According to convention, before the World Cup, all national teams that have already entered the top 32 will choose their opponents in the warm-up match to compete, so as to achieve the intention of running-in teams and practicing tactics. These warm-up matches are divided into two situations.

First, it is aimed at the running-in between teams. At this time, the opponent in the warm-up match is not very important. You can even choose a Class B team to play. The main purpose is to determine the main lineup, observe the player's status and practice tactics;

The time for this warm-up match is roughly about five months after the end of the World Cup qualifiers and one month before the end of the leagues of various countries.

Since the league is not very tight during this period, and the purpose of the drill is mostly to determine the lineup, the head coach will choose many players to recruit into the team in batches, which will not have much impact on the league.

It is also because most of the main players in many European and American teams play in the five major leagues. The more they reach the final stage of the league, the more pressure the players are under. Many clubs do not even let players return to China to participate. For them, such meaningless games are not worth wasting time.

For some players, if they are not super big names, they may miss the best time to be selected for the national team because of such an opportunity.

After all, the player's condition occupies a considerable part of the factors, and if you don't even have the chance to participate in a warm-up match, how can the coach know about the condition?

Now, Fiorentina should not consider this issue at all. Several players who want to participate in the World Cup have basically been on holiday - Ling Feng, Lao Ma and several young players flew back to China from Barcelona, ​​while several Italian players went to Rome's training base to get close to Lao Maldini.

But at this time the problem arose. Lao Ma returned to China and began to form a new Chinese national team. What about the head coach of Fiorentina?

Although there is nothing wrong with Florence now, it does not mean that the league is over!

The remaining games just won or lost, but they have not reached the level of not being able to play. At least a few substitutes will be required to take charge.

But this question is also very simple.

On the day when Lao Ma went to Beijing, a press conference was held to officially announce that he resigned from his position as head coach of Florence due to lack of ability and officially took office as head coach of the Chinese national team.

After all, players can run between the club and the national team, and have never seen the head coach run back and forth.

Fiorentina responded very quickly and immediately held a press conference, with youth team head coach Trov and Shuhes temporarily taking over as the head coach.

Just, it's just for the time being...

Maradona spoke very funny, emphasizing her lack of ability - a joke, she had already won the championship in the World Cup seven rounds ahead of schedule, and then led the team to the finals of the Italian Cup and the finals of the Champions League, just one step away from the peak - or, to be said, it was just a matter of time.

If Lao Ma is not capable enough, then I really don’t know who has the ability to take over this class.

Although Lao Ma announced his resignation at this time, all Fiorentines would still regard him as the head coach here. Everyone knows that Lao Ma's move is to take care of the World Cup - but it's nothing. Although he can't sit on the coach's seat, it does not affect his command in the two finals. The coach of the triple crown is still Lao Ma.

What Fiorentina said was very subtle and she didn't look for anyone anymore. She just mentioned a head coach to take over the position like Hamburg last year. Moreover, the players in Fiorentina did not express any sadness about this approach, and they were all interviews with a smile.

This is obvious that Lao Ma's resignation is only temporary. After the World Cup, Lao Ma will come back to continue to serve as the head coach of Fiorentina, so the hero coach of this triple-winning champion is naturally Lao Ma, and has nothing to do with others.

But to say that, it may not be possible for ordinary people to give up the two trophys they are about to receive at this last moment - but Lao Ma is different. He is the king of football, and no one can cover up his glory.

The popular noses of the Serie A Professional League and the Italian Football Association were smoking. Since Florence was acquired by that Chinese girl, what they did was no longer controlled by them - they could not catch any handle!

If the coaches of the two teams of Lao Ma were together, they could still take the opportunity to play, but who would have thought that Maradona would resign easily? Or he would resign when he was about to win the glory of the triple crown. Although he was jealous, he still admired Maradona - after all, there are not many people in this world who are willing to give up the honor he received.

Another kind of warm-up match is the warm-up match arranged after confirming the World Cup roster.

The opponents you choose are targeted, and most of them meet their opponents in the group stage - similar teams.

For example, before the World Cup in 2006, France played a warm-up match with China, because the reason was to figure out how Asian teams played - because there were South Korea among their opponents in the group stage.

But what was depressed was that Cice was actually kicked and injured in such an irrelevant game, which was really a big loss.

This warm-up match is the focus of training before the World Cup, and the football associations of various countries are also connected to each other at this time, setting up their opponents in advance.

Since considering that there may be a chance to meet after qualifying in the group, opponents in this warm-up match will try their best to avoid meeting in the World Cup - and most of them are looking for weak teams, because weak teams are more suitable to see their weaknesses and arrange their team's lineup.

Since the World Cup will be held shortly after the league ends, it is impossible for many opponents to find in the warm-up match. The three teams are the limit, so Lao Ma temporarily set Slovenia, Czech Republic and Canada.

It is obvious that the style of Slovenia is similar to that of Yugoslavia. The high-altitude bombing in the Czech Republic is almost the same as that of Germany today, and Canada. Although it is a bit weak, it is a North American country after all. Many players play football in their neighbors' major leagues. In general, the style should be very similar to that of the United States.

But now, Maradona has started the selection of personnel with these Chinese national teams with more than 30 people.

After all, although Ling Feng of Chinese football now has the final say, he cannot fire a former "World Cup hero". Anyway, there is no personnel restriction now, so he chose so many people to join the team. The purpose is to adopt face-to-face competition and let the losers go out of the national team convinced.

