"The AFC has officially announced the list of the top 12 games, and we are ranked 12th."

When Gao Han arrived at the Football Association headquarters, many Football Association leaders, including Deputy Director Cai, had been waiting for him for a long time.

Gao Han made great contributions to being able to lead the national team to rebirth and enter the top 12 games. With the support of senior management, everyone knows that he will be the head coach of the national team in the next few years, and no one can shake his position.

I'm afraid even the entire Football Association has to listen to him, and everyone must try to adapt to such a change.

"According to the current ranking, we will be divided into the fourth gear in the top 12 matches. The first gear is Iran and Australia, the second gear is South Korea and Japan, the third gear is Saudi Arabia and Uzbekistan, the fourth gear is the UAE and us, the fifth gear is Qatar and Iraq, and the sixth gear is Syria and Thailand."

"Every team is not easy to play." Deputy Director Cai set the tone for the top 12 games.

"The most important thing is that we have severely lacked experience in the top 12 games. In the past fifteen years, we have never entered the final group stage. We lack practical experience in fighting with strong teams. We can only rely on warm-up matches, but we know how much value the warm-up match is."

The lack of actual combat is a serious problem facing the national team at present, especially the lack of experience in the top 12 games.

This kind of experience is not just an opponent, but also includes a lot of details such as the intensity and difficulty of the game you have to face.

Since entering the World Cup in 2002, Chinese football has never entered the final stage of the group stage, which is the previous top ten games and the current top 12 games, which is quite unfavorable to the next preparation and competition.

And these are things that I can’t learn at all, and I can only accumulate them by myself.

"Then try to treat every game as the final. Everyone and all departments must have sufficient understanding, prepare for the game as meticulous as possible, and deal with every game with the highest standard attitude. This will also be a valuable experience for us." Gao Han said with a serious face.

He had no way to blame anyone present, because the leadership team of the Football Association has changed one after another. The weakness in the past years was not caused by anyone present, but by all-round reasons.

As he said before, this is a tragedy, and everyone here is not innocent, but it is sympathetic.

There is no way to prepare for the battle with the highest specifications. Who makes me inexperienced?

Deputy Director Cai understood Gao Han’s suggestion, and there was no way to do this.

"Last night, what you said at the post-match press conference caused a huge response in China. What you said is the truth. Our country's football level is indeed very backward. This is a fact, but we should work hard to do something and change this situation. What do you think?" Deputy Director Cai looked at Gao Han worriedly.

Gao Han knew the difficulty of the top 12 games, and he knew it too.

That is two completely different events from the top 40s, and the difficulty level is simply not the same.

As the helm of the Football Association, he is very worried that if the team encounters a big defeat in the top 12 games, the good situation that has been hard-working in the past few months will be ruined.

Not only him, but everyone in the Football Association is very clear about this.

Even Gao Han's words were noticed by the national leaders.

"Backing backward is all-round and requires long-term accumulation and change. For example, the unball run I mentioned is ignored in China, but with the arrival of high-level foreign coaches in the past few years, this situation is gradually changing, which is unhurried. In the next training camp, I will still adopt a training list of about 40 people to inspect the international players as much as possible."

"The focus will be on the outstanding league performance and younger players, which will be the focus of my attention for the next period of time. I have a preliminary plan at present, but it still needs to be polished carefully."

Many domestic players who are in their age are already very sculptible, and their playing football has been finalized, leaving Gao Han with little room for shaping. Instead of doing so, it is better to simply discover a group of young players to join the team. Their sculptability is stronger and they can better adapt to Gao Han's requirements.

As Gao Han said, in the past few years, China has introduced many internationally renowned coaches since its professionalization, bringing more advanced football concepts and training methods, which is obvious to the improvement of Chinese players' strength.

But the national team obviously did not keep up with this area. Gao Han's arrival will change this situation. He wants to implement drastic reforms in the national team, especially in training and material selection.

"Running without a ball is just the tip of the iceberg of our Chinese football backwardness. There is another very important reason. Our national players lack an effective self-regulation mechanism and maintain their competitive state for a long time, which is also very obvious in national team competitions."

"Many players performed very well for a certain period of time, but after several weeks of high-intensity performance and high-level performance, they quickly fell into a downturn and performed in a mess. This kind of ups and downs is what we want to eliminate."

Gao Han's words were not only followed by the leaders of the Football Association, but also by Deputy Director Cai, who was a layman.

"I think there are many aspects that cause this, which are related to our daily training and the players themselves. I have asked my physical coach and sports rehabilitation expert Lorenzo Buenaventura to start preparing, starting with the internationals, striving to find out the crux of the problem and eliminate this stubborn disease."

