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With only one year to go before the Beijing Olympics, the Olympic team has reached the stage where it needs to start running in the team, and the Football Association is also under pressure on the performance side, so Crawford has also recruited six overage players into the team, and the three overage players who will participate in the Olympics in a year will be selected from them, and based on their performance in the training camp and the Asian Cup.

This year's Olympic age players have a strong forward line, basically concentrating the best players in the country at present, so Crowchen did not recruit overage players in this position. In terms of goalkeepers, Zeng Cheng, who has been confirmed to be about to transfer to a Portuguese league team, now has the strength to compete for the No. 1 national goal, and there is a more talented Wang Dalei among the goalkeepers of the National Olympic age group, and even the relatively unknown third goalkeeper Gu Chao also has excellent physical conditions, in addition to Qiu Shengyi, who once squeezed Wang Dalei who committed two fouls into the bench in the club, there are these four for Crawchen to choose, and there is really no need to recruit Li Leilei, the No. 1 goalkeeper of the current national team.

Among the defenders, Sun Jihai's strength is ranked first even in Asian football, and he must be called, and Sun Xiang, who can play fullback and fullback and has the experience of staying abroad, was also called in by Crowchen, in addition to the central defender Du Wei, who has the most forced air ability in China, although the defects are obvious, it is worth mentioning that as a club teammate, he has a good tacit understanding with Zhao Ming, the main central defender of the National Olympic team.

As for the midfield, in addition to Zheng Zhi, who has been on loan to Charlton Athletic in the Premier League for half a season and has been praised by the team and is very likely to transfer permanently, Crouchen also recruited Yang Hao, a defender of Dynamo Dresden who was strongly recommended by Gao Jun and is also getting better and better at the club. However, just in case, Crowchen also recruited Zhao Junzhe, the main defender of the previous national team, if Yang Hao's table does not meet his expectations, then the vital single back in the 442 formation of the national Olympic team can only use him

Although the six overage players are all veterans who have been famous for a long time. However, the main force of the national Olympic team is still the Olympic age players, and Crawford's training camp has recruited a total of 24 young men, and he will use the six warm-up matches before the Asian Cup to examine these players, and finally select 20 Olympic-age players and 3 over-age players to report as the final 23-man entry list. Most of the 23 National Olympic age players are acquaintances of Gao Jun, and those who are not very familiar with each other. After playing six warm-up games and finalizing the roster, they were basically all gone

In the end, Krauchen's 23-man squad for the Asian Cup is as follows:

Forwards: No. 19 Gao Jun, No. 9 Xue Lin, No. 11 Xie Wenjun, No. 17 Mao Jianqing.

Midfielders: No. 6 Hao Junmin, No. 7 Lu Lin, No. 10 Chen Tao, No. 16 Deng Zhuoxiang, No. 2 Yang Hao, No. 14 Zhou Huakai, No. 18 Cai Huikang, No. 20 Cui Peng, No. 8 Zheng Zhi.

Defenders: No. 4 Sun Jihai, No. 13 Rong Hao, No. 15 Zhang Linpeng, No. 12 Zhang Chenglin, No. 3 Zhao Ming, No. 5 Feng Xiaoting, No. 21 Yu Hai.

Goalkeepers: No. 1 Zeng Cheng, No. 22 Wang Dalei, No. 23 Gu Chao.

Among these 23 people, the number of people who were born in the Oriental team or are playing in the Eastern team is as many as 13 people, and if it were not for the Football Association's fear of being sprayed by the media and accusing him of poor work, he pressured Crawford to bring three overage players, then the number would have increased by one. Although this is a result that Chinese fans have long been able to foresee since Gao Jun's group won the World Junior Championship, when it really happened, it still caused an exclamation from the media, and Xu Genbao, who was only known as the "Godfather of Shanghai Football" before, was quickly upgraded to the "Godfather of Chinese Football" in the mouth of media reporters

Six warm-up matches were played in less than a month, and all of them were international A-level matches with a large number of fans in attendance and FIFA points. Even if the warm-up game can be rotated in a large area and the physical consumption is not very large, at least the players will be a little tired psychologically. But it was under such a test that Krauchen initially tested which players could be entrusted with the task.

Among them, he was most surprised by Yang Hao, who has made rapid progress in the past six months, with first-class running ability and positive attitude among domestic players, great range of movement, excellent ball intelligence and vision, and unobtrusive ball and offensive and defensive characteristics, which make him comfortable in the single back position.

