Chapter 3 (12)

You Shen's place of residence is on the second floor of the base guest house, which is an ordinary single room. The furnishings in the room are almost exactly the same as the dormitory of the team members, if it weren't for the different orientations of the two rooms, it would have caused people to have a misunderstanding at first glance, why did he just leave Gao Jinsong's dormitory and turn back?

To have this single room is to be cautious of one's own meaning. According to the club's original arrangement, one of the two large suites on the fourth floor of the guest house was originally specially prepared for the head coach, but when he came today, he thought that the room was too high and insisted on refusing to live. For this matter, the general manager Wu Xingguang also blushed with him twice, and in the end he could only obey his wishes. In fact, the high floor is just an excuse for him, and the real reason is because he wants to reserve some private space for himself - if he lives in that large suite, the bright living room alone can hold an expanded club meeting, and he can't throw people who come to him to talk about work out, right? So it's still a good single room, quiet, refreshing, and no one will disturb you when you're free......

He didn't turn off the air conditioner when he went out just now, so as soon as he entered the house from the outside, the warm air in the room immediately made him feel very comfortable. He closed the door, took off his coat, and hung it on a hook on the wall. These four bronze hooks, which glowed warmly in the light, were the first request he made to the club for personal matters, and the office director and the warehouse keeper searched for a long time, and finally went to the city to solve the problem for him.

In the afternoon, he had cleaned up his room, and some of the books he read were neatly stacked on his desk, some in Chinese, some in German, and two books in English. He spent some time in Germany, and also worked as an auditor at the Cologne Institute of Physical Education for a year, and he heard that there was no problem, but he couldn't speak English, except that reading books and newspapers was not a big problem, and he couldn't even communicate with people on a daily basis. There are also a few photos scattered on the table, the first is a photo of him and his family, in which he and his wife are smiling happily, but his daughter seems to be a little absent-minded, drooping her eyebrows and not speaking, and the corners of her mouth are slightly downward. He loved the picture so much that he took it with him everywhere he went, and he still remembers why his daughter was upset when it was taken – she preferred Germany and for various reasons he and his wife had to become Belgian nationals – who was already the head coach of the Belgian national badminton team and led the team to win two individual titles in a major continental competition......

There is also a photo on the table of a little girl standing on the podium, holding up the medal hanging from her neck and smiling stupidly at the camera. This is his wife, a woman who has won the title of national champion only once in her life, and has since silently disappeared from the limelight; Because of injuries and complicated personnel relationships, she rarely appeared in public again until she retired. Since marrying him, she has not even touched a badminton racket, and this situation has continued until she accompanied him to Germany as a family member. When she first arrived abroad, despite the help of friends and acquaintances, their financial conditions were still very poor, and she often had to go to the supermarket in the evening to look for vegetables and meat that were about to expire and processed at a reduced price. Now whenever he thinks of the poor life at that time, his heart will always ripple with warmth, and indescribable happiness will wrap him tightly, and he will often sigh while stroking his wife's photo, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, looking at his wife's photo affectionately. This went on for a long time, until a Chinese whom they had only met in Germany introduced his wife to the community's sports club to do chores. After that, things were simple, the badminton team of the club she worked for soon became state champions, then national champions, then two of her students joined the German national team, and when the old-fashioned Germans realized what they had to do, the Belgian who was ahead of the curve had already negotiated terms with his wife and took away the German badminton dream with a good long-term contract and the promise of immigration as soon as possible. He opened a small trading company in Belgium, and it was also very well organized, and after a few years, he felt that he had forgotten about football, and he himself thought that he would never touch this thing again in his life, but it turned out that he was wrong, football is no longer something he wants to touch, but is deeply integrated into his blood, deeply engraved into his bones, it will only sleep, never die, as long as there is an opportunity, his desire for football will be like an old tree that hears the footsteps of spring, In an instant, endless greenery sprouts......

You won't blame me for that, will you? He asked his wife in the photo.

- Of course not.

