"At any time, as long as the Chinese national team needs it, I can come to coach. Zhang Sheng's reply was a reassurance to the Chinese Football Association, and the Football Association began the selection of the head coach when someone was backing up.

At this time, the position of the coach of the Chinese national team has really become a sweet spot.

Even if you only have a month to get acquainted with the team, there are not many managers who want to come and take over.

Among the local coaches, in addition to Zhang Sheng, Gao Hongbo, who coached at Munich 1860 in the German Second Division, has also become a target candidate, and the team is in the middle of the German Second League under his leadership.

Except for the only two local coaches, the rest are foreign coaches, and they are not famous.

Judging from the news revealed by various media, there are Copa America champion coach Sampaoli, Prandelli, who has served as the head coach of the Italian national team, Mazzari, who has served as the head coach of the Inter Milan team, Zico, who has coached the national team of the Japanese team, Hiddink, the famous coach who once led the South Korean team to the fourth place in the World Cup, Scolari, Manzano and Eriksen, who are very familiar with the Chinese Super League, and even Kosanovich, who has been in Chinese football for many years, are also looking forward to coming to China to coach the Chinese team again.

However, the most vocal is the former Guangzhou Evergrande head coach Lippi.

Although compared with history, because of the emergence of the Longteng team, there are fewer league championships in the 2015 season, but as a world famous coach, Lippi has brought three league championships to Guangzhou Evergrande and one AFC Champions League championship, which is unique in the entire Chinese Super League.

In fact, the contact with Lippi is not only with the Chinese national team. Or because of the appearance of the Longteng team, Scolari's results in Guangzhou Evergrande were not good, the league championship was snatched away by the Longteng team, and the AFC Champions League championship was also lost after being eliminated by the Longteng team halfway.

The signboard of Guangzhou Evergrande is something that Xu Jiaying will never let go, and Lippi has become one of the life-saving straws for him to turn over. It's just that the Evergrande team, which itself is invested in the purpose of showing the signboard, is far less than directly contributing the head coach to the national team - the latter's way of showing the signboard is more effective and direct.

As early as the middle of the year, Evergrande launched the 2017 season to change the manager, and after painstaking negotiations, Lippi promised to lead a large team back to Guangzhou Evergrande. This new partnership is a three-year contract and has already been initialled. In this three-year contract, Lippi and his team have an annual salary of up to 20 million euros.

But when the Chinese national team also began to ask about Lippi's situation on Evergrande's side, Xu Jiaying said more directly than Zhang Sheng: "Although we have signed a contract with Lippi, everything in Evergrande is given by the party, the state, and the society." In order to support Chinese football and the national team, we can not only transfer Lippi's contract to the national team, but also bear all the salary of the contract. ”

Xu Jiaying's statement completely moved the Chinese Football Association.

Of course, it is impossible for the Chinese Football Association to let Guangzhou Evergrande bear the salary of the head coach of the national team, otherwise it will be too sensational, and it will be suspected by other clubs whether there is a transfer of interests.

In the end, the two sides reached an agreement with a speed rarely seen by the government: Lippi and his team were paid 450 euros for the national team, and the remaining 1,550 euros for Lippi's team won another title - Evergrande Football School Advisor.

Evergrande's aid can be regarded as giving the Chinese Football Association enough face, and it has also left an excellent impression on the relevant leaders.

There is another clause in this contract that the three parties have reached a unified standard, that is, to enable the "head coach model" of the previous Lippi team in Guangzhou Evergrande, and the Chinese Football Association can only provide guarantees and services from the leadership to the department, and nothing else can interfere.

As a party, Lippi is very satisfied with this contract, super high salary, absolute authority, and much easier work intensity than the club, in addition to the performance requirements that the Chinese national team must qualify, it can be said that this is Lippi's dream contract.

Perrin's dismissal and the selection of the national team have touched the hearts of countless fans, but the Chinese Super League still has to continue.

On September 10, the Longteng team challenged Hebei Huaxia Happiness away, and all the players who returned from the national team played.

It is completely different from the situation in the national team, the national team players of the Longteng team are like fish in water after returning to the club, the same 5-3-2 formation, Ma Yongli, Liming and Du Zhenyu in the back are as stable as a rock, Tao Wentao in the midfield is like a leisurely stroll, and Nie Jiang on the front line is to tell everyone with a brace - I can score, it depends on how you use me.

