'If you really want to keep working hard in the cup, then you can play more casually in the league. You've improved a lot in these games, and if the coach gives you more freedom, I'm sure you'll be able to improve. That's a good thing, you've earned it. ”

After Tokyo lost to Nagoya Whale Eight, at Gao Shunyao's house, when listening to Gao Shunyao talk about his recent days in the team, Li Ze's heart sighed even more that this guy's life is really good.

During these days, Gao Shunyao is still the same as before, sometimes encountering some football troubles, and still looking for Li Ze to solve them, but recently, his problems are getting fewer and less, and there are more and more happy things. After qualifying for the AFC Champions League and constantly scoring goals, Gao Shunyao is always surrounded by some good news, which also makes Gao Shunyao and Li Ze talk about their recent football, which is more and more like good news.

These things are indeed very happy, even if they lose to Whale Eight, but thinking about the changes brought to Gao Shunyao, Li Ze is also happy for him. The team's decision to focus on the cup first and the league until the second half of the season is also great news.

"There is one more thing I want to sue you: the agent sued me, saying that Coach Gao was going to watch the game when we played football with Beijing."

Gao Shunyao spit out a new piece of news, which also surprised Li Ze again. The head coach of the national team came to watch the game, which can be regarded as really attaching importance to the players.

However, after thinking about it for a while, Li Ze quickly understood, "Also, if you don't come again, before you enter the national team, he won't have a chance to express some value for you." ”

Because it's a big year. So the schedule is not the same as usual. The first half of the season, seriously. There are still four games to go – starting on May 15 and ending on July 17. During this period, the J-League was temporarily suspended, and the club competition was suspended for the national team competition. For the rest of the teams, they have to play at least the Carabao Cup during this period of suspension, and for teams like Tokyo, who have advanced directly to the quarterfinals of the Carabao Cup because they have the AFC Champions League to play, they really won a two-month holiday.

Of course. If anyone has the task of playing the national team, they naturally have to report to the national team. In the Tokyo team, Yuto Nagatomo and Yasuyuki Konno are such lucky people, and they are all likely to travel with the team in this World Cup.

And Gao Shunyao also ushered in the news of his national team at this time: after the league ended on May 15. He will travel with the squad to Europe for a friendly against Bayer Leverkusen and then a friendly against France.

China does not have a World Cup mission. Therefore, during this time, there are only friendly matches to play. And Gao Shunyao at this time. I also got the task of a friendly match. Not only that, but he also got the news. Facing the game in Beijing, Coach Gao will go to Japan to watch the game.

The news. Gao Shunyao was flattered, he didn't expect to be able to work as the head coach of the national team to go abroad to watch the game. However, Li Ze is quite open to this, in his opinion, Coach Gao came to see Gao Shunyao playing, which was somewhat of a win-win.

He very much hopes that he can draw Gao Shunyao into his descendant.

Since last year's crackdown, China has been emphasizing that it is to make Chinese football look different from before, and to kick out something completely new. This may sound exciting, but a lot of things look good, and when it comes to doing things, it's a big problem.

Chinese football says it is to be excited, but it is not easy to really be excited. First, there are not too many good players in China now, although fans often say that 1.3 billion players are selected, but in fact, the number of registered players in China is about one-tenth of that of Japan. If you want to revitalize football, you have to have good enough players, and with just a few people, it is difficult to play no matter how you select them. The training of players is not in a hurry, and many people still understand this truth.

But in addition to the players, another factor that affects the results is the coach of the team. Players can't be in a hurry, and coaches can always be in a hurry. Now the coach of Chinese football is Coach Gao, and as a local coach, he has always been controversial.

That's not to say that he hasn't done his job well enough: in fact, for so many years in Chinese football, no coach has made too conspicuous achievements. During Coach Gao's tenure, although the results were average, he made a lot of new adjustments to the Chinese national team players, so that many young people began to enter the national football team, trying to let the new generation of people on the throne, this move is quite correct, and on the other hand, under his leadership, the Chinese team also won the championship of the East Asian semifinals, and in recent years, it has rarely won the South Koreans, which is also an achievement.

It's just that, although the results are good, Coach Gao is still questioned by the media. There are not too many reasons to question him, one sentence is enough: he is not a foreign teacher, and foreigners will do better.

It is an indisputable fact that the level of Europeans and Americans is much higher than that of Asians. There is no arguing that the European coaches have excellent players at their disposal, who can keep up with the latest tactical concepts, and that they are indeed better than their Asian counterparts in terms of command.

Therefore, many people believe that foreign coaches will definitely have better results. This has become a big problem for Coach Gao: although no one says that he is bad, people think that if he is replaced by a foreign coach, he will definitely be better.