For a moment he heard his wife's soft voice pass by his ears, and while answering him without hesitation, she nodded and smiled at him understandingly, as if to mock him for breaking his original curse and vowing never to play football again, as if to show that he had foresight.

yes, how could she blame herself? She must have expected that he would be back on the sidelines, and she had been preparing for the day. Who knows herself better than her!

There is also a photo that is probably between these two photos, because we can easily find the young You Shen from the middle of the back row, a very handsome guy with a very confident expression and a very infectious smile. But when You Shen's gaze crossed this photo, his expression immediately became gloomy, and the deep affection that had been condensed in his eyes gradually melted away like ice and snow in summer. He stared at the picture for a long time, then moved it to the back of the photographs. It seems that his feelings for it are very complicated. We can understand that in the big discussion about the superiority of physical fitness and technology back then, all of his old teammates who openly stood up and took a stand against him......

Physical fitness, or technique. The corners of his mouth twitched slightly. After so many years and so many losses, why is there still endless debate on this issue in China? This morning, he also saw a discussion about this matter in the newspaper: some people were angrily denouncing the annual Kunming Haigeng Winter Training of the Football Association, saying that it was a waste of money and labor; In the same newspaper, there were people who were shouting about the decision, saying that it was a century-old plan.

Costly?

A 100-year plan?

He rubbed his temples vigorously, as if trying to get rid of them. These people have the time to quarrel, why don't they go and do their research? See how many teenagers are still playing football? How many primary and secondary schools still have a standard football field? If you really can't do it, you can also call each club to ask, see how many clubs have second- and third-tier teams, and whether the echelon construction meets the new first-class club registration standards issued by the Football Association?

In order to reduce the operating costs of the club, Wuhan Yafeng Club made a comprehensive cut with the earlier Hubei Provincial Football Team as early as the first year of the A League. No, it's the vast majority of first-class clubs in the country – they usually only have one senior team, and many don't even have a second-tier team. The first thing he did after the head coach took office was not to familiarize himself with his players, nor to investigate potential players who could join, let alone to formulate a targeted training plan, but to make Wuhan Yafeng Club meet this registration standard and run, he and Wu Xingguang ran around the beach almost non-stop, begging his father to tell his grandmother, and finally reluctantly got this thing done. Even so, they have to pin their hopes for the final pass on the Football Association to turn a blind eye, because in the football schools they found, many families have received several deposits, and when they came to the door, they also made it clear: if the Football Association really sent people down to check the time at the same time, Hubei Yafeng could only ask for more blessings, because doing business had to be credible, and they had to give priority to the students to the earliest customers.

Wu Xingguang, who paid for it, spoke equally neatly: "It is impossible for the Football Association to send people to check at the same time, unless they don't want to do it!" ”

This is especially true of caution. In addition to a few clubs in Dalian, Shanghai and Shandong, even if there is a reserve echelon in other clubs, the number of people cannot meet the requirements of the Football Association. So this year the Football Association will definitely not be so strict, but next year it will be difficult to say.

He and Wu Xingguang have already negotiated, the echelon construction should also be mentioned on the club's agenda, even if it cannot meet the idealized requirements of "6421" promulgated by the Football Association, at least find a few football schools as the club's reserve base, even if it pays more money to the school every year, it is better than being blackmailed at the end of this kind of thing. According to his estimates, the money spent on building a football school is more than enough to go down this circle.

On the plane back to Wuhan, Wu Xingguang gritted his teeth and said: "Build!" Build it when you go back! There is still such a large piece of land in our base, it is not cost-effective not to use it! ”

You Shen thought of Wu Xingguang's expression at that time, and he felt funny, that look was like a hungry wolf. But echelon building is not so easy, students are easy to find, with the momentum of the league, you can attract countless children who dream of becoming football stars by pulling a piece of cloth, and the dormitory playground is also easy, just spend money, but where does the coach come from? Teachers in football schools are not like coaches of senior teams who worry about tactical arrangements and personnel matching all day long, in addition to teaching and practicing, they must also be good at discovering talents, and they must know how to teach according to their aptitude, which is not easy to find...... Hey, it's a headache to think about!

