After this round of league, the Longteng team encountered another big obstacle, that is, a large number of players of the team had to leave the team to participate in the 2017 South Korea World Youth Championship (U20 World Cup).
Regarding the recruitment of players for the World Youth Championship, there has been a lot of back and forth between the Longteng team and the Football Association.
At first, the Football Association wanted to recruit all the players of the appropriate age for the Longteng team into the National Youth Team to play in the World Youth Championship. However, the actual situation is that once this standard is adopted, the Longteng team cannot even make up a roster of 18 players.
Secondly, the national youth team needs people, and the national junior team also needs people.
Generally, in order to stagger the international competitions of the adult team, odd-numbered years are the years of international competitions for youths. This is the case in 2017. This year there is not only the World Youth Championship (u20), but also the World Junior Championship (u17), and the Chinese team has successfully participated in it.
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Although the current youth training in China has been influenced by the Longteng team, all clubs have seen the benefits, increased investment, and made certain improvements. However, youth training has never been something that can be accomplished overnight, and the youth training in Chinese football has not been suspended for a year.
Two years, but more than ten years, so the reserve of outstanding young players is very poor.
It can be said that most of the outstanding young players are concentrated on the Longteng team. This is true for the 1997 age group who participated in the World Youth Championship, and the same is true for the 2000 age group who participated in the World Youth Championship.
If any attentive fans carefully observe the ages of domestic players, they will find a strange phenomenon, that is, more people are born in odd years than in even years; more people are born in the first half of the year than in the second half.
Because there is only one major competition in a player's youth career in even-numbered years, and that is the U16 Asian Minor Championship, and the national team can only temporarily form one U16, after which it will be disbanded. At the same time, there are no National Games games in even-numbered years.
No, the provincial and municipal football associations do not form teams. This means that as long as players born in even-numbered years are over 16 years old, the national-level teams in even-numbered years will be abandoned, and players must compete with players one year older.
Font size, provincial team and city team.
On the other hand, in odd years, there are U19 Asian Youth Championship (U20 World Youth Championship), U22 Asian Cup (Olympic Games), U18 National Games, and U20 National Games.
Therefore, domestic players are "willing" to be born in odd years.
This is not the case with the Dragon Team.
Because of the system summons, many players on the Longteng team are actually players who have been cheated by the Chinese football curse of "even-numbered years". This results in the Longteng team having far more players in even-numbered years than in odd-numbered years, which happens to be in the
Between the two age groups of the World Youth Championship and the World Junior Championship, compared with other players participating in the competition, they are all younger.
In the end, the Longteng team and the Football Association reached an agreement. The Longteng team decided whether the players occupying the starting position in the club would go or not. The rotation of substitute players ensured that the Longteng team had at least one qualified substitute in the same position. The reserve team and the football school qualified age
All segments can be recruited.
In this way, Xiang Tiange, Zeng Fanrong, Wang Xing, Shen Jun, Peng Langjun, Wu Qingmin (rented), and Gong Yuzhe (rented) were transferred to participate in the World Youth Championship.
Among them, Xiang Tiange, Zeng Prosperity and Shen Jun will have to play the crucial Chinese Super League match against Shanghai SIPG on May 13 before returning to the National Youth Team to participate in the first game on May 22.
After letting these players go, the Longteng team only has 22 players left who can play. Among them, there are many young players who were born in 2000 and are not capable enough to play. It can be said that the Longteng team's personnel reserves are stretched thin.
Now it seems how important it was to win against Muangthong United in the away game and then finish first in the group one round ahead of schedule. In the AFC Champions League match on May 10, the Longteng team playing at home can use some rotation players to cope with the game.
Fortunately, the host of this World Youth Championship is South Korea. Not only is the competition location close to China, the players of the Longteng team also have many opportunities to compete in South Korea every year. There are long distances to travel, jet lag, unfamiliarity with the venue, etc.
The negative factors such as this can be offset a lot. Even because there are a large number of Chinese in South Korea, the team can still enjoy the treatment of "playing at home" during the National Youth Team's games.
As analyzed by the outside world, in the AFC Champions League match in mid-week on May 10, the Longteng team, which had already qualified first in the group, faced Ulsan Hyundai at home, which had already been eliminated and was at the bottom of the group.
A bunch of substitutes.
Not only did Ulsan Hyundai not have any foreign players, but even the 18-man roster was made up of young players from the bench and the echelon. Their goalkeeper was a complete newcomer and had not played any official senior team games before.
