In the past, everyone said that the biggest difficulty of Chinese football was the talent gap, the lack of connection, especially in the central axis position, it was simply completely completely absent, resulting in a sharp decline in the overall level of national football. However, with the end of the Golden Yuan era of the Chinese Super League, the big-name foreign aid left the Chinese Super League, and the club's central axis returned to the hands of local players, and the situation of talent breakage was greatly alleviated. For example, in the front position, Guo Tianyu and Zhang Yuning competed in the league, so the shortage of talent in the center position was solved. Then there is the back position, Xu Xin and Yan Dinghao have played very well in the league. And the center-back position is also a lot of people, such as Zhu Chenjie and Jiang Shenglong. It can be said that the rise of young generals on the central axis has made us see the hope for the future of Chinese football.
However, the problem of the position of the central axis of the national football team has not been solved, that is, our No. 10 position, that is, the midfield forward position or the offensive core position or no one. The no. 10 offensive core in the real sense of the national football team is still the midfield core of Gao Hongbo's national team 10 years ago, Deng Zhuoxiang, but with Gao Hongbo's dismissal and Deng Zhuoxiang's injury, the national team no longer has a real midfield forward, a no. 10 core. And each team basically uses foreign aid as the core of the midfield, so local players have not had the opportunity to play the No. 10 position in recent years, and naturally they will not produce talents. That's why people's desire for naturalized Teixeira and Gaulat was so strong in the first place, because we needed that kind of player so much.
This season, we have also seen a lot of local players have the shadow of local excellent forwards, but there is no more eye-catching and mature No. 10 at present. However, in the last round of the Chinese Super League, we finally saw a local No. 10 flash, and his shot reminded us of Deng Zhuoxiang, the core of the national team. This player is now the no. 10 Li Titian of Guangzhou City.
In the 21st round of the second stage of the Chinese Super League, Guangzhou City faced the strong opponent Beijing Guoan. In the first half, the Guoan team was led by national football center Zhang Yuning. In the second half, Guangzhou City strengthened its attack, pushed the back of Li Titian to the front waist position, and successfully activated Li Titian at once. In the 51st minute of the game, Fan Yunlong sent a long pass near the middle pass, the ball passed through all the players to find Li Titian, who actively inserted the ball, Li Titian used his personal skills to get rid of the defense, and then directly outside the penalty area to send a cold arrow, the ball rubbed the right upright and jumped into the gate! The score became 1-1 and Titian Lee helped the team equalize. And this ball Titian Lee's choice is perfect, because the line of his shot is almost the only line that can score in that position, and his shot angle, power and height are perfectly controlled. Reminds us of Deng Zhuoxiang's famous work, the world wave that blew open the door of the South Korean team with 3 people in a row.
In fact, Li Titian has long been optimistic about everyone, and his style of play is a very rare flowing style, a bit of a small Luo feeling. When he was in the Guoan echelon, he was considered to be the absolute main force of the future Guoan Future No. 10. But later, Zhang Xizhe came out of nowhere, and Li Tixiang was not able to play in Guoan. Later, he caught up with the Golden Dollar era of the Chinese Super League, and he could not play at all in the front waist position. Later, he joined Guangzhou City and was even transformed into a defender at one point. Now that the big name foreign aid has left the team, The Position of Titian Lee has finally returned to the midfield, and as the game progresses, the coach also sees Titian Lee's ability to take the ball and play the ball, so he has become the core of the team. When it is necessary to attack, as soon as Li Titian advances, the team's attack will be very smooth.
Now the only pity is that Titian Li is now 32 years old, which can be said to be an absolute veteran, and it is still difficult to enter the national team. But Titian Lee was also lucky, he caught up with the end of the Golden Age, allowing himself to return to his familiar position in the final years of his career, and even flash in the league again, which will make many retired players very envious. I have to say that the turmoil in Chinese football over the years has left many players with regrets in their careers, but those who have been insisting on it have finally seen the sunshine and felt the warmth of the sun. What other players do you think have had a lot of potential but have left regrets in these 10 years? Friends are welcome to discuss together in the comment area!