After the 17th round of the Premier League, Tottenham Hotspur beat Chelsea 40 at home and won a record of 67 unbeaten games, causing quite a lot of noise in the entire Premier League and European football world. However, soon, after this round of games, many media turned their attention to Tottenham Hotspur's Christmas Carnival.

This has become an important annual festival in North London. At the same time, Tottenham Hotspur’s twice-annual talent day selection event was held on the 23rd, the third day after the end of the 17th round of the league.

Tottenham Hotspur’s youth training camp has developed very quickly in the past few years. The strength of the youth team has changed drastically than when Ye Qiu took over. Currently, the first team is filled with youth training players including Ramsey, Eriksen, Hazard, etc. If you follow the youth training rules, Neymar, Coutinho and others will all be counted.

In addition to being well-known in the Premier League, Tottenham Hotspur's youth team performed the same as the first team's performance in the group stage of the first European Youth Champions League held this season, with all wins in six games, and their goals were more than the first team, scoring twenty-six goals in six games, and averaging more than four goals per game.

This is indeed a stat that surprised many people, and the young rookies in Tottenham Hotspur youth team, including Coutinho, Lucas Mora, Pogba, Eriksson, Nick Powell, Varane, Nastasic, Luke Oshaw and Chambers, all performed very well.

In addition to these rookie players who are already well-known in the forums and fan groups, three young players with great strength have emerged this season, namely Belgian talented star Januzai, English local midfielder Will Hughes and Croatian central defender Jedvic.

Tottenham Hotspur has always been known for its technology, and the youth team has always highly praised technology. Therefore, the young players emerging in Tottenham Hotspur team are more likely to win by their skills and spirituality, and do not have an advantage in terms of physicality.

Even Varane, Nastasic and Jedevich, these three central defenders do not have much advantage in physical confrontation, but they can only ensure that they do not suffer losses, but their skills are quite good, especially Jedevich, who is not inferior to the technical midfielder at all, and they are very good at taking balls and taking balls in the backcourt.

And another good advantage is that his defense is more about winning with consciousness and skills, and his body is at a disadvantage. This is also a significant feature of Tottenham Hotspur's entire youth system.

If you watch Tottenham Hotspur’s youth training camp in the past few years, it is not difficult to find an interesting phenomenon, that is, the younger they are, the less ideal their grades are. On the contrary, the youth teams such as Aston Villa, Leicester City, Coventry, Fulham, Reading and other teams have more ideal results.

But at the age of around Hl9, Tottenham Hotspur's overall strength has greatly improved.

Among England's national team, four players including Nick Powell, Will Hughes, Luke Oshaw, Karum Chambers were selected. Nick Powell was only seventeen years old, but he was already the core of this team. In addition, if Kyle O Walker, Phil O Jones and Beckham were included, Tottenham Hotspur's international contribution was not bad.

And if you look down, when you go to the Ul8 national team, a group of young rookies such as Patrick Roberts, Ryan Ledson, Dan Crowley also occupy the main position of this national team. Especially Dan Crowley, who is regarded as a future rookie. The player's feet are very good, and Patrick Roberts is called Messi II.

An obvious phenomenon is that almost all Tottenham Hotspur players cross age groups. Nick Powell, Luke and Shaw were supposed to play Hl8, but they were transferred to I, while Phil Jones entered the national team and occupied an important seat. Dan Crowley, who was about fifteen or more years old, entered the Hl8 national team, which were all over the top challenge.

Of course, like many players who challenge beyond the level, many players cannot play the main player in the age group of the national team, but this is a training process for them. They fight against players one or two years older than them early. In addition, Tottenham Hotspur attaches great importance to technical details, so they work hard to craft and exercise their skills and consciousness.

In the past few years, Tottenham Hotspur's youth training camp has also produced many players, but almost none of them can enter the first team. If calculated according to the age cycle, they can be counted as two batches. But tragic, they are more of a transitional product after Ye Qiu's reform of the youth training camp, so they naturally cannot enter the first team.

Even at the beginning, many people were dissatisfied with Ye Qiu's promotion of young rookies such as Hazard, Ramsey, Nastasic and Varane. After introducing Phil O Jones, many people also felt that Ye Qiu attached importance to youth training on the surface but did not use youth training.

But Ye Qiu's attitude was very clear. The youth training camp he wanted was the youth training system that was as modern as the top youth training system in the European continent such as Ajax, and was in line with future tactical trends and trends, rather than the original British style.

Maybe someone will be puzzled again, so why introduce Phil or Jones?

This is Ye Qiu's attempt, just like Wenger has almost done everything to reuse Will Sher. In the past, he spent so long to transform Vieira and Alexander O'Song and other players, Ye Qiu is also trying to see what would happen if Phil O'Shock's technology can be improved to meet the requirements of Tottenham Hotspur.

