Recently, Wuhan has become the focus of Chinese football. Li Xiaopeng, who led Wuhan to play the first stage this season, replaced former Wuhan coach Li Tie as the new national football coach. The three towns of Wuhan in the Middle A completed the triple jump in 4 years and successfully overtook two rounds ahead of schedule. In this year's Women's Super League, Wuhan Chedujiang University Women's Football Team won the Women's Super League championship for two consecutive years. And now Bayern officials announced the signing of Wuhan Three Towns Youth Training Player Liu Shaoziyang to 2025, the famous media person Bai Guohua broke out, in order to buy out Liu Shaoziyang, Bayern paid nearly 1 million euros to Wuhan Three Towns.
European football favors tall and agile goalkeepers
After Bayern's official announcement, the first reaction of many fans and even insiders was - who is Liu Shaoziyang? And some players of the first team of Wuhan Three Towns, when asked about the situation of this child, the general answer is not known, not very understanding!
According to the public information given by the three towns in Wuhan, Liu Shaoziyang entered the echelon of the three towns in Wuhan in 2014; in 2016, he was sent to Spain by the three towns of Wuhan for 4 years of training. Since 17 years, Liu Shaoziyang began to be selected as a national brand, once the main goalkeeper of the 03 national youth, last year Liu Shaoziyang began to train with the first team of Wuhan Three Towns. At the beginning of this year, Bayern and Wuhan Sanzhen Football Club reached a cooperation agreement, 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... The cooperation between the two clubs is the basis for the players to go to trials, but there is a long distance between trials and signings. So why did Bayern sign Liu Shaoziyang? First of all, it has to do with the European selection criteria for goalkeepers.
Let's push the time back to 15 years ago, when Wang Dalei and Zhang Wenzhao went to Inter at the same time to try out; Wang Dalei returned after ten days of practice, and Zhang Wenzhao was left by Inter for a period of time. For Wang Dalei's performance, the inter press officer at that time gave the statement that "he is a genius, although there are still many details to be honed", "he wants to be born in Italy to have a chance to surpass Buffon", "he has greater potential than inter's other goalkeepers"; but there was a Chinese agent who got Wang Dalei's trial report that year, and at that time Inter's evaluation of Wang Dalei had such a sentence - the goalkeeping technique was relatively rough and lacked professional training. This sentence actually shows one thing, the selection of European football materials, the basic skills of players are very important.
Nowadays, the goalkeepers of the entire world football are getting taller and taller, and the training methods of modern goalkeepers have also made great progress, many goalkeepers who are more than 1 meter 9 in height are also very fast in the ground, so the slender and agile goalkeepers are the more favored types of European goalkeeper coaches.
Bayern Asia-Pacific sports director Ma Yongming mentioned in the official live broadcast of Bayern last night that Liu Shaoziyang is 1 meter 9 tall, fast and agile; considering that he went to Spain at the age of 13, trained with the Spanish goalkeeper coach for 4 years in the important stage of laying the foundation, and practiced in Bayern U19 and Bayern second team for 11 months, it is reasonable to say that his basic skills will not be too much of a problem, and his external conditions are indeed more in line with the selection standards of most goalkeeper coaches in Europe.
I have long wanted to buy Chinese players, but Bayern will not joke about fame
Bayern boss Nagelsman was asked about Liu Shaoziyang at his pre-match press conference against Wolfsburg, saying that he had not met the player and that Tony Tapalovic (Bayern goalkeeper coach) would take care of this first and that he would take care of the young players.
In the video released by Bayern officials last night, Bayern's Asia-Pacific sports director Ma Yongming said: Liu Shaoziyang played well in Spain at that time, (we) found him and asked him to go to Munich for trial training, his trial training was very good, the team's goalkeeper coach thought he would become a good goalkeeper.
Bayern youth goalkeeper coach Stark said: Of course, he (Liu Shaoziyang) wants to develop in the direction of professionalism, I also hope that he can improve and develop on this road, although there is no father-son relationship in the professional arena, but we have found a good mode of getting along, and he has the potential to become a professional athlete, so I am looking forward to his development here. ”
Sauer, director of the Bayern Academy of Youth, said: "Liu Shaoziyang has been training with us for several months, and the whole signing was initiated by colleagues in the Shanghai Bayern Asia Pacific office through cooperation with the Wuhan Three Towns Club, which has been reached for several months. Liu Shaoziyang has shown good progress here, his development is very good, we see a lot of potential in him, so we also decided to sign a closer contract with him. ”
It is not difficult to hear from the statements of the three relevant persons in charge of Bayern that Liu Shaoziyang's performance in bayern trial training is not bad. Considering that during his time at Bayern, he was guided by the Stark who had been ridiculed as "not even able to retire at Bayern", Stark's words should have more say. From the official announcement, Bayern's official video shows that Liu Shaoziyang's German expression ability is not bad, which may also help him integrate into the team.
