Chapter 1111 New requirements of the new coach
This is not the first time that all the players of the Chinese national team have met Jorge Dillon.
Even putting aside Dillon's illustrious achievements in Europe, everyone has played against the Golden Arrow coached by Dillon when playing in the Chinese Super League. Not to mention that there are players from the Golden Arrow in this national team now, who are even more familiar with Dillon.
But except for the Golden Arrow players, other international players actually have very little knowledge of Dillon, and they only know that he is a very famous and capable head coach.
After Dillon became the head coach of this team, the international players were also speculating on how Dillon would lead this team.
For example, what tactics will he choose, what are his criteria for selecting and employing people, what is his temper, what are his hobbies...etc.
These are all related to his future and destiny in the national team.
After all, "one emperor, one minister", everyone knows this truth. Some players were not well received by the previous head coach and may not even be able to serve as substitutes. As a result, he changed his head coach and transformed from a substitute to the main player.
Has your ability suddenly improved?
Of course not, it can only be because this player's ability meets the requirements of the new coach.
Or maybe it's just because his personality and temperament suit the new head coach.
We are all professional players, and we have never seen situations like this happen. We are used to it when we see it, and we even take it for granted.
So if I could be more in line with Dillon's taste, wouldn't it be easier for me to be in the national team?
Especially the aging international players.
During this period, they have been asking many players at Golden Arrow to find out who the new coach is.
Then they combined the information they learned and came to the conclusion that Dillon liked Chen Xingyi very much.
When seeing this conclusion, some people wanted to overturn the table - what kind of result is this!
However, some people followed this result and further speculated that perhaps Dillon not only likes Chen Xingyi, but also likes Chen Xingyi's group of young people...
This makes the aging international players even more aware of the crisis.
They can almost imagine that a cruel overhaul within the national team is about to begin.
Their previous achievements in the national team cannot be used as capital for them to stay.
With this uneasy feeling, everyone was informed during dinner: After dinner, they went directly to the hotel conference room to gather. The new head coach Jorge Dillon was going to hold a meeting for everyone.
This has intensified everyone's worries - are we preparing to kill the chicken to scare the monkey?
So who will be the chicken that is killed?
Thinking about it this way, some people think that it might be a good thing that Yao Huasheng was not selected for the national team due to injury...
Now they are looking at the video highlights of the Chinese team in the Asian Cup on the projector.
This is the "dessert" specially prepared for them by the new coach Jorge Dillon.
"After watching this ten-minute video, what do you think?"
After the video played, Dillon's voice sounded, followed by translator Yu Jintao's narration.
What do you think?
I have a lot of feelings, but I don’t know if I should say them...
Everyone looked at each other and no one said a word.
Dillon didn't seem to care whether the team members answered or not, and he began to talk endlessly. Every time he said a paragraph, he would stop and take a break, until Jin Tao finished translating for him, and then continue.
"Through the game video highlights and combined with your experience in the Asian Cup, you should easily come to such a result. That is - you find that the opponents you encountered in the Asian Cup seem to be stronger. But again It will make you suspicious. Because you have basically played against opponents in Asia, and you should know each other's level very well. How can you suddenly improve in a short period of time? Besides, which one is more important, the Asian Cup or the top 12? It’s difficult to fight, you should also know it very well...
"So there is another answer to this question, and that is that you have become weaker. After all, you were able to draw with Russia and Brazil in the World Cup, but now it is so difficult to defeat the Philippines and Iraq. Have you really become weaker? ? But if this is true, how can you explain your beautiful defeat of the Japanese team? ”
The Chinese team players recovered from their initial stunned state, put aside those random thoughts, and began to immerse themselves in the questions raised by the head coach.
Have we become stronger or weaker?
After the World Cup, so many teammates have gone abroad to study, and the media is saying that this will be the strongest Chinese team in history.
But why is the Asian Cup so stumbling? They lost to Iraq in the first game.
The fight against the Philippines did not go well, even against Syria we lost goals...
After Dillon gave the players some time to think, he continued:
"Actually, it's not that you have become weaker, or that your opponents have become stronger. It's very simple. Our opponents' attitude towards us has changed, and our status in Asian football has also changed. From now on, you must get used to looking at it with the mentality of a strong team. Competition, look at yourself. To put it simply, whether you admit it or not, in the eyes of others, you are a strong team.
"That's why you encounter so many pressing and bus-like defenses in the game. These are topics that you have not studied before, so when you encounter them in the game, you will inevitably be a little at a loss. …”
In order to let the national team players understand the truth, Dillon also analyzed for them why they did not encounter such a situation when they played in the top 12 games before.
To put it simply, they were not a first-rate team in the past, or a third-rate team. Most opponents were not really afraid of the Chinese team. When facing the Chinese team, they did not have the mentality to face a strong team.
So they won't shrink defensively.
In fact, Dillon had told Yu Jintao in private about the specific content, but now he told it to the international football players, and it was even more detailed than to Jin Tao.
Some of the content is even like talking on the road, repeated over and over again.
He broke it open, crushed it into pieces, and explained it to the international players in detail, as if he was afraid that they wouldn't understand.
From the positioning of the Chinese national team in Asian football, to why Shi Wuyin adopted a trident offensive tactic composed of Hu Lai, Luo Kai and Chen Xingyi as the core, the advantages and disadvantages of this tactic and why it cannot be adapted to today's The Chinese team has won the championship, where will the Chinese team go next...
And he not only talked about it verbally, but also explained it in combination with edited game videos to let the players understand in a more intuitive way.
If outsiders saw this scene, they would definitely find it ironic - the top group of Chinese football people, like ordinary fans, need to be "popularized" in such a complicated way.
Is this the highest level of football in our country?
Can Chinese football still get better?
Just disband!
But this is the current situation of Chinese football.
Some things seem to be understood by the fans and sound logical, but it is not so easy for the players to implement these principles into the game.
Let’s talk about the simplest one:
After passing the ball, he continues to run to meet his teammates.
This can be considered common knowledge among fans. Who still stands still and plays football these days?
But in a specific game, is it always right to run forward after passing the ball?
Apparently not.
Sometimes running forward will lead the team's offense to a dead end.
"Open up the space" are just these four words. It is not easy to do it concretely and correctly in the game.
Sometimes you need to run forward after passing the ball, sometimes you need to retreat after passing the ball, and sometimes you need to pull laterally, and sometimes even staying put after passing the ball is the right choice.
When and how to move and pull, this is where ability is tested.
Moreover, this kind of pulling and running is often not a matter of one person, but requires the team as a whole to work together in a certain area.
If, as a coach, you only tell the players to actively run after passing the ball to open up space, but do not tell them specifically how to open up the space and what to do in different situations, then the players will still be confused.
Therefore, during the game, you can still see problems such as players not being active enough in the game, failing to open up space in time, causing teammates to have no safe route for the ball, etc.
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"...In order to avoid encountering such problems in the future, our next focus in training is how to organize the offense when facing pressing and how to break the dense defense. You must change your mentality and habits in training ...This kind of training will not be easy, and my requirements for you will not be low, but you must know that your performance in the game will not live up to the hard work you put in in training!”
Jorge Dillon ends his tactical meeting.
The players walked back to their rooms one after another, everyone looking worried.
They know that their national team careers will undergo earth-shaking changes.
The head coach has made his demands and those who cannot keep up will be eliminated.
Four years later, how many of the players in this conference room will be able to catch the plane to Spain and Portugal? (End of chapter)