Chinese football in the cold winter has recently ushered in a good news. Bundesliga supremacy Bayern Munich has announced that the club has brought in 18-year-old Chinese goalkeeper Liu Shaoziyang.
According to the Yangtze River Daily, 18-year-old Wuhan goalkeeper Liu Shaoziyang is the first player to be trained by Bayern Munich and Wuhan Sanzhen Club. He has trained and lived for 11 months at bayern club academy in Munich, Germany.
According to the official website of Bayern Chinese, Oliver Kahn, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bayern Munich Football Club, said: "We are very pleased to be able to sign Liu Shaoziyang from our youth partner Wuhan Sanzhen Football Club, and this transfer is the result of our hard work in China. Over the past few years, colleagues in Bayern's Asia Pacific office in Shanghai have worked closely with partners across the region to build an excellent youth network. ”
Johen Sauer, head of the Bayern Academy, added: "We have invited Liu Shaoziyang to try out at the Bayern Academy for a while. His development has been very good and we see a lot of potential in him. We have therefore implemented our next plan and are delighted to be able to bring in the first Chinese male footballer for Bayern Munich FC. ”
Speaking about the feeling of joining Bayern, Liu Shaoziyang said: "Thank you very much to Bayern Munich, Bayern, as one of the greatest clubs in the world, can give me such a rare opportunity, joining Bayern is a great honor for me. In my hometown, there are so many Bayern fans, I feel extremely proud and joyful! ”
Liu Shaoziyang, who is 1.90 meters tall, currently lives at the Bayern Munich Youth Centre. He currently trains mainly with the Bayern U19 youth team and occasionally trains with the Bayern second team on Via Sebena. In addition, goalkeeper coach Tom Stark regularly mentors him. Liu Shaoziyang will also work hard to learn German and strive to integrate into the team and local life as soon as possible and better.
In addition, a domestic reporter broke the news that Liu Shaoziyang joined Bayern, and the transfer fee was close to 1 million euros. The fee is paid by Bayern to the Wuhan Three Towns Club. This news also shows that Bayern signed Liu Shaoziyang because he valued the football talent he embodied, rather than purely from the perspective of the market.
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, 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 16 December 2021, Bayern Munich FC officially signed a contract with Liu Shaoyang, who also became the first Chinese player introduced by the club.