who have gone out to see the world think, that is their business and he has no control over it.
But fortunately, both Hu Lai and Wang Guangwei have great trust in Zhao Kangming. Hu Lai even directly said that if the national team really wanted to recruit him, he would refuse.
Zhao Kangming was moved and scolded him: "Are you crazy? It is taboo for a player to refuse a call from the national team, unless you are injured. It has always been a matter of whether the national team wants you or not. How can you refuse?"
What about rejection? It’s two different things if I help you block it and if you refuse it yourself! I’m going to talk to you about the national team, so don’t say anything unless you don’t want to join the national team anymore..."
Hu Lai quickly thanked Director Zhao. He was just enjoying himself and forgot about this incident.
"Blame me, blame me, of course I want to win glory for the country, Director Zhao..."
Zhao Kangming looked at Hu Lai who was very quick to admit his mistakes and said with a smile: "Of course I don't want to see you fail to enter the national team. After all, I am still waiting to see you realize your dream in my lifetime, ha!"
Of course Hu Lai knows what Director Zhao calls "dream".
That is indeed the "Lifetime Series".
"I will work hard, Director Zhao!"
Seeing what he said, Zhao Kangming shook his head again: "Hey, don't take it too seriously. In fact, everyone knows this kind of thing. How many people in the world take it as their goal? Thousands of people, who can best achieve it?
Pick one in a million. It’s good that you have this grand goal, but if you take a long-term view, you still have to keep your feet on the ground, and you have to look down at the road, otherwise you will stumble just after you start, and your great goal will become someone else’s.
Are you making fun of you?"
"Coach, don't worry, I have one goal this season, to help us win promotion to the Super League! And when I came back, Director Shi also talked to me and said he would focus on my performance in the league. He also said that next year's U23
The Asian Cup will also be decided based on my performance in the club this season..."
Zhao Kangming nodded: "Shi Wuyin also told me that I will let you go in the warm-up matches of this year's Olympic team, as long as you are not in poor physical condition. Let's not think about the national team for now, but the Olympic team must play well.
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The two chatted for a while, and then Zhao Kangming waved Hu Lai away.
But before Hu Laila opened the door, he was stopped by Zhao Kangming again: "You and Chen Xingyi have a really good relationship?"
Hu Lai didn't expect Director Zhao to ask this question. Could it be that what happened before the start of training that day caused Director Zhao to misunderstand?
So he quickly explained: "It's definitely not as good as my relationship with Lao Wang, but it's not bad."
"You were rivals for the championship before, and you ruined my goal of winning three consecutive high school national championships."
"Well... ha, if you don't mention it, Director Zhao, I would have forgotten about this. Now that we are all professional players, who cares about the grievances in the high school national competition..."
"Is there really no contradiction?"
Hu Lai shook his head firmly: "There is really no contradiction."
How can blacklisting on WeChat be considered a contradiction? There is no contradiction, no contradiction. Anyway, the little stars have treated us to make amends. The group with a good attitude not only removed us from the blacklist, but also gave each of us two hundred yuan.
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Seeing what Hu Lai said, Zhao Kangming did not ask any more questions. He waved his hand: "Okay, then you can go back."
After Hu Lai left, he rethought Chen Xingyi's problem and felt that he should not rush for success.
Chen Xingyi's strength is there, but he has only been with the team for a short time. It has only been a month. How can tacit understanding be cultivated so easily?
Now that Hu Lai has returned, he can relax a little and let nature take its course. So as not to put too much pressure on Chen Xingyi, which would be bad for both himself and Chen Xingyi.
Thinking of this, he decided to continue to use Chen Xingyi as a substitute in the next home game against Heihe Polar Stars.
Then based on his game performance, we will decide whether to let him start in the third round of the FA Cup.