Chapter 148: National Olympic Warm-up Match
A month passed quickly, although in terms of time, a month was a little short, but the men's basketball team thought that this training camp was very helpful to them. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
The men's basketball team has a new understanding of basketball after experiencing this exchange with the Lakers.
The coaching staff gradually realized that they were lagging behind, and they began to face up to their shortcomings and correct them. Under the management of Li Rui, the Chinese coaching staff began to establish their own data system, establish management files for each men's basketball player, and formulate short-term training goals and long-term training goals for each player, the Basketball Association also applied for a special fund from the Sports Federation for the establishment of a national basketball player database, which is a bold attempt, but also a new breakthrough in Chinese sports, the Basketball Association will hire professionals to manage and update this database, this attempt has been strongly supported by the General Administration of Sports.
The players of the men's basketball team fully realized their shortcomings after playing with the American players for a month, they originally thought that their strength should be able to become a rotation player even if they can't play the main team in the NBA, and it was the Americans who didn't know the goods to make them unable to enter the NBA, but when they really saw what NBA-level players were, they realized how ridiculous their original cognition was, and they began to settle down to face their flaws and start to correct them from the most basic actions.
The Lakers' trip to China this time is also fruitful, first and most importantly, it is confirmed that Liu Han's strength has not decreased, on the contrary, it has become better, and Liu Han also said that he will return to the NBA at the right time. Secondly, the Lakers management has made close contact with the Chinese government, the Lakers will establish a basketball school in China and will jointly hold a short-term coach training with the Basketball Association every year, aiming to help the development of China's basketball industry, and the Lakers have also obtained permission to establish their own stores in various major cities in China, which is what David Stern has always wanted to do but failed to do, and the Lakers have successfully gained a foothold in this potential market with the help of their relationship with Liu Han.
A large number of Chinese sporting goods manufacturers waved checks to sign endorsement contracts with Lakers players, although these endorsement contracts cannot be compared with the endorsements of first-line or superstars, but relatively speaking, these endorsements are a lot of benefits for these players in the NBA rotation.
Even O'Neill signed an endorsement contract in China, although the value of this endorsement contract is not high, but it only takes one advertising shoot to earn nearly one million dollars or make O'Neill very happy, but he is very curious about what kind of medicine this drug he is going to endorse - "Silver Throat" Throat Treasure, with the help of his new friend Yao Min, O'Neill tried this medicine, it was actually sweet and cold and delicious, O'Neal, who usually likes sweets, actually began to eat this thing as a snack.
A month passed quickly, the Lakers left China and returned to the United States, but Li Rui and some training equipment remained, Li Rui is now officially the assistant coach of the men's basketball team, and has also become the executive deputy director of the newly established basketball technology management center, the director is named by the chairman of the basketball association.
Liu Han is also about to leave the training base for Haigeng in Yunnan Province, where he will gather with the national Olympic team to prepare for the Olympic football match and will participate in three warm-up matches in the next month.
In addition to the personnel who participated in the last semi-finals, the training staff of the national Olympic team this time also added three overage players Tao Wei, Fan Zhiyi and Xie Hui, who played for the German B Aachen team.
The national Olympic team was divided into Group B this time to participate in the Olympic Games, the opponents in the same group are Spain, Chile and Morocco, which is not a very good position, in the same group Spain and Chile are well-known strong teams in world football, although the national Olympic team is dominated by young players, but in terms of their football heritage, the strength of the national Olympic team is very far behind them, and the other opponent Moroccan team is also very strong, many players in their team are playing in Ligue 1.
For such a grouping, the national Olympic team specially formulated a targeted warm-up match, and the opponents were Portugal, Nigeria and Uruguay.
Liu Han came to Haigeng after the first with the National Olympic team for adaptive training, for Liu Han's status in the team, all players are recognized, even the "big man" Fan Zhiyi does not want to challenge Liu Han's status, as a star who has just won the title of the best player and the best midfielder in the Champions League, domestic players do not feel that they have such a status and honor to provoke each other, and most of the domestic players know that Liu Han is not just an ordinary player, he has the ability to go straight to the top, Even the leaders of the Football Association treat Liu Han with great respect.
Horton can be said to be proud of the spring breeze recently, leading the team to the Olympic Games, which makes him speak more vigorously, the Football Association no longer sets up the Chinese coaching staff to restrain Horton, but let Horton do it, Wang Junsheng also clearly knows that he has only one way to go in the future after being re-elected, that is, to let Chinese football achieve good results, with good results, everything is fine, without good results, it is estimated that his position will not sit stable.
As the weakest team in the group, Horton did not feel that he had the strength to challenge the opponent after Liu Han, so Horton's training arrangement for the national Olympic team is defense and physical fitness, which is also the purpose of his training camp on the plateau.
