Chapter 328: Training and preparations
Documentary shooting is a very fresh experience for Zhou Yi, especially the part of his brain scan, which really opened his eyes. He didn't know that his brain was so powerful.
In the end, Dr. Li gave Zhou Yi a nickname in half-jokingly, saying that he was the "super brain" among football players.
Mark Laurenson was wondering, if Zhou Yi was not the kind of person who became a middle school student and played football halfway through, but a person who had been trained in the club ranks since childhood, would he become famous earlier? Maybe he was famous at the age of sixteen or seventeen?
This test fulfilled Mark Laurenson's long-standing wish, which is also an important reason why he agreed to join the documentary shooting team.
After finishing the documentary filming, Zhou Yi left countless topics to those who participated in the documentary filming, and he himself returned to his daily preparation work.
On the other hand, after Real Madrid finished the La Liga this season, they also began to prepare for the Champions League final.
Although Real Madrid defeated Espanyol 3:1 in the last round of the league, they could only rank third. They scored 87 points with Barcelona, but because they did not have the advantage in terms of victory or loss - they were doubled by Barcelona at home and away this season - so they could only be behind Barcelona.
The third in the league, you can still participate in the Champions League next season.
Real Madrid has failed in the league this season, but they performed well in the Cup.
Let’s not talk about the Champions League that reached the final, but about the Copa del Rey in Spain, they defeated Barcelona 2:1 in the final.
Among them, Bale's second goal scored by Real Madrid has become a classic and has been talked about for a long time.
At that time, he forced himself to break through Barcelona's central defender Bartra on the sideline by speed. After he swept the football, Bartra was squeezed out of the court. In this way, Ball actually forced himself to overtake the outside line by speed, and made a circle. He ran longer than Bartra, but he still exceeded Bartra to catch up with the football, then dribbled the ball into the penalty area and scored a single goal.
This goal instantly made many people climax.
Many people even believe that Real Madrid spent 100 million euros to buy Bale this season, and the goal is worth the transfer fee.
Chinese fans even described Bale as fast as this: "Bayer is the shortest between two points."
It is not the shortest straight line, it is the shortest Bell.
You know, Cristiano Ronaldo has not been in this final yet. He was an audience in the stands and watched the game.
In Real Madrid's recent games, the Dortmund coaching staff have all made a collection of highlights, allowing Dortmund players to watch it repeatedly and fully understand the opponent.
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But just as the Champions League finals between Dortmund and Real Madrid were approaching, waves suddenly appeared in China.
Although Zhou Yi and Yan Min missed the national team training, the national team training work was still underway.
And two warm-up matches were played.
However, the Chinese team's performance in these two warm-up matches was not good.
This World Cup held a group draw ceremony for the group stage in December last year.
The Chinese team, which reached the World Cup finals for the second time in history, is the third-level team, as well as three other Asian representative teams and four Central and North America and the Caribbean.
After drawing lots, the Chinese team, Spain, the Netherlands and Chile were assigned to a group and Group B.
This grouping result is not very beneficial to the Chinese team.
As soon as the result came out, a pessimistic atmosphere was permeated in China.
After all, the Chinese team was actually in the same group as the runner-up of the last World Cup. The luck was so bad. Judging from the strength of the four teams in the group, it was not considered a death group, but for the Chinese team, it might be a death group.
When analyzing the grouping situation of the World Cup group, the World Media also believed that if Group B is not surprising, Spain and the Netherlands will join hands to qualify, after all, they are the strongest. If there is an accident, then the Chinese team will be that accident.
Because of the unfavorable grouping situation, the preparations for the Chinese team for the World Cup are very tense. As the team's head coach, Gao Hongbo has always been working under tremendous pressure.
In response to this grouping result, the Chinese team found three opponents in the warm-up match, two European teams, and one team in Central and North America and the Caribbean, striving to restore the opponent's situation in this group...
The opponent in the first warm-up match was the Belgian national team. Belgium and the Netherlands were next to each other, so for this reason, people from the Chinese Football Association believe that it may be of some help to the Chinese team in studying the Dutch team.
Belgium also reached the Brazil World Cup finals. They were in the same group as the South Korean team, so they were happy to play against the Chinese team. After all, China and South Korea are both East Asian teams. Belgium believes that the two teams have similar styles and can be used as a reference.
In that game, the Chinese team lost 1:3 to the Belgian team.
