God of Greenery

On January 2009, 1, Jiang Xiaolin flew directly from Qianyang City to Tehran, Iran.Of course, it is inevitable to need to change planes halfway, and there is no direct flight to Iran in Qianyang City.

Gao Hongbo's new national team has already been formed and concentrated, and has flown to Tehran for adaptive training. Jiang Xiaolin was the last to report.

It was already evening when Jiang Xiaolin arrived in Tehran.Even in Iran, Jiang Xiaolin was greeted and warmly welcomed by hundreds of overseas Chinese and Iranian fans.

The European Golden Boy Award, scoring five goals in a row, reporting the world's number one goals in the year, and so on, gave Jiang Xiaolin a small number of fans and fans in Central Asia.

After arriving at the hotel where the team was staying with the management staff of the national football team who came to pick them up, the team held a small meeting to let Jiang Xiaolin know some new players of the new national football team.

The new national football team will naturally be accompanied by new personnel flows, which is inevitable.

Jiang Xiaolin didn't express any opinion either, just wait and see Gao Hongbo's level!

After resting for one night, the next day, after Jiang Xiaolin started training with the team, Jiang Xiaolin found that although Gao Hongbo's national team had the same tactical formation as Yin Tiesheng, they all played 4231 defensive counterattacks with him as the core, but Gao Hongbo emphasized more Technical play.

The previous Huaguo national team, including Du Yi and Yin Tiesheng's national football team and the National Olympic team, all played a bit of a mad dog style of scrambling and long balls.

This style of play can still take some advantage when the physical fitness of South Korean and Japanese players has not developed.

But now that the economy is developed, the physical fitness of players from all East Asian countries has grown, and Hua Guo players do not have an overwhelming advantage. up.

It can't take advantage of East Asian teams, and it's even more difficult for Central Asian and West Asian teams.

Gao Hongbo pointed out that the performance of the Hua Guo team has deteriorated in recent years. In addition to the influence of the domestic football environment, the growth of external teams and the Hua Guo team's single-body scramble and long pass play are also certain factors.

Therefore, Gao Hongbo's coaching philosophy is to transform the Huaguo team into a team with a technical style of play, making more pass and cut moves, and more ground passes.

During his tenure as coach, the national football team will always implement this main tactical idea, and strive to transform the Huaguo team into a team with a technical style of play, rather than a team that relies on body for food.

If you have been relying on your body, the Hua Guo team can no longer take advantage of it in Asia, let alone compete with African, European, and American teams in the World Cup?
Jiang Xiaolin didn't notice these problems before, after all, he was only a 17-year-old player.

But now after listening to Gao Hongbo explain his tactical thinking, Jiang Xiaolin also nodded and felt quite reasonable.

Then give it a try!

Of course, Jiang Xiaolin has played football in the Netherlands for a long time. The Dutch football itself is a more technical style of play. Jiang Xiaolin hardly needs to adapt to understand and implement Gao Hongbo's tactics.

But for other Hua Guo players, it does take a certain amount of time to adapt to changing the habitual style of play that has been formed for a long time and switching to ground skills.

Therefore, on January 1, when Jiang Xiaolin conducted adaptive training, the training effect of the national football team was not very good, it was a bit chaotic, and the players made more mistakes.

But there is no way. After changing the head coach and changing the tactics, this kind of transition period is inevitable.

After a day of training, the next day, at 2009:1 pm on January 9, 15, the national football team held a warm-up match with the Iranian national team at the Azadi Stadium.

In the previous Oman four-nation match, the national football team led by Yin Tiesheng had just lost 12-19 to Iran on December 0, which was also one of the reasons why Yin Tiesheng dismissed get out of class.

In today's warm-up match against the Iranian national team, the performance of the Hua Guo team was not much better.

Even, because of the just-changed coaches, new players and new tactics, the national football team's pass and cut movement and tacit cooperation were much worse. The performance of the whole game was worse than that of the Oman Four Nations against Iran.

After the whole game, the Iranian national team scored three goals in the cheering and cheering of tens of thousands of Iranian fans.

On the other hand, the Hua Guo team only relied on Jiang Xiaolin's header from a corner kick and a three-man goal in a quick counterattack to score two goals.

As for passing and cutting with teammates to score goals, none of them.

Although Jiang Xiaolin scored two goals, he still failed to save the national football team from losing 2-3 to Iran.