Liu Han behaved very low-key after coming to the National Olympic team, as usual with his teammates, he said what he should say, laughed when he should laugh, and his low-key also won the trust of his teammates, and no one would want to deal with domineering people.
In the training of the national Olympic team, Liu Han still found the problem of insufficient core strength of his teammates, which is probably a common problem of domestic athletes.
Liu Han introduced his training mode at Arsenal to his teammates of the National Olympic team, and handed over the yoga training and standing kung fu that he had been insisting on to his teammates.
On July 10, 2000, after a week of intensive training, the national Olympic team welcomed its first warm-up opponent, the Nigerian team.
The Nigerian Olympic team will also participate in this year's Olympics, but they were placed in Group A, and although there are no Asian teams in Group A, the Nigerian team still chose to play a warm-up match against the Chinese Olympic team, partly because the relationship between the two countries has been good, and partly because China has provided enough appearance fees.
The 'African Eagles' were very good, they shocked the world by winning the Olympic gold medal at Atlanta 1996, and although the players who participated in that Olympics were too old to compete, Nigeria has a good football tradition and the physical fitness of their players is excellent.
In the game, the Chinese team defended comprehensively, the scene was very ugly, Horton put Liu Han in the single forward position, but due to the lack of players in the midfield who could feed Liu Han with cannonballs, and the Chinese team players were very uncomfortable under the fierce scramble of Nigerian players, which made the Chinese team almost not threaten the opponent's door in the first half of the game, on the contrary, Nigeria took advantage of a loophole in the Chinese team's back line to score a goal, and Horton's five-back formation seemed too conservative.
After the second half, Horton decisively changed his tactics, he put Liu Han back in the back position, and let Xie Hui and Zhang Yuning, who played in the German Second Division, serve as forwards, and the front court has been dominated by young players of the "Jianlibao team".
This adjustment allowed the Chinese team to stabilize the situation in the second half, although the Chinese team players looked very unstable under the close pressure of the Nigerian players, but after Liu Han sat in the back, Nigeria's attack was suddenly blocked.
However, the national Olympic team was unable to break through the door of the Nigerian team, Liu Han did not take a set-piece in this game, and Horton wanted to use Liu Han's set-piece as the team's secret weapon.
After losing the first warm-up game, the national Olympic team summed up the experience, Horton is no longer entangled in Liu Han's position arrangement, the team's strength is weak, instead of thinking about how to sneak attack and score, it is better to defend wholeheartedly, and then find opportunities to use set-pieces to break the game.
A week later, the national Olympic team welcomed their second warm-up match opponent, Portugal.
Although the Portuguese team did not participate in this year's Olympic Games, they have a group of very good young players in the team are growing, due to the limited number of places for the national team to participate in the European Cup, so the Portuguese Olympic team, which is dominated by young players, wants to find some suitable warm-up opponents in the summer, the Chinese team looks like a good choice, and Macau just returned to China last year, and the relationship between the two countries is in a honeymoon period.
Horton took this game very seriously, and the Portuguese team and the Spanish team belong to the same Latin family in southern Europe, and their team style is similar.
In this game, the national Olympic team devoted itself wholeheartedly to defense, Liu Han sat in the back, Fan Zhiyi served as the captain, and the national Olympic team rarely played a wonderful defense, so that the Portuguese team did not score anything in the first half.
After the start of the second half, the young talents of the Portuguese team began to strengthen their attack, and their understanding of the Chinese team was limited to Liu Han alone, but it was such a "weak" team that made them almost not even shoot a few times in the first half, and the young people of Portugal were inevitably a little angry.
However, just as the Portuguese players began to push their defensive line near the center circle, the Chinese team began their own counterattack.
After Liu Han broke the ball in the backfield, the accurate long pass found the forward line speed is not weaker than the Portuguese player Li Jinyu, Li Jinyu drove straight into the ball with the ball, and shot decisively outside the penalty area, the Portuguese defenders in the defense did not expect that the Chinese striker would have such a choice in the counterattack, which made Li Jinyu unguarded when shooting, and the Portuguese goalkeeper's save was blocked by the defender, and Li Jinyu scored a leading goal for the National Olympic team.
After scoring a goal, the national Olympic team continued to shrink its defense, and the leading score gradually relaxed the mentality of the national Olympic team players, and made their defensive efficiency improve a lot.
In the end, the Portuguese team lost 1-0 in this warm-up game, which was a small upset.
Next, the national Olympic team will continue its preparations, and in mid-August to welcome their last opponent in the warm-up game, Uruguay, and Liu Han will also return to the men's basketball team to participate in the men's basketball warm-up game after participating in this warm-up game, and then he will come to Australia with the national Olympic team in advance, after all, the group stage of Olympic football will be held before the opening ceremony, and Liu Han still has important tasks at the opening ceremony. (To be continued.) )