Fox in the Penalty Area

In Zhao Kangming's view, the return of Hu Lai and Wang Guangwei was very timely.

Because the Chinese League One will temporarily suspend one round due to the international match day, and the next game will not be played until April 1st.

They have more than ten days to recover, and to re-train with the team to find a sense of cooperation.

Otherwise, he would have no choice but to exclude Hu Lai and Wang Guangwei from the squad for the fourth round and let them rest at home. But in this way, you have to bear the risk that you may not be able to win the fourth round of the league.

Either the two of them might be forced to face their league opponents before their physical fitness has fully recovered, and they can't stop after that. Until May, there will be no time for them to rest .

This year, because the 2023 Asian Cup will be held in June, the domestic league had to be suspended in early May to make way for the Asian Cup.

After all, the national team still needs to assemble for training, and it always takes about a month to prepare. It is impossible to suspend the league when the Asian Cup starts, right?

And the Asian Cup is finished at the end of June.

In this way, two months of competition days have been lost this year. In order to compress the schedule, there are often double competitions a week.

Under such circumstances, if players are not physically ready, they are likely to be injured during the intensive schedule.

Now, after Hu Lai and Wang Guangwei came back, they had a good time to rest. When the league resumes, they must be alive and well, and the fatigue of continuous fighting in the East Asian Cup will be wiped away.

It is also due to the fact that Flash Star is a Chinese team, and there is not a single international player in the team.

Last season's international competition day was an opportunity for Shining Star to recuperate. Many people have no concept of international competition day at all.

Hu Lai and Wang Guangwei performed well in the East Asian Cup, which is a good thing for the players, but not necessarily a good thing for Zhao Kangming, the head coach.

In fact, before the East Asian Cup was over, Chinese fans were already discussing whether Hu Lai was qualified to play for the real national team.

It stands to reason that Hu Lai, who scored a hat-trick against the South Korean team and helped Chinese football break the 41-year-old Korean-phobia, is definitely one of the best young Chinese players. How could such a person be ineligible for the national team?

It is also for this reason that everyone enthusiastically imagines that Hu Lai will join the Chinese national team.

If it weren't for the international match day after the East Asian Cup, there would be no rest time at all, and some fans would suggest that the Chinese team should recruit Hu Lai now...

Zhao Kangming certainly has no objection to his players playing for the country, but from the standpoint of head coach Hu Lai, he still feels that it is too early for Hu Lai to be selected for the national team.

After all, it is impossible for the national team to let Hu Lai go to the national team to play the main force. It is meaningless for Hu Lai, who has already won the East Asian Cup championship in the Olympic team, to be a substitute to be the national captain. There is no need to go to the game even if it is the national team.

In addition, as the head coach of the club, Zhao Kangming is not happy that the national team transfers Hu Lai, because that will greatly affect Hu Lai's performance in the club.

He is actually worried about the excessive use of young players who have performed well in the national team.

Because there are many precedents for this in the past history.

After some young players showed their talents and performed well, they were quickly promoted to the national team. All friendly matches and warm-up matches allowed players to participate in training camps. As a result, I couldn't play the game after I went there, and the frequent training camps also disrupted the club's preparation plan.

After all, no head coach is willing to entrust a player who will always leave the club to participate in the national team training. When the club needs him, he spends too much energy because of the frequent recruitment of the national team. nothing. From the interests of the club, why should the club reuse such players who can't contribute to the team at all?

When a young player cannot gain attention in the club and cannot play steadily, it will be difficult for him to improve his level.

But the national team saw that this young man couldn't even play in the club, so why should I recruit him?

In this way, both ends gave up.

As a former youth training director who brought out many young players, Zhao Kangming has seen too many such examples.

He believes that this is a deformed way of training young players that Chinese football has fallen behind for a long time.

After all, Chinese football has lagged behind for too long, and there is an urgent need for young talents to stimulate the public's attention and boost everyone's confidence.

This will cause a young man to nod his head a little bit, and he will be followed by fans and the media all over the country, as well as by the Football Association.

If this player performs well, then the national team will use it hard and use it to the death - anyway, the fans and the media are also happy to see such a young talent play for the country and improve the team's performance.

A 19-year-old player has to participate in the games of the three national teams of the National Youth League, the National Olympic Games and the national team.

After this player is injured, another young player will continue to use it like this.

It's really hard to say now, if Zhang Qinghuan hadn't fallen by himself, would the national team and the Olympic team have used him at both ends until he was useless.

Thinking about it this way, maybe Zhang Qinghuan's self-depravity actually protected him. At the most critical moment of his body growth, he was not injured due to the heavy competition tasks...

It was precisely because of this consideration that after Hu Lai and Wang Guangwei returned to the team, Zhao Kangming talked to them alone.

