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The biggest attraction of the 2022 Chinese Super League is undoubtedly how the four Chinese Super League promotion horses of Wuhan Three Towns, Meizhou Hakka, Chengdu Rongcheng and Zhejiang will stir up the Chinese Super League. Although there is still a long way to go before the start of the Chinese Super League, the four promotion horses have "stupid birds fly first", especially in the transfer market. On January 27, Wuhan Sanzhen has started winter training ahead of schedule, becoming the first team in the Chinese Super League to start winter training, and according to anecdotal news, the team has signed Brazilian defender Santos and Romanian midfield core Stanchu.
All indications show that since the four-promotion polo team chose to rush to the top at the time of the expansion of the Chinese Super League, they are undoubtedly ready to participate in the competition, perhaps some of them have not only locked their eyes on relegation, after all, in the 2021 season of the Super League play-offs, Zhejiang and Chengdu Rongcheng squeezed Qingdao and Dalian out of the Chinese Super League, showing a strong enough competitiveness. In the future, these "mysterious forces" from last season's Chinese First Division may completely disrupt the competition pattern of the Chinese Super League in the new season.
January 12, 2022 was a memorable day in the Chinese Professional Football League, when Chengdu Rongcheng defeated Dalian renren with a 2-1 aggregate score with a lucky goal from foreign aid Romulo in the second leg of the Super League play-offs, and replaced his opponent as the new team in the Chinese Super League. On another field, Zhejiang also withstood qingdao's final counterattack, winning 1-0 on aggregate and grabbing a ticket to the Chinese Super League next season.
Jody
Head coach of Zhejiang football team
All these years the fans and players have been waiting for this moment when Zhejiang team rushed to the top, a season of hard work is not easy for everyone, but we finally achieved success, I want to congratulate the club and this team. (Interview date: January 12, 2022 Super League play-off post-match press conference)
Xu Zhengyuan
Head coach of Chengdu Rongcheng Football Team
This is the last race of the season and I have always believed that good results are made through the sweat of training, and we practice repeatedly where we don't do well to be successful in the race. This year my players are very strong in execution, and I want to give the victory to the 21 million chengdu people in Chengdu. (Interview date: January 12, 2022 Super League play-off post-match press conference)
As the important town of Chinese football, Chengdu has left the top league for a full decade, and Zhejiang football can return to the Chinese Super League stage, and it has also gone through five seasons of salary. Coupled with the three towns in Wuhan and Meizhou Hakka, which directly overtook as the champion and runner-up of the Chinese League One, the grand scene of four Chinese League A teams rushing to overtake at the same time in a single season is the first time in the history of Chinese professional leagues. Perhaps, in the eyes of many people, the plan of the Chinese Super League to expand to 18 teams in 2022 has given the four teams in the Chinese League A, especially the Zhejiang team and Chengdu Rongcheng who rushed through the play-offs to create history, but they can finally borrow the East Wind, in the final analysis, because in the context of the league salary limit and the frequent crisis in the Chinese Super League, the upstream teams in the Chinese League A have almost erased the gap between the lower reaches of the Chinese Super League, both in terms of capital investment and lineup strength, and even have the potential to catch up. This has made more teams different from the past, eager to try their hand on a higher platform.
It is also based on this idea that people have seen many familiar names in the lineup of the fourth team of the Chinese First Division, especially the three towns of Wuhan that locked in the quota two rounds in advance and won the championship of the Chinese First Division in the first round. Although it was only their first year in the Chinese First Division, they recruited many former internationals such as Rong Hao, Ren Hang, Liu Yiming, Zhang Xiaobin, Geng Xiaofeng, Deng Zhuoxiang, such as Luo Senwen, Yang Kuo, Sang Yifei, Yin Yaji and Zhang Wentao, who have also been trained in the Chinese Super League. In addition, the three towns of Wuhan also have three foreign forwards: Ogb, Edmirson and Malkang. In one season, under the restriction of up to two foreign players per team in each game of the Chinese League, Ogbu and Edmilson jointly scored 29 goals, Malkang, who only transferred from Hebei in the middle of the season, also scored 11 goals, and the remaining 33 league goals in Wuhan Three Towns were completed by another 13 players, which shows the strength of its overall strength. It is no exaggeration to say that wuhan three towns are playing in the chinese first division with a set of extremely competitive squads that are put in the Chinese Super League, and whether it is the jaw-dropping league 14 consecutive wins or the 79 points in the history of the Chinese First Division, it is also the best return on the club's capital investment.
In fact, looking at the world football world, as long as the economic conditions permit, then most of the results and investment will be positively correlated, but how to spend the money in hand has allowed different teams to go out of their own way of success. For example, Chengdu Rongcheng, whose team lineup changed blood in the 2021 season like Wuhan Sanzhen, on the one hand, they invited The Korean coach Xu Zhengyuan, who is known for his strict management, on the other hand, they focused on creating the imprint of local football when introducing reinforcements, and increased their efforts to introduce Players from Chengdu or "Made in Chengdu". Therefore, in the past two seasons, people have seen more and more players like Feng Zhuoyi, Li Jianbin and Min Junlin who were trained by Chengdu Youth Training or have played for Chengdu football have returned to Join Chengdu Rongcheng, and among them, the most worth mentioning is the Sichuan teenager Liu Ruovan. The young and famous "Liu Ruma", when playing for Shenhua and Tianjin, failed to cash in his talent, but unexpectedly, Liu Ruovan, who returned to his hometown team on loan, found the goal feeling of "Liu Ruma", contributed 13 goals and 3 assists to Rongcheng, and with his outstanding performance, he was favored by Li Xiaopeng, and was selected for the adult national football team for the first time in his career, becoming the only international player to play in the Middle Division.