And Yang Hao's low center of gravity allows him to quickly get up and continue to entangle his opponent after the defense fails, which will be of great help to contain the enemy's counterattack, in a sense, even Yu Hai, who is more valued by Crowchen, is not more suitable for this position than Yang Hao. If it is not for injury prevention, the game will be suspended. There was also pressure from the Football Association, and Crouchen even thought about abandoning Zheng Zhi. Although in a competition at this level in the Asian Cup, Zheng Zhi's individual ability is still very useful.

Due to the excellent performance of players such as Gao Jun, coupled with the ineffective work of the Football Association, the warm-up objects found were either not strong or not enough to invest in the game, and this "national football team" won all six warm-up games. Even though Gao Jun was clumsy, he still increased his total number of goals in the national team to 57 and continued to extend his lead. At the age of 18, the number of goals scored by the national team ranked first in history, and the gap with the second place was opened by more than a dozen goals. This is really an exaggerated thing, so much so that some international players even joked, "I'm afraid that when I close my eyes, no one will be able to break your zào record"

Although the warm-up effect is not very good, there is also an advantage to the high winning rate of the warm-up match, that is, it is conducive to improving the world ranking of the national football team. However, in this year's Asian Cup, the reason why the Chinese team was able to become a seeded team is mainly because of the good results achieved in a series of official competitions since the last Asian Cup, which has little to do with the results of the warm-up matches.

Historically, the Chinese team, which was only set as the third grade of the Asian Cup grouping, actually became a seeded team, and the grouping of the 2007 Asian Cup group stage in this time and space is very different from history, and the Iranian team, which was squeezed into the second grade by the Chinese team, was unlucky to be divided into Group A, which is recognized as the "Group of Death", and the rival Iraq team and the Australian team, which participated in the Asian Cup for the first time, were divided together

Interestingly, although the Chinese team has changed from the third tier team in history to the first tier, it was still divided into Group C, but because Iran went to Group A, the opponent was replaced by the Oman team, which is obviously much weaker and has no style of play than the national football team. And almost all Chinese fans also firmly believe that although the Chinese team is actually the National Olympic team, qualifying is still a certainty.

And Gao Jun was even a little surprised by the intimate schedule arrangement of Uzbekistan, the bitter host who has suffered for many years in history, in the group stage, and the possibility of encountering the long-cherished rival South Korean team in the first round of the knockout round after qualifying

Although he was happy to have the opportunity to settle grievances, Gao Jun did not despise the Uzbek team that is now at its peak, and the current "golden generation" of the Uzbek team is at its peak, unlike the Uzbek team he encountered when he coached the national football team four years later in history, which has obvious physical hazards due to the aging age structure.

The team with no obvious weaknesses is the most difficult to deal with, and the Uzbek team's own advantages are also outstanding, even after Australia joins the AFC, the physical quality of the Uzbek team players can still be ranked in the top three in Asia, and although their ball control ability has not reached its peak due to age, it is definitely the top few in Asia, at least stronger than the Chinese team, even the current Chinese team

"However, the weakness is relative, even the strongest strength of the Uzbekistan team, after meeting the stronger Australian team in this aspect, it will become a short board and be blown up, our team's strongest strength and speed meet the Uzbekistan team, which is relatively insufficient in this aspect, the advantage will be more obvious", this is the countermeasure that Gao Jun thought of, and the head coach Krauchen's idea coincided with him, of course, the latter is mainly for the Olympic Games to practice the way of playing, when the opponent of the national Olympic team will be stronger, Defending on the counter-attack is certainly his first choice.

However, the Uzbekistan team is extremely afraid of the current Chinese team, and there are up to four players when attacking, and the Chinese team is not given the opportunity to play a quick counterattack at all, so the scene is extremely dull, and neither side can get any good opportunities in the first half. However, this Asian Cup was held in Southeast Asia, and the humid and hot climate made the Uzbekistan team very uncomfortable, while the Chinese team was more tolerant and had a relatively small physical exertion. Although this difference in fitness was not enough for the current Uzbekistan team to cause a collapse, it had a certain impact on the concentration of the defenders, and finally the inconspicuous Gao Jun in this game seized his only mistake to score, helping the Chinese team defeat the strongest opponent in the group 1-0.

Even the Uzbekistan team was defeated, and the Oman team and the weaker host Malaysia team were even less opponents, although considering the climate, the national football team controlled the ball more after taking the lead to save the body, and the score of the three games was not particularly large, but it was the most important thing to ensure that the first group was qualified, and this was also the first time in the history of the national football team that the Asian Cup group stage won all three games and qualified with a strong attitude (to be continued......