While David Mills began to reach out to Mahrez and N'Golo Kante privately, Zhang Sheng, unaware, was closely watching the 2014 Toulon Cup. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

In addition to Xiong Jian, Wei Zhimin, Zou Weijia and Du Zhenyu, who played substitutes in the team, Zhu Xuhe and Yao Tian, who were on loan to Xinjiang Tianshan Snow Leopard Club, are also on the list.

Compared with Zhu Xuhe and Yao Tian, Xiong Jian, Wei Zhimin, Zou Weijia and Du Zhenyu, who went to the National Olympic team for training early, they all arrived before the end of the team's domestic training camp, and they simply flew to France with the team after participating in the team's joint training for a few days.

In this year's Toulon Cup, a total of three Asian teams participated. The Chinese Olympic team is in Group A, and the South Korean team and Qatar are all in Group B. The competition will start on May 21, and the national Olympic team will have a bye in the first round. From the 23rd, the team will play France, Chile, Portugal and Mexico. All matches in the group stage are scheduled to end on May 30. On June 1, the second place finishers from the two groups will compete for third place in the tournament, and the first place finishers from both groups will compete for the title.

Of course, it is not only the Longteng Club that resigns or even resists the call, because the domestic Chinese Super League and the Chinese League are still ongoing, players such as Liao Lisheng, Shi Ke, Liu Binbin, Wu Xinghan, Pei Shuai, Chang Feiya and other players who have played in the club or substitutes are absent from the Toulon Cup, but there are 7 overseas young players who play in Europe are selected for this year's National Olympic team. In this regard, head coach Fu Bo said that it is also a good exercise for these players to stay in the country to participate in the league, just in time to look at the young players who play in Europe in this Toulon Cup match.

From this, it can be seen that the participating National Olympic team is treated as the "second national Olympic team", so for this expedition, the Football Association did not give the national Olympic team specific performance indicators, as the head coach Coach Fu Bo frankly said that what the players want to see most is that the players can usually emphasize the offensive passing and control of the ball, and the overall offensive and defensive conversion is shown. In other words, this is an event that is not valued by the Football Association.

However, there is one person who is more concerned about this event, that is, the current national team coach Perlan, according to the work contract signed by Perrin and the Chinese Football Association, he has 3 vacation periods a year, and after watching almost all the live games of the Chinese Super League team, Perrin obviously has a more detailed understanding of the international players who play in the Chinese Super League, so he proposed to the Football Association that he will return to China in mid-May for the first vacation. However, he and his two assistants will also be on vacation to watch the Toulon Cup match of the Chinese Olympic team.

After all, Perrin is French, and the event held this time is also in France, and Perrin can be regarded as the first month near the water.

As in previous editions of the Toulon Cup, many European scouts come to Toulon every year to discover promising young players. Here, one-shot fame is not just in the movies. Not to be outdone, there are also many Chinese agents, according to a Chinese Ji Jiren, about 100 agents came to the Toulon Cup to watch the game. They all want to discover some promising young players through this time, especially those from outside Europe, who want to operate them to join European clubs. That said, if you do well in the Toulon Cup, you have a good chance of getting a chance to change the fortunes of football quickly.

For this reason, the coaching staff has given the players an order: the first thing is to follow the tactical discipline and not to show themselves. When the coach of the national Olympic team, Fu Bo, emphasized when he came to France: In the face of agents from various countries, any player wants to show his value, but this kind of performance is not just about individual performances on the field, but whether he can really integrate into the team, so everyone must obey tactical discipline. Only by giving full play to the strength of the team and playing the whole can we reflect the value of the individual.

On May 24, the Chinese Olympic team ushered in its first opponent in the group stage - the French team.

The French team is a U21 national team composed mainly of players in the 94-95 age group, which is the same average age as the Chinese Olympic team. But in terms of the strength of the players, they are far superior to the players of the Chinese Olympic team. Because this French team includes 7 players who play in Ligue 1, 6 players in Ligue 2 and 1 player in Italian Serie B.

