Chapter 47: The Future of the Team

At the end of June 199, the players of the Prato club regrouped, including three Chinese players who had returned to China to participate in the World Cup qualifiers. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Although Chen Lin reminded him, the national football team still failed to rewrite its fate, after slaughtering Pakistan 5-0 and killing Jordan 3-0, he was complacent, with Hao Haidong, Peng Weiguo, Xie Yuxin, Fan Zhiyi, Dong Liqiang, Wu Qunli, Li Bing and a number of outstanding players of the Chinese national team in the battle with Yemen, 26 shots on goal were not gained, but they were assassinated by Yemen with an oblique long pass pushing the empty goal, and one of the reasons why the Chinese team summed up afterwards was that Schlapner was assigned to room 519 of the hotel before the game, At the time, almost everyone advised Schlapner not to live on May 19 because it was unlucky, including Yang Yimin, then the national team coach and later vice president of the Chinese Football Association. But Uncle Shi insisted on staying and insisting on not believing in evil, and the result was really defeated.

Later, in the first game against Iraq, the Chinese coaching staff, who had lost trust in Schlapna, strongly intervened in the team's tactical formulation, allowing fullback Li Bing to assist frequently, but the gap behind him was used by the opponent: about 1 minute after the second half, the Iraqi team formed a single knife through the gap behind Li Bing, and goalkeeper Xu Tao abandoned the goal and was transferred by the opponent's striker, 0:1.

Before returning to China, Chen Lin specially reminded Yang Chen and Fan Zhiyi, but unfortunately under the strong intervention of the Chinese coaching staff, Yang Chen, who was deeply appreciated by Schlapna, had no chance to play at all, and Ma Mingyu and Fan Zhiyi only got one or two opportunities to play as substitutes, and they were powerless to change the overall situation in just ten minutes.

The Chinese team that defeated Ilbid seemed to wake up from a dream, under the strong request of Schlapna, Yang Chen and Fan Zhiyi were sent to the starters, and immediately shined, on June 12 against Pakistan, Yang Chen scored two goals in 60 minutes and 89 minutes to help the Chinese team beat Pakistan 3:0; On June 16, Yang Chen scored two goals again to help the national football team sweep Jordan 4:1; On June 18, Fan Zhiyi assisted the front court and hit an earth-shattering long-range shot to help the Chinese team take revenge on Yemen 1:0; On June 20, it was Fan Zhiyi who scored a goal at the last minute in the 89th minute to help the Chinese team beat group rival Iraq 2:1. However, due to the previous two defeats of Irbid, the Chinese team finally fell behind Iraq by 1 point, failed to qualify for the group and entered the top six, and once again dreamed of the World Cup qualifiers. Schlapna, who later bore most of the responsibility, took the blame and resigned, and the Chinese national football team turned from superstitious foreign help to the old way of relying on self-reliance and relying on itself.

However, an unexpected benefit of this qualifier is that because he almost "expressed" the results of the game in advance, and several players in Prato all performed well, many officials of the Chinese Football Association were impressed by him and the Prato club, thinking that Chen Lin is a person who really has a vision and understands football, and Prato is a really high-level club, which provides a lot of convenience for Chen Lin's later behavior.

As the Coppa Italia brought forward the first qualifying round to early August before the season, the team called all the players back at the end of June, and they still have two friendlies to play in July. In the past few days when the players have come back, the new coach Spalletti has officially taken office, he has completed the handover with the Empoli club, and even moved his family to Prato, originally Spalletti planned to let his wife and children stay in Empoli, but his wife thinks that his people already belong to Prato, if the family is still in Empoli, it is difficult to make the players and fans believe him, so he moved to Prato with him, anyway, Empoli and Prato are only a little distance, and it is very convenient to meet friends.

There was no full gathering of the first team, Chen Lin first took Spalletti to visit the team's academy. It's been a hard season, the first team has holidays, but the youth team doesn't. Especially the players of the Jianlibao team, because of the expensive air tickets, even the previous Spring Festival was spent in Prato, and it is impossible to go home this summer. The Mediterranean climate is hot and dry in summer, and the Jianlibao youngsters practice almost every day under the high temperature of 37 degrees for a summer, and their skin turns tanned one by one.

At this time, the Jianlibao team was playing a practice match with the Prato under-17 youth team. On the field, Zhang Yuning and Li Jinyu partnered forwards, midfielders Sui Dongliang and Li Tie formed a double back, the left forward is Huang Yong, the right forward Zhang Xiaorui, the back line from left to right, Tao Wei, Li Jinyu, Zhang Ran, Sun Jihai lined up, just like the tactics of the Prato senior team, it can be seen that the Jianlibao team has been training effectively in the past six months, and the players have already had a Latin football flavor between passing and running.

This kind of competition is often carried out in the Prato youth training base, it is conceivable that due to the difference in nationality and culture, both sides must not be convinced by each other, but Chen Lin is very encouraging this kind of competition, young players should have a kind of "Lao Tzu is the best in the world" vitality, and even he also made a rule that the losing side should wipe the shoes of the winning side for a week. This made every game between the two sides extremely hot, but fortunately, the Prato youth team has strict rules that do not allow dangerous movements and intentional injuries, otherwise they will be expelled from the team immediately, so there have been no injuries yet. At the beginning, it was always the Jianlibao team that won, but as Chen Lin later scavenged a few treasures from various corners of Tuscany to join the Prato youth team, the two sides began to win and lose each other.

Because the Italian Football Federation has a rule that only 18 years old can sign a professional contract, and Italian law stipulates that young players under the age of 18 are not allowed to participate in youth training outside of their homes an hour's drive, so the range of materials selected by each club is actually relatively narrow, such as Prato, which is located in the center of Tuscany, can basically only find youth talent in the region. However, it has to be said that the football atmosphere in Tuscany is too good, and this period is almost full of talent.

Like at this time, the Prato youth midfielder has a black and a white midfielder, and the two of them are closely matched with one attack and one defense, but contrary to the general impression, the white midfielder is a fierce and physically strong defensive midfielder; The black midfielder, on the other hand, is an attacking midfielder with delicate skills and excellent passing.

In addition, the Prato youth team plays a three-striker tactic, and the three forwards also have their own characteristics, a small man of less than 1.7 meters breaks through sharply and passes the ball outstandingly, and the tall center forward in the middle is more than 1.90 meters, and the header is outstanding, and the strength is amazing; The rest of the striker is even more extraordinary, with incredible speed, superb shooting, not only has a strong individual scoring ability, but also creates scoring opportunities for his teammates, and his skills are very comprehensive.

In addition to these people, the left back of the Prato youth team also attracted the attention of Spalletti, although his technical movements are very non-standardized, at first glance he is from a wild ball background, but the speed is extremely fast, the breakthrough is sharp, and often assists to the front field to cut a long shot, very powerful, and Jianlibao right side of Sun Jihai is basically in a state of mutual explosion.

The academy of a team is very important because the academy players tend to be very loyal to the club that developed them, and there are many players who would rather stay at their original club with a low salary, and the list goes on. They are the cornerstone of the team and the future of the team!