Competition experience.
The same is true for the Longteng team. The 21-year-old echelon goalkeeper Jiang Mingzhi, who has always been a substitute, started again in this game after the last FA Cup game and completed his first appearance in the AFC Champions League. This non-call player can be said to
It's very lucky.
In other positions, in addition to sending players who participated in the World Youth Championship to start, the Longteng team also sent a large number of newcomers to other positions.
For example, Peng Langjun and Tian Qijie, who played in the FA Cup this season and played in the AFC Champions League for the first time, and Chen Yinuo, who entered the 18-man AFC Champions League roster for the first time.
When the game came, the two teams, with an average age of just over 20 years old, played a scene that could be described as fierce as a tiger. The actual situation was terrible, and both sides played a rare "happy football".
The forwards are very happy, playing all kinds of one-on-one shots and missing the empty goal; the midfielders are also happy, many times they are intercepted when trying to perform with the ball, and it is also common to miss people and miss positions in defense; as for the defenders, various positions overlap, it seems that
The mistake of not looking at the ball is common.
Fortunately, the goalkeepers on both sides performed fairly steadily and did not make any low-level mistakes.
After the second half, the players on the Longteng team like Xiang Tiange, Zeng Fansheng, Zhang Hao, and Lu Yangyang still had a lot of game experience. Under their leadership, the new players gradually stabilized their position.
In the end, goals from Zeng Prosperity and Tang Jin helped the team defeat Ulsan Hyundai 2:1 at home, maintaining their unbeaten record in the AFC Champions League this season.
At the same time, in another game that determined the second place in the group, Kashima Antlers defeated Muangthong United 2:1 at home, overpowering their opponents to qualify for the group.
The Longteng team easily won the first place in the group. The other Chinese Super League teams in the other groups also did not fall behind. They all successfully qualified for the group, and except for Shanghai SIPG, the others ranked first in the group. In addition to last year's Asian Super League team
Championship, the four teams of the Chinese Super League also qualified first in the group. For a time, the clamor for the Chinese Super League to dominate Asian football was rampant.
In fact, these four Chinese Super League teams are not as easy as everyone thinks.
Putting aside the Longteng team, which is still scratching its head over the shortage of personnel even if there is a failure, Guangzhou Evergrande's easy first place in the group is based on ultra-high investment and super-class foreign aid. The hoarding in the Evergrande team
The national team can be said to be intimidating to most teams.
Shanghai SIPG relies on the support of a group of outstanding players trained by Mr. Xu Genbao for ten years. Of course, SIPG's high investment also helps a lot, but their AFC Champions League results are not as good as the first two.
In the first five rounds of games, Urawa Ruby relied on their advantage of more away goals to suppress Shanghai SIPG, who had the same points. Neither team wanted to finish second in the group.
In the last round, Seoul FC, which had already been eliminated, made a contribution - they defeated Urawa Ruby 1:0 at home with a stoppage-time winner, while Shanghai SIPG, who flew thousands of miles away to Australia, was injured.
Troubled by illness and physical fitness, although Yan Xiaoyu performed well in every pass and shot, the team still lost to Western Sydney Wanderers 2:3. Urawa Ruby relied on more away goals in the game to beat SIPG and win the title.
First place in the group.
The next knockout round will see a civil war in the Chinese Super League - SIPG vs. Suning.
As for SIPG’s knockout opponent Jiangsu Suning, I won’t talk about it. The team’s personnel reserves are not enough, and they have encountered injuries. Although the AFC Champions League is playing well and easily won the first place in the group, it is now eight rounds of the league.
After that, the team has not won a game and is ranked last. This is simply unbelievable for a club that has invested a lot of money, but it has really happened.
It can only be said that the difficulty of fighting on two fronts is a hurdle that no team can get around.
On May 13th, another focus battle of this season begins. The Longteng team will face Shanghai SIPG at home. The latter has specially rotated its lineup in the AFC Champions League for this game.
Therefore, in the SIPG starting list announced before the game, you can see that the three major foreign players Oscar, Hulk and Akhmedov are all playing, plus Wu Lei, who has exploded this season and is the top of the Asian foreign players, can
Said to be very powerful.
Zhang Sheng also attached great importance to this game and made many targeted arrangements with the coaching staff.
