At the end of the training session, the Lazio players sign autographs for the fans as they leave the training ground.

The coach will be surrounded by reporters who will ask questions of interest to them.

But not every time.

Especially when Chang Sheng is notoriously difficult to deal with in the circle.

That's why journalists were happy to interview his assistant coach, and after Di Matteo became assistant coach at Lazio, his name began to appear in the newspapers several times.

Because he is an Italian player, he is already familiar with these Italian media.

It's normal for Italian journalists to prefer him.

In addition, he has not been labeled as a "winning descendant", so the media are happy to approach him.

On the other hand, Chang Sheng does not give much interviews to reporters, but he has to meet the autograph requests of many fans.

In Lazio, his popularity is just as strong, and he is not inferior to those players.

Even more popular than the players.

Who made him Lazio's number one star?

After the training, Chang Sheng took the initiative to come over and plan to sign autographs for the fans.

But he saw a familiar face in the crowd.

Yellow-skinned and dark-haired man he had seen many in Vermello.

They are all Chinese journalists who come here to cover news, or tourists who come here to visit.

In addition, it is not excluded that fans from Japan and South Korea will return here to support Lazio.

Regardless, Lazio still have some fans in these places, even if not many.

So if you see a yellow-skinned and black-haired person outside the training ground, there is nothing to be surprised about, and it is impossible for Chang Sheng to take a few more looks.

But today is different.

Not only did he notice the man, he took a few more looks.

Because after inadvertently catching a glimpse of him. Chang Sheng felt that this person was somewhat familiar......

So he looked a little more.

Then he was amazed!

No way! Isn't this Gao Hongbo?!

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For Gao Hongbo, Chang Sheng is very familiar.

As a post-80s Chinese fan, after entering the 21st century, there are only two stages after making Chang Sheng particularly interested in the Chinese football team.

One stage was after Milutinovic led the team to play the top 10 matches in the Asian zone of the World Cup qualifiers, and the national team squad was at its peak afterwards. They are all players left over from the old professional era and the early stage of their careers, and they have outstanding abilities and can be regarded as the strongest Chinese national team.

And the hope of the national team to enter the World Cup is very high, so Chang Sheng is also full of hope and love after watching the national team game.

The second stage is the period when Gao Hongbo coached the national team.

When Gao Hongbo took over the national team, it can be said that it was the darkest thing in Chinese football.

The crushing defeat in the 2008 Olympics brought Chinese football to the bottom, and its early elimination from the World Cup qualifiers in South Africa also left the Chinese football team facing a situation where there was no ball to play.

Fans' interest in Chinese football has dropped to a freezing point, and everyone feels ashamed when it comes to Chinese football. After that, a lot of jokes were born on the Internet to ridicule Chinese football.

For example, what to pull up the curtains to watch the national football game at home, in order not to be laughed at. Falsely claiming that he was watching a movie, Chinese football has taken turns to the point where it is not even as good as a movie.

The national football team after the incident was really shouted and beaten by everyone.

It was in this context that Gao Hongbo became the head coach of the national team.

He became national team manager from May 2009 until August 2011.

He led the national team to a total of 42 matches in all competitions, with 24 wins, 13 draws and 5 losses. Putting aside commercial matches, warm-up matches and friendly matches, which are considered by some to be "goldless", only official matches, twelve official matches, Gao Hongbo's national team has only lost one. Eight wins, three draws and one loss.

The Asian Cup group, which was bombarded by many media, did not qualify, but in fact, Gao Hongbo's Chinese team performed very well. One win, one draw, one loss. If it weren't for the second game of the host's godfather mode, everything would be hard to say.

There are also media bombardment of Gao Hongbo's cowardice before the battle, throwing out remarks like "the Chinese team is the last in Asia", which affects morale.

But with the feeling of winning at the time, Gao Hongbo was right, Chinese football was originally the last in Asia. If you don't even dare to admit this, how can Chinese football make progress?

Some are still alive in the nineties. I thought that the Chinese team couldn't beat Japan and South Korea, Iran and Saudi Arabia, and it should be no problem to beat Jordan, Qatar, and Southeast Asian teams, right?

But the reality is that Chinese football can't even beat the Southeast Asian teams that could be bullied casually before!

This is the truth, a fact that many people don't admit with their eyes closed, and Chinese football is really the last in Asia! Not into the stream!

And Gao Hongbo was approved by the Football Association at that time. With a group of the youngest national teams in history, they went to the Asian Cup to train for a World Cup qualifier. Because Gao Hongbo's original contract with the Football Association expired at the end of the World Cup qualifiers. It is required to explore a path suitable for the future technical and tactical development of Chinese football, establish a style suitable for Chinese players, and have no other specific performance requirements except for the World Preliminaries.

Considering that this group of young people will have a lot of pressure to play in the Asian Cup, Gao Hongbo threw out the last theory, hoping to relieve some pressure for the national football team.

As a result, China's media swarmed Gao Hongbo one by one, as if they had been beaten with chicken blood. Shengsheng has increased the pressure on the young players of the Chinese team, and the rise is higher than high blood pressure.

In this way, the Chinese team still played their style in the Asian Cup. If it weren't for being hacked by the hosts, they should have gone further.

As a result, the Football Association later dismissed Gao Hongbo on the grounds of his poor results in the Asian Cup.

