Zuo Lin discovered something extremely strange. The league was over, but his games were getting more and more.

The more conventional one is the North-South Star Confrontation, where he will play as the main goalkeeper of the Southern Team.

Subsequently, the national team will hold a week-long training camp in Shanghai, followed by a somewhat inexplicable 6-country invitational tournament. There was no such competition before, but the national team played too few games this year, and the new head coach took office and needed some practical opportunities to understand the team and formulate training plans. So, before spending a lot, South Korea, Japan, Spain, Ghana and Mexico were invited to participate in the Six-Country Invitational Tournament. The competition was divided into two groups for single rounds.

In the Tournament, the two teams ranked first and then held the finals, ranking second and third. It is unknown what changes the new head coach will bring to the Chinese team, but obviously the luck he brought in was not very good, at least not the kind of luck that Football Association officials and many fans hope to see to draw weaker opponents to get a good result. The Chinese team, who are divided into Group A, will compete with Spain and Japan, and the media is quite unhappy about the prospect of qualifying.

However, in any case, this Six Nations Invitational Tournament is still a relatively high-standard competition, and everyone is still looking forward to the quality of the competition.

"Not energetic..." When he learned that he might not have the freedom to enter and exit at will during the training of the national team, Zuo Lin frowned and complained. He now has a lot of chores and is really unwilling to stay in the stadium for inexplicable training. What's more, the training of the national team cannot improve his performance in the game or his physical fitness. It can be said that it has no value at all. As for cooperation with his teammates, what does it have to do with him as a goalkeeper? If it weren't for the bad impact, he would almost be ready to refuse the call of the national team.

The competition schedule lasted for a few weeks, and the impact was not very big, but the business activities were not. During the nominal practice time between the end of the league and the star competition, Zuo Lin attended 9 events and 4 banquets, took an advertisement and two sets of photos, and was half tired.

Zuo Lin only had half of the North and South Stars. When Zuo Lin guarded the goal, the Northern Stars seemed to lack offensive hope. The result of negatively organizing the offense was that the Southern Stars led by 2 goals at the end of the first half.

Fans, commentators and sideline reporters all attributed this phenomenon to Zuo Lin. The record of not conceding goals in a season is indeed very terrible, not to mention that this record has nothing to do with luck. For the goalkeeper, the ball changes direction when he touches his own defender, and there is irregular rebound due to uneven turf. When he encounters a ball with a strange spin, he is blocked and interfered by the opponent's forward and the players who rush to grab the ball at high altitude. He is almost always involved in the event of a mistake in the snatch, misjudgment, and movement deformation. As long as it is within a certain limit, it is understandable and will never hinder the overall evaluation of a good goalkeeper.

However, all the mistakes seemed to have never happened on Zuo Lin. No matter how bumpy the turf was, it would not make things difficult for Zuo Lin. As long as he wanted to catch the ball, no one could stop it. What made all the forwards even more desperate was that these performances were not Zuo Lin's full strength. Only when he encountered an unexpected suddenly changed direction ball, Zuo Lin would show his true strength in surprise. Based on the videos of him who rarely appeared suddenly with his extremely strong explosive power, he jumped over a considerable distance to grab the ball in his hand, his explosive power at those moments was far higher than his usual performance. Even Zuo Lin seemed to have some foresight for those accidents that were about to happen. Several times, Zuo Lin had moved in the right direction before the ball suddenly changed direction.

When encountering such a goalkeeper, the forwards had to think that they were unlucky. Since the North and South Star Games were basically a performance-oriented charity match, Luo Xianjie, who was the coach of the Southern Star Team, did not care much about himself. He replaced Zuo Lin during the midfield practice and asked him to practice on the sidelines. Zuo Lin was reluctant to ask for it, and he read it there in the second half, turning a book on his back, ignoring anything that happened on the court.

After a very short day of practice after the game, the national team was concentrated. The new head coach, the British Edward, took over the coaching staff of the Chinese national team for the first time. It is unknown how this somewhat unkempt British was discovered by the Chinese Football Association. Anyway, it is not a good match for the Football Association's style of choosing a head coach. He is neither a famous coach nor a beautiful coaching record. He doesn't even have many years of coaching records. Edward is a tactical theory.

The famous coach has served as a tactical consultant for several mid-range teams in the five major European leagues, assisting the head coach in tactical designation, fully exerting the strength of each player, and using various tactics to curb powerful opponents. In addition to the tactics on the court, he also has extremely rich imagination and execution for fully mobilizing various forces inside and outside the court and striving to obtain favorable factors before the game. Since he became a coach, he has always enjoyed the title of a stadium conspirator.

