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Gao Enze had never expected that he would score in a major tournament, and against France National Team at that.

Because of his individual traits, he was not especially strong out wide.

Offensively, he was like a weakened version of Chiesa after his major injury, except he liked passing more than Chiesa and could defend as well. He was a rare wing-back for this era.

At club level, his coaches had wanted him to play full-back, but his positional sense was not very good, so he had never managed to secure a stable role. Yet when he joined the Olympic National Team's training camp, he unexpectedly performed quite well.

All he needed to do was push forward, track back, drop behind to support whenever his teammates made forward runs, and avoid cutting inside like other wide players. Even his passes only needed to be safe ones.

That immediately brought out his strengths to the fullest.

If they had to make a comparison, he was somewhat like Coutinho during his Liverpool days. He was not as strong, but both were players who could thrive under specific tactics.

Positionally, he was a wide midfielder, similar to Fletcher.

Within the Olympic National Team, he was one of the players closest to Huang Kaiwen's sons.

Anyway, he only passed to players with the surname Huang.

That was how the coach had arranged things too.

Every day in the locker room, he reminded them to pass to the other teammates as well.

Olympic National Team head coach Chen Yang glanced at the pitch before turning to ask, "Kevin, how do you think we should play now?"

"Ah..."

Huang Kaiwen froze for a moment before saying, "Let's keep playing like this. The kids are doing pretty well."