Grass roots glory

Chapter 350

Right now, the national team is the focus of all domestic media. For the national team that is about to play in the Asian Cup, the media's expectations are higher than ever.Although the tone of the media has been set very high every time they go to competitions in the past, the optimistic media this time has confidence.The Internet is not all bad-mouthing arguments, at least everyone is still looking forward to the few players who have returned from the Bundesliga.

How many years has the national team's lineup not been so "luxury"? There are five players who have played in the five major leagues. This number is even more than the strongest national football team in history in the 02 World Cup.

The domestic media especially likes to use a standard to measure the lineup of Asian teams, that is, how many players are in Europe. In such a comparison, the lineups of the Japanese team and the South Korean team are enviable every time, and they can almost be ranked. For the whole set of European starters, some domestic media used to use this fact to insinuate that the players of the national team lack self-motivation: look at how many players are in Europe, no wonder we have not been able to make it to Asia.

So this time most people's expectations for the national team are also concentrated on Zhou Tiancheng and his few Bundesliga players.

Especially when Zhou Tiancheng and his overseas players returned to the team and the team started tactical training, the media became even more interested in the main framework of the Asian Cup.

In fact, there should not be much suspense about this, but what is surprising is that captain Zheng Zhi did not appear in the national team's final training list, and the highly popular World Cup defenders Li Weifeng and Shao Jiayi were also not selected.The five returnees are the biggest players, and the rest are mainly 24-year-old Mesozoic players.There is not a single veteran over the age of 30 in the entire team.

For this change, not all media can understand.Although everyone knows that coach Yan is organizing to impact the layout of the World Cup in Brazil, the Asian Cup can only be regarded as a "high school entrance examination" at best, but in this way, the midfield of the national team will change drastically. The midfield configuration is very confident, Zhou Tiancheng + Zheng Zhi, at least in Asia, this combination is not inferior to any opponent, but now an important link is missing, and everyone does not understand what the coaching staff is doing.

Although Gao Hongbo has already explained: "Zheng Zhi has just returned from Europe to play and has not rested for a whole year. At this time, let him continue to deal with the high intensity of the national team. The effect may not be as good as everyone imagined. And the team's The ultimate goal is not the current Asian Cup. It is the top 32 of the World Cup in Brazil. As far as this ultimate goal is concerned, the Asian Cup is a good training stage."

Gao Hongbo is indeed already thinking about the Brazil World Cup qualifiers that will start in half a year, but this word is fed back on the Internet, and after the fans interpret it, it is completely different.

Take the top intercontinental competition in Asia, the only top competition that the Chinese team can participate in at present to train?

"Haha, that's ridiculous! If this is the case, then why recruit Zhou Tiancheng and the others? Let these returnees accompany them to toss together, and just send Guoqing to play. Wouldn't it be more thorough training?"

"Even South Korea and Japan are the main players. The Chinese team is too strong! They just gave up the captain."

"Gao Hongbo's statement is very familiar, and I saw the shadow of gambling on the World Cup back then."

"It's absolutely forced to kneel. Playing in West Asia is simply a history of blood and tears. It's unbearable to look back. At worst, it's just another addition."

"Scene N of the national football version of the tragedy is about to begin!"

Gao Hongbo's remarks made the pessimists quickly replace the optimists and became the mainstream of public opinion.There are even media that have already characterized this national team: the worst national football team in history.

It turned out that there were at least two bold words, no matter whether it can be realized or not, at least it can make everyone happy before the game, but now they don't even dare to say anything.

A team that doesn't have the confidence to climb the peak bravely, no matter how strong the cards look on the surface, it will definitely not be able to achieve results.

In addition, during this period of time, the national team is closed for training throughout the entire period, and the reporters are completely blocked from the training base. What happened?
Many fans expressed that they would take a look at the Asian Cup, but only for Zhou Tiancheng. As for the national team, whatever they like.

……

Gao Hongbo deliberately suppressed the heat of public opinion, and used a fully enclosed training method to make the national team disappear from everyone's sight as much as possible.Because he knows very well that the best way to decompress is to isolate the interference from the outside world.

During this period of time, the training of the national team was not only not "watery", but also maintained a high-intensity rhythm of training three times a day.

And if you understand the content of the tactical training of the Chinese team in the past few days, it shows that Gao Hongbo's ambition is definitely not to use the Asian Cup to train troops-in the 4-2-3-1 formation, the offensive combination of the Chinese team's frontcourt is Zhou Tiancheng, Hao Junmin, Chen Pengfei and Jiang Hao, the main lineup is currently the strongest offensive combination of the Chinese team.Zhou Tiancheng even moved directly from the midfielder to the front midfielder in the national team.

In Schalke, Zhou Tiancheng still needs to take care of some defensive tasks, but in Gao Hongbo's tactical design, Zhou Tiancheng is a pure No. 10 offensive core.

In the absence of Zheng Zhi, this is the way Gao Hongbo can think of to improve his offensive ability to the greatest extent. Compared with local players, the frontcourt four-man team composed of European players is the closest in consciousness and can play the greatest immediate effect. combat power.

Watching them play a smooth attack in training, Liu Dianqiu smiled a little, and said to Gao Hongbo: "Xiao Gao, according to your thinking, the popularity of public opinion has gone down now, and now it's up to these boys. Hehe, This move of yours is indeed quite risky, if you don’t play well, you’ve bet yourself on it.”

Gao Hongbo smiled: "Anyway, the expectations of the national team have never been higher, so let's just defeat this image to the end. I trust these boys and let them relax and play."

……

The first stage of domestic preparations is coming to an end. The whole team will go to the UAE for the second stage of preparations to adapt to the weather in the Middle East. They will not go to Qatar until the opening of the Asian Cup.

Before the team set off, the national team officially announced the roster of 23 people. Internally, Gao Hongbo handed over the captain's armband to Zhou Tiancheng. In the absence of Zheng Zhi, Zhou Tiancheng will assume the captain's responsibility during the Asian Cup .

If it was before, the media might have expected more when they got such news, but now, many people think that they have found another perfect taker.

When the national team set off at the airport, there were only dozens of fans seeing them off at the airport, and there were quite a lot of media, but there was no excitement in their eyes at all.

(End of this chapter)