Chapter 1130 Huge challenge
Reorganizing the team at its peak is undoubtedly a very test of management.
Gao Han and Cantalero are both experienced professionals. They know better than anyone else that if Chinatown continues to maintain its current lineup, they will be the top team in Europe in the next five years, but the price they pay is also obvious.
Not only will the team bear a heavy salary burden, but this group of talented young players in the team will also run away because they don’t get the opportunity, and this group of stars in the team will gradually lose their hunger for honor.
After Guardiola left the team, Barcelona's trend was a lesson for Chinatown.
In this way, it is better to defeat and build a big shot, promote the group of young players in the team in their twenties, and combine with the core backbone forces in the team, and believe that another Chinatown will be built within two or three years.
After a few moments, the team will not only get extremely generous transfer income, but will also save a large amount of salary expenses, which will make the team's finances healthier.
As for the new coach Valverde, he is a very thoughtful head coach. Gao Han had a long in-depth communication with him. He is very good at adapting and very wise. More importantly, his promotion and cultivation of newcomers are obvious to all.
During his coaching Athletic Bilbao, Laport and Munya made obvious progress under his command, taking the lead in the team, which is exactly what Chinatown needs most.
Players such as Hesse, Martial, Dembele, Mbappe, Asensio, etc. are all the ones that Gao Han values the most. Each one is carefully selected with a sharp eye, especially the four young players of Chinese, Gao Ren, Wang Lei, Yang Xin and Zhao Jun, who are all enough to become world-class stars or even top superstars in their respective positions.
It is precisely because of this confidence that Gao Han dared to make the decision to reorganize.
Valverde promotes young players' ability, and Cantalero's assistance from the side, Gao Han believes that this can maximize the growth and progress of these young players.
In addition to the first team, Cantalero has also brought a lot of good news to Gao Han recently.
During his coaching Atletico Madrid, Deco, a midfielder who previously studied in Chinatown's coaching training class through Cantalero, will stay in Chinatown as a team coach and start from the grassroots level.
Deco is Gao Han's neighbor in Rafenka. He obviously saw his former teammate Marcos Senna as the coach of the Chinatown echelon after retiring. After Xiao Mu followed Gao Han to coach the Chinese national team, he took over the second team coach and led the Chinatown second team to the Spanish Second League. He felt a little itchy and couldn't stand the loneliness and planned to come out.
Gao Han is also very optimistic about this Portuguese Brazilian midfielder. With his wisdom and ability, he will definitely not be bad if he becomes the head coach. Moreover, he is very low-key and pragmatic. He has experienced the influence of many world-class coaches in his career. I believe that he will achieve great success in the future.
Also unable to withstand loneliness is Real Madrid's legend Raul. He was previously the image ambassador of La Liga in North America. Florentino invited him to work in Real Madrid many times, but he politely refused, but recently signed up for the highest-level course of the coaching training class in Chinatown.
Obviously, he was also itchy and couldn't help but want to come out and do things.
His old friend Guti came from the Chinatown coaching training class and then went to work in the Real Madrid echelon.
In addition, veterans Xavi Alonso, who played for Manchester City and Portuguese central defender Carvalho both signed up for the coaching training courses in Chinatown. It is obvious that they have considered transforming into coaches after retirement, and they are also Gao Han’s former favorites.
Relying on the fame of Gao Han and the club's persistence in many years of investment, Chinatown Coach Training Center has long become a famous golden signboard in European football, and many famous players and coaches are flocking to it.
In Gao Han's view, these will become the foundation for Chinatown to be based in European football in the future.
At the same time, Chinatown’s coaching training center in Beijing is also cultivating talents for Chinese football. In the future, it will cooperate with many famous domestic universities to offer many supporting courses such as management, marketing, sports medicine, etc.
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When Chinatown won the triple-champion in Europe and topped the European football world with the dominant attitude of three consecutive Champions League titles, which caused heated discussions around the world, Gao Han returned to China from Europe overnight after watching the Champions League final.
The new national team training camp has finally begun.
In April, the draw results for the top 12 Asian World Cup qualifiers were already out.
Unlike the top 40 games, the top 12 games are all strong opponents. China has no choice but to draw five opponents including Iran, South Korea, Uzbekistan, Qatar and Syria. This is definitely a huge challenge for China, which has been away from the group stage for more than ten years in the final stage.
What's even more unlucky is that the first two opponents of the top 12 Chinese group stages were away games against South Korea and home games against Iran. The two games started on September 1 and September 6 respectively, and the time was very tight.
With the release of the top 12 matches, the national team training camp in June did not take much time. The hot battle in the Chinese Super League is in full swing, and the schedules of each team are arranged very tightly, so only one week can be given.
Gao Han and the Football Association are helpless. After all, the Chinese Super League is so popular now that it is impossible to frequently stop and make concessions for the national team. Therefore, Gao Han decided to reduce the originally planned two warm-up matches into one. The opponent is Kazakhstan, and the competition location is arranged in Beijing, the national team training site.
