Fox in the Penalty Area

It is not the first time for all the players of the Chinese national team to know Jorge Dillon.

Regardless of Dillon's outstanding achievements in Europe, when everyone played in the Super League, they all played against the Golden Arrow coached by Dillon. Not to mention that there are still Golden Arrow players in this national team, and Dillon is more familiar with him.

But apart from the Golden Arrow players, the other international players have very little knowledge of Dillon, and they only know that he is a very famous and capable head coach.

After Dillon became the head coach of this team, the international players are also guessing how Dillon will lead the team.

For example, what tactics will he choose, what is his selection and appointment criteria, what is his temper, what are his hobbies...etc.

These are all related to their future and destiny in the national team.

After all, everyone knows the truth of "one emperor and one courtier". Some players were not well received by the previous head coach, and they might not even be able to play as a substitute. As a result, the head coach was changed, and he changed from a substitute to a main force.

Is it a sudden increase in ability?

Of course not, it can only be because the player's ability meets the requirements of the new coach.

Or just because his personality and temper are very appetizing to the new head coach.

Everyone is a professional player, and they have seen situations like this. They are used to it, and even take it for granted.

So if I can better suit Dillon's appetite, won't it be better for me to be in the national team?

Especially those international footballers who are getting older.

During this period of time, they have been looking for players in the Golden Arrow to find out who the new coach is.

Then they combined the information they had inquired and came to a conclusion - Dillon liked Chen Xingyi very much.

When seeing this conclusion, some people wanted to flip the table—what kind of result is this!

However, some people speculate further based on this result, maybe Dillon doesn't just like Chen Xingyi, but likes Chen Xingyi's group of young people...

This makes the elderly international players feel more crisis.

They can almost imagine that a brutal change of blood within the national team is about to start.

Previous performances in the national team cannot be used as capital to keep them.

With this uneasy mood, everyone was notified during dinner: After dinner, go directly to the hotel conference room to gather, and the new head coach Jorge Dillon will hold a meeting for everyone.

This exacerbated everyone's worries-are they going to make an example of others?

So who will be the chicken that got killed?

Thinking about it this way, some people think that it might be a good thing that Yao Huasheng was not selected for the national team because of his injury...

Now they watch the video highlights of the Chinese team in the Asian Cup on the projector.

This is the "dessert" specially prepared for them by the new coach Jorge Dillon.

"After watching this ten-minute video, what do you think?"

After the video was played, Dillon's voice sounded, followed by the translation by Yu Jintao.

How do you feel?

I have a lot of feelings, but I don't know if I should say it...

Everyone looked at each other, but no one said anything.

Dillon didn't seem to care whether the players answered or not, and he began to talk incessantly. Every time he said a paragraph, he would stop for a short rest, which meant that Jin Tao had finished translating for him, and then continued.

"Through the game video highlights, combined with your experience in the Asian Cup, you should easily come to such a result. That is-you found that the opponents you met in the Asian Cup seem to be stronger. But again It will make you suspicious. Because you have basically played against opponents in Asia, you should know each other's level very well. How could it be possible to suddenly improve in a short period of time? Besides, which one is better, the Asian Cup or the top 12? Difficult to fight, you should also be very clear...

"So there's another answer left to the question, which is that you're weaker.

After all, you were able to draw with Russia and Brazil in the World Cup, and now it is so difficult to fight against the Philippines and Iraq. Could it be that he has become weaker? But if this is the case, how can you explain your beautiful defeat of the Japanese team? "

The players of the Chinese team recovered from the initial stupefaction, put aside those wild thoughts, and began to immerse themselves in the questions raised by the head coach.

Are we stronger or weaker?

After the World Cup, there are so many teammates going abroad to study abroad. The media are saying that this will be the strongest Chinese team in history.

But why did the Asian Cup stumble? Lost to Iraq in the first game.

It didn't go well against the Philippines, even against Syria...

After giving the players a moment to think, Dillon continued:

"Actually, it's not that you have become weaker, or that the opponent has become stronger. It's very simple. The opponent's attitude towards us has changed, and our status in Asian football has also changed. From now on, you must get used to looking at it with the mentality of a strong team. Compete, look at yourself. To put it simply, whether you admit it or not, in the eyes of others, you are a strong team.

"That's why you encountered so many pressing and bus-style defenses in the game. These are subjects that you have not studied before, so when you encounter them in the game, it is inevitable that you will be a little at a loss. ..."

In order to let the players of the national team understand the truth of this, Dillon also analyzed for them why they did not encounter such a situation when they played in the top twelve games.

To put it simply, they used to be low-level, or third-rate teams, and most opponents were actually not very afraid of the Chinese team. When facing the Chinese team, he did not have the mentality to face a strong team.

So they won't shrink the defense.

In fact, Dillon had told Yu Jintao about the specific content in private, but now he told the international players, even more detailed than Jintao.

Some of the content is even like a car wheel, repeated over and over again.

Break it apart, crush it, and explain it to the international players in detail, as if afraid that they would not understand.

From the positioning of the Chinese national team in Asian football, why Shi Wuyan adopted the trident consisting of Hu Lai, Luo Kai and Chen Xingyi as the core offensive tactic, the advantages and disadvantages of this tactic and why it cannot be adapted to today The Chinese team is gone, what will the Chinese team do next...

And not only with his mouth, he also explained it in combination with the edited video of the game, letting the players understand in a more intuitive way.

If an outsider sees this scene, they will definitely find it ironic that the top group of Chinese football players need to be "popularized" in such a complicated way, just like ordinary football fans.

Is this the highest level of our national football?

Can Chinese football get any better?

Just disband it!

But this is the status quo of Chinese football.

Some things seem to be understood by the fans, and they are logical, but it is not so easy for the players to reflect these principles in the game.

Just say the simplest one:

After passing the ball, continue to run and pull away to meet teammates.

This can already be regarded as common sense among fans. Nowadays, who still stands still and plays football?

But in a specific game, is it right to run forward after passing the ball?

Obviously not.

Sometimes running forward will lead the team's offense to a dead end.

"Opening up space" is just these four words. It is not easy to do it concretely and correctly in the competition.

Sometimes you need to run forward after passing the ball, sometimes you need to retreat after passing the ball, and sometimes you need to pull horizontally, and sometimes it is the right choice to stay still after passing the ball.

When and how to move and pull, this is where the ability is tested.

And this kind of pulling and running is often not a matter of one person, it requires the team as a whole to cooperate in a certain area.

If, as a coach, you only tell the players to run actively after passing the ball and open up the space, but don't tell them how to open up the space, and what to do in different situations, then the players are still at a loss.

So in the game, you can still see that some players are not active enough to insert in the game, and they did not open the space in time, causing teammates to have no safe way out of the ball and so on.

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“…In order to avoid such problems in the future, our next focus in training is how to organize the offense in the face of pressing and how to break through the dense defense. You have to change your mentality and habits in training ...This kind of training will not be easy, and I will not ask you for less, but you must know that your performance in the game will not live up to the hard work you put in in training!"

Jorge Dillon wraps up his tactical session.

The players walked back to their rooms one after another, everyone looked preoccupied.

They knew their national team careers were about to change dramatically.

The head coach has put forward his requirements, and those who can't keep up with them will be eliminated.

Four years later, among the players in this conference room, how many of them will be able to catch the plane to Spain and Portugal?