For Gao Zheng, the new head coach of the Chinese team, Peilan, has mixed feelings.

When he first took over the team, the Chinese team had already qualified for the Asian Cup, so it didn't matter a dime to this result, and everyone was saying that Gao Zheng helped the team win this qualification.

Where does this put his face as a manager?

So he is also holding back his strength to prove himself and prove that this team can turn without anyone, but not without the head coach.

As a result, he lost 1:3 in the final round of the qualifiers.

Of course, it can be said that the Chinese team has already qualified in advance in this game, and the players don't need to work too hard in the game, so everyone's fighting spirit is not high, and this game is an away game, which is already difficult. So it's normal to lose 1:3 in the end.

And this is Perrin's first game in charge, and both the team and him need a run-in period.

So the result of this game has no reference value.

But in the next three friendly matches, only one was won, which made Perrin a little disgraced.

In the first friendly match, they won Macedonia 2:0, and in the second friendly match, the same opponent, the Chinese team played 0:0 with the opponent, and in the latest friendly match, the Chinese team simply lost to Mali 1:3.

He has won just one of his four games in charge, and it's starting to feel the pressure.

Originally, he thought that with his perennial coaching experience in Europe and West Asia, coaching the Chinese team should not be too much of a problem.

So even when the Football Association proposed to him that in order to facilitate Gao Zheng's integration into the new team, the Chinese team would not recruit Gao Zheng in the warm-up game, he did not protest, and even felt that it was just what he wanted - after he used the victory in these three games to consolidate his position in the team, it should be much easier to command when facing the biggest star of the Chinese team at present.

So on the one hand, he felt deep down that Gao Zheng was playing a big name, and on the other hand, he felt that this was a good opportunity to prove himself.

But now it seems, he screwed up.

He did not use these three warm-up games to prove his ability, but instead filled the Chinese media with doubts and dissatisfaction with the Football Association's selection of coaches.

Although he can't read Chinese, he knows that there are already media questioning his coaching level, they think that although he won the French Cup and Ligue 1 in Lyon, with the level of the Lyon team at that time, winning the championship was mainly due to the strength of the team, and he did not have much credit as a manager. And judging from his career, more often than not, it is a variety of failures.

Some Chinese media ridiculed him for "coaching in the West Asian League for many years and accumulating rich 'failure experience'".

For example, he went to West Asia as early as 2004 to coach, but only coached for four games in Al Ain in the United Arab Emirates before he was dismissed. Later, in 2010, he returned to West Asia to teach, but he also failed to do so:

From 2010 to 2012 he coached Koch in the Qatari League, but the results were mediocre.

He then coached Qatar's Under-22 national team, but was dismissed in the Under-22 Asian Cup qualifiers.

After class, he took charge of the Galafa team, won only two of eight games, and was sacked.

Signed for um Salal, but was dismissed after winning one and drawing two of the first three games of the 2013-2014 season.

Such a head coach who was continuously dismissed because of poor results has now become the head coach of the Chinese national team, which makes the media and fans question whether there are people in the Chinese Football Association who have taken kickbacks and collected black money to make Perrin the coach of the national team.

His successful experience in Lyon was six years ago, and the modern football world is discovering rapidly, new tactics and new ideas are changing with each passing day, and Perrin has been wandering in the quagmire of various failures in the past six years, what new things and progress can he bring to the Chinese team?

For the first time, Frenchman Perrin felt how much pressure it takes to coach the national team of the world's most populous country...... That's a different kind of pressure from the pressure he faced when he coached European teams like Lyon and Marseille.

After all, when football, the world's number one sport, and China, the world's most populous country, are combined, even the slightest smile will multiply the population geometrically.

Just when Pei Lan was under pressure, Gao Zheng came back.

This player, whom he was a little unaccustomed to before, now seems to be a lifesaver for him.

Pei Lan didn't know what expression she should use to face Gao Zheng for a while.

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On the sidelines of the training ground, in front of countless reporters and cameras, Peilan smiled and took the initiative to reach out to Gao Zheng.

And Gao Zheng hurriedly trotted two steps and held Peilan's hand.

"Good work." Perrin said in plain English.

"It's not hard, it's not hard." Gao Zheng also replied in simple English.

In this process, the flash of the camera in the hands of the reporters overshadowed the brightness of the sun, and during the day, people could feel that Gao Zheng and Pei Lan were shaken into a snow-white by the overexposure of the flash.

But under the attack of this bright light, both of them kept smiling on their faces, as if the flash light did not exist at all.

After letting the reporters take pictures, Perrin pulled Gao Zheng and turned his back to the reporters: "When we meet for the first time, I think I should introduce myself to you, Alan Perrin, the head coach." ”

Gao Zheng also introduced himself: "Gao Zheng, player. ”

Next, the interpreter entered the room and helped the two of them to communicate further.

Perrin cared about Gao Zheng's journey and whether he had a good rest, and also chatted about the situation in Atletico Madrid, concerned about Gao Zheng's integration into the team, and encouraged Gao Zheng to continue to work hard to learn Spanish and strive to be able to communicate normally with his teammates in Spanish as soon as possible.

He told Gao Zheng that the most important thing to play in a strange country is not the skills, but the language. When he heard that Gao Zheng was still living in a hotel, he reminded Gao Zheng to find a house to live in as soon as possible, living in a hotel is not a long-term solution, and only when his life is stable can he play better on the court.

For these suggestions from the head coach, Gao Zheng nodded and accepted them all.

Although he was actually ready to move out of the hotel a long time ago, when he left Madrid to come to the Chinese national team, he entrusted his agent Viviano to contact a real estate agent to help look at the house.

Seeing that Gao Zheng's attitude towards himself was quite respectful, Pei Lan also quietly breathed a sigh of relief, he was a little worried that this player was not easy to manage, but now, there is no problem in this regard.

Many people think that Gao Zheng is a very proud person and may not be easy to get along with. But this is a misunderstanding, whether it is good or not to get along depends on people. Today's Gao Zheng is actually very easy to get along with most of the time, as long as you don't take the initiative to provoke him.

So whether it is facing interim head coach Fu Bo or the new head coach Perran, Gao Zheng's attitude is impeccable, and he puts himself in the right position - no matter how high his current value and achievements, he is a player, and the head coach is the only person in this team.