After the Football Association Cup ended, Longteng Club and the Football Association also reached a consensus in the first stage, that is, the team can send most of the players from the National Youth Team to participate in the Four Nations Invitational Tournament from September 6 to September 11, but they can only
We can only report after the Longteng team has played an away game against Hyundai on the 26th of August. On September 16th, these players will have to come back to participate in the second round of the AFC Champions League between the Longteng team and Hyundai.
Contest.
Moreover, Zhang Sheng also firmly emphasized that Huang Dawei cannot participate in this preliminary training camp. He can only participate in the Asian U19 Youth Championship preliminaries on September 28.
Regarding Zhang Sheng's request, the Football Association finally agreed with a pinched nose. After all, the club has its own demands, and it is impossible to give up all achievements and exclusively serve the national team.
At the same time, the Football Association is also afraid that the Longteng team will follow the example of Shandong Luneng. When the time comes for the game, they will recruit all the players back on the excuse that the team players are nervous and no one will participate in the game. Then it will be really embarrassing.
However, the Football Association was very tough on the recruitment of players for the Olympic team.
China's unique Olympic situation, coupled with the Football Association's history of betting heavily on the Olympics, means that they will not let go of such an event that can lead to political achievements.
In the two warm-up matches against Bahrain on August 30 and September 4, the one before the end of Jeonbuk Hyundai’s AFC Champions League, the Dragons’ Olympic team players of appropriate age do not need to participate, but in the second warm-up match
No one can be missing.
The next recruitment order for the national team is completely non-negotiable. For the two games against Hong Kong, China and the Maldives, no player will be missing.
However, Zhang Sheng has no objection to the last point. After all, these two games are world preliminaries. Zhang Sheng does not want to see the Chinese team play as ugly as in history. In the end, relying on the help of countless outsiders, the media and fans
They calculated various formulas like mathematicians, and went through all kinds of heartbeats to qualify from such a low-difficulty competition as the top 40.
In the midst of frequent exchanges of official documents with the Football Association, the Longteng team ushered in the 24th round of the Chinese Super League.
Zhang Sheng mobilized the players before the game: "As you know, the national team competitions at all levels are about to begin, and the AFC Champions League games will also come together. So it is imperative to lock in our championship position in the Chinese Super League as soon as possible. I
I don’t want to think about the last few games and everyone will complain about various games that distract you. So in this game, I need an undisputed victory.”
The Longteng team's opponent in this game is Jiangsu Sainty, and the team is playing at home, so this request can be said to be understandable.
In addition, the team is now 14 points ahead of the second place Guangzhou Evergrande, and there are only the last seven rounds of the league. It can be said that the league championship trophy is in front of everyone. This pair of teams has never been involved in the Chinese Super League.
Players with the title of champion are still very attractive.
Although Pato and Tao Wentao were unable to participate in the game due to accumulated yellow cards, other players still showed their abilities.
In the tenth minute of the first half, Nie Jiang assisted Ben Alpha to open the scoring.
In the next 35 minutes, Yu Bo, who came on as substitute for Pato, was tripped by his opponent in the penalty area. The Longteng team won a penalty kick. Ben Arfa scored in one stroke and scored twice to expand the score to 2:0.
In the second half, Ben Alpha assisted Wei Zhimin to lead the score to 3:0, and the game was completely meaningless.
Although the Longteng team's control has weakened after replacing three young players in a row, Jiangsu Sainty got a goal back from foreign aid Escudero, but this goal was nothing more than saving a little face.
In the end, the Longteng team sealed the victory with a score of 3:1, leading the second place Guangzhou Evergrande by 14 points with six rounds left in the league, and was only a stone's throw away from the league championship trophy.
But at this time, Zhang Sheng no longer thought about the league, because the AFC Champions League game had arrived. After playing in the league, Zhang Sheng took the team to fly to South Korea to challenge Jeonbuk Hyundai, a traditional strong team in the K League.
In the Chinese Super League, fans are very familiar with Beijing Guoan, who wears green jerseys. However, at the Asian level, there is a green team that is more famous and influential than Beijing Guoan, and that is Jeonbuk Hyundai.
Because they are located in Jeollabuk-do, South Korea, where green is the representative color, the main color of the club is green, and their fans also affectionately call them the Green Warriors.
