Dalian Football: Challenges and Hopes
The National Day holiday is coming to an end, the Dalian Football Association released an announcement that seems to summarize and appeal to the previous two losses, calling on fans to watch the game rationally and calmly.
In the announcement, a paragraph that attracts deep thought: the ending of the loss, the fans disappointed mood is completely understandable, because of the depth of love, so the pain is cut. It is normal for fans to be sad and to criticize and curse when the result of a match is not as expected. We all love success, but the charm of sporting events lies in the unpredictability of the results. Dalian People's team, whether it is strength or investment, is a team ranked at the back of the Super League, the pre-match policy is only to strive for relegation on the basis of reflecting the good spirit and the best competitive state. We are, after all, a "new army" of the Central League class, exploring the removal of the evils of the golden dollar soccer, the recent introduction of a number of new players in a measured manner, is accelerating the completion of the integration period, the results of ups and downs are normal.
Dalian people's performance this season can be called amazing for this city, so every home field of Dalian team is enthusiastic, even if the weather is cold and the stadium is far away can't stop the enthusiasm of the fans. This enthusiasm has touched the hearts of the Dalian Municipal Government, the Municipal Football Reform Team, the Municipal Sports Bureau, the Municipal Football Association and the Dalian People's Club. For them, the mood and feelings of the fans touch their nerves, and they also deeply understand what the team's performance means to the fans and even the city. on the night of October 9, Dalian People will welcome the rival of Chengdu Rongcheng, who had sent themselves to relegation. No one can be sure that this will be a victory, and if some similar scenes are repeated, it is unpredictable whether the Dalian fans can continue to remain calm and collected. Therefore, the Dalian Football Association expects to cool down the mood of the fans before the match, and also expects to reduce the pressure on the team.
But in fact, the relevant parties can not only let the fans to give patience, together, but also to give expectations - the results can be temporarily due to the integration is not in place is not ideal, but must let the fans to see the good up expectations. "We are not unable to bear the loss of the team, itself, we are not the top team in the Chinese Super League, only, we have many regrets ......" This is a senior Dalian fans expression. What exactly are their regrets? At least three.
Can't Dalian soccer lose? Can, due to Dalian fans understand the game, only need to play out the spirit of struggle and momentum, win or lose love this team. "But these two losses cowardly, obviously once upon a time to be able to pressure to play, these two games were pressed to play." A fan who watched the game at the scene spat out.
"Just press to play" from the beginning of the season has become this Dalian team can not be ignored label, the fans are also used to seeing their home team no matter whether it is to face the harbour, Luneng, these champions of the team's posture is also no less. But in the face of the Jinmen Tigers but wilted.
Why do Dalian fans, and even many Chinese fans, love to watch Coach Xie Hui's "just press and play"? Because this kind of tactic is like taking the mood that we have been suppressed by the epidemic all these years, taking the pace that the Chinese ball has been confined, and releasing it together. The baptism and test experienced by the city of Dalian, people who have not lived and experienced here, it is difficult to empathize. The reason why we love or worship that no big names, on the pressure to play the Dalian people's team, is because the team, mapping their past, full of everyone's hopes for the future.
"Idols are in fact the spokespersons through which countless worshippers satisfy their sense of self-identity, and thus an idol's performance is essentially the worshipper's inner self singing or dancing." When talking about popular idols, Prof. Wang Defeng of Fudan University once said this.
Rather than fans not being happy to face a downturn in results, they are not happy to look back on that wasted past, as well as, the Dahlians pressing out to reflect a determination to challenge the future.
Therefore, the Dalian Football Association can only persuade, and the pressure, all on the management, coaching staff and the team.
The ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus said, "The way up and the way down are often the same way." Right now, the Dallians are stuck in the in-and-out phase. "In order to explore the evils of golden dollar soccer, and bring in some new players within their means," the brutal value of the process of de-goldenization, as seen in other teams, is gradually emerging. With most teams in the golden dollar soccer faded after the weak comparison, Dalian soccer but gave the fans unlimited expectations and fantasies, and now there is a danger of disillusionment again, the fans issued an appeal. But fans can't ignore the fact that if you want to build two formations that can play a full season, it seems unrealistic not to pay a certain value for the results. If the value is too great, someone must be "responsible" for it.
The family is not the place for reasoning, and the same applies between the club and the fans; reason and thinking are for the team, emotion and love are the prerogative of the fans.
