At noon on October 12, Xi'an International Airport.
When the airport broadcast that the chartered plane taken by the national team successfully landed at the airport, there was a burst of cheering in the whole waiting hall. Thousands of fans and media reporters gathered at the airport.
Before long, I saw the national team, led by the head coach Gao Han, appeared one after another.
All the fans and media reporters gathered at the scene spontaneously abide by the order of the ground crew on the scene, and gave the most warm applause to the international players who came back triumphantly. There were countless fans on the scene who raised their cold cards one after another to express their respect for the head coach of the national team.
Who would have thought that half a year ago, the national team was still in deep despair about whether it could qualify for the top 40. Everyone thought that the national team would once again stop outside the top 12. But today, half a year later, the same national team not only successfully broke through the top 40, but also won many times in the top 12.
From South Korea to Iran, to Syria and Uzbekistan, the Chinese team has played very hard in every game, even won very miserably. But precisely because of this, it shows the importance of the head coach Gao Han, as well as the fighting spirit and blood of the current national team.
It can be said that up to now, the four victories in the last 12 matches, each of which depends on the concerted efforts of all the international players, with the help of the extraordinary command of the cold, can be difficult to win.
What makes people even more ecstatic is that the performance of the national team is getting better and better, the formation is keeping better and better, the position of the players is becoming more and more hierarchical, the running without the ball is becoming more and more intelligent, and the internal atmosphere of the team is becoming more and more United.
All of these give people hope.
It is precisely in this situation that we have to fight one after another and defeat the strong enemy with difficulty, which shows the national team's blood and the profound changes brought about by the high cold.
If in the past the cold weather gave people the impression of being a master of offensive football, then after coaching the national team, he completely showed everyone his attainments in the defensive end. It was his training that changed the original weak defense of the national football team, and he was able to block the attacks of South Korea, Iran and Uzbekistan.
The contribution of the high cold and the transformation of the national team are in the eyes of the fans all over the country.
The internationals flew back to Xi'an from Tashkent, Uzbekistan, after a few hours' rest after playing last night. They arrived at noon in Beijing time.
Next, the national team will be dissolved in Xi'an, and all the international players will return to the club immediately by domestic flights in Xi'an to prepare for the remaining closing matches of the Chinese Super League. Finally, they will regroup in Kunming in November to prepare for the last match of the first cycle, against Kartar.
The itinerary of the national team has already been arranged, and all the tickets for the international players to return to the club have been reserved in advance. Therefore, after the international players return home, they don't need to worry too much. They just go to the hotel to have a rest until the return flight time arrives, and there will be special staff of the national team to remind and support them.
After coaching the national team in alpine cold, logistics work is also his key link. Now it is very perfect, so that the international players have no worries. In addition, the players just won the ball in Tashkent a few hours ago, and the whole people are still very excited, so when they saw thousands of fans in the airport picking up, they all laughed.
The ground crew of the airport had already seen the appeal of the national team once when the national team flew to Xi'an from Wuhan to prepare for the Syria game, which is totally different from the weak national team in the past.
Not to mention the whole national team, even a single national team star is no less attractive to fans than those popular stars. Now it's the cold weather team, which is naturally more attractive.
The team won four games in a row and ranked first in the group by three points. Gao's mood was also very good. He walked in the front. From time to time, he saw that he was stopped outside the security line by the ground crew, but he tried his best to reach out. When the fans came to the autograph book, he would nod with a smile, reach out and quickly sign his name on it.
The internationals behind him are also like this. They sign their names for the fans in a similar way, which makes the fans on the scene more excited. Especially many fans who didn't prepare before are all repentant. Even a middle-aged fan is more funny. He takes off his coat and lets Gao Han sign his name on his white shirt, saying that he wants to take it back to treasure it.
Stop and go all the way, but finally came to the gate.
The coach of the national team has been waiting outside the gate for a long time, and the cold and international players have also got on the bus.
Although it is through the thick window, they can still hear the fans outside the car shouting, which makes the national team of this group of old internationals feel sad.
How many years?
How many years have the national team not thought of such treatment since they entered the world cup in 2002?
Although in the past few years, the national team has repeatedly made good performances, let the fans see the hope several times, and rekindled the enthusiasm of the fans, it has never been treated like this.
It turns out that the feeling of being a hero is so wonderful!
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After a short sleep in the hotel, it was time for dinner.
