Chapter 208: Korean Football

As the sun sets, the golden sunlight shines on the earth, making people feel warm.

Li Yun wore a black peaked cap, and Hu Susu wore a black bowler hat, and the two walked slowly on an avenue in Sydney.

Li Yun chuckled and took Hu Susu's hand, "I have never been abroad before this time, even this time most of the time it is in a hurry, now with you, calm down and take a walk, I found that some of the descriptions about foreign countries on the Internet are still true, Sydney is actually a big town, but the state of the people really makes me envious!" ”

"What is there to envy," Hu Susu asked with a smile.

"Didn't you notice? There are really a lot of people exercising here, cycling, running, playing ball, there are basically no fat people here, it is strange to say, I often read the news that there are many fat people in the United States, but why are there so few fat people in Australia? ”

"The place is big and the population is small! You see, in China, there are not many stadiums, when you are in Guangzhou, there are only basketball courts in the park, there are no football fields, there are few people here, and football fields are built casually. ”

Li Yun shook his head, "As far as I know, Australia is very good at all sports, swimming, basketball, football, rugby, cricket, it seems that everything is not bad, just the place is not enough, the main thing is the traditional concept of Australians, when the British first came here, the beasts here are rampant, the environment is harsh, and people must work hard, so sports are implanted in the genes of Australians, everyone has time to exercise, and there are very few people at home." ”

"Why did you suddenly think of this?"

"Some sighs, more than 20 million people, football and basketball are better than China, if the Chinese people love sports as much as Australians, with our population base, even if there are ten football associations fooling around, we are also a top team."

"So what to do?"

"What I can do is to make more children like football and more parents to recognize football."

"Surely you can."

……

German coach Stillik, who took over the South Korean team for less than half a year, was studying the information of the Chinese team in his hotel room, his brows were tightly knit and his face was worried.

Stillik was a very successful player at the time when he played for Real Madrid as a youngster, played for the German national team and scored in the Champions League and European Championships, but his coaching resume after retirement was mediocre and did not have too many results.

Korean football has always been a first-class team in Asia, but there is still a big gap between it and the real world powerhouses in the world, the Koreans work very hard and work very hard, but at least so far, they are still in a weak position when they meet strong teams from various continents outside of Asia, and Stillik took over in order to make Korean football have a qualitative leap, although in Stillik's view it is almost an impossible task.

Korean football used to give people the impression of relying on strong physique and firm will, but after 98 years began to formulate the route of technical football, the basic skills of Korean players became better and better, and so on for 14 years, more than ten years have passed, South Korea's insistence on youth training has finally come to fruition, and a large number of Korean players in Europe have gathered these players together, and their value is not inferior to a Bundesliga midstream team.

But let the mid-table teams from the Bundesliga play against South Korea, I am afraid that the South Korean team will lose nine out of ten games. The increasing number of players with better and better skills has not made the South Korean team really a superhuman team, and their role together has not played a role in the effect that one plus one is greater than two, and in Asia, if the opponent is a second-grade team like Uzbekistan and Saudi Arabia, South Korea will not have many real chances to score.

To a certain extent, the South Korean team seems to have encountered similar problems to the Japanese team, which has Shinji Kagawa and Keisuke Honda, who are also excellent attackers in the world, but they are pinched together, and the effect is greatly reduced, so that the Japanese team stopped in the quarterfinals of this Asian Cup.

In order to bring out the real strength of the players, the Korean Football Association invited Stillik precisely because they hoped that Stillik could integrate the Korean team into a strong team with skills, bodies and systems, and a team that could really crush in Asia and compete with top teams in the World Cup.

As a person born in the 50s of the last century, Stillik's greatest knowledge of South Korea is the Korean legend Cha Fan Geun, the best Asian player of the 21st century, which Stillik admires very much, and they have also competed together as opponents.

Stillik's willingness to take over the South Korean team is largely due to his admiration for Cha Fan Geun, who he thinks Koreans are all like that.

After Stillik went to South Korea, the Korean players did not disappoint him, their physical strength is still as abundant as ever, their warm-up games, the players will still fight to the end, he even has some small surprises, that is, the small skills of the Korean players are better than he imagined, and the Korean tactical execution ability is very strong, and the team is very united.

But behind these small advantages is the lack of creativity of the South Korean team, the lack of final decision, and the lack of world-class superstars.

Creativity has always been a weakness for the Korean team, and Korean football has never had a very good midfield master; As for world-class superstars, this is a common flaw of all teams in all Asian countries.

Any world-class team has at least one superstar, and it can't be said that it must be the height of Ronaldo and Messi, but at least Arza Nemar must always have this level, but Asian football does not even have such a person.

The Japanese have formulated a very systematic and scientific development path for football, but after so many years, they have not undergone real qualitative changes, and they are still the first-class in Asia and the third-rate in the world.

The Korean Football Association has very high expectations for Stillik, and they hope that Stillik can find a way to help the Korean team to the next level, and there is no doubt that Stillik is under great pressure.

Stillik worked under such pressure, but luckily South Korea were in the same group as hosts Australia at the Asian Cup, winning all of their group and then beating Uzbekistan and Iraq to reach the final.

The opponent of the South Korean team in this final is not Iran, nor Japan, but the Chinese team, which made Stillik very surprised, he thought that the Chinese team would be good in the group, but he did not expect to reach the final.

Stillik has very little impression of Chinese football, almost no profound people or things, if he didn't go to South Korea to coach, knowing that the Chinese Super League has burned a lot of money in recent years, Stillik would not know anything about Chinese football at all.

In Stillik's view, it is inconceivable that football in a political and economic power like China is so weak, you must know that Britain, France and Germany football are good, and the United States and Russia can be regarded as the world's second-rate teams.

In order to understand why the Chinese team was able to reach the final, Stillik and his team carefully analyzed all the games of the Chinese team in this Asian Cup, and there is no doubt that their conclusion is: Li Yun is the most critical player, and if you limit him, you will limit the Chinese team.

Li Yun can shoot and pass, it can be said that he has his own system, such a team is the favorite of all teams, but it is also the most hated, I like them to come to their own team, and I hate them to go to other teams.

Stillik found that Li Yun was very fast, and his physical strength was very good, and he was also strong in confrontation, feeling like an average Asian player, such a player is difficult to defend, but fortunately, the Chinese team is not without weaknesses.

In Steelik's view, the situation of the Chinese team and the UAE team is similar, both are a wolf with a flock of sheep, and it is difficult for the wolf to restrict, but it is trivial to drive and suppress this flock of sheep.

"Champion! The Korean team has not won half the world championship in a long time, and I will definitely win it. ”