During the subsequent signing of his personal contract with Sporting Lisbon, Zhang Sheng made suggestions to Xu Mingyu many times. The first was to ask him to strengthen his physical training after going to Europe. Although Xu Mingyu's body is now considered very strong among domestic players, but in Europe
The level of competition in the league was far beyond his imagination.
Xu Mingyu followed Zhang Sheng's suggestions. After all, Zhang Sheng's coaching performance in the two years since joining the team has given him a very high prestige. However, Xu Mingyu also seemed very confident about his upcoming European trip.
It seems that the past two years of domestic competition and this World Youth Championship have completely built up his confidence.
After thoroughly settling Xu Mingyu's matter, Zhang Sheng, who was originally going to prepare for Lannick's arrival, ran out of time. Because on the night of July 18, Ye Ting gave birth to a son for Zhang Sheng, and Zhang Sheng officially became a father.
As a man of two generations, Zhang Sheng had two children in his previous life, and in this life he was a famous coach who scolded Fang Qiu on the court and was sought after by players and fans. But when his own child was born, Zhang Sheng still had
That kind of dancing and mind-blank situation.
His own children are equivalent to the continuation of his own bloodline. It was only now that Zhang Sheng had a real sense of coming into this world. When he called the system countless times before, Zhang Sheng felt that he was in an illusory digital world, but now his children
After being born, I finally felt that the world was truly unfolding in front of me.
Faced with Zhang Sheng's neglect, Rangnick seemed very generous. After all, as a father, he also knew the excitement and busyness after having his own child. While Zhang Sheng was busy taking care of Ye Ting, Rangnick decided to observe the Dragon Team first.
First-team players and young players from Longteng Football School. After all, a club that can have outstanding players like Qin Minghao and Li Yun should also have other good prospects.
But what first interested him were the foreign players in the Long Teng first team. In his opinion, these players all have the ability to play in the Bundesliga. Among them, Kante and Mahrez have unlimited potential. Next, let him
He is optimistic about Ding Huaiyi, who is still playing as a substitute, but he feels sorry for Ding Huaiyi's physical condition.
Finally, he saw Nie Jiang at Longteng Football School. Rangnick really liked this young player who was less than 16 years old. Nie Jiang impressed Rangnick very much in terms of technique, speed and awareness.
Shocked. At the same time, he was also glad that he had time to slowly observe the situation of the Longteng Club and the football school. In his opinion, both the first team and the football school had enough talented players.
For this reason, Rangnick also carefully asked Heiko Vogel, the youth training director he hired from Germany for the Dragons. He wanted to know why the Dragons had such talent.
Facing Rangnick's inquiry, Fogel seemed very confident: "Because China has a large enough population and enough geniuses."
"Then why was Chinese football so backward before?" Rangnick asked rhetorically.
Fogel also made a joke: "Maybe it's because I didn't come." Then Fogel said seriously: "Because no one invested in Chinese football before."
Rangnick shook his head: "But China's professional league has been around for a long time."
Fogel looked disdainful: "Those are not called investments, they are called speculations. I have been in China for a few months. Judging from the information I collected before, Chinese domestic clubs basically invest less in football.
It is mainly based on the first team, with very little investment in the youth team. Even if there is investment, it is one-sided and there is no complete system. In the early days, China did have a player selection and training system similar to the previous East Germany, but
Later it became completely deserted.”
Seeing Rangnick nodding, Fogel continued: "But now Longteng Club is completely different from most clubs. When they started to establish the first team, they began to plan a long-term training system for young players and invested in it.
A lot of money. I have read the previous financial report of Longteng Football School. Their total investment in the first year was 35oo, including the acquisition cost of football school facilities and personnel. In the second year, there was no need to purchase a large amount of fixed assets.
Next time, they invested more, nearly 4,000, and when I took over this year, the budget of the football school was as high as 5,000. At the same time, they planned to spread the football school branches to various cities in Hubei Province. You know where we are in China?
What is the population of this province?”
Rangnick also asked cooperatively: "How much?"
"The population is nearly 6,000. If you think about it, the whole of Germany is only over 8,000, and this province is only 6,000. Plus some areas in neighboring provinces covered by our football school, the total population is larger than that of Germany. So we should say that we
There is a talent base for football selection. And most of the young players in our team now come from these areas. With a huge population base, a large amount of capital investment every year, and coupled with our professional coaches, I believe that as long as Longteng Club
If you keep at it, maybe more good players will emerge. To be honest, I am full of passion for my job now because there are endless possibilities here." Fogel said excitedly.
Hearing what Fogel said, Rangnick nodded silently. Now he is even more eager to acquire Qin Minghao and Li Yun. As long as he makes the first business deal with Longteng Club and lays a good foundation for communication, then in the future
The prospects for cooperation will be broader.
