World's No.1 Football Manager

Chapter 187 Reserve Team Competition

Originally, Li Xiaopeng asked Gao Yuan to be the coach of the reserve team. In addition to exercising his coaching ability, it was also to allow him to get in touch with professional football and domestic youth training, so that he could watch, learn, and think more, so that he could think and solve problems from a deeper perspective in the future, and ultimately promote the development of Taishan Club and Chinese football.

Sometimes, Li Xiaopeng felt that he was thinking too much and used Gao Yuan's promotion too quickly, which was a bit counterproductive. After all, there are many examples of "injury Zhongyong" in the domestic football circle.

However, at this moment, Li Xiaopeng realized that he was wrong.It's not that the fault is counterproductive, but the fault is that it is too conservative!This kid is a genius!See the problem straight to the point, much better than yourself!In other words, when did I start thinking about the problem of high-level thinking?At that time, it seemed that I had spent half my life in the football circle!

"Xiao Gao, people of insight in the football circle have begun to pay attention to the issue you mentioned. The country is also improving the top-level design. The current youth training, I am talking about the group of children born after 2009. Talent selection is already walking on two legs!"

"Walking on two legs?" Gao Yuan was slightly puzzled.

"One leg is professionalization, which is led by the club for the selection of youth training talents; the other leg is campus football, which is in charge of the education system. This is a bit similar to the American sports talent training model. Due to physical limitations, players with special characteristics may not be able to enter professional teams when they are young, but they can play football while studying and enter colleges and universities through their sports expertise. They made their mark through the college student league. However, this system is not yet mature, and I conservatively estimate that it will take ten years to truly emerge talents on a large scale!"

"Damn!" Gao Yuan couldn't help but swear, ten years!I have to wait ten fucking years, I can afford to wait, and the book friends at Qidian can't afford to wait either!
Li Xiaopeng shrugged his shoulders, and said helplessly: "There is no way, Chinese football has too many debts! We have to pay them back bit by bit. The status quo is like this, and there is no quick fix. I know you have high expectations, and you may not like the existing players. This week, in two weeks, the Yuandu Cup will start. This is the highest level competition for our domestic youth. In addition to our football school, several other top domestic youth training clubs will also participate. Let's see if there are any young players you like, let's try to bring them in. Oh, by the way, there is also the echelon of our football school, you should also go and see if there are any good seedlings who can be promoted to the reserve team to train with you."

Taishan Football School is located in Yuandu, known as the "Whampoa Military Academy" of Chinese football. According to incomplete statistics, there are currently hundreds of players who have graduated from Taishan Football School in professional football leagues at all levels in China.

The "Taishan · Yuandu Cup" International Youth Football Invitational Tournament is also the highest-level international youth invitational event in the domestic football circle. It was founded in 2006. Since its inception, more than 20 people from more than 100 famous club echelons from more than 2000 countries including Germany, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Italy, and Spain have participated.In addition to Zheng Zheng, Jin Jingdao, Zhang Xizhe, Zhang Linpeng, Yan Junling and other well-known international players, there have also emerged world-class stars such as Felix worth 1.26 million euros.

"Xiao Gao" Li Xiaopeng finally reminded, "Ye's idea of ​​selecting young talents for the first team is good, but don't act too hastily, talent selection and training are regular, and you have to take your time! In addition, Yee's main focus in the near future should be on the reserve team league. As a coach, the results of the game are the most important. You know what I mean?"

Gao Yuan understood the implication of Li Xiaopeng's words, nodded and said, "Understood."

Although Li Xiaopeng didn't say it clearly, his meaning is already very clear. The club is under a lot of pressure to break the rules and promote Gao Yuan. Now many people are watching coldly from the sidelines, waiting for Gao Yuan to lose and laughing at the jokes. They may even regard this as one of the crimes against the club and Li Xiaopeng, so winning at this stage is the most important thing.As for cultivating talents, that is an advanced task. If you can't win the game, everything else is useless.

He had to eat every bite, and Gao Yuan understood the truth of "too big steps can easily mess you up", so let's put aside other things first, and focus on the next reserve team game first.

A few days later, it will be against the first opponent after taking office-the Yangcheng R&F reserve team.

Yangcheng R&F is a team that has long been under the shadow of its brother Yangcheng Evergrande in the same city.The relationship between the two teams is a bit like the Manchester duo - Manchester United and Manchester City.Of course, what we are talking about here is the Manchester duo in the 90s, not the current two local tyrants.