"In addition, our physical training system and rehabilitation physiotherapy system are still quite behind. For example, some players' injuries are obviously just small problems, but they become big problems. Some are obviously big problems, but they are not treated in time and effectively. This situation occurs in the national team and is also very common in clubs."

"My idea is that since the Football Association wants to transform into a service provider, it should make a difference in these supporting areas. The Football Association will provide full assistance to promote the medical system in the Chinese professional league and the national team, which includes all-round targeted testing and physical monitoring of players' daily lives."

"This medical system has long been accustomed to the European League, but it has not been taken seriously in our country. Only a few strong teams such as Hengda have been introduced. I think we should pay attention to it. After all, in the professional league, the body is the foundation of everything and the most precious and scarce resource. It must be raised to the height of the most important ones."

After hearing this, Deputy Director Cai and several leaders of the Football Association looked at each other. They were all laymen in these aspects, but after Gao Han said this, he felt very reasonable.

"Will the club agree?" Deputy Director Cai said what the problem was.

Gao Han nodded, "I believe it will. In recent years, the domestic leagues are becoming more prosperous and the clubs have invested more. However, due to the gaps in other aspects, they focus more on stars and famous coaches. Now some clubs have begun to invest in behind-the-scenes construction, and I believe they will pay more and more attention to it in the future."

"The investment in this area is invisible and intangible, but the effect is real, benefiting club players. Moreover, compared with the high salary of stars and famous coaches, the investment in this area is simply insignificant."

"But we do not have such a talent reserve in our country." A Football Association leader said worriedly.

"So, Chinatown can provide training and provide guidance services, and we can hire Buenaventura as a medical consultant, not only working for the national team, but also training talents in corresponding positions, and even cooperating with universities. The specific matters can be presented by the Football Association."

After hearing this, Deputy Director Cai couldn't help but nodded repeatedly.

Gao Han himself runs Chinatown, the most successful and advanced club in Europe. Many clubs in China, including Hengda, have learned from Chinatown and learned from Chinatown. The Football Association has also organized many batches of personnel to study in Chinatown and gained a lot.

Now Gao Han has put forward such suggestions on the situation of national teams and professional clubs. How can the Football Association oppose it?

But what Gao Han thought was obviously not just this.

"In addition to the above aspects, I also hope that the Football Association will come forward to cooperate with various clubs to create a physical training system."

After Gao Han said this, everyone in the audience was shocked again.

"What does it mean? Is this the Football Association involved in the club?" Deputy Director Cai was a little unbelievable.

He knew very well that Gao Han had always strongly supported the transformation of the Football Association and was separated from management and management. Why did the Football Association cooperate with the club and build a physical training system? What are you doing?

"You misunderstood. I have no intention of letting the Football Association interfere in the club's work."

Gao Han smiled faintly, "In fact, we are still very primitive and very backward in physical training. Not only are we compared with the top European teams, but even in Asia, South Korea and Japan, we are still behind them. This is all-round, including the personnel quality and training philosophy in physical training, etc."

"If you observe carefully, it will not be difficult to find that in the two games between the national team, the Maldives and Qatar, many of our players played the whole game, and the running distance is much more than our opponents, but what about our physical fitness?"

After being reminded by Gao Han, everyone present realized this after hearing this.

Isn't it?

Everyone thinks that the spiritual power is working, but if there is no sufficient foundation, how can the national team perform like this? How can the national players produce such beautiful data?

"Like the previous medical system, the physical training system is also provided by the Football Association, with the national team coaching team and Chinatown fully assisting, specifically training talents for the club and providing relevant services. But at the same time, we must form a good interactive mechanism between the national team and the club."

"The purpose is very simple. Through this interactive mechanism, we can ensure that the players' physical training between the national team and the club can maintain maximum continuity, and thus eliminate the impact of players' transitions between the club and the national team to a minimum, which can ensure the common interests between the national team, the club and the players."

Everyone immediately understood Gao Han’s meaning. It has to be said that from the medical system to the physical training system, Gao Han’s proposal is very bold, but also very targeted.

Chinese football is all-round backward and is in a mess. The Football Association is the leader of the industry and has enough authority to promote such cooperation. This is an advantage that European football advanced countries cannot have.

Once this effective interactive mechanism is formed, the role transformation of international players between clubs and national teams will become smoother, and the impact of national team competitions will be eliminated to the maximum extent.

For example, before the season training, the international players conducted physical fitness reserve training in the club. When they arrived at the national team, there was no need for this. The national team coaching team can arrange the players' training programs in a targeted manner based on the players' training in the club, and even directly transfer to technical and tactical training.

If such a mechanism can be formed,
Chapter completed!