The Football Association attached great importance to this East Asian Football Championship. Before the national team departed for South Korea, Football Association Executive Vice Chairman Xie Yalong, Vice Chairman Yang Yimin, National Team Management Department Director Zhu Heyuan, and other officials came to Xianghe Training Base to visit the national team players.
As usual, the officials launched into a long-winded speech about carrying forward the spirit of hardship and perseverance, unity and cooperation, daring to face difficulties, and responding to strong opponents with calmness, seriousness, composure, and decisiveness...
The players below were nearly dozing off, but when officials of this rank spoke, everyone on the team had to come and listen whether they wanted to or not.
To be honest, both the players and coaches hated this kind of formalism. Aside from wasting everyone's time and wearing down the players' patience, it served no positive purpose whatsoever.
Sometimes, it even had the opposite effect. Overemphasizing things like winning glory for the country placed a heavy psychological burden on the players, making it harder for them to play freely on the pitch.
During Milu's era, the national team even significantly reduced training before major tournaments. He would specifically set aside time to chat with the players, doing everything he could to ease their psychological burden so they could approach matches with a more positive and optimistic mindset.
But that was a privilege reserved for foreign coaches. As a local coach, Zhu Guanghu did not have that much authority. At this moment, he could only sit obediently on a little stool like a primary school student and listen to the lecture.
Lin Feng yawned again and checked the time. Good lord, these people had been talking for nearly two hours.
How could they talk so much?
He glanced at Gao Lin beside