However, although Gao Jun has achieved unprecedented great success, he has also fully felt the fact that Gade was a member of the year. Muller's mood when he decided to retire early was that football is a competitive sport, and if you can't find an opponent in the game, it will be difficult to have much fun with it, no matter how much you love it.

In fact, when he was still in Real Madrid, Gao Jun already had such a premonition, but he didn't expect that coming to the Arsenal team would only delay this embarrassment for two years. And now even if Gao Jun changes teams again, it makes no sense, because Arsenal was already a relatively weak team among the giants before, and as long as he can afford Gao Jun's team in the future, he will definitely become a bug when he adapts. As for deliberately finding a team with an unsuitable style of play to increase the challenge, Gao Jun will not be so brain-pumping no matter how boring he is, as a player, the depression caused by an inappropriate style of play is incomprehensible to the layman, and a little bit of strictness may even ruin his entire football career

Therefore, Gao Jun can only stay in the Arsenal team until the end of his contract. As Muller said, Gao Jun is still much luckier than his predecessor, even if he can't find an opponent in club competitions, at least he still has national team games to challenge him, and the upcoming 2018 World Cup in China is a top priority

For the World Cup held in China for the first time, the Chinese government has paid more attention than the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, especially in the construction of stadiums and other hardware, which has been praised by FIFA, and the construction of more than ten modern professional stadiums with international advanced level also marks that the Chinese Super League will completely bid farewell to the "vegetable era" that can not be looked back on.

However, due to the inefficiency of the work of the Chinese Football Association, the more important preparation of the national football team made a big joke at the beginning, and a full year after Stano's resignation, the Chinese team still does not have an official head coach. As a result, Gao Jun had to share part of the coaching work during the national team competition, which made the domestic media and fans very dissatisfied. Later, the Chinese Football Association's efficiency was significantly improved, but the leaders of the Football Association came to Gao Jun to ask him for some advice out of fear of responsibility

Objectively, though. They are also very wise to do so, and now there is really no one in Chinese football who can understand world football and China's national conditions like Gao Jun, and at the same time have enough connections to invite those world-class football coaches, and Gao Jun, out of his love for Chinese football, will definitely take on this task and do his best to do it well

Gao Jun wanted to invite his former mentor Magath at first, because he was idle at that time, and there was still a significant gap between the strength of the Chinese team and the world's top teams. But Magath has no interest in coaching the national team. And he had never coached the national team before, so Ma Dashuai, who was worried about the late season, directly rejected Gao Jun's invitation.

Ma Dashuai was not invited, Gao Jun had to find someone else, but the requirements were not lowered, and those who met the requirements either refused the invitation like Magat, or simply had a contract, seeing that the new coach of the national football team had to be delayed again and again, so that some media and fans joked that it was better to let Gao Jun be a player and coach. But fortunately, the World Cup cycle lasted for four years, and Gao Jun finally waited for a head coach who fully met the criteria in time

Late autumn 2015. Dutch coach Guus Hiddink was dismissed from class due to poor results, and Gao Jun was overjoyed when he learned the news. Of course, he is not gloating, and he is glad that the national football team has finally waited for an excellent manager who can be trusted. Although he is a Dutch coach, Hiddink's respect for physical fitness and tactical discipline is not much worse than that of Magath, when he coached the South Korean team, even the Korean players who have always been known for their excellent physical fitness in Asia have practiced until they want to cry, and compared with Magath, Hiddink has more coaching experience. What is particularly rare is that he is still very familiar with Asian football, and he can be called the best candidate for the national football coach in all aspects. In other words, if it weren't for Hiddink's previous contract, Gao Jun would definitely be the first to find him, but fortunately, Chinese football seems to have really started to transfer. actually waited for him to wait until the other party got out of class

Although Hiddink's dismissal in the middle of the class has made it possible for the national football team to join hands with him, this kind of world-class football coach is generally very assertive, and it is not that you can win it if you say that you can win it, you must know that in history, Guangzhou Hengda team's sky-high contract with an annual salary of 15 million pounds after tax was rejected by Hiddink

However, Hiddink's coaching has not been smooth in recent years, and he is getting older, so his posture has been relatively lower. However, in order to hire Hiddink, a big-name coach, the Chinese Football Association still paid a high price. In addition to the sky-high contract with an annual salary of up to 12 million euros after tax, the Chinese Football Association's requirements for Hiddink's coaching performance are not high, and the pre-World Cup games are all warm-ups, and it doesn't matter what it looks like, as long as Hiddink can lead the Chinese team to qualify for the group again in the 2018 World Cup, even if the task is completed, and ensure to keep a low profile before the World Cup, in order to reduce the pressure on the national football team as much as possible, as for the motivation to impact better results, the supreme honor of the World Cup alone is enough, What's more, there are also unprecedented bonuses.