Dalian fans is a special group of Chinese fans collective, once stood in the highest peak of the professional league, but also had a long time hovering in the trough. A batch of investors who came and went, left slogans, left memories, and even left fantasies, but no one left such a promise - "We are here, Dalian soccer will be good." Although the current management does not dare to make such a promise, but at least, the responsibility and commitment of state-owned enterprises, will make this Dalian people club more pro-people than ever.
Just as when something goes wrong, no one is the first to dump on the problem, but rather face it positively and look for a solution.
The game against the Jinmen Tigers before the Dalian began to cool down, the game day cool wind piercing the bones, but even so, still can not stop the enthusiasm of the home fans, as the announcement of the said, "love deep to blame the cut".
All the fans involved were hoping that the foreigners had found their groove and that the Dahlians would be able to pick up a win with their familiar pressuring tactics, but instead, they were surprised to suffer back-to-back defeats after being woefully outplayed by a pair of mulligans.
Of the players who joined during the second turnaround, three foreigners and one inside backer were controversial, except for Lawless and Wu Nano, who achieved recognition.
People's questions are: if you know that the level of cheap foreign aid is not good enough, why do you still want to buy; why did not adhere to the tactics of the full Chinese class when the pressure to play, increased foreign aid but self-defeating; know that the attraction of funds is limited, why can not buy less than two to ensure the quality of the attraction; the attraction of the will of the governor or the commander Xie Hui's opinion?
Whatever the consolation, the storm of doubt will escalate as long as the management fails to face up to a few major questions and the foreigners are unable to play as they should.
Reporters through a large number of interviews, attempting to unveil the answers to the relevant questions, may not represent the whole truth, but more or less able to provide some basis for judgment.
At the beginning of the year, the Dalian people from coach recruitment to player selection, go through the process of social recruitment of state-owned enterprises. Public recruitment advertisements, the requirement to participate in the bidding of coaches or players to submit their resumes and then also self-promotion, established coaches and players are involved in the open competition and the risk of being eliminated.
It can be said that from the beginning, Dalian people want to take a different path of exploration with the past, in the head coach Xie Hui's best efforts did also do it, a cadre of other teams do not look at the players, into a star. Therefore, in the selection of internal and external assistance standards, price and seniority is not the first element, rather than look at the actual quality, they are more willing to Taobao, pluck some potential shares to cultivate their own. As long as there is strength, no matter amateur or semi-working players, give them a time to the task force stage, which is also a feat of the Dalian People's Salon, although these players did not stay, but the salon did not lose anything as a result.
After Dalian released the first poster for the introduction of players, fans left comments asking if this was going to be a U37 team and a late night disco.
And the result? We all saw it. Yan Xiangguan, Zhu Ting, Fei Yu, Shang Yin, all played a level, so the doubt of knowing that the quality is not good enough to buy is not valid, Dalian people rely on the form of remodeling, which all rely on the wonderful hands of Xie Hui. Most of the players everyone favors go over the budgeted amount and don't fit.
After losing to Jinmen Tiger, Xie Hui confessed that he did not want to adhere to the tactics of pressure, but the reason why this set of tactics looks skillful and fluent, thoroughly is built on the condition that there is a full three-month period of integration, rare warm-up games to do the padding, and the foreign aiders have just arrived, it is not possible to immediately have this tacit understanding, and it takes time. In fact, he is difficult to say is that Dalian people salon does not have to buy plug and play, or according to their own tactical needs of the players. It can only buy what it can get, and then integrate it according to the player's characteristics.
In the past, the concept of a good foreign aid is a person to deal with the battle, but the price of such foreign aid are not expensive, or need time to carefully select, and Dalian people do not have this capital, due to their attraction window is very uncertain, and even at that time can not be opened are not good to say. There are not so many suitable players are happy to wait for the Dalian people, so this directly leads to the Dalian people can choose the size of the foreign aid narrowed again.
As for like Cangzhou, buy two less, for a big killer like Kanter, but Kanter's price, the transfer market is 1.4 million euros; Dalian people foreign aid price, Tesonev, Mamba, Bosanjic and Manzocchi combined, only a little higher than Kanter. In addition, Cangzhou original foreign aid, and Dalian people tactical system has many loopholes, the number of players in need of more, regardless of the level, the position can not be vacant, there must be a rotation, which is the most basic.
