When the training began on the new day, the national team players were surprised to see Gao Zheng in the locker room. Yesterday, they had not seen Gao Zheng come to the hotel when they were sleeping.

I thought Gao Zheng must have arrived at the hotel very late. Logically, he should have continued to rest in the hotel, which was due to the jet lag. Unexpectedly, Gao Zheng attended the training this morning!

Gao Zheng's accidental appearance during training also made the media reporters very excited.

The long spears and short cannons were aimed at him one after another. The reporters of the TV media stood in front of the camera with the microphones on the background of the training ground, and said in an excited tone: "Gao Zheng returned to the national team! This is his first practice in the national team! It can be seen that long-distance travel did not affect Gao Zheng's mood. He talked and laughed with his teammates, and he was very relaxed..."

"...Perland appeared in the training ground. He took the initiative to extend his hand to Gao Zheng, and the hands of the two were held together...Perland was obviously very happy that Gao Zheng could participate in the team's training so quickly, and the two were chatting and laughing..."

For Chinese fans and Chinese sports media reporters who are paying attention to the national team preparing for the Asian Cup, just Gao Zheng returns to the team to participate in training is already a "big news".

After all, there was a big argument on the Internet about whether he would return to the team early.

After Gao Zheng returned to the national team, every international player could clearly feel the changes in the team's training.

The coaching staff has higher requirements for everyone's training than before.

In the past, some requirements were made that if the international players did not do it or did not do it well, they might turn a blind eye and pass it. At most, they would be warned to work hard next time.

But now, if someone's performance in training does not meet the requirements of the coaching staff, they will stop and repeat.

Players from every national team felt the pressure.

The warm-up match with Palestine is the last warm-up match for the Chinese team before participating in the Asian Cup. In this game, the outside world speculated that Perrin might have to determine the main lineup for the first Asian Cup.

So every origin has to work hard to get this position.

Of course, there are also some people who don’t have to work so hard. At least in the eyes of the outside world, Gao Zheng is the player who can definitely play as the main player without having to work hard.

After all, it is obvious that this team is running around Gao Zheng.

In training, Perrin also demanded this.

But the effect is not very good. Even if the coaching staff is very strict, the performance of the international players still cannot satisfy Perrin.

For example, in offensive routine training, Perrin asked Gao Zheng to show the rhythm of playing football in Europe, and not care whether his teammates can keep up.

But the result of this is that most teammates can't keep up, some people can barely keep up, and they just keep up. After doing their best, they can't do anything else.

The person closest to Gao Zheng's rhythm here is veteran Zheng Zhi. After all, he has experience in playing football in Europe. Before Gao Zheng, he was the only player in this national team who had experience in playing football in the top five European leagues.

His football training in Europe allowed him to keep up with Gao Zheng's pace.

Another player, Wu Lei, can also cooperate with Gao Zheng, because he can indeed run into the air and receive a threat from Gao Zheng.

But the next shot after receiving the ball is a bit of a big deal.

For example, when Gao Zheng pulled back to receive the response just now, Wu Lei suddenly stepped forward on the offside line. After receiving Gao Zheng's pass, he faced the goalkeeper directly, but he missed the game without any defense.

It made everyone present regretful.

"...But this is the only person on the offensive line who can keep up with high rhythms." Perrin said to the regretful coaching staff members. "Gentlemen, this is the reality. There are only a handful of people who can cooperate with this team."

Everyone was silent, this was a cruel reality.

Gao Zheng is the strongest player of this team, and he is probably the best in the Asian Cup. But football is always a collective sport and you can't always expect individual heroes. If no one in the team can cooperate with him, Gao Zheng's burden will be huge.

Now it seems that recalling Zheng Zhi back to the national team has really become a lucky decision. When Perlan just took over this national team, he was determined to become younger. As a result, the cruel reality poured him countless basins of cold water. The matter of coaching the Chinese team was almost turned into an "ice bucket challenge". He realized that in this national team, Zheng Zhi, who was already 34 years old, is still the player with the best midfield strength and the most stable state, and no one else can replace him.

This is the current situation of Chinese football. Zheng Zhidu is 34 years old, but he still can't find a successor in such a huge China. Gao Zheng was born, but it did not change the domestic football environment. He was like a monkey who jumped out of a stone, just so unique.

During the training break, while the players were resting, Gao Zheng took the initiative to find Wu Lei and said to this teammate who was nine months younger than him very seriously: "Your running position is really good."

Wu Lei didn't expect Gao Zheng to come and praise him suddenly.