And more importantly, the Chinese Football Association gave up the so-called "Chinese coaching staff", except for the team leader, the other coaching team members are all determined by Hiddink, so Hiddink finally put his mind at ease, saying that he came to China to coach the most worrying is to encounter blind interference from above, as long as he can let go, Hiddink still likes to coach East Asian teams like the Chinese team. The obedience of East Asian players is better than that of European players, and it is a complete Latin American and African player, and every football coach who attaches importance to tactical discipline will like it, not to mention that the strength of the Chinese national team is now the world's second-rate level even if you only look at the cards, which is much stronger than the South Korean team in the 2002 World Cup

Although the tactical style of play during the Stano period was quite successful, Hiddink made considerable adjustments to it after taking office. One of the most unexpected is that after he coached for half a year, the national football team retried the 343 formation that had a painful lesson back then. Even Gao Jun didn't understand it at first, but after communicating with Hiddink, he found that Hiddink was indeed in vain

"Although it was not good for the Koreans to go too far in 2002, it would be foolish if the hosts did not take advantage of their strengths. We can't expect the referee to help solve the problem, but we must learn how to make the most of the home whistle, or how to cooperate with the referee so that they can make a decision in our favor without violating the rules", Hiddink expressed his basic views on the rational use of the rules straight to the point, and then explained to Gao Jun how to implement it, "The Chinese team's current offensive strength is already the world's top, and the problem is mainly in the defense, in the case of insufficient strength, Appropriate use of foul play is a more affordable approach. Compared with fouls at the back, the referee will be much more lenient with the physical impact of the midfield, and we can get the most benefit from it, so my idea is that the Chinese team must fight hard in the midfield in the World Cup and try to avoid the fire of war in our penalty area."

Subsequently, Hiddink pointed out the difference of his 343, there is no wing player among the four people in the midfield, but three back and one front waist, with the protection of three back waists, and the midfielder's interception ability is naturally greatly enhanced. As for the wing defense, it mainly relies on the return defense of the two wingers on the front line, and in a sense, Hiddink's 343 formation is actually 361 in many cases

After learning that Hiddink's 343 was just selling dog meat on the head of a sheep, Gao Jun finally put his mind at ease, as for using the home whistle to be immoral? Gao Jun will not be so naïve, as long as he does not do too little as the stick back then, within the scope of the rules, it is reasonable for the host to enjoy a certain advantage, otherwise why would countries spend so much money to bid for the World Cup?

In the nearly two years that followed, Hiddink's 343 formation was also initially tested. Although I don't know how to perform in a key tournament such as the World Cup, as the Chinese national team begins to see a shortage of green and yellow positions in some positions, Hiddink's new team has gradually shown its superiority

By the 2018 World Cup, the Chinese team's former indispensable main player left back Rong Hao has completely withdrawn from the national team, Gao Jun's group of players among the earliest to stay in the foreign country Hao Junmin is even more incorruptible and old, although the younger fullback Sun Ke and the transformation into a fullback Shanghai Oriental team "Little Shandong" Jiang Zhipeng and others have fully grown up, but due to the limitation of talent, they have not been able to grow to the height of their predecessors. Therefore, Hiddink's national football team is facing an unprecedented shortage of people in the position of full-back, which seems really incredible for Chinese football, which has always been rich in wide attackers, but the reason is that the strength of the players produced during the youth training gap is too weak, and the impact of the dark years of Chinese football is finally fully reflected at this time.

Fortunately, in the dark years, there is Xu Genbao in Chongming's "ten years of sharpening a sword", cultivating Xie Wenjun and Wuqiu Wang, two talents that are enough to be recorded in the history of Chinese football, plus the 32-year-old Xue Lin is still in good condition because of his rare hard work and self-discipline, at least the traditional advantage of the Chinese team in the winger position is still there for the time being, otherwise even Hiddink will have to face the dilemma of "it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice" (to be continued......