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Regarding the player Gao Zheng, the new head coach of the Chinese team, Pei Lan, has mixed feelings.

When he first took over the team, the Chinese team had already qualified for the Asian Cup, so it doesn't matter if the result is good, and everyone is saying that Gao Zheng helped the team win the qualification of.

Where does this put his head coach's face?

So he is holding back his energy to prove himself, to prove that this team can transfer without anyone, except the head coach.

As a result, they lost 1:3 in the final round of the qualifiers.

Of course, it can be said that the Chinese team has already qualified in this game, and the players don't need to work too hard in the game, so everyone's fighting spirit is not high. In addition, this game is an away game, so the difficulty is inherently high. So it's normal to lose 1:3 in the end.

Moreover, this is Perrin's first game as coach of the team, and both the team and him need a running-in period.

So the result of this game has no reference value.

But in the next three friendly matches, only one was won, which made Perrin feel a little embarrassed.

In the first friendly match, they won Macedonia 2:0. In the second friendly match, the same opponent, the Chinese team played against the opponent 0:0. In the latest friendly match, the Chinese team simply lost to Mali 1:3.

He coached the team and only won one game in four games, which made him feel the pressure.

Originally, he thought that with his years of coaching experience in Europe and West Asia, coaching the Chinese team should not be a big problem.

So even if the Football Association proposed to him that in order to facilitate Gao Zheng's integration into the new team, when the Chinese team would not recruit Gao Zheng for the warm-up match, he did not protest, and even thought it was just what he wanted-when he used these three games After consolidating his position in the team, it should be much easier to command when facing the biggest star of the Chinese team.

So on the one hand, deep down in his heart, he felt that Gao Zheng was playing big cards, and on the other hand, he felt that this was a good opportunity to prove himself.

But now it seems that he screwed up.

He did not use these three warm-up matches to prove his ability, but instead filled the Chinese media with doubts and dissatisfaction with the Football Association's selection of coaches.

Although he can't read Chinese, he knows that some media have already questioned his coaching level. They think that although he won the French Cup and Ligue 1 championship in Lyon,

But at the level of Lyon at that time, winning the championship was mainly due to the strength of the team, and he, the head coach, did not have much credit. And judging from his career, more often he has experienced various failures.

There are also Chinese media ridiculing him for "coaching in the West Asian League for many years and accumulating a wealth of'failure experience'".

For example, he went to West Asia to coach as early as 2004, but he dismissed get out of class after only coaching four games in the UAE Al Ain team. Later, in 2010, he returned to West Asia to teach, but he also failed:

From 2010 to 2012, he coached the Koch team in the Qatar League, but his results were mediocre.

He then coached the Qatar U22 national team, but was eliminated in the U22 Asian Cup qualifiers, and he himself was dismissed for this.

After class, he coached the Garafa team, only achieved two victories in eight games, and was dismissed.

Signed Umm Salal, but in the first three games of the 2013-2014 season, one win and two draws, he was fired again.

Such a head coach who was dismissed consecutively due to poor performance has now become the head coach of the Chinese national team, making the media and fans question whether someone in the Chinese Football Association took kickbacks and collected black money to make Perrin Become the national team coach.

His successful experience in Lyon was already six years ago, and modern football has discovered quickly, new tactics and new ideas are changing with each passing day, but Perrin has been wandering in the quagmire of various failures in the past six years. He can give the Chinese team What new things and progress will it bring?

For the first time, the Frenchman Perrin felt the pressure of coaching the national team of the world's most populous country... It was completely different from the pressure he faced when he coached Lyon and Marseille.

After all, when football, the world's number one sport, is combined with China, the world's most populous country, even a slight change will multiply exponentially through the population.

Just when Pei Lan felt the pressure, Gao Zheng came back.

This player, whom he had looked down upon before, seemed to be his life-saving straw now.

For a moment, Pei Lan didn't know what expression he should use to face Gao Zheng.

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On the sidelines of the training field, in front of countless reporters and cameras, Pei Lan took the initiative to reach out to Gao Zheng with a smile on his face.

And Gao Zheng trotted two steps quickly, and held Pei Lan's hand.

"Thank you." Perrin said in simple English.

"No hard work, no hard work." Gao Zheng also replied in simple English.

During this process, the flashes of the cameras in the hands of the reporters overwhelmed the brightness of the sun. During the daytime, people could feel that Gao Zheng and Pei Lan had been turned white by the overexposure of the flashes.

But under the attack of this patch of strong light, both of them kept smiling on their faces, as if the flash did not exist at all.

After letting the reporters take photos, Perrin pulled Gao Zheng and turned around, turning his back to the reporters: "It's the first time we meet, I think I should introduce myself to you, Alan Perrin, the head coach."

Gao Zheng also introduced himself: "Gao Zheng, player."

Next, the translator entered the venue to help the two people communicate further.

Perrin cared about Gao Zheng's journey and whether he had a good rest. He also talked about his situation in Atletico Madrid, cared about Gao Zheng's integration into the team, and encouraged Gao Zheng to continue to study Spanish and strive to be able to use Spanish and Spanish as soon as possible. Teammates communicate normally.

He told Gao Zheng that the most important thing in playing football in a strange country is not the skills, but the language. When he heard that Gao Zheng was still living in a hotel, he reminded Gao Zheng to find a house to live in as soon as possible. Living in a hotel is not a long-term solution. Only when his life is stable can he perform better on the court.

For these advices from the head coach, Gao Zheng nodded and accepted them all.

Although he was actually planning to move out of the hotel long ago, when he left Madrid to join the Chinese national team, he entrusted his agent Viviano to contact the real estate agency to help look at the house.

Seeing Gao Zheng's respectful attitude towards him, Pei Lan also quietly breathed a sigh of relief. He was a little worried that this player would be difficult to manage. Looking at it now, there is no such problem.

Many people think that Gao Zheng is a very proud person and may not be easy to get along with. But this is a misunderstanding. Whether you get along well or not depends on the person. Today's Gao Zheng is actually easy to get along with most of the time, as long as you don't take the initiative to provoke him.

Therefore, no matter facing the interim head coach Fu Bo or the new head coach Pei Lan, Gao Zheng's attitude is impeccable, and he puts himself in a very correct position-no matter how much he is worth or how successful he is now, he He is just a player, and the head coach is the only person in this team.