The most correct way to use people is to only those who are capable. As the Argentine football king and the world's number one coach, even Ling Feng has no way to refute this decision - of course, Ling Feng must refute it.

Now at the national team training base, the competition has become quite enthusiastic.

Of course, it is basically healthy competition. Even if some people have opinions in their hearts, they dare not say it out, and they dare not make any small moves and play tricks. Ling Feng is here to keep in mind, and there is also Maradona, a top hooligan. If any small move can escape the eyes of both of them, then you can apply for a national patent directly.

With the unreserved economic support of the General Administration of Sports of China, in 500,000 per game, the Chinese team played one game against the four teams of Qatar, Iraq, Yemen and Thailand in the remaining month. The result was naturally needless to say, the goals in each game were not less than eight, but more importantly, the score of the players' overall skills on the court was the key.

During these four warm-up matches - rather than being the best match - although Ling Feng was on the court, he did not invest too much time to attack. Instead, he was responsible for organizing the midfield, constantly passing the ball to these young players, entrusting the heavy responsibility of breaking through and attacking them entirely, and even threatening free kick opportunities were handed over to the young players.

Several Fiorentine young players performed outstandingly, and at the same time, they found several very potential players selected from other local training bases. This is a great gain for the Chinese team.

Hao Haidong, Yang Chen and others were unable to come back in advance, because although Ling Feng's mission was over, their league still had to continue playing. Therefore, the average age of the Chinese national team is less than 19 years old, with outstanding players from Jianlibao team and youth training bases in various countries as the team.

Of course, because the players are too young, it is impossible to use too many young players in the World Cup. According to Lao Ma's estimate, among these 30 people, except for Ling Feng, only five people can be selected for the new national team - including Jianlibao players who have performed well in the national team and the national youth team.

Only five of the thirty people can be selected. Such competition is quite cruel. However, compared to the few people who played around the national team in the past, this method is of great significance to promote - after all, let the players know that they can show off their power without saying that they can achieve a little success after going abroad. Once they are in a bad state, the door of the national team will be closed in front of them at any time.

The fans are quite satisfied with the outstanding performance of these young players, but they are a little younger. It is impossible to become fat now by eating it in one bite, but they represent the future of Chinese football after all.

But now Lao Ma is having a headache. How to solve the problem on the defense line?!

The Chinese team's defense line has always been relatively weak - compared with the World Cup - in the frontcourt, after all, Hao Haidong and Yang Chen, two of them in the Bundesliga (Hertha Berlin where Yang Chen is located, have successfully advanced to the Bundesliga, and Yang Chen's performance in the league is also quite excellent). The forward who gallops forward is already qualified to put pressure on the opponent's defenders in the World Cup. In addition, Ling Feng, a pervert, is supporting him, so Lao Ma is not worried about the offense.

But when it comes to defense, Fan Zhiyi's kung fu is OK, but others are not very good, especially - there is no full-back!

In the four-back formation, the assists of the two full-backs are crucial - not necessarily to push into the opponent's penalty area like Carlos and Kafu, but to make up for defense and breakthroughs on the sidelines are crucial. Unfortunately, among the Chinese team members over 20 years old, only Sun Jihai can barely meet Lao Ma's requirements.

Fan Zhiyi took a place in the central defender selection, but Li Weifeng was thrown into the cold palace by Ling Feng in the World Cup qualifiers, and he could only use Zhang Enhua, who had been abroad, to replace him, so the problem on the defense line is the most troublesome thing for the Chinese team at present.

More importantly, although there are several good seeds among the young players from all over the world, for example, among the players trained in Amsterdam, there is a Sichuan boy who is fast, strong explosive, and has excellent defensive awareness. He is a good seed of a full-back, but for a defender, technology is not the most important thing, the most important thing is experience.

These young players lack experience in major competitions. Even if they have potential, Lao Ma will never dare to take them to the World Cup.

"There are so many troubles!" Maradona pointed to the roster and complained to Ling Feng: "As goalkeeper, the 180th district (Chu Liang) is a bit shorter, but Jiang (Jin), who is 1.98 meters tall, is not as good as the district in terms of consciousness and goalkeeping skills. There is no top player in the defense line, which is our biggest hidden danger."

Ling Feng rubbed his nose. He was also very troubled by the problems on the defense line. Whether it is a goalkeeper or a defender, he could not even reach the third-rate level in Europe. Under the trend of commercial football, the proportion of defense is getting bigger and bigger. Look at Florence now, you will know that behind the extremely sharp offense is an extremely powerful defense, so that offensive players can devote themselves to the offense.

Otherwise, he would have scored a goal with great fatigue and the opponent would move back in less than a minute. In the World Cup, Ling Feng would not dare to say that he could fight those world-class defenders alone.

"Give me another two years, I can build a group of defense lines that are not inferior to Italy." Maradona said proudly: "The other is that in the midfielder position, Li (Tie)'s fighting spirit is enough, but it is unstable and has no organizational skills. It is better to be a central defender than to be a midfielder; but others don't even have this kind of fighting spirit. I am arranging the formation of you and Li in a double midfielder, just like in Fiorentina, but your attack time will be greatly reduced."

"Diego, this is the Chinese team," Ling Feng smiled and said, "Don't you use him as Fiorentina?"

"Give me three years to build the Chinese team into the second Fiorentina," Maradona raised her face - there was no way, there was still a height difference between himself and Ling Feng - full of pride.

"Did you really create this Florence?" Ling Feng said unscrupulously, almost choking Lao Ma to death.
Chapter completed!