Of course, after Bayern's official announcement, there is also such a view - is Bayern signing a Chinese player for hype? Is it for the Chinese market? Objectively speaking, Bayern does attach great importance to the Chinese market; Bayern's second overseas office is in Shanghai, the first European giant to open a subsidiary in China, the first European giant to open a Tmall flagship store, and the first European giant to launch a Chinese App. A club that attaches great importance to the Chinese market, if there is a suitable choice, they will definitely be willing to sign Chinese players. But China's best player Wu Lei is playing hard in Espanyol, and Chinese players naturally can't play in Bayern; and European giants like Bayern can't joke about their reputation, and last year, the chairman of bayern's board of directors publicly said: "A few years ago, we carefully studied the Chinese market, but unfortunately, we couldn't find the right players for us." Nevertheless, we hope that we will be able to find Chinese players who have reached a sufficient level in the future. This is also a great fit for our marketing strategy. ”
Bayern executives have been looking for Yao Ming of Chinese football, Liu Shaoziyang will directly succeed Yan Junling in the future?
What if you can't buy the right instant combat strength, but you want to bring in Chinese players? Then you can only cultivate yourself. Last year, Bayern Asia Pacific President Ruben Kasper said in an interview with Xinhua News Agency: "Bayern has always focused on the development of Young Players in China, and if it can find the 'Yao Ming' of Chinese football and promote the joining of Bayern, it will be a landmark event." ”
Liu Shaoziyang is only 18 years old, and it is indeed difficult to say which step he can develop in the future; but even if Bayern executives have long begun to focus on the cultivation of Chinese young players, to find Yao Ming of Chinese football, and now he has paid a 1 million euros buyout, it means that Bayern at least believes that Liu Shaoziyang has the potential to play in the Bundesliga in the future, which has also triggered domestic expectations.
In the current Chinese Super League, the main goalkeepers of 16 teams, yan Junling, who is already 30 years older than the national football team, are only Fang Jingqi of Jinmenhu (93 years), Wang Zhifeng of Wuhan, Bao Yaxiong of Hebei (97 years), and Han Jiaqi of Fuli (99 years); and of the 18 teams in the Chinese League A this year, half of the main goalkeepers of half of the teams are also older than Yan Junling, and the only ones with a little potential in the future are Yan Junling's little master peng peng (99 years) and Qi Yuxi (00 years) who are currently in Heilongjiang.
In the past few years, because there is Zeng Cheng, there is Yan Junling, there is Zhang Lu, there is Wang Dalei, the outside world generally believes that the goalkeeper is the only well-stocked position in Chinese football. But the best goalkeeper in the 93 age group Du Jia (the main goalkeeper of the 93 National Olympic Games), the best goalkeeper in the 97 age group Chen Wei (the main goalkeeper of the 95 age group U23 national team, the 96 national youth team, the 97 national Olympic team) was pressed on the bench by Yan Junling in SIPG, and Li Ming's main goalkeeper shi Xiaodong of the 97 National Youth Championship was also nantong because he could not see the day of the beginning in SHANGHAI, the former 95 national youth main goalkeeper Zhou Yuchen and Guo Quanbo, who had once entered the Lippi national team in Guoan, who had once entered the Lippi national team in Guoan. There is no chance in the league; when Yan Junling is younger than most of his peers who can play in the Chinese Super League and the Chinese First Division, it means that the Chinese goalkeeper has broken the file.
Considering that the goalkeeper itself is the position with the lowest fault tolerance rate, it is indispensable to be the main goalkeeper of the Chinese national team and the ability to resist pressure; and the talent reserve of the domestic goalkeeper is now very bad, and the national team will play 4 rounds of 12 matches before the Asian Cup, the opportunity to play the international A-level warm-up game will be very limited, so it is generally believed in the circle that yan Junling will be the number one goalkeeper of the national football team as long as there is no major injury to his critical career in the next few years, he will be the number one goalkeeper of the national football team when he plays the Asian Cup in 23 years and the World Cup in 26 years.
Once Yan Junling carries it for another 4 years, it also means that the current young goalkeepers can have more time to prepare at the level of the national team. Will Liu Shaoziyang, whose potential is recognized by Bayern, directly succeed Yan Junling in the national team?