After China hastily finished the World Cup qualifiers in Brazil, the team entered the journey to the World Cup in Russia. However, during this period, the Chinese team completed a total of four coach rotations, and finally broke the dream just one step away from the World Cup. Looking back from today's point of view, this is the closest Chinese men's football team has been to the round of 32 of the World Cup since the Top Ten match in 2001.
Camacho's sad dismissal: the national football team ushered in Perrin
In 2012-2013, Camacho with his strong implementation of large exercise training, as well as the long ball impact of play, so that the Chinese team repeatedly failed, played 0-8 Brazil, 1-5 Thailand second team and many other failures.
Initial impression is very good, Alain Perrin let the team focus on playing football, improvisational adjustment also see skill
Perrin's first game in China was conducted by Fu Bo.
China lost 3-1 to Iraq. Perrin harshly criticized the players after the game, believing that the players were not focused on the game, but were focused. It should be noted in particular that after Perrin arrived at the national Football team, he unexpectedly won the two players in the team at that time with better skills and strong long-range shooting ability, Huang Bowen and Wang Yongpo, and Ren Hang gradually stepped up, replacing Feng Xiaoting. Even the most recognized to play the best Junmin, but also once faded out of the main squad. Perrin did this, is to require every player to have the consciousness of immediately after losing the ball, and to be full of antagonism and intensity.
In the 2015 Asian Cup, the Chinese team with active running, pressing, with the front oppression tactics, the group stage 3 wins into the final eight, the average age of the national football team at that time is only 24.5 years old, in the first two group games, the national football average total running distance reached 120 kilometers, after the game is praised by the Asian Football Confederation. Compared with the maximum running distance of 111 kilometers in the three group games when Gao led the team, this data is full.
The unexpected departure of the manager caused problems in the dressing room, and successive changes of the manager + bad luck led to the loss of success
After the 2015 Asian Cup, China's form began to gradually decline, and in the East Asia Cup, the national football team lost 2-0 to South Korea, drew 1-1 with Japan, and beat North Korea 2-0. However, some people broke the news that Perrin went to the bar to consume during the break in the match, and the Chinese team did not play as active running in the game against South Korea as in the Asian Cup, many media began to question that Perrin gradually lost his magic. National football team leader Liu Dianqiu left the team because of serious illness, the various discontent in the locker room began to expose, especially the international revealed that the training content of Perrin and the content of the game can not match, training and game requirements are very different, which also made the players dissatisfied. Coupled with the role of the referee, the national football team was drawn twice by the Hong Kong team of China, 0-1 lost to Qatar, and Perrin eventually fell. It is two years since he became the head coach of the national Football team.
Gao Hongbo's "second half" opened high and walked low, betting on 5 defenders caused collective doubt
Coach Gao once said that he regarded his previous 27 months of coaching as the "first half" of coaching, and the second as the "second half."
But obviously, Coach Gao didn't expect his second half to be so troublesome. After leading the team to break through from the top 20, they changed to a 5-3-2 formation in an effort to consolidate their defense.
However, in the actual game, the national football team can not adapt to the 5-back system, the players run overlapping, the gap in the middle and the middle of the offensive and defensive transition is repeatedly exposed, and is broken by the opponent. The defense was a mess and the offense was weak. In addition to scoring 2 goals from set pieces in the opening game, he scored 0 goals in the following 3 games. As the national football team lost 0-2 away to Uzbekistan, Gao Hongbo was dismissed.
"Silver Fox" promotion, the performance of the national football team improved, but in the end it fell short
At the end of 2016, "Silver Fox" Lippi successfully promoted, and then the Chinese team attacked the opponent with 4-3-3.
In the second match, China beat South Korea 1-0 at home in Changsha, achieving its first victory over the South Korean national team in the world preliminary stage in 39 years.
Although the team lost 1-0 to Iran in the following match, the team eventually failed to qualify for the World Cup due to a 2-2 draw against Syria. The single ball that Wu Lei lost has become the "meaning difficult to level" in the minds of many fans.
Despite beating Qatar 2-1 in the final round of the World Cup qualifiers, China's national football team is still regrettably out of the World Cup in Russia. Now when we look back at the past matches, we will find that this is the closest China has been to the World Cup since the 2001 Top Ten match.
