Over the years, we have always said that the biggest problem in Chinese football is that the talent is out of gear. The main reason why everyone puts it down to the fact that our youth training is not good enough and there are not enough talents to cultivate. But in fact, the reason why our talent is broken is definitely not only the youth training, our league is a very important factor. For example, the league is basically dominated by foreign aid, basically all the teams have given foreign aid in the entire central axis, and local players are completely marginalized, and over time they have played health football. Second, our league system is relatively single, the club has fewer games, so the team is definitely more willing to use veterans for the sake of performance, because basically it is a game a week, at most 1 FA Cup or AFC Champions League, the veterans can basically rest, so it is more difficult for young players to have a chance to come forward. Young players don't play games, how can they produce talent?
Therefore, the talent gap that is not obvious in the club is particularly serious when it comes to the national team. One of the most typical examples is the Shanghai Shenhua team, the veteran powerhouse of the Chinese Super League. As we all know, Shanghai Shenhua was once one of the ace teams in the Chinese league, but in the past decade, the team has long been not a team competing for the championship, and even the team has been relegated for several seasons. The most important thing is that the team is not bad money, every year can buy big-name foreign aid, such as Drogba, Anelka, Tevez, Shalavi, etc., the international football team also has Yang Xu, Yu Hanchao, Qin Sheng, Zhao Mingjian, Feng Xiaoting, Zeng Cheng and other powerful factions, it can be said that the team's card surface is not bad. But the team's poor performance is because the overall age of the team is older.
In the last two seasons, Shenhua has basically been the oldest team in the Chinese Super League with the average age. So we saw that Shenhua was always a tiger, the league was very strong at the beginning, and then it began to decline in the middle, and in the later stage, it was full of injuries, and because there was no training of new people throughout the season, there was no one to get on the young players at the end, and it was difficult for young players to accumulate confidence. And this is a constant cycle.
This year was different, however, as the team did not complete the task of entering the championship group and the points were enough to relegate, so the team began to use young players deliberately. In the second stage, Shenhua many young players appeared, and the surprises came one by one. For example, Wang Haijian, a 21-year-old midfielder, shined in the final round of the Chinese Super League, and the substitute staged a good play.
Shenhua's opponent in this game is Henan Songshan Longmen Team, and in the first half of the game, Shenhua suppressed the Henan team with the advantage of strength, but it was invincible. In the second half, youngster Wang Haijian came on as a substitute for Qin Sheng in the 55th minute. In the 70th minute of the game, Feng Xiaoting sent a long pass from the top in the front field, Yu Hanchao received the ball in the penalty area and knocked back, wen surnamed Xiao will decisively insert the ball and shoot angrily by the goalkeeper, but because of the strength of the goalkeeper, the young goalkeeper has a hand off, at this time the young general Wang Haijian followed up in time to make up for the goal! The score became 1-0! This ball can be seen that Wang Haijian's sense of smell in front of the goal is very sensitive.
However, Wang Haijian's performance was not over, and just 17 minutes later, he scored again. At that time, Sun Shilin sent a long pass over the top on the left side of the front, Wang Haijian took advantage of the speed advantage, formed a single knife after inserting the ball in front of him, he entered the left side of the penalty area, saw the goalkeeper strike in time, the ball flew directly into the near corner of the goal, the score became 3-0, Wang Haijian staged a double.
It is worth noting that Wang Haijian only got the first goal of his Chinese Super League career in the last round, and this game achieved a second goal, that is, he scored 3 goals in 2 games, which is very efficient. I have to say that this young general is really a bit skilled. Even Shenhua head coach Mao Yijun praised Wang Haijian after the game, saying that his performance exceeded the expectations of the coaching staff, and his performance at this stage was very stable and did very well, both offensively and defensively. He is a very hard working player, balanced offensively and defensively and very dedicated, his potential is great and the prospects are good.
In fact, in Shenhua's squad, there are still many excellent young players, after all, they directly bought the Genbao base 99-00 echelon. It's just that in these years, for the sake of results, the team has not given too many opportunities to young players, and many of Shenhua's excellent players have been loaned out, and have been rented, because these players can't come back and play. So Shenhua is actually not without young players to use, but it has forced itself into an old team.
However, as everyone begins to pay attention to and use young players, the Shenhua team will also start its own youth storm, and if Shenhua can produce a few more players like Wang Haijian in the future, then it is still very promising to return to the Chinese Super Team. What do you think? Friends are welcome to discuss together in the comment area!