Therefore, Jiang Xiaolin only got 2 goals and 8000 points of basic experience in this game, and no winning experience.

In terms of performance, Jiang Xiaolin only received a "good" performance rating, with a rating factor of 2.

最后，江小林获得的总经验就是8000*2=1.6万。加上头天的训练经验，江小林的等级经验上涨到了22级63.02/300万。

After the game, the news that Gao Hongbo lost the first game of coaching caused heated discussions and criticisms in the domestic media. They believed that Gao Hongbo changed his tactics indiscriminately, and even Jiang Xiaolin failed to beat an Asian team when he played and scored twice.

The Huaguo media, eager for quick success and quick profit, flooded the sky with all kinds of news that were not optimistic about Gao Hongbo.

"Jiang Xiaolin scored twice to be the savior, Gao Hongbo lost the first battle! "

"Gao Hongbo lost 2-3 to Iran in the first game. The Hua Guo team performed in a mess and made frequent mistakes! "

Jiang Xiaolin scored twice in the warm-up match, but the Hua Guo team lost 2-3 to Iran, Gao Hongbo's tactical transformation failed! "

In the news comments of major media, it seemed that Jiang Xiaolin had to win the battle, and Gao Hongbo would be sentenced to death if he lost a warm-up match.

The fans also booed and sneered at Gao Hongbo, thinking that there are many people who think that the national football team should not let Gao Hongbo coach.

Many people have the idea of ​​hiring foreign teachers again, but they don't know that the Hua National Football Committee, which is cracking down on gangsters and counterfeiting, has the money to hire foreign teachers?

At this moment, Jiang Xiaolin stood up and accepted a separate interview with the sports channel of the national TV station, stating his point of view.

He believes that Gao Hongbo's tactical thinking is correct, and Hua Guo must give up the long pass and slam game that relies on physical struggle, and change to technical flow.

Otherwise, with the physical fitness of Chinese players, at most they can only take advantage of Southeast Asian teams, and they will definitely suffer from the more aggressive South Korean, Central Asian and West Asian teams, as well as Japan with advanced technology, just like the previous ones. The performance of the Nianhua National Team is going from bad to worse.

What's more, if the Huaguo team wants to go out of Asia and enter the World Cup, facing the teams in Europe, America, and Africa in the world, the Huaguo players' bodies will have no advantage at all.

Under such circumstances, how can the Chinese team make a breakthrough in the World Cup?
Therefore, Jiang Xiaolin believes that Gao Hongbo's technological transformation is correct, and he fully supports it. He also hopes that the media and fans will give Gao a little time and not be so eager for quick success.

Although Jiang Xiaolin is only 17 years old, his current reputation in domestic football is unmatched by anyone.

Not to mention the media, even the football committee must pay attention to Jiang Xiaolin's opinion, and the fans are willing to listen to his words.

Therefore, after Jiang Xiaolin's interview was broadcast, the Football Committee immediately stood up to express its support for Gao Hongbo, and would not lose confidence in him because of a loss in a game.

The domestic media and fans finally calmed down. After thinking about it calmly, they realized that Jiang Xiaolin's statement was correct.

Indeed, in recent years, the Hua Guo team has lost more than they have won against South Korea and Japan. Perhaps it is because the Hua Guo team has rough skills and only relies on their bodies to fight and play long passes.

Reflected in the results of the World Cup preliminaries, it was the result of losing all three games in the 2002 World Cup, swallowing 9 eggs and being out, and not even making it to the top ten in 2006.

That being the case, it is better to give Gao Hongbo more time, let him carry out major surgery on the national football team, and see if his technical style of play can change the results of Huaguo football!
Amidst the turmoil of the outside world, the Hua Guo team continued to train in Tehran for a few days, and then flew from Iran to Syria on January 1 to participate in the upcoming 12 Qatar Asian Cup qualifier Group D first round Hua Guo team away game against Syria.

In the 2011 Qatar Asian Cup, several teams, such as the host Qatar, the 2007 Asian Cup champion, runner-up and third place, etc., directly advanced to the finals.

Therefore, after the first round of qualifying selection, 20 teams participated in the qualifiers, which were divided into 5 groups, with 4 teams in each group, and the top two teams in each group advanced to the Qatar Asian Cup finals.

The Hua Guo team was divided into Group D, with Syria, Vietnam, and Lebanon in the same group.

