At 9:30 p.m., Zhang Sheng received a double blessing. First, his team defeated his opponent 3:1 in the away game. The Olympic team also used a penalty kick to win the game after drawing with its opponent Jordan 1:1.
Defeated the opponent with a total score of 4:3 and successfully entered the semi-finals.
What makes Zhang Sheng even more happy is that after these two games, the players all got off the field safely and no one was injured.
In this game, the Longteng team's opponent was Tianjin TEDA. This team was in a mess at the beginning of the season. By the middle of the league, it had taken shape. Under the leadership of Ali Han, it had improved slightly. It basically scored enough points to avoid relegation. However,
At the end of the season, TEDA and several northern brothers who had been relegated for a long time started playing a point-giving game again.
Zhang Sheng has never been merciless to such an opponent, and settled the battle with a clean 3:1. While taking all three points, he also worked hard to keep up with the two competitors who had won consecutive championships.
After Zhang Sheng confirmed the victory very early in this game, he began to make a large number of substitutions. The purpose was very clear, which was to retain strength for the next FA Cup semi-final match.
This time the Longteng team has finally benefited from the Football Association. Compared with Shanghai Greenland Shenhua, the Longteng team, which was a Chinese League One team last season, has gained the schedule advantage of playing first before home.
Just the day before the first round of the FA Cup semi-finals, Zhang Sheng received a piece of mixed news. Fortunately, the Chinese Olympic team was defeated by the South Korean team 2:1 in the semi-finals. The players of the team soon
It’s time to return to China. What’s worrying is that when Zhang Sheng proposed to let the players of the Olympic team return to China early, the relevant leaders of the Football Association were very unhappy, because since the beginning of the new millennium, the Chinese football team has not had the opportunity to go to the Asian Games.
To get a medal, although the team did not reach the championship and runner-up finals this time, it finally reached the third or fourth place finals. If they work hard, they may be able to get a medal. That is what the brains of the Football Association can
A much-vaunted political achievement.
Zhang Sheng's proposal was obviously considered by the leaders of the Football Association to be very "unproblematic", so it was reasonable for such a proposal to be rejected.
After hearing the Football Association's reply, what else can Zhang Sheng do? He can't force players to return to China like Shandong Luneng did. His own Longteng Group has no confidence to compete with other state-owned enterprises such as Luneng Group, which has a background in the State Grid.
, can only accept this reply.
Zhang Sheng can only wait until the Longteng players of the National Olympic team return to China after playing the third and fourth place finals of the Asian Games against Iraq on October 2. This will obviously not be able to catch up with the 27th round of the Chinese Super League.
Moreover, after the twenty-seventh round of the game, the Chinese national team was about to start training again, and Zhang Sheng lost the opportunity to let the young Olympic players who returned to China train together with the players of the first team.
The national team's 50-man training roster came out very early this time. As many as 9 players from the Longteng team were selected, including Xiao Yunfan, who is still on the Olympic team. He also received a notification that he was ready to be selected into the 23-man roster. His selection is
In order to replace the injured Zhou Zhou.
However, compared to Guangzhou Evergrande, which had as many as 12 players selected, Zhang Sheng secretly smiled. No matter how powerful Evergrande's personnel reserves are, a large number of players will be selected by then, and the Longteng team will be waiting for the opportunity.
Already.
After the game against Tianjin TEDA, Zhang Sheng flew directly to Shanghai with the team. This season's FA Cup championship is what Zhang Sheng desires very much, because it will determine whether the Longteng team can have enough rest next season.
time and training time.
According to the regulations of the AFC, four teams from the Chinese Super League can participate in the AFC Champions League. The league champion team and the FA Cup champion team of the Chinese Super League directly enter the main match of the AFC Champions League, while the second place in the league needs to play more
One round of play-offs, and the third place in the league will need to play two more rounds of play-offs. If the winner of the FA Cup is also the top three in the league, the fourth-ranked team in the Chinese Super League will serve as a substitute.
The Dragons are currently ranked third in the league. If the team maintains this ranking without winning the FA Cup, it will have a great impact on preparations for next season. The team must be at least two weeks ahead of others.
Training camps will definitely affect your physical condition later on.
Therefore, Zhang Sheng is very eager to win the FA Cup championship. Of course, winning the FA Cup championship again is another good dream of Zhang Sheng.
