In Zhao Kangming's view, the return of Hu Lai and Wang Guangwei is very timely.

Because the next league will be temporarily suspended for one round due to the international break, and the next game will not be played until April 1.

They have more than 10 days to recover and get back to working with the team to find a sense of fit.

Otherwise, he would have to avoid selecting Hu Lai and Wang Guangwei in the squad for the fourth round and let them rest at home. However, this is to take the risk that the fourth round of the league may not be won.

Either the two of them may have to go on the pitch to face their league opponents before they are fully fit, and then they will not be able to stop, and there will be no time for them to rest until May.

This year, because the 2023 Asian Cup will be held in June, the domestic league will have to be suspended in early May to make concessions for the Asian Cup.

After all, the national team still has to gather for training, and it always takes about a month to prepare, so it is impossible to stop the league until the Asian Cup starts, right?

The Asian Cup is over at the end of June.

In this way, there are two fewer race days this year, and in order to compress the schedule, many times it is a double race a week.

In such a situation, if a player is not physically ready, he is likely to get injured in a busy schedule.

Now, after Hu Lai and Wang Guangwei came back, they had a good rest, and when the league started again, they would definitely be alive and well, and the fatigue of the continuous battle in the East Asian Cup would be swept away.

It's also thanks to the fact that the shining star is a team in the middle league, and there is not a single international player in the team.

Last season's international break was an opportunity for the stars to refresh themselves, and many people didn't have the concept of an international break at all.

Hu Lai and Wang Guangwei performed well in the East Asian Cup, which is a good thing for the players, but not necessarily a good thing for Zhao Kangming, the head coach.

In fact, before the East Asian Cup was played, Chinese fans were already discussing whether Hulai was qualified to play in the real national team.

It stands to reason that after completing a hat-trick against South Korea and helping Chinese football break 41 years of Koreanophobia, Hu Lai is definitely the best among young Chinese players. How could such a person not be eligible for the national team?

It is also for this reason that everyone enthusiastically fantasizes about Hu Lai joining the Chinese national team.

If it weren't for the international break immediately after the East Asian Cup, there would have been no rest at all, and some fans would have suggested that the Chinese team recruit Hu Lai now......

Of course, Zhao Kangming has no objection to his players playing for the country, but from the standpoint of coach Hulai, he still feels that it is too early for Hulai to be selected for the national team.

After all, it is impossible for the national team to let Hu Lai go to the national team to play the main team, and being a substitute to go to the national captain to see the experience is meaningless for Hu Lai, who has already won the East Asian Cup championship in the national Olympic team - if he can't play, even if he is the national team, there is no need to go.

In addition, as the head coach of the club, Zhao Kangming is not happy with the national team to transfer Hu Lai, because that will greatly affect Hu Lai's performance in the club.

He's actually quite worried about the overuse of young players who have done well on the national team.

Because there are many precedents for this in the past.

After a young player emerged and performed well, he was quickly promoted to the national team, and the players were allowed to participate in training camps in any friendly matches and warm-up matches. As a result, not to mention the fact that he couldn't play the game after he went, the frequent training camps also disrupted the club's preparation plan.

After all, no manager wants to entrust a player who will always leave the club to go to the national team training camp - when the club needs him, he has spent too much energy and lost his form because of the frequent call-ups for the national team. In the interest of the club, why should the club reuse such a player who is not able to contribute to the team at all?

When a young player is not valued at the club and cannot play consistently, it is difficult for him to improve.

And the national team saw that this young man couldn't play in the club, why should I recruit him?

It was given up by both ends.

As a former youth director who brought out a lot of young players, Zhao Kangming has seen too many examples of this.

He believes that this is a deformed way of cultivating young players in Chinese football, which has been lagging behind for a long time.

After all, Chinese football has lagged behind for too long, and there is an urgent need for young talents to stimulate the public's attention and boost everyone's confidence.

This will cause a young man to nod his head slightly, and he will be targeted by fans and media across the country, as well as by the Football Association.

If this player performs well, then the national team will use it hard and use it to the death - anyway, fans and the media are happy to see such young talents play for their country and improve the team's performance.

A 19-year-old player must participate in the matches of the national youth, the national Olympic team and the national team of the third-level national team, and he will never stop after playing the Asian Youth Games and the Asian Games and the national team after the Asian Games.

When the player is injured, a young player will continue to be used.

Now it's really hard to say, if Zhang Qinghuan hadn't fallen by himself, would the national team and the National Olympic team also use him at both ends until they are scrapped.

Thinking about it this way, maybe Zhang Qinghuan's self-degradation protected him, and at the most critical moment of his growing body, he was not injured due to the heavy competition tasks......

It is precisely because of this consideration that after Hu Lai and Wang Guangwei returned to the team, Zhao Kangming specially talked to them individually.

