Chapter 328: Training and Preparation

Documentary filming is a very new experience for Zhou Yi, especially the part of brain scanning, which really opened his eyes, and he didn't know that his brain was so powerful.

In the end, Dr. Li half-jokingly gave Zhou Yi a nickname, saying that he was the "super brain" among football players.

Mark Laurenson wondered if Zhou Yi was not the kind of person who came out of school to play football halfway through middle school, but was trained in the club echelon since he was a child, would he have become famous earlier?

This test is the fulfillment of Mark Laurenson's long-standing wish, which is an important reason why he agreed to join the documentary team.

After the filming of the documentary, Zhou Yi left countless topics to talk about for those who participated in the filming of the documentary, and he himself returned to his daily preparations.

On the other hand, Real Madrid have also begun to prepare for the Champions League final after finishing this season's La Liga season.

Real Madrid beat Espanyol 3-1 in the final round of the league but are still in third place, with 87 points tied with Barcelona, but they can only be behind Barcelona because they are not superior in terms of wins and losses - they have been beaten home and away by Barcelona this season.

The third in the league can still participate in the Champions League next season.

Real Madrid have failed in the league this season, but they have been doing well in the cup.

Not to mention the Champions League, which reached the final, let's talk about the Spanish Copa del Rey, where they beat Barcelona 2-1 in the final.

Among them, Bale's second goal for Real Madrid has become a classic and has been talked about for a long time.

At that time, he relied on speed on the side to force a breakthrough of Barcelona central defender Baltra, and after he passed the football, he was still squeezed out of the field by Baltra, so Bale actually relied on speed to complete the forced overtaking on the outside, went in a circle, ran longer than Baltra, or overtook Baltra to catch up with the football, and then dribbled into the penalty area and scored a single goal.

This goal instantly made many people climax.

Many people even think that Real Madrid spent a supposedly 100 million euros to buy Bale this season, and this goal alone is worth the transfer fee.

Chinese fans even described Bale's speed as follows: "Between two points, Bale is the shortest. ”

It's not the shortest straight line, it's the shortest bell.

You know, in this final, Cristiano Ronaldo hasn't played yet, he was a spectator in the stands and watched the game.

In Real Madrid's last few games, the Dortmund coaching staff has made all the highlights, so that the Dortmund players can watch it again and again to fully understand this opponent.

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But just as the Champions League final between Borussia Dortmund and Real Madrid was approaching, there were sudden waves in China.

Although Zhou Yi and Yan Min were absent from the national team's training camp, the national team's training work was still carried out normally.

And two warm-up matches were played.

However, the Chinese team's performance in these two warm-up games was not good.

The World Cup was held in December last year with a group stage draw.

China, which has reached the World Cup finals for the second time in history, and three other Asian teams and four teams from North and Central America and the Caribbean are considered to be the third-tier teams.

After the draw, the Chinese team was divided into a group with Spain, the Netherlands and Chile, Group B.

The result of this grouping was not very favorable for the Chinese team.

As soon as the results came out, there was an atmosphere of pessimism in China.

After all, the Chinese team was divided into a group with the champions and runners-up of the last World Cup, and the luck was really bad, in terms of the strength of the four teams in the group, it was not the group of death, but for the Chinese team, it could be the group of death.

When the world media analyzed the situation of the World Cup group grouping, they also believed that if there was no accident in Group B, Spain and the Netherlands would join hands to qualify, after all, they were the strongest. If there is an accident, then the Chinese team is that accident.

Because of the unfavorable situation in the grouping, the preparation for the World Cup of the Chinese team is very tense, and as the head coach of the team, Gao Hongbo has been working under great pressure.

In response to the results of this group, the Chinese team found three warm-up opponents, two European teams, and one team from North and Central America and the Caribbean, trying to restore the opponents in this group......

The opponent in the first warm-up match was the Belgian national team. Belgium and the Netherlands are next to each other, so for this reason, the Chinese Football Association thinks that it may be helpful for the Chinese team to study the Dutch team.

Belgium also reached the World Cup finals in Brazil, and they are in a group with South Korea, so they are also happy to play against China, after all, China and South Korea are both East Asian teams, and Belgium believes that the two teams have similar styles and can be used as a reference.

As a result, the Chinese team lost 1:3 to the Belgian team in that game.

Although he scored a goal, he was almost passive on the field.

In the words of the Chinese media after the game, it is "the original form of the Chinese team without Zhou Yi is revealed".

After this match, many people were worried about the prospects of the Chinese team in the World Cup.

