Different from the Youth Super League which was only launched in 2017, this is now the second year of the Youth Super League.
Thanks to the excellent results of national teams at all levels, the Football Association has invested more than before, and the good football atmosphere has led to a huge explosion of participating teams this year.
Last year, the Football Association organized five regions: North China Region, South China Region, Central China Region, Northeast Region, and Western Region. Because most provinces in East China have their own youth leagues, they have not developed the basics of football to the best extent.
The East China region was included, and this year it was all unified.
At the same time, due to insufficient teams, last year's group classification was unreasonable. There were only four age groups: u17, u16, u15, and u14. Now it is fully upgraded and changed to u-13, u-14, u
There are five age groups -15, u-17 and u-19. The number of participating teams has also increased from 74 last year to more than 240, and the total number of games has also skyrocketed from nearly 500 to nearly 2,000.
Among them, u-13, u-14, u-15, and u-17 all have a home and away double round-robin system in the early stage of the division. The first two groups will have a home and away knockout and summary game system in the playoff system in the later stage. The latter two groups
Because there are more teams registered, the divisions with more teams are divided into two groups, A and B. First, there will be a double cycle of home and away games within each major region, and later it will be a centralized summary game mode.
As for the U19 group competition, the Football Association has organized 36 teams in one step. Among them, teams from the Chinese Super League and Chinese League One are mandatory to participate according to age and number of players. In addition, the famous Longteng Football School and Evergrande Football School,
Luneng Football School and Greentown Football School were also invited to participate. The 36 teams were divided into two groups, A and B. Group A was composed of the 16 Chinese Super League teams and the top two of the 2016 Chinese Premier League Elite League, and the remaining 16 teams were further formed.
Group b.
The most eye-catching thing is the adoption of the promotion and relegation system. The Football Association plans that two groups of teams A and B will compete in the national home and away games in their respective groups. Finally, they will be promoted and relegated like the Chinese Super League and the Chinese Premier League. This makes the game particularly full of excitement.
Competitiveness.
There are 14 U17 teams in Central China, including five branch teams of Longteng Football School. After six rounds of competition, Xu Tangdeng has scored eight goals. Among all these teams, he is the most handsome boy.
He was even called the hope of Shonan football by the Shonan football circle.
After watching Xu Tangdeng's competition video clips, Zhang Sheng also understood the meaning of the most handsome boy.
In addition to his very strong ability on the field, his playing style is indeed very elegant. In addition, the young man has sharp eyebrows and starry eyes, and looks like the former football star Yang Chen. He really looks like a star.
There are many reasons why the Shonan Star City Football Branch recommended him to the Longteng professional team.
Xu Tangdeng's performance has long attracted the attention of all parties, and several tycoon clubs in the Chinese Super League have already crossed his threshold.
As a player who entered Longteng Football School in 2014, according to the current rules and regulations of the Chinese Football Association - the youth training fee of a Chinese Super League team is 500,000 yuan/year. If other teams buy him out, they must pay at least 1.5 million yuan, plus
I signed a professional contract with his family at the beginning of last year and wanted to forcefully buy him. The amount of money I paid may be tens of millions.
This is simply a sky-high price for a player who has just turned 16 years old.
Even so, there was still an endless stream of agents from all walks of life who came to lobby his parents. Coach Zeng Tianchi of the Longteng Star City Branch who trained him was also very annoyed - everyone knew that he was Xu Tangdeng's mentor and hoped that he would come forward.
combine.
In the end, Zeng Tianchi handed over the problem and simply recommended Xu Tangdeng to the professional first team, leaving Zhang Sheng to deal with this hot potato.
After the first-team coaching staff and Zhang Sheng took over, sure enough, everyone who knew Zhang Sheng was good had stopped. Even if Zhang Sheng asked him to return to the Longteng Star City branch to continue playing in the Youth Super League, everyone knew that this was a player guided by Zhang.
, if we forcefully dig this, all future paths at Longteng Football School will be blocked.
After dealing with Xu Tang Deng's matter, Zhang Sheng, while preparing for the Chinese Super League, returned to the World Youth Championship.
Zhang Sheng made a special trip to learn about the opponent of the Chinese National Youth Team, the U.S. U20. He mainly asked two people: the club's administrative director, Shi Junjie, who returned from Major League Soccer, and another
It was Rock Gill who transferred to New York City at the beginning of the season.
Because most of the players on the U.S. National Youth Team play in the major leagues in the United States, the only exception is Joshua Sargent, who is very famous outside.