Choosing Edward to be the head coach of the Chinese team makes people have such an association: With the skills on the court, the Chinese team has no hope. But Edward is indeed a capable coach. He has done a lot of desk work since signing the contract. For all capable players in China, he also sent people to investigate the situation openly and secretly. After the national team was concentrated, Edward did not conduct long-term training, nor even allowed the team leader to conduct training with Football Association officials. He just said a few simple polite words and conducted a basic test of physical fitness according to the scheduled schedule.

Although the Football Association has given Edward a form of physical data of national team members collected from various clubs and a report on current physical condition, Edward does not seem to have a high degree of trust in this thing. Edward's test has indeed achieved some results. The physical condition of national team members is indeed better than the data on those tables. What surprised Edward was that as a goalkeeper, Zuo Lin had extremely luxurious data for goalkeepers: a 100-meter score of 10 seconds 44.

"Zuo Lin," After the test was finished, Edward gathered all the players together again and named them one by one to express his opinions. The first person he shouted out was Zuo Lin, "In all training courses, I only require you to participate in tactical classes. You can arrange the time for other courses. However, you are not allowed to leave the stadium or contact the media."

Edward's words surprised everyone. The national team has never treated a player so specially. No matter how big a player is in the club, they must work diligently when they arrive at the national team, otherwise they may lose their main position, play opportunities or their status as a national player at any time. But now, Edward's words eliminated Zuo Lin's almost all training tasks. As for tactical classes, such courses are of no significance to the goalkeeper.

Zuo Lin said lazily, "thanks" no longer expresses anything. Although he is not sensitive in dealing with people, he also knows that this is a great favor. Anyway, his idea is very simple. There is no need to force a relationship with them so many teammates in the national team to dislike him. Anyway, they cannot give the ball to their own goal in the game.

As soon as he was disbanded, the team leader immediately asked Edward why he had dealt with Zuo Lin so specially.

Edward smiled and said, "I will let the assistant coach slowly tell those guys that as long as they are strong enough, anyone can enjoy special treatment. And Zuo Lin, in my opinion, is the only person in the team who is qualified to enjoy this kind of treatment. I am not afraid of the privileged class in the team, what I am afraid of is that the special class does not have the ability to match it."

The team leader said angrily: "You are destroying the unity in the team."

"Is there any unity within the Chinese team?" Edward asked with a smile. In his coaching experience and consulting experience, he spent almost half of his time fighting against instability factors. Whether it is to deepen the instability of his opponents or consolidate his own stability within, he is a common trick. The Chinese team is not even the worst team he coaches. "Zuo Lin's performance is far more than what an excellent goalkeeper needs. I sent someone to the Shenbao team to learn about it. Zuo Lin has the physical fitness to run a marathon in 2 and a half hours. Look at his 100-meter score: 10

44 seconds, maybe it's normal for track and field athletes, but this is a goalkeeper. Sometimes I can't help but think about which idiot asked him to guard the goal? This kind of physical condition can play any position. Anyway, our goalkeeper coach is like an idiot in front of him, so why not train. I would suggest that the coach of Shenbao team try to let Zuo Lin play other positions from next season. As a reward for their loss in performance, I will choose one more person from Shenbao team to enter the national team. Anyway, they only have three people on the roster, which is indeed a little less for a double champion."

The team leader was dumbfounded. He was not a person who knew the logic of choosing Edward as the head coach this time, and there has never been such a head coach in the history of the Chinese national team. Edward's calculations on the inside and outside of the team made him lose the title of "conspirator". "...Isn't this a bit bad? How can such a team win?"

Edward shrugged meaninglessly and said, "It may be difficult to win before I fully grasp the situation, but it is also difficult to lose. Having a goalkeeper like Zuo Lin is the greatest happiness for a head coach. Chinese football is accustomed to measuring the value of a head coach by his record, which is very good. Zuo Lin has given me enough time. I have enough time to make the Chinese team a team that can win."

"You just believe in Zuo Lin? He is just a better goalkeeper." The team leader was quite dissatisfied with Edward's blind trust in Zuo Lin.

"Peter!" Edward hooked his finger at his assistant coach. The assistant coach who had appeared on the sidelines of the FA Cup finals quickly took out a CD from his pocket and respectfully handed it to the team leader.

"This CD is a confidential information provided by Shenbao Club. But it is not classified now. About 9 clubs have obtained this CD. In this Six Nations Invitational Tournament, they all sent scouts and even club officials." Edward said indifferently.
Chapter completed!