The U23 recruited so many U17 players that Wei Hongjiang and Luo Changhai were very worried. After all, the age gap is too big, even if the U17 has just won the World Junior Championship.

But at this point, Lin Wenlei put out the fact that they participated in the game made them relieved, among which Chen Pu, Zhou Bo, Fan Sheng, Cai Rongyu, and Xie He all participated in the first-line league, and their games were all stronger and older opponents than U23, and most of the B teams and reserve teams that Xia Jixuan, Sun Letian, and Zhou Zhaolin participated in were also U23 age groups. Although it is not enough to really fight in the body, there are ways to deal with it. At the same time, Lin Wenlei and Rong Yu did not have the idea of transplanting U17 completely, and only planned to strengthen the weaknesses of U17 on the basis of the original U23.

After getting the consent of Luo Changhai and Wei Hongjiang, Rong Yu began to communicate with various clubs, and in the end, there was no problem with other candidates, only Niu Xiwen proposed that Sun Ge needed to rest and recover his strength during the winter break.

In the end, Rong Yu also considered that with Yue Heng and Chen Pu, Sun Ge, who had been participating in the U17 and Vienna Rapid as the main force, really needed to rest, and agreed that Sun Ge would not participate.

Domestic clubs were even more flattered by the new Olympic coach and their initiative to communicate, and they would not set up obstacles in the selection of candidates, and the U23 list was determined at the end of November.

Forwards: Yue Heng (Yuezhou FC), Chen Pu (Lech Poznan), Zhang Yuning (Vitesse, Netherlands), Liu Binbin (Quancheng Sports)

Midfielders: Cai Rongyu (River Plate), Zhou Bo (Eintracht Frankfurt), Sun Letian (Mallorca Team B), Fan Sheng (Borussia Dortmund), Wu Xinghan (Quancheng Sports), Liao Lisheng (Yuezhou FC), Xu Xin (Atletico Madrid Team B), Xie Pengfei, (Lin'an FC), Li Yuanyi (Portugal Resaux)

Defenders: Zhou Zhaolin (Borussia Dortmund Reserves), Xia Jixuan (Mallorca Team B), Wei Ran, Yu Hui (Jiangxia Youth Team), Mi Haolun (Shimen United), Wang Tong (Quancheng Sports), Shi Ke (Hujiangcheng Team)

Goalkeepers: Zhang Yinuo (Hujiang Huxin), Yeerjeti (Gondoma, Portugal), Lu Yiming (Atletico Madrid reserves)

Zhou Bo's call-up and Eintracht Frankfurt's coordination was not smooth, and the loss of Gao Xidi was not just the loss of a scorer with a dozen goals per season, but the loss of Frankfurt's most effective means of containing the opponent's defense. Severovic and Katlec, who had scored goals in high cheers, were dumbfounded, and even the star of the house Meier did not play well, winning only six of the 13 Bundesliga games and drawing two, far from the results of the previous two seasons. At this time, Zhou Bo, who had already sat firmly in the back of the main midfield, was reluctant to participate in the U23, but fortunately, Lin Wenlei personally called Frankfurt chairman Peter Fischer to solve the problem.

After the lineup was confirmed, Lin Wenlei and Rong Yu accompanied the new national team head coach Streich to watch the AFC Champions League final between Guangdong FC and Dubai Al Ahli on December 7. Then Rong Yu and Lin Wenlei rushed to Mallorca to prepare for the U23 training camp that began on December 22 at the Jiangxia Flame Mallorca Training Base.

On December 22, the training camp encountered a lot of trouble at the beginning, and the domestic players were not able to keep up with the rhythm and thinking of the players in Europe, and they often made mistakes and slowly began to blame each other.

For domestic players, the passing of European players is too fast, so that they can't keep up with the rhythm and can't cooperate, so they think that European players are grouping to reject them.

For players in Europe, domestic players can't keep up with their rhythm and thinking, and often miss a lot of opportunities. And normal communication will be understood by domestic players as accusing them of playing big names. In addition, some of the fighting actions of domestic players are not standardized, which is easy to make them injured, and they will laugh at the European players for being too soft in the face of accusations.

So many contradictions made Wei Hongjiang worried.

For Lin Wenlei, the solution is very simple, it is just the players who let the football speak, and then talk about the result if they are not convinced.

So No. 26 Huaguo U23 started an intra-team match.

The red team is dominated by domestic players, with striker Zhang Yuning and wingers Wu Xinghan and Liu Binbin. Midfielders Liao Lisheng, Xu Xin, Li Yuanyi. Defenders Mi Haolun, Shi Ke, Wei Ran, Wang Tong, goalkeeper Zhang Yinuo.

The white team is forwards Yue Heng and Chen Pu, midfielders Cai Rongyu, Xie Pengfei, Sun Letian, Zhou Bo, Fan Sheng, defenders Xia Jixuan, Zhou Zhaolin, Yu Hui, and goalkeeper Lu Yiming.

