Rebirth 1994: Football Situation

Chapter 303 Milu's Debut
For Chinese fans, the 1999 season came earlier than in previous years.

Although the league will not officially start until March 21, but before that, two events that have attracted the attention of Chinese fans have already begun.

From January 29th to February 18th, the second Dunhill Cup will be held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Milu, the newly appointed head coach of the Chinese Olympic team, will lead the Chinese Olympic team to participate in this event, and then on February 97th. Until February [-]th, the No.[-] Asian Club Cup East Asian Final Four will be held in Chongqing. At that time, there will be two Chinese clubs participating in this event. They are the defending champion Dalian Dongfang and the [-] China A League champion. Yunjia Tianyu, their opponents are Korean K-League champion Busan Daewoo and Japanese J-League champion Iwata Jubilo. Of course, Chinese fans are expecting that the two Chinese clubs can all qualify and advance to the final round.

To say that this hope is not an extravagant hope, Dalian Dongfang was the champion of the Asian Club Cup last year. It is the bridgehead to fight against Japanese and Korean clubs, and the clubs in West Asia are not that strong at this time. As for Yunjia Tianyu, although this is the first time in their history to participate in the Asian Club Cup, but just seeing them win the Asian Cup Winners Cup The excellent performance of the champion is enough to make the fans have high expectations for them.

Coupled with the advantage of the home court and the convenience of the schedule (the match between Yunjiatianyu and Dalian Dongfang is the last round), it is definitely not a luxury to get out of both teams.

On January 28th, Yunjia Tianyu set off from Yunjia. Pei Wei made a big effort to charter a special plane to take the players to Chongqing, and began to prepare for the East Asian semi-finals two weeks later.

The match was held at Datianwan Stadium in Chongqing and Yanghe Sports Center, the home stadium of Chongqing Huanyu. Chongqing originally belonged to Sichuan. In the fiery scene of the Asian Cup in Chongqing in 2004, Pei Wei knew that playing here was no different from playing at home.

After arriving in Chongqing, the life of the Yunjiatianyu team members became very simple: adapt to the field during the day, adjust the state, and watch the game together at night when there is nothing to do. What game to watch?The Olympic team participated in the Dunhill Cup competition.

Like the East Asian semi-finals, the schedule of the Dunhill Cup is also tense, with a game every other day, which is a great challenge to the physical strength of the players.

Milu, who took office for the first time, was not very lucky, because the Olympic team met the strongest opponent in the group in the first game of the group stage, and also the strongest opponent among the teams participating in this cup competition, the Korean Olympic team.

As a coach who has only been with the team for more than ten days, Milu is useless no matter how magical he is. He can only follow the main lineup suggested by the Chinese Football Association. The goalkeeper is Cheng Dong from Dalian, and the defenders are from Qingdao. Ma Kang, Shu Chang from Shandong, Zhu Guosheng and Wu Jiang from Yunjiatianyu, Ai Lin from Yunjiatianyu in midfield, Huang Yong from the People's Liberation Army, Zhao Junzhe from Liaoning and Tao Wei from BJ, and Wan Peng and Liaoning's Tao Wei as forwards Zhang Yulin's partner striker.

The ability of this lineup cannot be said to be weak. Basically, they are players who have been able to play the main force or semi-main force in each club team, especially Zhang Yulin, Zhao Junzhe, Ma Kang, Zhu Guosheng and others are the absolute main force of the club. The others also have at least one more season of professional league experience, and they are not inferior to their opponents in terms of physical strength or technology, but the biggest problem with this Olympic team now is that they don't cooperate well enough.

In the first half of the game, the Chinese team made frequent mistakes, and the opponent continued to launch quick counterattacks while strengthening the midfield press. The Chinese team could only follow the rhythm of the opponent, and soon fell behind by one goal. Soon after the start of the second half Another goal was scored by the opponent, although the Chinese team below adjusted their mentality and passed to Wan Peng in front of the penalty area after Ai Lin broke through from the wing. Wan Peng skillfully passed the ball to Zhang Yulin in the penalty area. points, but the Chinese Olympic team still lost to the opponent with a score of one to two.

Although they lost the game, the Olympic team performed well, especially when the absolute main players such as Nie Fei and Sun Chenghai did not come, but for Milu, his debut was not good.

Next, the second opponent of the Chinese Olympic team is the Bulgarian Olympic team from Europe. In the first game, they bloodbathed the Malaysian team with a big score of [-] to [-]. If the Olympic team loses again in this game, They will lose the chance to qualify for the group stage.

