The touching scenes of saying goodbye are still vivid in my mind. Zhang Junren has already been at the national team's training base.

His situation in the national team has not improved much because of his transfer to AC Milan. Ali Han still doesn't like him, and he doesn't want to take the initiative to please the coach, but just wants to prove himself with his performance in training.

The media ridiculed Ali Han for "not even the AC Milan striker." Some people even worried that if Ali Han continues to be stubborn as such, the Chinese team has the most promising player in history, but cannot make it to the World Cup.

Qiu Suhui is now mainly responsible for training, and he no longer expresses any opinions on the deployment of troops. Ali Hanning would discuss with his Dutch assistant De Jong and would not pay attention to Qiu Suhui anymore, because Qiu is Chen Wei's person.

In fact, the relationship between the two was quite good in the past, one was a Dutch, and the other was a half Dutch who had lived in the Netherlands for many years. When Qiu Suhui first joined the national team, both of them were proposed by Ali Han to the Football Association.

But now everything has changed with Chen Wei coming to power.

It is no longer news that Chen Wei doesn't like Ali Han, so it is not a news for the Football Association to remain silent in the Zhang Jun incident, which is also considered to be a expression of his dissatisfaction. Chen Wei dared to do this because he believed that someone was better than Ali Han. This person is familiar with everything in China, including football. He is well versed in the advanced theories of European football, has rich and successful coaching experience, and has good football connections in Europe. He is good at tapping the potential of players and can establish good relationships with people around him. He is young and not conservative. More importantly, his personal relationship with Chen Wei is extraordinary. The two are of the same age and can be called brothers in private. He is Qiu Suhui, the direct descendant trained by Chen Wei. Chen Wei can be said to have made great contributions to being the top leader of the Football Association.

Chen Wei also promised Qiu Suhui that he would definitely become the head coach of the Chinese team.

Now we need to find an excuse to fire Ali Han.

It can be said that the occurrence of the "Zhang Jun incident" is very accidental and is not within Chen Wei's plan. But it is a good fuse. If Ali Han doesn't handle it well, it will cause serious consequences.

Sure enough, this stubborn and straight Dutch old man directly injected the popular Zhang Jun into the cold palace.

If he had a fight against the Japanese team, if it weren't for Zhang Jun and Li Dayu, he would have been dismissed on the plane back to China. Chinese fans could not bear the humiliation of losing to Japan twice in a row.

The Football Association originally planned to make good use of the emotions of Chinese fans, but unfortunately Zhang Jun would not be able to play any scheming, otherwise he could play negatively. Anyway, the position is wrong, the time is too little, the opponent is very strong... There are many reasons. Then Ali Han can be "sad to the get out of class".

Yang Pan, who saw the Football Association's plan, later felt very sorry for Zhang Jun.

But when Zhang Jun faced Yang Pan's "question" he just smiled. The coach was sorry for him, and he would not retaliate against him at the cost of the entire national team.

"Be kind to be honest, Yang Pan." Zhang Jun used the classic lines in the movie "Mobile Phone" as an explanation.

Yang Pan curled his lips and refused to accept it. What can you do if you are kind to others and don’t treat you kindly, but others are not kind to you. What can you do? Are you suffering a loss? Sometimes, in order to achieve your goal, you really need to use some tricks. Anyway, this goal is only bad for the Chinese team. Of course, Yang Pan only talks about these things in his heart, and he will not tell Zhang Jun. After all, the two have different personalities, and their principles and methods are not the same. There is no need to force others to accept their own style.

At the same time, although Zhang Jun cannot play in the national team, Yang Pan cannot stand up for him, otherwise he will not be able to save himself, so what else can he talk about?

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The Chinese team gathered at home and then flew to Bahrain. The first game of their second round was to challenge Bahrain away.

Zhang Jun misses Sophie a little, but his parents. As soon as the season ended, he flew directly to the national team and had not returned home yet. The cold treatment he suffered in the national team made him miss his warm home and Sophie's understanding smile.

Not only the coach doesn't like him, but some strikers who have direct competition with him also don't like him, among which Li Anonymous is the most important. Because when the outside world evaluates the tense relationship between Zhang Jun and the head coach, they always criticize Li Anonymous. Many fans also believe that Li Anonymous in the national team is simply "occupying the pit and not sting."

This hurts the self-esteem of this Shenzhen striker. He has been in football for so many years and is still not as good as a fledgling little boy?

He had no way to take revenge on all the fans, so he had to vent his anger on Zhang Jun's head, never giving Zhang Jun a good look, looking for trouble if he had something to do. He thought that Zhang Jun had robbed him of his position. In fact, Zhang Jun was just a substitute, and his position in the coach's heart was not as good as him. His current situation was entirely caused by himself. Who told him not to be successful? But narrow-minded people will always only look for reasons in others, rather than reflecting on themselves.

Zhang Jun has risen very quickly in the past two years, and some authoritative media have given him the title of "China's No. 1 striker", which has also aroused the dissatisfaction of many "big guys" of the national team.

Why did he steal all the limelight? Why did he give him all the praise? The most important thing is, why would he find him first with a good business contract?

