"Then I will go out with all my main force?" Gao Hongbo decided after hearing what Chang Sheng said.
Chang Sheng nodded: "Well, try to strive for a good result. Not to mention the championship, you must qualify in the group stage. There is no harm in being a little utilitarian. This Asian Cup is actually your big test, Lao Gao."
"That……"
Gao Hongbo started to think about it.
If you want to achieve superior results in the Asian Cup, the last training camp before the Asian Cup is crucial.
If according to the previous plan, he only goes to the Asian Cup to train, then Gao Hongbo is prepared to follow the arrangements of the Football Association to conduct training camps in Hainan and Guangzhou...
But now, he feels that if he goes there for training, the quality may not be very good.
He hopes to warm up in a high-level football environment, which will be a boost to the whole team.
So he suddenly thought of Chang Sheng and Lazio.
But it is difficult to open this mouth.
Because other clubs have their own normal preparations for the game, bringing 30 people there by myself might disturb Lazio's normal preparations.
But just when Gao Hongbo was hesitant, Chang Sheng asked: "When will you start the last training camp before the Asian Cup, Lao Gao?"
"Ah? Well...November 30th is the last deadline for players to report."
Gao Hongbo hadn't reacted yet and didn't know what Chang Sheng meant by asking this question.
Chang Sheng asked again: "Where is your training location?"
In fact, Chang Sheng knew, but he wanted to confirm.
Sure enough, the answer was the same as what he knew.
"It's Hainan and Guangzhou. I'll go to Hainan first, train for half a month and then go to Guangzhou. Then I'll go directly to Qatar..."
"Then how about this, Lao Gao. Don't bother going to Guangzhou, Hainan. Come to Rome. Come to Formello and train with us at Lazio. It just so happens that we also find a training team. Look. How about it?"
This is what Gao Hongbo hoped for, but when Chang Sheng said it so directly, he was still surprised. He didn't expect that Chang Sheng was not afraid of trouble?
"Isn't this...not good?" Although he hoped so in his heart, he still had to be polite with his mouth.
Unexpectedly, Chang Sheng exceeded his expectations again.
Chang Sheng said: "What's wrong with this? Come here. I'll help you arrange warm-up opponents. During training, you can have a warm-up match with Lazio first, and then who else do you want to play against? What do you think of Barcelona?" ?”
Gao Hongbo quickly persuaded him: "Don't, don't, don't... During the time period we arranged for the warm-up match, the European leagues have entered the winter break... Don't bother Guardiola. We can find our opponents for the warm-up match ourselves... …”
"If you ask your warm-up match opponents to come to Rome, they won't do it, right?"
"This..." Gao Hongbo also thought it was impossible. Before the Asian Cup, the national team planned to arrange three warm-up matches according to the rhythm of the Asian Cup group stage, on December 18 and December 22 respectively. Sunday, and December 26th. These three games are all at the Chinese team’s home court. The three teams will play in China, and their air tickets and accommodation are the responsibility of the Chinese Football Association. If you want to go to Europe for training, then Three teams have to go to Europe, and the budget for air tickets and accommodation will have to be significantly increased. What can the Football Association do?
Chang Sheng knew very well that this was not a problem.
Because in those three warm-up matches, the Chinese team looked for Indonesia, Estonia and Macedonia. The latter two are European teams. They are originally in Europe.
It is obviously cheaper for them to come to Rome than to go to China.
In the end, Indonesia was unable to attend the Southeast Asian Football Championship, so the game was cancelled.
But he wanted to say this because he didn't want the Chinese team to warm up with these three teams.
"So just invite the European teams to warm up." Chang Sheng said. "Wait for me, I will ask you now..."
After saying that, Chang Sheng hung up the phone.
Gao Hongbo, holding his cell phone with a busy signal, didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
How come this Chang Sheng appears to be more enthusiastic than me?
You know, I am the head coach of the Chinese national team...
Of course he didn’t know that Chang Sheng was a standard Chinese fan in his previous life. Naturally, he also hopes that Chinese football can improve. He cannot return to the Chinese team to coach, but he also hopes to do something within his power to help Chinese football improve, even if it is just
It is also meaningful to improve from a technical level.
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After Chang Sheng hung up the phone on Gao Hongbo, he found Bosque's phone number directly from the address book on his mobile phone and dialed it.
His mobile phone has the phone numbers of many internationally renowned coaches. They are genuine coaches, completely different from fake coaches like Camacho.
These contact information were left with each other after meeting at some gatherings in the coaching community.
Other people's mobile phones also have his number.
But usually, everyone doesn’t contact each other when nothing happens. Head coaches are very busy, especially famous coaches. Do they have nothing to do to talk on the phone?
But if something happens, this relationship will come in handy.
Unless they are absolutely mortal enemies, the head coaches maintain a good relationship. After all, one more friend opens up a new path.