As a result, the red team was beaten very badly by the white team, and the fast passing made them unable to keep up with the rhythm at all, and they couldn't stop it without fouling one-on-one, and after being suppressed to the backcourt, they couldn't even fight back.

The white team, which was full of firepower, played a big score of 5:0.

At this time, the domestic players were discouraged again, and they were worried that they would not be able to get a chance to play in this game.

This made Lin Wenlei and Rong Yu cry and laugh, and Wei Hongjiang and Rong Yu had to do ideological work one by one. However, in the middle of this, Zhang Yuning of the Eredivisie West, Xu Xin of Atletico Madrid's B team, Yeerjeti of Gondoma, and Li Yuanyi of Resox began to take the initiative to communicate with Fan Sheng because of the same experience in Europe, and Liao Lisheng of Yuezhou FC also joined them because of Yue Heng's relationship.

Next, Liu Binbin of Quancheng Sports also took the initiative to communicate with players in Europe, and under his drive, three Quancheng Sports players and Mi Haolun, who was born in Quancheng, also gradually began to communicate. After the two big games, the atmosphere in the team was just right, and the attention was back to football.

On January 2, 16, Huaguo U23 went to Mallorca to play a warm game quickly in Vienna, Huaguo U23 by strikers Yue Heng, Liu Binbin, midfielders Cai Rongyu, Wu Xinghan, Xu Xin, Zhou Bo, defenders Mi Haolun, Zhou Zhaolin, Wei Ran, Yu Hui, goalkeeper Lu Yiming played.

Because the Vienna Rapid is an adult team, it is especially agreed with Niu Xiwen that the game will be divided into 15 minutes per quarter and four quarters per game, so as to ensure that the physical fitness of Huaguo U23 can keep up.

Even so, the game was played very hard, and the domestic players could not keep up with the rhythm of their own team and the rhythm of their opponents. Players in Europe suffer physically and can rely on their teammates in normal times, but it is even more difficult to play when they are the main target of the opponent's restrictions.

And if you want to open up the distance and rely on fast passes to avoid the opponent's physical advantage, you are always counterattacked because you can't pass it in the team.

In the first quarter, it was kicked 1:3, and the goal scored was Cai Rongyu receiving a long pass from Zhou Zhaolin in the backcourt, and then relying on a personal dribble to pass to Yue Heng from the sandwich, and Yue Heng carried the opponent's central defender to squeeze out the shooting line and scored a goal.

In the second quarter, it was basically a white team lineup, and Xie Pengfei was told not to dribble too much, and Cai Rongyu took him more. Only then did he open up the distance and form his own possession through a quick pass, and quickly tied with Vienna.

The smooth cooperation made the domestic players realize the problem, and in this kind of team-wide cooperation, Xie Pengfei also played very well and made several breakthroughs.

One of the breakthroughs was a high ball from his side, Yue Heng jumped high and gave the ball to Chen Pu, who volleyed directly into the goal without stopping the ball.

Then in the game, the side changed one at a time, and Liu Binbin and Wu Xinghan came on the field one by one. When they are able to control the whole court, they can often threaten to break through, and even if they concede the ball, they can react early, and there is no situation where they score a goal in the first quarter.

The second quarter was 2-2.

In the third quarter, the red team players were replaced, and they were directly suppressed, and they couldn't fight back, 0:3.

In the fourth quarter, Cai Rongyu, Zhou Bo, and Zhou Zhaolin were replaced, which was obviously much better than the third quarter, at least Zhou Bo and Cai Rongyu were able to control the ball when they were forced to come out of the backcourt, and then sort out the counterattack line, 1:2. March Chinese

In this way, the goal was directly stuffed by Zhou Bo to Zhang Yuning, Zhang Yuning stopped and took it, and then scored directly at the goal.

At this time, Rongyu's request to rely on Cai Rongyu in the front court and Zhou Bo in the back court to cooperate was recognized by the players, and the running, passing and receiving were all carried out around the two people. Even if the mind on the field is confused, not good at thinking, and the game psychology is fragile, then simply let the people who are not confused, good at thinking, and have a big heart control the game, and others will play around them and cooperate with them.

In fact, most teams in ancient and modern China and abroad have developed like this, and the core team needs it. The reason why the Chinese team does not have this tradition is also related to the tradition of Chinese people who are keen on infighting.

Do you do the core? Why?

Skills? And there are no level certificates, what do you say you are strong to prove?

Grades? The eldest brother doesn't laugh at the second brother, and no one can really show any results.

There are no hard indicators to measure, coupled with the characteristics of the Chinese people, the chaos on the field is not a year or two. In the early years of the World Cup, there was a Hao Paodong in front and Fan Zhiyi in the back, and there were always some players on the field who were convinced, and the two groups were well integrated, which may have something to do with qualifying. Later, there was no longer a leading brother, they were not convinced by each other, and there was nothing to mention about their achievements.

