It was still so dry and hot, it was not yet ten o'clock in the morning, and it was as if people were being stuffed into the stove and baked. There is hardly any wind. If there was wind, people might be better, but when the wind is over, it is irritating, and as soon as the slight coolness has dissipated, the heat wave will envelop people so tightly that even the air they breathe in seems to smell of roasted earth. In the morning, I also asked the hotel to send someone to sprinkle water for this lawn, and I don't know if the hotel's gardener is lazy, or the land is too thirsty, anyway, when people step on the lawn, through the composite rubber on the sole of the shoe, you can also feel that the lack of moisture of the sand is collapsing in the **, and when people fall down in the barley and then get up, all these exposed places on the head and face will be accompanied by fine sand particles, patting and pulling several times, and may not be able to clean. These little things are absorbed by the sweat of people, not because they are full of water and stick to people, because dry places like the hem of a sweatshirt are not very sandy......

Veteran coach Zheng Changsheng stood in the field with a whistle behind his back, watching his two assistants arrange for the players to do basic actions such as passing the pole without the ball.

After so many days, the players have become acquainted with each other, and while they are waiting in line to complete the training subjects, they will tell each other some innocuous jokes, or bring out someone's recent stinky thing to make a joke, maybe discuss the news on TV last night, and when they have finished the training with neither serious nor too casual care, they will pick up the topic and continue the conversation. Occasionally, someone would play a prank, and the person being teased would laugh and curse, and then everyone else would laugh happily for a while.

The completion was a scene of harmony.

Zheng Changsheng is quite satisfied with the atmosphere in the team, and it is not easy to let the players who are not so familiar with each other and have a little hostility and wariness because of history stand together for training in a short period of time. He himself admired himself a little.

But there are more dissatisfactions. He has told Sun Junshan very directly that if he wants to rush to the first B with the existing twenty-five players, it is almost a fool's dream; Not only is it difficult to break into the first B, but it is extremely difficult for such a team to stand out in any of the four groups. The most famous of these players are past their golden years, and the status of those who are in their playing years in their earlier teams is already indicative of their form and level, and for various reasons, the three or four players who have been linked to the team have not chosen the new age club in the end. These things have made Zheng Changsheng, the head coach, scratch his scalp.

Even the existing team members can't let Zheng Changsheng feel comfortable for a moment.

The first guard line, two of the players who said in advance that they were good but tried every possible way to push the committee are defenders, and they are the main force in Zheng Changsheng's mind, their resignation almost made Zheng Changsheng have no catch, fortunately, assistant coach Dai Zhenguo has the ability, he just found two defenders from two A-A clubs that are not up to the bottom of the team, and one of the two defenders has also played several games in this year's league, which actually proves the strength of these two people. The second is the midfielder, several of the main players are older, with their current physical fitness, it is a little difficult to stick to the next game, not to mention that this year's second division league is a competition system, there is a game in three or five days, such an intensive game process will definitely teach these veteran players to be unbearable, not only the body can not bear it, but also psychologically will knock out the drum - in fact, there are already players in front of Zheng Changsheng to reveal this meaning, if they can't withstand it in the second half of the group stage," Zheng Gui, you must take care of a few of us." The meaning of this could not be clearer. What are you waiting for? Of course, it's their bodies and their performance. In front of whom? Naturally, it was in front of the club and Sun Junshan. Why wait? These veteran players who have retired or are about to retire to play football in the new era, how can it be to continue their football career, it doesn't matter to them whether the team is fighting in the second division or fighting in B next year, the important thing is that rushing to B means that they will have more money, even if they can't go to B and B, it is a good thing to go to Chengdu to play in the finals, which also means a lot of money - money, which is the only idea of these players to come to the new era.

The biggest problem is in the forward line!

Zheng Changsheng originally pinned his hopes on the forward line to find good foreign aid, but a few days ago a notice from the Football Association made his wish come to naught - from the perspective of training domestic players, all clubs participating in the second division this year have reduced their foreign aid quotas by one, considering the actual situation, the clubs that have used up the three foreign aid registration places are not in this case; Starting next year, second division clubs will not be allowed to have foreign players, and at the same time, this year's second division will not have two or more foreign players per team per game at the same time......

