Shanghai East Asia was once called the "Chinese Manchester United" in China. In fact, there are certain reasons for this.
Just like the rise of Manchester United is due to the persistence of coach Ferguson, Shanghai East Asia also has a coach who built it from scratch - Xu Genbao.
Coach Xu Genbao is a famous figure in domestic football. He was very successful both as a player and in his coaching career. However, when he was over 50 years old and had already won numerous honors, he was well aware of the decline of domestic football youth training and resolutely gave up.
After receiving a high-paying coaching position, he began to devote himself to the training of youth football and stayed there for fifteen years.
At first, Xu Genbao's psychological bottom line for building the base was 8 million, which was all his savings. But on June 1, 2000, when the first shovel of foundation soil was excavated, the cost began to become uncontrollable. In October 2001, the base
After the completion, Xu Genbao's total investment reached 3,000,000 yuan. Not only did he use up all his savings, but he also borrowed more than 2,000,000 yuan from the bank. He had to pay back more than 1.4 million yuan in interest alone in a year.
Unlike other football schools, Xu Genbao does not profit from recruiting students. A young player costs Xu Genbao at least 20,000 yuan a year. As a last resort, Xu Genbao began to "sell face" everywhere: Wanda boss ****** as a friend
, once sponsored the base for 1 million yuan; Mizuno, Golden Throat, Wahaha and other companies donated some equipment free of charge. Lao Xu is also working hard to "open source": he contacted the Chongming Tourism Bureau to use the base as an attraction, and tourists will be charged 5 yuan for admission;
There are thousands of yuan in ticket revenue every month. The football hotel will generate an income from hosting tourists on weekends; there are also sales of football peripheral products. Even reporters went to interview and were told that they could interview Director Xu exclusively after staying for one night. Recall this paragraph
One day, Xu Genbao said: "I have to accompany the guests to take photos, sign autographs, have meals, sell books, sell stamps... Of course they all have to have my signature, and I will be sure to sign..."
But the sporadic income was not enough to cope with the high annual loans. In 2001, Xu Genbao accepted the invitation of Shanghai COSCO Club to go out again. Before leaving, he told the team members, I am not ignoring you, I am going out to make money for you!
Later, his good friend Xu Zexian, the boss of COSCO, asked him: "Investment is about returns. How many years do you plan to pay back?" Genbao said: "Ten years! Back then, O2 had been grinding for ten years and it was just a 'semi-finished product'. Now,
I am fully committed to 'sharpening the sword for another ten years.'" Xu Zexian lamented: "No businessman can bear the risk of ten years of investment."
Even so, Director Xu Genbao has never hesitated to invest in player selection, so there is an endless stream of good players from East Asia. Those who have left the team include Cao Yunding (Shanghai Shenhua), Bai Jiajun (Shanghai Shenhua),
Zheng Kaimu (Shanghai Shenhua), Zhang Linpeng (Guangzhou Evergrande), Wang Jiayu, Jiang Zhipeng, Gu, etc.
The most famous one who remains in the East Asian team is the outstanding combination of civil and military. Among them, Wu Lei has attracted much attention from the outside world. Director Xu once predicted that he will be the future Maradona, and he himself also reflects his outstanding performance.
abilities of peers.
Shanghai East Asia was promoted to China last season as the champion of the Chinese League One. After being promoted to China, the East Asia team did not spend too much money to buy foreign players. Although SIPG offered 7 million in naming funds, and Shanghai Pudong
, Rural Commercial Bank and other sponsors, but the budget available to Xu Genbao is still quite shabby despite the squandering of gold dollars. Wu Lei, who previously stated that he planned to score 10 goals in the mid-season, said frankly: "In terms of lineup cards, maybe East Asia is really ranked
The middle and last 1/3, regardless of internal or external references, cannot be compared with other teams."
Although coach Xu Genbao put forward the grand plan of 631 before the season, that is, strive to enter the top six in 2o13, strive for the top three in 2o14, and strive to win the championship in the third year, the 2o15 season! However, after being promoted to the middle and lower back, the strength of foreign players could not keep up, resulting in the ball
The team's results did not meet expectations. Before the match against Longteng, Shanghai East Asia only had five wins, three draws and eight losses, and it did not completely get rid of the trouble of relegation.
Shanghai East Asia obviously doesn't pay much attention to the competition for the strongest youth training in the country, which is highly speculated by the outside world. Judging from the roster they provided, it is basically an all-substitute lineup, and the players are all in 1993 or even 1994.
It can be seen that the East Asian team is still focusing on the league.
The Longteng team has arranged its strongest lineup. Except for Kanter who cannot play due to a yellow card, even foreign center back McGowan, who has just returned from injury, also plays. Kanter's position is replaced by Zhang Hao.
appearance.
After the kick-off, Shanghai East Asia resorted to its usual tactics - defensive counterattack, which was also a last resort for the East Asia team. Originally, according to the historical process, Gao Hongbo would be the coach of Shanghai East Asia this season, but because of Long Teng
Due to the emergence of the team, Gao Hongbo began to study abroad again, and the time was set for 1-2 years. This is a long-term process. Therefore, Shanghai East Asia had no choice but to use former Shenhua head coach Xi Zhikang as the head coach this season.
