On April 17, at 8 o'clock in the morning, a morning jogging figure was moving in the National Youth Training Base on Dongzhimenwai Street, Beijing.

This person is no other person, but the head coach of the national youth team, Lu Juren.

The goal of qualifying for the Asian Youth Championship has been achieved. The Football Association specially rewarded the national youth soldiers and gave them a two-month holiday, allowing the coaches and players to have a happy Year of the Pig with peace of mind.

However, as the head coach of this Dragon Team who shoulders heavy responsibilities, Lu Juren is not that relaxed. Before the first month of the year, he had to rush from his hometown in Penglai to Beijing.

The grouping situation of the World Youth Championship, the collection of opponents' intelligence, the team's participation list, training content and progress schedule, warm-up match plan... It just so happened that Wang Peng took a vacation to go on a honeymoon after his newlyweds. All these heavy work was led by Lu Juren and assistant coach Pan Jun, and he was very busy.

After Wang Peng returned at the beginning of the month, his work burden was greatly reduced, and the work of the National Youth Coaching Team began to get on track. As the head coach, Lu Juren finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Today is the day for the team members to return to the team, and Lu Juren also began to regulate his daily life and started another journey with full enthusiasm.

After running, he went to the gym to practice his strength and sweated all over. After taking a shower, Lu Juren sat in the office with a refreshing spirit and began to browse the schedules for the future.

His eyes swept across the team's roster, and the controversy that had risen some time ago rose again.

When he initially finalized the 23-man roster to Spain, he and Pan Jun both tended to be players who had used in the qualifiers and finals of the Asian Youth Championship, and did not consider players who had few opportunities to perform, which would be conducive to the implementation of the team's technical and tactical style;

Wang Peng believes that players should be chosen based on the team's tactical requirements, and players with overlapping characteristics should have some choices.

The focus of the dispute between the two sides finally focused on Zhong Zai'an and Liu Li.

As a coach in charge of physical fitness, Pan Jun knew the strength of these two players and believed that their physical strength could maintain the team's interception ability in the midfield;

Lu Juren's net-style play emphasizes midfield control, and the two who cannot run to the death strongly supported this concept. They also used the two quite easily some time ago. Lu Juren advocated leaving the two behind.

Wang Peng believes that the two have duplicate characteristics, and both of them are not conducive to the diversified development of the team's tactics. When Qian Cheng was transferred to the left vanguard and Tang Long as the central vanguard, the team no longer had a qualified substitute midfielder. This disadvantage will be highlighted after Guan Jian's state declines.

His suggestion was that Zhong and Liu and Yang Zijiang stayed as Guan Jian's substitute.

Yang Zijiang has strong ability to confront opponents and is good at blocking opponents head-on. This feature meets the position requirements of the back midfielder. However, in the National Youth Team, the main midfielder position has always been occupied by Guan Jian, and the second midfielder after Guan Jian is versatile Qian Cheng.

Once Qian Cheng moved forward to the position of winger, Lu Juren chose a substitute for Guan Jian as well as a player with excellent physical strength such as Liu Li. Yang Zijiang, who was forced to serve as a full-back, performed extremely mediocrely, and he also became the first player to be retrenched in the 27-man roster of the National Youth League.

At this moment, Wang Peng once again made amazing remarks, just as he insisted on using Long Tian.

After the Asian Youth Games, Wang Peng's reputation in the team's coaching staff increased a lot, and head coach Lu Juren's view of this former teammate has also changed a lot, but this unreasonable idea cannot be responded immediately at this moment.

The controversy lasted for several days and still failed to get the ideal result. At the final team committee ruling meeting, Wang Peng reiterated his reason for his choice: "Maybe Yang Zijiang had not had many opportunities to play some time ago, which was determined by our team's tactical arrangements and had nothing to do with his own ability. Zhong and Liu were indeed outstanding in physical fitness and won a lot of playing time, but in terms of interception success rate and prediction, Yang Zijiang was stronger than the two. Instead of choosing two brave Bulls, it would be better to use a dexterous Bulls!"

The team committee did not force the list to be drawn, but instead handed over the power of personnel's decision to the head coach. Lu Juren thought for a night and finally decided to accept the opinions of his friends.

During the period since the Asian Youth Championship, Lu Juren’s biggest change is that he learned to adopt it.

According to his unruly nature, only his own ideas are of reference significance. As the team fought one after another in the Asian Youth Championship, he finally realized that his previous reckless actions were just showing off his courage, and the team was not his own.

When there were differences in personnel selection, although he did not agree with Wang Peng's idea, he still listened carefully to his suggestions on improving the team.

With the right to decide, he did not insist on his own actions. After thinking deeply, he chose to compromise. Subconsciously, he already agreed with the intuition of this teammate and assistant.

Holding on to the so-called principles will only make people exhausted, while open-mindedness can make people live a comfortable life. At this moment, Lu Juren experienced this truth, looked at the blue sky and white clouds outside the window, and breathed happily.

The dormitory on the 17th was destined to be extremely lively. It has not been seen for two months since it was disbanded in February. Of course, this group of players who once fought bloodyly were particularly excited. In addition, due to the different experiences of the Spring Festival and the league, everyone would have endless topics to talk about when they met.

The teams each have their own best friends, Shi Yiming and Song Min, Zhang Chang and Li Xudong, Long Tian and Luo Xian...