Evergrande's status in the domestic football circle is of course that of Manchester United in the 90s. It was in full swing, arrogant, and wanted money and money and people.R&F was the Manchester City of that era. Regardless of their performance, status, and influence, they were much inferior to their rivals in the same city. However, they insisted on a localized strategy.You know, even Beckham's parents are fans of Manchester City. During the derby in the same city, they cheered for their son's opponents.

In the past few years, under the leadership of the famous coach Stojkovic, Yangcheng R&F has gone further and further on the road of individualization, with an extremely distinctive style. It is said that offense is stronger than defense, and the pursuit of gorgeous technical football is ugly.

Regarding the R&F team's style of play and defense, there are many jokes circulating on the Internet:

"According to the astronauts in space, looking at the earth from outer space, you can only see three major man-made wonders: the Great Wall, the Egyptian pyramids, and the R&F team's defensive space during the game."

"The only ones who can stop Zahavi (R&F forward) from winning the game are the defenders of their own team!"

"R&F's game is over if you buy a big ball. No one can stop their attack, and they can't stop anyone's attack!"

"R&F is amazing, the offense is picturesque, and the defense is rotten!"

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The head coach of the R&F reserve team is not Stankovic, but his fellow countryman and coaching staff member Govidarica, who is also a famous player in the history of Serbian football.However, although the coach is not the same person, the reserve team's style of play is in the same line as the first team.

This game will be played at Yuexiushan Stadium in Guangzhou.Just the day before, the Taishan team had just defeated the R&F team with a score of 4:2 in the league.

The R&F team, which was bloodbathed in the league, obviously wanted to regain face in the reserve team game.Their lineup is very strong. In addition to the usual main force of the reserve team, they also played the main central defender Tosic who was suspended in this round of the Chinese Super League, and their old captain, Lu Lin, the bantam tiger.

Tosic is a Serbian international. He won the best defensive player in the Turkish Super League in 2017. The R&F team spent a lot of money to introduce him to improve their paper defense, but it was useless.So Tosic didn't play a game that fit his worth, but now that he came to the reserve team game, he was naturally holding his breath and wanted to prove his worth here.

Compared with Tosic, Gao Yuan casts more eyes on Lu Lin.This 1-meter-tall star bears the last glory of the Southern School of football. From Gu Guangming, Zhao Dayu to Peng Weiguo, Mai Chao to Wu Pingfeng, Li Jianhua, and now passed on to Lu Lin, the Southern School of technology basically has no successors.Lu Lin, the young player who shined in the World Youth Championship in the past, has now entered the twilight years of his career. Only his attributes above his head are 65/15 in skills, 18/14 in dribbling, 17/14 in one-on-one breakthroughs, and 17/16 in free kicks.

What is a characteristic player?This is a player with characteristics!Maybe he failed to kick it out, but at least he had hope of becoming a talent.Looking at the comprehensive but mediocre statistics of these young players now, Gao Yuan couldn't help shaking his head. Chinese football is really Wang Xiaoer's new year-every year is not as good as every year.

"Hey, brother Peng, what's the matter with your team? Director Hao has left, why didn't you let you lead the reserve team!"

Not far away, someone from the coaching staff of the R&F team was greeting Han Peng with a loud and unscrupulous voice.It seems that Han Peng and Han Peng should have been in the same batch of players.

"I can't do it! It's far behind! Now the coach of our team is Xiao Gao, a very good young man!" Han Peng said honestly.

"Who? Just that young kid? He's still a baby! What's the matter with your team? Has this kid ever played professional football? How dare he stand on the coach's bench!" the man exaggerated.

"Don't look at him as young, but he is an academic, unlike us big bastards who learn how to be coaches without knowing how to play the ball! Let me remind you, Xiao Gao is very good!" As the big brother, Han Peng is very protective of his little brother, and his words are hidden.

The man seemed to have misunderstood what Han Peng meant, and said with a sneer, "Hey, it's really a downturn! We who have played professional football for half of our lives are going to beat the brats who haven't even grown hair yet! How can we make sense of it! What kind of academic school, bullshit, can he jump the ball more than 20 times? After learning some messy foreign languages ​​and watching the Premier League for a few days, he thought he could wear a suit and be a coach! A joke!"

Han Peng got angry and scolded: "What fucking shit are you talking about! You were confused when you were playing football, why are you running the train with your mouth full now! You are not very good, but you have a lot of stink problems! Xiao Gao led the team to a big victory in the AFC Champions League. At what level do you not have a B score?"

(End of this chapter)