When they received the notice, Sun Junshan and Zheng Changsheng jumped up together and scolded their mother. The club now has two foreign players, which means that they can't register a new foreign striker unless they immediately spend one of the two foreign players, but it also means that the club will pay tens of thousands of dollars in compensation, and seeing that the date of the game is approaching, where will they go to find such a suitable foreign striker!

In the past few days, Sun Junshan has been running around for this matter, and he is very busy.

Ay! They now miss the Russian striker they rejected, but now they have found a new club, mixed well in the first and second divisions, and scored in the last round of the league......

With only three strikers in the team, Zheng Changsheng faced such a situation, which made him overstretched in the line-up. If any of the three strikers slip up in training and games, he won't be able to cry – it's almost a sign that the New Era Club has found a ticket to next year's Second Division......

After several groups of training, the players have already seen sweat, and those players who can't stand this kind of hot weather have already taken off their jerseys and are doing movements back and forth on the field with their bare backs. Seeing Dai Zhenguo looking towards him, he motioned to the team members to stop and rest. The team members immediately returned to the shade on the edge of the field to wipe their sweat and drink water to rest, and a few lazy guys even simply lay on the grass and closed their eyes comfortably. At this time, the two team doctors were busy, and several team members had injuries to their legs and feet, so they had to take advantage of this time to change the players into dry bandages or do some simple massage treatments for the players. The gloomy future of the team is not just about the players and the coach, the fate of everyone in the club is tied to it, and everyone is bound to the unpredictable outcome for at least the next three or four months.

Zheng Changsheng also returned to his seat at the edge of the venue, drank a few sips of water, stared at him for a long time, and took out his notes from his trouser pocket to continue pondering his never-ending thoughts. He didn't go over and talk to the team. He's not like his two assistants, who can talk to the guys. In the more than 30 years he has been a coach, he has always adhered to the principle that a coach should have the majesty of a coach, a father, but not a brother - he can talk to the players from the bottom of his heart, but he will never sit with the players and drink and make noise. The team members have more or less heard about this old coach who pays attention to the "dignity of the teacher", and a few of them are even disciples of Zheng Changsheng's disciples, and they don't dare to come over and make noise. Since Guan Mingshan, who saw that everyone had eyes on the top of his head, was kicked by the old man in the barley during training, no one dared to stand in front of him. You don't want to think about it, who is Guan Mingshan? He was the main force of the Liaoning team when he won ten consecutive championships, and Guan Heizi who dared to mess with the coach in the game, but he was such a character, he didn't dare to say anything when he was kicked over by the old man, and he got up and obediently went to training......

The small notebook is a jumble of numbers and symbols, as well as scribbled handwriting of different thicknesses, even if others look at it for a long time, they may not be able to understand what is recorded on it—even most of the words can only be guessed by imagination. But these are the things that Zheng Changsheng has been thinking about recently, what kind of personnel combination and what kind of tactical arrangement can make his team go further.

Going further? Speaking of this, Zheng Changsheng was angry. In the spring, he was holding his grandson at home, Sun Junshan somehow found him, and when he heard that he was going back to the league to suffer on the stove, and that he was coming to coach a newly formed second division team, he flatly refused at that time. But what Sun Junshan said at that time was a mess, who had already said it, who had already done it, who had already done it, who was the defender, who was in the midfield, and the two main players on the forward line were former internationals...... Now Zheng Changsheng can be regarded as understanding, the team that Sun Junshan said at that time was Mingyuan, the provincial city in the same city, and most of the players he said without frowning at that time were on the Mingyuan team...... Of course, he also knew that he couldn't complain about Sun Junshan, and the wealthy Mingyuan Club didn't treat money as money at all, and bundles of banknotes were scattered, and the people who were originally going to come to the new era naturally turned around and went to Mingyuan halfway, or went to other clubs that could pay a higher price. Moreover, Mingyuan's method of throwing money regardless of the cost has also directly raised the market of this year's second division league, and the price code of two or three qualified players was found before, but now it is not enough to find one. If it weren't for a few stupid clubs with a lot of money to raise prices, if he hadn't been able to find the ideal player in his mind, how could he Zheng Changsheng spend so much money to find one...... Find a player like Gao Jinsong?

He couldn't help but obliquely looked at Gao Jinsong, who was sitting not far away. He was slamming his sneakers upside down on the grass while talking to two teammates who knew him well.