This statement is actually not very scientific: although some foreign coaches are really high-level, they do not necessarily come to China. Just as players think about their careers, good coaches certainly think about their careers. There are a lot of good coaches in Europe, but will those coaches come to China to coach? It's hard to say. And China also has its own environment, can they adapt to it? It's also hard to say.

It stands to reason that people should think of such a question, but now that China is sweeping away gangsters, it is completely immersed in a dream of the imminent rise of Chinese football. For the rise of Chinese football, the Football Association has changed people, and now it is willing to increase investment. In the eyes of many media and fans, since there is money in hand. How can you not recruit a good coach?

"It's so ambitious." Li Ze commented on such a thing. "I always feel that if I have money, I can buy results. If the results were so good, would Abu have invested so many years in a row? ”

Football does not rely on investment to solve all problems, but this truth has not yet been understood in China. The saying that the change of coach determines the results is very popular in China, and just recently, in an interview, Chairman Wei faced the interview and expressed his views on Chinese football: he thinks. What Chinese football needs most now is a world-class coach.

As the president of the Football Association, his attitude towards the media basically represents the official view of the Football Association. And this attitude also made Coach Gao no longer calm. If this is said by the media and the fans, he can laugh it all off, and he doesn't take it seriously, but if this is said by his immediate boss, it is a different matter.

Coach Gao understands very well that he is not a world-class coach no matter what he says. His boss said that he wanted to be a world-class coach, and unless he learned the transformation skills of a Saiyan and could quickly transform from a football coach to a super football coach, it would be in a short period of time. The requirements of the immediate boss are definitely not met.

And what happens if you don't meet this requirement? Even a fool knows that for the national team, a change of coach is not a big deal. Especially the Chinese national team, because there has been no results for a long time. You don't need to find a reason to change the coach, you can change it if you want to.

For this job of oneself. Coach Gao knew he had to do something. He originally relied on the East Asian semifinals to keep his job, and he also had some experience in taking some results to save his life. And this time, Coach Gao could only be ruthless and recruit Gao Shunyao regardless of the controversy.

Gao Shunyao's strength, in the eyes of Coach Gao, although he is not a particularly efficient striker, but compared with Gao Lin and Han Peng in China, he still has a great advantage. Gao Shunyao's style of play, he also sees it in his eyes, compared with domestic players, Gao Shunyao is more willing to run and work hard, which is very convincing for any coach. Moreover, Gao Shunyao played in Japan, and he doesn't have much to do with the country, so he won't gang up after entering the national team, which is a great benefit.

"He said that he came to see Guoan, but in fact, it was also up to you to see a large part of the journey. I saw your watch on the spot, at least it can be regarded as a sign of my attention to you...... Actually, to be honest, there is not much need, with your strength, do you still need to worry that he doesn't pay attention? Chatting with Gao Shunyao, Li Ze's words were also quite emotional, he had always wanted to enter the national team but had never succeeded, but he couldn't imagine that Gao Shunyao had really done it now, "You will be a member of the national team in the future, and you will really become a star." ”

"Maybe I won't be able to play well in the national team."

I could hear that Li Ze's words were a little stunned, and Gao Shunyao didn't blindly sè, but his modesty only made Li Zeyan squirry.

'Don't say that, you have to play well in these two games. It's not for others, it's for yourself. When you are selected for the national team this time, you will have to face the opponents of France and Bayer Leverkusen. Both teams are friendly games and probably won't give their best – but don't forget, even if it's a friendly game, it's going to be a very high-profile game before the World Cup, and you're playing against them and you're likely to get scouts to get attention. Don't forget, Europe, that's what you should really be thinking about. ”

It doesn't matter what you do in Japan, but it's another story to play in Europe. If they can play well against Bayer Leverkusen, then maybe Bayer Leverkusen will really sign him. And the friendly match with France is the most important thing, if you play well enough in that game, you may really be able to become famous in one fell swoop.

Ko Soon-yao has been playing well in the J-League lately, and scouts in Europe are afraid that some people will notice him. It's just that Europeans don't always keep an eye on the Asian arena, and the table when going to play in Europe is obviously more important.

It's not easy for players who play in Asia to get Scouted by Europeans. Maybe a league-wide darling like Shinji Kagawa can easily contact European teams with agents and sponsors, but a player like Gao Shunyao must seize an opportunity on his own if he wants to get ahead. The national team competition is the best opportunity to prove himself, and if he grasps this opportunity, Gao Shunyao's future will be extremely bright.

These two games are about the future. (To be continued......)