What the? The head coach warmed up on the sidelines, the head coach made his debut, the head coach replaced the head coach, and the captain of the field began to direct the game after he got off the field! Previously, these scenes, which can only be seen in movies and online fan ridicule, have all been realized in this season's Chinese Super League. Moreover, it is all done by one person. He is the executive head coach of the Guangzhou team: Zheng Zhi. However, this is not all the miracle that the 41-year-old active veteran has created this season. Because just now, he was exposed to have a new identity.
At noon today, Xiao Zhao, a reporter from Beiqing Daily, broke the news on the social platform that the new national football team will be concentrated in Shanghai on January 10. However, fans familiar with Chinese football know that as of now, the new coach of the national football team, Li Xiaopeng, has not even completed the coaching team. So, how to start the training camp on January 10? Don't worry, according to Xiao Hao, Li Xiaopeng has circled all the coaching team candidates.
The 41-year-old active player, Guangzhou executive coach Zheng Zhi, is one of them. In addition to Zheng Zhi, Li Jinyu, the acting coach of the Wuhan team, Zhao Junzhe, who competed for the head coach of the women's football team some time ago, Li Leilei, the goalkeeper coach of the Wuhan team, Shao Jiayi, a famous Bundesliga player, and Sun Xiang, deputy general manager of Shanghai Harbor, were also on the list. Together with Shanghai Shenhua's physical coach Owen, Li Xiaopeng's national football assistant team was formed.
Counting the 7 assistant coaches, only the veteran Zheng Zhi is an active player in the Chinese Super League. As the head coach and player of guangzhou, Zheng Zhi has staged the "head coach" starting game in the Chinese Super League. I don't know, this time Li Xiaopeng's guidance on Zheng Zhi's summons is an assistant coach + player. If so, then veteran Zheng Zhi is expected to make history again and become China's first coach to compete in the World Preliminary Tournament. In that case, Zheng Zhi will surely become a legend of Chinese football.
As early as December 27, 2021, I once wrote an article "41-year-old veteran Super League only file, Li Xiaopeng can consider recruiting the national football team, maybe there is a windfall" Interested fans can click on the title to read, at that time personally more optimistic about Zheng Zhi was selected into the national football coaching team, to assist Li Xiaopeng to guide and coach the national football team. We all know that Li Xiaopeng's guidance is relatively good at the tactics of the side pass, and Zheng Zhi is mainly focusing on the ground technology flow, and Zheng Zhi's joining is bound to make up for some shortcomings in Li Xiaopeng's guidance tactical system.
In addition, this time in the top 12 matches, Li Xiaopeng's guidance is bound to recruit some young players. However, young players lack experience in the big game and once the game loses control. Veteran Zheng Zhi can come on as a substitute for an active player to help young players grow better and stabilize the situation on the field. Of course, all this requires Zheng Zhi to enter the national team as a player and assistant coach, and I don't know if Li Xiaopeng's guidance will give Zheng Zhi the opportunity to warm up on the sidelines.