"Hello!" Whenever the 70-year-old Croatian coach Branko Ivankovic meets new colleagues and students of the national football team, even strangers he encounters by chance, he will politely greet each other with this Chinese word.

The veteran coach, who has just taken over the coaching staff of the national football team, has also used his own unique way to get closer to the team's Chinese coaches, staff and players, so much so that someone in the team has given him the nickname "Uncle Ivan".

　　The training started with laughter and joy

　　At 5:50 in the evening on the 11th, Ivankovic was the first to step off the national football bus outside the Shenzhen Football Association training base in Guangming District, Shenzhen, and then slowly walked to the training accompanied by team leader Tong Jie and translator Zhang Yu. On the field, the first training session after he officially took over the national football team also kicked off.

　　After only one day of contact, the Chinese coaches, staff and players in the national football team are still unable to understand Ivankovic's leadership habits or style.

However, everyone can still clearly feel that Ivan, who has just arrived, is closing the distance with the whole team in his own way.

　　For example, after all the team members gathered at the No. 1 venue of the Light Base on the evening of the 11th, Ivan did not lay out training requirements like his predecessor Jankovic did. Instead, after briefly greeting all the members, Ivan immediately The veteran players who arrived were arranged to form two teams to welcome the three newcomers Wang Zhen'ao, Cheng Jin, and Zhao Bo. The training also started with everyone's laughter.

As a veteran coach who is over 70 years old, Ivankovic's first impression on his Chinese colleagues and players in the national football team is that of "a polite and affable uncle."

In the training base, Ivankovic not only greeted the host staff who greeted him politely, but also took the initiative to raise his hands to greet the media reporters who came from afar, and at the same time sent "Hello" in Chinese.

　　Develop training plans based on player needs

　　It is understood that unlike Jankovic who arranges most field training in the morning, Ivankovic usually arranges the main outdoor training sessions on each training day in the afternoon or evening.

For example, the first training session on the 11th and the field training on the 12th are both evening training sessions.

In Ivan's view, the international players have just participated in the first two rounds of the Chinese Super League. Players such as Button of the Tianjin Tigers played a full Chinese Super League game the day before the concentration, so the players are generally tired.

In this case, the players must get sufficient rest so that they can be in good condition to prepare for the intense World Cup preliminaries.

　　An industry insider who is familiar with Ivan told the Beiqing Daily reporter that although Ivankovic is rigorous in running the army, he is not a coach who is keen on preaching, let alone manages himself like a teacher disciplines middle and primary school students. team members.

　　On the morning of the 12th, the coaching staff did not arrange for the entire team to conduct collective training. Instead, they worked with young players and veteran players to formulate physical training plans based on their different needs.

If some young players take the initiative to choose to go to the gym for additional training, members of the coaching staff will assist them in formulating corresponding training plans.

As for how the veteran players adjust their bodies, the coaching staff gives them sufficient autonomy to choose.

　　Arranging business work will instill coaching concepts

　　In addition to arranging physical, technical and tactical training for the whole team, Ivankovic's coaching team also pays special attention to the team's business learning.

According to the training plan, the coaching staff will arrange business meetings with different contents on the morning of each training day, including video analysis meetings, to instill coaching concepts into the players, and at the same time answer questions for the players and Chinese coaches at the technical and tactical level.

　　In addition to training, Ivankovic also attaches great importance to the exchange of ideas with team members, especially with the players.

In fact, since Ivankovic had been away from coaching in China for 13 years before taking over the national football team, Ivankovic was relatively unfamiliar with Chinese players. Therefore, before the team was concentrated, he took advantage of inspections in the Chinese Super League and the AFC Champions League to meet with as many people as possible. players to build relationships.

For example, before Li Ke took leave to go home, he had already had a phone call with Ivankovic.

Ivan himself also made a special trip to visit his old club Taishan Club (formerly Luneng Club) and established contact in advance with Wang Dalei and other current international players of the Taishan team.

