After the new Chinese League A wuhan three towns rushed to the Chinese Super League two rounds in advance, Liu Shaoziyang, an 18-year-old goalkeeper from the Wuhan Three Towns Youth Training Camp, signed a contract with the Bundesliga giants Bayern, and the Chinese football that entered the "cold winter" season bloomed with several rays of hope.
What is the concept of joining Bayern?
Former Mr. World Footballer of the Year winner Lewandowski and former World Cup champions goalkeeper Neuer both reached the pinnacle of their football lives after joining Bayern.
Some fans began to imagine: can Liu Shaoziyang surpass Yao Ming and Liu Xiang in the future and become a new brother in Chinese sports?
Thinking too far, even if Liu Shaoziyang can one day replace Neuer as Bayern's main goalkeeper, if he can't help the team win the "treble" or "six crowns" as an absolute main force like Levan and Neuer, at most it can only be compared to The Iranian striker Ali Dei, who has played for Bayern.
Liu Shaoziyang said in an interview that "Germany is rich in excellent goalkeepers", in fact, in the place where Liu Shaoziyang's football career started, Wuhan, is also rich in excellent goalkeepers.
For example, Yan Yi, the main goalkeeper of Wuhan Yaqi in the A-A era, and Zeng Cheng, the main national goalkeeper of the Chinese Super League era.
The growth trajectory, Liu Shaoziyang and Zeng Cheng are somewhat similar.
Zeng Cheng's football enlightenment began in Wuhan Qingshan District Steel City Ten Primary School, enlightenment coach Zhang Zhenwu. In elementary school, Zeng Cheng did not play as a goalkeeper, but as a striker. After graduating from primary school, he entered the Wuhan Football Association Football School and changed to playing goalkeeper at the suggestion of Deng Shijun, the enlightenment coach of Arthur Junmin.
Liu Shaoziyang's football enlightenment began at Furen Primary School in Qiaokou District, Wuhan City, and he started coach Feng Lihua. Like Zeng Cheng, Liu Shaoziyang did not initially play goalkeepers, but played forwards.
Liu Shaoziyang's growth environment is much better than that of his predecessor Zeng Cheng.
Before the establishment of the Wuhan Three Towns Professional Team, the youth training was first, that is, the Wuhan Shangwen Youth Training launched in 2013 in the form of cooperation with the Wuhan Football Association in the form of government-enterprise cooperation, began to select the best football seedlings in Wuhan to start a five-year study in Barcelona, Spain in 2015, the first batch of 02 and 03 age group seedlings, born in 2003 Liu Shaoziyang was selected to study in Barcelona after graduating from primary school in 2016. It was during his study abroad that Liu Shaoziyang was photographed by Bayern.
Zeng Cheng, who graduated from the Wuhan Football Association Football School that year, entered the Wuhan Optics Valley Echelon, and after entering the first team, he played in the Indonesian league for half a year. In 2008, Wuhan Optics Valley withdrew, Zeng Cheng, who was already the main goalkeeper of the National Olympic Games and the second goalkeeper of Wuhan Optics Valley, did not play the ball, joined Henan Jianye under the introduction of his mentor Liu Junfeng, and later switched to Guangzhou Evergrande, the overlord of the Chinese Super League, and sat firmly in the position of the main goalkeeper of the national team.
Before the 2015 Asian Cup, Zeng Cheng, who was interviewed by reporters in Wuhan, said: I hope to have the opportunity to stay in the future!
Nowadays, Zeng Cheng has long been away from the national team, and his career has entered the twilight years, and his wish to stay in the Ocean is doomed to be unfulfilled.
The 18-year-old Liu Shaoziyang signed a professional contract with the world's top giant Bayern, and the starting point is obviously much higher than zeng cheng of the same age.
It is obviously too early to say what achievements Liu Shaoziyang can achieve in the future, and it should still be very promising to reach or even surpass Zeng Cheng's achievements.