Rebuilding the team at its peak is undoubtedly a test for management.

Gao Han and Cantarero are both very experienced professionals, and they know better than anyone that if Chinatown continue to maintain their current squad, they will be the top teams in Europe for the next five years, but the price to pay is also clear.

Not only will the team be burdened with a heavy salary burden, but this group of talented young players in the team will also leave because they don't get the opportunity, and the stars in the team will gradually lose their hunger for glory.

After Pep Guardiola's departure, Barcelona's trend is a lesson for Chinatown.

In this way, it is better to break the big stand, promote this group of young players in the team who are about 20 years old, and combine the core backbone of the team, I believe that in two or three years, we will build another Chinatown.

In this way, the team will not only receive a huge transfer income, but also save a lot of salary expenses, which can make the team's finances healthier.

As for the new coach Valverde, he is a very thoughtful head coach, Gao Han has had in-depth communication with him for a long time, he is very adaptable, very wise, and more importantly, his promotion and cultivation of newcomers are also obvious to all.

During his tenure at Athletic Bilbao, young talents such as Aymeric Laporte and Muniain have made significant progress under him, provoking the backbone of the team, which is exactly what Chinatown needs most.

Jesse, Martial, Dembele, Mbappe, Asensio and other players are the most valued by Gao Han, each of them is carefully selected by the sharp eye, especially the four Chinese players, Gao Ren, Wang Lei, Yang Xin and Zhao Jun, are enough to become the world's first-class stars in their respective positions, and even top superstars.

It is precisely because of such confidence that Gao Han dared to make the decision to reorganize.

Valverde's ability to promote young players, coupled with the assistance of Cantarero, Gao Han believes that this will ensure the growth and improvement of this group of young players to the greatest extent.

In addition to the first team, Cantarero has also brought a lot of good news to Gao Han recently.

Deco, the central midfield player during his tenure at Atletico Madrid, who previously studied through Cantarero's coaching course in Chinatown, will remain in Chinatown as a senior coach, starting from the grassroots level.

Deco is Gao Han's neighbor in Lafunca, he obviously saw his former teammate Marcos Senna retire as the coach of the China City echelon, and after Xiao Mu followed Gao Han to coach the Chinese national team, he took over the second team coach and led the China City second team to be promoted to the West League B.

For the Portuguese Brazilian midfielder, Gao Han is also very optimistic, with his wisdom and ability, as the head coach, it will definitely not be bad, and he is very low-key and pragmatic, and he has experienced many of the world's top coaches in his career, and I believe that his achievements in the future will be not small.

Equally lonely is Real Madrid's Raul, who was previously the ambassador of La Liga in North America, and Florentino has repeatedly invited him to work at Real Madrid, but he politely declined, but recently signed up for the highest level of the coach training course in Chinatown.

Obviously, he also has itchy hands and can't help but want to come out and do things.

His old friend Guti came out of the coach training course in Chinatown and then went to work for Real Madrid.

In addition, veteran Xavi Alonso, who plays for Manchester City, and Portuguese centre-back Carvalho have both signed up for the coaching training course in Chinatown, and it is clear that they are both considering transforming into coaches after retiring, and they are also the favorite players of the past.

Relying on Gao Han's fame and the club's insistence on investment for many years, the Chinatown Coach Training Center has already become a famous golden sign in European football, and many famous coaches are eager to visit it.

In Gao Han's view, these will become the foundation of Chinatown based on European football in the future.

At the same time, Chinatown's coach training center in Beijing is also cultivating talents for Chinese football, and will cooperate with many famous universities in China to offer many supporting courses such as management, marketing, and sports medicine.

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When Chinatown won the triple crown in Europe, topped European football with the hegemony of the Champions League three times in a row, and caused heated discussions around the world, Gao Han returned to China from Europe overnight after watching the Champions League final.

The new national team training camp has finally begun.

In April, the draw for the round of 12 of the Asian World Cup qualifiers was already out.

Unlike the round of 40, the round of 12 is a strong opponent, and China has no way to avoid it this time, drawing five opponents including Iran, South Korea, Uzbekistan, Qatar and Syria, which is definitely a huge challenge for China, which has been away from the final stage of the group stage for more than ten years.

What's even more unfortunate is that the first two opponents of China's top 12 group stage are away to South Korea and home to Iran, and the two games are played on September 1 and September 6 respectively, and the time is also very tight.

With the release of the schedule of the top 12, the national team training camp in June did not spare too much time, the Chinese Super League is in full swing, and the schedules of each team are very tight, and only one week can be given.

Gao Han and the Football Association are also helpless about this, after all, the Chinese Super League is so hot now, it is impossible to frequently make concessions for the national team's suspension, so Gao Han decided to cut the original two warm-up matches into one, the opponent is Kazakhstan, and the game will be arranged in Beijing, the national team's training place.

