Before starting this article, Xiaobian would like to ask you a question: What is the current Chinese men's football team, which is what we usually call the national football team, what is the technical and tactical style? This question is not going to be difficult for many people. Today's national football team to talk about style, it is really difficult to say, because no one can say what our national football is a technical and tactical style, in fact, there is no technical and tactical style at all.
In fact, as early as the early 1980s, the national football team that Su Yongshun coached and coached, the technical and tactical style characteristics are still very distinct, short pass penetration, pass control play, two wings flying together, the combination of the side and the middle. Not only the team's skills and tactics are distinct, but there are also a large number of outstanding players in the team, such as Rong Zhixing, Gu Guangming, Shen Xiangfu, Zuo Shusheng, Chi Shangbin and so on. So why, later, Chinese football gradually moved towards a four-different style, everything depends on the team's visit to China.
On 30 May 1983, a soccer club from the United Kingdom visited China, and this team was Watford. In the mid-1970s, Watford were still a team in england's Division D (Fourth Division) league. Beginning with the 1977 season, Watford brought in Rayham Taylor as head coach. After five years of hard work, Watford was promoted three times in a row and broke into the English First Division in 1982. In the 1982–83 season, Watford finished runners-up in the English First Division, with the Reds' Liverpool that year.
At that time, the Chinese national team, because Su Yongshun went to Canada, the national team coach was always empty. In the end, Zeng Xuelin, also from Guangdong but has always coached in Beijing and Tianjin, became the new national football coach.
On June 1, 1983, the national football team faced Watford at the Beijing Workers' Stadium, which was also the first game for Zeng Xuelin to lead the new national team to the outside world after taking office. In the face of strong opponents, Zeng Xuelin still discharged a 4-3-3 formation, goalkeeper Li Fusheng, four defenders are Zhu Bo, Xian Huiliang, Chi Minghua and Zheng Yan, the midfield is dominated by Lu Hongxiang, Huang Xiangdong and Zuo Shusheng, and Li Hui, Lin Qiang and Shen Xiangfu form a forward partner. Before this game, the coach of Watford had also given a training coaching course for the national footballers.
At the beginning of the game, Watford held high and launched a series of offensive attacks to threaten the chinese team's gate. In the 9th minute, Watford opened a corner kick in front of the goal, which was scored by Jobson's header. Just three minutes into the second half, Watford once again took advantage of a set-piece opportunity in front of them, with Steve Terry scoring another point in front of goal.
Behind, the national football team counterattacked with all its strength, in the 66th minute, the Chinese team broke the ball in midfield, Lu Hongxiang dribbled the ball through two people, facing the attacking Watford goalkeeper Sherwood calmly picked out a shot and pulled back a point.
After recovering a goal, the morale of the national football team was high, and Lin Qiang, Zheng Yan, and Zuo Shusheng all got good opportunities to break the goal, but they were all magically resolved by Sherwood. Instead, Watford took advantage of the corner kick opportunity again, and Jobson once again headed the ball into the net. In the end, the Chinese team lost 1-3 to the opponent.
Looking at the score of 1-3, it seems that the gap is not big, but Watford is missing four main players in this campaign, and it is not the strongest squad.
On 5 June, Watford moved to Shanghai to play Shanghai at Jiangwan Stadium. In the 25th minute of the first half, Shanghai team was scored by Li Zhonghua, and Xi Zhikang's header from the team broke the goal to help Shanghai team lead 1-0. Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, and just six minutes later, Watford was equalized by Daly's shot in the melee in front of goal. In the 38th minute, Watford's Richardson's powerful shot was saved by Zhang Huikang, and Callahan made up for the shot into the net, and in the end, Shanghai lost the game 1-2.
On June 7, the Chinese team once again faced Watford in Beijing. This time, the main players of Watford, who were previously absent, all arrived. In the starting lineup of the Chinese team, the goalkeeper is Yang Ning as the starting player. Just four minutes into the opening, Watford's Kenny Jackett scored a long-breaking goal after several consecutive people. Subsequently, Barnes scored twice, Andysett was the icing on the cake, and at the end of the first half, the Chinese team fell behind by four goals.
Yi Bian fought again, in the 67th minute, Li Hui burst into the penalty area with the ball and was put down, the referee awarded a penalty, Li Hui personally took the penalty hit, and the game was 1-4. In the 82nd minute, Barnes scored another point to complete a hat-trick, and in the end, The Chinese team lost 1-5 to their opponents.
Watford ended their trip to China with a record of three wins.
It can be said that during the Watford team's visit to China, the power of English football was vividly displayed, which shocked the Chinese football community at that time.
Because since the mid-1970s, Chinese football, whether it is a local team or a national team, has rarely seen such a one-sided situation in various competitions such as foreign visits or foreign teams visiting China, even during the visit of the New York Universe led by king Pele (1977) and Mazzola led Inter Milan (1978) to China, the Chinese national team and local teams have never been so embarrassed.
In 1985, Zeng Xuelin led the national team to once again fail to qualify for the World Cup finals. Since then, the domestic local technical coaches who advocate the transmission control play method have basically disappeared in the national team.
In order to imitate the high-flying play of soccer, there have been strange regulations in the domestic first division that one head is counted as two. After the head coach of the Chinese national team experienced Gao Fengwen, Xu Genbao, Schlapner (Germany), and Qi Wusheng, he welcomed the Briton Bobby Horton.
Horton's coaching experience with the Chinese national team has not been a success. After him, the magical coach of Yugoslavia, Milu, successfully led the national football team to the final round of the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea, but you may not say how much influence Milu has had on the technical and tactical style of Chinese football.
After Milu left office, the selection of the head coach of the Chinese national team continued to change continuously. Ali Han (Netherlands), Zhu Guanghu, Ferrado (Serbia) + Dujkovic (Serbia) combination, Gao Hongbo (twice), Camacho (Spain), Alain Peran (France), Lippi (Italy, twice), and finally to li tie today.
From the selection of the national football team, we can see that in recent decades, Chinese football has constantly imitated changes in technical and tactical styles, learning from you today, learning from him tomorrow, and so far, it has now become a four-different.