football era

For any competitive sport, a mature team cannot lack veterans, but what is even more indispensable is young players.

Veterans represent the present, while young players represent the future.

Although it may not appear in the future, the young players have a very broad development and progress, and the performance of the veterans can basically be judged.

Using a veteran is betting on the present, and using a newcomer is betting on tomorrow.

This is something that the coaches of many clubs understand, but it is still very difficult to find a proper balance between the two.

For many coaches, this can be regarded as a worldwide problem, and Xu Shan actually has no experience in this area. His coaching experience is only in the few years in the sky. Relatively speaking, the situation in the sky is not complicated, the most complicated At that time, it was probably the time when he wanted to surpass the previous year but was relegated, so Xu Shan didn't have enough control over the team. He would train newcomers and unknown players, and he lacked the means to communicate with famous players. and ability.

However, this point will not confuse him now - Fei Fei's current situation is similar to that of the sky before, with a simple staff composition and no prickly people, there will always be people who will listen to his words...

Although extraordinary players come from grassroots, super club echelons, and Cangqiong Club, most of them are young players, and a few older players are all from Cangqiong, and their personalities are relatively honest. Under such circumstances, his command , to achieve maximum performance.

Honest, obedient, serious, and ambitious. With such a player under his command, he doesn't need to focus on dealing with interpersonal relationships, which he is not good at, but can thoroughly use his characteristics of being good at training players and directing the specific tactics of the game. This made Xu Shan have a good time during this period.

For a coach, having a position with plenty of room to play is more important than a high salary.

Although on the surface, the extraordinary team should be very complicated. For example, among the 22 players in the first team, there are two major shareholders, five small shareholders, and six players from the Super League echelon. There are eight former players in the sky, plus one Zhi Fei dug from the amateur league, the personnel composition can be described as quite complicated.

In reality, however, it's not that complicated.

Zheng Qi and Su Jing have never regarded themselves as major shareholders, and Li Guorui and others don't think it is any great to have shares in the club. Make a fuss, even if other people want to make a fuss, they don't have the right to do so.

Cheng Xuan and others joined Feifan because they wanted to become members of the super team, otherwise they would have to go to the first-tier team to make a living. Now Feifan has a clear goal, which is to go to the Super League. When something happened, Chen Lin joined Feifan because of Liu Shibo's entrustment, and he also wanted to return to the super arena. As for Jiang Xiaohan and other former sky players, they may not have any ambitions, but they have enough respect for Xu Shan. They would also listen to Xu Shan's words.

So Xu Shan is very satisfied with the two months of training this summer.

"The familiarity of all our first-team members with those seven complicated maps is no longer inferior to any player in the Super League, and even better... and Jiang Xiaohan and the others may be worse in terms of adapting to their new roles. A little bit, but they have also begun to gradually adapt to their roles, and then adapt in the game, it is almost the same, after all, the pressure of the official game is not comparable to the training, without the actual operation, it is still a little bit worse." Xu Shan said to Meng Fan.

"Fortunately, we don't lack such experience next season." Meng Fan smiled.

"Yes, in the second half of the season, there will be [-] games, eight home games and eight away games. The home game will allow them to adapt to the atmosphere, and the away game will allow them to exercise themselves. Isn't this the plan we agreed on before?" Xu Shan nodded.

"Sometimes the plan is afraid that it will not keep up with the changes. This year's competition may be more intense, and there will be cup competitions..." Meng Fan sighed.

"Speaking of the cup...are you really going to compete for the cup championship? I'm afraid this year is a little bit reluctant." Xu Shan looked at Meng Fan: "In terms of club plans, we have to unify our thinking. There is no room for half-hearted efforts to compete for the Super League. "

"Of course, qualification for the Super League is the most important thing. There is no doubt about it. In the league, we will follow our plan. In the cup, no matter what opponent we meet, we will do our best to fight, even if we lose. , at least it also trained the team, didn't it?" Meng Butler laughed.

"I said the same to the players... But I still have doubts. Let the rookies preserve their strength. There is no doubt that we can take advantage of some advantages in the play-offs, but if we launch an impact in the cup, it will affect our entire plan. It will still have an extremely huge impact. The chance of the play-offs is too great. If you can have a little more advantage, then you need to increase a little advantage. No amount of advantage is too much, otherwise it is very likely to capsize in the gutter." Xu Shan looked Follow Meng Fan and say.

