When the training is over, Lazio players will sign autographs for the fans as they leave the training ground.
The coach will be surrounded by reporters, who will ask questions that interest them.
But not every time.
Especially since Chang Sheng is notoriously difficult to deal with in the circle.
Therefore, reporters were willing to interview his assistant coach. After Di Matteo became the assistant coach of 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 that Italian journalists prefer him.
In addition, he has not yet been labeled as a "direct descendant of the winner", so the media is happy to get close to him.
On the contrary, although Chang Sheng rarely accepts interviews from reporters, he still has to satisfy many fans' autograph requests.
In Lazio, his popularity is also very strong, no less popular than those players.
Even more popular than those players.
Who makes him Lazio's number one star?
After the training, Chang Sheng came over on his own initiative and planned to give autographs to 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 come here to interview, or tourists who come here because of its reputation.
In addition, it is not ruled out that fans from Japan and South Korea will come back to support Lazio.
In any case, Lazio still has some fans in these places, even if they are not many.
Therefore, if you see a person with yellow skin and black hair outside the training ground, there is nothing surprising, and it is unlikely that Chang Sheng will take a few glances at him.
But today is different.
Not only did he notice this person, he also looked at him a few more times.
Because when he accidentally glanced at him, Chang Sheng felt that this man looked familiar...
So he took a few more glances.
Then he was shocked!
Holy shit! Isn’t this Gao Hongbo?!
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Gao Hongbo is very familiar with Chang Sheng.
As a Chinese fan born in the 1980s, after entering the 21st century, there were only two stages when Chang Sheng became particularly interested in the Chinese football team.
One stage was when Milutinovic led the team to play in the top ten matches of the World Cup qualifiers in Asia. At that time, the national team's lineup was at its peak, and they were all players left over from the old professional era and the early stages of their careers. They had outstanding abilities and could be regarded as
It is the strongest Chinese national team.
Moreover, the national team had a very high hope of reaching 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 could be said to be the darkest time for Chinese football.
The disastrous defeat at the 2008 Olympic Games brought Chinese football to the bottom. Being eliminated from the South Africa World Cup qualifiers early also left the Chinese football team facing the situation of having no ball to play.
Fans' interest in Chinese football has dropped to a freezing point. When it comes to Chinese football, everyone feels embarrassed. At that time, many jokes ridiculing Chinese football were created on the Internet.
For example, when you draw the curtains to watch a national football match at home, and in order not to be laughed at, you lie that you are watching an porn movie - look, Chinese football has reached a point where it is worse than even a porn movie.
At that time, everyone in the national football team was clamoring for a fight.
It was against this background that Gao Hongbo became the head coach of the national team.
From May 2009, he became the national team coach. By August 2011, he resigned.
He led the national team in a total of forty-two games of various types, with results of twenty-four wins, thirteen draws and five losses. Putting aside commercial games, warm-up matches and friendly matches, which some people consider to be "goldless" games,
Counting only official games, there were twelve official games. Gao Hongbo's national team only lost one game, with eight wins, three draws and one loss.
The Asian Cup group that 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 weren't for the host country's sugar daddy mode in the second game, it would be hard to tell.
Some media also criticized Gao Hongbo for being cowardly before fighting, and made remarks such as "the Chinese team is the last in Asia", which affected morale.
But based on the feeling of winning at the time, Gao Hongbo was right. Chinese football is already at the bottom of Asia. If we don’t even dare to admit this, how can we talk about progress in Chinese football?
Some people were still living in the 1990s and thought that the Chinese team could not beat Japan and South Korea, Iran and Saudi Arabia, but it would be fine if it could beat Jordan, Qatar, and other Southeast Asian teams, right?
But the actual situation is that Chinese football cannot even beat the Southeast Asian teams that it could easily bully in the past!
This is the fact, and it is a fact that many people close their eyes and refuse to admit - Chinese football is really the worst in Asia! It is not the best!
Moreover, Gao Hongbo obtained the approval of the Football Association at that time to take a group of the youngest national teams in history to the Asian Cup for the purpose of training for the World Cup qualifiers. Because Gao Hongbo's original contract with the Football Association ended at 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 establish a style suitable for Chinese players. There are no other specific performance requirements except for the World Cup preliminaries.
Considering that these young people will be under a lot of pressure to play in the Asian Cup, Gao Hongbo came up with the theory in the hope of reducing some pressure on the national football team.
As a result, the Chinese media all attacked Gao Hongbo like chicken blood. The pressure on the young players of the Chinese team increased sharply, and it was even higher than high blood pressure.
In this way, the Chinese team still played their style in the Asian Cup. If they were not cheated by the host country, they should have gone further.
As a result, the Football Association later dismissed Gao Hongbo because 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, which sponsors the Football Association, believes that if Chinese football wants to improve its level, it needs to hire high-quality famous coaches. Can local coaches be considered famous coaches?