Zheng Changsheng exhaled helplessly. He still doesn't know if he did the right thing to find this little guy who hasn't played a professional league game or if it's wrong. Say that he did something wrong, Gao Jinsong is not only a rare left-footed player, but also has work under his feet, delicate technique, concise movements, broad vision, and flexible brain - the day before yesterday, he made a cameo appearance in a mid-lane offensive organization, whether it is a side or a straight stopper, it is very old and spicy, according to assistant Dai Zhenguo, the team "lived"; He also performed a one-turn ball shot, although the ball did not go in, but his almost on the spot and had a clear time in the air and then twisted his waist and turned his head to attack the goal, which impressed everyone present, until the evening, the two assistant coaches discussed this matter, and proposed, if there is really anything wrong with the forward line, it is completely possible to use Gao Jinsong to go up, for reason, everyone has seen his impact, close shots and headers have two brushes......

Yes, Zheng Changsheng also admitted that Gao Jinsong does have brushes, and there are more than two brushes. In the past few days, he has asked Gao Jinsong to play from a defender to a striker, except for the goalkeeper, he can play in any position, and he can play any position with a clear eye, which teaches him that people who have dealt with football all his life can not help but admire. Hey, if you want to become this kind of jack-of-all-trades player, in addition to having high talent and talent, you have to rely on the hard work of the day after tomorrow, Gao Jinsong must have suffered a lot for this, and he doesn't know how many times more sweat and tears he shed than others!

But that's it, Zheng Changsheng couldn't make up his mind where to put Gao Jinsong, because this young player has a fatal weakness - he has no speed!

He found Gao Jinsong's problem in the first training class, and at that time he thought it was because Gao Jinsong had not trained systematically for a long time, but in the next few training and confrontation exercises, his disadvantage in speed not only affected his teammates who partnered with him, but even dragged down the entire team, and even his teammates were scolding him.

It is impossible for a young player like Gao Jinsong to be buried, and the vision of the national team coaches at all levels who run back and forth across the country is not so bad, and they can miss a good seedling that Zheng Changsheng can see at a glance, there must be something wrong with this, and this problem is definitely not a small problem......

He called Gao Jinsong to the coaching room with doubts.

In front of several coaches, Gao Jinsong calmly admitted that he had no speed, never had speed, not because he had any injuries, but because he was not the material for sprinting. His sprint was the worst in the old provincial team, finishing third from bottom in the 100m, just a little better than the two goalkeepers. It is for this reason that he has not been selected for even one training camp of the national junior team, let alone the national youth team. The only thing he's better than others is that he can play almost any position on the pitch, and although he hasn't been able to play a few full games since he was promoted to the senior team, he has been on the bench for all games and has often been able to get a chance to play......

All the games are on the bench!

In Zheng's view, this sound more like a great irony. This is simply a reminder that he also has to prepare a fixed seat for Gao Jinsong on the bench.

Accurate judgment and decisive kicking are the basic qualities that a defender should have; Tough style, solid defense, insight, appropriate emphasis, this is a requirement for a midfielder; A keen sense of smell in front of goal, not only to shoot but also to create chances for his team-mates, is a prerequisite for being a good striker. These things can be seen in Gao Jinsong, but he was recruited by Zheng Changsheng as a left winger, and a full-back who is burdened with the task of assisting has no speed...... This, how do you say that?!

This guy is really a tasteless chicken rib that is not willing to be discarded!

But one thing is clear, and that is that in Zheng Changsheng's tactics for the team, there is absolutely no place for Gao Jinsong, and he can only sit on the sidelines as a permanent substitute and watch his teammates run. Thinking about it this way, Zheng Changsheng is a little complacent, having such a jack-of-all-trades player is actually a blessing, when other head coaches are still struggling with who to put on the bench and who to put who to put on the bench, he has reserved a back road for all positions. At the same time, he couldn't help but have some resentment, which actually followed the path that Gao Jinsong reminded him - I will sit on the bench for all games.

He sighed indifferently. He was originally looking for a replacement for Chen Mingcan's left side, but now he has found a replacement for the whole team. Should he celebrate this, or should he be distressed by it?

Fortunately, his performance on the left side is still very good, which is the only place where Gao Jinsong can teach the old coach to be satisfied. In a one-on-one confrontation, Chen Mingcan, who has passed the peak of his sports career, can't stop him at all, if he has a little speed, then Zheng Changsheng will definitely not hesitate to let Chen Mingcan be his substitute......