In the end, the Longteng team who played away did not give Hebei Huaxia Happiness any chance at all, this game was not at all like the first league to play the sixth in the league, when Chavez scored a goal before the end of the game, the score of 0:3 also meant the end of the game.

The only fly in the ointment of this game is that Nie Jiang was replaced due to injury in the middle of the game, and although the post-game examination is fine, it will take at least one to two weeks to recuperate.

Public opinion after the game was also divided.

Some media maliciously speculated that the players of the Longteng team did not fully devote themselves to the national team and left the club's game to stay, and some media pushed the wall of Perrin down, saying that Perrin did not know how to use the players of the Longteng team well.

Under such strong external interference, the Longteng team ushered in the key battle of the AFC Champions League - playing Jeonbuk Hyundai at home.

At the press conference before the game, when the reporter asked about Nie Jiang's situation, Zhang Sheng's face looked very solemn: "Nie Jiang couldn't rest because of the continuous games, which caused a thigh muscle strain. Since the beginning of this season, Nie Jiang has continuously participated in the National Olympic team, national team and club competitions, and basically has not been rested, but he is just 18 years old. ”

Zhang Sheng said that he didn't mean anything else, but he put pressure on the Chinese Football Association through the media very bluntly, so that they would send Nie Jiang less to play inconsequential games.

At the end of the national team competition, the Chinese Football Association, in addition to the head coach's question, also proposed to let Nie Jiang and the school-age players in the team participate in the "Chang'an Ford Cup" Qujing International Youth Football Championship on September 9.

The Chang'an Ford Cup is a product of the rapid development of youth football in China in recent years, and local governments have held various youth competitions in order to support youth football in China. It is good to be able to hold such an event, but it is too much for the Chinese Football Association to catch a sheep and gather wool for the sake of political achievements, because the Longteng team is that sheep.

At that time, Zhang Sheng was very blunt to refuse the request of the Chinese football team to coordinate Nie Jiang, and finally the Football Association raised the Asian Youth Championship in mid-October, which was the reason for the last pre-game training of soldiers, Zhang Sheng had to make a compromise, Shen Jun, Cao Jinghao, Zeng Fanhua and Wang Xing participated in this training camp, but including Nie Jiang, Huang Dawei, Liming, Xiang Tiange, these players of the right age are already the absolute starting force of the Longteng team, and they must play the AFC Champions League and cannot be transferred.

In fact, when the Football Association selected players in the age group of the U19 national youth team, it also put forward the request to draw the U22 and U17 national youth teams.

The U17 players Longteng team were released because they were all in the reserve team and echelon, but the U22 request was all refused, and the U22 Football Association agreed very happily - the main reason is that this year's players are only for the U23 Asian Cup two years later, and there will be no Olympics after two years, that is to say, there will be no Olympic achievements, so just play.

Now that Nie Jiang is overworked, his muscles are injured, and Zhang Sheng is extremely unhappy.

In the last round of the game, Tao Wentao got a red card and couldn't play, after Du Zhenyu got a yellow card, he accumulated two yellow cards and couldn't play, the Longteng team suffered a lot of losses whether it was offensive or defensive, if it weren't for Jeonbuk Hyundai, who was also banned and suspended from the three main players, Zhang Sheng was really a little disturbed.

In the real timeline, the Chinese Football Association has been scolded for such a thing.

First of all, Huang Zichang, the popular fried chicken of Jiangsu Suning that season, was frequently recruited by the national youth, the National Olympics, and the national team, resulting in him not being able to rest at all.

Then, in the 2018 season of the Chinese Super League, when there were still six rounds left in the league, under the arrangement of Shangyi, the unprecedented U25 training team was introduced, and the players did not play football to go to the barracks to engage in military training, which is simply playing the face of modern football, and many players who were drawn are still the indispensable main force in the relegation club, especially in the last two or three rounds of the league, there are several relegation clubs that have been drawn to die.

What's even more strange is that Wang Dazhao, the executive committee member of the Chinese Football Association, made it clear in an interview with reporters that he was completely unaware of the introduction of the policy: "I don't know the whole story of this matter." ”

The executive committee of the Football Association did not know about such a decisive decision, which can only be said that the Football Association has once again become the backstabber.

Of course, compared to these absurd moves in history, the current situation is much better, and although the first two games of the top 12 are not satisfactory, they have not yet reached the end of the mountain.

It's just a bitter Dragon Teng team.