The team's biggest name is the number 8 player Rabiot, who plays for Ligue 1 giants Paris Saint-Germain, although he is still a 19-year-old, he has made 25 appearances in Ligue 1 this season with two goals and one assist, scored one goal in two League Cup appearances and has six appearances in the Champions League.

Rabiot is not only favored by Paris Saint-Germain boss Carlo Ancelotti, but former French star Thuram said after watching his performance in the Champions League against Barcelona: "He impressed me. ”

This all-round player is known as the "white version of Pogba", which shows the importance that people in the French football circle value him. Rabiot's greatest strength is his positional sense and ability to hold the ball, and his good tactical awareness and ability to read the game give him a maturity beyond his actual age. The slender (188cm) Rabiot is not strong enough, but with his wide vision and superb technique, he can get the ball to his team-mates' feet even in tight spaces. While Rabiot is not an attacking midfielder like Lucas Jr., he likes to play short balls and try through balls, often giving a pleasing touch to the eye, and his passing accuracy is 90.5 per cent.

In this game, Fu Bo did not send all the players from the Longteng Club, the framework of the main body is still based on the main team during the previous training camp, and the players of the Longteng team are Yao Tian and Zhu Xuhe who started the game, after all, the two of them have been practicing with their teammates for a lot longer, and the ability of the two of them is second to none in the team.

After the opening, the Chinese Olympic team played very confidently, Yao Tian, as the core of the midfield organization, and Zhu Xuhe, the core of the midfield defense, sorted out the midfield of the national Olympic team in an orderly manner. And scored a goal in the opening game, but the referee ruled it offside.

Under the organization of Rabiot, the French team's No. 7 player White Baker, who played for the French team Valenciennes, and Lorient Abdullah, who played for the French team, continuously formed a threat to the Chinese team's goal, but their shooting level was really not flattering.

In the 35th minute, Mi Haolun lost the ball in the backfield, and Zhu Xuhe, the defender, made up for a defensive foul and received a yellow card. Fu Bo was very dissatisfied with Mi Haolun's performance, and decisively replaced him with Du Zhenyu.

After the play, Du Zhenyu reflected a superior level in the position of central defender, as a player who has participated in the Chinese Super League many times, and even played many times in the AFC Champions League, after he played, the back line of the National Olympic team immediately got a qualitative improvement.

Under the command of Du Zhenyu, the National Olympic team held the first half for 40 minutes (40 minutes in each half of the Toulon Cup).

At halftime, Fu Bo was very dissatisfied with the defense, he replaced the left back Yang Ting with Wei Zhimin, and at the same time, in order to strengthen the defense of the midfield, he replaced the right midfielder Wang Rui with Xiong Jian, and the players of the Longteng team were left with Zou Weijia did not play.

After the start of the second half, several new Longteng team players quickly showed their strength, now Yao Tian in the midfield, Zhu Xuhe and Xiong Jian can be said to be able to attack and defend, coupled with the presence of Wei Zhimin and Du Zhenyu, the National Olympic team finally realized Fu Bo's idea of playing the ball, these Longteng players who have been playing together for a long time made the game evenly matched.

The one who felt the game the most was another defender, Xu Xin.

Xu Xin participated in the 2013 Asian Youth Championships and the 2014 World Youth Championships, and he once deeply experienced the strength of the Longteng players on the field. The number of Dragons players on the field determines the difficulty of the game.

This game is exactly like this, when there are few players on the field, everyone plays in a disorderly manner, it is very difficult, once a large number of players from the Longteng team play, Xu Xin also seems unusually relaxed, thinking of Xu Mingyu, Gao Jun and others who were standing beside him, and now Xiong Jian and them, Xu Xin's offensive organization ability has also been liberated.

However, the strikers of the National Olympic Games in this game are really poor, and once the National Olympic team, which has been able to interact with the French team in the midfield, hands over the ball to the forwards, the attack is basically over.

And the failure of the attack often gives the opponent a chance, in the 52nd minute, the national Olympic team lost the ball in front, the French team played a counterattack, Alai header hit the Chinese team's goal, and the French team led 1-0.

