I believe that many fans know that the most lacking thing in Chinese football now is talent. Because over the years, our national team and league have had serious talent gaps. One is because our youth training is not in place, resulting in a shortage of football talent, the total number of people is small, and the excellent one is even less. The other is that our league system is not perfect, resulting in our young players not having high-quality games to play for many years. Especially after entering the adult team, most teams will rely on big-name foreign aid and old players for performance, and young players have no chance, basically sitting on the bench, so a vicious circle is formed, and talent breaks continue to intensify.
Later, we saw that our Football Association made a lot of efforts to solve the problem of the growth of young players, such as implementing the U23 playing rule in the league, and even restricting the introduction of big-name foreign aid. In order to give our young players the opportunity to grow up as soon as possible and take over Chinese football. Although the rules for U23 playing began to cause a lot of controversy, in the next few years, there are indeed some young players who have risen, not only to help the club achieve good results, but also to enter the national team. A typical example is the Guangzhou team, whose youth storm allowed them to win the championship in the 2019 season, and people like Wei Shihao, Yang Liyu, Gao Zhunyi, Zhang Xiuwei and so on have entered the national team. So everyone is aware of the importance of young players, so they all start to prepare for their own youth storm.
But not all youth storms can succeed. Because young players are called young players because they still lack experience and ability in the game, and their status is also up and down. The first few games were good, and the next few games may be very poor. There are even some young players who start out amazingly, and then as soon as they are injured, it is difficult to see him again. For example, a typical example is Huang Zichang, the best newcomer in the Chinese Super League in the 2018 season.
Huang Zichang, born in 1997, knew very little about him before the 2018 season, and he entered the first team of jiangsu Suning for the first time in 2018. In the first round of the Chinese Super League, he completed his first goal in the Chinese Super League and performed very well. He is fast, delicate in technology, has a strong ability to break through, and more importantly, although he is young, he is not nervous and jerky at all, but has a strong self-confidence and a great general's style. He made 19 league appearances for Jiangsu Suning that season, scoring 5 goals and 3 assists, which is not at all like a U21 player. And it is precisely because of Huang Zichang's amazing performance that he was also selected for three national brands at the same time, the national team, U23 and U21 national youth. It can be said that every coach wants to use him, which also proves his excellence.
However, it is precisely because of his excellence that he is extremely busy. That season he had been shuttling between clubs and national brands, with too little rest time, so injuries came. What people did not expect was that Huang Zichang would be injured so badly, at the end of the season, he was elected the best newcomer in the Chinese Super League that season, and when he received the award, he was on crutches. And later in the 2019 season and the 2020 season, Huang Zichang did not play much, the main reason is injury. At the beginning of this year, the Jiangsu Suning team was also disbanded, so the free Huang Zichang transferred to the Wuhan team. The head coach of the Wuhan team at that time was Li Xiaopeng, who was good at using newcomers, and everyone still had great expectations for Huang Zichang's recovery at that time. But unfortunately, under the guidance of Li Xiaopeng, Huang Zichang's opportunities are not too many, and his performance on the field seems to be average, and he has not found the rhythm and feeling of his own playing.
However, after a brief warm-up of the FA Cup, Huang Zichang seems to have found some feelings. And after the start of the second stage of the league, the team changed coaches, replaced by Li Jinyu. The new official took office with three fires and needed new forces to help him achieve results, so Huang Zichang's opportunity also came. In the first round of the second stage, Huang Zichang got the opportunity to start, and it was this trust that made Huang Zichang explode.
The opponent of the Wuhan team in this game is the Cangzhou Lions. Shortly after the opening, the Cangzhou Lions took the lead by foreign aid Oscar and took a 1-0 lead. In fact, at this time, the pressure of the new coach Li Jinyu is still quite large. However, soon relying on the play of veteran Arthur Junmin, the team equalized. And soon Huang Zichang also began to play. In the 40th minute of the game, Huang Zichang broke through continuously on the side of the road, all the way to the penalty area, Cangzhou foreign aid Su Zu put him down in order to stop him, and the referee awarded a penalty. Foreign aid Lopez took a penalty and helped the team to reverse the score.
And Huang Zichang's performance is not over, in the 63rd minute of the game, Huang Zichang and his teammates played a combination to break into the Cangzhou Lions penalty area, and this time it was Su Zu to defend Huang Zichang, and this time he still did not defend Huang Zichang, Huang Zichang completed the shot in the hesitation, scored the ball, and turned the score into 4-2. Moreover, this ball completely extinguished the flame of the Cangzhou lion's counterattack. So in the end, the score was locked at 4-2, and the team reversed the victory. And this is also the first victory coached by Coach Li Jinyu, and Huang Zichang is indispensable.
Of course, at the moment, Huang Zichang is not in his best form, but he has such a performance in the first game of the new coach, which means that he will be reused in the future, and as the game becomes more and more, his feeling of playing will definitely get better and better. Perhaps in the near future, we can see a stunning Huang Zichang again.
What do you think? Do you think Huang Zichang is expected to return to the top? Do you think there is any difference in Huang Zichang's performance under Li Jinyu? Friends are welcome to discuss together in the comment area!