As players of the 1991 age group, he and Gao Zheng have always been mentioned frequently.

But at first, he was actually more famous. After all, in 2006, he made his debut in the Chinese Professional League at the age of 14 and 10 months, setting the youngest professional league player record.

However, his light was quickly replaced by Gao Zheng, who went abroad and won the best player in AC Milan, and was in full swing.

Since then, the two people have been mentioned together, and most of them are compared. But in fact, Gao Zheng and Wu Lei have never played football together, and have never competed in the same game. This comparison has a bit of the meaning of "Guan Gong vs. Qin Qiong".

In this comparison, Wu Lei, who plays in China, is of course at a disadvantage. After all, in the minds of Chinese fans, being able to play in Europe must be more promising and more powerful than playing in China, because the standards for European football are much higher than those for Chinese football.

For a time, Gao Zheng became the leader and savior of the future of Chinese football.

He is also a talented player who became famous at a young age. It is generally believed that Gao Zheng has higher talent and future development prospects than Wu Lei.

But everyone knows what happened next.

In those years when Gao Zheng was in a slump, Wu Lei made rapid progress. The second youngest professional league goal scorer in history, the National Games men's football team champion, the best scorer in the club... and so on.

He has the attitude of overtaking Gao Zheng.

However, Gao Zheng returned to the king in 2011 and never gave Wu Lei any chance.

Now Gao Zheng is shining in Europe. Not to mention Wu Lei, no one in the entire Chinese football team can be compared with him, whether it is active or historical.

But every time Wu Lei sees Gao Zheng shining brightly in Europe, he still has some competing thoughts in his heart, which is incredible, but Wu Lei has it. Perhaps when the fans mentioned the comparison between the two, he was scolded by the fans, so he had a rebellious mentality...

Of course, the thoughts in my mind are the thoughts, but in fact, this kind of competitive situation does not exist at all.

In the national team, Gao Zheng is the core chosen by the head coach, and everyone else has to come around him and serve him, even Wu Lei, the local scorer in the Chinese Super League, is no exception.

Wu Lei himself has to admit that Gao Zheng is too much better than him in terms of talent and current strength.

So he could only suppress the deep emotions in his heart and never reveal them, giving people a handle to attack him.

As for him and Gao Zheng, they are just ordinary teammates of the national team. When some people want to curry favor with Gao Zheng, he will never take the initiative to get close to Gao Zheng. He is not as strong as Gao Zheng, and this approach is nothing more than the final manifestation of his dignity.

But Gao Zheng didn't seem to have that thought and didn't feel anything embarrassed.

"I'm not kidding. Your ability to run without the ball is better than many of my teammates in Sampdoria."

Hearing Gao Zheng say this, other teammates around him started to cheer: "Wouldn't Wu Lei have the ability to play football in Europe?"

"I've been able to do it for a long time!"

Gao Zheng ignored the clamoring voices, and looked at Wu Lei: "But you have to practice shooting well, it is best to balance your left and right feet."

You should know that Wu Lei is also the top scorer in the Chinese Super League for two consecutive times. He scored fifteen goals in the Chinese Super League last season and twelve goals this season, making him the player with the most goals among all local players in the Chinese Super League.

But Gao Zheng said that Wu Lei's shooting still needs to be practiced.

If others say this, it may cause boos.

But no one would think that Gao Zheng said this.

Because Wu Lei is indeed not enough to see Gao Zheng's goal score.

Wu Lei nodded, and he also knew what his problem was.

Gao Zheng also said: "I really think you can play football in Europe, which will be very helpful to you. If you want to play football in Europe, my agent can help..."

Wu Lei shook his head: "I promised Coach Xu that even if he wanted to leave, he would win a league championship for him before leaving."

Gao Zheng opened his mouth and said nothing.

He would not be able to comment on other people's internal affairs.

But he sighed in his heart for this peer who is also talented. The later he goes out, the smaller the chances of the ball will be, and he may not be able to get out...

However, he also knew the kindness of Director Xu to Wu Lei, and it was understandable that Wu Lei would repay this love.

"But thank you." Wu Lei smiled at Gao Zheng.

"You're welcome, I hope you can win the league championship as soon as possible." Gao Zheng replied.

At this time, the Chinese Super League was completely in Guangzhou. They had already won four consecutive championships in the league and won the AFC Champions League once.

It is probably not that easy for Wu Lei’s Shanghai team to overthrow this domestic overlord.
Chapter completed!