Although he is responsible for all the tactical arrangements of the national team, Wang Shuai actually does not have much work to do. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 First of all, the national team is different from the club team, and there is very little time to get together to train, so this team has no tactical tacit understanding at all, so it can only follow the traditional tactics of the past, and the tactics should be as simple and clear as possible.

Secondly, although this is the first time Wang Shuai has taken over the position of tactical coach of the national team, in fact, since the day Wang Shuai entered the national team, he has actually been responsible for the tactical arrangements of the Huaxia team, but he used to be "black work".

It is precisely because of these two points that Wang Shuai's actual work only needs to familiarize the players with the tactics arranged before. Whether it is the usual defensive counterattack or the micro-tactics that have been used all along, they have actually been used in the past few years, that is, some players who have entered the national team for the first time are not very familiar with it.

But this is not familiar, and it only refers to the cooperation with teammates. In fact, in the current Chinese Super League, defensive counterattack is the mainstream tactic, and those micro-tactics have long been popularized, and these new players are also familiar with these tactics, and now they just need to run in with their new teammates. And when the players are familiar with the team's tactics, this run-in speed is naturally much faster.

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A week later, the Chinese national team, which had completed its training, flew to Qatar, the host of the World Cup.

When it comes to Qatar, the first thing that comes to mind is the famous Qatar Car Rally, and the other is their abundant oil and gas resources.

In fact, Qatar has the highest GDP per capita in the world, not one of them. And this country is also one of the representative countries of "Golden Yuan Sports" in the world. Qatar has become one of Asia's sporting powerhouses, and football is one of them.

Waving a checkbook, Qatar has attracted many foreign footballers to join Qatari nationality and play for the Qatari national team, and this "multinational force" has also become a different force in world football.

But I have to say that this Qatar national team, which brings together first-class football players from all over the world, really has good strength. In the 2017 Asian Cup, Qatar won the runner-up, and in the 2021 Asian Cup, Qatar lost 0:2 to the Chinese team to stop the semi-finals, and their most dazzling result was in the 2018 World Cup The historic quarterfinals, they are also the only team in Asia to qualify from the group.

With not a weak strength and a lot of money, it is not surprising that this small Middle Eastern country can win the right to host the World Cup.

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Due to its proximity to the Persian Gulf and the small size of Qatar, although it is located in the Middle East, Qatar's climate is not as hot and dry as other Middle Eastern countries.

Before coming to Qatar, the group draw for this World Cup had been completed, and the Chinese team was placed in Group A. The other three teams in the group are England, Costa Rica and hosts Qatar.

The competition in Group A is not very strong, and it can be predicted from the strength of the team alone that the two teams should be England and China respectively. But I have to say, this grouping is interesting.

Let's talk about England first, due to Aston Villa's outstanding performance in the past two seasons, the core of the team, David and Ibrahimovic, have also naturally entered the national team (author's note: Ibrahimovic is a British nationality, see Chapter 32 for details), and as the coach and captain of these two people, Wang Shuai is in another team in the same group, and the confrontation between China and England has become a contest between "master and apprentice" in disguise.

On the other hand, most of the other players in the England team are from Premier League teams, and as the coach of the Premier League champion team this season, Wang Shuai is very familiar with these players, and it can even be said that among the 32 teams in this World Cup, Huaxia is the team that knows England best. In this way, although England's strength is stronger than China's and the world ranking is also much ahead, the match between these two teams is really difficult to predict.

Then there's Costa Rica, a North American team that has been a regular at the World Cup. Of course, this is also related to the lack of football strength in North America, in fact, in four consecutive World Cups, the three participating teams in North America have not changed, and it has always been Costa Rica, the United States and Mexico.

When it comes to Costa Rica, the Chinese are certainly no strangers to it, because in 2002, when the Chinese team entered the World Cup for the only time, the first opponent of the Chinese team was Costa Rica, which ended in a 0:2 loss, and this game also started the journey of the Chinese team leaving the World Cup without scoring a goal. Then this World Cup when the two teams meet again, it will inevitably become a revenge battle for the Chinese team.

Finally, there is Qatar. As the host, Qatar has the privilege of not having to participate in the qualifiers and directly becoming one of the 32 teams in the main event. This was supposed to be a good thing, but Qatar ran into the "group of death" for them.

The recent World Cups since 2010 seem to have been under the "host curse", and the fate of the teams of the host country is not very good. With the exception of Brazil in 2014, South Africa in 2010 and Russia in 2018 did not qualify from the group. Although Brazil reached the semi-finals in 2014, they were beaten 7-1 by the German team and swept 3-0 by the Netherlands in the third- and fourth-place finals. For the vast majority of Brazilians, this humiliating result is better than not qualifying from the group.

Then, this time it was Qatar's turn to be hosts. "The curse of the host", coupled with England and China in the same group, many people have begun to predict that the World Cup trip in Qatar is estimated to be terminated in the group stage.

The Qataris are of course aware of this, so they have begun to analyse their team's qualifying situation. If Qatar can beat Costa Rica and then win a draw against England and China, they could still qualify with four points. And if England and China can be forced to draw, or even a victory, then Qatar's qualifying situation is still quite good.

It's just that they also know that it will not be easy to get points in the hands of England and China, but in any case, the Qataris still see the hope of qualifying. And the key to qualifying is the game against Costa Rica, if you don't get three points in this game, then everything is in vain.

As a result, this World Cup opening match disappointed all Qatari fans. 0:2, Qatar suffered a miserable defeat, not to mention 3 points, they didn't even get 1 point. And such a result also indicates that their World Cup journey is destined to be less pleasant.