The next day, Zhao Yang trained with the team at Huangdao Football School.
Perrin hopes to reduce fan interference, and the team conducts closed training.
Zhao Yang's success in La Liga has brought him millions of fans.
When Zhao Yang plays in La Liga, it is difficult for domestic fans to go and watch it. Now that Zhao Yang has returned to China, fans hope to witness the performance of this rising star with their own eyes.
Thousands of fans gathered at the entrance of the football school that day, hoping to watch the national football team train.
The closed training of the national football team has caused dissatisfaction among fans.
Fans raised banners to protest against the behavior of the national football team, and said that as long as they can go in and watch, it is not impossible to buy tickets.
The football school was worried about causing an overreaction from the fans and discussed with Perrin about opening training.
When Perrin was considering the top 12 games, he still needed the support of fans. There was nothing secret about the current training, so fans were allowed into the football school to watch in the afternoon.
Obviously, both Perrin and the Football Association underestimated Zhao Yang's influence. More than 3,000 fans entered the Football Association that day, and almost 7,000 fans came the next morning, and fans continued to come to Huangdao.
The stands at the football school were overcrowded. In the afternoon, the national team had to switch to the Olympic Sports Center for training at the Huangdao Olympic Sports Center, which can accommodate 35,000 fans.
On the afternoon of the 3rd, the Trinidad and Tobago team arrived at Royal Island.
Before coming to China, the Trinidad and Tobago team lost two warm-up matches in a row.
First, they went to Lima, Peru, and played a warm-up match with the Peruvian team preparing for the America's Cup on May 23. As a result, the Trinidad and Tobago team was defeated 0:4.
Subsequently, Trinidad and Tobago moved to Montevideo and faced Uruguay on May 27. Although young midfielder Williams broke the deadlock, they still lost 1:3.
With two consecutive losses, the Trinidad and Tobago team traveled all the way from Montevideo to Royal Island.
Traveling from Central and North America to South America, and then flying to China, the players of Trinidad and Tobago spent a lot of time traveling, and the time difference was almost completely reversed. Therefore, the Trinidad and Tobago team arrived
After arriving at Huangdao Island, I didn’t do any training to adapt to the venue. I just went to the hotel to rest and was jet-lagged.
The Chinese team asked the Trinidad and Tobago team to play a warm-up match, and it was not a random choice.
In Group A of the top 12, the Chinese team's main opponents are Iran and South Korea.
Trinidad and Tobago's players have good physical fitness, strong impact, and their playing style is similar to that of their opponent Iran in the top 12 of the national football team.
Moreover, the Trinidad and Tobago team is a Central and North American team, ranked 53rd in the world, and is not weak.
If the Chinese team cannot compete with South Korea and Iran and gets fifth place, then the opponent competing for a World Cup finals ticket will be the fourth place player from Central and North America.
This can also be regarded as a practice and trial in advance.
However, the Trinidad and Tobago team flew halfway around the world to China after playing a warm-up match in South America. Moreover, the Trinidad and Tobago team has 15 players from domestic clubs, and only 6 of them are from domestic clubs.
At least 10 key players who are playing in overseas leagues have not been able to come to China.
Obviously, from the perspective of player selection, the Trinidad and Tobago team came to China with the task of inspecting young players. It is difficult to say how much training the Chinese team can achieve.
Regardless of the strength of the opponent's players, the Huaguo team is fully prepared. Even if it cannot achieve the goal it originally intended to achieve, it must at least practice the lineup and inspect the new players.
The match against Trinidad and Tobago on June 4 was the first time the national football team appeared in front of fans across the country after reaching the top 12.
They counterattacked and qualified under desperate circumstances, and Chinese fans' favorable impression of the national football team increased a lot.
Zhao Yang, the popular player of the national football team, had another amazing record in La Liga and won the top scorer. Chinese fans have extremely high expectations for this game.
The 35,000 tickets for this warm-up match were sold out early, and the black market tickets were even sold for as high as 1,500 tickets.
In the afternoon, the starting lineup of the Chinese team was announced: goalkeeper 1-Cheng Cheng; defender 21-Zhao Jian, 2-Zhang Peng, 15-Feng Xiaoting, 32-Ding Peng; 16-Yu Chao, 20-Huang Bo, 4-Jiang Ning.
,13-Yu Hai,3-Gao Lin;17-Zhang Ning,9 Zhao Yang
This starting lineup was basically satisfactory, and the main substitutes such as Hao Jun, Zheng Zhi, and Wu Lei did not exceed the expectations of most fans and reporters. After all, this game was mainly to examine marginal players and adjust the lineup.
However, Zhang Ning's start on the 17th surprised all the players and reporters.
Although Zhang Ning is the main player of the National Youth Team, also plays in the Eredivisie and scored one goal, he is too young, only 19 years old.
Zhang Ning is paired with Zhao Yang in the starting lineup. Does this mean Zhao Yang is asked to assist him?
If Zhao Yang is asked to help Zhang Ning, what help can Zhang Ning give Zhao Yang?
However, considering that Zhang Ning and Yang Xu have similar characteristics, both are strong center forwards, the media believes that this is probably to let Zhang Ning use his body to play the ball for Zhao Yang to attract firepower.
As for whether Zhang Ning can shoulder this important task, the media believes that it may be that the emergence of Zhao Yang has given Perrin a lot of fantasies about overseas players, hoping that there will be another little Zhao Yang, even a bankrupt version of Zhao Yang.
Fans naturally hope that the national football team can produce another genius. Zhang Ning's unexpected start gave fans more expectations for the game.
Trinidad and Tobago, who had just slept in China, finally had a warm-up on the morning of the game, but it was just a passing game.
In the afternoon, the Trinidad and Tobago team finally trained seriously for half an hour.
It can be seen that although this Central and North American team does not have many main players, the personal abilities and tactical qualities of the players are still good, at least not worse than the Chinese team.
The game will take place at 7:30 PM prime time.
Two hours before the game, Chinese fans entered the stadium, held up banners, and even played a powerful drum and gong.
An hour before the game, the stands were already packed.
When the players were doing warm-up activities, simple passes and shots would draw bursts of applause from the fans, who might even think they had scored a goal in the game.
At 7:30, with the referee's whistle, the first warm-up match of the national football team finally kicked off under the spotlight.
First off Trinidad and Tobago.
The tired Trinidad and Tobago team did not rush to attack, but slowly controlled the ball in the backcourt.
However, the Trinidad and Tobago team is not using the ball to find loopholes in the Chinese team. It seems that they are controlling the ball just for the sake of controlling the ball.
The Chinese national team played at home, and the fans cheered with thunderous cheers. Naturally, the players did not want to mess with Trinidad and Tobago.
Seeing that their opponents only controlled the ball in the backcourt but did not attack, they quickly started to press in the frontcourt and forced their opponents to attack.