The Swedish national team's first game of the international break was actually very bad.

Away against a team like Luxembourg, they were slow to break the opponent's goal.

It wasn't until the 58th minute that Lustig scored a goal from the assist, and finally won 1:0.

After returning to home, Sweden showed a little normal level, beating Bulgaria 3-0 to make it two wins in a row.

This result also allows Sweden to finish second in Group A behind France, which is actually quite good.

Pan Yi is actually more concerned about the Dragon Country National Team!

After he recruited Gao Hongbo through the media last time, he just wanted to see if anything would change.

After all, in this world's Dragon Country team, Wu Lei has been strengthened, and if the coach can also listen to Pan Yi to make some tactical changes, can he change history?

But in fact, Pan Yi still thinks too much.

The disadvantage of domestic coaches is that they have not been exposed to the top world football, and there is a big gap in some insights and ways of thinking.

This is not just Gao Hongbo, it can be said that almost all domestic coaches are like this.

This also includes coaches from other countries where football is weak.

Why do world-class coaches always come from those football powers? Pep Guardiola, Jurgen Klopp, Jose Mourinho......

It stands to reason that a coach does not need to enter the field to play, it is a purely intellectual job, and he only needs to have a flexible mind.

But in the major national teams and the five major league teams, why are there so few coaches who are not football powers?

Not to mention the Dragon Country, Japan, South Korea and so on, even Bulgaria, Greece, Romania and other slightly inferior European countries are rarely able to gain a foothold in the high-level leagues.

Of course, there are exceptions to this, such as Alex Ferguson from Scotland, in fact, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer from Norway is also quite one, after all, he also served as the manager of Manchester United.

But they come from a non-traditional football powerhouse, but they are close to an established powerhouse like England, either geographically close or where they have spent most of their playing careers.

This allows them to get up close and personal with the most advanced tactical knowledge and management concepts, which they can eventually apply to their own teams.

Therefore, if a country wants football to be strong, not only the players must go out, but also the coaches must go out.

Of course, the best thing to do is for the player to go out and continue to be a coach after retirement, so that his vision and perspective will be different.

But at the moment, the Dragon Kingdom still does not have such soil.

No, Gao Hongbo did hear Pan Yi's suggestion, but he didn't listen to it.

All he knows is that his team has played very well against South Korea and Iran, and their morale is high, and now it is time to take advantage of the victory to take Syria, which now looks the weakest, and then lay the foundation for qualifying!

This kind of misjudgment of the situation is actually a huge gap between domestic football and international football.

And this has happened before.

In the 1998 World Cup qualifiers, the Dragons were divided into the "West Asia" group composed of Saudi Arabia, Iran, Qatar and Kuwait in the top 10.

At that time, we took it for granted that they were in a league and would be calculated.

At the same time, we also believe that Saudi Arabia and Iran are the strongest in this group, while Qatar and Kuwait are not to be feared.

Therefore, under such psychological expectations, when the national football team lost to Iran by a large score twice, almost everyone felt that there was no hope of qualifying, and they were a little bad in the following games.

The most typical is that when I played Saudi Arabia away, I thought that I could go home with a draw, but I didn't expect to say that if I won, I still have a great hope of qualifying.

Because they didn't expect that Iran could eat the national football team, but there was no way to take Qatar and Kuwait, so the points have not been able to open the gap.

In fact, the points of this group have been in a stalemate, after all the games played, Saudi Arabia has 14 points, Iran has 12 points, while the Dragon Kingdom is third with 11 points, Qatar is fourth with 10 points, and Kuwait at the bottom also has 8 points!

This is a completely different situation from the next group, Japan and South Korea, which led all the way and ended up qualifying easily.

In other words, if the dragon country is a little more competitive and scores 1-2 more points, it can really qualify, and even have a chance to qualify directly from the first place in the group.

After all, the Dragon Kingdom was only 3 points behind Saudi Arabia, and the Dragon Kingdom at that time was not afraid of Saudi Arabia, and also defeated the opponent at home.

If you can knock over the opponent away from home (maybe as long as Fan Zhiyi scores that penalty), 1 point becomes 3 points, and the opponent's 1 point becomes 0 points, and the ranking is reversed.

However, as a sage with the surname Black once said, the only lesson that humanity can learn from history is that humanity does not learn from history.

Maybe at the moment of failure, people will reflect on it, but after a long time, no one will remember.

The same is true for the current Dragon Nation team.

In this game, the "blessed land" Xi'an played against Syria, which ranked the lowest in the group, and the Dragon Country team, which was determined to win, still adjusted the lineup, and Gu Chao still started!

On the Syrian side, because they only got 1 point in the first two rounds, the two-striker lineup in this game also showed a point-grabbing attitude.