"We don't need the advantages in those details." Meng Fan laughed.

"What are you talking about? Any advantages and victories are accumulated bit by bit through details." Xu Shan said dissatisfied.

"This is the difference between you and me." Meng Fan continued to smile, very happily.

"Do you have any ideas on the overall plan?" Seeing him like this, Xu Shan couldn't help asking curiously.

He believed that Meng Fan was not an aimless person, and he also believed in Meng Fan's level. In terms of tactics, he was a strong point, but in terms of overall strategy and overall situation, Meng Fan was even better.

"I don't have any other ideas. It's just that I want to make their matches more difficult." Meng Fan stopped laughing, but replied lightly.

"...What do you mean?" Xu Shan was a little confused.

"Do you think we need to play so hard in the amateur league with our level last year?" Meng Fan asked.

"Your weakness last year was obvious..." Xu Shan said after thinking about it.

"Our weakness last year was nothing more than the lack of a few professional players. Although there are not many such players, as long as you are willing to look for them, you can still find a lot in the amateur league, especially when we enter the final round. Afterwards, as long as we spread the word, there will be many amateur players with professional standards willing to join us." Meng Fan said lightly.

"That's true."

Xu Shan nodded, admitting that Meng Fan's words made sense—there are actually quite a few professional-level players eliminated by the super teams every year. Although most of them have entered the first-tier league, the positions of the first-tier teams are not unlimited. , one radish and one pit, if they go down, they will naturally seize other people's positions...

And what about the former first-class player who was robbed by them?Either they join the club guild as a high-level executive, and they still have career dreams, or they have no status in the club, and they often go to the amateur league—anyway, everyone has no life pressure, and the proportion of chasing their dreams is quite high.

Not to mention the number of such players in the amateur league, at least there are quite a few of them. Fei Fei wants to strengthen his strength in the final match. It is not difficult to invite such players and recruit a dozen or so players with professional skills Yes, at least it can make them have no weakness as a whole.

"But we didn't do that." Meng Fan laughed.

"We thought you were a new team and didn't know this, or that you had limited financial resources and couldn't afford to hire those people, so we filled the vacancies with amateur players." Xu Shan smiled wryly.

"There are factors for this, but no matter what, it is still possible to recruit a few people, but we did not recruit other people, not only because we wanted to maintain the unity and purity of the team, but also because we wanted to avoid excess. The reason." Meng Fan replied.

"What's the reason?" Xu Shan asked, he was already curious about this matter.

"Our team is mainly composed of young players. The more difficult the game is, the more they can hone their potential. So I want them to take on more things during the game and make the game more exciting." It's more difficult." Meng Fan replied flatly.

"So you deliberately didn't strengthen the team? God, in last year's competition, you all walked on thin ice..." Xu Shan is also a guy with quick reactions, and he immediately understood what Meng Fan meant: "Any game , you all may hang up..."

"But we won, no matter how dangerous it was, and the team got excellent training. Otherwise, in the first half of the season, could your tactics be implemented so thoroughly?" Meng Fan's voice was almost cold said.

"Crazy, no one dares to do this. One year less to enter the professional arena is a year of loss." Xu Shan shook her head in surprise.

"Like I said, the real purpose of our club is different." Meng Fan smiled slightly.

"What purpose?" Xu Shan asked.

"Create the most powerful team to compete for the five championships." Meng Fan replied.

"...This is the ultimate goal of the so-called professional team." Xu Shan shook his head wordlessly.

"Most teams are just talking, but we are playing for real." Meng Fan continued to smile.

"Really so confident?" Xu Shan asked curiously.

"With our current personnel composition, if they can fully play their roles and unite together, do you think I have confidence?" Meng Fan asked.

"But you don't need to be in such a hurry, isn't it good to take your time? A strong team can't be built in a short period of time..." Xu Shan sighed.

"If we manage slowly, the team may not reach the peak, and it will be torn apart. Don't forget, they are all guys with the potential of god-level players. We can use contracts to bind these guys for a year and a half at most. They see hope and are willing to renew the contract, and it will be almost two and a half years, if they can't reach the peak before then, everything is empty talk."

Meng Fan said firmly: "So even if we continue to gamble and take risks, we must continue to do this, and strive for unprecedented glory before the team is disbanded!"