Compared with last year's Shanghai SIPG team, the new head coach Villas-Boas is a very characterful head coach, completely different from the previous smooth and almost good-natured Eriksen.
Villas-Boas started from a very high starting point. He was recommended by the famous coach Robson at the age of 17. He entered the coaching training class that the Football Association requires for those over 18 years old. At the age of 17, he obtained the C-level from UEFA.
Coaching Qualification Certificate, and the next year he obtained a Class B coaching certificate.
Later, he followed Mourinho as an assistant coach to the top clubs in Europe, helping Mourinho win the league championship and the Champions League championship. Mourinho also did not forget to support his little brother: "Boa
He is my eyes and ears, without him, I can't do anything."
In this way, Villas-Boas returned to Porto, where Mourinho made his fortune, and was given an important task by the boss. That season he led Porto to win the "Triple Crown" of the Europa League, the Portuguese Super League and the Portuguese Cup.
It's as if another Mourinho has appeared in European football.
But his subsequent coaching career was full of twists and turns. First, he was dismissed due to poor performance at Chelsea, and then after Tottenham recovered, he was dismissed due to performance reasons and left for the Russian Super League giant Zenit St. Petersburg.
In fact, this already means that he has been abandoned by the mainstream European football circles.
The reason why he was abandoned in this way has a lot to do with his character.
As early as in mainstream European football, Villas-Boas has been called Madman II (Mourinho's nickname), although Villas' real nickname is "Little Bird".
In fact, maybe it's because his family is a long-established European aristocracy with a pretentious and noble nature, maybe it's because he's upright by nature, maybe he's been trying to be a "character coach", and Boas's sometimes actions even make people think he's too much.
childish.
The madman Mourinho seems crazy, but he restrains himself when he should, muddy the water when he should, and strive for it when he should fight for it. He has quarreled with countless people, exchanged insults with "Professor" Wenger, and exchanged arguments with Sir Alex Ferguson.
Boss Abu exerts pressure, these are more operations on the level of psychological warfare, how to interact in private or how to interact.
For example, no matter how tense the public opinion between the two sides is before the game, Mourinho and Ferguson will go out together after the game to discuss heroes and have a drink. When Ferguson recalled, Mourinho gave him the first bottle of wine to drink.
It tasted like "painkiller". After the "madman" learned about it, he immediately ordered a bottle of Portuguese wine worth 300 pounds to give to the old man. He and Wenger made everyone think that they had never been in contact with each other.
At the Trafford Dream Theater, Mu Niao personally invited Wenger to the center of the stadium, and together with Ferguson gave Wenger the highest-level farewell, creating a great story, and later even commented on the Champions League final together.
Compared to Mourinho, Villas-Boas's quarrel was really a quarrel.
While coaching Chelsea, he had bad relations with Lampard, Ashley Cole and others, and refused to compromise with owner Roman Abramovich. As a result, the team committee collectively sent him away. Then at Tottenham, when facing Chairman Levy, he also said the same thing.
Cracks have arisen! In the Russian Super League, they are constantly quarreling with each other and have made news many times.
In a news interview, he directly said that Mourinho had a bad personality and had turned against him. As a result, Mourinho ridiculed him for being naive and childish.
Even after coming to China from Europe, Boas did not show any restraint.
At the beginning of taking office, Villas-Boas declared in a very high-profile manner that he wanted to win at least one championship; then he told the club that the previous coaching team was rubbish and that they must all be replaced by his own team; when he first came to the club, it was originally a courtesy
Welcome to the meeting. The boss of SIPG, who has seen big scenes, led Boas to visit the team's base and club. I thought that Boas would politely praise the club's hardware facilities, and then make some tactful suggestions. Both parties were happy.
, but I didn’t expect that the Portuguese opened his mouth with criticism and directly expressed his opinions on the modification of the club’s base. The club leaders who were waiting to be polite were disappointed.
His emotional intelligence is evident.
In terms of the use of players, Konka was the first to be abandoned. Villas-Boas didn't even say a word to him. Then because of the 31 principle of the Chinese Football Association this season, Elkson was also left out. In the last round of Asia
When the Champions League played an away game against Western Sydney Wanderers, they would rather play two foreign players and lose than play Elkeson. What is even more incredible is that Villas-Boas once had the idea of not using Wu Lei. His reasons
It was Wu Lei who failed to seize many shooting opportunities.
Even in this time and space, Wu Lei has many differences.