The two sides have been fiercely contested, but they have not achieved anything from each other.

In the 54th minute, Syria scored a goal by taking advantage of a mistake in the defense of the Dragon Nation!

Saleh took the ball from the back and made a long pass behind the defense of the Dragon team, when Feng Xiaoting, Ren Hang and Jiang Zhipeng were chasing Maswas, who had not yet formed effective control of the ball, goalkeeper Gu Chao blindly rushed out of the penalty area and collided with Jiang Zhipeng, giving Maswas an easy opportunity to break through the empty goal, and Syria led 1-0.

Syria, whose morale was boosted, used the fast attack to create a threat for a short time, but fortunately did not continue to score.

But the advantage of this one goal was also maintained by Syria until the end.

After three rounds of the top 12 matches, the Dragon Country team only got 1 point with 1 draw and 2 losses.

Such an ending is, of course, very dissatisfied with all Dragon Country fans.

Outside Suzaku Stadium after the game, fans shouted "Worthy of us?" in an interview. RNM, get the money back! Voice.

And more fans also expressed their disappointment:

"What a disappointment! I'm knocking! ”

"Can you win seven games? Will we win all seven games? You can't win, it's blue. ”

"It's over! ……”

It is known as the "Suzaku Gate Incident" in history.

But it is clear that the disappointment of national football fans will continue to spread.

Five days later, the fourth round of the 2018 World Cup Qualifiers Asian Zone 12 continued to be contested, with the Dragons away to Uzbekistan.

In the 50th minute, Uzbekistan scored a goal, Dewey made a mistake in clearing the header, Shomurodov cut inside on the right wing and crossed diagonally to the left side, Bikmaev hit the back corner of the goal, the ball hit the inside of the post and crashed into the net, and the Dragons fell behind 0-1.

In the 85th minute, Zhao Mingjian hurriedly cleared the siege and kicked out of the bottom line, the Uzbekistan team won a corner kick, Shukurov hit Zhang Chengdong with a long shot from the front of the penalty area, the ball was refracted into the net, and the Dragon Country team fell behind 0-2.

In the end, the Dragon Team lost 0-2 to the Uzbekistan team, and the top 12 matches ended in 4 rounds, with 1 draw and 3 losses and only 1 point......

Compared with the score and points, what is more difficult to make depressed is that the post-game technical statistics show that the Uzbekistan team comprehensively suppressed the Dragon Country team with 19:2 shots, and the national football team only had two shots from Wu Lei in the whole game.

For those who watched the whole game, it should be clear that Uzbekistan has hit the goal several times but was blocked by the post, otherwise it would not have been 0:2 on aggregate.

The national football team lost two games in a row in a few days, so that the fire rising in the hearts of thousands of fans was extinguished in an instant.

After the end of the Sino-Ukrainian game, the national football coach Gao Hongbo also officially announced his resignation at the subsequent press conference!

Gao Hongbo, who once led the national football team to defeat the South Korean team 3:0, has since stepped down from the altar, leaving fans with a national football team that has been reflected tens of millions of times and still cannot be understood.

Many people are asking, where is your illness? What the hell is wrong with you in Dragon Country Football?

More people proposed that only Pan Yi could save Longguo football!

The reason is very simple, the current national team is actually okay in terms of personal ability, otherwise it would not have played back and forth with South Korea and Iran;

And Changzhou Hengtai, which has many international players, will not win the AFC Champions League twice!

However, the Dragons played very poorly against Syria and Uzbekistan, and no tactical literacy was reflected.

This shows that a good manager is very important for a team.

And who is the best head coach in Dragon Country now?

It is undoubtedly Pan Yi!

Although he is now the owner of the York City Club, he is still at home, and it is the most suitable place to find him.

So for a while, the topic of "national fans calling on Pan Yi to coach the national football team" rushed to the hot search.

Everyone believes that although the Dragon Country team only has one point in four games, there are still six games left, and there is still a theoretical possibility of qualifying.

The next game is on November 15, at home against Qatar.

There is still more than a month to go, and it is enough for Pan Yi to inspect the players and prepare tactics.

Yes, in fact, the time is still quite tight, and it is extremely difficult to qualify, but who made him Pan Yi?

When Pan Yi took over the Swedish team temporarily, it was only a little more than a week before the start of the European Cup, who would have thought that Pan Yi would lead the Swedish team to win the final championship like this?

Pan Yi has proven to the world again and again that he has the ability to turn decay into magic, so when he returns to his motherland, he will definitely be able to do it!

And for such ardent hopes of fans across the country, the Football Association sandwiched in the middle is a little embarrassing.

Go and ask for it, it's not that I haven't been invited, and it's not the first time I've been rejected, this kid really looks like he's holding a grudge......