In addition to the main force of the national team, it also includes Yin Hongbo, Xiao Zhi and several other players who have performed well in the domestic league, as well as Deng Hanwen, Gao Zhunyi, He Chao and other young internationals of the national youth team.

In addition, Tang Shi, Yang Liyu, Zhang Xiuwei, Wei Shihao, Lin Liangming, Zhang Yuning, as well as Gao Ren, Wang Lei, Zhao Jun and Yang Xin, who played in Chinatown, were shortlisted for this phase of the national team training list.

Everyone was not surprised by the 40-man training squad drawn up by Gao Han himself, because the news came out early, and Gao Han has been going back and forth between the domestic arena and the European arena in the past few months, inspecting the players of various teams.

And this time in the training camp, Gao Han is not only to further run in the main lineup, but also to inspect the team's substitute lineup, further consolidate the bench thickness of the national team, and even if there are outstanding young players, Gao Han does not rule out including him in the official squad.

Therefore, the outside world is full of curiosity about the team's training camp.

But this time there was not much time for the training camp, and Gao Han didn't have much time to deal with the media reporters, so he simply adopted a closed training camp and arranged all the international players to train secretly at the Beijing Chinatown Training Center.

The focus of training is still on running and platooning.

In the case of individual ability and physical fitness, running and queue can maintain the integrity of the team's tactics, which is the magic weapon for the team to defeat the enemy, and it is not difficult to see from the previous two games that the international players do have obvious deficiencies in running without the ball and tactical literacy.

In addition, Gao Han also has to prepare a second plan, which is to defend and counterattack.

The Top 12 is different from the Top 40 in that the intensity of the former's competition and the strength of the opponent far exceed that of the latter.

After Gao Han took over the national team, he had a certain understanding of the strength of the national football team, and he also knew the strength of the Maldives and Qatar, so he dared to adopt a pass-and-control style of play in front of these two teams and resolutely attack.

But the next round of 12 will face teams like South Korea and Iran, and the national football team will not be able to compete with these two teams in terms of strength no matter what, especially South Korea, so they can only play to their strengths and avoid weaknesses and use targeted tactics to win.

As Gao Han has always said, strength determines the choice of the team.

As a weak team, the Chinese team often has no choice.

In addition to the above tasks, Gao Han also has to inspect this group of young players in the team, it can be said that the training time of the week is very tight, Gao Han and the coaching staff even want to use every minute as an hour, where is there time to think about other things?

Fortunately, team leader Li Tie and other staff members of the national team understood the difficulties of Gao Han and the coaching staff, and took the initiative to undertake many tasks, including dealing with the outside media, so that Gao Han and the coaching staff could devote themselves to the training work without distraction.

Although the training camp is located in Daxing, Beijing, during the training camp, Gao Han and the international players basically ate and lived together, and did not go home, and he also took advantage of the spare time to communicate with a group of young players in the team and exchange their experiences, so that they can better understand the long-term planning of the national team and Gao Han's coaching philosophy, especially several foreign players.

The four players in China Town are all hand-picked by Gao Han, born in the youth training lineage, needless to say, the potential is undoubted, and it is also what Gao Han values the most, and the overall strength is also outstanding among the young generation of the current national team, Zhao Jun and Wang Lei have the strength to enter the national team substitute lineup.

This summer, Chinatown will be restructured in a big way, with the departure of a group of stars in the current year, more opportunities for young players, and young rookies like Zhao Jun and Wang Lei will also enter the first team, and there will definitely be opportunities to play.

As for Gao Ren and Yang Xin, they are both players who have been vigorously cultivated in China's city, among which Yang Xin's development trajectory is very clear, but Gao Ren is more ambiguous, he can be qualified for any position in the front court, and his ability and potential are undoubted, the premise is how to position him in the best position.

With Zhao Jun and Wang Lei, who have already appeared in the first team in China Town and played in the Copa del Rey, Lin Liangming's treatment in Real Madrid is much worse, and it is even difficult for the second team to play the main team, Gao Han's advice to him is to play more games.

He is only nineteen years old, which is the age when he urgently needs to practice and accumulate experience, and Real Madrid's current situation is not suitable for the growth of young players at all, let alone Lin Liangming, even those potential rookies in the first team are difficult to get opportunities.

Rather than that, it's better to settle for the next best thing and play for a team that can play.

Among the many foreign players, in addition to the four players in Chinatown, the best developed is Zhang Yuning, who plays for the Netherlands.

He was selected for the national team last time, but Gao Han never had a chance to negotiate with him, this training camp will focus on his performance, and even consider giving him a chance to play in the warm-up matches, and just helped Vitesse win the trophy for the first time in history in the final of the Dutch U19 Cup, and performed well.

Moreover, the 19-year-old also encountered some problems in the Eredivisie and had to resort to the cold.

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