As a player who was valued by the old Bundesliga powerhouse Werder Bremen at a very young age, the club spent a lot of effort to recruit him from Bayern, Schalke 04 and other giants.
According to German law, players under the age of 18 cannot be hired - if it were not illegal, Bremen would have signed a professional contract with him.
In real history, in February 2018, as soon as Sargent came of age, Bremen couldn't wait to sign him. In February 2019, Bremen renewed his contract again and increased the liquidated damages, fearing that the 2000
The young player of the year was scouted.
In fact, Zhang Sheng has never been too interested in the American "geniuses" promoted by the media. For example, the American player Adu, who was previously known as the next Pele, really lived up to the famous saying that being young may not necessarily be good if he is young.
And the American major leagues, which like to speculate and are keen on business operations, always want to apply the models of nfl (football), mlb (baseball), nba (basketball), and nhl (hockey) to football. Now it seems that they have not achieved anything like these four.
A sport-like achievement.
It should be said that it is precisely because of these four major sports that all young people with good sports talents are attracted to them. In the United States, boys playing football are either Hispanics or young people who have been eliminated by the four major sports.
, unless his love for football is genetic.
Brooks Lennon, the so-called Liverpool echelon player of the European giants in the U.S. U20, and Palmer Brown, the Manchester City echelon player, are quite famous, but their actual abilities are just that. The former left Liverpool and returned to the big leagues when he was 20 years old.
The league's Real Salt Lake City, the latter has also been struggling in the relegation team of the Eredivisie.
Of course, in terms of overall strength, the U.S. U20 National Youth Team is also in line with their national team's status in world football - there is no problem ranking in the top 30. The gap between the Chinese team and the Chinese team in ranking is not small, but
In Zhang Sheng's view, if it is limited to the level of the National Youth Team, the Chinese National Youth Team is really no worse than the American National Youth Team.
Some people may say that a player like Pulisic who was born in 1998 who can play an absolute main role in Dortmund has not come, but when it comes to the golden boot of the World Junior Championship, the best player Nie Jiang has not yet arrived.
In the group stage results, the U.S. National Youth Team had one win and two draws and qualified first in the group undefeated. However, the Chinese National Youth Team also had one win and two draws. However, the two draws of the United States were 3:3 and 1:1, and China
In the other victory, the United States won 1:0 and China won 3:0. In comparison, the Chinese National Youth Team is no worse than the American National Youth Team.
When it came to the actual game, the two teams were indeed evenly matched.
The U.S. National Youth Team adopts a 4-2-3-1 offensive and defensive balance formation, while the Chinese National Youth Team has always adhered to a 3-5-2.
As the team's head coach, Tab Ramos is very influential in the American youth football community. In this game, he also defied all odds and moved the former center Joshua Sargent to the second forward.
In the position, Brooks Lennon was at the front. Obviously he was very concerned about the defensive ability of the Chinese National Youth Team.
Before the game, the domestic media reported a lot of different opinions on this game.
Some people extended this game to the THAAD incident related to the previous war between China and South Korea: "I just beat the dog a few days ago, and now I have to beat the dog owner."
There are also people who don’t know whether they are stupid or stupid, shouting: “The one who loses the game is the sinner.”
Some are very disgusted with the connection between sports and politics: "The little pinks are starting again."
Don't forcefully inject too many irrelevant things into football matches. This is what Zhang Sheng agrees with, but it would be too cliché to think that sports have nothing to do with current affairs and politics.
Sports diplomacy has always had a tradition: from the world-famous "ping pong diplomacy" to the Soviet Union earlier, Bulgaria gave up the championship and fourth place in the 1959 Basketball World Championships and did not compete with "Chinese Taipei."
Warfare, from the "Go diplomacy" between China and Japan in the 1960s, to the "basketball diplomacy" of Wang Zhizhi and Yao Ming later, from the United Nations' specially arranged football friendly matches in Uganda and Kenya after the war, to the "cricket diplomacy" between India and Pakistan.
Even the United States, which has always called for "freedom of sports," has often done this. From 1959 to 2012, the "baseball diplomacy" between the United States and Cuba has always been the focus of the American media.
Tab Ramos's steady hand is not without this consideration. On the contrary, Madaloni, the head coach of the Chinese National Youth Team, was less affected. He was the main force in the three group stage games and was the starter in this game.
, the tactics have not changed.
From the first second of the game, both sides played very cautiously. Everyone knows that the knockout round is not a group stage, and there are still opportunities for recovery.
