Tong Yi's heart skipped a beat, and he immediately asked, "What's the problem?"
Horne immediately said, "You may not know that David only turned 17 years old in June this year. According to the regulations of German professional football, young players must be 18 years old or older before they can represent professional teams in professional leagues. Now even though we are
If he is loaned to you, he will not be able to represent your team in the Bundesliga."
Araba's face darkened, and the light in his eyes instantly disappeared.
Tong Yi frowned slightly and looked at Araba carefully.
This is indeed the case. The German Professional League and the German Football Association do have such a rule that young players under the age of 18 cannot represent professional teams in professional leagues. This is said to protect young players. Because they are afraid that young players’ bodies are not fully developed yet.
When you suddenly enter the high-intensity and high-confrontation professional league, your body is prone to problems and injuries.
And according to past experience, injuries to young players are generally serious and difficult to recover from. Some even simply cannot continue to play professional football and have no choice but to change careers. This is why they feel that there are more young geniuses in football.
s reason.
To be honest, in Tong Yi's view, the starting point of the German Professional League and the German Football Association is good, but this policy is a bit unrealistic and hinders the development of German football and German professional football.
Because this is likely to cause the loss of young talented players.
In fact, it is no longer "possible", but has become a reality.
After all, other top leagues in Europe do not set restrictions on the appearance of young players, but Germany does. For example, a young talent trained in the German youth training is 16 years old. He cannot play professional games in Germany. But if he transfers to
He can play in the top leagues in England, France, Italy and Spain. In order to get the opportunity to play in the top leagues, these talented teenagers will definitely choose to go to other countries. And they will do so at extremely low prices or even on free transfers.
Other national leagues, because they only signed youth contracts with the German home team and do not have professional contracts.
In 1999, 16-year-old Walz left the Schalke youth team and moved to Arsenal. In 2005, Ziller, also 16, moved to Manchester United from Cologne. In 2009, 17-year-old Mustafi left
Hamburg youth academy defected to Everton.
And in Tong Yi's later generations' memory, 16-year-old Gnabry will also leave Stuttgart and transfer to Arsenal two years later, and these players will all be top players who have been selected for the German national team in the future. Again
In addition to those outstanding young players who are not top-notch, I don’t know how many talents have been lost in German professional football in the past ten or twenty years.
Most of these players who left are aged sixteen or seventeen, which is the time period when they enter the first team from the youth team. However, they cannot enter the first team in Germany.
Tong Yi frowned and said, "This rule is simply If we continue to reverse the course of professional football, German football will lose more and more young talents, which is extremely detrimental to the development of German football."
Huo Nei and others all shrugged, looking helpless.
Of course, Niedermeier even felt that Tong Yi was a bit dangerous and sensational.
Niedermeier immediately said, "Are you being a bit alarmist? The loss of young players does exist, but this has nothing to do with the age limit of the professional league, right? Those players who left are all players who cannot compete with children in the internal competition.
They just left and found another way out. Even if we lose some outstanding young players, it doesn't matter, because our German professional football youth training system is very complete, and we can train more outstanding young players and play one or two games.
It doesn’t matter.”
Tong Yi shook his head slightly, secretly thinking that this person is so short-sighted.
Perhaps the Germans and Niedermeier have roughly the same idea, so they don't pay much attention to this situation.
In this regard, Tong Yi had no intention of persuading Niedermeier. Because in this matter, time will prove everything.
At this stage, there is really no need for the Germans to be anxious.
Because at this stage, the players in their national youth teams at all levels are almost all players from the youth training of local German clubs. For example, many players from the Munich 1860 youth training have entered the German youth teams at all levels. In their opinion, the most
A group of outstanding players still stay in China.
However, Tong Yi knew very well.
In a few years, Germany's national youth teams at all levels will usher in huge changes.
In a few years, there will be more and more outstanding young players from foreign clubs in the German youth national teams at all levels, and they will even account for half or more. Only then will they truly realize this problem.
severity.
In the memory of Tong Yi's later generations, it should be nine years later in 2018 when the Germans realized this problem and solved it with their left hand.
That summer, a transfer shocked the Germans.
At just 16 years old, Unterhaching striker Adeyemi was bought out by Red Bull Salzburg for 3.5 million euros.
Before the transfer, the mixed-race forward born in Munich had just received the Fritz Walter Award, awarded by the German Football Association to represent the best player of this age group.
At that time, many clubs in Germany were interested in him, including Bundesliga champions Bayern Munich. However, due to the age limit of German professional football, he was unable to complete registration in German professional football and was unable to participate.
