Squeezed gluon vacuum and the global color model of QCD

We discuss how the vacuum model of Celenza and Shakin with a squeezed gluon condensate can explain the existence of an infrared singular gluon propaga tor frequently used in calculations within the global color model. In parti cular, it reproduces a recently proposed QCD-motivated model where low ener gy chiral parameters were computed as a function of a dynamically generated gluon mass. We show how the strength of the confining interaction of this gluon propagator and the value of the physical gluon condensate may be conn ected.