Chapter 35 The Coach Gao Hongbo
When training is over, Lazio's players sign autographs for the fans as they leave the training ground.
And the coaches will be mobbed by reporters who will ask questions that interest them.
But not every time.
Especially when Chang Sheng is notoriously difficult to deal with in the circle.
So the reporters were happy to interview his assistant coach. After Di Matteo became the assistant coach of the Lazio club, his name began to appear in the newspapers many times.
Because he is an Italian player, he is already familiar with these Italian media.
It is normal for Italian journalists to prefer him.
In addition, he has not yet been labeled as a "direct descendant of Changsheng", so the media are happy to approach him.
On the contrary, although Chang Sheng does not accept interviews with reporters very much, he has to meet the signature requirements of many fans.
In Lazio, his popularity is also very strong, not inferior to those players.
Even more popular than those players.
Who made him Lazio's number one star?
After the training, Chang Sheng took the initiative to come over and plan to sign autographs for the fans.
But he saw a familiar face in the crowd.
He had seen many people with yellow skin and black hair in Formello.
They are all journalists from China who came here for interviews, or tourists who came here for fame.
In addition, it is not ruled out that fans from Japan and South Korea will come back here to support Lazio.
In any case, Lazio still has some fans in these places, even if there are not many.
So if you see people with yellow skin and black hair outside the training ground, you should not be surprised, and it is even more impossible for Chang Sheng to take a few more glances.
But today is different.
Not only did he notice this person, he also took a few more glances.
Because when he caught a glimpse of him inadvertently.
Chang Sheng felt that this person looked familiar...
So he took a few more glances.
Then he was taken aback!
I rely on! Isn't this Gao Hongbo? !
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Chang Sheng is very familiar with Gao Hongbo.
As a Chinese fan born in the 1980s, Chang Sheng was particularly interested in the Chinese football team after entering the 21st century. There are only two stages.
One stage was when Milutinovic led the team to play in the Asian top ten of the World Cup qualifiers. At that time, the national team lineup was at its peak, and they were all players left over from the old professional era and early career. They have outstanding abilities and can be regarded as the strongest Chinese national team.
And that national team had great hopes of entering the World Cup, so Chang Sheng was full of hope and passion when watching the national team games.
The second stage is the period when Gao Hongbo coached the national team.
When Gao Hongbo took over the national team, it can be said to be the darkest time in Chinese football.
The disastrous defeat in the 2008 Olympic Games brought Chinese football to the bottom. Being eliminated from the World Cup qualifiers in South Africa early also made the Chinese football team face the situation of no ball to play.
Fans' interest in Chinese football has dropped to a freezing point. When it comes to Chinese football, everyone feels ashamed. At that time, there were many jokes mocking Chinese football on the Internet.
Like pulling up the curtains to watch a national football game at home, in order not to be laughed at, and pretending that he was watching porn - look, Chinese football has taken turns to the point where it is not even as good as porn.
At that time, the national football team was really called out by everyone.
It was against this background that Gao Hongbo became the head coach of the national team.
From May 2009, he became the coach of the national team. He stepped down in August 2011.
In total, he led the national team to play 42 games of all kinds, with 24 wins, 13 draws and 5 losses. Aside from commercial matches, warm-up matches, and friendly matches, which are considered "no gold content" by some people, they are only counted as official matches, twelve official matches. Gao Hongbo's national team lost only one game, with eight wins, three draws and one loss.
The Asian Cup group, which was bombarded by many media, did not qualify. In fact, Gao Hongbo's Chinese team performed very well. One win, one draw and one loss, if it wasn't for the fact that they met the host in the second game and started the godfather mode, everything would be hard to say.
Also, the media bombarded Gao Hongbo for being cowardly before a fight, throwing out such remarks as "the Chinese team is the last in Asia", which affected morale.
But based on Chang Sheng's feeling at the time, Gao Hongbo was right. Chinese football was originally the lowest in Asia. If you dare not even admit this, how can Chinese football talk about progress?
Some people still live in the 1990s, thinking that the Chinese team can't beat Japan, South Korea, Iran and Saudi Arabia, and it should be no problem to beat Jordan, Qatar, and Southeast Asian teams, right?
But the actual situation is that Chinese football can't even beat the Southeast Asian teams that could be easily bullied before!
This is the fact, a fact that many people don't admit with their eyes closed-Chinese football is really the bottom of Asia! Not popular!
Moreover, Gao Hongbo had obtained the consent of the Football Federation at that time to take a batch of the youngest national teams in history to the Asian Cup, just for training for the World Cup qualifiers. Because Gao Hongbo's contract with the Football Association was until the end of the World Cup qualifiers. It is required to explore a path suitable for the future technical and tactical development of Chinese football, and to establish a style suitable for Chinese players. There are no other specific performance requirements except for the World Preliminaries.
Considering that this group of young people will be under a lot of pressure to play in the Asian Cup, Gao Hongbo threw out the theory of the end, hoping to relieve the pressure on the national football team.
As a result, the Chinese media rushed to bombard Gao Hongbo as if they had been injected with chicken blood. Life and death made the pressure on the young players of the Chinese team increase sharply, which was higher than high blood pressure.
In this way, this Chinese team still played their style in the Asian Cup. If they hadn't been hacked by the host, they should have gone one step further.