Zhang Jun only has a few friends in the current national team, almost all of whom are overseas players.

This time, Ali Han did not recall a youth team player like Li Yongle. An Ke is in the team, poor Dortmund's main goalkeeper, third in the Bundesliga this season, and the best rookie goalkeeper is just a substitute in the national team.

Wang Hui, Li Yi, Shao Jiaying and Zhang Jun have a good relationship. They all study abroad, so they should talk more common topics.

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Wang Hui looked through the photos of the two in the Netherlands in the room of Zhang Jun and Yang Pan. He was sick with Zhang Jun and came to visit him when he had nothing to do. As a senior in the national team, he would always help these newcomers who came in later. Wang Hui was quite popular in the national team. If it weren't for his care, these young people who were not well-informed but had a great reputation would have been unable to stay there.

"Tsk tsk! Compared to you, I feel that nothing is worth mentioning in England, it's boring!" Wang Hui looked at Zhang and Yang sighed at the photo of the Dutch Cup in his hands.

"Haha, you are the most successful overseas player!" Zhang Jun said with a smile.

"You are scolding me." Wang Hui shook his head and smiled, "Everyone is going to AC Milan, so don't be petty with a petty person like me, right?"

Zhang Jun also laughed. They always joked when they were together. Wang Hui was not like his good friend Hao Haidong. He always seemed to put pressure on people - although Hao Haidong himself liked to joke with people he knew best - Wang Hui's personality is more exposed and humorous, and Zhang Jun would not have any pressure when he was with him.

"Damn!" Yang Pan pushed open the door and cursed in a daze. But Zhang Jun smiled: "Have you lost to An Ke again when playing billiards?"

"It's important to say." Yang Pan had a dark face, "I haven't beat him since high school."

"Then you always fight him, aren't you looking for humiliation?"

"Oh! I'm bored anyway!" Yang Pan lay down on the soft bed, posing the most comfortable "big" shape.

Wang Hui looked at the two people in front of him and thought of his group of brothers. At that time, the eight of them also played together from childhood to adulthood, and then joined the professional youth team for training. However, for various reasons, he was the only one who insisted on playing football and played a name for himself. I really envy Zhang Jun and his friends, who all developed directly abroad and would not affect their future because of the broken things in China.

If we had been born for a few years late, it would probably be much better than now, right? Wang Hui suddenly felt that it was not worth it for his brothers who gave up football.

"By the way, I went out and walked around today. The temperature in Manama is so high!" Yang Pan said while lying on the bed. "I originally wanted to go out shopping, but I gave up just after walking a hundred meters, so I had to accompany An Ke to play billiards."

"That's for sure. The summers in Middle Eastern countries are very hot, basically above forty degrees." Wang Hui continued, "We have played many games in these places, but we are not used to it every time we come."

"Didn't it meant that the competition was held until night because of the weather? So there should be no problem." Zhang Jun came to West Asia for the first time and didn't know much about the climate here.

"No problem?" Yang Pan snorted, remembering the previous away game with Kuwait, "You will know if there is any problem at that time."

Wang Hui heard the subtle voice of Yang Pan, his face turned slightly red and he felt a little uncomfortable. Although he thought he was worthy of every minute of the game, the players of his generation... he felt that he was the representative of them losing their favor in front of the two young people.

Zhang Jun wondered: "What does it mean?"

Yang Pan didn't want Wang Hui to be too embarrassed, so he just sighed obscurely: "Some things, the weather is just an excuse."

"Wow, from your tone, can we lose even!" Zhang Jun shouted.

"Ph! Pah! Crow's mouth, don't yell!"

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Yang Pan felt that Zhang Jun was too incompetent to buy football lottery. Because of "heraling his guise", the Chinese team really lost to Bahrain 0:1 away.

Zhang Jun did not play in this game, and Yang Pan was replaced by Wang Hui ten minutes before the end of the game. The score was still 0:0 at the time. Ali Han wanted to hold on to this point, but Bahrain's best scorer Ala Huber gave the Chinese team a fatal blow two minutes before the end of the game.

He swung past the reckless Chinese captain, then shot low, and the football rolled into the goal against the post. Liu Fei was out of reach and could only sigh at the ball.

Zhang Jun couldn't understand why the Chinese team collectively showed signs of physical exhaustion at the beginning. Only Yang Pan, Shao Jiaying and Li Yi were running like players on the court.

Although the weather is stuffy, it is far from suffocating. But look at the players who are usually lively, they can't even move their legs and stop three meters away. Is this a national team that has been professional for ten years? It's not as good as Bahrain's semi-professional team.

In fact, there are many things that Zhang Jun can’t understand.

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As soon as the game ended, Chen Wei jumped up excitedly in the Football Association conference room. Of course, he showed a completely opposite expression - furious.

"That old Dutch man! Zhang Jun did not play, and Wang Hui finally changed into it. The players did not work hard! What are he doing? What are they doing?!"

Realizing his incompetence, Chen Wei calmed down and said slowly to several vice-chairmen present: "I think you have no objection to the position of Ali Han as the head coach now, right?"

