Li Xiaopeng's foothold in the national football team is not only based on strength, but also on his talent to maintain the relationship between players.
Rumor has it that he was able to get players from both camps within the National Football League to shake hands and make peace, a reflection of his extraordinary emotional intelligence.
Li Xiaopeng on behalf of the national football team played 39 games, scored 3 goals, although coaching career less than four years, but with the international players to maintain a close contact. His wedding, many international players have attended, but also showed his outstanding talent off the field.
Zheng Zhi joined the Taishan team, Li Xiaopeng personally drove to meet, when he was already the captain, Zheng Zhi care.
In interpersonal communication and player relations, Li Xiaopeng can be called a master, the advantage is obvious. After retiring as a coach, his high emotional intelligence is even more like a tiger, although there are mistakes, but for young coaches, it is normal. Overall, his control of the team and crisis response, has its own unique characteristics.
Li Xiaopeng is now at the helm of the national football coaching whip, its comprehensive strength is undoubtedly a key factor.
Admittedly, his technical and tactical style of play has been criticized by fans, such as a single tactic and lack of flexibility in the use of personnel.
However, Li Xiaopeng is quite skillful in team management and relationship management. Whether it is the Taishan team or Wuhan team, his conference is always rich in content, both funny response to questions, but also the courage to take responsibility for the players to reduce pressure.
Li Xiaopeng dares to take responsibility and face the pressure, which may be his biggest advantage in becoming the head coach of the national football team.
After all, the national football team manager shoulders more pressure, how to maintain a calm mind is crucial.
Randomization + knowing people well
Li Xiaopeng's coaching career began in 2009, the first three years of coaching women's football, from Shandong women's football to the Chinese women's football, although there are highlights, but the overall results have not been recognized. After leaving the women's soccer team, he coached Qingdao Zhongneng, and the results were also poor.
From the beginning of the 2018 Chinese Super League, Li Xiaopeng's coaching style gradually changed. Coaching Taishan for less than three years and Wuhan for less than a year, the league results are not bright, but from the coaching style, he has been improving.
During his time coaching Taishan, the overhead play was his signature feature, which was considered by many fans as tactical singularity. Indeed, how can Taishan not play to their header advantage when they have a clear advantage in overhead kicks, especially with an excellent center forward like Pele.
In these three years, Li Xiaopeng actively seeking change, in the interview admitted that the team staffing can not meet the requirements of the middle penetration cooperation, but still seeking new breakthroughs.
This season in Wuhan, Li Xiaopeng is also facing the plight of incomplete personnel, the successive failure to win has also brought him a lot of pressure, Wuhan team's overall style of play to the side of the combination of the main, foreign aid play is crucial.
Of course, the situation of the national team and the club is bound to be different, and the first step in how Li Xiaopeng determines the playing style of the national team is to select players.
Next, Li Xiaopeng will watch more league, to determine the next phase of the national football training list, one of the keys is the formation of the assistant coach team. Fabio, Pep was his assistant, this season Li Xiaopeng also wanted to invite Pep to join the coaching team, but for various reasons, Pep was not in place in time.
Now that Li Xiaopeng is the head coach of the national football team, Pep is still very likely to be his assistant.
Pep, who used to work for Barcelona and is very familiar with Chinese soccer, also sent his best wishes to Li Xiaopeng after he coached the national football team.
In addition to Pep, Li Xiaopeng will also take physical fitness coach Hu Yu to join the national football team, other assistant coach candidates, he also needs to communicate with the Football Association.
In a way, Li Xiaopeng is more like a general manager, maximizing the effectiveness of his team and listening to his assistant coaches before making decisions.
Li Xiaopeng's clinical command is quite methodical, and he also has many classic cases of successful substitutions, which is an advantage he needs to play to in the national team.
Putonghua in Lu flavor
Wit is more discreet.
A string of quotes could be compiled about Li Xiaopeng's conference, and there are many anecdotes about his Mandarin.
The earliest coaching Chinese women's football, Li Xiaopeng's "Lu flavor Mandarin" makes the players a little uncomfortable, he was in the interview also mocked: "I need to find a translator."
During his tenure as Taishan's head coach, Li Xiaopeng is still trying to speak good Mandarin, but the decades-old accent can't be changed overnight.
In Wuhan, Li Xiaopeng is also trying to change, but the more focus, the more difficult to change. Now that Li Xiaopeng has become the head coach of the national football team, his remarks at the conference will be the focus of attention.
Whether or not to speak Mandarin, this is a highlight, of course, Li Xiaopeng will pay attention to this, but from an objective point of view, he is still dominated by his own habits, as long as the players and the media can understand, these are not problems.
In a way, it's what Li Xiaopeng says in the conference that counts.
This time Li Tie dismissed, to a large extent, with his own comments in the conference, Li Xiaopeng naturally want to learn this lesson.
From years of interview experience, Li Xiaopeng's conference is always concise and clear, his on-the-spot reaction quickly, good at judging the situation, rarely out of control.
To the national football team, Li Xiaopeng will naturally speak more carefully, but he is also very witty, the quotes of the future conference, but also worth looking forward to.
Of course, no matter what is said or how it is said.
Achievement is still the number one factor.
Now Li Xiaopeng facing the first difficult pass is the remaining four matches of the Asian qualifying round of 12, especially away from Japan, Vietnam's two games, which is around Li Xiaopeng coaching trend of the two key games.
The national football team to advance to the World Cup hope is slim, but the fans would like to see the future of the national football team and hope, Li Xiaopeng how to locate these two games, his use of personnel and tactical play, will be widely concerned, but hope that he is in the face of the pressure, can find a correct path, at least from now on, so that the fans to see a glimmer of hope, and also let the fans to rekindle the confidence.