Although he scored a goal, almost the whole game was passive.
In the words of Chinese media after the game, it means that "the Chinese team without Zhou Yi is revealed."
After this game, many people were worried about the prospects of the Chinese team in the World Cup.
The grouping result would be very unfavorable. If the team is still in this state, it may become a devastating performance in the World Cup.
Of course, it is a bit alarmist and perhaps a bit unfair to talk about this issue after the first warm-up match.
After all, warm-up matches are about finding problems and then solving them.
All the key points are to look at the results of the second warm-up match.
In the second warm-up match, the Chinese team's opponent was the new World Cup Bosnia and Herzegovina team.
The opponent is not strong, but the Chinese team still lost in this game.
And just like the situation in the first game, it seems that the problems exposed in the first game were not resolved in the second game.
After losing to Bosnia and Herzegovina, domestic media were filled with fierce criticism of the national team's preparations.
Criticism is all-round, from training plans to warm up the opponent's choice, of course, it will eventually fall on the national team head coach Gao Hongbo.
Who made Gao Hongbo not popular enough in the media circle?
Moreover, the head coach of the national team is of course the most powerful person. If he has credit, he will take the majority of the money and has the responsibility, he will also bear it.
"...I can understand if I lost Belgium. After all, Belgium is also a national team full of geniuses and monsters, and its strength is not weak. After all, it is also the 12th team in FIFA. But losing to Bosnia and Herzegovina is incomprehensible. I know why the national team chose Bosnia and Herzegovina. I must have thought that this is a soft persimmon that can be pinched at will. 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 a soft persimmon. But I never expected that it was such a soft persimmon that actually pinched the Chinese team... The problems exposed in the first warm-up match were not solved much, and new problems emerged again..."
"For the sake of the national team training, the domestic leagues have been suspended, making way for the national team training. What's the result? After practicing in China for so long, I spent a lot of money to go to Europe to train, but I actually got only such a result? So what are the training camps? Are you traveling freely in Europe?"
"The people of the whole country pay taxes not to let the national team travel to Europe. The warm-up match can actually explain the results of the training. So from the current perspective, we can assert that the training results of the Chinese team are about zero. According to this trend, when the World Cup begins, our training goals may not be completed. How can we break through the death group at that time?"
"I said a long time ago that although Gao Hongbo's level is pretty good among domestic coaches, it is still a very risky move to lead the team to the World Cup. Because he has no experience in the World Cup, this is the most fatal. When the Chinese team won the right to participate in the World Cup, he should have decisively replaced him and assigned the task of leading the team, and then find a more professional world-class coach to lead the team. Everyone is happy... As a result, the World Cup training has begun now, and the national team's preparations are in a mess. Now it's almost too late to change coaches temporarily... I finally reached the World Cup final circle, but in the end, this result is really unwilling..."
"Gao Hongbo's advantage is that most of these players were brought up by him, and the locker room WeChat needs to be said to be stable. But his disadvantage is that his level is not high enough, not reaching the level of a World Cup coach. The huge gap in level can be easily made up without other factors..."
"It's not that we admire foreigners and fawn on foreigners, but that China's football coaching level is indeed not as good as that of foreign coaches. The performance in the warm-up match has already explained the problem very well..."
"Gao Hongbo has coached some teams. Whether in Xiamen or Changchun, he led the team to start high and end low, which gave people a stunning feeling at first, but then they would be unable to move forward due to various reasons. In the end, they could only leave in disgrace. I think he is an immature head coach..."
"History gives everyone a positioning. Historical positioning for Gao Hongbo is the first local head coach who led the Chinese team into the World Cup. This should be his positioning. As for the matter in the World Cup final circle, I think that is not Gao Hongbo's historical positioning..."
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In addition to traditional media, many people on the Internet criticized Gao Hongbo. They believed that it was too vague to let Gao Hongbo lead the team to play the World Cup. They did not deny Gao Hongbo's contribution in leading the team to qualify, but if you think calmly and rationally, Gao Hongbo is not the right candidate to lead the Chinese team to play the World Cup finals.
These remarks were naturally refuted and criticized by Gao Hongbo's supporters.
The two sides fought online, and each had celebrity supporters, and no one could convince anyone. But they hyped up this topic and let more people know that Gao Hongbo is currently facing difficulties in preparing for the national team.
Chapter completed!