According to the usual practice, before the World Cup, each national team that has been shortlisted for the top 32 will choose the opponent of the warm-up match to play, so as to achieve the intention of running in the team and practicing tactics, these warm-up matches are divided into two situations.

One is for the run-in between teams, at this time, the opponent of the warm-up game is not very important, and you can even choose a second-division team to play, the main purpose is to determine the main lineup, observe the state of the players and practice tactics;

This warm-up match takes place roughly five months after the World Cup qualifiers and one month before the end of the national leagues.

Because the league is not very tight during this time, and most of the purpose of the drill is to determine the lineup, the head coach will choose a lot of players to recruit into the team in batches, and the impact on the league is not great.

It is also because many European and American teams play in the top five leagues with most of the main players, and the more they reach the final stage of the league, the more pressure the players will become, and many clubs will not even let the players go back to their home countries to play, for them, such meaningless games are simply not worth wasting time in.

For some players, if they are not super big, they may miss the best opportunity to be selected for the national team because of such an opportunity.

After all, the state of the players accounts for a considerable part of the factor, and if they don't even have the opportunity to participate in the warm-up game, how can the coach know about the form?

And now, Fiorentina don't think about this aspect at all, several players who are going to participate in the World Cup have basically gone on vacation - Ling Feng, Lao Ma and a few young players flew directly from Barcelona to China, while several Italian players went to Rome's training base to get close to the old Maldini.

But at this time, the problem comes, Lao Ma returned to China to start forming a new Chinese national team, what about the head coach of Fiorentina?

Although there is nothing to do in Fiorentina now, it does not mean that the league is over!

The rest of the game just doesn't matter if you win or lose, but it's not enough to stop playing, and at least a few substitutes will have to take care of it.

But it's also very simple.

On the day Lao Ma went to Beijing, he held a press conference to officially announce that he would resign as the head coach of Fiorentina and officially become the head coach of the Chinese national team because of his lack of ability.

After all, players can run between club and country, and a manager has never seen it back and forth.

Fiorentina reacted very quickly and immediately held a press conference to temporarily replace the head coach of the youth team, Trof•Schulges.

Only, only temporarily......

Maradona spoke hilariously, emphasising his lack of ability – a joke that he had already won the Mini World Cup seven rounds ahead of schedule, and then led his team to the final of the Coppa Italia and the Champions Cup, and was just one step away from the summit – or rather, it was only a matter of time.

If Lao Ma's ability is insufficient, then I really don't know who else has enough ability to take over this class.

At this time, although Lao Ma announced his resignation, all Florina people will still be the head coach here, and everyone knows that Lao Ma's move is to take care of the World Cup - but it's nothing, although he can't sit in the coach's seat, but it doesn't affect his command in the two finals, and the coach of the Triple Crown is still Lao Ma.

And Fiorentina's side said very delicately, did not look for anyone, just like last year Hamburg proposed a head coach to take over the position, and the Fiorentina players did not express any sadness or other emotions about this approach, all of them were interviewed with a smile.

This is obvious, Lao Ma's departure is only temporary, after the World Cup, Lao Ma will come back to continue to be the head coach of Fiorentina, so the hero coach of the Treble is naturally still Lao Ma, and has nothing to do with others.

But having said that, it is not really necessary for the average person to give up the two trophies that are about to be handed down at the last minute - but Lao Ma is different, he is the king of the ball, and no one can hide his brilliance.

The noses of the Serie A professional league and the Italian Football Federation are smoking, and Fiorentina has been out of their control since they were bought by the Chinese girl – they can't get hold of it at all!

If the coach of the two teams of Lao Ma served together, they could still take the opportunity to play, but who would have thought that Maradona, who was happy, would resign? Or resigned when he was about to win the glory of the Triple Crown, although he was jealous, but he still admired Maradona - after all, there are not many people in this world who are willing to give up the honor they have in hand.

Another kind of warm-up game is the warm-up match arranged after the World Cup squad is determined.

The opponents selected are all targeted, and most of them are similar teams that have met opponents in the group stage.

For example, France played a warm-up match with China before the 06 World Cup, and the reason was to figure out how Asian teams would play, because they had South Korea among their opponents in the group stage.

It's just frustrating that Cisse was kicked and injured in such an inconsequential game, which is really a big loss.

This warm-up match is the focus of training before the World Cup, and the football associations of various countries are also connected to each other at this time to set their opponents in advance.

Considering that there may be a chance to meet after qualifying from the group, the opponents in such warm-up matches will try to avoid possible encounters at the World Cup - and most of them will look for underdogs, because underdogs are better suited to see their weaknesses and arrange their own line-ups.

Since the World Cup will be played soon after the end of the league, it is impossible to find many opponents in the warm-up match, and the three teams are the limit, so Lao Ma temporarily set Slovenia, the Czech Republic and Canada.

Obviously, Slovenia's style is similar to Yugoslavia, the Czech Republic's high-altitude bombing is almost the same as Germany's now, and Canada, although it is weaker, but after all, it is a North American country, and many players play in the neighboring Major League of the United States, and in general the style should be very similar to the United States.

But now, Maradona has pulled the Chinese national team, which has a total of more than 30 people, to start the selection of personnel.

After all, although Ling Feng of Chinese football now has the final say, he can't casually expel a former "World Cup hero", anyway, there is no personnel restriction now, so so the purpose of choosing so many people to join the team is to take face-to-face competition and convince the loser to walk out of the national team.

It is the most correct way to employ people with the ability, and as the Argentine football king, and now the world's number one coach to make this decision, even Ling Feng has no way to refute it - of course, Ling Feng has to refute it.