Several vice chairmen, look at me, let me see you, who else can have any other opinions? Chen Wei had already driven away the cheap goods signed by Luo Wenqiang, but he had been struggling to find a suitable excuse. Now that the opportunity has come, how can he let it go?

In this way, Chen Wei's work to clear the remnants of Luo Wenqiang's era is almost done. According to what he said, Chinese football really wants to say goodbye to the Luo Wenqiang era and usher in a new future. Several years later, when people mention this history, he hopes to call it "Chen Wei era".

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Two days later, the Chinese Football Association officially announced the removal of Dutchman Ali Han as the head coach of the national team, and his Dutch assistant De Jong was also dismissed. The position of head coach of the Chinese national team was replaced by Qiu Suhui.

This is not too unexpected news. Many people know that Chen Wei wants Ali Han to leave and Qiu Suhui wants to replace him. In addition, Ali Han is a bit stubborn and disagreeable, and compared with his ex Milu, it is not cute at all. So just leave, and there will not be many people sympathize with him. It is just that some media carefully expressed their concerns: at the most critical moment of the qualifiers, will suddenly change the head coach have any adverse effects on future games? After all, changing coaches at the last minute has been a taboo in military strategists since ancient times.

But they never thought that if Chen Wei had this idea, how could he not let Qiu Suhui prepare to take over the team?

The reason why Ali Han was dismissed was very simple, that was, he lost to Bahrain away. In this way, Bahrain had six points in four games, while the Chinese team won two wins, one draw and one loss in four games, and seven points. With two rounds left, it is impossible not to say that the situation is critical.

The Football Association did not say the reason for the dismissal of the get out of class and the conflict between Ali Han and Zhang Jun was for the purpose of protecting Zhang Jun and avoiding focusing on Zhang Jun.

This was almost impossible in the previous style of football teams. At that time, when the Football Association had any problems, they were eager to put all the blame on others, clubs, players, coaches, referees, and even fans... In short, they were nothing.

Ali Han, who was dismissed, naturally called for justice for himself during an interview. He calculated for the reporter that since he took over the Chinese team, he had only lost two international A-level competitions. One was the Asian Cup final and the other was the match against Bahrain, leading the Chinese team into the fastest-progress team in 2004. Such a brilliant result was actually dismissed because of a loss in a World Cup qualifier. It is unreasonable for the Football Association to say which country this is put.

Moreover, he has brought a lot of progress and changes to Chinese football. In general, Chinese football is constantly improving and rising. To put it bluntly: He feels unfair. Even if the fact that he is dismissed cannot be changed, he will not feel that he is a loser.

When a reporter asked about the questions between him and Zhang Jun and Wang Hui, he pretended to be an elder and advised Zhang Jun that if he did not change his lazy style of not being able to defend himself, he would not have done much.

When Yang Pan saw this, he said to Zhang Jun very seriously that he would fart all his "advice" or that he would "will not do much."

Ali Han's complaints were of no effect. In the end, he took the penalty given to him by the Football Association and his assistant De Jong, and boarded a flight to Amsterdam on an unattended night.

When he left, there were only three reporters present, which was very different from the "grand occasion" when he was full of confidence when he first arrived in China.

The translator Qiu Suhui was busy preparing for the national team at that time, so he naturally had no time to go to the airport to send people away. He was so busy that he even forgot to call a farewell call.

Ali Han is gone, Qiu Suhui's era is coming, what changes will the national team under him? Everyone is paying attention.

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Qiu Suhui got the position of head coach of the national team as he wished, but he also took on bigger and heavier responsibilities. In the remaining two rounds of games, he had to ensure that the Chinese team could qualify from Group B, and neither North Korea nor Japan could afford to lose.

However, Qiu Suhui had long been enlightened. Since he chose to be a coach, he was destined to be pressured to follow him for the rest of his life.

He first made some adjustments to the national team personnel and recruited two young players, Liu Peng and Li Suisheng. He did not intend to let them play. After all, for the sake of team unity and stability, the defense line led by the captain cannot move, but the meaning of his recruitment of these two people is also obvious: Who would not do it well, someone would wait. At the same time, he also prepared for his major surgery after the qualifiers.

In the midfield, Zhao Pengyu was added as a substitute.

The forwards have not added new players.

It can be seen that he is vigorously promoting the people of the National Olympic Team, so that potential players will receive more attention and pay more attention. It is normal for media analysis. Any coach hopes to cultivate his own power and will be much more convenient in his work in the future. However, this will definitely cause a certain degree of panic among existing players.

Qiu Suhui wants this effect. He used this move to convey a message to those "wifes": There are many people in the National Olympic Team with potential and strength. If you still want to rely on your seniority and have a lot of fun, then I'm sorry, leave me as soon as possible, and I have more people waiting to make arrangements here.

Subsequently, Qiu Suhui helped Zhang Jun straighten up, and as the main striker, he would partner with 35-year-old Hao Haidong.

Li Anming was naturally angry, but what could he do? He is a player, would he dare to compete with the Chinese Football Association behind Qiu Suhui?
To be continued...