The reason why they have a great influence in Asia is because in recent years Jeonbuk Hyundai has not only been a strong contender for the championship position in the K-League, but they also have a very glorious history in the AFC Champions League.
In the years since the establishment of the AFC Champions League, as long as Jeonbuk Hyundai participated, except for the 2012 season when they were in the same group as Guangzhou Evergrande, they rarely experienced being eliminated in the group stage. Entering the quarterfinals and the semifinals was even more common.
Moreover, they also won the 2006 AFC Champions League, making them the first East Asian team to win this event since the Asian Champions League was founded in 2003.
In 2011, they narrowly lost to their opponents and finished second in the AFC Champions League. In fact, in the year that Zhang Sheng crossed over, Jeonbuk Hyundai once again won the AFC Champions League and swept the Chinese Super League 5:0 in the knockout rounds.
Upstart Shanghai SIPG.
Of course, the Chinese Super League teams eliminated by Jeonbuk Hyundai are not just Shanghai SIPG. In the history of the AFC Champions League, in addition to Evergrande successfully qualifying for the same group as Jeonbuk Hyundai for three consecutive years, including Dalian Shide, Shanghai Shenhua, Changchun Asia
Including eight teams from Taipei, Tianjin TEDA, Shandong Luneng, Beijing Guoan, and Jiangsu Sainty (10 times), no team has been able to get past Jeonbuk, whether in the group stage or the knockout round.
This level.
Therefore, Jeonbuk Hyundai is the real victim of the Chinese Super League team.
The fact that this team has been able to maintain such stable performance for more than ten years is closely related to many of their club's practices.
Because the club has the support of a comprehensive consortium such as Hyundai Motor, Jeonbuk Hyundai has always been very stable.
The investment is stable, the coach is stable, and the club's development ideas are also stable.
As early as ten years ago, when the K-League's investment was at its highest, their annual investment exceeded 100 million yuan. The Chinese Super League teams that were all eliminated by Hyundai at that time were still very envious of them.
Zhang Sheng also remembered that when Shanghai Shenhua was eliminated by Jeonbuk Hyundai, the Shenhua club, which had invested 80 million yuan in the season, was very unconvinced and said: "We still need to invest more than our opponents to win.
Ability to compete with Korean teams."
But now there are many clubs in the Chinese Super League that have invested more than 500 million, and they are still often beaten by them. This shows that it is not just a matter of money.
For example, Jeonbuk Hyundai invested approximately 12 billion won (approximately 70 million yuan) this season, which has been reduced by nearly 50% compared to its heyday, but they still eliminated Beijing Guoan in the 1/8 finals.
According to Zhang Sheng's understanding, their output-to-input ratio is much higher than that of the Chinese Super League teams.
First of all, the K-League is different from the Chinese Super League.
In the K-League, there is no shortage of good players, so the transfer values and wages of players are very low. On the contrary, every team in the Chinese Super League is short of good players, and most of the club's investment funds are spent.
It is spent on player transfers and high salaries paid to players.
The second is the allocation ratio of invested funds.
Jeonbuk Hyundai, which has gone through the period of relying on strong foreign aid to achieve results, now allocates a large part of its investment to youth training.
For example, in Jeonbuk Hyundai's pre-season planning book this season, the expenditure for youth training is 2 billion won (equivalent to approximately 12 million yuan), which means that 20% of their club's funds are used for youth training every year.
In fact, Jeonbuk Hyundai's annual capital investment allocation is like this. This kind of investment is the norm for Korean clubs. In the Chinese Super League, only a few clubs such as Luneng and Greentown can insist on long-term investment in youth training.
Of course, bug teams like the Dragons are exceptions.
Of course, their method of allocating funds is also related to the requirements of the Korean Football Association.
Starting from the 2014 season, the Korean Football Challenge League (equivalent to the Chinese League One) stipulates that "each team must include 2 U22 players among the 18 players registered for each game, and 1 player must appear in each game."
The classic league, the K-League (equivalent to the Chinese Super League), also fully implemented the rule in the 2015 season that "each team must include 2 U23 players among the 18 players registered for each game, and 1 player must play in each game".
Such mandatory regulations are very similar to the Chinese Super League in the 2017 season.
Therefore, for teams like Jeonbuk Hyundai, their steady investment and stable development ideas have allowed them to enter a virtuous cycle.