He opened his work bag and pulled out a few pages, which recorded some of his knowledge of Wuhan Yafeng, very rough, just the initial impression obtained through a few game videos, many players were still just a number, and he couldn't call their names at all.

The lack of strength in the forward line is an old problem of the team. The two main strikers are both average in stature, and their speed of movement is their common strength, according to You Shen's point of view, the appearance of these two people on the court at the same time is to give up the air supremacy in the front court, which is actually missing a means of scoring. I don't know why, Wuhan Yafeng just likes this kind of striker who is good at speed, counting Yao Yuan, who has been banned, the four strikers have no height advantage. His brows furrowed together, and he added a sentence next to this impression for a while: his body is not strong enough. Then a line was drawn under the word "strong", a question mark was marked, and the word "robust" was added.

These pages are full of footnotes of these sentences, and some places can no longer be written, so they have to be written on the front page or at the end of the page, and then the original position of these words is marked with a long arrow symbol.

He rubbed his hands together and reached for the teacup, only to find that the tea had already cooled. Fortunately, he is not a person who is so good at drinking tea, so after a few sips of herbal tea, he added some hot water to the water, and stared at the pages again.

He needs a tall striker now, but from what he knows, none of the players to be transferred by the clubs this year meet his requirements, and if he is asked to do the work now, there is not enough time for him to find a suitable replacement within the team. In fact, a black line was pulled diagonally in the place of "tall striker", and at the end of the black line was the word "Gao Jinsong". But these three words are surrounded by a circle, and there is a thick question mark next to it that has been depicted many times.

You Shen knew that Gao Jinsong could play many positions on the court, and he also saw Gao Jinsong play from defender to forward in a game and finally simply play the role of center, but he had not personally trained this player, and Gao Jinsong could not get his full trust like Li Xiangdong, the seventeenth in Changsha Qinyuan. Gao Jinsong can only be a choice in his helpless situation now, or rather, it provides him with some kind of thinking......

Thinking of Li Xiangdong and then of Changsha Qinyuan, which no longer exists, he couldn't help but feel sad. This is the team he pulled up with one hand and one foot, from the establishment of the team to the promotion of the first B, only he himself knows how much effort he has put into her, but in the blink of an eye, this team like his children has disappeared - hey, he still painstakingly designed such a brilliant road for it: keep Li Xiangdong and Xiang Zhihuang, and then recruit Gao Jinsong and Zhang Chi These good players, take one to two years to enter the first A, and then rely on these players who are in the playing year, properly spit out the old and accept the new, Then in a few years, Changsha Qinyuan can also be called a giant, and then strengthen the construction of the team echelon...... Zhang Chi, Li Xiangdong, Gao Jinsong, Xiang Zhihuang, a neat central axis, what a beautiful picture he sketched for Changsha Qinyuan, what a picture now? Three of them were in A, and one of them finished fourth in AB last year, and all of them became other people's wedding dresses in an instant, and he himself had to hesitate between returning to Belgium to do business and continuing to stay in China as a foreign coach.

Foreign coaches, he can't help but laugh when he thinks of this title. But it can't be helped, his current nationality is Belgium, and he is a foreigner anyway. When he signed the contract with Wuhan Yafeng, the text of the contract was also one in Chinese and one in German, and he was not good at telling Wu Xingguang, in fact, the official language of Belgium was French, but fortunately, his agent, even his wife, did not care much about this small diplomatic incident.

This little episode made his mood gradually better.

Yafeng's midfield is a bit better than the forward line, and the two central players who are more responsible for defending have been consistent, and this will be further improved after the return of Wei Honglin, who has been on loan to play in the second division warm-up. Wei Honglin was the main player of Wuhan Yafeng before he was injured, and his defensive ability will definitely not be worse than those two guys, and he should be better than those two in terms of reading ability in the game, and the most important thing is that Wei Honglin and Gao Jinsong have formed a tacit understanding, if the two cooperate with each other, whether it is offense or defense, they can provide more options for the team's tactics. He can now devise a number of tactics for Yafeng based on the pairing of these two: a double-back tactic, suitable for solid defense and then waiting for opportunities to counterattack, or using both sides to create opportunities; Classical forward tactics, which can effectively use the advantage of Gao Jinsong's long pass accuracy to instantly penetrate the opponent's defense, only need one or two effective attacks in a game to teach the opponent to fall apart; The classic 442 tactic, if you fight with the opponent in the midfield, the cards in his hand do not suffer; There are also three striker tactics, shadow center tactics, and a lot of methods that can be used, and he has a way to make the opponent anxious, even if he can win himself, he has to sweat a lot.

