On the occasion of the national football team's departure for the Qatar World Cup Asian qualifying round of 12, Chen Yongliang, minister of the Football Association, solemnly announced that the national football team and Li Tie's coaching team renewed their contracts until 2026, and set a strategy for the 12-stage tournament: fight with all your strength to get out of the line!
Li Tie renews contract, FA firms up commitment, guides direction
At the end of 2019, Li Tie, along with Li Xiaopeng, Wang Baoshan and other local coaches, completed the interviews for the head coach of the national football team.On January 2, 2020, the Football Association officially announced the appointment of Li Tie as the head coach of the national team. During the epidemic, Li Tie led the national football team to break into the 12-team tournament with four consecutive victories in the early stages of the 40-team tournament.
At the end of the Top 40, the national soccer team won 4 consecutive matches, Wu Lei broke the goal for 5 consecutive matches, and the national soccer team was the only team that kept a record of 12 shutouts in two consecutive Top 40 matches against the third, fourth, and fifth ranked teams. In addition, the naturalized players helped for the first time, the players fought until the end, and the opponent was run out of steam.
After the end of the 40 to the start of the 12, about the national team head coach Li Tie contract renewal rumors continue, and even some self media speculation Lippi three into the palace. But as early as June, the Football Association released a signal to renew Li Tie's contract. Chen Xuyuan said that as long as the team moves forward on the right track, the coaching team should work stably and not replace the head coach due to defeat. Therefore, Li Tie does not have the problem of contract renewal, and is now fully preparing for the Top 12.
Before the first match of the Doha 12, the FA and Li Tie contract renewal is only "to fulfill the promise", but the renewal of the contract to 2026 does have a deep meaning. Football Association in the Li Tie team played "satisfied" score, from the perspective of long-term development of the team, before signing a long contract.
Renewal of the national football coaching staff to the next World Cup cycle of the contract, on the one hand, is for the long-term stable development of the national football team, on the other hand, is also based on the trust of Li Tie team. This behavior undoubtedly to the national football coaching staff and players team injected a strong needle. However, it should be noted that a long paper contract is only a mood and direction of the Association, and can not guarantee that Li Tie and the coaching team must be coached to 2026. Competitive sports, there is no "iron rice bowl".
Li Tie united, the FA no longer folded
Li Tie as head coach of the national football team since the training ground around the "joint is iron" banner has become a standard. Li Tie not only united the entire team of the national football team, the renewal of the contract also shows the FA's trust and firm support for Li Tie, not verbal "retreat", but practical action. In the existing personnel (international players) situation, resolutely use the understanding of the players, understand the situation of the team's hometown coaches, revealing that the Association in weighing the pros and cons in the choice of the head coach do not want to blindly folded again.
In a special period of time, the outside world is generally downbeat situation, the Football Association to make such behavior, you can see that they want to continue to strengthen the prestige of Li Tie as the head coach of the national football team, but also take this opportunity to create a unified consensus within the national football team, to enhance the unity of the atmosphere. It is worth noting that, in the renewal of the contract at the same time, the Football Association also said that the President of the Football Association Chen Xuyuan will be involved in the campaign for the 12 strong tournament, do a good job in the service and protection, the organization of the epidemic prevention and control, the tournament was held, the foreign affairs communication and the media team and other matters. In the hard power is not as good as Japan, Australia and other rivals in the same group, the entire team of the national football team screwed together, teamwork to the extreme, is an important factor in achieving the desired results.
Li Tie leads team to prove themselves, aiming for lineout
The level of competition in the Top 12 is obviously much greater than in the Top 40. Coupled with the impact of the epidemic, including the home field, some objective factors there are huge variables. But Li Tie's attitude towards this is very clear, "what can't be changed, enjoy, all the organization is the best organization." First do a good job to meet the difficulties of the preparation, and then go to spell out the desired results. In Li Tie's opinion, the face of Japan and Australia, not without the possibility of winning the game, but the need for players to build confidence through the actual victory.
At the end of the 40 strong match, former national football coach Zhu Guanghu affirmed the work of the coaching team headed by Li Tie. Part of the media also pointed out that Li Tie's transformation of the troops is very successful, and in the game in the emergence of problems can be adjusted in a timely manner, make tactical formation changes. Zhu Guanghu believes that this not only requires courage, but also requires wisdom. 12 strong when the difficulty of the escalation, expect Li Tie and his team can still "IQ online" to prove themselves.
The Football Agreement approach, aiming for the line
At the same time as Li Tie and the coaching team to renew the contract, the Football Association has also put forward guidelines for this 12-stage tournament. Chen Yongliang said: "Our policy is 'fight, strive to get out of the line', in fact, we are very clear, our condition, the opponent's condition, not fight must have no chance, fight the final results how, who can not say."
On the whole, the football association about this world preliminaries 12 strong match for the national football "formulated" policy is still a direction, but also left some space and room. For most of the fans of the patriotic football, of course, expect the national football team can break out of Asia to the world, but under the existing conditions, if the field can play "strive" the spirit of the face, show "struggle" the quality of the will, then it should be "Iron heart" support our team! (Aoyo Cheuk)
