With the play-offs of Zhejiang and Chengdu Rongcheng overturning Qingdao and Dalian to the Chinese Super League, the 2021 season of Chinese football has finally come to an end. Looking back at the thorny 2021, Shandong Taishan team won the Chinese Super League championship and the FA Cup championship and won the double title to become the biggest winner, and the blossoming of Luneng youth training is a different kind of success. The 4 Luneng youth players Gao Di, Li Wei, Yao Junsheng and Yi Xianlong, who helped Zhejiang team to rush to the top, also posted a group photo and wished the Taishan team a double crown.
Since the professionalization in 1994, the Taishan team has also gone through many periods, but no matter which stage the Taishan team has never relaxed the training of youth players, especially since the opening of the Luneng Football School under the suggestion of the meritorious coach Santracci, the club has insisted on cultivating youth talents for twenty years.
After Taishan won the Chinese Super League championship, we saw a statistic, taking two years as an age group, Taishan team from 34-year-old Zhang Chi to 20-year-old Jia Feifan spanned 10 age groups of youth players, of which Liu Binbin, Wu Xinghan, Wang Tong and other main generation 93 is the most important force.
Previous media data from the "Football" newspaper showed that Luneng's youth training talents only scored 57 goals in the Chinese Super League, Chinese First Division and Chinese Second Division, of which the post-00 players scored 46 goals. And that's just a statistic of goals, including some defenders and other players who didn't score, and their outstanding performance during the loan period is not counted.
The Luneng youth players who stayed in the team helped Shandong Taishan win the double title, and there was no ambiguity in the loan.
However, after all, a team has a limited number of personnel, which determines that in addition to a few very good players in each age group can stay in the team, other less prominent players will eventually have to go out, loan or even transfer away, they have to go outside to prove themselves.
Chen Pu went to Henan on loan, Fang Hao went to Wuhan on loan, and Shi Yan went to Tianjin on loan, and they all had a good performance in the Chinese Super League.
In addition, many players have chosen to transfer to Shandong and become self-reliant after weaning.
In the 4 teams of the RushIng Super League we can see the figure of Luneng youth players, Wuhan three towns have Geng Xiaofeng, Yang Kuo, Rosen Wen, the latter two are Luneng 93 generation of outstanding players, they have no chance in the Taishan team, before in the Chinese Super League also had a good performance, in the 2021 season they are the main players of wuhan three towns rushing super, of which the former Luneng youth training 93 generation of midfield core Rosen Wen scored 8 goals, the performance is very outstanding. The 34-year-old Geng Xiaofeng was the main goalkeeper of the Taishan team and was once selected for the national team, although there have been few opportunities for performance in recent years, but in the 2021 season, Geng Xiaofeng, as the captain, made 23 appearances and 11 clean sheets for Wuhan Sanzhen, and is a key player on the road to Wuhan Sanzhen.
Born in 1994, Cui Wei was the first player to be reused when Taishan practiced the U23 policy, although he ultimately failed to gain a foothold in Taishan, but after transferring to Meizhou Hakka, Cui Wei played a good performance in the Middle League A, and has been the main force of the team in recent years, once wearing the No. 10 jersey.
Zhejiang team has 4 Luneng youth players this season, of which Li Wei, born in 1985, and Zhou Haibin are the same batch of players. Gaudí, once known as "Little Lee Jinyu", was born in 1990 and is now 32 years old. Yao Junsheng was born in 1995, and after officially joining Zhejiang this season, he handed over 4 goals and 4 assists. Born in 2001, Yi Xianlong is one of the new generation of representative players in Luneng Youth Training, and this season he scored 2 goals and delivered 2 assists for Zhejiang, showing great potential at a young age.
Chengdu Rongcheng also has Luneng youth players in the squad, Liu Chaoyang was loaned for 3 consecutive seasons after entering the Taishan first team, this season he only scored 1 goal in Chengdu, because the position competition did not become the protagonist of the team.
Some of these players are on loan, and some have no relationship with the Taishan team, but what remains unchanged is that they are all Luneng youth training, and they all have an "orange heart".
The double crown is the glory of the Taishan team, and these scattered Luneng youth players are also a successful embodiment of the Taishan team's insistence on cultivating youth players over the years.