Grassroots Glory

Liu Dianqiu was taken aback when he heard Gao Hongbo's thoughts: All wins and qualifying? I'm afraid it will still be difficult. We are sure to play against Vietnam. We can't say we are safe in Syria and Lebanon, especially the away games in West Asia. We have suffered in that ghost place for so many years. Quite a few. Xiao Gao, don’t tell everyone about your thoughts, if you carry the burden instead and have a negative effect, it will be a big deal.”

Liu Dianqiu is the old team leader of the national team. In recent years, the national team’s tragic experience in West Asia expeditions, without exception, he is a witness. It can be said that since the top ten games in 2001, the national team’s away record in West Asia has been worse. How miserable, so when he played away games against Syria and Lebanon, he didn't have the confidence to be too optimistic. Zhou Tiancheng is well-known and capable, but in different teams and different tactical systems, he may not be able to perform at the same level. Just like the contrast between Messi in Barcelona and Argentina, it illustrates this point.

But Gao Hongbo didn’t see it that way. When he heard what Liu Dianqiu said, he smiled lightly: “How hard is it to meet a player with his ability? Don’t you think it’s a bit condescending for him to adapt to the team? Let me tell you, Give him core-level treatment directly, and build a tactical system around him. Anyway, the previous tactics of the national team have not produced anything good, so we might as well smash the old pots and pans and start over!

When Liu Dianqiu heard that Gao Hongbo was going to make such a big move, he frowned slightly: Is this...appropriate? It doesn't feel right. He is young after all. If he can have the age and experience of Jiayi or Dazhi (Zheng Zhi) , I definitely have no objection.

Leader Liu, you don't have to worry about that, we have to trust the vision of the Bundesliga coaches.

Zhou Tiancheng found that he had arrived too early. In the morning, the coaching staff arranged for him to complete the basic physical data test alone. In the afternoon, the players of the national team arrived one after another. But this is only a part. There are still some local players who have to wait until the end of this round of the Chinese Super League to report to the national team, so it will be two days late.

Although Zhou Tiancheng is a rookie who joined the team for the first time, he gained a lot of popularity on the first day. This is not only due to the fame created by the media. No matter how strong his ability is, no one will be convinced if he has no specific concept. , but there is a person in the team who has fought against Zhou Tiancheng face to face - Shao Jiayi.

The players of the national team are well aware of Shao Jiayi's skills, but when Shao Jiayi introduced Zhou Tiancheng to them, he told the truth: Zhou Tiancheng abused him, relaxed and happy.

This time, the way everyone looked at Zhou Tiancheng was truly curious. Of course, there are many players whose curiosity is not here. They really want Zhou Tiancheng to talk about some feelings and knowledge in the Bundesliga and Champions League. Although they are the best players in the country, they all grew up in the domestic environment. For the European arena, their concepts are actually no more than ordinary fans, and they all come from the media.

Zhou Tiancheng is also very easy-going and knows everything. This has shortened the distance between these domestic players and him. After these local players quickly got to know Zhou Tiancheng, they found that this young returnee is not the kind of high-spirited and domineering Role,

Most people have doubled their affection for him.

Two days later, all the players who participated in this training camp were all registered. Zhou Tiancheng found a few players whose names he had heard of since the 2005 World Youth Championship in the Netherlands: Chen Tao, Hao Junmin, Zhao Xuri, Zhou Haibin , Gao Lin...

To Zhou Tiancheng's surprise, he didn't find Zheng Zhi, the old captain of the national team, until the whole team gathered, that is to say, Zheng Zhi was not called into the national team training camp. But Zhou Tiancheng didn't think too much about it, maybe it was because of his injury. It is normal in professional football to miss the national team due to injury.

Since the training time of the national team will not be as abundant as that of the club, the coaching staff only arranged one day of recovery training after all the staff arrived. Starting from the second day, they will maintain the rhythm of two training sessions a day, and practice physical fitness and set-pieces in the morning. For the special technique of offense and defense, the training time in the afternoon lasted for nearly two hours, which was used to practice tactical coordination.

Of course Zhou Tiancheng has nothing to say about set kicks, but Shao Jiayi's set kick skills have never been weak. But fortunately, the two have different dominant feet, so Gao Hongbo doesn’t have to make trouble for the right to take the set kick. The corner kick on the left side of the goal is set by Shao Jiayi’s golden left foot, and vice versa. The ball came from Zhou Tiancheng.

The set-piece special practice is very simple, and the tactical joint training every afternoon is the most important thing for Gao Hongbo and the coaching staff.

In the first training session, Zhou Tiancheng was first assigned to the yellow vest side with more main players. Both sides were in a 4-2-3-1 formation. It can be seen that this is Gao Hongbo's initial conception of the national team's formation.

Zhou Tiancheng appeared in the midfielder position, and his partner was Zhao Xuri, who became famous in the World Youth Championship. Shao Jiayi's position is more forward, and his role in the national team is a midfielder.

In the first practice with his teammates, Zhou Tiancheng quickly discovered that the awareness of local players on the court was not very mature.

Zhou Tiancheng is still like in Schalke 04, receiving and passing the ball at the midfielder position without any pause, directly sticking to the ground and forwarding to the wide players. Under normal circumstances, the wide players can directly advance after receiving the ball, and the offense can be very fast. Go on smoothly.

But Zhou Tiancheng found that these teammates seemed to be two rows behind him. They didn't have the awareness of speeding up to catch the ball when he passed it quickly. Incredible wry smile.

Zhou Tiancheng remembered that his father had reminded the national team players that they were different from Schalke teammates before he left. He began to reflect on himself, whether the rhythm he was used to was really too fast for these teammates?

Next, he paused for a second after deliberately catching the ball, the rhythm slowed down a beat, and there were a lot fewer mistakes in coordination.

However, new problems immediately appeared.

Zhou Tiancheng has the ball at his feet, and he can control the rhythm of passing it to his teammates, but it becomes very difficult for him to catch the ball. He couldn't understand why the teammate was not far in front of him, the press was not tight, and the defender had to stop for a while when he got the ball, what did it mean to look up before passing.

According to Zhou Tiancheng's understanding, wouldn't this delay the fighting opportunity and create time and space for the opponent to rush?

And passing the ball at close range, these teammates' control of strength and precision... Zhou Tiancheng also didn't know what to say.

After the first tactical training, Zhou Tiancheng directly found the left-back Liu Jindong who made the most mistakes, and kindly suggested to him: Next time, pay attention to the passing rhythm. If it is too slow, it is easy to be robbed.

At this time, Du Zhenyu, the left midfielder who hadn't followed Zhou Tiancheng's pass several times on the wing, came up and asked, Your pass is so fast, do you usually pass the ball like this, without stopping the ball and not watching it?

Zhou Tiancheng nodded naturally: That's right, unnecessary stops will only waste offensive opportunities. As for observing the positioning of teammates... Isn't that something that should be done before receiving the ball?

On the contrary, Zhou Tiancheng looked at them in disbelief, thinking that they have played for the national team, so they don't even understand this?

If this is the case, I really don't know how to cater to the rhythm of these teammates. The difference from Schalke's teammates is really not ordinary.

But judging from Du Zhenyu and Liu Jindong looking at each other with incredible expressions, the answer has already been explained.

PS: I have something to do in the afternoon, and then I will send the second chapter, which will be updated in advance