This thought made the old coach himself laugh.

If Gao Jinsong still has speed, I'm afraid that those A A giants will also cry and shout to come up and grab it, can it be the turn of the new era to pick this cheap?

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The second and fourth buildings of Wenhui Hotel are the offices and dormitories of the New Era Club. I don't know what the reason is, this provincial club actually used this place as its temporary base, and many unknown players began to inquire about this as soon as they found out the situation inside and outside the club, but no one could ask why. Gao Jinsong also had doubts in his heart, but he didn't want to ask - it had nothing to do with him. For him, as long as the club can strictly enforce the contract, whether it is in the hotel or in the mountains?

He is a strange face in the team, no matter how good the memory of other players is, it is impossible to remember a young player who has appeared a few times in the first and second divisions, plus he is the kind of small character who does not like to talk, so people don't care much about him. After coming for so many days, everyone still only knows what his surname is, as well as some very brief basic information. As for the colors he played on the training ground, it was not a big deal in the eyes of the players who specialized in the position, and now everyone knows that he is absolutely slow, which makes those main players even more reassured: he is a substitute at most, and it is impossible to pose much threat to their main position!

Gao Jinsong had already hung up the phone with his two sisters and told him about his current situation, and the sisters were not only happy for him, but also told him a lot of words, such as to leave a good impression on the coach and the club, such as to have a good relationship with teammates, to pay attention to his body, and so on. He didn't take it seriously. He thought it was funny, after so many years, the eldest sister and the second sister still regarded him as a child. He is already twenty years old, he is a man who is a man at the top of the house, and he can weigh what he can and can't do!

The only thing that made him uncomfortable was that the second sister was reluctant to go home during the summer vacation, and she had already found two tutor errands in Guangzhou, and was ready to take advantage of the holiday to earn more money, so as to reduce some of the burden on the family. He had no choice but to remit 2,000 yuan to his eldest sister and let her watch the subsidy for the family. As for himself...... Anyway, there is everything here, there is no money for food and accommodation, and even the toothpaste and towels are all prepared in the hotel, so he has 100 yuan of pocket money to cover everything......

His wishful thinking was shattered immediately.

On that day, Ma Cheng celebrated his birthday, and his teammates, who were familiar and unfamiliar, went to celebrate his birthday, and there was also the meaning of taking this opportunity to contact his feelings. Ma Chengcheng chartered a whole solo cross-courtyard in a deep and secluded restaurant not far from the hotel, and he didn't know where to find a large group of coquettish and frivolous young ladies to accompany him, drinking and singing and dancing, and tossing and turning until one or two o'clock in the middle of the night. That night, Gao Jinsong gave a gift of 1,000 yuan. This is already the most shabby gift money, it is said that the young lady that night was found by Qiu Guangshuo, and Qiu Guangshuo spent seven or eight thousand ...... But this 1,000 yuan gift money was also borrowed by Gao Jinsong from Zhang Chi, who was in the same room.

Fortunately, there are not many characters like Ma Cheng in the team. Even so, Zhang Chi, who was in the same room, couldn't bear it, he had some acquaintances on this team, and they all celebrated their birthdays back and forth in this month, and he gave gifts of five or six thousand.

"My birthday is in the wax moon." Every time he came back, Zhang Chi, a Beijing player who was four years older than Gao Jinsong, would complain with a mouth full of alcohol.

Gao Jinsong could only look at it with a smile, expressing understanding for his bad situation.

On the morning of 23 July, a notice was posted in the corridor on the ground floor of Building No. 4, which was used as a dormitory, that the afternoon training had been temporarily cancelled and that the meeting would be held in the conference room on the third floor of the main building of the hotel.

"It's time to announce the policy." Zhang Chi, who was carrying his sneakers, only glanced at the notice, and said very experiencedly, "It is estimated that the division list and schedule of the group stage will also come out." Look, it's time to make money. ”

In fact, as Zhang Chi said, when all the players and coaches gathered in the spacious and bright round table conference room on time, Sun Junshan went straight to the point after a few ordinary opening remarks.

The unfortunate thing finally happened, the New Era Club failed to avoid the powerful provincial city of Mingyuan, not only did it not avoid Mingyuan, but Qingdao Double Happiness, whose strength cannot be underestimated, is also in this group......