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Based on the characteristics of Shanghai East Asia, Xi Zhikang designated the strategy of focusing on defense and using Wu Lei's sudden activation speed and technology to counterattack.
However, this tactic did not work well in this game. First, it was impossible to counterattack and attack.
Due to the large number of substitute players, the team's strength was greatly affected. Although Shanghai East Asia tried to use the momentum of young players to attack the Longteng team's defense many times, unfortunately the strength of the players was still far from enough.
In this game, the two midfielders of the Longteng team are Sun Yu and Zhang Hao. Sun Yu's defensive ability is nothing to say. Whether it is physical or defensive skills, there are many players who suffer in front of him, even if
Many midfielders, offensive players and even foreign players are guarded by him and have no temper. At the same time, Sun Yu's transition of passing and receiving in the midfield is also very good. Although he does not have much ability to pass forward, he can control the rhythm of the game and
The transfer station is still very strong.
The young player Zhang Hao who came up this time is an outstanding defensive player. He has been training with the football school and the first team for several months. Although he has not yet shown his potential, he has been in the team many times.
He has shown strong defensive ability in the confrontation and the Chinese Reserve League. Compared with Sun Yu, he is taller, stronger and full of explosive power.
In this game, the foreign aid high center Ibini of the Shanghai East Asia team is a Nigerian-Australian player. This foreign aid, who came to Shanghai East Asia for the second time, is 1.88 meters tall and weighs 78 kilograms. In addition, as a black player, he has the unique characteristics of
Although he has a strong body, he does not get any advantage in front of Zhang Hao, because Zhang Hao is also 1.88 meters tall and weighs 76 kilograms, which is not much different from his opponent. In many head-on confrontations, Zhang Hao did not suffer any loss.
After many long passes to Ibini failed, Shanghai East Asia's offense fell into trouble.
Another aspect of the defensive counterattack tactics in this game was that Shanghai East Asia failed to defend itself defensively.
In the 35th minute of the first half, the Longteng team's foreign aid showed its power. Ivo showed his strength in front of a group of 19,2o teenagers on the opposite side. He first used his skills to get past Lin Chuangyi in the midfield,
Next, he won the physical confrontation with another midfielder Hu Bowen, and then he passed the ball to Mahrez on the right. Mahrez easily passed Geng Gengqi and went straight into the penalty area.
Mahrez passed an inverted triangle ball to Wenkai. Wenkai did not waste this opportunity and scored the ball directly, and the score became o:1.
This goal completely relied on the personal abilities of Ivo and Mahrez. The two of them completely knocked out Shanghai East Asia's entire defense. All Wenkai had to do was to run to the right position and eat the cake.
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After scoring the goal, the Longteng team played with greater ease. Sun Yu, who had just been called up by the national team, was also very excited in this game.
In the 43rd minute of the first half, Sun Yu, who rarely dribbles the ball in the midfield, suddenly dribbled forward. During the forward thrust, he also made a triangle offensive pass with Ivo and Yu Bo.
Pushing the ball to the left baseline of the East Asian team, Yu Bo made a pass from the left, but the ball was punched out by the goalkeeper Sun Le of the East Asian team and hit the top of the penalty area. Sun Yu, who was standing at the top of the arc, kept balling.
A direct long shot, the ball hit the opponent's player and refracted into the net. This was also Sun Yu's first goal this season.
The two-goal lead in the first half also meant that there was not much suspense in this game. Sure enough, even if the Longteng team replaced Mahrez and McGowan in the second half, the East Asian team still did not have many chances. In the end, the game was also
It ended with a score of o:2.
At the press conference after the game, a reporter asked Zhang Sheng about the Longteng team's goal in the FA Cup this season. Zhang Sheng said jokingly: "I know what you want me to say, but I will definitely not say that I
I want to achieve better results than last year. I can only say that we will go all out in the remaining games and play well one game at a time." In fact, Zhang Sheng's words still revealed his desire for the FA Cup championship.
, after all, Zhang Sheng was still haunted by his failure to reach the finals last year.
Next was the reporter arranged by the Longteng team. The reporter asked: "I heard that the Longteng Club gave certificates and bonuses to the Longteng players who performed well in the World Youth Championship, and also planned to formulate a list of national players of the Longteng Club.
Management regulations, so under what circumstances did you make this decision?"
Zhang Sheng took this: "Yes, in order to commend the outstanding performance of the Longteng players of the National Youth Team in the World Youth Championship, we decided to award 10 yuan to the players who scored goals, and 2 yuan to each player who participated.
Bonuses. And the corresponding rules for national-level players are also being formulated and will be announced in the near future. This is mainly because the interests of the club and the interests of the national team are consistent. Everyone is for Chinese football, so we Longteng
The team club fully supports all aspects of the national team’s requirements.” (To be continued.)