He joined the German professional league, so he chose Red Bull Salzburg.
Not long after joining the team, he was loaned to the Austrian second division team Levering.
In Levering's second season, the 17-year-old played 13 games, scored 8 goals and provided 7 assists, making him a top player. In 2020, at the age of 18, he was selected for the German national team.
There are many, many players like him. Among the Austrian second-level players, Leverling, there are three young German players born after 2000. This does not say that we look at the whole of Austria and the whole of Europe.
Moreover, according to Tong Yi's understanding, Austria and Turkey later became the choices of most young German players aged 16 or 17, because here they can gain experience in professional football matches faster than if they stayed at home.
More growth opportunities will allow them to gain more experience. This will allow them to surpass more of their peers who remain in the country. Therefore, the main players of the German national youth teams at all levels will soon be replaced by those with professional league experience.
It is occupied by young Germans living abroad.
It is precisely because of Adeyemi's incident that Unterhachen's chairman Schwab stood up and called upon the German Professional League and the German Football Association to lift the age limit for young players to play German professional football, so that young talents in Germany can be preserved.
.Otherwise, as more and more young people leave, they may choose to represent Austria, Turkey and other European countries in the international arena. In that case, it will be a huge blow to German football.
Later, represented by Dortmund's genius star Mukoko, a group of fifteen-year-old young talents emerged in German football. This led to the German Professional League and the German Football Association to make changes, and this year
I received the reform at the age of seventeen.
This problem is actually still very serious now, but Tong Yi is not like that guy who wakes up alone when everyone is drunk. It is too tiring to be shaken like this.
He did not argue with Niedermeier and said, "Maybe! Of course, the issue we want to discuss now is not this, but David's matter."
Horne also immediately said, "Yes, this problem is what we urgently need to solve now. Do you have a solution?"
Tong Yi pondered for a moment, thought about it carefully, and then said, "I remember that the current record holder for the youngest player appearance in German professional football is Dortmund's Nouri Shaheen!"
Rene and Nellinger looked at each other and were shocked. They didn't expect it.
Nellinger immediately said "Yes!"
Tong Yi continued, "When he represented Dortmund's first team, he seemed to be 16 years old, not 17 years old, right? Is that right? Did I remember correctly?" Horne immediately turned to look at Nellinger, his eyes full of questions.
Tong Yi was very speechless, and Horne's acting skills were too bad. He obviously knew about this, but he pretended not to know and asked Nellinger.
Very speechless!
Nellinger also pretended to ponder for a moment, and then said, "You remember correctly. Sahin represented Dortmund in his first appearance in the German Professional League at the age of 16. To be precise, he was 16 years and 355 days old."
Hearing this, the corners of Tong Yi's mouth raised slightly, didn't he find a way?
In fact, Tong Yi had found a way before he got here.
Because, in Tong Yi’s later memories, Alaba represented Bayern Munich’s second team in the Bundesliga 3 this season and made his debut in the professional league. This Bundesliga 3 is also in the German professional football system and belongs to the professional football league.
.Before 2018, players under the age of 18 were not allowed to play in the German Bundesliga 3.
Alaba's situation in representing Bayern Munich's second team in the Bundesliga 3 this season is actually similar to Shaheen's situation.
Because there is an exception to the age limit for young players to play in professional leagues in the German Professional League and the German Football Association, that is, young players who belong to the A-level youth teams of the German Football Association can participate when they are 17 or older in the season.
German professional league.
Shaheen belongs to this category, and Araba also belongs to this category.
In fact, apart from Shaheen, there are still some players under the age of 18 who have played in the German Professional Football League before, such as Ogo in 2004, Castro in 2005, and Vrancic in 2007.
Hartman and Lauter in 2008, etc., they were all 17 years old at the time.
Now Alaba also belongs to the German Football Association's A-level youth team. He was 17 years and 255 days old when he played for Bayern Munich's second team this season.
Therefore, Tong Yi doesn't have to worry about this at all.
Since Bayern Munich has already planned to let Alaba play in the German Bundesliga this season, they naturally know this. The reason why they asked this is probably to check Tong Yi to see if he is really interested in Alaba.
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Now it seems that he is really interested. Horne, Nellinger and others have dispelled their doubts. They believe that Tong Yi will really train Alaba well.
Rene looked at Nellinger and nodded, then said to Tong Yi, "Okay, we, Tong Yi, will loan Alaba to you, but we still have to discuss the specific details."
Tong Yi nodded very happily, and was very excited in his heart. He finally got Araba.