Although the intermission period has arrived, there are a large number of players in the Longteng team who cannot get a good rest. These players are mainly the international players in the team.
The day after the game, Zhou Hai, the only national team player of the Longteng team, left the team and began the national team training from June 2 to June 16. His registration date in the original announcement was June.
On March 5th, a little later than other international players.
The day after Zhou Hai left the team, the Chinese Football Association announced the final roster for the World Youth Championship, which included nine players from the Longteng team. They are: Deng Qun, Qin Minghao, Xu Mingyu, Liu Xing, Lin Feng, Gao
Jun, Shu Jun, Wang Peng, Li Yun. In other words, these players will occupy the majority of the lineup of the National Youth Team this time.
After the announcement, the Longteng team immediately received great attention. It is really shocking that a first-class team can contribute not only one international player to the national team, but also 9 international players to the National Youth Team.
However, Zhang Sheng was a little worried about Zhou Hai. After all, he had to participate in a famous scandal in his previous life - the Chinese national team lost 1:5 to the Thailand U23 youth team at home. For that game, countless people analyzed it after the game.
Zhang Sheng actually has his own opinions on the reasons why he lost the game.
Let's start with the Football Association. They did a very stupid thing, that is, when the Football Association leadership team decided to hire Camacho, they already announced that they would give up the 2014 World Cup in advance. The World Cup dreams of many international players have been shattered.
This is why some national players lamented: Our World Cup dream is ruined. If we, 27 or 8 years old, cannot fight for the World Cup, will we have a chance in the future? At this time, if we use national honor to criticize the players, it is
It’s completely untenable. The Football Association has already given up on the World Cup and the dream of a generation of national players. So how can the national players still be enthusiastic?
Secondly, from the club's point of view, Evergrande, Luneng, and Guoan were all in the middle of the league when they were winning points, and they did not necessarily want their players to play hard during the league break.
Let’s start with head coach Camacho. His tactics after coaching the national team have been criticized many times. What exactly are Camacho’s tactics? To put it simply, long passes are used to find two points. Camacho requires that the ball be passed as much as possible.
Staying in the frontcourt will minimize the risk to the goal. Therefore, the scene of the national football match is basically that the back line hits the ball to the frontcourt, and the midfield and frontcourt players compete for the first point. After the first point fails, they go to fight for the third point.
Two points. After getting the second point, the front midfielder or the back midfielder will distribute the ball. As for positional offense, it basically depends on where the football goes. In Camacho's national team games, you never see
It is obvious that the full-backs are playing tricks. Scoring goals basically depends on his personal ability. He always has only one attitude after losing. Chinese players are not good, and Chinese football is different from the rest of the world. When Camacho scored countless times in Buenos Aires
At the meeting, while shirking responsibility in private interviews, Camacho had lost the players' trust.
Finally, there are the players on the field. The national football team has played three games in three cities for ten consecutive days. The density of three games is too high. Most of the players have been exhausted in the league and AFC Champions League. Camacho has not been with the team in the two years since he took office.
To form a positive interaction, there is neither full trust nor effective communication; especially the deepening rift between this "famous coach" and the Chinese Football Association, poor communication between the two parties, and weak management. This makes the players feel that this kind of dispensable
The game didn't bring up the energy at all, let alone playing football. This is why there have been rumors that the players want to get rid of Camacho.
When Zhou Hai went to the national team, Zhang Sheng couldn't explain it clearly, but he still told Zhou Hai in a very subtle way: "When you go to the national team to play, no matter what the situation is on the field, as long as you are on the field, you must give 100% effort, even if your teammates
Don’t give up even if you give up. We must remember our Longteng team’s game philosophy, which is don’t give up even if you have a chance.”
In Zhang Sheng's view, if you can't keep up with your physical fitness and can't compete in games, that's a matter of ability, while if you don't invest in the game, that's a matter of professional ethics and even character.
Soon after sending Zhou Hai away, Zhang Sheng began to send the young players in the team to participate in the National Youth Team report. This time Zhang Sheng talked more about the players' dedication to the country and the players' sense of honor: "
You are going to participate in the World Youth Championship soon. What I want to say before going is that the entire country you represent on the field, if you play well, the first thing that others will think of is that the Chinese team plays well. If you play well,
No, it’s the national team that others criticize first. You have to remember that the team emblem on the chest is far more important than the name on the back.”
Before the players reported to the National Youth Team, Zhang Sheng did a very important thing, which was to sign the first professional player contract in his life with Xu Mingyu, who had just turned 18 years old. This also meant that Xu Mingyu was in the second half of the season.
Able to represent the Longteng team in official competitions.