It's a pity that these tactics have an obstacle that is likely to be unavoidable - can Gao Jinsong adapt to the A-League?

That's a big question.

He didn't worry about Wei Honglin. After so many games, he has long seen that Wei Honglin's mind is not in the second division, but also in the new era club, many times that guy is grinding foreign workers - he can understand this, but Wei Honglin, who went to the second division to regain his former sense of ball, could not work hard for the new era club, and could not risk injury in order to block a threatening attack that may or may not be, and many times he can easily disintegrate the opponent's offensive, which also proves that he is comfortable in the second division. And his sense of position and cooperation is very strong, which can also be reflected in the cooperation between him and Gao Jinsong in the transition between attack and defense, and the more he goes to the later games, the more smooth and fit this cooperation becomes. The only thing he regrets is that it is not clear to him who is consciously strengthening this cooperation. This also troubled his judgment of Gao Jinsong's ability. After all, Gao Jinsong has never played in the A League, and although the Second Division is cruel, it can't be compared to the A A in terms of rhythm changes or physical confrontations, what if he needs a long time to adapt to the atmosphere of the game? What if he can't integrate into Wuhan Yafeng's tactical system at all? What if he was complacent because he suddenly kicked the first A? These are things that can only be proven by time and competition.

There is another place on the piece of paper in front of him that is also related to Gao Jinsong. In Yafeng's backline, there is a lack of capable substitutes for the two central defenders, and Gao Jinsong has once again become his chosen target. This guy has height, his body is not at a loss, he has a strong sense of position, decisive feet, fierce and concise movements, wide vision, excellent long passing skills, and a little cunning, he is simply a natural good defender material, it would be a pity not to let him be a central defender.

It's a shame to have him as a defender, and it's irresponsible to put a guy who has a strong sense of the big picture and can read the game quickly and make changes accordingly in such a small area.

You Shen pressed his temples again and rubbed them vigorously.

He suddenly remembered what the old coach Zheng Changsheng said to him when he was in Chengdu: "You envy me very much? When you recruit Gao Jinsong under your hands, you will know my pain now. Before that, Director Zheng also repeatedly said that he was very envious of being a good player like Li Xiangdong, not for anything else, because Li Xiangdong was very simple - except for organization and attack, there was almost no other ......

He now understands the pain of the old coach, and this guy who can play almost all positions is not very suitable anywhere, because you always feel that there may be a more suitable place for him; Moreover, Gao Jinsong's absolute speed is slow, which is not suitable for Yafeng's style of rapid counterattack, and he can't keep up with the rhythm of several speed-type forwards at all.

That is to say, even if he is determined to vacate a main position for Gao Jinsong, Gao Jinsong is likely to be incompetent for the job.

Just like those nerve-wracking times before, he summed it up and went back and forth, and he couldn't find a safe way to solve this myriad of problems, because many problems required him to solve the problem of Gao Jinsong's position first. Eventually, he was so bored that he casually put the pages together and stuffed them back into his work bag. Anyway, the league doesn't start tomorrow, he has time to slowly solve these problems, but he can't do it, so he can only learn from Zheng Changsheng, just throw Gao Jinsong on the bench, and kick it wherever he goes, maybe this guy will shoot a long shot from 40 meters away one day, and make another shining debut. Wasn't the new era brought to the door of the first b by his shocking long-range shot?

Now his first priority as a head coach is fitness!

Thinking of physical fitness, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, this matter is finally not related to Gao Jinsong, the trouble he found, a guy who can play from a defender to a striker in a ninety minute game will definitely not have a problem with physical fitness!