Coaching career started as a college team coach

In the process of communicating with Cai Huiqiang, Wei Le heard more than once the pessimistic view of the current situation of Chinese football from this young coach who had studied abroad.

"It's too far apart, it doesn't feel like the same era."

Wei Le had some feelings about this, but they were not very deep. After all, he was a "skipper" and had no coaching experience in domestic clubs, so he came directly to a foreign country.

The difference is a horizontal comparison, and Wei Le's feelings about this difference are mainly reflected in the college football he had experienced.

The training methods of many school representative teams can almost be said to be semi-professional, even if the players participating in the school team may not be professional football players, and will not become professional players in the future.

However, in China, most universities in the capital of Beijing where Wei Le is located cannot achieve this. They find it difficult to get regular training opportunities, and the competitions are very irregular. There is a lack of standard and perfect training methods, so every "training" is like playing wild football.

In Japan, east of the Chinese coastline, this is almost the same as the European standard. Coming to Europe, Wei Le was able to get more information about the players.

He found that many unknown Japanese players have established themselves in European leagues and are active in the second and third level leagues in Europe.

Most of them grew up from their perfect youth training system and scientific training methods, all of which are worth learning from Chinese football.

In terms of professional football, Cai Huiqiang gave Wei Le an example.

"Have you ever used cameras during training?"

Wei Le nodded without hesitation, "Yes."

"In the training of players' technical movements, cameras are a particularly useful device. Some movements feel that players have done very well when they practice by themselves, but after watching the video replay after training, they can find many problems."

"Cameras are very easy to use and not expensive. When I was in England, I saw many professional teams using them. But in China... I can only say that there are very few."

"The coaches who use these devices are basically from abroad, and domestic coaches have basically not gotten rid of the previous way of thinking of 'pursuing training volume and only looking at training attitude'."

"But is this training method really scientific? Is it really efficient? Can it really provide maximum help to players?"

"It doesn't really cost much to upgrade training equipment, but no one thinks of doing it." At this point, Cai Huiqiang sighed, "After all, it's just a few cameras."

It's just cameras.

Hearing this, Wei Le didn't know what to say, he could only sigh. Before he became a coach, he had his own understanding of Chinese football. There was a time when he thought that the problem of Chinese football was that the players were not up to standard.

But is it really just the players who are not up to standard? They are already the strongest group of players in the Chinese football system. Among the players playing in the professional league, they are already at the top of the pyramid.

When it comes to football, we should not only look at the players, but also look at the source of the players, that is, the youth training system; look at the process of the players' growth, that is, the training system; look at the quality of the players' games, which involves many topics.

Wei Le did not go in. He had no choice and was not able to change it at present. But in a sense, it was fortunate that Wei Le did not go in.

"By the way, have you heard of a player, a Chinese."

"What's wrong?"

"It seems to be called Yang Qi, and he is playing football in Germany now."

"?"

Wei Le was stunned on the spot.

"Yang... Qi?"

"Yes, Yang Qi, have you heard of it?"

Same name, right? When Wei Le heard the name Yang Qi, his first reaction was - is this a player with the same name? After all, there are so many people named Yang Qi, and this is not an uncommon name.

It could be another Yang Qi, or maybe Yang Qi, Yang Qi, or something else.

But at the same time, he was extremely looking forward to it. This Yang Qi was the Yang Qi he was familiar with.

It has been a few months since we last contacted each other, and the chat record between him and him was still stuck at the time when he asked me about going abroad to play football. But in the past few months, he has now appeared in Germany?

Hearing the sudden silence on the other side of the voice chat, Cai Huiqiang was also a little unsure.

"Did you disconnect?"

"No, no, no, it's still there." Wei Le suppressed his inexplicable excitement, "Tell me more about him?"

"He said he was from Beijing, and he used to play in a professional team. What was his name?"

"Beijing Tenglong!" Wei Le blurted out the name without thinking.

"Hey, it seems to be. Why, have you heard of him?"

Wei Le did not answer the conversation, but clenched his fists and continued to ask, "Did he get banned from playing in the youth league and play for a year in college?"

"Yes, it seems so."

That's him! That's Yang Qi! Wei Le was ecstatic.

"Where is he playing now?"

"The second team of Hannover 96, he seems to be a main player!"

"Okay... okay..."

Cai Huiqiang was a little confused, "Why are you reacting so strongly? Did you know him before? How did you know?"

"Well." Wei Le smiled mysteriously, he was suddenly in a very good mood, "Do you know that I was the head coach in college?"

"I know." Cai Huiqiang didn't understand, but he knew about it.

"In the season when I was leading the team, a new freshman came to the school who was particularly good at playing football. He had played football in Jingcheng Tenglong before. What do you think his last name and name are?"

"Yang... Qi?" Cai Huiqiang guessed.

"Bingo!" Wei Le laughed, "He is such a kid. He went abroad but didn't even tell his coach."

"Fuck, what kind of fate is this? Is the world so small?" Cai Huiqiang couldn't believe it. One was a little-known German regional league player, and the other was the head coach of the English Championship. But the two actually knew each other, and they were former classmates!

"Are you going to ask him? Isn't he hiding it from you?" Cai Huiqiang didn't quite understand why the two people were so familiar with each other, but one of them didn't tell the other about the good news of playing football abroad.

"Don't ask. I just know it." Wei Le shook his head and said with a smile, "He must have his reasons for hiding it from me, whether he wanted to give me a surprise or something, anyway, I'll just pretend I don't know, let's see how far he can develop!"

Cai Huiqiang also laughed when he heard it.

He suddenly thought of a scene.

It is 2017 now. If it is in 2022 or 2026 World Cup...

The head coach of China National Team Wei Le made the last substitution. He replaced Yang Qi who played for Wolves. The latter scored the only goal on the field...

What a good dream.

Cai Huiqiang smacked his lips.

Unfortunately, it can't be realized.