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The top 12 matches are all over, because the return itinerary still needs to be finalized, the national football team first returned to Sharjah, UAE from Muscat, Oman to rest in place.
On the morning of the 30th, Beijing time, head coach Li Xiaopeng continued his previous view of “not qualifying because of insufficient strength” in an interview with CCTV.
In his opinion, neither the local coach nor the foreign coach can save the national football team, because the national football team needs a psychological master who can release the energy of the players.
And listening to Li Xiaopeng’s eloquent talk, netizens said-Compared with his predecessor, Li Tie, Li Xiaopeng is a “PR coach”, but unfortunately, his words are not leaking, and the national football team is already riddled with holes…National football coach Li Xiaopeng.
Always want to win the lottery, the future will be worse
At the press conference before and after the last match against Oman, Li Xiaopeng was asked about the reason why the national football team missed the World Cup, and his answer was very simple – “not enough strength.”
In the face of questions from CCTV’s “Football Night” column, Li Xiaopeng continued, “The strength in all aspects is not enough, whether it is a player or a team, the hard power is not enough in all aspects. How does the hard power of the national team come, I think many people You know it better than I do. There’s no need to expand on this.”
He even made an analogy,“If we always try to win the lottery, the future could be even worse.”
In Li Xiaopeng’s view, the players have done their best,“But one thing that is scarier is the numbness to the loss. Because everyone agrees, we really can’t beat others. This is actually more scary than the loss.”
“I definitely didn’t think so at the beginning (the strength is not as good as the opponent), but when we played well, especially after a few transitions, you can actually see that we couldn’t keep up with their rhythm, and we were always being led away. This is the gap in hard power. After many changes, there must be a problem.”
Regarding the construction of the national team, Li Xiaopeng said frankly that in some aspects, he “lacks some of the spirit of the idiot to move mountains”-“We need to persevere. What is going on with the construction of the national team. Maybe we persisted less and became too much.”Li Xiaopeng said the word “difficulty” the most in the interview.
Need to instill a strong mentality
Li Xiaopeng took office for 76 days and led the team to play four games, with 1 draw and 3 losses. Judging from the results, Li Xiaopeng does not seem to have the ability to knead the team in the short term, so what if he was given more time?
For this question, Li Xiaopeng did not give a clear answer.“I think confidence is still a matter of building hard power. This cannot be changed by one person, or by a team, or by dozens of people in the national team. I think there are still difficulties. “
Of course, Li Xiaopeng and his coaching staff are still working hard to lead the team. Li Xiaopeng also explained to the outside world about his thoughts on leading the team during this period, “Actually, I have always wanted to cultivate the team’s resilience, not impatient or impetuous, and able to be neither humble nor arrogant. , Don’t be in a hurry to finish a game. Take out your own things, but it’s still a little difficult.”
He specifically mentioned that Zheng Zhi was invited to the coaching staff,“I invited Zheng Zhi to give the players a strong mentality. Including preparing for the game against Oman, then we must first win and prepare around winning, then in the end we can summarize why we lost.”
“From the perspective of the entire preparation for the war, we must instill the thinking of the strong in the future. If everyone is afraid, it will collapse.”
“I remember when we used to prepare for the game, we wanted to win every game, which was the primary goal. But now that we are here, I feel that we have actually missed the World Series, and I don’t think it’s a psychological problem. Go to construction.” Li Xiaopeng instructed Liu Yang.
National football needs a psychologist
Regarding the topic of psychological level construction, Li Xiaopeng believes, “I think it may be better if there is a psychological master who can release all our team members.”
In Li Xiaopeng’s view, the national football players have no way to play their abilities normally. “There are various reasons. If 10 points is the bravest and 1 point is the safest, then our players will choose the score that is close to the insurance.”
“When I communicated with the leaders of the Football Association, including the managers, I thought that the training ability of the national team players can now be transformed into 60% of the game.”
“As I said, there must be a psychological master, but it’s not really a tactical and technical problem. Rhythm and habits are one aspect. We have many clips that are actually good, but they can’t last well.” Continue to lead the team to play the Asian Cup?
The top 12 games are over, and the important future work of the national football team will be transferred to the 2023 local Asian Cup in the short term. Li Xiaopeng made it clear through the interview that his task of taking over the national football team is not to fight the fire in the top 12 games, but to focus on the 2023 Asian Cup.
“From my point of view, the most important thing when I come to pick up is next year’s Asian Cup. I will also discuss these issues with the managers, and I am deeply touched.”
“Now we must first truly accept and face the reality, and then improve and improve. If we can’t evaluate it correctly, we will still have a detour in the future. I love my family very much, and I have to go home to see my family first.”
However, it is difficult to find positive factors from the process to the result of leading the team for four games. If the management department still allows Li Xiaopeng to continue to lead the team, this is obviously an extremely funny and absurd decision.
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