After these players left, Zhang Sheng also got a rare vacation time when other players of the Longteng team were on vacation. But this vacation period was not easy at all, because Ye Ting's due date was still one month away.
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For this matter, the Zhang family and the Ye family mobilized the whole family. As early as more than a month before the due date, Zhang's mother made a reservation at the best obstetrics department in Jiangcheng - the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department of Union Hospital Affiliated to Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology -
- VIP hospital bed. Ye Ma has already selected a gold medal confinement nanny to be on call at any time.
Zhang Sheng suddenly found that he couldn't get involved in many things. Whenever he wanted to help with something, Zhang Ma and Ye Ma would appear immediately and scold him: "You are a clumsy grown man, what do you know?"
, we are people who have been here, we are here.”
Faced with the care of the two mothers, Ye Ting also pursed her lips and snickered when she saw her husband shriveled up.
Zhang Sheng's vacation time was spent amidst his mother's nagging and his wife's teasing.
Soon June 15th came, which was also the day of the match between the Chinese national team and the Thai U23 youth team. At 7 o'clock in the evening, Zhang Sheng turned on the TV anxiously. The match was broadcast by CCTV Sports Channel.
The venue was Hefei Sports Center. Zhang Sheng was very unfavorable to the Chinese team. He only cared about Zhou Hai's performance.
In this game, the left back was Zheng Zhen and the left center back was Zhaopeng. Zhou Hai sat on the bench. When the camera panned over the bench at the beginning, Zhang Sheng saw Zhou Hai's expression was very serious. Obviously
This is a sign of his nervousness. Because in the previous two warm-up matches, Zhou Hai was not included in the squad and was watching the Chinese team's games as a spectator.
Sure enough, the Chinese team's performance was just like history. In the 16th minute of the first half, the Chinese team was scored by the opponent. In the 23rd minute, the Chinese team was beaten on the left and was easily passed by the opponent.
Then another goal was conceded. The Chinese team did not get a penalty kick until the 30th minute thanks to Sun Ke's hard work.
Shortly after the start of the second half, the Chinese team conceded another goal, and the score became 1:3. At this time, Camacho made his second personnel adjustment, and Zhou Hai finally ushered in his first national team career.
Seeing Zhou Hai play, Zhang Sheng's heart immediately lifted. He hoped that Zhou Hai could be more positive.
Sure enough, Zhou Hai was very active in defense after playing. His long-term playing in the Longteng team made him accustomed to defending in the backcourt, and his passing ability was very good. He faced many Thai team in the backcourt.
During this siege, Zhou Hai worked very hard, but the overall malaise of other players made Zhou Hai feel helpless. Facing the Thai team's counterattack, we often see the situation where two or three people in the backcourt face the opponent's three people.
In the above counterattack, other players did not chase back at all, but watched the show from behind.
In the 61st minute, the Thai team scored another goal, and the score became 1:4. Zhou Hai looked at his teammates walking on the court in a daze, a little at a loss. In the nearly three years of competition with the Longteng team,
Whether it was an official match, a warm-up match, or even an intra-team confrontation, Zhou Hai had never seen a player play so passively.
The only person on the court who fought as hard as him was Sun Ke, who made a penalty kick in the first half.
In the 88th minute of the second half, the Thai team counterattacked again. When three opponents rushed forward, only two of the Chinese team chased back, namely Zhou Hai and Sun Ke. Although Sun Ke saved the opponent's attack on the goal line.
Zhou Hai once again used his body to block the opponent's follow-up shot, but another Thai team's offensive player still scored from the center.
This also made the Chinese star Hao Haidong, who has always been known as Hao Dapao in China, say in a subsequent game commentary: "We lost to Thailand 1-5 and won the game. I saw many players stopped running, but only Sun Ke and Zhou
Hai also played seriously from beginning to end. As long as the two of them have a little ability, even if they can't play well, they are still good people. In fact, there was no chance at that time."
After the game, Zhang Sheng contacted Zhou Hai by phone immediately. On the phone, Zhang Sheng comforted: "Zhou Hai, although the score of this game is very bad, I don't mean to criticize you at all. I called you.
I’m not trying to comfort you, I just want to praise you.”
Zhou Hai, who was listening to the phone, nodded silently: "Thank you, coach."
Zhang Sheng continued: "You don't need to thank me. I want to thank you. In front of fans across the country, you showed them the competitive spirit of our Longteng team. I think everyone has a very positive impression of you."
Sure enough, that night, the media began to criticize the Chinese national team, and various negative reports emerged one after another. From the Football Association and coaches to the clubs and players, everyone was sprayed with blood. The only one who was not scolded was
Two people - Zhou Hai and Sun Ke. Facing these two desperate players, no one had the heart to blame them. (To be continued.)