Therefore, Dalian people to supplement the foreign aid must pay attention to the number, and then only on the basis of merit, in fact, the Dalian people of this batch of foreign aid, the pay level is the average of the Dalian people's main pay, and some big team's replacement can not be compared. In a particularly limited time, want to do inexpensive, is not a fairy tale, is a myth. But this also does not mean that there is such a condition can be random reinforcements, the management concerned do not have to bear the corresponding responsibility for this. According to the reporter's understanding, in the issue of attracting reinforcements, has always been to the head coach Xie Hui's opinion as the center of the leading, and then to the leadership of the approval, through the football reform group review, salon management discussion, business company to fulfill the completion of the.
Among the new recruits, Manzocchi was the most questioned, and at one point, journalists had doubts about it.
Let's start with NJ City Saloon's Mercer Paoli, is he a good player? The answer is yes. When coaching Nantong, Xie Hui had his eye on him, and after arriving at Dalian People, Xie Hui thought that Messi Paoli's skillful features were especially suitable for the team. But Messi is the center of the Nanjing city players, in the 29 goals scored by Nanjing city so far, Messi Pauli one person scored 14, can say, Nanjing city fate in his hands, such a player, I do not think the Dalian people did not give the price, even if it is open, Nanjing will also have a certain hesitation. Therefore, this pile of transfer, the beginning is full of uncertainty, talk into is fate, talk not is the will of God.
Sharon had alternatives, and Manzocchi wasn't the only one, but he was the only one who made the deal, why? Because Manzocchi and Messi Pauli belong to the same business company. Look closely at Manzocchi in the transfer market, until today is still zero value. So why was he chosen? Because apart from his skill set, there is also maneuverability and the quality of the player himself.
Some would counter that picking players is not picking laborers, and that no amount of quality is going to help. But Manzocchi is not completely powerless, in fact, Dalian people can choose a very small scale, and, there is a practical problem to consider, if the signing but can not be registered, how to compensate for the loss? Some players are not willing to take such a risk even if the salon is happy to compensate them. So, Dalian only signed Mamba and Tesonev early, they are Xie Hui hand-picked, the salon also signed a "guarantee" for these two players - if they can not be registered, the salon will be happy to bear their salaries, and find them in our country to find other next! The company also signed a "letter of guarantee" for the two players. But Dalian's financial strength is not enough to make such a commitment to each player, Manzocchi is the window opened only after the signing, at that time, a number of African salon teams have also been interested in him, but for Manzocchi, to come to our country is more challenging, the income is also slightly higher, coupled with Messi and belong to the same businessman, in the end, he came to our country.
Manzocchi, who previously played in the Ugandan league, won five awards this past season, including MVP and Golden Boot, and the MVP in the eyes of his competitors was voted on by the captains of the 16-team team, and Manzocchi was unanimously selected. The reason for his high recognition is that he is "working" enough.
"His best feature was his self-discipline, not drinking a drop of alcohol and only eating food that was good for practice and the game, even if it was tasteless. His father, Joseph, was also a former workhorse player, and his mom was a basketball player, and he looks a little on the thin side, but doesn't have an ounce of fat on his body and is able to run at full speed at all times." That's what Manzocchi's coach said about him. At the saloon, Manzocchi was close to many and well loved.
It is worth mentioning that in Uganda, Manzocchi was nicknamed "The Emperor", but he never claimed to be a star, he always worked hard and when he scored, he always gave credit to his team.
But does any of this have anything to do with Dalian? The Dalian people need a center who can be a pivot point, but also can score, Manzocchi is not, but he is diligent, physical, and happy to integrate into the team, and is very upwardly mobile, which is about the financial resources are limited, but for the team management and cultural construction of the pursuit of the Dalian people's team is in need of.
"The talents of foreign aiders are already limited, and if they add a lot of trouble to the head coach in terms of management and fail to set a good example for Chinese players in terms of style of play and discipline, it would be a small loss for a big one. In this regard, Manzocchi is relatively suitable. We never say that the foreign aid we buy are the best, only that under the existing conditions, we are introduced through prudent consideration." This is the attitude of the senior management of the salon.
To summarize, in the case of time constraints, financial constraints, Dalian people completed the summer window reinforcements, perhaps the results are not so satisfactory, but certainly not capricious. Of course, as an outsider, it is impossible to fully understand all the details of the operation of the salon, but from the perspective of an onlooker, Dalian people this road is not good to go, can only feel the stone to cross the river, and in the process, no matter whether it is the applause, skepticism and even scolding, are the norm.
