In fact, the team is not in Ukraine now, because the Ukrainian league is now in a very long offseason.

The team ended the 17th round of the Ukrainian Super League at the end of December 2008 and then entered the winter break.

It will take nearly three months of rest and the team will start the second half of the league at the end of February.

There are 16 teams in the Ukrainian Super League, which means they have to play thirty rounds, just like the Chinese Super League.

Playing eight rounds less than a league like the Premier League, La Liga and four rounds less than a Bundesliga.

So the schedule is not too intensive.

Now the team is conducting overseas training in France, and Xu Qi needs to go to France to meet with the team after Donetsk handles his own affairs.

France is relatively warmer than Ukraine and not far from Ukraine, so Donetsk miners like to train in France during the winter break.

In France, they also have the opportunity to play some friendly matches with some Ligue 1 teams to keep the game in shape.

In fact, the first game of the Donetsk Miners after the winter break was not the league, but the knockout match between the Europa League and Tottenham Hotspur.

That game was crucial to the Donetsk Miners, who are now ranked second in the league standings and are far behind Dynamo Kiev. Such a point situation has even lost hope of defending the league championship.

With the strength of Dynamo Kiev, they will not make many mistakes. Few teams in Ukraine can compete with this wealthy team with a long history.

Therefore, the only championships that the Donetsk Miners have more promising to compete for this season are the Ukrainian Cup and the UEFA Cup.

Obviously, the League Cup is the trophy they want to win the most. Team Chairman Akmetov has talked about his desire for the Europa League more than once!

He longs for the team to win a European-wide trophy as soon as possible.

In comparison, Ukraine's domestic league championship and cup championship seem insignificant!

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Luneng coach Tubakovic and Donetsk miners coach Lucesku are both famous Eastern European coaches. In fact, they are also quite familiar old friends.

When he learned that Xu Qi was going to join the Donetsk miner, Tuba knew that he could not keep Xu Qi, so he called Lucescu.

As Xu Qi's mentor, Tuba also hopes that his disciples can make a name for themselves in Europe, and Xu Qi is the most talented young player he has coached.

Therefore, the purpose of his phone call to Lucesku is also obvious. I hope Lucesku can trust Xu Qi. Tubakovic highly praised Xu Qi's talent and training attitude on the phone, and Tuba even believed that Xu Qi had the strength to become the main force of the Donetsk miners.

Of course, Xu Qi's performance in China Lucescu has seen through some game videos. He is indeed happy with the talent shown by Xu Qi, but in his opinion, Xu Qi's current ability is not comparable to the current main players in the Donetsk Miners team.

If the team wants to introduce a new player, of course, it must be approved by the head coach. Lucescu naturally has a certain understanding of Xu Qi's ability and nods too much.

Of course, Lucescu's positioning for Xu Qi is to be a substitute and a potential newcomer.

Look at the attacker in the frontcourt of the Miners, the midfield core Judson has also been selected as a member of the Brazilian national team, and it has even been reported that he was attracted by Manchester United.

The wing assaulter was once a young player William who wore the No. 10 jersey of the Brazilian National Youth Team. Donetsk spent an astonishing price of 14 million euros to sign him in 2007.

The position of the back midfielder is Fernandinho and Isinho Pereira.

In the game video, he rarely sees Xu Qi appearing on the right side. If Xu Qi performs well enough and can adapt to the role on the right side, perhaps Xu Qi has some possibility of becoming the main force.

The Donetsk Miners' right side is a Polish international named Maorius Lewandowski.

Lewandowski, this is a very common Polish name.

The team's right side is actually relatively strong, because Serna is also a candidate for the right forward, but this Croatian star appears more often on the right back, and is basically a player who takes the lead in the side.

In European football, many people think that Serner is one of the best right-backs. He is completely worthy of the main players of the top giants, but he himself never plans to leave Donetsk.

He is the captain here and he loves this club deeply.

After thinking about it, Xu Qi couldn't become the main force of the team in a short time.

"It seems that Tuba has been in China for a long time and has seen too few geniuses. Although Xu Qi is a good genius player, he is far from as strong as he said. However, it is already good for a Chinese to have such strength." Lucescu looked at the training on the field indifferently at the training ground.

Today is Xu Qi's first team training class. Xu Qi's performance is not bad, but he did not show his strength than other players.

In general, Xu Qi's performance is consistent with Lucescu's initial evaluation of Xu Qi.

During the group confrontation, Xu Qi was arranged to the left side of the substitute team, and he was facing the team's captain Serner!

Obviously, in the face of Serner's strict defense, Xu Qi really couldn't find too many ways.

Xu Qi met a player who made him helpless today.

One of the main purposes of Lucescu's training today is to carefully examine Xu Qi's ability. After seeing Xu Qi being helpless by Serner's defense, he adjusted the position of the substitute again.

He arranged Xu Qi to the right side again, wanting to examine Xu Qi's ability in other positions.

In this way, Xu Qi's defensive player was replaced by Razwan Rat.

Razwan Lat is also very strong. He is a Romanian international. When facing Xu Qi, he also suppressed Xu Qi's breakthrough most of the time.

At the same time, William is surrounded by him to help defend, and Xu Qi finds that it is still difficult for him to use his abilities.

The European rhythm and the Chinese Super League are not on the same level as the Chinese Super League, and the rhythm is much faster than the Chinese Super League.

"It seems that it will take some time for me to adapt to the rhythm of the game, and my strength still needs to be improved. Fortunately, there will be some time for the official competition. Before that, I must train harder!"

Although Xu Qi has been adapting to the rhythm of the top European teams in the Real Dream Training Camp, he feels that adapting to the rhythm is not an easy task. After a year, he is still working harder to adapt to the faster offensive and defensive conversion rhythm.

How to still complete your own technical movements well under high-confrontation and high-speed offense and defense conversion is what Xu Qi needs to improve at present.

And he needs to become more comprehensive, only in this way can he stand out in the competition with these masters.

He came here not to play as a substitute.

Therefore, in the subsequent training, Xu Qi ran more actively and became more physically irresponsible.
Chapter completed!