These small groups can be roughly classified as Shi Yiming's main gang and Long Tian's substitute gang. Although it is absolutely not allowed to form cliques, the law of feathers of birds of feathers cannot be changed.

"Hey, Xian, I haven't seen you for two months, I've found you've become handsome! Haha, is it the result of love nourishment?"

"Haha, aren't you the same? We are just like the same people!"

"Tsk, Erlengzi is so beautiful again. I just compliment you, do you really think?!"

No need to look at people, just listen to the tone and know that it is the most energetic threesome in the team.

After talking nonsense for a while, Luo Xian asked seriously: "Hey, have you heard that the prize money for this invitational tournament is really high! As long as we enter the top two, each person will have at least 50,000, not including the Football Association's event allowance. All the prize money will be paid to our coach. Once we get the ranking, we will be cashed out immediately. We have never seen the Football Association pay so much attention!"

Seeing his intoxicated expression, Zhao Yue shouted unhappily: "You bird feather! Don't look at what teams have come this time. Scotland and Austria were the runner-up and third place in the European Youth Championship last year. Italy has never been a weak team. With these three big guys, you want to enter the top three. Dreaming about you, Erlengzi!" Luo Xian murmured a few words in a low voice, without counterattacking.

Long Tian said in surprise: "You have carefully studied the relevant situation of this competition?! I'm sweating, but I haven't understood anything yet!"

"It doesn't matter. The focus of future training will be around this. Just pay more attention." Ignoring Zhao Yue, Luo Xian responded to Long Tian.

"Haha, I'm so stupid at home for the New Year, I forgot all such important things! Okay, start training hard tomorrow." Long Tian mocked himself.

"It's right to want to train. Don't just think about the game prize like some people!" Zhao Yue's teeth were itchy when he hadn't exchanged fire with Luo Xian for two months.

"You ***, Daxian! You think you are very noble. If I don't believe you, you don't care about the bonus at all!" Luo Xian was furious.

"Of course I won't care about the prize money for this small invitational tournament. I only care about the prize money for the World Youth Championship. That's the big head! You are really a small peasant consciousness, hehe." Zhao Yue smiled wickedly. He enjoyed Luo Xian's furious appearance the most.

"If a tiger doesn't show off, you really think I'm a sick cat, I'm so fucking me! Don't think I don't know what you think. If I say what you think in your heart, you won't be happy with me!"

"Yes, I'm very upset, what are you bragging?"

“…”

Looking at the two of them blushing, Long Tian smiled helplessly.

This is how these two good friends are, as incompatible as water and fire, but they do like to be with them.

Although their arguments are boring, they can always give themselves some useful thoughts.

It's time to get out of the slow pace of the holiday and make some careful preparations for the training competition, Long Tian was thinking in his mind.

At nine o'clock in the evening, it is the team meeting after returning to the team as usual.

At the meeting, Lu Juren arranged in detail the future training work.

Unlike the last training session, an important feature of this training session is that the division of labor is more clear.

Pan Jun is responsible for physical fitness, Wang Peng is responsible for technical supplementation and overall running-in, Lu Juren grasps the overall direction, the team's training is clearly divided into three sections, and the detailed division of labor also verified Luo Xian's words, and Long Tian nodded thoughtfully.

After explaining the relevant matters of the training, Pan Jun sent each team member a list of the basic information of the 23 people in this training session, but the jersey number column was empty.

Although I have been with my teammates day and night and have a certain understanding of each other's situation, I will still have different ideas when I get involved in objective numbers.

Long Tian glanced at the height of the railing. His 1.68 meters was struggling among a group of tall people. He felt like he was a chicken in the crowd. He thought to himself, "Mom, why didn't I give me a few centimeters more, haha!"

Looking at the age column again, among the many 21-year-old players, there are four 20-year-old players and one 19-year-old players. Long Tian repositioned his role as a "little player": "It seems that there are many people in the same year as me, haha!"

Just as the team members were whispering, Wang Peng sent each person a card and said his request: "Since the numbers were not unified before, we are going to participate in the World Youth Championship, and the competition organizing committee asked us to provide a unified number. So, now our coaching team decided to unify everyone's numbers."

"To be specific, we ask everyone to re-select the number, not exceeding 23. Now, please fill in the number you like on the cardboard. In order to avoid conflicts, everyone chooses 3 numbers in order to facilitate coordination at that time. If you think about it, choose freely."

Wang Peng said it very easily, but the team members seemed to be in a panic and could not calm down for a long time.

As the player's "ID card" on the court, the jersey number has been injected with more emotional color, and each player will have his own exclusive number.

In the past, the principle of determining numbers for national teams was "first come first served". They had the right to choose when they entered the group earlier, and the backwards could only pick the remaining ones. The superficial fairness also covered up many problems.

Although he spoke easily at this moment, the players did not dare to take it for granted. After all, some numbers have already been famous and dared not to overtake them. They can only rack their brains to find another number to avoid crashing.

Long Tian thought about it, hesitated a little, then recalled the words of Director Wang, and firmly chose "2" as his only choice.

After statistics, Zeng De's No. 1, Song Min's No. 3, Shi Yiming's No. 5, Li Xudong's No. 9, Luo Xian's No. 10, Ma Kang's No. 11 and Tang Long's No. 21 have no disputes, and are the first numbers to be determined.

The numbers of others were quickly confirmed after some negotiations, but No. 2, No. 7 and No. 22 were the most controversial.
Chapter completed!