Like the training camp in February, Gao Han still chose a training roster of 40 people this time. In addition to the main players of the national team, there are also several players such as Yin Hongbo and Xiao Zhi who performed well in the domestic league, as well as young internationals such as Deng Hanwen, Gao Junyi and He Chao.
In addition, Tang Shi, Yang Liyu, Zhang Xiuwei, Wei Shihao, Lin Liangming, Zhang Yuning, and Gao Ren, Wang Lei, Zhao Jun and Yang Xin who are abroad are all shortlisted for this national team training list.
Everyone was not surprised by the 40-person training roster drafted by Gao Han himself, because news came out early, and Gao Han has been running back and forth in domestic and European stadiums in the past few months to inspect the players of each team.
In this training camp, Gao Han not only wanted to further integrate the main lineup, but also to examine the team's substitute lineup and further consolidate the national team's bench thickness. Even if there are young players with outstanding performances appear, Gao Han does not rule out that he will be included in the official roster.
Therefore, the outside world is full of curiosity about the team's training session.
But this time the training camp was not long, and Gao Han didn't have much time to deal with the media reporters, so he simply adopted a closed training camp and arranged all international players to conduct secret training at the Beijing Chinatown Training Center.
The focus of training is still on the running and queue.
When personal ability and physical fitness are not advantageous, the running and team can maintain the integrity of the team's tactics, which is the magic weapon for the team to defeat the enemy. Moreover, it is not difficult to see from the previous two games that the international players do have obvious shortcomings in their unball running and tactical qualities.
In addition, Gao Han also needs to prepare a second plan, which is to defend and counterattack.
The top 12 matches are different from the top 40 matches. The former's game intensity and opponent's strength are far greater than the latter.
After Gao Han took over the national team, he had a certain understanding of the strength of the national football team. He also knew the strength of the Maldives and Qatar, so he dared to adopt the pass-and-control style in front of these two teams and resolutely attack.
But in the next top 12 matches, we will face teams like South Korea and Iran. The national football team cannot fight against these two teams in terms of strength, especially South Korea, so we can only play to our strengths and avoid our weaknesses and use targeted tactics to win.
As Gao Han has always said, strength determines the team's choice.
As a weak team, the Chinese team often has no choice.
In addition to the above tasks, Gao Han also had to inspect the group of young players in the team. It can be said that the training time for a week is very tight. Gao Han and the coaching team even wanted to use every minute as an hour. Where can I have free time to think about other things?
Fortunately, the team leader Li Tie and other staff of the national team understood the difficulties of Gao Han and the coaching team, and took the initiative to undertake many tasks, including dealing with the media outside, so that Gao Han and the coaching team could devote themselves to the training without distraction.
Although the training venue was in Daxing, during the training camp, Gao Han and the international players basically lived and ate and did not go home. He also took advantage of the training time to communicate with a group of young players in the team and exchanged their experiences, so that they could better understand the long-term plan of the national team and Gao Han's coaching philosophy, especially several young players who studied abroad.
The four players in Chinatown are all chosen by Gao Han. They are from the direct youth training department. Needless to say, their strength is undoubtedly what Gao Han values the most. The overall strength is also among the young generation of the national team. Zhao Jun and Wang Lei have the strength to enter the national team's substitute lineup.
This summer, Chinatown will reorganize drasticly. With the departure of a group of stars in the year of playing, young players will get more opportunities. Young rookies like Zhao Jun and Wang Lei will also enter the first team, and there will definitely be opportunities for the game.
As for Gao Ren and Yang Xin, they are both players trained vigorously at Chinatown. Yang Xin's development trajectory is very clear, but Gao Ren is relatively vague. He can be competent for any position in the frontcourt, and his ability and potential are beyond doubt, as long as he is to position his best position.
Both Zhao Jun and Wang Lei have appeared in Chinatown's first team and played in the Copa del Rey. Lin Liangming's treatment in Real Madrid is much worse, and it is difficult for even the second team to play as the main player. Gao Han gave him the advice to play more games.
He is only nineteen years old, and he is just the age of urgently needing game training and accumulated experience. Real Madrid's current situation is not suitable for young players to grow up. Not to mention Lin Liangming, even those potential rookies in the first team will find it difficult to get opportunities.
Rather than doing this, it is better to settle for the second best and play for some teams that can play in the game.
Among the many overseas players, except for the four players from Chinatown, the one who has developed the best is Zhang Yuning, who plays for the Netherlands.
He was selected for the national team last time, but Gao Han never had the chance to negotiate with him. This training camp will focus on his performance, and even consider giving him a chance to compete in the warm-up match. In the Dutch U19 Cup final, he helped Witts win the championship for the first time in history, and performed well.
Moreover, the 19-year-old young player also encountered some problems in the Eredivisie league and had to turn to Gao Han.
Chapter completed!