It seems that there should be no problem for the Chinese team to join hands with Syria to qualify, especially when Jiang Xiaolin is playing.

But now the Hua Guo team has changed their head coach and tactics. The last warm-up match was chaotic and lost to Iran 2-3. No one can say whether there will be any accidents in the Asian preliminaries. Cleared up.

Moreover, some games in the Asian preliminaries conflicted with Jiang Xiaolin's club games, and Jiang Xiaolin was unable to participate.

For example, the second round of the Hua Guo team's match against Vietnam was held on the same day as the Alkmaar Dutch Cup match. After the communication between the national football team and Alkmaar, Alkmaar resolutely refused to let it go.

Because the Holland Cup is a decisive game, and the Hua Guo team's game is against the Southeast Asian team Vietnam, and it is a group match, not a decisive game.

Therefore, the final decision reached by the two sides is that Jiang Xiaolin will participate in the club's competition instead of participating in the second round of the Asian preliminaries.

At that time, whether Gao Hongbo's new national football team can successfully defeat the weak Southeast Asian team Vietnam, everyone is still a little nervous.

But no matter what, the matter has come to this point, and everyone can only wait passively.

I only hope that in the first round of the away game against Syria, the Hua Guo team can win with Jiang Xiaolin, and then the subsequent games will be much easier.

At noon on January 2009, 1 local time, Aleppo, a major city in northern Syria, was about to usher in the first match of the Asian Cup qualifier against Syria.

In the locker room, Gao Hongbo was doing the final mobilization.

"There are old players in this team, as well as new players who *have* been selected for the national team."

"There are players who participated in the 2002 World Cup, and there are players who have won Olympic champions."

"But, those are all history!"

"In the 2002 World Cup, we were disgracefully eliminated."

"Olympic champions can only be counted as youth teams below U23."

"Our adult national team has never achieved any decent results."

"So, I hope that during my tenure, we can win an Asian Cup and then enter the World Cup in South Africa to achieve a historic breakthrough."

"In order to achieve this goal, we made tactical adjustments."

"Although we lost the last warm-up match against Iran, through that match, we found out more weaknesses and conducted targeted training in the past few days."

"Judging from the training effect, you are much better than when you faced Iran last time."

"Today's game, I don't ask you to win."

"However, you must adhere to the technical and tactical style of our training, less kicking, and less air balls."

"I believe that whether it is the Asian preliminaries or the world preliminaries, we will have no problem qualifying."

"The problem is that when we go to the World Cup and the Asian Cup, we need to achieve results."

"So, from now on, we have to make changes. Even if we encounter some difficulties, even if there are ups and downs in performance, I hope you will strengthen your confidence and stick to the skillful style of play."

"If a player does not meet my requirements, I will let him go, or even withdraw from the national team."

"have you understood?"

All the team members immediately replied loudly: "Understood!"

Gao Hongbo nodded, and then said to Jiang Xiaolin alone: ​​"Although we must stick to the skillful style of play, Jiang Xiaolin and you are an exception. I will give you the authority to be a free player in the frontcourt, no matter inside or outside the penalty area, as long as you There's a way to get the ball in, I don't care what you do."

"Your technology has reached the world's top level, so you don't need to deliberately contact it."

"With the whole team sticking to the technical style of play, if you can help the team score goals and reduce the pressure of public opinion, it is also very good."

Jiang Xiaolin nodded, expressing his understanding.

He knew what Gao Hongbo meant, that it would take a long time for the teammates in the midfield and backcourt to practice their technical skills. During this period of time, the results of the national football team may be a little unstable, and they may face verbal criticism from the domestic media and fans.

It is even possible for the Football Committee to relieve him of his coaching duties early under pressure.

The previous guarantee of the Football Committee has no effect.

Therefore, in this case, the national football team needs to rely on Jiang Xiaolin's goal to win the game and reduce the pressure of public opinion during the transition period of the team's tactical transformation.

As long as he persists for a long time, Jiang Xiaolin also believes that the national football team will definitely achieve breakthroughs in the World Cup and Asian Cup.

When the playing time was approaching, after the staff came to inform, Gao Hongbo stood at the door of the locker room and gave the players high-fives to express their encouragement.

The first round of Qatar Asian Cup qualifiers, Gao Jiajun's first official match, is about to begin.