On the evening of March 11, in addition to the 7 players from the Shandong Taishan team who went to Japan to compete in the AFC Champions League with the club, the remaining 24 players from the new national training team welcomed the new head coach Ivankovic at the Shenzhen Guangming Football Training Base. First training session.
There are still 10 days left before the away challenge to Singapore on March 21 for the top 36 of the World Cup qualifiers in Asia. This is a practical assessment where all 3 points must be scored. The challenges and pressure Ivankovic faces, Far greater than the players under his command.
On the evening of March 10, Ivankovic had watched the Shenzhen Xinpengcheng team lose 0:4 at home to the Tianjin Jinmen Tigers in the second round of the Chinese Super League at Shenzhen Baoan Stadium.
It is a bit regrettable that among the 31 people on the training list designated by the new coach, the Tianjin Tigers player Wang Qiuming did not score a header in this game. In this round of the Chinese Super League, Wang Qiuming was the only one to score a total of 16 goals. The football philosophy of the 70-year-old Ivankovic, the local player who scored the goal, advocates active attack "even if it requires taking risks". Therefore, this "renewing the old and incorporating the new" will be held at the Singapore National Stadium at 20:30 on March 21st, Beijing time. "The battle can test whether the new national football team can reverse the poor situation of "weak attack" with 0 goals in 3 games in the Asian Cup.
"From my coaching experience and football philosophy, the Chinese team needs to play more aggressively. We need to improve the players' passing success rate on the field, improve efficiency, and make them more active on the field. We also need to change training Method, during this period of training, I will have more communication with the players to make them more confident, thereby forming a belief that they can win." Ivankovic said, "Through this period of observation and understanding of Knowing Chinese players, I believe that Chinese players are capable and can definitely occupy a place in Asia."
However, the Singapore team is by no means a "soft persimmon" who can be bullied.
Although the Singaporean team lost 0:5 to South Korea and 1:3 to Thailand in the first two rounds of the Asian top 36, and has no hope of qualifying, the coaching change at the front line is enough to show that the Singaporean team does not intend to give up.
In addition, the new head coach of the Singapore team, the Japanese Tsutomu Ogura, has long served as an assistant coach for the Japanese national team and the Olympic team. He is as familiar with Asian football as Ivankovic, not to mention that Ogura Tsutomu does not have the pressure to advance to the World Cup preliminaries (other The assessment indicator is the Southeast Asian Cup tournament with 10 teams participating at the end of this year). It is completely possible to follow the most secure competition method and create enough difficulties for the national football team that "can only win".
"The league has just started two rounds, and the players need to go through training to get into match condition. We are pressed for time." Ivankovic said, "As a coach, I am more willing to show a passionate and adventurous game on the court. To play well, you have to take risks. In football, the results are unpredictable, but our football philosophy and football philosophy remain unchanged."
Therefore, the new 31-man training list of the National Football Team basically includes domestic players with strong personal offensive ability, including three naturalized players, Exon, Fernando, and Li Ke who missed the national team during the Jankovic era and Cheng Jin, Wang Zhenao, and Li Yuanyi are defensive players who have never been in the national team but have offensive attributes.
Before going to Singapore, the 31-man training squad of the national football team will first be "downsized" to 26 players. According to the 442 formation Ivankovic used when coaching the Oman team, the competition for midfielders is the most intense-the national football team's midfield has always been poorly connected. It is not only difficult to effectively respond to defenders to resolve dangers, but also difficult to accurately mobilize to create shooting opportunities for forwards, and does not have the ability and confidence to use long shots and direct free kicks to threaten the opponent's goal in a stalemate. Therefore, Ivankovic is in the middle of this training session. The surgical effect on the field, including formation selection, personnel matching and alternatives in various complex situations, is the decisive factor that directly affects the direction of the National Football World Cup preliminaries.
According to the national football team's schedule for the top 36 of the World Preliminaries, the home game against Thailand on June 6 will undoubtedly be a "life and death battle to qualify." The good news is that before this life and death battle, the Olympic team still has "fresh blood" that can supplement the national football team.
The National Olympic team coached by Cheng Yaodong will start a week-long training camp at the Xianghe base on March 13 and then go to Doha for a warm-up match to prepare for the Paris Olympic qualifiers to be held in Doha on April 15. Although the 2001/2002 age group The overall quality of domestic players is not high, but the impact and execution of players of Olympic age and even those in the 2003/2004 age group will help replace the aging national football team with too many "invalid passes", at least before advancing to the top 18. , young players need high-quality intercontinental competitions to complete their experience. After all, the "aging" of the national football team has seriously hindered the team's speed and confrontation: the average age of the "Ivan Phase 1" training roster has dropped compared with when Jankovic coached the Asian Cup. 1 year old, which is 28.7 years old, but half of the main players such as Yan Junling, Wang Dalei, Li Lei, Zhang Linpeng, Wu Lei, Fernando, and Exxon are still over 30 years old. Attackers like Zhang Yuning and Wei Shihao are only 27 years old. 28 years old is in his prime.
"According to my observation, Chinese players have no problem with discipline. The players are willing to implement the coach's requirements, but they also need to make a lot of efforts to adapt to our new tactics in a short period of time." Ivankovic said, "My primary goal in coaching the Chinese team is to advance through the top 36 in Asia to the final 18, and then compete in the World Cup. But the team's ultimate goal is to become a strong Asian team with strong capabilities. , which requires everyone’s efforts.”
This newspaper, Beijing, March 11
China Youth Daily·China Youth Daily reporter Guo Jian Source: China Youth Daily