There is the Asian Cup in June this year, and he is now particularly worried that the national team will call up these two young people to participate in the Asian Cup, although it is impossible to let them play nine times out of ten, but these two months are not good for himself to take a holiday, rest and rest at home, and recover from fatigue?

Young people may not be the same as he thinks, and they will prefer to wear the national team jersey, play for their country, and participate in major competitions such as the Asian Cup.

Therefore, Zhao Kangming had to make it clear to the two of them that he did not suggest or want them to participate in the Asian Cup, and he would also ask the national team not to recruit them to play any national team games through personal relationships, even if it was a warm-up match and a friendly match.

He explained to the two of them why he did this, so as not to have a dislike between the master and apprentice, so that Hu Lai and Wang Guangwei thought that he Zhao Kangming deliberately blocked their way up.

Of course, if Hu Lai and Wang Guangwei feel that he is just making excuses after listening to his explanation, they actually want to give two young players who have just performed well in the East Asian Cup to make it easier for him to manage...... That's their business too.

Zhao Kangming would not choose to hide it because he was worried that they would misunderstand.

As for what the young people who have gone out and seen the world think, that's their business, and he doesn't care.

But fortunately, both Hu Lai and Wang Guangwei have a lot of trust in Zhao Kangming, and Hu Lai directly said that if the national team really wanted to recruit him, he would refuse.

Zhao Kangming scolded him while being moved: "Are you crazy? It's a big no-no for a player to refuse a call-up to the national team, unless you're injured. There has always been only the matter of whether the national team wants you or not, where are you qualified to refuse or not? I'll help you block it and you can refuse it yourself! I'll tell you about the national team, don't keep quiet, unless you don't want to be in the national team in the future......"

Hu Lai hurriedly thanked Director Zhao, he was patronizing his mouth just now and forgot about this stubble.

"Blame me, blame me, of course I want to win glory for the country, Director Zhao ......"

Zhao Kangming looked at Hu Lai, who was particularly quick to admit his mistakes, and smiled: "Of course I don't want to see you unable to enter the national team." After all, I'm still waiting to see you realize your dreams in my lifetime, ha! ”

Hu Lai certainly knew what Director Zhao's so-called "dream" was.

It was indeed a "lifetime series".

"I'll work hard, Director Zhao!"

Seeing him say this, Zhao Kangming shook his head again: "Hey, don't take it too seriously, everyone knows this kind of thing in their hearts." How many people in the world are targeting it? Thousands, what about the most achievable people? One in a million. It's good that you have this grand goal, but if you take a long-term view, your feet still have to be implemented, and you have to look down at the road, otherwise you will fall on your heels at the beginning, and your great goal will not become a handle for others to laugh at you? ”

"Coach, don't worry, I have one goal this season to help us succeed in the superstardom! And when I came back, Coach Shi also talked to me, saying that he would focus on my performance in the league, and he also said that next year's U23 Asian Cup will be decided based on my performance in the club this season......"

Zhao Kangming nodded: "Shi Wuyun also told me, I will release people in the warm-up match of the National Olympic team this year, as long as you are not in bad physical condition." Let's not think about the national team first, but the national Olympic team has to play hard. ”

The two chatted for a while, and Zhao Kangming waved Hu Lai away.

But before Hu Laila opened the door, he was stopped by Zhao Kangming again: "You have a really good relationship with Chen Xingyi?" ”

Hu Lai didn't expect Director Zhao to ask this question, could it be that what happened before the start of training that day made Director Zhao misunderstand?

So he hurriedly explained: "That's definitely not as good as the relationship between me and Lao Wang, but it's not bad." ”

"You used to be rivals for the championship, and you kid ruined the goal of three consecutive high school national championships."

"This ...... Ha, Zhao instructed me to forget this stubble if you didn't mention it. Now that we're all professional footballers, who cares about the grudges of the high school national competition......"

"Is there really no contradiction?"

Hu Lai shook his head firmly: "There is really no contradiction. ”

How can WeChat blocking be considered a contradiction? There is no contradiction, there is no contradiction, anyway, the little stars have treated us to make amends, and a group with a good attitude not only released us from the blacklist, but also sent a red envelope of 200 yuan by one person.

Seeing Hu Lai say this, Zhao Kangming didn't ask any more, he waved his hand: "Okay, then you can go back." ”

After Hu Lai left, he rethought Chen Xingyi's question and felt that he should not be in a hurry.

Chen Xingyi's strength is there, he has only been in the team for too short a time, and it has only been a month now, how can the tacit understanding be so easy to cultivate?

Now that Hu Lai has returned, he can also relax a little on Chen Xingyi and go with the flow. So as not to put too much pressure on Chen Xingyi, it is not good for himself and Chen Xingyi.

Thinking of this, he decided to continue to let Chen Xingyi play as a substitute in the next home game against the Black River North Pole Star.

Then, based on his performances, it will be decided whether to start him in the third round of the FA Cup.

(End of chapter)