But now Zhang Sheng has no time to take care of these things. Even in the Chinese League One on July 20, Zhang Sheng deliberately took leave and did not direct the game. The person who replaced Zhang Sheng was the assistant head coach Lao Xing, and the assistant coach Lao Xing
He Lijun, who came to Longteng Club for internship and work from Jiangcheng Sports Institute after Zhang Sheng returned to China, was also the coach Zhang Sheng promoted after Jiang Peng went to Germany for further study. The other one was German assistant coach Schürrle.
Facing the visiting Hunan Xiangtao team, Longteng's players obviously did not want to interfere with the head coach's happy day. The Longteng team, with most of their main players returning, took advantage of a crushing advantage to win at home.
Only 3 minutes into the game, Deng Qun, who returned to the team as the main forward, used a smart movement to score a goal. After scoring, Deng Qun and his teammates once again danced a cradle dance on the sidelines.
Ding Fan, who was in charge of the commentary, also said: "Haha! This should be the best gift that Deng Qun and his Longteng teammates gave to their head coach Zhang Sheng. It is reported that just the day before yesterday, the head coach of the Longteng team Zhang Sheng just had a
Son. Actually, I think Zhang Sheng should be a strong candidate for the current head coach of the national team. The current head coach of the national team, Fu Bo, is just a transitional coach, and Zhang Sheng is very high in terms of player training ability and on-the-spot command ability.
of."
In fact, this topic of Ding Fan was not raised for the first time. After Zhang Sheng led the Longteng team from the Second Division to the Chinese First Division, some local media in Jiangcheng asserted that Zhang Sheng was far better than the current youth team coach Rick Lin.
Ke is more suitable for the National Youth Team.
However, after this World Youth Championship game, Zhang Sheng has had a certain improvement in Rick Link's ability. Zhang Sheng found that he is not a coach suitable for coaching weak teams because he is stubborn about total offense and defense.
Football tactics can only be executed if there are players who meet this tactic, and based on the strength of the players of the previous Chinese National Youth Team, they definitely did not have this ability.
Therefore, in the games that everyone saw under his command, the Chinese team could neither attack nor defend. And when these players from the Longteng team joined the National Youth Team, the team's game scenes and results were completely different.
There has been a big improvement. At least Zhang Sheng thought that his ability could only place third in this World Youth Championship, and he would not be much better than Rick Linke's team.
In fact, it is not difficult to see from the performance of the later generation Rick Linke when he coached the wealthy club Galatasaray after his contract with the Chinese Football Association was terminated. This wealthy club has good players, and after being banned by UEFA, he focused on the country.
Judging from his performance in winning the Turkish Cup and Turkish Cup, as long as he is given good players, he can still achieve good results.
Therefore, Zhang Sheng kept secret about the position of head coach of the National Youth Team proposed by the outside world, and the outside world also lost the opportunity to speculate.
After Zhang Sheng led the Longteng team to sweep the Chinese League One and set a new winning streak record, coupled with Camacho's defeat in Maicheng, not only the media in Jiangcheng, but also many sports media began to discuss the candidate for the head coach of the national team.
, Zhang Sheng’s voice was not small. Some fans who were extremely disappointed with the national team even said that they could simply send players from the national youth team to completely replace the national team players, and that the players and the head coach should be replaced together.
However, Zhang Sheng knows that the current Football Association is still very superstitious about foreign teachers. In the end, after all the high-level foreign teachers were involved in the mess of domestic football and failed again, the Football Association only used Gao Hongbo as a last resort.
Local coaches. This is not to say that foreign teachers are not good, but that domestic expectations for foreign teachers are too high and there are too many constraints.
However, the players on the field probably do not want Zhang Sheng to leave the team, because the subsequent performance of the players let everyone know how popular Zhang Sheng is in the team. In the next game, the players of the Longteng team
They continued their efforts in the 15th minute of the first half, and Qin Minghao and Lin Feng scored two more goals in the 31st minute to expand the score to 3:o.
The score of 3:0 in just 30 minutes in the first half made the game lose its suspense. In the second half, the players continued to chase, and Mahrez scored twice to lock the score at 5:0. He was responsible for directing this game.
Lao Xing basically never left his seat in the coaching bench during every game.
Zhang Sheng also seemed very calm about the result of this game. The strength gap between the two teams is too big, and Longteng is still at home, so a big victory is expected. According to the post-game comments online, it seems that the fans of Hunan Xiangtao team were indiscriminate.
Yan's comment: "Nah, it really doesn't matter whether the Longteng team has a head coach or not. I think Leeds can easily win even if he is in the head coach's position." (To be continued.)