Seeing this situation, Fu Bo could only give it a go and replace Yang Ultrasound with Zou Weijia, which was decisive.

After Zou Weijia came on the court, his body was strong, and his style of seeking stability in his feet was revealed, and his qualified fast passing ability also allowed the National Olympic team to have tactical chess pieces in the front court, and the National Olympic team soon got the opportunity to score.

In the 66th minute, after receiving Xiong Jian's pass, Zou Weijia resisted the French team's No. 3 Sarr, the captain of the defense team who played for the traditional giant Lyon, and distributed the ball to Yao Tian, who made the score 1:1 with a beautiful low shot.

After that, France's attack became more and more urgent, and the national Olympic team, which had slightly retracted its formation, strengthened its defense, and the final score was fixed at 1:1.

After the game, the performance of the Chinese Olympic team was unanimously praised, and even the official website of the Toulon Cup praised the performance of the Chinese team, and said that several players on the bench were very strong, and the team cooperation of the national Olympic team also played very beautifully.

Also agreeing to be satisfied was the national team coach Perrin, who was watching the game, and he was not only satisfied with the score of the national Olympic team, but also with his choice. After Perrin decided to use the players of the Longteng team as the core framework of the team, the performance of the Longteng players in the national Olympic team made him know that he had made the right choice. He wondered if he could bring in more Dragons players for his team.

For teams from Asia, it really hurts if there is no comparison. South Korea lost 0:2 to Brazil, Qatar lost 0:3 to England, and China was ahead again.

After this game, the national Olympic team also organized players to watch this season's Champions League final, Xu Xin, who played in the Atletico Madrid C team, enthusiastically introduced the situation of Atletico Madrid in this final to the players of the Longteng team, and their opponent Real Madrid was fiercely criticized by him.

After the game, although Atletico Madrid lost, Xu Xin still said with great expectations: "I hope that one day I can participate in such a game." ”

Zhu Xuhe patted Xu Xin's shoulder encouragingly and said, "Let's take it step by step, maybe someone will take a fancy to us if we play the next game." ”

Xu Xin also nodded heavily.

The second match of the Olympic team was against Chile. This is also the second consecutive year that the Chinese team has met Chile's youth team, last year's World Youth Championships, China eliminated the Chilean team to enter the semi-finals of the World Youth Championship, and this time in the group stage of the Toulon Cup, the Chinese team met the Chilean team again.

However, this Chilean team is far from being as strong as the Chinese team encountered in the World Youth Championships, this Chilean team is Chile's U21 national team, and the players in the team are basically domestic players, mostly from the Colo Colo team, the Chilean Catholic University team, and the O'Higgins sports team, there are only three players in the team who play in Europe, and they are all in the youth team.

Historically, the National Olympic team ended the game with a heart-wrenching 3:3, from 0:2 to 1:3 and then to 3:3, but now with the participation of the players of the Longteng team, the game is not as thrilling as in history.

Only 10 minutes into the game, Yao Tian, the best foot skill in the Chinese Olympic team, used his breakthrough to create a penalty in the penalty area, Zou Weijia did not miss the penalty like Yang Ultrasound in history, but steadily scored the ball, and the Chinese team led 1:0.

The game after the lead was much better, the national Olympic team used several players of the Longteng team to firmly control the situation in the midfield, while the Chilean team was playing more and more urgently, and the head coach of the Chilean team proposed to "avenge" the previous game before the game, and now it is behind again.

In the 30th minute, Castillo of the Chilean team was sent off for a malicious foul on Yao Tian, and Zhu Xuhe's free kick broke directly into the net to turn the score into 2:0.

The Chinese team entered the second half with a 2:0 lead, and the Chilean team woke up like a dream, and in the 49th minute, Martinez took advantage of Xu Xin's shortcomings in sticky balls and broke the ball in the midfield to get back a point.

However, the next national Olympic team strengthened the defense of the midfield, and resolved the Chilean team's attacks again and again, but before the end of the game, the central defender Du Zhenyu scored a header in a corner kick, and the score became 3:1.

The players of the Dragons have once again shone in international competitions.