Suarez: What I'm thinking about now is how to make Yatai win

Special correspondent Liu Zhun reports As a high-risk profession, the class of a career coach is in a sense a countdown to the end of class. Therefore, Xie Hui's class and Suarez's class are just Changchun Yatai's completion of a baton handover. However, Xie Hui left Suarez in a difficult situation, which caused Suarez's appointment to feel a little heavy. After all, he wants to save a team that has suffered four consecutive defeats - in the 12th round of the Chinese Super League, Changchun Yatai lost 0-1 at home to the third-to-last Henan team. After losing another crucial game to turn the relegation situation around, Yatai continued to be at the bottom of the rankings.

At the post-match press conference, acting head coach Yan Feng said: "I would like to say sorry to the fans, our difficulties are temporary, and I believe that under the leadership of Mr. Suarez, we will overcome the difficulties and succeed in relegation." Captain Tan Long said: "We can't give up, the league is very long, we still have a chance. ”

"Only those who are scared can survive" should be the survival rule of professional coaches. The "panic" here is not fear, but a kind of pressure, or a kind of endurance. After all, heroes are judged by success or failure in the arena. At 11:30 on the 10th, flight CA1627 taken by Suarez and his group of 6 people arrived in Changchun ahead of schedule and began his second coaching journey in the Chinese Super League. However, in the next 34 hours, he did not have time to reverse the jet lag, and he witnessed a defeat on the rostrum of "South Ridge". Although Changchun Yatai was in a slump, many fans came to Suarez after the game to ask for autographs and give him encouragement.

At 13:30 on the 10th, Suarez's team entered the Yatai Jingyue base, at this time, most of the Yatai players had eaten lunch and returned to the room to rest, Suarez just greeted the players who had not left Omoi, Juanfu and Li Shenyuan in the restaurant. In order to get the new coaching team into working condition as soon as possible, the club arranged a photo shoot session for the makeup of the new coaching team after lunch.

During the filming, Suarez had a solemn expression, as if he was thinking about a way to lead Changchun Yatai out of the predicament. The photographer hoped that Suarez would relax and motioned for him to smile, but Suarez pointed to his lips and told the translator that there was a bubble at the corner of his mouth, "What I think about most now is how to make Changchun Yatai win." ”

Before the "second transfer", Suarez, who is good at defending and counterattacking, can only consider how to reorganize Yatai's existing player configuration, including the adjustment of technical and tactical level, ideological level and coach level. Although Changchun Yatai is currently ranked at the bottom of the list, the team still has a considerable number of powerful players, and he hopes to complete the transformation of Changchun Yatai at the technical and tactical level through training and games, and hopes that the team will be improved in the next games.

After deciding to take over Changchun Yatai's handsome seal, Suarez, who was in Portugal, immediately began to do his homework, and learned about the team's technical and tactical play and staffing by watching Changchun Yatai's game videos this season. Originally, he planned to come to Changchun next week, hoping to complete the transformation of Changchun Yatai during a nearly one-month break (May 18 to June 13). But at present, Changchun Yatai is in danger and cannot afford to delay, so Suarez gathered a team to fly to Changchun as soon as possible to meet the new owner.

After the last round of games, Xie Hui handed over the handover seal, and the club urgently transferred Yan Feng, the coach of the Yatai U21 team who was leading the team to participate in the U21 League in Zhuhai, and he and Zhang Xiaofei (youth training director), Qin Xiao and Zhang Li, the former assistant coach of the first team, formed a firefighting coaching staff to be responsible for the training of the first team. Since Suarez arrived in Changchun only the day before the match against Henan, Yan Feng was in charge of the on-the-spot command of the game.

At 18:30, after resting for 5 hours, Suarez used dinner time to communicate with Yan Feng, a member of the firefighting coaching staff, to learn about the team's training in the past week and the status of key players. "I have watched the video of Changchun Yatai's game, and I feel that the next work will face great challenges and difficulties. But I have faith in this team and I will do everything I can to help them achieve their relegation goals. Suarez said.

At 19 o'clock on the 17th, Suarez will make his official debut at home against Tianjin Jinmen Tigers, completing his debut as coach of Changchun Yatai. Although he faced more difficulties, the firefighting coaching staff had begun to rebuild the team's cohesion before facing the Henan team at home on the 11th, the acting coaching staff changed the habit of taking a walk after lunch and brought the whole team to the Yatai Team History Museum, so that the players could feel the 29-year history of Changchun Yatai at zero distance, and enhance the team's sense of honor and team spirit.