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Chapter 513 The Olympic Qualifiers Begin
Liu Feiyu started to select players across the country again.

Over the past year or so, many good young players have naturally emerged.

Many of those players who were admitted to college did not give up football in college. After graduating from college, they still chose to take the path of professional football, and their age is just right!
After a period of selection, Liu Feiyu announced a list of 50 people.

All the players on the roster participated in the first Olympic team training camp and completed more than ten warm-up matches.

Selecting players through competitions is a new measure taken by Wen Yifan.

Football is a team sport. Players not only have to have a high level of technology and a sense of teamwork, but also have to see if the 11 players on the field can better cohere together.

In the second training camp, the list has been kept at 50 people, but nearly half of them have been replaced.

This time it was still more than ten warm-up matches.

In the third training camp that followed, the number of people dropped sharply to 30, including those who participated in the previous two training camps, and some who participated only once.

The third training session was longer than the previous two, but there were not many warm-up matches.

There were only five games before and after, and Liu Feiyu used five sets of lineups.

Although there are not many warm-up matches, the quality of the opponents is very high. The teams in the first three games are the echelons of the same age group of well-known foreign football clubs invited, and the last two games are two Olympic-age teams from the second continent.

In the five warm-up matches, the Olympic team's record was mediocre.

With the end of the third training camp, this year has come to the end of the year.The group stage of the first stage of the Olympic qualifiers for the Olympic team is about to begin.

The first continental qualifiers for the Olympic Football Tournament are divided into three stages. In the first stage, all countries and regions that have registered for participation are divided into eight groups for a single round-robin competition. The top two in each group qualify.

Then the sixteen teams that qualified were divided into groups for a single round-robin match. The top two teams in each group qualified and entered the final quarter-finals.

The quarter-finals will be divided into two groups for home and away round-robin matches.

The No.1 of each group will directly get a qualifying place, and the No.2 of the two groups will have a home and away double-round match to compete for the last qualifying place.

In the Olympic qualifiers, the First Continent has a total of three qualifying places.

The pressure on the Olympic team in the group stage is not too great, and the schedule for the second stage has been arranged.
The Olympic team will gather on the sixth day of the new year, and then go directly to the second stage of the competition to prepare for the upcoming competition.

There are four other teams in the same group as the Olympic team. There are five teams in this group. Since it is a single round-robin game, there is no special focus on the game. Therefore, according to the rules, the game will be played at home on the side with the lowest world ranking.

Therefore, the highest-ranked Olympic team in this group does not have a home court in the first stage of the competition.

However, this does not affect the performance of the Olympic team.

Strictly speaking, the four opponents in the same group cannot be regarded as professional athletes, not even semi-professionals.

After several consecutive big-scoring victories, the Olympic team secured the qualifying spot one round ahead of schedule.

In these four games, Liu Feiyu continued to try the formation.

Until the last game, the Olympic team never had the same starting lineup, and this time, the [-] players in the third training camp all got the chance to play.

After the group stage, the Olympic team disbanded on the spot after returning home, and the players went home to celebrate the New Year.

The list of candidates for the second stage of the group stage was not announced immediately.

"Are you all asking?" Gu Xiaomeng looked at Liu Feiyu and said with a smile, "My phone has been ringing, so you can't announce the list earlier."

"Don't worry, I'm thinking about the second stage. I don't need to go all out." Liu Feiyu said with a smile: "There is no need to show our full strength prematurely. Besides, I have to observe these players."

"You still have to observe! Most of these players were brought out by you from the youth team, and you don't know enough about them yet." Gu Xiaomeng said with a smile.

"It is precisely because of this that I have to observe more and not be lost by empiricism." Liu Feiyu said with a smile.

"Yes." Gu Xiaomeng said with a smile.

"Okay! During this time, let's enjoy our time together, and we will be busy again next year!" Liu Feiyu said with a smile.

In a blink of an eye, it was time for the Olympic team to gather again.

Liu Feiyu still listed all 30 people from the third training camp in the big list.

All headed to the venue.

The sixteen teams were divided into four groups. In addition to the Olympic team, the other three teams were the S team, the M team, and the AM team.

The S team is the seed player of this group, and it is also the favorite to qualify for this qualifier. The group qualifying is not a big problem, and the other qualifying spot for this group, before the game, everyone thought it would be between the Olympic team and the M team.

Before the game, after the last training session, Liu Feiyu looked at all the players and said:

"The three opponents in the group, although our national teams at all levels have played against them, and many times, but as our players, we have not played against any of them. So neither we nor they know each other very well. It can be said to be an encounter!"

Liu Feiyu paused, and continued: "However, I have already explained the details of each of our opponents and players in detail before, and everyone should be familiar with them!"

Liu Feiyu looked around at all the players, and continued: "My request is very simple, that is, everyone must play out what we usually practice. Everyone knows the weaknesses of our opponents, so there is no reason for us not to win on the court!"

Liu Feiyu paused again, and then said: "One more thing, and the most important point, after the group stage, I will not recruit so many players for the quarterfinals! At that time, I will only recruit 23 players! So these three group matches will be your last chance to perform before the quarterfinals! I will let every player have a chance to play! But you will have no more than two chances to play, so you must show your best on the court! Only in this way can you enter the quarterfinals 23-man roster!"

After Liu Feiyu finished speaking, he looked around the players again, and then shouted loudly: "Do you understand?"

"Understood!" The players shouted loudly!
Entering the quarterfinals, Liu Feiyu does not have any pressure, but these players must know that the quarterfinals only bring 23 players!

In this way, the potential of these players can be fully stimulated!
(End of this chapter)