Chapter 203 Colleagues Not Friends

Zhuo Yang felt that Rijkaard thought too much and made simple things complicated.

"Jieshuai, my relationship with all my teammates in the national team is just colleagues. Two years ago, I chose to return to the Chinese national team because this is my country, not because I have friends in the national team."

On the two international match days in October, the Chinese national team has no serious games to play, but it cannot miss such an opportunity. Now that the Chinese team has experienced the World Cup and performed reasonably well, its horizons have become a little higher. It always invites some small fish and shrimps in the country, such as inexplicable teams like Botswana last year, to travel and compete, and the Chinese team no longer likes them.

During these ten days of international matches, the Chinese team came to Europe as a team. Although the 2012 European Cup qualifiers were in full swing, some teams happened to have a bye, so the Football Association contacted them in advance and invited them to play.

They will play England at Wembley on October 8 and Norway in Oslo on October 12. Compared with the past, the quality of the opponents in the national team's friendly matches is undoubtedly much higher, which is also one of the benefits brought by the World Cup.

The 2011 Asian Cup in Qatar is about to start in January. These warm-ups of the Chinese team are obviously in preparation for the competition, and the domestic media are also clamoring for the Asian Cup to win. It seems that the national team that has performed well in the World Cup has returned to Asia, and the champion Just have it at your fingertips.

Japan and South Korea also performed very well in South Africa, no less than the Chinese team. Do you think they are stupid? Are Australia and the host country, Qatar, dead people? And looking back carefully, the national team actually only won one game in South Africa, and then only tied with Italy, which was at its lowest point in history, and used the penalty bug to draw with the Netherlands. There is absolutely nothing worth showing off.

But a World Cup changed too many things, stirring the hearts of domestic media, proud fans, and even the national football team.

It has been less than three months since the World Cup ended, but Zhuoyang couldn't stand the enthusiastic praise from the whole society, the pursuit of businessmen, and the exaggeration of the media. He fled back to Europe early, but most other international players could not escape. They are trapped in false prosperity.

I haven’t seen them for a few months. Many people’s bellies have become obviously bigger, and their shiny faces are more like successful people. You can imagine how they treat their bodies in the past few months, but what is even more regrettable is how they treat their bodies. Football attitude.

The phenomenon of cliques has reappeared within the team. There are serious cliques during training and games, and there are even conflicts on the training ground. There are also extremely bad behaviors.

When Zhuo Yang was in the team, he could intimidate all the young players, but when he returned to Europe, many signs of indecent behavior emerged one after another. How can old illnesses be cured so easily?

A wave hits and the scum at the bottom of the water resurfaces.

The issue of studying abroad is even more ridiculous.

Because of their good performance, many players have entered the attention of European teams, but many people have lost their identity. They cannot remember that this is just a team called "Zhuoyang alone". The lion who received the inquiry opened his mouth wide, sneered at the trial training requirements, and opened his mouth to ask for the main force.

Some people actually went to Zhuo Qiu and asked the eldest sister to represent him in international transfers. This is actually not outrageous, but the condition is that AC Milan must give him a starting position, an annual salary of no less than 2 million, and a designated jersey number.

This is thinking of herself as Zhuoyang, but the eldest sister only has one younger brother. Zhuo Qiu was kicked out before he finished speaking. He was so ignorant.

This summer has passed, and many Korean and Japanese international players have entered mainstream European leagues, but there are still only a few Chinese players, Zhuo Yang, Shao Jiayi, Zheng, Hao Junmin, and Sun Xiang, working alone in their respective leagues, without adding one more player.

European clubs are not blind. If the conditions are right, they can support you and expand the Chinese market easily, but if you have to talk about how football will help the team, are you kidding me? Madibao, the strongest relationship member, didn't even open his mouth to Zhuoyang, and Hassler felt like he was aware of it.

The sad thing is that many people can't wake up at all. Even the Chinese Super League clubs are following the trend. The value of the international players has gone up several times. They earn much more at home than if they studied abroad. No wonder they are so confident.

These are all tolerable, but Jieshuai's attitude towards training and games is really too much for him. He is free and casual and does not abide by tactical disciplines. He runs around and leads blindly in order to express himself on the court. All these problems have come to the fore.

Due to language issues, there are barriers to direct communication between the coaching staff and players, and Jieshuai and others are more accustomed to only worrying about the team's skills and tactics, leaving daily management to the Chinese team leader and other management. However, it is difficult to say whether the Chinese management is behind the signs of internal strife that have emerged in the team. After all, this is the tradition of Chinese football and the Football Association.

At the beginning of last month, Xie Long, the former full-time vice chairman of the Football Association, who had been transferred to China Sports Industry as chairman for a year, was taken away by the police. The Dragon King finally failed to escape and repay the debt he had committed. But his arrest did not sound a wake-up call for some people. Instead, it reflected the turmoil caused by the power reshuffle into the national team.

With Zhuo Yang's support, Jieshuai has absolute authority in hiring people in the national team. He doesn't have to worry about the bullshit relationships in the country. The only person he worries about is Zhuo Yang.

After the World Cup, many young players in the team got along very well with Zhuo Yang, and they looked like they were close to each other all day long. Jieshuai knows that Zhuoyang attaches great importance to friendship, even more than football itself. He was determined to capture those people, but he was also worried about making Zhuo Yang unhappy. Therefore, the first thing Zhuoyang did after joining the national team was that Jie Shuai reported to him and asked him if he could act against these unhealthy tendencies.

In fact, Zhuo Yang had already heard about these bad habits from his sister and Cheng Hao, but he didn't expect Jieshuai to be so indecisive. Zhuoyang does get along with many young players, but he is fundamentally different from them and other football brothers.

The Six Musketeers are close to each other because of their brothers, and the teammates of the national team are close to each other because of football. The premise for a good relationship with you is because of the collective national team. Once this premise is missing, who am I and who are you?

"Jie Shuai, in this team, except for you and me, anyone can be missing. Don't worry so much."

"That's good." Rijkaard nodded: "Zhuoyang, I know what to do, but the result may affect the results of the Asian Cup. You still have to be mentally prepared for this."

"Don't worry, even if the group doesn't qualify, there won't be any problem." Zhuo Yang made Rijkaard's hanging heart fall back to his stomach.