There will be the Asian Cup in June this year. Now he is particularly worried that the national team will recruit these two young people to participate in the Asian Cup. Although it is impossible to let them play in the game, he will give himself a vacation in these two months and stay at home. Wouldn't it be nice to have a good rest and recover from your tired body?

The young people may not be the same as he thinks, and they hope to wear the national team jersey, play for the country, and participate in major competitions such as the Asian Cup.

That's why Zhao Kangming has to make it clear to the two people that he doesn't recommend or want them to participate in the Asian Cup, and he will also ask the national team not to call them to play any national team games through personal relationships, even if it is a warm-up match No friendlies.

He explained clearly to the two of them why he did this, so as not to create a rift between the master and the apprentice, making Hu Lai and Wang Guangwei think that Zhao Kangming deliberately blocked their way to ascend.

Of course, if Hu Lai and Wang Guangwei think that he is just making excuses after listening to his explanation, in fact, he just wants to disown the two young players who have just performed well in the East Asian Cup, so as to facilitate his management... that is also theirs matter.

Zhao Kangming will not choose to hide it just because he is worried about their misunderstanding.

As for what the young people who went out to see the world think, that's their business, and he can't control it.

But fortunately, both Hu Lai and Wang Guangwei trusted Zhao Kangming very much. Hu Lai even said directly that if the national team really wanted to recruit him, he would refuse.

Zhao Kangming was moved and scolded him: "Are you crazy? It's taboo for a player to refuse the call of the national team, unless you are injured. It has always been a matter of whether the national team wants you. How can you refuse?" What about rejection? It’s two different things for me to help you block it and for you to reject it yourself! I’ll tell you about the national team, so don’t make a sound, unless you don’t want to be in the national team anymore…”

Hu Lai hurriedly thanked Director Zhao, he was so busy just now that he forgot about it.

"Blame me, blame me, of course I want to win glory for the country, Director Zhao..."

Zhao Kangming looked at Hu Lai, who admitted his mistakes very quickly, and smiled, "Of course I don't want to see you fail to enter the national team. After all, I'm still waiting to see your dream come true in my lifetime, ha!"

Of course, Hu Lai knew what Director Zhao's so-called "dream" was.

That is indeed the "Lifetime Series".

"I will work hard, Director Zhao!"

Seeing what he said, Zhao Kangming shook his head again: "Hey, don't take it too seriously, everyone knows this kind of thing in their hearts. How many people in the world take it as their goal? Thousands of people, who can achieve it the most? One in a million. It’s good for you to have this grand goal, but if you take a long-term view, you still have to keep your feet on the ground, and you have to look down at the road, or you will stumble at the beginning, and your great goal will become someone else’s Did you make fun of your handle?"

"Coach, don't worry, I have only one goal this season, to help our flashing stars succeed in promotion! And when I came back, Director Shi also talked to me and said that he would focus on my performance in the league. He also said that next year U23 The Asian Cup will also be decided based on my performance at the club this season..."

Zhao Kangming nodded: "Shi Wuyin also told me that I will release you for this year's Olympic team warm-up match, as long as you are not in poor health. Let's not think about the national team, but the Olympic team must play hard .”

The two chatted for a while, and Zhao Kangming waved Hu Lai to leave.

But before Hu Laila opened the door, he was stopped by Zhao Kangming again: "Do you really have a good relationship with Chen Xingyi?"

Hu Lai didn't expect Director Zhao to ask this question. Could it be that Director Zhao misunderstood what happened before the training started that day?

So he quickly explained: "It's definitely not as good as my relationship with Lao Wang, but it's not bad."

"You guys used to be opponents for the championship, and you kid also ruined his goal of three consecutive high school national championships."

"This...ha, Director Zhao, if you don't mention it, I will forget about it. Now we are all professional players, who cares about the grievances and grievances of the high school national competition..."

"Is there really no contradiction?"

Hu Lai shook his head firmly: "There is really no contradiction."

How can WeChat blocking be considered a contradiction? No conflicts, no conflicts, anyway, the little stars have invited guests to apologize, and the group with a good attitude not only released us from the blacklist, but also gave each of us a red envelope of 200 yuan.

Seeing what Hu Lai said, Zhao Kangming didn't ask any more questions. He waved his hand: "Okay, then you can go back."

After Hu Lai left, he reconsidered Chen Xingyi's question, and felt that he should not rush for success.

Chen Xingyi's strength is there. He just came to the team for too short a time. It's only been a month now. How can it be so easy to cultivate a tacit understanding?

Now that Hu Lai has returned, he can also relax a little on Chen Xingyi and let nature take its course. To avoid putting too much pressure on Chen Xingyi, it's not good for myself or Chen Xingyi.

Thinking of this, he decided to continue to let Chen Xingyi play as a substitute in the next home game against Heihe Jixing.

Then based on his game performance, decide whether to let him start in the third round of the FA Cup.