Shanghai Greenland Shenhua's performance this season is not good. Although the team made a strong signing at the beginning of the season and the purchase price was a lot of premium, they have too many debts. Former Shenhua boss Zhu Jun will
This long-standing strong team in Chinese professional football is in shambles. The most important thing is that his unreliable management style has really shaken the foundation of Shenhua. It has repeatedly lost credibility, wrong team culture, and bad player transactions.
, it was a complete mess when Greenland Group took over.
Although Greenland Group has increased its investment, the team's vitality has been damaged. Reviving it does not happen overnight. Fortunately, Shanghai Shenhua's signings this season have been very successful. Although they were dismissed before buying the team,
Zhu Jun made a move and several core players were sold, but the Sun Yu and Xu Di introduced from the Longteng team were still worth the money. After going through the running-in period at the beginning of the season, the two of them were in the ball.
The team played a very big role. The unbeaten run in the middle of the league allowed the team to determine the advantage of relegation early on, and it also reached the semi-finals of the Football Association Cup. Although the hope of winning the championship was slim, it still gave the club
I left a thought.
However, for Shanghai Shenhua in the reconstruction period, the Longteng team is not an opponent they can shake yet. Even if Shenhua is home in this game, the players have put in their best efforts, but they have to bow in front of the strong strength of the Longteng team.
Become a minister.
Zhang Sheng's goal this time was very clear, which was to resolve the battle in the away game. The team completed the task perfectly.
In the first half, the team relied on Pato's beautiful goal to turn the score into 0:1. In the second half, Ben Arfa suddenly made a through ball after a beautiful breakthrough and gave Wenkai a goal.
In a single opportunity, he was very familiar with Xu Di's saving habits and decisively beat Xu Di's time difference, extending the score to 0:2.
After maintaining the two-goal lead until the end, the Longteng team could basically declare that they had one foot in the FA Cup finals.
After the game, the Longteng team returned to Jiangcheng with satisfaction. Zhang Sheng also began to use the points he had accumulated during this period to start summoning. This time Zhang Sheng still chose to summon the coach.
After the last incident with the new youth training method, Zhang Sheng is very looking forward to the coaches he has summoned. Who knows what training methods or advanced concepts the new coach will bring to the team this time.
After summoning the system, this time the system provided two more professional coaches, one was a professional youth goalkeeper coach, and the other was a professional youth physical fitness coach.
The previous Longteng team also had young goalkeepers, but due to the lack of domestic goalkeeper coaches and low ability, the football school hired foreign teachers with high salaries. However, it is impossible for a foreign teacher to fully take care of all echelons, so Tafare can only
I also go to the football school for guidance from time to time, but this is not a long-term approach. Zhang Sheng feels that it is necessary to train a group of outstanding domestic youth goalkeeper coaches.
In fact, the lack of domestic goalkeeper coaches has always been the fundamental reason why outstanding young goalkeepers cannot emerge in the country.
As early as when Wang Junsheng was in charge of the Football Association, he saw two shortcomings in Chinese football. One was poor physical fitness, and the other was the fear that there would be no successor to the goalkeeper position. However, Wang Junsheng's physical test and 10,000-meter run did not change the physical fitness of Chinese players.
The gap between China and its counterparts in Japan and South Korea, and the ban on foreign goalkeepers has not solved the goal shortage in Chinese football.
Moreover, the order banning foreign goalkeepers at that time also had a very profound background.
In those years, there were a lot of foreign goalkeepers in League A and the Chinese Super League. As the last line of defense for the team, the importance of goalkeepers in the game is self-evident. At the same time, the training and excellent training of high-level offensive players in European football
The training of goalkeeper coaches allows European football to provide the best development environment for goalkeepers, and the quality of the goalkeepers trained is also the best. They have always been a gathering place for high-level goalkeepers, so goalkeepers are often recruited by A-A and Chinese Super League teams.
First choice.
Shanghai Shenhua has successively introduced Gao Jia and Valery, Qingdao Hainiu has also used two foreign goalkeepers, Brzavici and James, Liaoning team has French goalkeeper Fabres, and Yanbian has Brakima.