The three central defenders of Zhu Chenjie, Huang Zhengyu and Shen Jun, plus the two wing-backs of Xiang Tiange and Peng Langjun, through this period of running-in, can be said to be one of the most stable defense lines in the Club World Cup in South Korea so far.
one.
If Xiang Tiange has the excellent past experience of winning the World Youth Championship and third place in the Olympic Games, he was favored by sports media around the world before the game. Then Peng Langjun, who was previously unknown, is called the best player of this World Youth Championship.
game, the biggest discovery of the Chinese National Youth Team.
His talent is obviously higher than other players. In such a competition, he gets better and better as he plays. After three games in the group stage, his ability to move back and forth on the wing is frightening, and he is even more of an offensive threat.
This is to allow the left wing defender expected before the game to become the team's powerful offensive channel.
The stability of the defense gave the team a lot of confidence. As an Italian coach, Madaloni knew how to play the game with a solid defense. He arranged a prosperous combination of Jiang Shenglong and Wu Weijia in the midfield.
It also strengthens the defense to the greatest extent.
As for Lin Liangming on the striker, Zhang Yuning has become the standard with one high and one high.
Since the game attracted attention, there should be more people watching it. The actual situation is that when the game lasted for nearly 40 minutes, the TV5 channel's ratings plummeted, and the dull and boring game drove away all those watching.
"The masters of hypnosis are not as good as you."
"Very sleepy."
"When I woke up, the ball was still in midfield. Someone had stolen it just half an hour ago."
"The rubbish game has inherited the tradition of our predecessors. This can be a collection of passing errors and a walking contest. There is no hope for Chinese football."
Fans who still insist on watching have nothing but complaints.
When everyone thought that the first half would end like the first 40 minutes of pushing and pushing, the Chinese National Youth Team suddenly exerted force on the right.
In the 41st minute of the first half, Xiang Tiange suddenly attacked Danilo Acosta, the left back of the U.S. National Youth Team.
After the continuous shaking, Xiang Tiange chose to pass the pass through the ball. Danilo Acosta was obviously not prepared. This player who later could not even serve as a substitute in the Major League Real Salt Lake City, defended
I have a big problem with concentration.
It is worth mentioning that the detailed information about Danilo Acosta came from Shi Junjie, Zhang Sheng specifically relayed it to Madaloni, and his opponent Xiang Tiange also received a reminder.
After completely passing Danilo Acosta, Xiang Tiange entered the penalty area and chose an inverted triangle pass. After Lin Liangming and Zhang Yuning attracted most of the defensive attention, Zeng Prosperity was defeated.
His push shot broke the deadlock on the court.
The Chinese National Youth Team led 1:0.
"There's thunder on the ground." CCTV commentator Liu Jiayuan, who was in charge of commentating on the game, shouted excitedly, "This ball contributed at least half to Tiange. As long as Zeng Fusheng reaches the right position, he will be sure of it."
The head coach of the U.S. National Youth Team, Tab Ramos, was very unhappy. He was misled by the media before the game.
The Chinese National Youth Team is not a strong team. This was the consensus of the outside media when they toured the teams before the game. None of the five major leagues played football. The most eye-catching Nie Jiang did not participate. In everyone's eyes, this is a team.
A typical fish belly team.
Underestimating the enemy was the first mistake Tab Ramos made.
After the group stage, after the Chinese national youth team qualified with 0:0 in two games and 3:0 in one game, the media who found a point of non-hype focused on Peng Langjun, who sent a pass and a shot in the last game, and exaggerated him into
The most threatening player of the Chinese National Youth Team.
But in fact, Xiang Tiange, who has reached his peak with an ability value of 82, is the strongest player in the Chinese National Youth Team.
Once you relax your vigilance against him, you can imagine the threat he poses at this level of the World Youth Championship. This is the second mistake Tab Ramos made.
After 1:0, the game became playable. The U.S. National Youth Team, which played at a slow pace for more than 40 minutes, wanted to pick up the pace all of a sudden, but it was obviously beyond its capabilities. The Chinese National Youth Team, which insisted on playing defensive counterattack,
Just happy.
After another counterattack by Xiang Tiange caused Danilo Acosta to receive a yellow card, Tab Ramos calmed down.
It is already unrealistic to rely on the last two or three minutes of the first half to equalize the score. Stabilizing the players' mentality, not conceding the ball again, and waiting for the second half to make plans is what Tab Ramos should do most.
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Being experienced, he chose stability.
The Chinese National Youth Team relied on a surprise attack to take a one-goal lead into the halftime break.