In this way, just as the top 20 Asian qualifying matches for the World Cup were about to begin, Gao Hongbo was dismissed. A temporary coaching change was made and Camacho was replaced.
At that time, the Chinese Football Association made a statement that made Chang Sheng feel that they were particularly amateurs and idiots.
That is, as soon as Camacho arrived, the Chinese Football Association had already found a way out for this "famous coach". They said that they would give Camacho enough confidence and time to rebuild Chinese football. Even if he was eliminated from the 2014 World Cup qualifiers,
It doesn't matter, we have to focus on the 2018 World Cup...
At that time, Chang Sheng almost spat out his saliva when he heard this statement.
The top 20 matches haven't even started yet, but the Football Association said this, is it determined to give up on the World Cup in Brazil?
In the end, Camacho led the national team to play five top-20 matches. 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 Russia World Cup!" It really makes people want to laugh but can't even laugh...
In five games, Camacho changed three starting lineups.
It fully reflects Camacho's lack of understanding of Chinese football and the disadvantages of a hasty coaching change.
But in Gao Hongbo's last game, the CCTV commentator shamelessly said that sometimes changing coaches is like changing swords. The new coach may bring us new ideas and new changes, and maybe it will have miraculous effects.
Give everyone a surprise.
Well, it’s really a miraculous effect, the miraculous effect of going home after the top 20. Li Weifeng, who returned to the team, also surprised everyone by assisting the opponent with two goals in two games...
Chang Sheng has always believed that if Gao Hongbo is given a chance to continue leading the team through the World Cup qualifiers, he may not even be able to enter the top ten...
When Gao Hongbo took over the Chinese team, the Chinese team ranked 11th in Asia and 108th in the world. In two years, when there were not many games to play and could only participate in warm-up matches, he
The Chinese team returned to fifth place in Asia and 68th place in the world, becoming one of the top 20 seeded teams in Asia for the 2014 World Cup qualifiers.
Some people say that Gao Hongbo's national team is the king of friendly matches and can only play friendly matches. But if it had not performed well in friendly matches, how could the Chinese team have had so many opportunities in warm-up matches? Gao Jiajun, who lacked official matches to play, naturally could only use
I used the warm-up matches to maintain my condition and train. It was precisely because of my outstanding performance in the warm-up matches that I was able to win the opportunity to play against strong teams like France and Portugal.
What's more, the Chinese team succeeded by Camacho, let alone their performance in the main game, they couldn't do it even if they wanted to be the "King of Friendly Matches"...
Chang Sheng has always complained about Gao Hongbo. He believes that Gao Hongbo is the best among local young coaches in China. The Football Association temporarily changed the coach and replaced him with Camacho, which made him very dissatisfied.
Even if you think Gao Hongbo is not good enough, why don't you find a real famous coach?
Evergrande was able to find Lippi as the head coach, Dalian Wanda has a lot of assets, Wang Jianlin used to be involved in football, but after searching around, he finally found Camacho, a second-rate European...
After being reborn as a victor, he became even more doubtful about Camacho's ability. He started his career in Spain, and Spanish football did not think highly of Camacho. No wonder Camacho later went to the national team.
Some Spanish fans said on the Marca forum that Camacho has gone to harm China again. Poor Chinese football...
After Camacho came to China, he completely abandoned the Gao Hongbo era's national football team's insistence on ground coordination and played long passes... As a result, the Chinese national team couldn't even win the warm-up match, and the scene became even more ugly.
Chang Sheng didn't like the national team at this time at all. Although he watched every game, his main purpose was to scold that idiot Camacho.
He believes that regardless of Gao Hongbo's national football results, at least he believes that Gao Hongbo's national team has found a correct path. If you persist, you will gain something. Japan, a close neighbor, is actually a good example. Chinese football persists
By following the path of technical skills and having better physical fitness than Japanese players, it is not without hope that the Chinese team will surpass Japanese football in the future. As for Asian football, especially East Asian football, if it competes with Europe and the United States physically, it will be a complete struggle.
However, there is no point in trying to win with speed, so the only option is to focus on technique and give full play to the flexibility of the yellow race.
He only led the team for two years, and he complained that the results of the Asian Cup were not good. Considering the bad state of Chinese football at the time, it is really foolish to want to improve it in two years! Japanese football knows to formulate a century-old plan and prepare to spend 100 years on it.
Won the World Cup title this year.
The Chinese media and football people are so arrogant that they think that the Chinese team can be completely transformed in two years... Even if they were, they wouldn't dare to write that!
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Chang Sheng knew about Gao Hongbo's coaching experience. He knew that he disappeared from people's sight for a period of time after class ended at Changchun Yatai.
I don’t know what he did, and he never served as the head coach of any team. It was not until May 2009 that he competed to be the head coach of the national team and returned to the public eye.
So when he saw Gao Hongbo outside his club's training ground, he seemed very surprised.
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