No one looked surprised as the news had already been published in the newspapers, but the conference room was still surprisingly quiet at this moment, which made the originally faint noise of the large air conditioners placed in the corners of the two rooms now sound unusually harsh. The cool air also became viscous, and it seemed to be slowly solidifying. All this makes people feel panicked and have a dry mouth.

Sun Junshan coughed, and then said: "For us, the current situation is indeed very serious, but we are not without opportunities,—— don't you all often say a word?" Football is round, and anything can happen on the football field! He smiled and looked around, but no one paid attention to him, everyone lowered their heads slightly, and their eyes were calmly staring at the things in front of them. Only three or two young players like Gao Jinsong grinned at him, which was kind of a response to his joke that was not funny at all.

Sun Junshan didn't care about everyone's indifference, only opened his briefcase, pulled out a printed document and said: "In view of the current development of things and the situation we expected is very different," he said, referring to the fact that there are two promotion favorites in one division, "so the club has also adjusted some rewards and punishments." He looked around again, but no one paid any attention to him. The people sitting here are all old oilmen who are messing around on the football field, so they won't pay attention to Sun Junshan's nonsense. If the club policy announced next is not to their liking, they may slap the table with Sun Junshan and smash the bench on the spot - hmph, they are not afraid! They can do whatever they have to do when they go back, but the shareholders behind the New Era Club have invested millions of dollars in this team, and dare to drop their sleeves and leave like them?

"From the first match of the group stage, the club will implement the new reward criteria:

"The winning bonus has been increased from 80,000 to 200,000; Draw reward 80,000; There is no reward for negative field; The winning streak bonus is accumulative, and the bonus will increase by 100,000 for each consecutive win; For each additional goal difference, the prize is 40,000; For each additional point, the prize is 10,000.

"If you advance to the finals, you will have another prize of 30,000 to 50,000 yuan per person......

The few leading brothers who were originally wooden-faced immediately applauded, and said with a bright face that this time they would earn a face for the club and the team no matter what!

However, Chen Mingcan, a native of Guangdong, was alert, and when others were cheering, he still sat on his head and asked coldly: "Mr. Sun, I want to ask, how is this bonus distributed?" ”

The team members who were screaming with excitement just now immediately turned their eyes to Sun Junshan. yes, what kind of rules are these bonuses? If you wait until all the games are over and then take your time to settle the score, is there a difference between saying it and not saying it? Don't talk about the final summary, even if you send three or two games every other day, you can't stand it, in case the club sees that the momentum is not right and has the mind to repay the account, who are they looking for to cry?

Sun Junshan looked at these wolf-like players one by one, and finally raised a finger and said slowly: "Kick a game, let's end a game." ”

The team members who were completely relieved roared happily, slamming the tables one by one, and even the waiters in the corridor outside couldn't help but come over to see what was going on in the room, and warned them that there were other guests resting on this floor, and they should be careful not to disturb others too much.

Chen Mingcan nodded with satisfaction and asked again: "If we go to Chengdu, will we still implement this reward method?" ”

"The prize money for the first stage of the finals is like this, for each win, the bonus is 300,000, for a draw, the bonus is 120,000, one more goal difference, the net is 80,000, and the finals are promoted, and each person is rewarded with another 60,000 to 80,000 yuan......" Sun Junshan handed the document in his hand to Dai Zhenguo, the assistant coach next to him, and asked him to circulate it to the players, and continued, "In the three games of the finals, the prize for winning one is 800,000, the reward for a draw is 400,000, and a goal difference is 200,000!" As long as you are promoted to A B, one person will be rewarded with another 100,000! ”

"Money, the club has it, I'm afraid that no one will take it! It's up to you to ask for the money! ”

These prize money amounts, which are comparable to the important games in the tail stage of the A-A game, stunned everyone.

If the club is so rich, why didn't it come up with it before?

How did they know that there was no way for the shareholders of the club to come up with this money, and if they had expected that things would develop to this point, how could they not spend a lot of money to find more capable players first? They are now boasting about such a big Haikou, in addition to trying to use material stimulation to fight to the death, more importantly, they have actually died of the team's promotion, they will never believe that with the team's existing old and weak soldiers, they can really rush to Chengdu and really play in the first B......

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