"I know there are a lot of rumors about the national team outside, and here I have to clarify."

The next day, in the press conference hall of the Wuhan National Team Training Center, Gao Han faced more than 100 media reporters who rushed over. He first introduced the situation of this national team training, and then began to get to the point.

"The reason why we did not conduct training in Xi'an is not because there were problems in Xi'an, but because after careful research, we believe that if the training venue is arranged in Wuhan and a closed training camp is adopted, all of us will be highly focused, which will help us adjust the players' status, physical fitness and psychology."

Regarding the venue in Xi'an, Gao Han said that the national team leader and assistant coach went to the scene for a while and felt very satisfied. Especially after he made a rectification opinion last time, Xi'an received great attention, and the venue and facilities had been greatly improved. Gao Han also thanked the person in charge and staff in Xi'an for this.

Regarding the current injury situation of the national team, Gao Han said that after the player returned to the team, the medical team had officially taken over, but the specific injury report had not been found. He hoped that the outside world could reduce unnecessary speculation and avoid panic.

"The current 24-man roster is drafted by me personally. Although many international players, including Li Xuepeng, were injured in the league a few days ago, I will not consider substitutions unless it is absolutely necessary because we are more familiar with each other."

As for the candidate for the main goalkeeper of the national team after Zeng Cheng was injured, Gao Han said that he still needs to be inspected through training.

"I can't disclose more information to the outside world for the time being, but what I want to say is that I will choose players who are in the best form and meet the requirements of the national team as the starting lineup."

Gao Han also revealed that this training camp faces two major problems.

"First, the Chinese Super League has entered the final stage, and all the players are physically and mentally exhausted, which has brought us considerable challenges and pressure. How to adjust the players' status and physical fitness in the shortest time will be the focus of our preparations in the future. All of us must focus on our minds."

“That’s why I’m taking a closed training camp.”

All the media reporters present carefully recorded Gao Han's words.

"Second, I want to say that our opponents are not weak. Syria has just tied South Korea with zero to zero in neutral position. This has fully proved the strength of this team. Faced with such an opponent, we have no strength advantage at all. Even at our home court, we can only do our best."

"I can understand the feelings of media journalists and fans. Please believe that I am the same as you. I have only one goal for every game strategy I have set, that is, I will try my best to defeat my opponents. I hope to bring the national team into the World Cup."

"But as a head coach, I must remind everyone that among the six teams in the Top 12 Group A, our Chinese team has no advantage in strength. We rely on everyone's hard work and a little luck to successfully squeeze into the last bus of the Top 12. There are various factors in the beginning of the two consecutive victories, and we cannot be careless at all."

"Our players are under tremendous pressure in the club. They have been playing in the league for several months. Some may even fight on multiple fronts and have to go back and forth with the national team. I can feel the feeling of fighting for the country in their hearts, but I also hope that all media reporters and fans can understand and respect us."

"I have led many teams and dealt with media reporters and fans from various countries. Promotion and baton killing are always the best weapons for public opinion. Please forgive my offense, but I sincerely believe that the public opinion over the past period of time has been promotion and killing us, which will put us on a lot of unnecessary psychological pressure and burdens."

"Is that right? When we are overwhelmed and lose, we can kill us by using the stick to attract attention?"

Gao Han's words made all the media reporters present uproar.

Many people obviously did not expect that Gao Han would say such words in front of them, which was simply a complaint against them. But if we look back on the past few days, who would dare to say that no media was thinking about this?

Based on the weak national football team, let alone facing Syria and Uzbekistan, even facing the Maldives, shouldn’t we care about it and remind you repeatedly?

Why are there so many media coming out to advocate how many goals they want to win?

"Of course, I know that this is just a small group of media and self-media, and most of the media are consistent with our goals. They sincerely hope that the national team can go further in the top 12 games. So, I call here, and I hope that everyone can try to give us a more relaxed and more stress-free preparation and competition environment."

After Gao Han's words, many media present also looked a little slower.

Tear off your face? Gao Han is not that stupid.

He believed that since the matter has been explained, it depends on what the media reporters will do next.

Today's remarks will be sorted out by the press officer and posted them directly on the national team's Weibo. He will also forward them through his Weibo, which will guide public opinion to the greatest extent and at the same time make all fans understand his intentions. He believes that any fan who distinguishes right from wrong can understand them.

"Finally, given the public opinion environment outside, starting today, the national team will continue to train in the entire training stage, except for the official routine interviews, we reject all media reporters' interviews, and hope everyone will understand."