If there is such a person in Tottenham Hotspur youth team, he doesn't need to introduce it, but unfortunately, there is no.

In the current youth team that won all six games in the group stage of the European Youth Champions League, Ye Qiu's tactical ideas are fully reflected, because there is less physical confrontation, more technical content, and more tactical ideas are clearer.

Active running coverage, high-intensity compression and pressing, pass control and cutting are excellent, and the cooperation is relatively tacit. There are many cross-cornered passes and receiving balls, and more often they are used to send the ball into the opponent's 30-meter area or large penalty area to complete an attack, rather than long shots and irresponsible random shots.

This is the overall tactical concept, but the key problem is that this team seems to be very holistic, and everyone in the team is fighting together, but if you analyze and observe carefully, you will find that while this team is fighting overall, it pursues the talent and freedom of the players.

One obvious feature is that they have almost no position or responsibility restrictions. When players play, they will take on whatever they love and take on the responsibilities wherever they play.

It's like Nick Powell, he's the midfielder, but you can often see him stepping forward behind the striker, even moving to the wing to be a winger, or even retreating to be a central defender, and there's Will Hughes, a very comprehensive English local player, you can't even tell where he plays on the court.

Some people say that Will Hughes is like Barack in the Leverkusen era. On the surface, he is a midfielder, but in fact he is actively rushing forward. His running and physical fitness are very good in the team. When he rushed to the front, he immediately threw in the counter-attack as soon as he lost the ball, which looked like a ball grabbing machine, grabbing the backcourt from the frontcourt.

In this framework that advocates running, oppression and pressing, Tottenham Hotspur's group of young players maintains the running and endurance of very good. In addition, Mauro Tassoti, who leads the team to play the Youth Champions League, also actively carries out a large-scale rotation system, so the overall combat effectiveness of the team is ensured.

It can be said that in a few months, Tottenham Hotspur's youth team has won a lot of media attention. In addition, the low ticket price has made them crazy support from Tottenham Hotspur fans. Even Martin Samuel highly praised it in his column, believing that the tactical concept of this youth team is very advanced and has played the concept that is closest to being all offense and all defense.

Regarding such remarks, Ye Qiu also felt that the concept of the youth team is indeed very advanced, but it is not suitable for the adult team.

First of all, a very important and inevitable factor is that the physical confrontation requirements of adult teams are higher and the physical energy consumption is greater.

It's like the youth team's game against Valencia, and the whole game used ball control and running to pull Valencia away. The young players of the Bat Legion could not limit Tottenham's youth team. If they ran, they could not grab it, and the rhythm would be pulled away by the opponent. You had no way to curb him.

If you are a senior team, it doesn't matter. I'm a little more savage, I'm more physically fighting, and even the minor problems of many professional players such as small movements, or more secret harassment and swearing. These are things that everyone is accustomed to on professional courts and can effectively curb their opponents.

But it is rare in the youth team.

To change the angle, although Tottenham's youth team performed well in England, it was not amazing, mainly because most of the players in England's youth teams had good physical fitness. This is a misunderstanding that English teams would have in the past when selecting materials, or in other words, there were such misunderstandings in youth training all over Europe.

To be honest, some media asked Ye Qiu before whether the youth team could win the European Youth Champions League. Ye Qiu expressed his confidence, but when he analyzed with the coaching team, he said that he did not watch it.

The reason is very simple. The opponents in the group stage are relatively weak and not targeted. However, in the knockout round, all the teams that advance to the knockout round are basically those with stronger strength and better tactical targeting. At this time, you still want to continue to play in a relaxed environment in the group stage. It is impossible.

At this time, you have to face two choices: one, you need grades, and the other, stick to your original playing style and ideas.

One case worth paying attention to is Chelsea.

During the period of Ye Qiu, he tailored a youth training system for Chelsea, but later with the arrival of Aneson, Ye Qiu left the team early, and this system was completely disrupted and became very eager for quick success and instant benefits.

Looking at the so-called rookies launched by Chelsea in recent years, of course, there are also good embryos like Kakuta, but more are precocious players. Because these players have advantages in their bodies than their peers, as long as the technical gap is not large, they can use their bodies to suppress their opponents, and thus make themselves perform very well and crush their peers.

But all scouts know that this is an illusion

You can crush your opponent with your body at the age of sixteen, and you can still beat your opponent at the age of eighteen and nineteen, but the gap is not that big. What if you reach the age of twenty and twenty-one? What are the advantages you have when the other party's body is up? You will only expose your technical defects, that's all

Many people are so popular when they are young, but they look very mediocre after adulthood. That's it

The growth of all young players is a step-by-step pattern, climbing forward slowly step by step.

