Responsible for the national youth team's historical breakthrough in the Asian Youth Championship final circle, all walks of life have been quite low-key, which is somewhat abnormal. In theory, the performance of the national youth team should be worthy of being very popular with the title of "I entered the Asian Youth Championship again after four years" and "I entered the Asian Youth Championship for the first time after 2000 men's football team" as the title, and the performance of the national youth team should be worthy of being very exciting. But it is like because Chinese football lost too much and if it does not lose, it cannot attract attention, so that people neither dare to imagine such a victory nor have they intent on such a victory. In contrast, after the qualifiers, the topic of "less than 500 players in the 03 age group are available" was immediately on the hot search and caused heated discussion.
In fact, the so-called saying that there are less than 500 young players in one age group can be considered unreliable. " Overall Plan for the Reform and Development of Chinese Football " was released in March 2015, and the campus football was also fully launched around 2014. It is said that the age group of 2003/2004 is the first batch of "dragon species", but in this autumn, when it is the harvest season, the scene created is a group of "beast species" that we have harvested. Is this the real side, or is it an illusory illusion?
I think this may be the embodiment of the Chinese football freak. Whether it is out of the line or not, first of all, the one that must be talked about is the so-called terrible youth training reserve. But in fact, one of the best players in this qualifiers, Hu Hetao, a player from Chengdu Rongcheng, , the Chinese Super League, , is the "leftover" of the National Youth Team's audition project over the past year. If this weren't the other person's Xu Zhengyuan , I'm afraid as Hu Hetao himself said, he would have carried his schoolbag to go to college long ago. Then, may I ask: Does Xiao Hu count as that five percent? So if there is a Hu Hetao that was temporarily forgotten, how many Hu Hetao are in the whole world and in China, who are wandering in the mountains and alleys without anyone caring about it?
may be a bit far-fetched at the beginning, but what the reporter wants to express is that selecting materials is an unavoidable topic around the performance of the National Youth Team in this qualifiers. But the core of the material selection issue is definitely not that no one can choose, but who will choose. For example, in the three live games provided by the National Youth Team, the most controversial point in the outside world is the retro rushing and playing style advocated by head coach Antonio. This scene can't help but bring many viewers back to the old A-year-old in the late 1990s. However, the speculations of some unknown people are even more sad: Antonio is also hard to say, Chinese players of the 2003/04 age group generally have weak technical foundations, and the head coach is really a clever man. Taking into account the current situation of Chinese players and when technical capabilities generally fail to meet standards, they have no choice but to "learn from their strengths and weaknesses."
I had no intention of joining the debate with some peers, but the U18 men's football competition held in Shaanxi last fall has shown progress in many teams that are different from the previous Chinese youth, such as the improvement in rhythm oppression, but the pursuit of ground transmission is still profoundly reflected in the runner-up Chongqing team and the third-place Guangzhou team . In fact, the teams of the above two teams - Chongqing Fu Ren and Evergrande Football School, have had many experiences of national top three or even champions in the past major events such as the Youth Super League, Championships and the FA Cup in the same age group. Especially those Chongqing guys, now they are regarded as the new bloodline of Chongqing football, and they have formed a team to win the championship after the old Chongqing team was disbanded. However, it is this group of Southern players who seem to be good at skills but are thin and have difficulty getting into Antonio's eyes. Among the 23-player rosters of the National Youth Team, 0 Chongqing teams were on the list. Most of the people contributed by the Guangdong team are defensive players, and only Eiffelding was shortlisted for the National Games champion Shaanxi team.
It’s not that Antonio has never recruited these Southern players. After the National Games, four people in Chongqing were recruited, but after only a few lessons, they were quickly abandoned because they “have not met the team’s needs.”Similarly, before the National Youth Team rushed to Saudi , the well-known Jia Boyan, Wang Bowen and He Xiaoke also left the team one after another. The Guangzhou team forward Ling Jie , which shined in the Chinese Super League last year, has long been no longer a necessity for the National Youth Team. In this way, with an alternative style of play and a group of alternative players, the National Youth Team embarked on a journey to Saudi Arabia. Of course, people are full of expectations that this U19 national youth team can seize the opportunity, enter the Asian Youth Championship after a few years, and even enter the world stage, but what is even more worried is whether this group of players can avoid the fate and reincarnation of history after four games? Why do you say so? As early as the beginning of this century, when Chinese youth football could still dominate Asia, some people pointed out the directional misunderstanding of China's youth training development - when athletes are underage, they train too early in the adult team method, and at the same time, when selecting materials, they focus on body, strength and speed rather than technology, consciousness and thinking. Grouping teams and participating in intercontinental competitions in this mode may make a name for themselves and even achieve remarkable results. However, when players enter adulthood, their hardware advantages will gradually be weakened, and the shortcomings left behind in the early stage may become the "Achilles heel" of players' lives.
In the first decade of this century, this kind of dispute over youth training routes once reached its climax in the Chinese football world. The technical school led by Xu Genbao and Liu Chunming is a tit-for-tat rival to the so-called platinum generation and Asian Youth Championship champions. Especially in the 88 national junior high school who won the Asian Youth Championship, there is still a huge contrast between the 89 and 90 generations that have been devoted to the efforts of Chunming. Although the 88 national juniors won the Asian championship and ranked seventh in the world, they have been pursuing height, strength and physical fitness since childhood, and finally they have only cultivated a small number of international players such as Wang Dalei , Wang Gang, Yu Dabao and Yang Xu . However, 3/4 groups such as Wang Weilong, Zhu Yifan , Huang Jie, Yang Jian, Tang Naixin, Cui Nanri, Wang Xuanhong, Du Longquan, etc. Not only did they become obsessed with everyone, but they even struggled to enter the Chinese Super League and China League One. In contrast, although the 89 national youth league has not entered the World Youth Championship and the Olympics, they are all pillars of the Chinese Super League teams and even national teams without exception, from Zhang Linpeng to Wu Xi , from Zheng Zheng , Zhang Chengdong to Park Chengdong , Cao Yunding , without exception, they are all pillars of the Chinese Super League teams and even national teams. This is not the late rise due to young and thin Wu Lei , Yin Hongbo , Wang Shenchao , and Jiang Zhipeng. Therefore, which one is better or worse is a very accurate judgment.
Basically, this is not a question of style, but a root cause of youth training development ideas with eagerness for quick success and instant benefits. Because everyone knows that cultivating technology and awareness is a slow job. But under the pressure of the contract with the results, Antonio could only choose to practice the whole first and practice the whole. In terms of results, he was successful and deserved to be respected, but this also seemed very bizarre. In fact, let alone entering the Asian Youth Championship, even if you win the top three in Asia, so what if you enter the top eight in the world? In the end, will Chinese football still survive in the cycle of "super platinum" and "rough platinum"?
So, I remembered Xu Genbao's famous saying, "If you have your feet, you can go all over the world. If you are engaged in youth training, you will be eager for quick success and instant benefits." There are also interesting stories about the third place Guangdong U18 coach of last year's National Games, Gao Qianmian , who was the most basic foot bow passing the ball when he led Zhang Wei in Hebei team. Perhaps compared to Antonio, they may not be so glorious, and they are even pale in terms of treatment, but they know the power of the horse. When the achievements are in the future, whoever can laugh to the end will laugh the best.
Antonio's victory is more like a person's victory. The foundation of China's youth training is still based on more Xu Genbao and Gao Qianmian. Only by being down-to-earth, not eager for quick success or instant benefits.
text | Wang Xiaorui
edit | Chengxin