Every coach will never be unaware of this problem, but first, there are no good candidates, second, there is no tradition and inheritance when it comes to designating the core, and third, the coach really can't be the master of the designation of the core. The team leader also wants to appoint one, and the leader may have his own considerations, and the coach may not even have full authority over the selection list and lineup, so this matter has never been implemented.

And Rong Yu and Lin Wenlei can at least get the full support of Luo Changhai and Wei Hongjiang at this moment, and with the aura of a U17 world champion coach, there is no external interference in designating the two cores.

And it is not easy to make the team accept it, but on the first day of the meeting, Luo Changhai and Wei Hongjiang said that anyone who disobeys will be punished heavily. Then they played against each other on the pitch and then played quickly against Vienna to make the players realize the importance of the core, which just made the players appear to be compliant.

As for the candidates, Cai Rongyu and Zhou Bo are the core of the front and back court specially trained by Lin Wenlei, and from the beginning, from thinking to technology, they are all around the core needs to be cultivated. Then Cai Rongyu went to Argentina to train in Argentina, which is the best at cultivating No. 10 players, and Zhou Bo trained in Germany, where he has strong willpower. Now with the aura of the U17 world champion, River Plate and Eintracht Frankfurt's main players, the players can still barely accept it.

Taking advantage of the enthusiasm that the players at least superficially accepted, Rong Yu arranged a lot of coordination training to allow the team to adapt to playing around the core. The society gave the ball to Cai Rongyu and Zhou Bo without obvious chances, and then ran and passed around them. You also have to keep up with the rhythm of their thinking, which makes the training of Huaguo U23 very hard.

On January 7th, the whole team arrived in Dubai in advance to adapt to the West Asian environment, and there were some doubts about Wei Hongjiang who did not go directly to Qatar, but Lin Wenlei immediately understood when he mentioned that he could prevent the host from making a bad move, but he sighed a little about the luxury of chartering a hotel wherever he went.

There are also domestic players who also lament the same, and always mention the sad things about their lack of meat in the early years of the game to compare.

After two more days of training in Dubai, she arrived in Doha on the 10th, where the team had already arranged the training ground and hotel in advance, and the grass and standards of the training ground were the same as the Abdullah Bin Khalifa Stadium for the match.

Therefore, the number 11 cannot play at the Khalifa Stadium because of the venue, which has no impact at all. Just go back to the training ground you have chartered and continue training.

At the training ground, Lin Wenlei unexpectedly met his old teammate Wang Xiaozhu.

"When did you come to Doha?"

Wang Xiaozhu felt very proud of scaring him, and called out Yue Meng behind him.

It wasn't until Jiang Meng, who was wearing beige casual shorts and a flower shirt, took off his sunglasses that Lin Wenlei recognized it, surprised and delighted.

"I always say get together, but I'm too busy, it just so happens that Xiaozhu made an appointment to meet in Doha, and I have a holiday, so I'll come over, but I can only watch your first game."

Jiang Meng moved back to Lucky Cologne from Hoffenheim this season and was their main left-back, playing the full 13 games before the winter break, with one goal and four assists. And because it is the hero of Lucky Cologne from the regional league to the German Bundesliga and the German Second Division, the status in Lucky Cologne is very high.

Being able to reunite with old friends in distant West Asia is definitely a meeting with old acquaintances in a foreign country, and you have to go back to the hotel to arrange dinner.

Wang Xiaozhu grabbed him and said:

"Let's get down to business first, and we'll ...... when we eat."

Lin Wenlei didn't expect that Wang Xiaozhu's stadium turf company business would actually be in Qatar, and the construction and maintenance of the Khalifa stadium turf was actually the responsibility of his company.

"This Qatar arrangement needs to be sprinkled with more water, and the midfield must also be hydrated. At most, you have spikes ready and sprinkle water for a few days in a row, and the course is not much worse than after a heavy rain. And there are pits and stagnant water in several places......"

Hearing this, Lin Wenlei hurriedly arranged for the venue manager Victor to deal with it, and then reported it to the players. The training ground also deliberately watered the training under the guidance of Wang Xiaozhu, and deliberately made a few puddles manually.

"Xiaozhu, will this affect your business?"

Lin Wenlei asked worriedly, but Wang Xiaozhu didn't care, and said with a big grin:

"It doesn't matter, my company is a subcontracted business through another company, and I haven't come forward, so I can't be found."

Even so, Lin Wenlei only let the players wear spikes to enter the field first, and then warmed up for a while before letting the players change into spikes.

"Haha, look, our team members are still very well prepared for the situation, and they have already started to change to spikes..."

The game was broadcast by the sports channel as Huang Jianxiang, who shouted happily after seeing the players change their shoes in the middle of the warm-up.

The audience, who had just been worried about the afternoon showers and the venue becoming slippery, was also relieved.