But the real reason is because the national football team wants to change the coach, and Wang Jianlin, the president of Wanda, who sponsors the Football Association, believes that if Chinese football wants to improve its level, it needs to hire high-quality coaches.

In this way, after the World Cup Asian qualifiers top 20 were about to begin, Gao Hongbo was dismissed. The temporary change of coach replaced Camacho came up.

At that time, the Chinese Football Association had a saying that made Chang Sheng feel that they were particularly amateurish and stupid.

That is, as soon as Camacho came, the Chinese Football Association had already helped the "famous coach" find a way out. They said they want to give Camacho enough confidence and time for him to rebuild Chinese football. It doesn't matter if the 2014 World Cup qualifiers are eliminated, we have to focus on the 2018 World Cup......

At that time, Chang Sheng almost squirted out every mouthful of water when he heard this.

The round of 20 has not yet started, and the Football Association said so, this is a decision to give up the World Cup in Brazil, right?

In the end, Camacho led the national team to five last-20 matches, as the Football Association wished. Eliminated without any suspense.

At that time, someone ridiculed on the Internet: "Congratulations to the Chinese men's football team for becoming the first team in the world to prepare for the 2018 World Cup in Russia!." "It's so hard to laugh......

In five games, Camacho changed three starting lineups.

It fully reflects Camacho's ignorance of Chinese football and the disadvantages of a hasty change of coach.

But after the incident of Gao Hongbo's last game, the CCTV commentator also said cheekily that some changes in the coach afterwards are like changing knives, and the new coach may bring us new ideas and new changes, maybe it will receive miraculous results and surprise everyone.

Well. It's a miracle, a miracle of going home after the top 20. Li Weifeng, who returned to the team, assisted the opponent with two goals in two games, and his performance also surprised everyone......

Chang Sheng has always believed that if Gao Hongbo is given the opportunity to continue to lead the team to the World Cup qualifiers, he may not even be unable to enter the top ten......

When Gao Hongbo took over the Chinese team, the Chinese team ranked 11th in Asia and 108th in the world. Two years, there are not many games to play. With only four places to participate in warm-up matches, he brought the Chinese team back to fifth place in Asia. Ranked 68th in the world, it is the seeded team in the top 20 of the Asian region in the 2014 World Cup qualifiers.

Some people say that Gao Hongbo's national team is the king of friendly matches and can only play friendly matches, but if it is not for the outstanding performance in friendly matches, how can the Chinese team get more opportunities for your warm-up matches? Gao Jiajun, who lacked official games to play, was naturally able to use warm-up games to maintain his condition and train. It is also because of the excellent performance in the warm-up game. to be able to win the opportunity to play against strong teams such as France and Portugal.

What's more, the Chinese team of the successor Camacho, let alone the performance of the game, they can't do it even if they want to be the "king of friendly matches......

Chang Sheng has always been unhappy for Gao Hongbo. He believes that Gao Hongbo is a leader among young coaches in China, and he is very dissatisfied with the temporary change of coach of the Football Association and the replacement of Camacho.

Even if you think that Gao Hongbo's level is not enough. You're looking for a real handsome!

Evergrande can find Lippi as the head coach, Dalian Wanda has a lot of assets, Wang Jianlin used to be engaged in football, but after looking for a circle, he finally found Camacho, a second-rate European ......

After Chang Sheng's rebirth, he became even more skeptical of Camacho's abilities. He started in Spain, and Camacho is not very highly regarded in Spanish football. No wonder after Camacho went to the national team, some Spanish fans said on the forum of the "Marca" newspaper that Camacho went to harm China again, poor Chinese football......

After Camacho ran to China, he completely abandoned the playing style of the national football team in the Gao Hongbo era and insisted on ground cooperation, and played a long pass and hanging...... As a result, the Chinese national team couldn't even win the warm-up game, and the scene was even more ugly.

This national team after the fact made Chang Sheng not like it at all. Although he watched every game, the main purpose was to scold Camacho for that stupidity.

He thinks that no matter what Gao Hongbo's national football results are, at least he thinks that Gao Hongbo's national team has found a right path. Keep it at bay, and you'll reap the rewards. Neighboring Japan is actually a good example, Chinese football insists on taking the path of foot-to-foot technology, coupled with the physical fitness that is already better than Japanese players, the Chinese team will surpass Japanese football in the future, it is not hopeless. And Asian football, especially East Asian football, if you fight with Europe and the United States, it is completely impossible to fight, and there is no play in fighting speed, so you can only fight technology and give full play to the flexible characteristics of the yellow race.

He only led the team for two years before he shouted that the Asian Cup results were not good. With the bad state of Chinese football at that time, it was really a fool's dream to want to get better in two years! Japanese football knows how to make a 100-year plan to win the World Cup in 100 years.

The Chinese media and football people are arrogant that the Chinese team can be reborn in two years...... Even if it's a YY novel, I don't dare write it like that!

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Chang Sheng knew Gao Hongbo's coaching experience, and he knew that after Changchun Yatai was out of class, he disappeared from people's sight for a while.

I don't know what he's going to do, and he's not going to be the head coach of any team anymore. It wasn't until May 2009 that he returned to the public eye when he ran for the title of head coach of the national team.

So when he saw Gao Hongbo outside his club's training ground, he was very surprised.

Why is he here? (To be continued)