Nie Jiang's inability to appear can be regarded as a great benefit for Jeonbuk Hyundai.

In the Chinese Super League three days ago, Cui Kangxi was there to watch the game in person to spy on the military situation, and he was also happy after the game - Nie Jiang's condition was absolutely good, but fortunately he was injured.

Compared with Choi Kang-hee's cautiousness, the Korean media is much more optimistic, even if South Korea was forced to draw by Syria in the last game, and the South Korean team was sprayed by fans across the country, when it came time to play against the Chinese team, their sense of superiority came again, and sure enough, the sense of happiness was compared.

The title "was beaten back to its original form in the national team" was marked on the players of the Longteng team by a number of Korean media, and in their opinion, Jeonbuk Hyundai could take advantage of the lack of major generals in the Longteng team and the unfavorable atmosphere of the players' national team to make a fuss and play the same oppressive play as the national team to win.

Choi Kang-hee's interview before the match was full of confidence: "The draw in the first leg means that we can go into the fight without any baggage at all. We're ready for this game. ”

Chinese reporters didn't let him go so easily: "Leonardo was banned for two games for uncivilized gestures, what do you think of his absence?"

'We are one and we are not affected by the absence of one player. Choi Kang-hee's answer was very formulaic.

But the reporter began to chase after him: "Can you talk about that gesture?"

"Does it have anything to do with this game?" Choi Kang-hee was obviously a little hairy, "the next reporter." ”

The reporter who successfully provoked Choi Kang-hee's temper was finally satisfied, and this press release can be regarded as having "content".

Choi Kang-hee looked unbalanced at the press conference, but when he arrived in the locker room before the game, he looked calm: "Our opponent is under a lot of pressure right now. The Chinese media have been questioning their strength, they won't play too conservatively, and here comes our chance. ”

I have to admit that Choi Kang-hee is very experienced, although Choi Kang-hee is a head coach who advocates offense in his bones, and the Korean tactics who once admitted in an interview that his unsmiling performance were pretending to be very flexible are still very flexible.

'In central midfield, we have to be fierce in our interceptions, but in attack we have to be fully committed and fast. The Chinese national team games I watched before are typical negative teaching materials. But first we have to defend well. "Choi Kang-hee's tactics that favor defensive counterattacks have made a lot of changes from the previous progressive pressing offensive tactics.

In fact, this can be regarded as a compromise after a series of winless defeats against the Dragons.

In view of the fact that Lee Jae-seong and Leonardo are unable to play, and Jeonbuk Hyundai has missing offensive knives on both the left and right, Choi Kang-hee let Han Kyo-won and foreign aid Edu start, hoping that they will make up for the loopholes in the attack, and the veteran Lee Tong-guk was replaced by Kim Shin-wook because of his weakness in the face of the Longteng team repeatedly.

On the defensive line, the slightly immature back Zhang Runho in the last round of the game was replaced by the big brother Li Hao, which is also to make up for the hidden danger that Lee Jae-seong is not present and the midfield barrier is not enough.

The bench is strong, and because of the high overall level of the K League, Jeonbuk Hyundai does not have to be stared at by the Korean Football Association, and their pre-season lineup known as "two sets of players who can play in the AFC Champions League" has played an advantage.

Zhang Sheng on the side of the Longteng team is a little difficult to do, the rotation lineup can be guaranteed, but the bench Longteng team is a little thin.

Nie Jiang and Tao Wentao were unable to play, and the substitute Zeng Xingxing was transferred to the national youth team, and the advance speed of the Longteng team's frontcourt attack was greatly affected, Zhang Sheng simply arranged De Paul behind Chavez, playing false forward and shadow forward, the position of the left winger was given to Ni Kai, and Tao Wentao's position was to let Xiong Jian start.

Du Zhenyu, who was suspended on the back line, was replaced by "veteran" Lu Zhihui to ensure the intensity of the defense.

Compared with Jeonbuk Hyundai, the advantage of the Longteng team is mostly young players, and the momentum is absolutely enough.

The injuries and suspensions of several main players are certainly a big loss to the strength of the Longteng team's starters, but blessings and misfortunes depend on each other, and the players who substitute them on the field are not foreign aides who are not national team players, and the physical strength of the Longteng team is extremely abundant at the moment.

So after the game started, the Longteng team kicked far beyond Cui Kangxi's expectations, and their pressing seemed to put the sports car on the highest gear at the beginning of the kickoff, and they didn't do any foreplay.