Article source: New Morning Post
Yu Jiong, Morning Post reporter
This Monday.
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Shanghai Harbor players, who were given a two-week holiday after the first phase, gathered from the beginning to start their preparations for October's
soccer league
Cup and the December
China Super League (soccer league)
Competition for the Championship Division.
Seaport's head coach, Head Coach Leko, was also a guest on a TV show, deepening the conversation by talking about many of the feelings he has had so far since taking over the Seaport.
The extent to which the players are moving forward satisfies me
Leko showed that he has been in our country for seven or eight months and is now interested in the Chinese
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The ball has a fuller understanding, "I feel that in my country, soccer is a very important job. Especially our players, they love soccer very much, they are very super and happy to pay."
"I can responsibly say that in the first six months of my arrival in the team, the players have left me with a very positive image." How to comment on the Chinese players in his team, Leko said he is very sure that every player in every country, you can find their flashpoints and shortcomings, "We expect to do our best to help them improve. The first thing is of course to play great soccer, and then to improve the level of our players. After seven or eight months, I think the level of some of our players has slowed down enough for me to be satisfied."
Joining Leko on the program was Harbor veteran Yu Hai.
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Yu Hai made his way into the starting lineup from the second half of the first period of the competition.
"Yu Hai is a person who is very good to work with in his job, he is a role model in any job and everyone knows that he is very superb. I think the most important thing in practice is to trust your players that they can play high level soccer and that they always have room to move forward. Yu Hai is the best example." Leko said, "Of course the other players are also very good, they also try very hard and have good soccer habits. All of this allows them to excel on the field."
I've watched all the competitions of the rivals in the championship group
With a 28-point result, Harbor enters the season
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Stage 2 championship bracket.
Leko revealed that in the first stage, the coaching team has actually begun to pay attention to and study the situation of future opponents, "We looked at the
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All the competitions. One race every three days is very busy and we are in a hurry, so sometimes we complain that only 24 hours a day is too little and we expect to have more hours in the day. But we still watched the competitions of our rivals in the championship group."
"We know the situation in the other group and we know the level of these opponents." Regarding the second stage of the tournament, Lecco is still full of determination, "I think we are very confident in ourselves with complete respect for our other opponents. We will focus on ourselves and practice as hard as we can every single day to improve even more."
Lecco insisted on the high intensity of the practice has become the harbor team "standard". Yu Hai said, "We sometimes practice running intervals even more than the actual battle."
"You can practice as intensely as you can compete as intensely as you can." Leko thought it was very simple, "I thought it wasn't a secret that I was tough or not tough. For me, all the work is simple and my players know that if they practice well, they will have more opportunities to compete on the podium."
"If you have a very easy practice session, your body won't be ready for competition. By the time you get to the competition, when you need to make a move, your muscles are at risk of injury." Of course Leko also thanked the team's logistical support team, "Thank goodness we have had a very good medical team and other technical departments for the last seven or eight months, and together we have tried to make sure that the players don't get injured in practice and that our players can be stronger than the others."
Once again, Leko spoke of his soccer practice philosophy, "Simply put, the harder the players practice, the closer they get to success, plain and simple."
The exemplary effect of foreign aid is more important
The Harbormasters finished with an untidy outside back situation
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In the first stage of the competition, our players had a good performance.
In Leko's opinion, foreigners should play a more important role in the team, "They need to act as role models for the whole team on the pitch, on the practice field and in life. As a rule, our players will spontaneously learn from them. Sometimes many Chinese salons don't understand this modeling effect, they will think that only the foreigners can cross the field or score goals, nothing else is important."
"But the fact is that the exemplary effect of the foreigners is important. Sometimes we say that the domestic players pass the ball to the foreigners and then they can drink coffee on the field while waiting for them to score. This is what the Chinese
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The biggest problem the ball is experiencing right now, and I thought that needs to go to change." Leko continued, "Because our players also have a good level, they can also score goals, can also play a beautiful game. How to help them to build up their determination, how to make them trust that they are also very good, foreign aid needs to play here to help them, so that they play better and better."
Regarding the new midfield combination of Oscar, Mooy and Paulinho, Leko showed that he is very much waiting for it, "It's very important to have these three high-level players, but for various reasons we haven't seen the performance of the three together yet. Expect in December when the group of title contenders start, they can go on stage together, prove that our wait is not in vain, and more importantly, can help the team to get results."
Our team has to be committed to themselves.
Mooi will be part of the Australian team at
World Cup
The first match of the qualifying round of 12 in Asia against China.
How can we restrict the heart of the Australian midfielder, Leko smiled and stated, "Muy is a very good player, and I trust that our team's coaching staff has a good understanding of him as well. He will be a threat to our team, but I still have to say back to what I said before, what our team needs is to focus on themselves."
Leko feels our team has a good lineup, "I thought that
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While focusing on the opponent, you have to be determined about yourself. I've been here for seven or eight months now and I've seen a lot of great players, so I'm confident that even if I have to play against Mooy and the rest of the great players in the Australian team.
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There's still a decent amount of time."
Feeling at home in Shanghai
How does Leko feel about the city of Shanghai?
I think the most important thing about Shanghai for me is the people in the city," said Leko. Even though it's a long way from my home, I feel like I'm at home and the people here are always friendly and want to help me out. The city is beautiful, but the people here are even better, and that's what I've felt since I've been here."
