At 5 p.m. Beijing time on December 16, European giants and Bundesliga powerhouse Bayern Munich officially announced on its official website that Liu Shaoziyang, a youth player and goalkeeper from Wuhan Sanzhen Football Club, officially transferred to join, becoming the first Chinese player signed by the Bundesliga giant. In the past, there are successes in the rush, the existing youth players have entered the European giants, and the three towns of Wuhan continue to harvest good news!
At the beginning of this year, as a club focusing on youth training, Wuhan Sanzhen reached a cooperation agreement with Bundesliga giant Bayern, marking an important step forward in the development of young players in China. At that time, 17-year-old goalkeeper Liu Shaoziyang was the first player jointly selected by the two clubs and has trained and lived for a while at the Bayern youth base since then. The two clubs also reached an agreement that in the future, more talented young players from Wuhan Three Towns Club will be selected to train and live in Germany.
After three months of training, Bayern is full of expectations for Liu Shaoziyang. Johen Sauer, director of bayern academy, said: "The impression left by Wuhan Sanzhen Club and Liu Shaoziyang himself is quite good, and we firmly believe that Chinese players can make progress in terms of competitive level and character development through Bayern's youth training, and prepare for the highest level of professional league in the future. Of course, the ideal situation is that there can be Chinese players playing for Bayern in the future! Ruvin Caspar, President of Bayern Asia Pacific, also said: "Like Bayern's previous youth training work in China, we hope that through this just-concluded cooperation, we can rely on Bayern's advanced youth training knowledge, network system and talent team to further support the development of Chinese football." Wuhan Three Towns Club has a good youth training foundation and they are eager to make achievements on the football field. ”
Through his own efforts, Liu Shaoziyang made his debut in the game on behalf of the Bayern youth team during the 11-month training period, and participated in the pre-season training camp of the Bayern U19 team in August, and his ability and potential were recognized by Bayern. In the end, Liu Shaoziyang, who was 18 years and 7 days old, as an outstanding youth player of Wuhan Sanzhen Club, officially signed a contract with Bayern, becoming the first Chinese player signed by the club.
As a member of the wuhan three-town youth training, Liu Shaoziyang's joining Bayern is a successful example of youth training cooperation between the two clubs. Liu Shaoziyang used his efforts and strength to open a new chapter for his football career. At the same time, through this youth training cooperation, the three towns in Wuhan have also opened up the road for Chinese players to the top leagues in Europe, which is expected to cultivate more available talents for themselves and even Chinese football!
Liu Shaoziyang's growth process
In 2014, Liu Shaoziyang entered the youth training echelon of Wuhan Three Towns;
In 2016, as one of the members of the Overseas Star Training Program of Wuhan Three Towns Football Club, Liu Shaoziyang went to Barcelona, Spain to study and receive overseas football training;
In 2017, Liu Shaoziyang was selected for the U14 China National Training Team for the first time. Since then, Liu Shaoziyang has been selected into the 2018 U15 Chinese national team training list and the 2019 Chinese football A team (U16) training list;
In 2019, Liu Shaoziyang represented the U16 national junior team in the "Huashan Cup" International Youth Football Championship and the 8th China-Russia Youth Games, playing as the main goalkeeper in the first round of the competition, making several wonderful saves in the game, helping the team to defeat the opponent 5-0. In the same year, Liu Shaoziyang, who was training in Spain, was invited to Germany for trial training;
In 2020, Liu Shaoziyang began to train with the first team of the Wuhan Sanzhen Football Team;
At the beginning of 2021, Bayern Munich and the three towns of Wuhan reached a cooperation agreement to jointly devote themselves to the training of Chinese youth players, Liu Shaoziyang became the first player jointly trained by the two clubs, and went to the Bayern youth training base in Munich, Germany for training, and then appeared in the Bayern youth team competition. In August of that year, Liu Shaoziyang participated in the pre-season training camp of Bayern Munich U19;
On December 16, 2021, Bayern Munich FC officially signed a contract with Liu Shaoziyang, who also became the first Chinese male footballer introduced by the club.
Text/Hubei Daily reporter Cai Yi
Photo: Wuhan Three Towns Club, Bayern Club
Video/Bayern Club, CCTV Sports