novelonline Chapter 233 The White-haired Boy in the National Team
Chapter 233 The White-haired Boy in the National Team
Chapter 233 The White-haired Boy in the National Team
It is almost the end of the year. At this time last year, Stan was preparing to lead Guangzhou Tianbao to the AFC Champions League. This year, Stan has become the head coach of the national team and has finished the first round of the top 10 competition.
Turning over the calendar, Stan drew a circle on November 11th, which was the last official game of the Chinese team this year, against Lebanon at home.
For this game, Stan's thoughts are - to inspect new players, he will not recall players who have played overseas, such as Lin Zhijian and Wei Xiao, nor will he recall veterans, such as Sun Jihai, Li Weifeng, Zheng Zhi.
Lin Zhijian and Wei Xiao are not called because every November is the period with the highest density of European football matches. This game against the underdog Lebanon, it doesn't matter without them. It is rare for Stan to be a favor.
Veteran, I will definitely use it in the future. Stan knows that the reason why Real Madrid's "Zidane and Pavone" policy did not succeed is because "Hierro" retired. If Hierro is still there, and can bring a bunch of little brothers in the defense, then maybe Real Madrid's plan can be successful.
So the so-called "alternation between new and old" is not to eliminate the veterans, but to let them take the newcomers hand in hand, and when the newcomers are full-fledged, the veterans will gradually fade out of the main lineup.
Stan is going to make some changes in the position of the goalkeeper. He decided to call the old goalkeeper of the national team "Yang Zhi" back. The current two central defenders are of good level, but they are not very old and have average experience.
Now in this national team, there are only two central defenders and two wingers that Stan is satisfied with. The others are not bad in Asia, but it will be difficult to be competent in the world.
Among them, the right back is what Stan is more worried about. Qi Bing has potential, but he is too young. The level of a back is accumulated through experience. Qi Bing is too young in this position.
As for Hao Junmin’s position as the right midfielder, Stan intends to use Sun Ke to replace him, and other positions also select newcomers. After thinking about these things, Stan makes a document and sends it to Pekovic. The game is still the same, and Stan can only sit in the stadium to watch the game.
Yes, Stan was not allowed to go anywhere in this game except for the auditorium, and he was accompanied by the staff of the AFC Disciplinary Committee throughout the game.
In the last game, Stan served as the commentator, which caused huge controversy after the game, but that was because Stan took advantage of the loopholes, and the AFC couldn’t take it out on Stan if they were angry, but they learned how to behave in this game. Even if Stan goes to the bathroom, someone must accompany him.
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On the day of the game, Stan sat leisurely in the auditorium. He bought coffee for two AFC staff members, but they said that they were responsible and could not accept it. Stan shrugged and said that he had no choice but to pass it on to the two female fans in the back row.
After sitting down, in the middle of the court, the players of the two teams had already started to warm up. Stan jokingly asked, "How many do you think the Chinese team can win?"
The AFC staff didn't even turn their heads. They knew that nothing good would happen if they talked to Stan. Besides, their superiors had ordered them to leave him alone except for peeing.
After being rejected, Stan felt bored, turned around and asked the two girls just now, "Is the coffee good, do you want to come and sit, or I can sit there."
"Coach Stan, we will submit a report to the AFC after the game. If you don't want to continue the suspension after the game, you'd better not say anything and watch the game honestly."
"Hehe, I'm just striking up a conversation." After speaking, Stan laughed a few times, but the two staff members couldn't squeeze a smile on their faces.
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After the game started, Stan concentrated on watching the game and took notes from time to time. After 5 minutes of the game, the Chinese team was uncharacteristically unable to control the midfielder and was hit twice by Lebanon, both times within the range of the goal frame.
Fortunately, "Yang Zhi" is stable, and he moved his feet ahead of time to hold the ball in his arms for both shots, but it should not have been shot twice in 5 minutes by a team like Lebanon.
With a large-scale rotation and so many newcomers, it is foreseeable that the game will not be as good as before, but Stan is not expected to be so passive. Fortunately, the game has just started, and the fans are still patient.
When the game lasted 10 minutes, the young people of the Chinese team began to gradually lose their nervousness and began to take the ball calmly. In this way, the Chinese team can pour the ball in the midfield again. Once the ball can be passed in the midfield, the pressure on the backcourt will naturally decrease.