"Our training camp has just begun. To be precise, we haven't practiced much yet. We haven't talked much with the coach yet, and we don't know each other very well. But I feel that he is very polite and kind. I hope he can help. team," one player said.

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　　Considering that the two games between the National Football Team and the Singaporean team later this month are scheduled to be held in the evening, the outdoor training sessions of the National Football Team's current Shenzhen training camp will be arranged in the evening.

　　On the evening of the 11th, the Chinese team, led by new coach Ivankovic, kicked off a new training camp in Shenzhen.

However, because 7 Taishan players went to Japan with the club to participate in the second round of the AFC Champions League quarter-finals, Exon and Li Shuai were injured and were unable to attend with the team. Only 21 players participated in this event. training times.

　　Last night, the Chinese team went to the Shenzhen Football Association training base for the second outdoor training of this training camp.

A Beijing Youth Daily reporter saw at the scene that, just like the first training session a day ago, a total of 21 players participated in the training session on the evening of the 12th. Li Shuai, who was seriously injured, had already left the team.

However, the team welcomed a new player that day - foreign analyst Farzad Habebollahitari arrived at the team that afternoon, then changed into national football training uniforms and went to work with the team.

In this way, all members of the new national football coaching team are in place.

　　Before the training started, Zhang Linpeng and Wang Zhenao were interviewed by the media as representatives of the team's old and new players respectively. They were full of expectations for the coaching of new coach Ivan.

Wang Zhenao also expressed his desire to represent the national football team and said that he would learn humbly from the big brothers in the team.

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　　The Chinese Football Association organizes the first referee review of the new season

　　At the beginning of the new season, the Chinese Football Association attaches great importance to the identification of controversial penalties in professional leagues and the opinions of clubs on referees' penalties.

On the evening of March 11, in response to the complaints and opinions submitted by the Shanghai Harbor Club of the Chinese Super League and the Yunnan Yukun Club of the Chinese League One, the Chinese Football Association organized the first referee evaluation work of this season.

The results showed that in the second round of the Chinese Super League, the away team's penalty kick was canceled in the 10th minute of the away match between the Haigang team and the Zhejiang team.

In the first round of the Chinese Premier League, Foshan South Lions played against Yunnan Yukun at home. After the home team suspected a foul in the penalty area at the end of the first half, the referee on duty made the right decision not to award a penalty kick.

The controversial penalty in stoppage time in the second half was a misjudgment, but there was no foul in the home team's penalty area.

　　This season's evaluation work adopts the form of a combination of collective discussion and individual expression of opinions by the evaluation members, which reflects the combination of "evaluation" and "discussion".

There are three cases in this review. The first one comes from Zhejiang vs. Shanghai Harbor in the second round of the Chinese Super League. In the 10th minute of the game, the Shanghai Harbor team’s penalty kick was canceled; the second and third cases both come from Foshan in the first round of the Chinese League. South Lions vs. Yunnan Yukun, Foshan team suspected of fouling in their own penalty area, but the referee did not award a penalty. Later, Foshan team fouled near the line of their own penalty area, and the referee awarded a direct free kick.

　　On the evening of March 11, the evaluation group of the Chinese Football Association Disarmament Committee held a video conference and invited officials from the General Administration of Sports and the Chinese Football Association’s Disciplinary Inspection Department and representatives from authoritative media to attend the meeting.

At the meeting, through discussion and analysis of the three cases in this issue, the conclusion of the review was as follows:

　　Case 1: After VAR intervention, the referee changed the decision that the Shanghai Harbor team committed a foul at the beginning of the offensive phase and canceled the penalty kick. The final penalty on the spot was correct.

　　Case 2: The defender did not commit a foul and the referee made the correct penalty on the spot.

　　Case 3: The defender did not commit a foul, there is no possibility of a penalty kick, and the referee is correct in not awarding a penalty kick.

However, in this case, it was incorrect for the referee to call the defender a foul on the spot and award a direct free kick.

　　This article/coordinator by our reporter Xiao Nan/Du Rui (Source: Beijing Youth Daily)