The bus arrived at the Chinese team's station, and after arranging the rest of the players, Yan Shiduo called Lu Hai out again, before the World Cup, Lu Hai was busy training, and the two lacked the opportunity to exchange views. This time, the Chinese team reached the round of 16, which is considered to have achieved the pre-game goal. Unless they make it to the semi-finals, there is essentially little difference between the round of 16 and the top eight. Some things will start after the World Cup, so Yan Shiduo wants to take advantage of today's full exchange of views with Lu Hai, and the two have discussed, Yan Shiduo will return to China as soon as possible to prepare for the long-term development of Chinese football after the World Cup.

In the Chinese football world, Yan Shiduo is both a layman and an outsider, and before he came to the Football Association in 2000, Yan Shiduo was a political cadre of the General Administration of Sports. The General Administration of Sports noticed the chaos of the Football Association and transferred Yan Shiduo as a full-time vice chairman, first, to let Yan Shiduo investigate the professionalism of Chinese sports, and second, to let Yan Shiduo clean up the Football Association. Yan Shiduo's status as a layman and an outsider has advantages: he is not deeply involved in Chinese football, and he will be more objective in looking at and solving problems; There are also downsides: he has no roots in football, he is alone, and he lacks help to get things done. After he came to the Football Association, he saw the chaos of the Football Association more clearly, but in the face of the intertwined relationship in the football world, he lacked prestige and manpower, so he could only be daunted, and he needed a breakthrough.

Yan Shiduo's choice of breakthrough is the national team, and his idea is that as long as the national team can achieve good results under his leadership, he will have the capital to transform Chinese football. Of course, with good results in the national team, he can also explain to his superiors and all aspects of society. Therefore, after he took office, he has always paid great attention to the national team and almost became the leader of the national team. He didn't even touch the mess of the league, and completely handed it over to Nanyong, Yang Yimin and others. Although the Chinese team entered the World Cup in 02, it was obviously lacking in confidence and was suspected of being taken care of. Moreover, the national football team lost all 3 games in the World Cup, did not score a goal, and swallowed 9 goals. The opportunity for Yan Shiduo and others did not come. He had his hopes on the '06 World Cup.

In Lu Hai's last life, after the Chinese team defeated Hong Kong 7-0 and was still eliminated by the Asian group stage of the World Cup qualifiers, Yan Shiduo knew that the opportunity he was waiting for would never come, and in February 05, he left the Chinese Football Association gloomily. Xie Yalong, who was born in track and field, was not as good as Yan Shiduo, who was born in political work, and was finally pulled into the water until he was imprisoned.

When Lu Hai appeared in front of Yan Shiduo in the 04 Asian Cup, Yan Shiduo only regarded Lu Hai as an excellent genius exercise physiologist. Before the finals, Lu Hai's series of performances allowed Yan Shiduo to see Lu Hai's ability, Yan Shiduo didn't care about the results of a game, but before the game, the tactical preparation, encouraging the players to explore ways to deal with the Japanese, and how to strengthen the cooperation of the players, each method was something Yan Shiduo had never seen before, but when he thought about it, he felt very reasonable. At that time, Yan Shiduo thought that if Lu Hai wanted to be the head coach, he would definitely be an excellent head coach.

When Lu Hai was training the players of the 08 Olympic age, in a conversation with Lu Hai, he came up with the idea of making Lu Hai the head coach of the Chinese team. In Yan Shiduo's opinion, this idea is brilliant.

Compared with himself, Lu Hai is an outsider in the Chinese football world, young in his early 20s, and his parents have nothing to do with sports. As long as he pushes him up, he will support himself. And as a young Chinese who loves football so much, he definitely can't look past the chaos of Chinese football, this is his natural ally. The most important thing is Lu Hai's ability, in Yan Shiduo's view, Lu Hai is the other more average, but as long as the physical fitness of the Chinese national team players is trained, the national team's results will not be too bad.

Yan Shiduo made a bet under pressure from all sides, the 20-year-old head coach of the Chinese national team, Yan Shiduo is either discerning and using talents in an eclectic manner; Either they are stupid and incompetent, and they are encouraged to grow and violate the principles of the organization. He has been waiting for the Football Association for four years, except for Lu Hai, he does not see an opportunity to achieve change, and as far as he knows the level of youth training in Chinese football, such opportunities are becoming more and more slim.

If it weren't for Yan Shiduo being honest enough, he would have almost no flaws in his personal life. In addition to wanting to be an official and wanting to be a big official, there is no problem with personal thinking. Before Lu Hai made his results, he would be ousted.

The return on this bet was extremely rich, exceeding Yan Shiduo's expectations. Through the short exchange on the bus just now, Yan Shiduo and Lu Hai reached an agreement on the development of Chinese football, and after waiting for 6 years, Yan Shiduo finally waited for the opportunity he wanted.

Just now, he has already communicated with the leaders of the General Administration on this issue, and the leaders of the General Administration have asked him to start rectifying Chinese football on the basis of doing a good job in the work of Comrade Lu Hai. The leaders of the General Administration even proposed that Lu Hai become the head coach of the Chinese national football team, fully responsible for the work of the men's and women's national teams of all ages. Yan Shiduo heard clearly the meaning of the leaders of the General Administration, and asked Lu Hai to be the head coach for two purposes, first, to remove Lu Hai from this matter, and not to let these bullshit things affect Lu Hai. Second, don't let these things affect the results of national teams at all levels.

Yan Shiduo told the leaders of the General Administration: "I just talked to Lu Hai about the Olympics in our capital, and he promised that our men's football team can win at least one silver medal in the Olympics." The gold medal depends on luck, but the Argentine team is a little troublesome. ”

The leaders of the General Administration were overjoyed, and immediately asked the two about the detailed conversation, and repeatedly asked Yan Shiduo to prepare in advance, do a good job in all aspects, and do a good job in the planning part of winning the gold medal. And let Yan Shiduo ask Lu Hai about the possibility of handing over the women's football team to Lu Hai.

Contrary to Yan Shiduo's expectations, the leaders of the General Administration retreated from Yan Shiduo's rectification proposal after knowing that the men's football team might win the gold medal in the Olympic Games. Although there are problems with the team of the Football Association now, they have been making achievements, and if the gold medal of the Olympic men's football team is affected because of the rectification of Yan Shiduo and Lu Hai, it will be a bit more than worth the loss.

After Lu Hai came over, the first thing he did was to reassure the leaders of the General Administration on the phone that the rectification would not affect the results of Chinese football, and show the leaders of the General Administration his determination to support Yan Shiduo in rectification. In the end, at the request of the leaders of the General Administration, he was almost forced to take over the position of head coach of the Chinese football national team, and set up the 08 Olympic Games men's football championship, women's football medals, and let Lu Hai guarantee that he can also provide medical and training support to all Olympic athletes like the 04 Olympics. The leaders of the General Administration completely ignored the conflict between the men's and women's football teams in the Olympic Games, and stubbornly put the task on Lu Hai's head, and in the eyes of the leaders of the General Administration, Lu Hai was almost omnipotent. On the basis of a series of unequal treaties signed by Lu Hai and Yan Shiduo, the leaders of the General Administration refreshed and agreed with the two of them on the rectification of Chinese football.

When hanging up the phone, the leader of the General Administration gave Yan Shiduo a heavy blow: "Shiduo has done a good job, I have always been worried that Xiao Lu will no longer go to the Olympic Corps to do medical and training support." Now relieved. ”