The players are very enthusiastic.
There is a saying in Mengniu's corporate culture: "Just find ways for success, not excuses for failure!" This sentence is very suitable for the national football team in 2002! Milu famously said, "Attitude decides everything!" This is one of the reasons why Everton famous Li Tie was selected as the national football team in 2002! In the preliminaries of the 2002 National Football World Cup, the opponents in the group stage were Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Oman and Uzbekistan. Basically, China was surrounded by West Asia at that time, and the national football team was not the strongest in the group, almost above the average. But in the end, China won 6 1 draw 1 negative, and went out with its head held high!
Many people think that the national football team qualified because Japan and South Korea did not participate in the preliminaries. There are some reasons, but please remember: Japan and South Korea, as hosts, still occupy two places, and Asia has only 2.5 places! Therefore, even if Japan and South Korea participate in the group stage, it has nothing to do with China's qualifying! The only time we qualify for the World Cup, we can't sell ourselves short!
Personally, the 2002 World Cup is the strongest national football team in history! At that time, why was the captain Ma Mingyu, not the North-South bosses? It's very simple. At that time, everyone in the team had their own personality and it was difficult to be compatible. Only when the docile horse is the captain can the team be balanced! In fact, the structure of this team at that time was very similar to that of Li Yunlong's troops in Liang Jian. Players have different personalities, but their goals are the same. Everyone is competing to show themselves, and morale and blood naturally come up!
China Football Association hires foreign coaches.
Horton, an Englishman, served as the head coach of the national team after the top ten games. As a lecturer of FIFA, his explanation of techniques and tactics made Fan Zhiyi and other big bosses pay homage. For example, why do corner kicks serve like this, how many factors should be considered, and the position before corner kicks serve. This imported atmosphere has brought a lot of new atmosphere to the China national team.
The most successful place of this session of China Football Association is the magic coach milutinovic. No one in China's national team has a successful World Cup experience, but milutinovic led the team to the World Cup many times, and even led the team to the knockout stage. After the China men's soccer team won the World Cup in 2002, some media claimed that Milu got a big bargain and could have been his coach successfully in China. I can only say that this is wishful thinking. At that time, the away game against Qatar, even in the backward situation, was definitely not a substitute for a domestic coach.
Milu is a clever coach. He was well aware of the factional struggle and external pressure within the national team, so he put forward Happy Football and made Ma Mingyu, who was outside the two major factions in Shanghai, the captain of the national team. Under the concept of "Happy Football", it not only allows several big stars to bury the hatchet, but also relieves the external pressure of the national team and effectively enhances the cohesion of the national team.
Zhang Jilong persuaded all the forces in the AFC.
Zhang Jilong successfully persuaded all the forces in the AFC, adhered to the grouping method in favor of China football, and avoided Saudi Arabia and Iran, two deadly rivals, clearing the last obstacle for China to attack the World Cup.
After the World Cup between China and China in 2002, European football began to get to know Japanese players gradually, and the national team also had more opportunities to communicate with European and American teams. A number of Korean players such as Li Tie, Li Weifeng, Shao Jiayi and Zheng Zhi entered the European arena. Looking back now, people like Yu Hai, Hao Junmin and Sun Xiang were able to study abroad in the later period, largely because of the success of this World Cup.