Qianwei Huandao is Gicindo, Shenyang Sea Lion is Rinonda from Peru, Sichuan Quanxing is Licuk, and the most impressive one is Shandong Luneng’s Mensasha from the third country of former Yugoslavia.
In the 1999 season, Sasha joined Shandong Luneng and set a record for the fewest goals conceded in a season, conceding only 13 goals in 26 games that season. No one has broken it yet. In the two seasons with Luneng, Sasha played a total of 51 times.
, and together with his teammates won the 1999 A-League Championship and FA Cup Championship.
There have been rumors in the domestic football circles that it was Sasha's outstanding performance that scared the leaders of the Football Association. His performance in the A-A game was so good that the Chinese Football Association introduced a policy to restrict foreign goalkeepers.
Because the position of the goalkeeper is too special - there can only be one goalkeeper on the field in a game. If a large number of foreign goalkeepers pour into the Super League, the living space of local goalkeepers will become very small, resulting in a significant drop in the level of local goalkeepers.
It has a great impact on the selection of the national team and the long-term development of the team.
So in this context, whether it was because he was intimidated by the ability of foreign goalkeepers or because he wanted to cultivate domestic goalkeepers, the new Football Association Chairman Yan Shiduo ordered a ban on the introduction of foreign goalkeepers starting from the 2001 season.
A large number of foreign goalkeepers had to leave China. For example, Sasha was forced to leave after the introduction of the policy, and then he chose to retire. Only later did young players like Wang Dalei have the opportunity to play.
In fact, Zhang Sheng is quite in favor of this "local rule" because the position of the goalkeeper is too special. If domestic goalkeepers are not given sufficient protection in low-level leagues, all teams in the Chinese Super League will have foreign goalkeepers.
It's not impossible, but who will be the goalkeeper for the national team will really be a big problem.
However, with the "isolation" caused by this regulation, there has also been a phenomenon of "locking the country" in goalkeeper coaches. Except for individual clubs hiring foreign goalkeeper coaches on their own, China's young goalkeepers have nothing to do with the world's advanced goalkeeper training.
In addition, grassroots coaches' neglect of young goalkeeper training and insufficient training levels have led to a serious shortage of goalkeeper talents in the youth training field. At present, the composition of domestic young goalkeeper coaches is mainly composed of non-specialized goalkeeper coaches, and even non-specialized goalkeeper coaches.
Football professionals serve.
The professional level of these coaches can be imagined, and they also directly affect the training of young goalkeepers.
As we all know, it is very common for goalkeeper coaches to come from goalkeepers, but an excellent goalkeeper may not necessarily transform into an excellent goalkeeper coach. The reason is that the purpose of training is not to showcase personal talents, but to explore the potential of the players.
For example, Zhang Sheng's former Magic Water teammate Li Jian was like this. In order to improve his coaching level, Zhang Sheng had to send him to Germany, the world's most powerful goalkeeper training base, for further study, and he stayed there for two years.
It is a pity that far water cannot quench the near thirst, and only cultivating one or two excellent goalkeeper coaches is a drop in the bucket in improving the overall level of goalkeeper coaches in the Chinese Super League. For example, in 2012, the French Metz team was specially invited to participate.
After the finals of the National Youth Men's Football League for the U15 age group, the coach of the Metz team, Bertrand, mentioned two problems with the Chinese team. One is the lack of physical fitness of the players, and the other is the low level of goalkeepers. He even
I wonder if these Chinese goalkeepers have had special training since they were very young.
A more famous example is Wang Dalei. Wang Dalei, who performed well in the World Junior Championships, was once regarded as a star of hope. In 2006, he got the opportunity to train with the Inter Milan youth team for a week. He was found to have excellent physical condition and reaction ability, but
Wrong habits have been developed in various basic techniques, which made Coach Bosalia, who liked him very much, sigh. This shows the seriousness and universality of this problem.
Since the system has provided a goalkeeper coach this time, Zhang Sheng is of course very happy. Even if the coach's level is average at this stage, with the system's ability, his growth will not be much worse. If he can follow Tafa after he comes.
If an excellent goalkeeper coach like Reyer learns more, his future will definitely be very good.
When Li Jian returns to China, Longteng Football School will also have a complete team of goalkeeper coaches from the first team to the adult team, which will provide the Longteng team with many good goalkeepers.
