Studying abroad has always been a hot topic that cannot be avoided for Chinese football.
The earliest history of Chinese football abroad can be traced back to the national team in the 1950s. At that time, the whole team studied in Hungary, a football powerhouse at the time, and received advanced theories and training in the country. They even tied with its national team in a warm-up match. The result is said to be
At present, echelon training in many places in China still continues the long-outdated theory of Hungary in the 1950s.
Later, due to well-known special historical reasons, the Chinese Football Association announced its withdrawal from FIFA in 1958. Chinese football basically lost communication with the outside world, and there was a long interruption in the history of Chinese football overseas. Until that period of history passed, Chinese football
Only then did international football exchanges slowly resume.
With the support of Havelange, the then president of FIFA, China proposed its desire to return to FIFA in 1979, and officially approved this request in 198o (this man was still very hard-working in helping Chinese football, and
With his support, China hosted the first Women's World Cup in 1991. I would like to remember this old friend of Chinese football who passed away just two months ago.).
In the mid-to-late 1980s, a large number of Chinese players began to play abroad. Basically, those players were recognized by the trial clubs, including Xie Yuxin, who was the first to go. He was only 19 years old at the time and was invited to the Netherlands.
After half a year of trial training, when the contract was about to be signed, Xie Yuxin chose to return to China for the National Games and was unable to officially enter the European competition.
But then players such as Gu Guangming, Jia Xiuquan and Liu Haiguang began to go to countries such as Germany and Yugoslavia to participate in European leagues. Chinese players had official European competition records.
Of course, there are also players who have taken a different approach. In 1990, Gong Lei went to Tahiti, a French territory in the South Pacific. During the 7 years he played, he helped the team win 8 league and cup championships. He also won the best player and top scorer 6 times.
title. In 1993, Gong Lei was nominated by the coach of the Tahitian representative team as a candidate for the World Footballer. At the same time, he was later nicknamed the "Tahiti Football King" by fans.
Therefore, Tao Wei died suddenly and young.
However, it was not until the formal professionalization of Chinese football that the formal study abroad began. Starting with Yang Chen joining Frankfurt in the Bundesliga, in the short few years from 1998 to 2001, players such as Li Jinyu, Fan Zhiyi, Sun Jihai and others joined the program.
In this great tide, the first wave of craze for studying abroad was set off.
The second wave of Chinese players studying abroad occurred around the time of the 2002 World Cup. In 2002, Sun Jihai transferred to English Premier League Manchester City Club for 2 million pounds, creating the highest international transfer value for a Chinese player at the time. A year later, he was promoted to England with the team.
Became the first Chinese player to score a goal in England.
In addition to Sun Jihai, there were many Chinese players playing in top foreign leagues in those years. Especially in the 2006-2007 season, a total of 13 Chinese players stayed abroad, and 6 of them played in the five major leagues, 4 of whom were Chinese and English, Dong Fangzhuo
and Sun Jihai represented Manchester United and Manchester City respectively, while Zheng Zhi and Li Tie played for Charlton and Sheffield United respectively.
During this period, Dong Fangzhuo won the British and European Champions League trophies with Manchester United, Sun Xiang won the Eredivisie championship and had a record of playing in the Champions League, Sun Jihai scored in the UEFA Cup... the terms of Chinese overseas players frequently appeared in
Euro 6 media represents a rare moment of glory for Chinese football, but unfortunately, it is short-lived and then gradually fades away.
The last Chinese player to play in Europe was Hao Junmin, who returned to Shandong Luneng from Schalke O4 in the Bundesliga in 2011. Since then, Chinese players have entered a blank period in the five major European leagues.
The two countries that have been compared with China are Japan and South Korea, which are both in East Asia. While Chinese players have stumbled on their way to study abroad, the path of Japanese and Korean players studying abroad has become smoother. Hidetoshi Nakata, Shinji Kagawa, Keisuke Honda,
A large number of Japanese players such as Shunsuke Nakamura have become influential figures in major stadiums. Korean players such as Son Heung-min, Ki Sung-yong, Kim Jin-soo, and Ji Dong-won have also written their own glorious history.
This season, there are 17 Japanese players and 8 Korean players in the five major leagues. If you include the second-tier European leagues and the second-tier leagues of the five major leagues, the total number of Japanese players reaches 31, and the number of Korean players also reaches 20. If you count all levels in Europe
League, the number of Japanese and Korean players is even more impressive.
In fact, the number of people studying abroad corresponds to the level of the national teams of the three East Asian countries. Players from Japan and South Korea are very comfortable in Europe, and correspondingly, the level of the Japanese and Korean national teams is stable.
has risen. In contrast, in recent years, Chinese football has continued to decline and has missed the World Cup for three consecutive years. Chinese players have fewer and fewer opportunities to show themselves to the world, which also prevents Chinese players from being discovered and recognized in a timely manner. Studying abroad is also in a state of decline.
fault stage.
