Foreign players
Just get out there
On January 27, Shandong Taishan officially announced that 99-year-old center Guo Tianyu had been on loan for the Portuguese Premier League's Vizzella club until June 30 this year. Although Vizella is a club with a Chinese background, it does not matter whether it is Chinese or not at the moment, what is important is that more people can go out first, so that it is possible to seek more living space.
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The same official announcement has a different meaning
Long before the Chinese men's football team re-concentrated in Shanghai this month, Guo Tianyu's stay in the Yang has actually been completed, which is also part of the overall plan of the Chinese Football Association to send more young players abroad at a time when the overall downturn is trending. As for the official announcement of the choice to be made before the start of the China-Japan Round of 12 on January 27, on the one hand, the winter transfer of European football is also nearing its end, on the other hand, this is a common agreement between the Chinese Football Association, clubs and operators.
Before the women's football team played the first match of the Tokyo Olympic Games last year, the Shanghai Football Association official announced that Tang Jiali was on loan to the Premier League Tottenham Hotspur women's football team. Tang Jiali's official announcement was to some extent a gamble, because she had already lost the list of women's football teams to participate in the Olympic Games, and the explanation given by the relevant parties was that she was "injured", but the official announcement of the Shanghai side actually made this statement punch in the face. It is also the official announcement of the players before the competition to stay in the ocean, and the smooth completion of Guo Tianyu is the result of multi-party cooperation.
Guo Tianyu's stay in yang is bound to have an impact on the Shandong Taishan team that cultivated him. The reason why Guo Tianyu was able to get the opportunity last season has a lot to do with the team's lack of foreign aid center. Now that he is gone, the Shandong team will definitely be affected in terms of overall tactical arrangements, and may even have to look for foreign aid centers to fill the vacancy, but this is not easy under the epidemic. However, out of the need to obey the overall situation of Chinese football, Shandong Taishan still sent Guo Tianyu out.
The outside world has been debating whether Chinese football clubs should be "state-owned enterprises" or "private enterprises", which is probably a question that is difficult for anyone to convince anyone. But at least in the problem of staying in the West, from the release of Wu Lei by Shanghai SIPG to the release of Guo Tianyu by Shandong Taishan this time, the clubs with state-owned enterprise backgrounds are obviously stronger than some clubs with private enterprise backgrounds in terms of "political awareness". Because of many old internationals, including Zhang Linpeng and others, their encounters in staying in the Ocean are already very telling.
Not only Guo Tianyu, Shanghai Harbour Club is afraid that it will soon officially announce the news that another young player in the team, Jia Boyan, will join the Swiss grasshopper, and the 03-year-old will become a teammate with Li Lei. It's just that Jia Boyan, because of his youth, will follow the club's U19 youth team after joining.
Wu Lei will no longer be the "only hope of the whole village", at least with more partners on the road to Staying in Yang.
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The Chinese background is an opportunity
Espanyol, Grasshoppers and Vizzella are all European professional clubs with Chinese backgrounds. Perhaps many people hear the word "Chinese-funded" and feel that staying in the west is somewhat discounted. However, in the current reality, Chinese capital is not unseemly, and it can even be said that for a long time in the past, Chinese football has not made good use of the resources of "Chinese-funded clubs".
With the current ability and level of Chinese players, it is very difficult to go to Europe alone without any funding. We often say that many players from Japan and South Korea have gone through Europe and have formed their own system. However, it cannot be denied that the countries with the largest number of foreign players in Asia are regulars who represent Asia in the World Cup. But this is only the second consecutive time we have played in the round of 12 since the 2002 World Cup. In terms of youth training, since 2005, it has not been able to qualify for the World Youth Championships and the World Junior Championships. The same Asian players, how competitive are Chinese players? In fact, they are all aware of it.
What's more, before the Formation of today's situation, Korean and Japanese players also relied on sponsorship to go abroad in the initial stage. For example, Miura Chira, it was the Japanese company that funded the sponsorship of Genoa in Serie A, and only brought a domestic player, and Miura Chiryo also went a very difficult road.
In the case of the overall downturn in Chinese football, it is not a shameful thing to let Chinese players take this step first with the help of Chinese clubs. At the pre-match press conference between Japan and China, Japanese reporters asked about the financial difficulties encountered by the parent company of the Chinese Super League club, but as Li Xiaopeng said in his response, "You only see the bad side, but you don't see the rapid development of China's economy in recent years, and the more positive side, including the positive things brought about by the return of naturalized players to the national team." ”
In fact, the same is true of the question of Chinese clubs. Since there are so many Chinese-funded clubs in Europe at present, in the complex of "Chinese who does not help Chinese", why can't Chinese football make good use of it to create some favorable conditions for Chinese players to stay abroad? For a long time in the past, Chinese-funded clubs have actually introduced a lot of Chinese players, but because China's best players may not be able to compete with foreign players in international football, and Chinese players who join Chinese-funded clubs are not necessarily the best players in China, this competitiveness is probably even weaker, so it is difficult to stand firm.
Now using these Chinese-funded clubs to send the best players out of the country first, a few years may be able to change. We must see that even people like Wu Lei are currently encountering bottlenecks in the process of staying in the Ocean. Therefore, clubs with Chinese backgrounds are willing to provide an opportunity and stage for the best players in China to show themselves and improve themselves, which in itself should be a resource that Chinese football can make good use of. We should lower our posture and acknowledge the fact that the level of Chinese football is not high, rather than the so-called "non-five major leagues do not go" as in the past for a long time.
In any case, like Li Lei, Guo Tianyu, Jia Boyan, including the previous Wu Lei, being able to go out is already the first step. At present, chinese football needs more people to take this first step. Of course, after they take this step, they will have to face more difficulties than they can imagine, and we can only wish them success!