Chapter 171

Not to mention how excited the domestic media and fans were about Jiang Xiaolin's performance in his first National Olympic game, the National Olympic team coaching staff and players held a tactical analysis meeting on the evening of the game, the main purpose of which was to study the problems that occurred in the game.

A 90-minute video recording, this tactical meeting lasted for more than 3 hours while pausing for discussion.

Dujkovic mainly focused on Jiang Xiaolin, commenting on how the players around Jiang Xiaolin should cooperate with Jiang Xiaolin to create a greater threat to the opponent and even get a chance to shoot and score.

With the analysis of the video recording, the coaches and players also found that Jiang Xiaolin's running speed in the second half seemed to be faster than in the first half, and his running position was more erratic than in the first half.

So, Yin Tieshen couldn't help but ask Jiang Xiaolin this question: "Jiang Xiaolin, why do you feel that your strength in the second half is better than in the first half?"

Jiang Xiaolin was silent for a while, and chose to answer honestly: "It's not that my strength has improved in the second half, but I suppressed my strength to a greater extent in the first half in order to integrate with my teammates as soon as possible. As the game progressed, my teammates became more familiar with my speed and running position. In the second half, I gradually increased my speed and running flexibility, so I seemed to be stronger in the second half."

Hearing Jiang Xiaolin say this, everyone in the conference room was stunned.

Everyone thought that Jiang Xiaolin was able to score three goals and perform a hat trick in his first Olympic team training and first game, which was already * enough.

Unexpectedly, from what Jiang Xiaolin said, this was the result of him deliberately suppressing his strength in order to form a more tacit cooperation with his teammates.

Dujkovic also asked in surprise: "Did you try your best in the second half?"

Jiang Xiaolin said: "No!"

Everyone was even more confused, and the teammates looked at Jiang Xiaolin as if he was a monster.

This was really too depressing.

Is this the difference between domestic players and overseas players?

In fact, Dujkovic knew that this was not the reason.

It's not like China doesn't have overseas players. Dujkovic is still the head coach of the Chinese national team. There are overseas players in the adult national team, but who is as * as Jiang Xiaolin?

Not to mention compared with Chinese players, even among young European players, Jiang Xiaolin is probably the top talent.

Didn't you see that the Turin Sports Daily commented that Jiang Xiaolin is a strong contender for this year's European Golden Boy Award?

Everyone sincerely asked Jiang Xiaolin to express his opinion in shock and surprise.

Because if this Olympic team wants to achieve results, it must depend on Jiang Xiaolin's performance, and Jiang Xiaolin's opinions are very important.

Jiang Xiaolin has become the de facto ball tyrant of the Olympic team, and even the coaching staff has to pay attention to his opinions, although he does not want to be a ball tyrant.

Jiang Xiaolin did not want to mention it at first, fearing that it would affect the unity of the team, but seeing that the coach and teammates sincerely asked him to mention it, he did.

Jiang Xiaolin used some actual game situations in the video to illustrate that sometimes he had better running position choices and speed, but he was afraid that his teammates would not understand and the ball could not be passed to him, so he did not choose to do so.

Now that everyone asked him to mention it, he brought it up, indicating that his teammates could imagine his speed to be faster and his running position to be more erratic and flexible in the future.

There were some gaps that Jiang Xiaolin seemed to have not noticed, but in fact Jiang Xiaolin had already seen them secretly, and he did not look there because he was afraid that the opponent would find out.

As long as his teammates passed the ball to those gaps, Jiang Xiaolin would have a great chance to appear there and receive the ball to pose a threat.

Don't be afraid that Jiang Xiaolin can't see the gap.

The chance that Jiang Xiaolin can't see the gap that his teammates can see is very small.

This is determined by Jiang Xiaolin's full-value off-ball running and scoring ability.

Although he hasn't opened the "vision" skill yet, Jiang Xiaolin believes that his vision attribute must be very high.

Otherwise, if he can't find the gap and run the gap, how can his off-ball running and scoring ability be full?

Therefore, Jiang Xiaolin proposed that his teammates should be bolder and more imaginative when passing and cutting with him in the future.

He has the ability to turn some gaps that don't seem to be opportunities into shooting opportunities.

After several actual video explanations, the National Olympic coach and teammates realized that what Jiang Xiaolin showed in the past two days of training and today's game was not Jiang Xiaolin's full strength.

Being able to score 17 goals in 9 games in the Eredivisie, Jiang Xiaolin's strength has indeed exceeded the imagination of these National Olympic team coaches and players.

The gap between Chinese football and European football is huge.

Fortunately, after Jiang Xiaolin’s personal explanation, the players understood a lot and expressed their willingness to give Jiang XiaolinThe pass will give more lead time, and when he sees an opening, he will boldly pass it. The rest is up to Jiang Xiaolin.

It is impossible for Jiang Xiaolin to fully integrate with his teammates in one tactical meeting, but after letting the coach and teammates know more about his strength and ideas, it will undoubtedly allow him to integrate into the team more quickly, which is very beneficial for the future games of the National Olympic Team.

The team trained as usual for the next two days.

Through the team training match, the teammates really found that Jiang Xiaolin's speed could be faster and his running position more erratic. Although everyone was mentally prepared, they were still scared.

But fortunately, Jiang Xiaolin had told everyone in advance that everyone just had to adapt slowly.

On the morning of April 20, the team did not train until 12 o'clock, but only trained until 11 o'clock, and then returned to the locker room to take a shower and change clothes, and then went to the conference room, where a laptop connected to the live broadcast of the sports channel website of China National Television was projected on the big screen.

The entire Chinese Olympic team, from the team leader to the coach, players, team doctors, translators, etc., all sat in the conference room to watch the football group draw ceremony for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

At 19:00 Beijing time, 12:00 Serbian time, the draw ceremony officially began, and the first thing to be done was the draw for men's football.

The draw ceremony was hosted by FIFA Secretary General Geram Witte, and several Chinese Olympic Committee and football bigwigs served as guests to draw the 16 Olympic men's football teams entering the Beijing Olympic Games.

The 16 teams will be divided into 4 groups, and the top two teams in each group will advance to the quarterfinals for the knockout rounds.

In the end, the Chinese Olympic team was divided into Group C, with Brazil, New Zealand, and Belgium in the same group.

After seeing this group and opponent, there was a cry of grief in the conference room.

As the host, the Chinese team will have a very bleak future in this group.

Except for New Zealand from Oceania, the Chinese team may have a fighting chance. Facing the soccer kingdom of Brazil and the European team Belgium, the Chinese Olympic team has little chance of winning.

Forget winning, it would be good if they don't lose by a big margin.