But without Zheng Zhi's midfielder, it's like a computer without a CPU. No one can organize the offense. Offensive coordination is impossible without long-term training. Stan understands this better than anyone.
"Too big, Zheng Zhi shouldn't let him rest," Stan thought.
Fortunately, Lebanon's midfielder is also a bunch of "rough guys" with very rough skills. The two teams were fighting and fighting in the midfield. Suddenly, the ball was shoveled by two players at the same time and jumped up.
The ball jumped to a height of about 1 meter. The Chinese backcourt players did not dare to neglect. They raised their legs high and lifted the ball upwards. The ball flew to the Lebanese backcourt in a parabola.
Stan followed the ball with his eyes, and not only cursed in his heart, "Damn".
It turned out that as far as Stan could see, he saw a white-haired player wearing a Chinese team jersey fighting for the ball in Lebanon's backcourt.
Stan has never met this person before. Pekovic selected half of the current national team. Before the game, he also sent the complete information of the 23 national team members to his mobile phone. But Pekovic recommends new players to him almost every day, so he is no longer surprised.
But you can’t choose anyone with “white hair” to enter the national team. Stan was a little angry, “Pekovic is trying to embarrass me.”
Suddenly Stan touched the phone in his pocket, and he knew that Pekovic was not the kind of person who would mess around, and there must be his reasons for the players he liked.
So Stan took out his mobile phone, ready to take a detailed look at the information on No. 34.
"Coach Stan, I'm sorry you can't use your phone",
Stan looked at the other person and said, "I don't surf the Internet".
"That's not OK",
Stan turned on the "airplane mode" to the staff, "Is it okay now?"
"I'm sorry, Coach Stan, you're so cunning, it's hard for me to trust you",
Stan laughed angrily, he shook his head, and said in self-deprecating way: "I did it to myself".
The other party stretched out his hand and signaled Stan to hand him the phone. Stan opened the "card slot" of the phone, took out the SIM card, and handed it to the other party, "I am not "James Bond", this is an ordinary mobile phone."
The other party also smiled and signaled "forget it".
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Calling up the information, Stan took a closer look. It turned out that this person was called "Ding Mu". He was born in Shanghai in 1991 and was 185cm tall.
"So it's new, no wonder I don't know him," Stan thought.
Pulsatilla "Ravanelli" Stan is very familiar, he is almost a contemporary player of Stan. Stan's impression of him is that he lacks talent, but his basic skills are very solid, he trains very hard, and he has a lot of energy on the court.
Such players appeared later. For example, Slovakia's "Mintal" and Bosnia's "Dzeko" are players of the same type.
After reading the information, Stan became very interested in the player named "Ding Mu" in front of him. After all, the 21-year-old dared to dye all his hair white, which at least proved that he was a young man with great ideas and personality.
And the striker must have his own personality. Some people say that the striker on the court needs to have the temperament of an artist, such as Baggio, Inzaghi, and Crespo. If they stand on the streets of Florence with a drawing board, you will definitely mistake them for artists.
From then on, no matter where the ball flies, Stan's eyes will only be fixed on the same place, which is Ding Mu.
For forwards, Stan's inspection criteria are completely different from those of defenders. When inspecting defenders, Stan cares most about "position sense", while inspecting forwards, Stan cares most about a small detail-that is, the ball-stopping technique.
As a striker, stopping the ball is not only a basic skill, but also the most difficult part. The quality of stopping the ball is directly related to the continuity of the next action. If you watch the video of "Ravanelli" playing football on the Internet, you will feel that there are invisible cushions on his feet. No matter how powerful the pass is, he can stop the ball reasonably, which is not easy.
After watching for a few minutes, Ding Mu touched the ball twice and succeeded both times, which shows that his stopping skills are still good, because the defenders are "very tricky" and have good stopping skills.
But it is difficult to see too many things in a game. Stan is going to find his own video analyst to collect about 5 hours of video data for himself, and study it carefully in the next few days.
Just do it, Stan dialed the number and was about to call the video analyst, "Damn, why is the phone broken"?thought Stan.
After pressing twice, Stan turned his head suddenly, only to realize that the sim card was still in someone else's hands. The other party looked at Stan with a smile, and Stan also looked at him with an embarrassed smile. The other party suddenly said, "Coach Stan, I now believe that you are not 007."
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