Changsheng and Real Madrid are mortal enemies, but there is no personal grudge between them and Bosque. When they were dealing with each other in La Liga, it was just a competition at the football match level and did not involve other grudges. When Bosque left Real Madrid,
The rivalry between the two people was over, and there was no tension between them when they met again in private.
That's why Chang Sheng would call Del Bosque. Otherwise, if you ask him to call Mourinho, that would definitely not work... and you wouldn't even think about calling Mancini.
Del Bosque received a call from Chang Sheng. He was a little surprised when he heard that he was here to help the Chinese national team.
"Are you the head coach of the Chinese team now, Chang?" Del Bosque asked.
"No, I'm still at Lazio. I just want to help my homeland team. The Asian Cup is in January next year. I will let them come to my training base for training, but they need warm-up opponents. I think... if the time is up
If allowed, I wonder if your Spain is interested in playing a game?"
Bosque asked: "What's the specific time?"
"December 18th and 22nd. Two international A-level competition days."
The so-called International A-Level Match Day is this day when national teams from all over the world can play. And if they play on this day, the club must release the player. There is no reason. As long as the national team calls, the player must be released.
Therefore, in these two days of competition, there is no such problem as inappropriate timing. The opposing team also has to participate in the competition, and it is not a European Cup qualifier, but a dedicated warm-up match.
Who should I play with or not?
As long as the Spanish side hasn't finalized it yet, you can try to contact them.
This is the winning idea.
Naturally, he is not stupid enough to think that he has a decisive position in European football. Whoever he wants to warm up the Chinese team must come.
So this still has to be about your own will...
After listening to the time, Del Bosque pondered: "The 18th is fine. We haven't determined our opponent for this day's warm-up match yet."
Chang Sheng smiled: "Then we will keep this intention for now and leave the specific matters to their specialized people?"
Bosque nodded: "That's right."
He has no idea about warming up with the Chinese team. Just like Chang Sheng thinks, it is just a warm-up match anyway. Who is it not to warm up with? It is not a big competition now, so we must pay attention to the quality of the warm-up match.
Of course, he was able to agree mainly because of Chang Sheng's face.
After all, Chang Sheng has a close relationship with Spanish football. Chang Sheng made his fortune in Spain, and the tikitaka trend he set off in Spain also affected the Spanish national team. Aragones was able to lead Spain to win the 2008 European Cup. Just like
This is related. Aragones once said personally after winning the championship that his inspiration did not come from Deportivo La Coruña and Barcelona, but from winning often.
As the successor of Aragones, Del Bosque naturally insisted on Spain's tactical style, because he found that Chang Sheng and Aragones both proved that Spain's strategy is very suitable.
Speaking of which, he has to thank Chang Sheng.
If it hadn't been for the fact that the Spanish coaches had not seen the future of Spanish teams playing tikitaka because of their constant wins, maybe everyone would still have to play both sides.
In this case, it is impossible to win the European Cup, and it is even less possible to win the World Cup.
Moreover, Chang Sheng also trained many players for Spain. Jose Passarella in Getafe, Senna, whom he bought when he was coaching in Getafe, later became a Spanish national. Then with his outstanding performance, he became
He became the Spanish international and played a major role in Spain's victory in the 2008 European Championship.
In Valencia it is David Villa, Mista, Reyes, Arbeloa.
When he was at Lazio, he trained Pavon, Cazorla and David Silva.
This is just that before he coached this player, he had not been selected for the national team, but after he was inspired by him, he became a player of the national team.
If you count the Spanish internationals he has coached, there are even more.
It can be said that except for players from Barcelona and Real Madrid, almost all other Spanish international players are his disciples.
Changsheng's influence in Spain is quite large.
Now Chang Sheng wants the Spanish national team to do a favor. For Bosque, it is a simple task, but it can still be a favor to Chang Sheng.
He would have to be stupid to disagree.
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After discussing it with Del Bosque, Chang Sheng had a phone call with the German team's head coach Loew.
After telling him about his request, Loew immediately said that the German team could arrange a warm-up match with the Chinese team on the 22nd.
The reasons are similar to those in Spain.
There are now three German internationals in the Lazio team, so Chang Sheng has a pretty good relationship with the German national team.
Moreover, both Ballack and Klose performed well under the winning hands, which is also good news for the German team.
Whether it's to repay a favor or not to offend Chang Sheng.
Anyway, Loew agreed.
After getting the consent of the two head coaches, Chang Sheng called Gao Hongbo back.
As soon as the call was connected, he said: "It's done. December 18th and 22nd are two international A-level competition days. The warm-up match opponents are Spain and Germany."
When he heard the names of the two opponents in the warm-up match, Gao Hongbo's hand holding the phone shook and he almost stopped holding the phone! (To be continued...)