Now at the training base of the national team, the competition has become quite enthusiastic.

Of course, it is basically a healthy competition, even if some people have opinions in their hearts, they don't dare to say it, let alone make any small moves to play some tricks - Ling Feng is here to talk about it, and Maradona, a top hooligan, if any small action can escape the eyes of the two of them - then you can directly apply for a national patent.

With the unreserved financial support of the General Administration of Sports of China, the Chinese team played one game in a row against Qatar, Iraq, Yemen and Thailand in the remaining month - the result is naturally not less than eight goals per game, but more importantly, the overall skill of the players on the pitch is scored - this is the key.

In these four warm-up games - it is better to say that it is the best game - in the game, although Ling Feng has been on the field, he did not invest too much time to attack, but was responsible for the organization of the midfield, constantly passing the ball to these young players, and completely handed over the responsibility of breaking through and attacking to themselves, and even handed over threatening free kick opportunities to the young players.

Several Fiorentina youngsters have performed well, and at the same time, several potential players have been selected from various other local training bases, which is quite a gain for the Chinese team.

Hao Haidong, Yang Chen and others were not able to come back in advance, because although Ling Feng's task was over, their league still had to continue to play, so the average age of the current Chinese national team was less than 19 years old, with outstanding players in the Jianlibao team and youth training bases in various countries as the team.

Of course, because the players are too young, it is impossible to use too many young players in the World Cup, according to Lao Ma's estimates, among these thirty people, excluding Ling Feng, there will probably only be five people at most selected for the new national team - including Jianlibao players who have performed well in the national team and the national youth team.

Only five of the thirty people can be selected, which is quite cruel, but compared to the previous national team kicking around and kicking always those few people, this method still has considerable promotion significance - after all, let the players know that it is not possible to show off their strength if they say that the country has made a little achievement, and once they are not in good shape, the door of the national team will be closed in front of them at any time.

For the outstanding performance of these young players, the fans are still quite satisfied, but they are a little younger, and it is impossible to become a fat man now, but they represent the future of Chinese football after all.

But now the old horse has a headache, how to solve the problem on the back line?!

The Chinese team's backline has always been relatively weak - compared to the World Cup - in the frontcourt, after all, Hao Haidong and Yang Chen, two forwards in the Bundesliga (Yang Chen's Hertha Berlin has successfully promoted to the Bundesliga, and Yang Chen's performance in the league is also quite good) has been qualified to put pressure on the opposing defenders in the World Cup, plus there is Ling Feng, a pervert in the back, and Lao Ma is not worried about the attack.

But when it comes to defense, Fan Zhiyi's kung fu is okay, but the others are not very good, especially - there are no fullbacks!

In the formation of four defenders, the assists of the two full-backs are crucial - not necessarily pressing into the opponent's penalty area like Carlos and Cafu, but the supplement in the midfield and the breakthrough on the wing are crucial, but unfortunately, among the members of the Chinese team over 20 years old, only Sun Jihai can barely meet the requirements of the old horse.

In the selection of central defenders, Fan Zhiyi occupies a place, but Li Weifeng in the World Cup qualifiers was beaten into the cold palace by Ling Feng, and can only be replaced by Zhang Enhua, who has not been abroad for a long time, so the problem of the back line is the biggest headache for the Chinese team at present.

What's more, although there are a few good seedlings among the young players from all over the world, for example, there is a Sichuan boy among the players who train in Amsterdam, who is fast, explosive, and has excellent defensive awareness, and is a good seedling of a full-back, but for a defender, skill is not the most important, the most important thing is experience.

These youngsters lack experience in major tournaments, and even if they have potential, the old horses will never dare to take them to the World Cup.

"That's a lot of trouble!" Maradona pointed to the list and Ling Feng complained: "As a goalkeeper, the 180 district (Chu Liang) is a little short, but the 1.98-meter Jiang (Jin) is not as good as the district in terms of consciousness and goalkeeping skills, and there is no top player in the backline, which is our biggest hidden danger." ”

Ling Feng rubbed his nose, he is also very troubled by the problem of the back line now, whether it is a goalkeeper or a defender, even the third-rate level in Europe cannot be reached, under the trend of commercial football, the proportion of defense is getting larger and larger, look at the current Fiorentina, you can know that behind the extremely sharp attack is an extremely strong defense, so that the offensive players can devote themselves to the attack.

Otherwise, he scored a goal exhausted, and the opponent moved back in less than a minute, in the World Cup, Ling Feng didn't dare to say that he could single-handedly take on those world-class defenders.

'Give me two more years and I'll be able to build a backline that is as good as Italy's. Maradona said proudly: "Another is that in the position of the back waist, Li (Iron)'s hard work is enough, but it is not stable, and there is no organizational skills, let him be a midfielder, it is better to go to the center back; But the rest of the people don't even have that kind of hard work, and I'm arranging you and Lee in a double midfield formation, just like in Fiorentina, except that you will have a lot less time to attack. ”

"Diego, this is the Chinese team," Ling Feng said with a smile: "Don't you treat him as Florence, right?" ”

"Give me three years, I can build the Chinese team into the second Fiorentina," Maradona said with a proud face - no way, the height gap between himself and Ling Feng is still there.

"Did you really build this Florence?" Ling Feng said a word without being salty, and almost choked the old horse to death.

"But ......" Ling Feng's voice suddenly turned, making Lao Ma secretly scream in his heart: "You said three years? Are you going to be the head coach of the Chinese national team for three years? ”