Why is Chelsea’s youth training camp eager for quick success? It is because it is filled with a group of precocious players such as Michael or Woods. The precocious body allows them to easily ravage their peers and achieve excellent results.

But Ye Qiu chose the latter one. When he founded Theobord's research center, there was a so-called player training practice center. Here, there was a group of professionals led by Bobby Hams, with excellent youth training abilities, rich experience, and excellent theory. Their existence was to establish and maintain a rigorous step-by-step player training system for Tottenham Hotspur.

The group of people inside will specifically track the detailed data of each player in Tottenham Hotspur team, and focus on several players that the coaching staff is optimistic about, and tailor a complete set of progress and development plans for them to help them climb up one step at a time.

So many people say that Tottenham Hotspur’s youth training rate is very high, Ramsey has firmly taken the main role, Hazard performed well, Neymar, Coutinho, Erikson and others are all excellent, Phil O Jones seems to have begun to take the technical route, but in fact, this player training practice center is playing its role behind it.

In order to cooperate with the Genius Day selection activity, Ye Qiu made an exception and allowed Sky TV to enter the Youbould youth training camp, interviewed the Youbould youth training supervisor Rick Link, youth training consultant Bobby Hams, and grandly introduced the completely formed and stable youth training system, as well as the mysterious player training practice center.

Sky TV specially created a special program for this and broadcast it on the sports channel, which attracted widespread attention from the outside world and the media. Only then did everyone realize that Tottenham Hotspur had such departments.

For example, they have never heard of a group of tactical masters gathering a tactical library to discuss and study future football tactical trends, a player training practice center dedicated to the purpose of cultivating players, and a game analysis group dedicated to analyzing and studying opponents to provide advice for the head coach...

With the broadcast of Sky TV, this program quickly spread all over the world, and was reprinted and reported in major newspapers, magazines and TV stations. It was only now that everyone was surprised to find that behind Tottenham's success, there was such a huge and meticulous operating team.

At the end of the TV show, Tottenham CEO Peter Neon said that operating these departments will cost at least about 10 million euros more than other teams a year, but this amount of money can recover costs from player transfers and reduced injuries, which is still a huge profit.

This is undoubtedly Tottenham Hotspur is building momentum for the talented Japanese player selection activities.

In fact, this has become an event that all fans and journalists around the world are competing for attention, not only because of the Christmas Carnival, but also because they all want to know who can win the favor of Tottenham Hotspur? Who can become another genius selected by Ye Qiu?

But Tottenham Hotspur broadcast an interview with Ye Qiu on its official website and AP.

In this interview, Ye Qiu said that Tottenham Hotspur’s so-called genius day selection is not necessarily genius. When the team selects players, they often pay attention to the players’ existing abilities, but more about potential, and potential includes the players’ attitudes.

"Football is like all industries in the world. It is easy to get started. You can play football as long as you can run or jump. However, it is very, very difficult for anyone to become the best and most outstanding superstar in the football industry. It not only requires you to have outstanding skills and talents, but more importantly, you must have great personality and you must also have super learning ability."

Regarding what Ye Qiu said in the interview, Ricklink also mentioned in the program of Sky TV that the Dutch mentioned a Belgian player, Yuri O Tilemans, a young player who is only fourteen years old, was defeated in the genius selection because he performed very poorly, but his personality made the team like it very much and recommended it.

Now, he has become the main player of Tottenham Hotspur's HlU age group, and he is also the captain of the team, and has performed very well.

In addition, like Will Hughes, he performed poorly when he participated in the Genius Day selection for the first time, but his attitude in training and confrontation made Tottenham Hotspur scouts highly praised him and invited him to participate in the selection again. He eventually entered Tottenham Hotspur and performed well

With Tottenham Hotspur's previous round of publicity and promotion, coupled with Tottenham's achievements and influence in the past few years, as well as the good reputation won by the North London team in the youth training field, Tottenham Hotspur's genius day selection event has once again been praised by many young players and parents of players around the world.

However, with the restrictions on the rules of FIFA and UEFA, the international transfer age of players must be over 18 years old, and the transfer in the EU region must reach 16 years old. Therefore, the genius day selection activities are still mainly based on England, supplemented by EU countries. Except for those outstanding players who can be designated as genius by De Visel, outside Europe, they basically do not consider it because the procedures for introducing such players are troublesome, and there are many subsequent problems, and the club is under great pressure.

Even if you are not careful, it may cause transfer disputes.

But even so, the first day of the Genius Day selection is still crowded.
Chapter completed!