In the Chengdu Rongcheng squad, the number of players with the same Chengdu football mark as Liu Ruovan has reached two-thirds, such a hometown feeling, coupled with the strict management of the South Korean coach, the biggest change to the team is the improvement of team cohesion and ability to play hard battles. Objectively speaking, Chengdu Rongcheng's opponent Dalian ren in the Super League play-offs can actually be at least in the middle of the eight teams in the Relegation Group of the Chinese Super League because it brings together many young talents such as Tao Qianglong, Tong Lei, Lin Liangming, Shan Huanhuan, Li Shuai, and other powerful foreign aides such as Larson and Danielson. However, in the two-legged life-and-death battle, Chengdu Rongcheng, which ranked fourth in the Central League, actually gnawed the hard bone of Dalian, while Chengdu foreign aid Leonardo Silva and Felipe knelt down after the game to celebrate, and the scene of long reluctance to get up, as well as the death of coach Xu Zhengyuan's mother but still insisting on leading the team to rush to the top, are particularly moving, and it also shows the unity of this team.
Although I am in the middle division, I chose Chengdu because there are clear goals here and there will be good development in the future. In the third stage of the league, my mother died, because of the epidemic, I can't go back, so I want to lead the team to achieve good results. When I encountered difficulties, everyone did not give up, and I wanted to give Chong Chao's gift to my mother, which was also the agreement between me and the present when I came to China. (Interview date: January 12, 2022 Super League play-off post-match press conference)
Chengdu foreign aid Leonardo · Silva and Felipe knelt down to celebrate after the game
Compared with the sudden rise of the three towns in Wuhan and The Rongcheng in Chengdu, the successful overtaking of Meizhou Hakka and Zhejiang teams is a thick accumulation. In the 2020 season, these two teams have already broken into the super group, and the Zhejiang team fell in the two-legged super league play-off with Wuhan, and finally fell short. However, the 2021 season started again, Meizhou Hakka still insisted on small cost operation, and the stability and maturity of the core lineup allowed them to continue the excellent performance of the previous year, once playing 11 consecutive wins. Although the performance in the closing stage of the league fluctuated, almost losing the direct overtaking qualification, but with Gui Hong's reading of the second, Meizhou Hakka changed its fate against the sky, so that Meizhou, which has the reputation of "the hometown of football", finally has its own Chinese Super League team, and wuhua County has become the first county-level city with a top league team to be recorded in the annals of Chinese professional football.
As for the Zhejiang team, relying on the Greentown Football School, their youth training is on a par with Luneng, and they never follow the trend of Jinyuan football, reusing their own youth players, which has also become the label of Zhejiang's foothold in Chinese football. Although they had committed themselves to the Middle League because they held high the banner of "Youth Storm", when the long night finally broke dawn, they always adhered to their football philosophy, and the young team became more and more mature in the grinding, coupled with the help of Two experienced foreign aides, Mushekwi and Matthews, the Zhejiang team, which missed the opportunity to rush three times, finally got its wish and returned to the top league.
Now the structure of the team is very good, which is very important, and then we need to rest well. Of course, regarding the work of reinforcements, the club's scouting department is already paying attention to some foreign and domestic reinforcements, and we will also bring in some players to keep the team competitive in the Chinese Super League. (Interview date: January 12, 2022 Super League play-off post-match press conference)
Whether it is the three towns of Wuhan and Chengdu Rongcheng that dare to spend money, or the Zhejiang Greentown and Meizhou Hakka that maintain themselves, under the tide of de-gold yuanhua in the Chinese professional football league, stability and rationality make the four teams of the Chinese League One go to the same destination, and this is also an important reason why Changchun Yatai, which successfully overtook them one step ahead, can rank fourth in the league as a promotion horse in the 2021 season and grab a ticket to the AFC Champions League qualification. Especially in the case of many giant clubs encountering difficulties, many of which are unable to gather foreign aid, Yatai has five foreign aides from the beginning of the season, and in the second stage of the league, there are still four foreign aides at both ends of the attack and defense at the same time. Obviously, behind the appearance of a neat lineup, stability is the basis for Yatai's good results.
Chen Yang
Head coach of Changchun Yatai Football Team
Thanks to the club for letting the foreign aid return to the team earlier, there is plenty of time to run in, winning is the embodiment of strength, under the existing staffing, the organization of a more suitable way of playing is what our coaches have to do. (Interview time: April 22, 2021 Dalian vs Yatai post-match press conference)
Looking forward to the 2022 season of the Chinese Super League, Changchun Yatai will definitely not meet the fourth place results, the three towns in Wuhan, which already have a Chinese Super League team, are eager to break the wrist with the league's strongmen, Meizhou Hakka is not willing to fall behind in the Guangdong Four Tigers, Zhejiang team wants to justify its own football concept, and Chengdu Rongcheng is shouldering the mission of reviving the football town. These spoilers from the Chinese First Division have long been ready to do a big job, so seeing the lessons of Dalian and Qingdao in front, those old people who are satisfied with the status quo, are you ready again?