Don't please, all the fans are watching, I'm afraid that the office building of the Football Association will be overturned!

However, at this time, the loyal Changzhou Hengtai came out to the rescue.

They decided to "dedicate" the highly successful Italian coach Lippi to take over the Dragon Nation team, which was already on the verge of despair!

Naturally, Mr. Lippi's resume is needless to say.

After his success at the European clubs, he took over in 2004 the national team that had been knocked out of the group stage of the European Championship by the "tacit goal".

A wave has not settled, and another wave has risen. Before the 2006 World Cup, the outbreak of "phonegate" in Italian football made the team enter the stormy realm again, and Lippi used his years of experience and courage to not only stabilize the morale of the army, but also make the team in the World Cup in Germany, and finally defeated France in a penalty shootout, Lippi led a group of old boys to complete the dream of conquering the world, and the achievements are eternal.

But when Lippi, who retired after a successful retirement, led the national team to the World Cup again four years later, he found that Italy was no longer what he was when he first met. His stubbornness led him to give up on bad boys Cassano and Balotelli again, but this time the veterans he trusted didn't give him glory. After the group stage, the Italian went home in disgrace.

In 2012, the upstart Changzhou Hengtai invited Lippi, who was at home, to the Far East, and the Italians also took an important step on the road to conquer the world.

During his three years in Guangdong, he led the team to win five championships, among which the three consecutive Chinese Super League championships and the first AFC Champions League title in the history of the Dragon Country Club were the most precious.

When his former protégé Cannavaro took over the reins, Lippi became the team's technical director, and later Italian football, until Hengtai restarted negotiations with him to "reunite".

Planned negotiations have been going well, with a salary set at €20 million, but unplanned, Gao Hongbo's Dragons suffered a defeat in the round of 12.

The Dragon Football Association urgently launched the coach selection process, and Hengtai was also full of revolutionary sacrifice and reluctantly cut his love, and was willing to let Lippi name Hengtai Football School and bear his salary of 15.5 million euros.

Moreover, this appointment does not include any qualifying clause in his new contract, so Lippi can complete the remaining matches of the round of 12 without being under pressure, and set his sights further afield for the 2019 Asian Cup and the 2022 World Cup.

This also shows that in fact, everyone has decided that the 2018 World Cup really has no hope.

After 4 rounds, the Dragon Nation team, which has only one point, is really standing on the edge of the cliff. With so many opponents behind, expecting Lippi to turn the tide in the remaining six games is tantamount to a dream.

If the Football Association's promise is realised, there will be an open and transparent environment for the players who will be able to select the players who will play for the country, which is undoubtedly exciting news for the players who have excelled at the club.

Lippi tweeted: "For me, a new adventure begins. ”

All of this looks pretty good.

For Dragon Country fans, although they failed to usher in Pan Yi, it is also a good choice to have Lippi, a veteran coach who is well-known all over the world and has proven himself in Dragon Country football and Asian football.

What no one knows is that Lippi first went to England to visit a Dragon Nation before he took over the Dragon Nation team......

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"I'm going to be the head coach of the Dragon National Team, and you come to a technical consultant position, how about it?"

At Pan Yi's home in Yorkshire, Lippi took a sip of tea and invited Pan Yi.

This is a decision made by the Italian coach after careful consideration.

Although Changzhou Hengtai and the Football Association have a good negotiation now, and the Football Association seems to be able to agree to any conditions, Lippi is still not very relaxed.

This is mainly because Pan Yi's status in the hearts of Dragon Country fans is too high!

If Lippi "replaces" Pan Yi like this, even if there is no performance pressure, whether it is inside or outside the team, the pressure he faces will not be small.

Because no matter what he does, someone will compare him to Pan Yi!

Therefore, the scheming Silver Fox came up with a way, that is, to include Pan Yi in his coaching staff, even if it is a nominal one.

In this way, Pan Yi, as the world's No. 1 coach, can indeed give himself effective help in employing people and tactics;

second, you can cover the mouths of outsiders, so that others do not make irresponsible remarks;

Third, doesn't this also show that Lippi has a wide range of connections, and he can actually move Pan Yi!

It's a foolproof approach.

Moreover, everyone knows that Pan Yi is now like an idle cloud and a wild crane, except for some important games that will go to the scene to watch the game, he basically follows his girlfriend everywhere to play in the mountains and rivers.

This idle position of so-called "technical consultant" is simply too suitable for him!

It's almost like you usually have time to make a phone call to talk about tactics and give advice to Lippi and the Dragon National Team, but you don't have time to ...... Forget it, do whatever you like.

Therefore, when Lippi said this to Pan Yi, Pan Yi really thought about it seriously.