Therefore, although the Dragons received so many faxes asking about players, there were very few foreign teams that actually made purchase requests. Most of them proposed trial training, and the only one that directly made a purchase request was one club -
-Sporting Lisbon, the player they are looking for is Xu Mingyu. The two players who have been proposed for trial training the most are Qin Minghao and Li Yun.
Sporting Lisbon's purchase request seemed very sincere, and they gave a purchase request of 1,000 euros. This can be considered very kind to a player from a non-football powerhouse who is only 5 days shy of turning 18 years old.
It's just that this time, Zhang Sheng still needs to consult Xu Mingyu and Xu Mingyu's father for their opinions. After all, Zhang Sheng had already communicated with Xu Mingyu's father, Xu Angran, as early as the last inquiry stage of Sporting Lisbon.
Things really need to be based on the opinions of the players themselves.
The day after receiving the fax, Zhang Sheng called Xu Mingyu and Xu Mingyu's father and began to discuss the issue of studying abroad this time.
Faced with the purchase request from the European team that Zhang Sheng mentioned, Xu Mingyu still seemed very excited. After all, every player has a dream of studying abroad. When Xu Mingyu was a child, he once had the experience of studying abroad in Portugal.
But there is a huge difference between studying abroad that time and being sought after this time. Because in China, there are many types of studying abroad.
In the early days, the overseas study of Chinese players was basically based on the purchase of the opposing team. However, after 2010, due to the scarcity and preciousness of overseas players, China's overseas study became a bit different under the manipulation of caring people.
In the early days, the model of overseas study was mostly individual, that is, players relied on their own personal abilities to gain the attention of foreign teams. However, as the abilities of Chinese players declined, they gradually turned to a model in which brokerage companies were responsible for operations and clubs were collectively appointed to train.
So even though we don’t see players at the national team level studying abroad now, we hear countless hypes in various news and rumors, either about who went to play in which country today, or which club or club will play tomorrow.
People from the Provincial Football Association took a large number of players to study abroad in a European country. And these study abroad affairs reached a climax in 2o15 and 2o16.
Taking Wanda's Spanish study abroad program as an example, as of December 2o15, the total number of players trained in this program in Spain reached 112, and the total number of players studying abroad that year was only 125. Because of this, the training of such collective projects
The effectiveness has also been questioned.
The actual results were indeed not good. In September of that year, China's U15 national team, which had many Wanda players in the team, performed poorly in the preliminaries of the Asian U16 Championship and missed the main match. Earlier in July of that year, the Weifang Cup
Last year, the performance of Luneng·dB United, which returned from training in Brazil, was even worse. Not only was it vulnerable to European teams, it even lost to the 99 National Youth Selection Team whose average age was nearly 2 years younger.
According to the latest version of FIFA transfer regulations that took effect in May this year, only players who are over 18 years old can conduct international transfers. This concise and comprehensive regulation undoubtedly exposed the true face of overseas study programs packaged by many media, that is,
It is said that according to FIFA regulations, no matter whether they are domestic players of the dB club acquired by Luneng or students of the Atletico Madrid club in which Wanda Group has a stake, they are not allowed to make international transfers before they are under 18 years old.
Because they do not have the qualifications to officially register with the local football association, they have no official games to play abroad. It is nothing more than adding a halo of studying abroad to the players.
Among them, Xu Mingyu’s experience of studying abroad was one of the above, that is, his family spent money to find connections to be selected by the local football association to study abroad in Portugal. They generally only participated in the training of the echelon, and it was difficult to play official games.
Take Portugal, where Xu Mingyu went, as an example. In the 2o1o-11 season, there were only 5 Chinese players playing in the Portuguese league. By the 2o15-16 season, this number had grown to an astonishing 79. This is not only different from Portugal, which was once dominated by the Chinese Football Association.
It is related to the overseas study program, and at the same time, Portugal has a well-established youth training system and a relatively stagnant economic situation, which provide favorable conditions for this.
These Portuguese overseas players are basically managed by 7 to 8 different sports teams or brokerage companies. Their situations are different. There are business teams composed of Chinese and overseas Chinese in Portugal, there are also brokerage companies with official backgrounds, and more are from
Operated by a team of senior domestic brokers.
This is also the reason why Xu Mingyu was despised by other players after he went to Portugal. After all, a player who was sent from a weak football country through money and interpersonal relationships will definitely be despised by his teammates. Even if the player is young, he himself
Unable to control one's own destiny. (To be continued.)
