Chapter 10: New Zealand


  After dealing with his team's affairs, Li Long checked the roster of the other three players with curiosity. Among them, Li Long was the most curious. There is no doubt that the Brazilian National Youth Team.
  Because some domestic media claim that the Brazilian National Youth Team who came to China for the Panda Cup this time is the main player of the Brazilian National Youth Team.
   But Li Long looked at the big list and was disappointed. There were no players that Li Long knew. This batch of national youth teams should only be regarded as the second-tier team of the Brazilian national youth team.
   But even so, the overall strength is crushing the Huaxia Guoqing team, which makes Li Long envious.
  None of these Brazilian players, Li Long, has heard of it. It is estimated that they will play in the country in the future, which makes Li Long lament that Brazil is indeed a football power.
   Then Li Long looked at it again. Croatia and New Zealand's big list also had no surprises, and there were no players who made Li Long impressed. Sure enough, the international reputation of the Panda Cup is still too low.
  On June 3, the day before the Panda Cup first game, the first Panda Cup Invitational held a pre-match press conference in Chengdu. The four head coaches of the National Youth Team attended the press conference.
   The first coach of the New Zealand National Youth Team interviewed, it is worth mentioning that the 2015 U20 World Youth Championships will be held in New Zealand.
   The head coach of New Zealand is very respectful. In an interview, he said that the strength of the China team is very strong. This is of course a polite statement.
   Although it was the head coach of Croatia who attended the press conference, he bluntly participated in the Panda Cup to select players for the European Youth qualifier next year.
   Then another reporter mentioned Khalilovic, Khalilovic can be regarded as the most talented player in recent years. Khalilovic was only 16 years old and played on behalf of the Croatian national team.
  Unfortunately for this Panda Cup, Halilovich was not recruited. Halilovich just recently signed to Barcelona. In fact, not only Halilovich, players who played in foreign leagues, basically did not play with the team.
   Next was the head coach of the Brazilian national youth team, and the head coach of the Brazilian national youth team, old and Chinese fans will definitely know that he was Kopertino who once played for Henan Jianye.
   The final finale is undoubtedly Li Long. Li Long accepted the questions from the reporters. The reporter's first question was the impact of the absence of several overseas players on the China National Youth Team.
   "Of course it is influential, but the current strength of the team is definitely not weak." Li Long replied.
   "The Panda Cup is the first official match after I coached the National Youth Team, and can also play against so many strong teams. I hope we can get a good result."
   Then the reporters put their focus on Tian Runtao. They were very curious about the jumper. They scored four goals in two warm-up matches, and one of the opponents was the powerful Portuguese team.
   But they are almost completely unfamiliar with such players. Under curiosity, the reporter hopes that Li Long can comment on Tian Runtao.
   "Oda can be regarded as the biggest discovery in our last Portuguese training. If you ask me to comment on Oda, I can only say that Oda is definitely one of the best forwards of the young generation."
  Li Long praised Tian Runtao vigorously. After hearing Li Long’s evaluation, there was an uproar on the scene. The reporters did not expect that Li Long’s evaluation of Tian Runtao would be so high, which made them more curious about Tian Runtao.
   Of course, the most questioned question is undoubtedly the Asian Youth Championship, only 4 months left from the Asian Youth Championship, the time is very urgent.
   "Although this year's Asian Youth team opponents are very strong, but our National Youth team is very confident, we not only have confidence to break through the group, we are more confident to impact the World Youth Championship." Li Long replied confidently.
"You are not wrong, the time is really tight, but the National Youth Team will also participate in the Weifang Cup, and will also participate in the U19 Four Youth Invitational Tournament, plus there will be a warm-up match, our National Youth Team still has a lot Opportunity to play."
   In this press conference, Li Long showed his confidence to the outside world, but the fans are generally not optimistic, especially this time the Panda Cup.
   This session of the National Youth Team is called "the most foreign national youth", because there are a lot of foreign players, but this time most of the foreign players can not return to the team, which makes the weak China team even weaker.
  . . . . . .
  On the evening of this day, Li Long received a call from his brother Li Hu. It turned out that Tian Runtao's two four-ball games had already reached the ears of Beijing Guoan senior officials.
   Then they found that Tian Runtao, because he was only 17 years old, had not signed a professional contract. This is also the first time Li Hu, as Tian Runtao's agent, negotiated new contracts on behalf of players.
   Tian Runtao was very excited after knowing that although the salary of the new contract is not high, the salary of the professional contract is still much higher than that of his previous contract.
  After talking with his brother, Li Long is going to prepare for tomorrow's game, first of all is the tactical formation, tomorrow's opponent is undoubtedly the weakest of the three opponents.
   So in this game, Li Long only accepts one result of victory. If he can't even play New Zealand, how can he play against Croatia or Brazil.
  Li Long looked at the task in his mind. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com just published the task just a few days ago.
   "Trigger task: Panda Cup
   Mission Description: Coaching the China National Youth Team to participate in the Panda Cup
   Rewards: Rewards will be awarded based on the results"
  Although Li Long does not know what the best reward is, there is at least a scout card. Li Long even thinks about how to use this scout card. At present, there are people in forwards, midfielders, defenders and goalkeepers.
   Therefore, in the next chapter of Li Long’s scout card, he intends to choose the type of winger. It is better to have a right-winger, Wei Shihao and Tang Shi from the left-winger. He still meets Li Long’s requirements, but the right-winger is too lacking.
  It is important to know that Yang Liyu will only really grow up in the 2019 season. Yang Liyu is still too watery. If it is not really unused, Li Long will not choose Yang Liyu.
   In this game, Li Long still intends to choose 4-2-3-1, but this time Li Long hopes to attack all defenses and Chi Ruofei joins, instantly strengthening the Chinese team's midfield configuration.
   Li Long believes that the midfield will never be as helpless as the previous two games. With the all-around midfielder like Chi Ruofei, the strength of the Huaxia team has improved linearly.
   On the offensive end, Tian Runtao is undoubtedly the core. Tian Runtao shined in the first two games and gained the trust of all his teammates, so on the offensive end, Li Long asked the players to feed Tian Runtao as much as possible.
   Immediately after Li Long set the starting list:
   Goalkeeper: 1 Ding Zheng;
   Defender: 22 Deng Hanwen, 3 Zhao Wenchao, 4 Liu Haidong, 2 Huang Baiwen;
   Midfielder: 12 Lu Pin, 8 Chi Ruofei, 10 Cheng Jin, 11 Zhang Xiuwei, 16 Yang Liyu;
   Forward: 9 Tian Runtao.
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