Lippi is not like Gao Hongbo, he is a real world-class handsome!

And if Pan Yi is a consultant, Lippi will listen to his advice.

If you start to reverse the situation of the Dragon Country team from here, maybe there will be a real show!

After all, in the end, the Dragon Country team was just one half-time ball away from qualifying......

Pan Yi was thinking about it, and Lippi spoke again: "In fact, the Italian Football Association originally wanted me to be the head coach of the national team, but I refused. The current level of Ventura is actually very average, and I can also recommend you to be the head coach of the Italian national team if you want. ”

"And you're going to be my advisor?" Pan Yi said, laughing first.

"It's not impossible." Lippi laughed too.

An Italian who serves as the head coach of the Dragon Country team and has a Dragon Country man as a consultant;

And this dragon man went to be the head coach of the Italian team, and then let the Italian team be the consultant......

This combination sounds like an interesting one.

However, Lippi's proposal is indeed something that Pan Yi is a little interested in.

After winning Euro 2016, he was really thinking about the 2018 World Cup.

Only by winning the World Cup can we achieve a real Grand Slam!

And Italy, a down-and-out aristocracy, does seem to need his salvation.

Italy have played three games in the European qualifiers so far, with two wins and one draw looking good.

However, their 1-1 draw at home to Spain was actually a big factor in not qualifying from the group.

In this crucial game later on to Spain, Italy suffered a 3-0 defeat and could only finish second in the group, and finally lost in the play-offs and missed out on the 2018 World Cup!

Although it is true that Italy's stars are a little lacking, they are still stronger than the Swedish team.

As long as you train well, there is actually hope to make a name for yourself in the World Cup.

But the Italian team also died at the hands of the manager.

After the European Championship, Ventura replaced Conte as the head coach of the Italian national team, but the problem is that this coach has been coaching people like Bari, Pisa, Verona, Cagliari...... Such a team does not know how to use these stars of the Italian national team at all.

And the dressing room in Italy has long been demoralized, and everyone has doubts about Ventura's level.

There is a famous scene, that is, in the life-and-death battle of the play-offs, the Italian team did not find too many ways to win, and the scene could not be opened for a long time.

At this time, Italy coach Ventura assigned De Rossi to warm up and prepare for the game, but De Rossi himself seemed to be puzzled by this decision, as a defensive player he knew that his presence at this time could not help the team open up the attacking situation, and the team had to score goals to win.

So when coach Ventura asked De Rossi to warm up, he was very angry and said: Why do you want me to play?! What we XX need is a win, not a draw! And pointed to Insigne next to him, meaning to send him into the field.

Although the coach compromised in the end and replaced the attacking player, Insigne, recommended by De Rossi, did not get the opportunity to play, and in the end, the Italian men's football team lost the battle of life and death and missed the 2018 World Cup.

For the 34-year-old De Rossi and the 39-year-old Buffon, this is the last chance to play in the World Cup!

Faced with such an outcome, De Rossi was very angry, and after the game, he had a fierce argument with Ventura, and a physical altercation broke out, and finally he announced his retirement from the Italian national team together with Buffon and Barzagli.

Although it is impossible for Lippi, an Italian, to know what will happen in the future, as a world-class coach, he can see Ventura's formation.

The overall evaluation is one word: dish!

So since Pan Yi intends to go to the World Cup, why can't it be Italy?

Chinese and Italian football help each other and love each other!

This also prevents a future joke from becoming a reality:

Recalling that in order to learn football experience from five-star Brazil, the Japanese invited Brazilians to coach in their home country and naturalize Brazilian players, and as a result, Japanese football became the first class in Asia, and was brought into the World Cup by Brazil and became a regular guest;

Later, the Dragon Kingdom also followed Japan's example and chose to learn from the four-star Italy, inviting Lippi, Capello, and Caravaro as coaches, and the effect was immediate, and the Dragon Country team brought Italy out of the World Cup......

"I'll think about the Italian thing first." Pan Yi said.

On the one hand, Pan Yi himself has not thought about it, and on the other hand, although Ventura is not very good at leading the team, he has not yet reached the end of the mountain, that is, the crisis of not leaving class yet.

Besides, Pan Yi still wants to be leisurely for a while.

"The technical advisor of the dragon national team......" Lippi looked at Pan Yi expectantly.

Pan Yi said: "This is no problem, but I don't often go to the Dragon Kingdom to have meetings with you or anything, at most I will make some suggestions on the phone and video." ”

"Very well, it is enough to have this guarantee!" Lippi said happily.

"But I'm going to give you my first advice now."

"Oh?"

"Next time the national team training, bring Lin Liangming from our team, he will be a good helper!" (End of chapter)