As soon as Gao Han finished speaking, the audience was in an uproar again and everyone started to talk.

But Gao Han didn't give them any more chance and stood up and said goodbye.

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“It’s a bad situation.”

Gao Han had just walked out of the press conference hall and discussed with the press officer how to deal with the aftermath. When he returned to the coach's office, he saw that physical coach Buenaventura had already been waiting there.

As soon as he saw Gao Han, this world's top physical fitness expert said worriedly.

Gao Han was mentally prepared for this, because as the season deepened, the players' physical and mental health would be worse.

During the training camp in September, many things have already appeared, and I believe that October will be even more unsatisfactory.

"You see, many international players are very tired and mentally exhausted. Big clubs such as Guangzhou and Shanghai have played more than 50 games so far this year, and the objective environment in China..."

Before he could finish his words, Buenaventura sighed heavily.

China has a vast territory. It also plays away games in the domestic league. The distance from Guangzhou to Beijing is equivalent to the distance from Madrid, Spain to Copenhagen, Denmark. This is almost the same as the devil's away game in the Champions League, but this is the norm in China. If you go to the Northeast, the distance will be even further.

Coupled with other issues such as domestic flights, urban transportation, etc., players' consumption of away games far exceeds that of the UEFA Champions League away games, and is not comparable to that of domestic away games in major European leagues.

And playing more than fifty games in a single season, this intensity is indeed quite high.

Gao Han looked silently at the player's physical test report submitted by Buenaventura, his face full of solemnity.

Although he had long realized that it would be difficult and was mentally prepared for difficulties, the situation still exceeded his expectations.

This has a lot to do with his lack of experience and insufficient considerations in the domestic league and objective environment.

"How is it? Lorenzo, is there any way?" Gao Han asked with concern.

Buenaventura nodded, "Give me three days, I believe I should be able to adjust, but there will definitely be no way to strengthen training in the next period of time. Moreover, after playing Syria, we will rush to Tashkent, Uzbekistan to play away."

This is also a big trouble.

If you just play against Syria, it would be easier to deal with, but the problem is that there is a devil's away game.

"What are some suggestions?" Gao Han asked.

Buenaventura smiled and said, indeed, his old partner was the most familiar. "My suggestion is... rotation."

"Replacement?" Gao Han couldn't help but frown.

This is very difficult.

The current situation of the national team is there, and the strength is just like this, and rotation will inevitably affect the performance of the national team.

More importantly, no one is sure whether the team will lose track after the rotation.

But Buenaventura is right. If there is no rotation, many players may not be able to hold on to the second game.

You should know that from Xi'an to Tashkent, it is not only a long journey, but Uzbekistan's away conditions are also very bad and the challenges are also great. Playing away games without an advantage in strength is equivalent to committing suicide.

"I'll think about this again, but I can give you three days to adjust the players' physical fitness and condition, and let Steve hurry up." Gao Han reminded.

Buenaventura is responsible for physical fitness and injury treatment, Steve Pitts is responsible for psychological adjustment, and Gao Han’s core coaching team is responsible for their respective tasks, which is indispensable.

As for goalkeeper Pedro Harrow, his most important task now is to inspect the most suitable starting goalkeeper for Gao Han.

After seeing Buenaventura away, Gao Han breathed heavily, sat in the office chair tiredly, closed his sour eyes, and felt that he needed a good rest.

After he and Van Gaal returned to Beijing, he gave the Dutch coach to Xiang Tianming and immediately rushed to Wuhan without stopping. As a result, after arriving, a lot of things happened, which caused him to almost keep going, and he had no time to rest, and he didn't even sleep well last night.

These two games against Syria and Uzbekistan are different from those against South Korea and Iran. If Gao Han is not wrong, Syria must be mainly defending away games. After seeing the Chinese team's two consecutive victories, Uzbekistan must also seek stability at home. This should be a regular game strategy.

As much as possible to grab three-pointers at home, and draw away. Basically, as long as the goal is achieved, the group can basically advance.

But in this way, it will be a big test for the Chinese team's offense.

Before playing against South Korea and Iran, Gao Han was more of a coaching team's defense. Although it improved on the offensive end, he had never had time to organize it well. However, the current situation forced Gao Han to implement the plan in advance, and the time was too tight.

In addition to these problems, the players' physical fitness is also an urgent problem that Gao Han must face.
Chapter completed!