On November 10th and 16th, two national team matches were held in Europe. Those powerhouse level teams were deeply affected by the "FIFA virus." Although the Forest team was not yet a powerhouse, they still felt a chill.
The so-called "FIFA virus" referred to the international A-level match days stipulated by FIFA. The national team would transfer a large number of players from various clubs to carry out intensive and frequent national team matches. Then, after returning to their respective clubs, the players would be physically and mentally exhausted and their form would decline. They would play in club matches as if they were sleepwalking.
The outbreak period of the virus could be long or short. A short one would only affect one or two matches. A long one … There was also a name called "World Cup Syndrome." Any player who performed well in the World Cup would often fall into a season-long slump.
Tang En encountered another difficult problem in his professional coaching career. How to deal with and overcome the "FIFA virus."
Look at the Forest team's roster.
The main goalkeeper, Edwin van der Sar, the number one goalkeeper of the Netherlands national team, was transferred.
Leighton Baines was originally the main player of England's U21 national team, but he was not selected this time because of an injury.
Sun Jihai, the main player of the China national team, would have to travel across Europe and Asia if he returned home. This was not something to be proud of. The journey would greatly affect a player's physical function and playing state. But fortunately, history did not deviate from this point. The China national team was eliminated in the first stage of the Asian World Cup qualifiers in Germany. They could not beat the West Asians in match-fixing. That was a year ago, on November 17th. In the future, Tang En would not wrangle with the China Football Association over Sun Jihai's long-distance flight.
Piqué, the main player of Spain's U21 national team, was transferred to participate in the youth team matches.
The loss on the rear defensive line was relatively small. After all, Pepe had not yet been selected for the Portugal national team, and the Brazilian Football Association had not come looking for him. Brazil had always been like this. There were too many domestic geniuses. Many people who played in Europe were initially crowned with the title of "genius," but in the end, only a few could enter the Brazilian national team. Back then, the Bundesliga's top scorer Ayrton had the idea of becoming a Qatari citizen and playing in international matches. Barcelona's midfielder, Deco, did it more thoroughly. He directly applied for Portuguese citizenship and joined the Portugal national team.
Countless geniuses could not even find the door to the Brazil national team in their entire lives. What was a "special genius" in the English league?
In the midfield. Albertini, who had already announced his retirement from the Italy national team, could rest at home at this time and did not have to fly everywhere. George Wood may have performed well, but England's midfield is stacked with star players. Eriksson could not even play his current cards well, let alone recruit new players. Therefore, Wood, who was highly praised by the media, could also make use of this rare free time to spend with his mother.
Ashley Young, who had always been the main force of England's U21 national youth team, was selected to participate in the youth team tournament. Aaron Lennon was also selected, except that Lennon was participating in the U18 youth team tournament.
Although he could only be a substitute for the Forest team for ten thousand years, Branyagunalsson was still recruited by the Iceland national team.
Frank Berry's inclusion in the French national team was expected by everyone. The French media had been hyping up the matter for a long time. The poor kid who had been messing around in the lower leagues had now been selected for the Gaul team in a high-profile manner. It was quite similar to China's traditional "pheasant becoming a phoenix."
Mikel Arteta was perhaps the most frustrated of the Forest midfielders. His ability was good and he performed very well on the Forest team. However, no matter how well he performed, the door to the Spanish national team was still locked on him. Arteta could only lament that he was born at the wrong time. At this time, the Spanish national team had the powerful Xavi and Iniesta in the midfield, so there was no need for organizational players. Even Real Madrid's Guti had not been included in the Spanish national team's roster for a long time.
Arteta had only played a few games on behalf of the Spanish U21 youth team and was still a big "0" in the Spanish national team's game record.
The midfield was where the most players were selected and had the greatest impact.
The situation with the strikers was simple. Nicklas Bendtner was the main force of the Denmark national youth team. He was bound to return home to compete. Mark Viduka, like him, could not be missing in the important game that would determine whether Australia could advance to next year's World Cup in Germany. He became the player with the longest flying distance in the team, which was a great test of his physical fitness. Fortunately, the Australian bulls had always been proud of their excellent physical fitness.
Another striker who played well for the Forest team, Nicolas Anelka, was not selected for the French national team because of his strained relationship with the French Football Federation.
Freddy Eastwood's injury was ignored.
In this way, eight of the 23 players on Nottingham Forest's First Team roster were selected by their respective national teams. And most of them were the main force.
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Tang En's attitude toward the national team competition was contradictory.
For those players who could not play in the club matches, Tang En still hoped they could maintain their form in the national team through the competition. For example, Branya, Gunnarsson, Aaron Lennon …
As for the other players who were the main force in the club, Tang En did not want them to be the main force in the national team, because it would increase their burden.
Frankly speaking, this idea was selfish. But which club manager was not selfish?
Everyone hoped that their players would be healthy and not have their form decline because they could not play for a long time. Tang En was the same. Even though he was English now, he was not "patriotic" at all. Is it natural that the England national team needs my players? Then who will be responsible if my players get injured while playing for the country?
It was also fortunate that the China national team had been eliminated a year ago. Otherwise, Tang En would definitely be wrangling with the China Football Federation. Don't look at how he used to be a China man. Deep down, he was still a China man. But the China team wanted players from me? No way!
Fortunately, Albertini had already announced his withdrawal from the national team. Otherwise, how could Old Demetrio, who had just recovered from his injury, endure the torment of both the national team and the club? If a player got injured while playing for the national team, it would still be the club that footed the bill. It made no sense for the club to pay the player's salary and bonuses. Yet, they still had to worry about the national team competition that they could not even play.
Even though it was every player's duty and responsibility to play for the national team, if FIFA stipulated that the national team had to be responsible for all the player's medical expenses and compensate the club's losses at the same time, Tang En would be more than happy to let the player fight for the country.
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