Originally, the result of the group was very unfavorable, and if the team is still in this state, I am afraid that it will become a devastating performance in the World Cup.

Of course, talking about this issue after the first warm-up game is a bit alarmist, and maybe a little unfounded.

After all, the warm-up game is all about finding problems and then solving them.

All the key is to see the result of the second warm-up game.

In the second warm-up match, the opponent of the Chinese team was the Bosnia-Herzegovina team, a new World Cup team.

The opponent was not strong, but the Chinese team still lost this game.

And as was the case in the first game, it looks like the problems exposed in the first game, the second one has not been solved.

After the defeat to Bosnia and Herzegovina, the domestic media was full of fierce criticism of the national team's preparations.

The criticism is all-round, from the plan of the training camp to the selection of warm-up opponents, of course, it all has to fall on the head coach of the national team, Gao Hongbo.

Who made Gao Hongbo's popularity in the media circle not good enough?

And the head coach of the national team is, of course, the most powerful person, and he has to take the lion's share and take responsibility, of course, he has to carry it.

“...... It is understandable that Belgium lost in the selection, after all, Belgium is also a national team full of geniuses and demons, and its strength is not weak. It's also the twelfth team in FIFA. But losing to Bosnia and Herzegovina is incomprehensible, I know why the national team chose Bosnia and Herzegovina, it must be thinking that this is a soft persimmon, you can pinch it casually, before the World Cup, winning a warm-up match is very important for the team's confidence and morale. So there is nothing wrong with choosing soft persimmon pinching. But I never expected that it was such a soft persimmon that pinched the Chinese team...... The problems exposed in the first warm-up game have not been solved much, and new problems have popped up......"

"For the national team's training camp, the domestic league has been suspended to make way for the national team's training camp. What is the result? After training in China for so long and spending a huge amount of money to go to Europe for training, did you get only such a result? So what are you doing in the training camp? Are you traveling freely in Europe?"

"The people of the whole country do not pay taxes so that the national team can travel to Europe, and the warm-up game is actually very illustrative of the results of the training camp. So from the current point of view, we can assert that the results of the Chinese team's training camp are about equal to zero. According to this trend, when the World Cup starts, we may not have completed our training goals. How are we going to break out of the group of death?"

"I said a long time ago that although Gao Hongbo's level is quite acceptable among domestic coaches. But leading the team to the World Cup is still a very risky move. Because he has no experience in the World Cup, which is the deadliest. When the Chinese team won the right to participate in the World Cup, they should decisively replace him, entrust him with the task of leading the team, and then find a more professional world-class coach to lead the team, so that everyone is happy...... As a result, now that the World Cup training camp has begun, the preparation of the national team is a mess, and it is almost too late to change the coach temporarily...... I finally made it to the World Cup finals, but in the end it was such a result, which is really unwilling......"

"Gao Hongbo's advantage is that most of these players were brought up by him, not to mention the locker room WeChat. The team is stable. But his disadvantage is that his level is not high enough to reach the level of a World Cup-level manager. The huge gap in level is something that can be easily bridged without the need for other factors......"

"It's not that the admiration of foreign countries is flattering, but the level of Chinese football coaches is indeed inferior to foreign coaches. The performance in the warm-up game is a good illustration......"

"Gao Hongbo has coached some teams, whether in Xiamen or Changchun, he led the local team to start high and go low, at first it was amazing, but then it would be difficult to move an inch for various reasons. In the end, he could only leave his job in disgrace. I think he's a manager who doesn't ...... mature."

"History has a positioning for everyone, and the historical positioning of Gao Hongbo is the first local head coach who led the Chinese team to the World Cup, which should be his positioning. As for the World Cup finals, I don't think that's Gao Hongbo's historical positioning......"

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In addition to the traditional media, there are also many people on the Internet who criticize Gao Hongbo, they think that it is too child's play to let Gao Hongbo lead the team to play the World Cup, they do not deny Gao Hongbo's contribution in the process of leading the team to qualify, but think about it calmly and rationally, Gao Hongbo is not a suitable candidate to lead the Chinese team to play in the World Cup finals.

Naturally, these remarks were also refuted and criticized by Gao Hongbo's supporters.

The two sides fought on the Internet, and each had celebrity supporters on the platform, and no one could convince anyone. But he stirred up this topic and let more people know that Gao Hongbo is currently experiencing difficulties in the preparation of the national team.

In this context, on May 21, 22 days before the opening of the World Cup, an explosive news suddenly came from the training camp of the Chinese team - Gao Hongbo suddenly fainted to the ground while guiding the team's training!

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