"Vietnam is shameless enough." After watching the game, Pei Wei smiled and said to Benitez: "Look at what teams are in the other group...Vietnam, Singapore, Myanmar...put the three teams together. It's really shameless for the strongest team to be in one group."

"This is an opportunity to test the Olympic team." Benitez said: "I am very interested to see if Bora Milutinovic can adjust the player's state in such a short period of time." Come out, Bulgaria does not have any outstanding players after Balakov's group. Although this team is their Olympic team, its level is not necessarily higher than that of the Chinese Olympic team. It's not like there's no chance."

Pei Wei was thinking about something else. Although Xu Bing would not decide Milu's stay or stay just because of a few games after his own persuasion, the public opinion orientation in Chinese football is extremely snobbish (maybe the football media all over the world It's all the same snobbery, you score one hat trick and you're considered a first-class player, you score two goals in a row and you're called a king, and if you score two more goals in the next game, you're called an emperor, wait for your status If you don’t score a goal, people will think you are no longer good), if the Olympic team fails to achieve satisfactory results in this kind of invitational tournament, it will definitely be very detrimental to Milu’s future work .

Milu is a foreign coach. After Uncle Shi’s clumsy performance, Chinese fans and public opinion don’t trust foreign teachers very much. The prejudice against foreign teachers was gradually reversed, but the pain left to Chinese fans in 92 was too deep and difficult to heal.

Although it doesn't matter even if you lose all, it's not Milu's fault, but if the public opinion and fans think that the coach Milu is a "parallel importer", it is likely to cause the players' distrust of the coach, and even more so. Not to mention that there are two assistant coaches in the Olympic team who were once promising to be the head coach but now they can only stand aside-who can say that they are not dissatisfied?

The Olympic qualifier group stage is less than half a year away, and the Olympic team can no longer stand such a toss.

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Although the Football Association did not give Milu any regulations, and even if he lost the game, it could not prove that Milu's ability was limited, and Milu himself did not promise what kind of results he would get-but this does not mean that Milu would Do nothing, let the two assistant coaches toss about.

With his many years of experience in the rivers and lakes, he can't see that the two assistant coaches seem to be respectful to him, but in fact they are dissatisfied-it's just that he has never been used to having an assistant coach by his side, and coaching in any country is a single person Go, so in order for the entire coaching staff to cooperate with him tacitly, he must first come up with something to convince others.

Before the start of the second game, he made a major change to the lineup. The formation changed from [-] to [-]. Wu Jiangqian mentioned the midfielder, and the two central players Zhao Junzhe and Tao Wei were given more defensive tasks. Wan Peng retreated to play the attacking midfielder, Ailin went up to play the winger, and Zhang Yulin shouldered the responsibility of attacking alone, giving the midfielders more opportunities to attack.

"This Bulgarian team is strong in the forwards and defenders. Their midfield is relatively weak, so we have to base ourselves on the midfield and first gain an advantage in the midfield. Huang Yong and Wu Jiang on both sides can boldly step in. For Zhao Junzhe and Tao Wei, use multiple attacks to tear apart the opponent's defense." The full-time translator seconded by the Football Association from Yunjiatianyu and assigned to Milu was arranging tactics before the game, and Milu has not been waiting for more than ten days , but carefully watched the video of the match between Yunjia Tianyu and Liaoning Tianyun, the two clubs with the most players in the current Olympic team. He knew that it was impossible for the players to become familiar with other tactics in such a few days. So he decided to use the tacit understanding between the players from these two clubs to the maximum.

Ai Lin and Wu Jiang's breakthrough on the left, and Wanpeng's in the middle are Yunjiatianyu's more common routines, and there is no problem with the cooperation between Zhao Junzhe and Zhang Yulin, which is exactly the purpose of Milu's tactics.

Milu's careful arrangements worked. In the match on February [-]st, the Chinese Olympic team defeated the Bulgarian Olympic team [-]-[-]. The two goals were exactly the same, and Wu Jiang and Ailin teamed up to tear apart the opponent. Zhang Yulin attracted the opponent's defense in the penalty area, and Wan Peng, who was inserted in the back row, sealed his throat with a sword. In defense, the three central defenders and two defensive midfielders made the opponent's counterattack impossible. The Chinese team won. A crucial game.

The next thing is simple. After sweeping the Malaysian team [-]-[-], the Chinese team entered the semi-finals as the second place in the group, and then defeated the host Vietnam team [-]-[-] in the semi-finals to enter the final.

Although the Olympic team lost to the South Korean Olympic team again in a penalty shootout in the final final and finished runner-up, but in the absence of several main players, they only lost to South Korea twice, which basically satisfied everyone.

"Next, it's our turn." Pei Wei said to Benitez with a smile.

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