After the high cold cleaning, the first thing is to call the team leader Li Tie to inquire about the trend of the international players. He learns that the international players have basically boarded the return flight, and some have even arrived. After reading the messages in the national team's wechat group, he will be relieved.
As for himself, he will return to Beijing tomorrow morning to start a period of vacation. By the way, he will go to the Chinese Super League to study around, not only to prepare for the next match against Qatar, but also to find out the training background of the national team.
This is the first time since Gao Han took over the national team that he has had the opportunity to train for a long time. Moreover, a China Cup will be held at that time, and some strong teams will be invited to play. Therefore, Gao Han plans to take this opportunity to inspect more new players and active international players.
This time the national team training, left back this position of personnel shortage, really let him worry for a long time, fortunately, the last line of defense and did not appear too big mistake, let alpine or greatly relieved.
But it is imperative to select substitute talents for the national team.
In the cold waiting for the hotel meal delivery time, left behind in Xi'an Cai deputy director with several football association insiders rang the cold doorbell, a door to the cold is a boast, said that there are a number of superior leaders call praise in person.
The high cold has long been neither flattering nor insulting, and has not paid attention to it at all.
"In the two warm-up matches of China Cup, my suggestion is that we'd better invite opponents who are stronger than us, preferably attacking teams. In this way, it's more conducive to polish our defense." Gao Han suggested.
Against Qatar, he is very sure.
If the Chinese team finishes the first cycle with five consecutive wins, then the remaining five rounds will be very easy to play, both strategically and psychologically, occupying a great advantage.
Of course, the strength of the national team is there, defensive counterattack is inevitable.
"Well, we'll arrange it as soon as possible. We'll let you know as soon as we have any news." Deputy director Cai made a decision on the spot.
Now the national team, basically as long as the cold said, even if.
"By the way, we're here tonight. There's one more thing." Deputy director Cai said.
"What's the matter?"
"Your proposal that the football association should take the lead and the club and the national team should jointly set up a training system and a rehabilitation physiotherapy system has been basically settled after many meetings and consultations. It will be implemented from the spring training of the new season, so in the next period of time, all major clubs will arrange a large number of coaches to come to study."
Gao Han thought for a moment, nodded and said: "I'm afraid there are not enough people in Beijing Chinatown. I'll try my best to recruit more people from other bases in China and from Madrid. Moreover, we have trained a lot of people in recent years. I'll try my best to arrange them."
"That's good. This is the first time after all. There will be a lot of problems, but when the general direction is set, we should run in and coordinate slowly. Both we and the club trust the strength of Chinatown in this aspect."
Not to mention the rest, the training level of Chinatown, even the stars who have left the team, are full of praise. In the evaluation of many European media, the training level of Chinatown is absolutely the top in the world.
What's more, alpine has established coach training courses in Europe for many years, and also has relevant cooperation with Italy. He has trained a lot of coaches for Spain and European football. I believe that he can solve this problem.
"In terms of rehabilitation physiotherapy system, at present, the football association and clubs have reached a consensus, but the domestic sports medicine started relatively late, and there is also an urgent shortage of talents in this field, so we consider cooperating with universities. At present, several well-known domestic universities have expressed their interest, and we also have authoritative experts in this field."
Alpine is not surprised by this, but the rehabilitation physiotherapy system is mainly for the national team and major professional clubs to provide services, and there is also a lack of relevant talents. In the current domestic environment of shortage of medical talent resources, the national team and clubs have nothing to do, but it is the easiest to simply spend money on the introduction of machinery and equipment.
Not only medical talents, but also talents in related fields of football industry are extremely scarce. After all, Chinese football is far from reaching the European professional level and is still in the stage of catching up.
Gao Han is also very helpless about this, but this is the national conditions, let alone him, even the whole China city is difficult to change, so he plans to, if he really succeeds in acquiring Beijing team, he will consider directly from the Madrid China City side to transfer people to come over, as soon as possible to establish the overall framework of the club.
Talking about these difficulties with deputy director Cai and football association leaders, they were also a burst of regret and helplessness.
Because Gao Han didn't sleep last night and had to catch an early flight tomorrow morning, after chatting with deputy director Cai and others for a while, and seeing them off, Gao Han chatted with Lin Xia and Xiao Gaoshen in Beijing for a while. They didn't fall asleep until more than nine o'clock.
This sleep directly to the next morning, the mobile phone alarm clock rang, cold just woke up.
After washing, I had breakfast and rushed to the airport immediately.
After he returned to Beijing, Xiang Tianming came to the airport to meet him, which also brought him good news.