Chapter 5 List of Eighteen People

Guangzhou Evergrande are in Group F this season with Urawa Red Diamonds in the AFC Champions League and Japan League, Jeonbuk Hyundai in the South Korean League, and Mongthong United in the Thai League. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The difference in the strength of the teams in this group is not too far, although Guangzhou Evergrande has a strong foreign aid lineup, but on the whole, when they face the teams in the Japanese and South Korean leagues, the advantage in strength is not as big as imagined.

Guangzhou Evergrande boss Xu Jiayin shouted the slogan of "three years of the Super League and five years of the AFC Champions League" after entering Guangzhou, and now the team has won two consecutive championships in the Chinese Super League, and it seems that no team can threaten their dominance in the Super League, in this case, Guangzhou Evergrande attaches particular importance to the AFC Champions League.

This can also be seen in the distribution of prize money in their tournaments. The team implements the "6306" bonus scheme in the AFC Champions League, that is, the team will be rewarded with 6 million for winning a game in the AFC Champions League, 3 million for a draw, and 6 million for each promoted round. Boss Xu even set up a special "Glory for the Country" award, which looks strange, that is, for every goal won by the opponent in each game, the team will be rewarded with an additional RMB 2 million.

The bonus system in the Chinese Super League is the "303" system, that is, three million for winning a game, no reward for a draw, and three million for losing a game.

Stimulated by such a huge prize money, the players certainly did their best to pursue victory. The purpose of professional players is not to be able to make more money in their careers, after all, for athletes, their careers are only more than ten years at most.

So, in order to prepare for the home game against Urawa Red Diamonds on February 26, the team returned to Guangzhou a week early. They took a flight and landed at Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport on February 19.

Before returning home, Lippi had already announced that the players would be given two days off, so the players were disbanded as soon as they got off the plane.

However, Li Qingshan was an exception, and he got on a minibus sent by the team at this time and drove to Guangzhou Evergrande's Lishui training base in Foshan.

In July 2011, Guangzhou Evergrande moved the training base from Baiyun Mountain to Lishui, although it is in another city, but the distance between Foshan and Guangzhou is very close, and the urban areas of the two sides are intertwined with each other, almost as the same city.

After Lippi became the owner of Guangzhou Evergrande, he made a decision that surprised the domestic football people very much - to implement a training system in the Guangzhou Evergrande team.

The training system is an old topic since the reform of Chinese football professionalism, so far, Guangzhou Evergrande team is the only club in all the Chinese Super League clubs that can implement the training system, the so-called training system is after the training of the players go home, do not have to stay in the club, manage themselves. In European clubs, it is very common to go to training. What is a professional player? It's when you come to the club to train, it's your job, you come to work, you can do whatever you like after work, you organize your own life, that's a professional player.

However, this has been difficult to implement in China, and for a long time, people have the impression that the players of Chinese football clubs are too professional, and their self-discipline and governance skills are very poor. Chinese players have grown up under the professional system and in a paternalistic coaching atmosphere, and they don't know how to arrange their lives after training, what kind of responsibilities they should take off the field, and how to ensure their training and jobs through their own lives. However, after Lippi came, he was unswervingly determined to promote the training system, and he believed that if Chinese football wants to improve, and Chinese players want to really achieve the so-called success, they must pass the hurdle of "walking training system". Lippi just came shortly after the Guangzhou Evergrande team was eliminated by Saudi Arabia's Ittihad in the quarterfinals of the AFC Champions League last year, when this incident caused a lot of controversy within the Evergrande Group, some people feel that Lippi came after the implementation of the training system is a relaxation of management, this training system is unacceptable to Chinese players, can not give Chinese players so much trust, this problem even rose to the problem of trust in Lippi.

However, Lippi still withstood the pressure and fully implemented European-style club management within the Guangzhou Evergrande team. To some extent, Lippi plays the role of team manager in Guangzhou Evergrande, in addition to being responsible for the team's competitive affairs, he is also deeply involved in the management of the team, bringing a completely Italian club management philosophy to Guangzhou Evergrande.

Step by step, Lippi Guangzhou Evergrande has built itself into an Italian-style team, or rather, a Lippi-style team, in addition to being deeply branded with Lippi in terms of technology and tactics, and the same is true in terms of management.

In the traditional Chinese football circle, in addition to looking at technical and tactical abilities, it also involves entanglements in human feelings, relationships and even interests.

"I will not interfere in your private life, and you will not interfere with me." This is Lippi's management style, after he coached Evergrande, he implemented a full day training system, whether it is the players, team affairs and team doctors, all can freely spend time except for training. Lippi doesn't interfere with anything off the training pitch, he just looks at the training and if you don't meet his requirements, whether you're Conca or Muric, you have to go to the bench.

But now Li Qingshan is going to live in the hotel arranged for him by Guangzhou Evergrande -- until he finds a house in Guangzhou, he can only live in the Evergrande Hotel near the Lishui training base.

During the two-day holiday, Li Qingshan planned to see what houses were available for rent near the training base. Although he can stay in the hotel arranged by the team all the time, Li Qingshan still prefers to go out and rent a house by himself - he does not want to be an alternative to the team. Although this month he has been too different.

Eventually, he rented an apartment in a neighborhood near the training base, which was very close to the training base and could be reached within a fifteen-minute walk.

But after returning from vacation, Li Qingshan still did not get the opportunity to train with the team, during this time, through scientific training and dietary adjustment, he has successfully reduced his body fat rate from 15% to 13%, but there is still a distance from Lippi's requirements.

However, the day before the match against Urawa Red Diamonds, Lippi surprised the players when he announced the 18-man roster in front of the players.

Because, Li Qingshan entered the eighteen-man list!

Even Li Qingshan himself was very surprised, because in the past 20 days, he has never participated in the team's tactical training, and Lippi actually ranked himself in the eighteen-man squad?

After the list was announced, it also caused a lot of discussion and speculation in the media, and many media believed that Li Qingshan's ability to enter the eighteen-man squad showed that Li Qingshan's ability in training moved Lippi, but fortunately they did not know Li Qingshan's training during this time.........

The outside world is not clear about the training situation of Guangzhou Evergrande, after Lippi became the head coach of Guangzhou Evergrande, he implemented a completely closed training, except for a specific point in time to allow fans and media to watch, most of the time, it is difficult for the outside world to know the training situation of Guangzhou Evergrande.

Either way, Li Qingshan himself is quite excited to be on the roster - at least it means that he has a chance to play in the first AFC Champions League game, doesn't it?