Of course, one of the most stable aspects of Jeonbuk Hyundai is the head coach. As a traditional giant in the K-League, they have not changed their head coach for more than ten years (except when the head coach was promoted to the Korean national team as head coach).
As a Jeonju native, Jeonbuk Hyundai head coach Choi Kang-hee has been an iconic figure in Jeonbuk Hyundai Club over the years.
Since he started coaching Jeonbuk Hyundai in 2005, he has deeply integrated his personality and characteristics into this team.
In the second year after he took over the team, he led the team to win the AFC Champions League and was named the best head coach in 2006 by the AFC. Historically, he won this honorary title again in 2016.
I don’t know many Chinese Super League club coaches who have played against Cui Kangxi. Cui Kangxi always has the same posture of directing the game - standing on the sidelines with his waist hunched over, his hair shiny and shiny, and he always has a poker face.
However, most of the opponent's head coaches resigned sadly, and only Cui Kangxi still stood on the sidelines of the AFC Champions League with a victor's attitude.
Therefore, when Korean fans affectionately call Cui Kangxi "Pengdong Village Chief", Chinese fans who are familiar with Jeonbuk Hyundai respectfully call him "Emperor Kangxi". Indeed, his long reign is closely related to Chinese history.
The Emperor Kangxi had different approaches but the same purpose.
At the beginning of this season, Jeonbuk Hyundai, led by Choi Kangxi, had already shown signs of winning the league championship.
At the beginning of the season, they had nine wins and one draw in ten games, ranking first. Later, because they had the AFC Champions League and the Korean FA Cup (equivalent to China's Football Association Cup) to play, their status declined in the third-line battle. For example, they played against the Dragons.
In the league round before the game, they lost 0:1 at home to Incheon United. Even so, they were still five points ahead of the second-placed Suwon Samsung. Historically, they were eight points ahead of the second-placed team.
The result was undisputed and won the K-League championship.
However, their recent decline in performance is also related to their sudden shortage of manpower in the front line. The team's absolute main center Edu was poached by Hebei China Fortune, and another powerful foreign aid Eninho also suddenly terminated his contract and left, leaving the team in
While the strength of the forward line was greatly reduced, the two-forward system of Cui Kangxi's Edu-Lee Tongguo was disrupted, and the pre-season tactical framework was completely overturned.
You must know that Edu scored 11 goals and 3 assists in 20 appearances in this year's K-League. He has about 1/3 of Jeonbuk Hyundai's entire offensive firepower and 34 goals.
Even Li Gang, who went to Hebei China Fortune Land Development, said jokingly when Zhang Sheng was chatting: "Brother, I can only help you get here."
At the press conference before the game, when a Korean reporter asked this question, Cui Kangxi also seemed very helpless: "This is indeed a bit too sudden, but our goal is still to win the championship."
However, when the Chinese reporter asked questions, he seemed very perfunctory and just dealt with the matter hastily. This actually has something to do with the Chinese reporter's own suicide.
During the AFC Champions League last year, Cui Kangxi led the team to Guangzhou to challenge Guangzhou Evergrande. At the pre-match press conference, an S.B. Chinese reporter attacked Cui Kangxi. The reporter, who wanted to make a big news, asked: "Are you here?
When he was in charge of the national team, he reused local players, including as many as 5 players from the Jeonbuk team, but did not achieve a decent record. On the contrary, the current South Korean team coach Hong Myung-bo boldly used returnees and achieved good results in the game against the Greek team.
What do you think about this?"
Cui Kangxi was a little unhappy with this obviously provocative question. He said: "You should ask coach Hong Myung-bo directly about this question. Many overseas players who have performed well in Europe grew up in the Korean K-League, including Kim Nam.
1. Players with rich experience in the game such as Li Tongguo will play important tasks in the match against Guangzhou Evergrande."
Moreover, Cui Kangxi was very angry at the SB reporter's deliberate provocation at the press conference. He retorted on the spot: "It is really unforgivable to repeatedly hurt people in such a formal occasion. You Chinese reporters are no longer the first to ask such vulgar questions.
times, and the hurtful questions have become even more serious, which is indeed too much."
Later, the Korean media also believed that the Chinese reporter was seriously rude when asking Cui Kangxi questions and deliberately provoked the visiting team coach with questions that had nothing to do with the AFC Champions League.