As a result, the Football Association later dismissed Gao Hongbo on the grounds of his poor performance in the Asian Cup.
But the real reason is that the national football team needs to change coaches. Wang Jianlin, the boss of Wanda, who sponsors the Football Association, believes that in order to improve the level of Chinese football, it is necessary to hire high-quality famous coaches. Can local coaches be considered famous coaches?
Just like that, Gao Hongbo was dismissed just before the top 20 of the Asian World Cup qualifiers. A temporary coaching change and a Camacho came up.
At that time, the Chinese Football Association had a statement that made Chang Sheng feel that they were very amateurish and stupid.
That is, Camacho had just arrived, and the Chinese Football Association had already helped this "famous coach" find a way out. Said that they want to give Camacho enough confidence and time to allow him to rebuild Chinese football. Even if the 2014 World Cup qualifiers are eliminated, it doesn't matter, we have to focus on the 2018 World Cup...
At that time, Chang Sheng almost spit out every mouthful of water when he heard this statement.
The top 20 matches haven't started yet, so the Football Association just said that it is determined to give up the World Cup in Brazil, right?
finally. Camacho led the national team played five top twenty games. As the Football Association wished, he was eliminated without any suspense.
At that time, someone ridiculed on the Internet, "Congratulations to the Chinese men's football team for becoming the first team in the world to prepare for the 2018 World Cup in Russia!". It's so hard to laugh...
In five games, Camacho changed three starting lineups.
It fully reflects Camacho's ignorance of Chinese football and the disadvantages of a hasty coaching change.
But during Gao Hongbo's last game, the commentator of CCTV had the cheek to say that sometimes changing coaches is like changing a knife. The new coach may bring us new ideas and new changes, and maybe he will receive miraculous effects and surprise everyone.
Well, it's really a miraculous effect. It's a miraculous effect that the top 20 will go home after finishing the fight. The performance of Li Weifeng who returned to the team and assisted the opponent with two goals in two games also surprised everyone...
Chang Sheng always believed that if Gao Hongbo was given a chance. Let him continue to lead the team through the World Cup qualifiers, maybe it won't even make it to the top ten...
When Gao Hongbo took over the Chinese team, the Chinese team ranked 11th in Asia and 108th in the world. two years. With not many games to play and only participating in warm-up matches, he brought the Chinese team back to No. 5 in Asia, No. 68 in the world, and became the top 20 seeds in the Asian region for the 2014 World Cup qualifiers. Team.
Some people say that Gao Hongbo's national team is the king of friendly matches and can only play friendly matches, but if they hadn't played well in friendly matches, how could the Chinese team have won so many warm-up matches? The Gao family army, who lacked official games to play, could only use warm-up matches to maintain their state and train. It is precisely because of his outstanding performance in the warm-up match that he was able to win the opportunity to play against strong teams like France and Portugal.
What's more, the Chinese team of Camacho's successor, not to mention the performance in the game, even if they want to be the "king of friendly matches", they can't do it...
Chang Sheng has always complained about Gao Hongbo. He thinks that Gao Hongbo is one of the best young coaches in China, and he is very dissatisfied with the temporary change of coach by the Football Association and the replacement of Camacho.
Even if you think Gao Hongbo is not good enough, why don't you find a real famous coach!
Evergrande can find Lippi as the head coach, Dalian Wanda has a lot of assets, Wang Jianlin used to be involved in football, but after searching a lot, he finally found Camacho, a second-rate European...
After Chang Sheng was reborn, he became even more suspicious of Camacho's ability. He started in Spain, and Spanish football doesn't think highly of Camacho. No wonder after Camacho went to the national team, some Spanish fans said on the "Marca" newspaper forum that Camacho went to harm China again, poor Chinese football...
After Camacho went to China, he completely abandoned the national football team's insistence on ground coordination in Gao Hongbo's era, and played a long pass... As a result, the Chinese national team couldn't even win the warm-up match, and the scene was even more ugly.
Chang Sheng didn't like the national team at this time. Although he watched every game, the main purpose was to scold Camacho for that idiot.
He believes that regardless of Gao Hongbo's national football performance, at least he believes that Gao Hongbo's national team has found a correct path. Persevere, there will be gains. Neighboring Japan is actually a good example. Chinese football insists on following the path of footwork skills. Coupled with the superior physical fitness of Japanese players, it is not hopeless that the Chinese team will surpass Japanese football in the future. As for Asian football, especially East Asian football, if you compete with Europe and the United States, you will not be able to compete physically, and you will not be able to compete with speed, so you can only compete with technology to give full play to the flexible characteristics of yellow people.
He only led the team for two years, and he complained about the poor results in the Asian Cup. Given the bad state of Chinese football at the time, it would be foolish to want to improve in two years! Japanese football knows to formulate a century-old plan to win the World Cup in a hundred years.
The Chinese media and football people think arrogantly that the Chinese team can be reborn in two years... Even if it is a YY novel, I dare not write it like this!
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Chang Sheng understands Gao Hongbo's coaching experience. He knows that after Changchun Yatai got out of class, he disappeared from people's sight for a while.
I don't know what he's going to do, and he hasn't been the head coach of any team anymore. It was not until May 2009 when he competed to become the head coach of the national team that he returned to the public eye.
So when he saw Gao Hongbo outside his club's training ground, he was very surprised.
Why is he here? (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian () to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile phone users, please go to read.)