Just 24 hours, we saw the epitome of Chinese football.
On February 16, Beijing time, Shanghai Harbor officially announced: After friendly consultation and agreement with Swiss Grasshopper Football Club and the player himself, Shanghai Harbor Football Club player Jia Boyan officially transferred to Grasshopper Football Club, but before the end of the season, Jia Boyan will be loaned to Croatian Second Division club Dubrava to get the opportunity to play.
The striker, who scored heavily in the youth team, finally embarked on the road to staying in the ocean, and after being promoted from the Harbor U19 echelon to the Shanghai Harbor first team in 2019, Jia Boyan made his career debut at the age of 16 years and 275 days in 2020, setting a record for the youngest player in harbor club history to surpass the game. Finally, at the age of 18, this potential midfielder got the chance to look outside!
As early as 2020, Jia Boyan was selected as the world's 60 most promising football star by the British "Guardian", and he was also the only Asian player to be selected. At that time, he had the opportunity to go to the Espanyol youth echelon, but due to the epidemic, it was stranded, following Guo Tianyu and Liu Shaoziyang, the U23 youngster's stay in Yang also indicated the determination of the national football team.
At about the same time, guangzhou issued a heavy announcement: after friendly negotiations, Guangzhou Football Club terminated its contract with naturalized players Axon, Gaulat, Alan, Luo Guofu and Fernando. This announcement is undoubtedly the official end of the "Golden Dollar Football", the naturalized players who once had high hopes have not been able to help Chinese football to a higher level, and the defeat to Vietnam has made fans more and more confused about the future of Chinese football...
Two consecutive news also seem to indicate that Chinese football can finally steadily embark on the road of developing youth training, which can be described as "unbroken and unliquivocal". In 1996, Saburo Kawabuchi proposed the "Centennial Plan for Japanese Football", and today's Japanese team has become one of the strongest in Asia and a regular in the World Cup, and the goal of "winning the 2050 World Cup" that we watched as a joke now seems to be out of reach for them.
Today, this centenary plan has set enough example for Chinese football. The first National Youth Campus Football League, to be organized by the Ministry of Education in 2022, may be a good start to China's football reform. It is true that this road is full of thorns, but Chinese football is not afraid of losing, not afraid of waiting, as long as you can see hope, I believe that all fans will have enough patience to wait for the rise of Chinese football!
In addition to the national team level, the future of the club and the entire Chinese Super League seems to be in a fog, and on the same day, the captain of the Chinese men's national football team, Arthur Junmin, posted on his personal social platform to publicly ask for salary from the Wuhan team. Subsequently, a number of Wuhan team members expressed solidarity and said that they also had the problem of unpaid wages.
However, according to the news obtained by some domestic media from the Wuhan club: "Arthur Junmin's monthly salary has been paid on time, and the salary bonus mentioned by him is the winning prize and the peace ball prize, with an amount of one or two million yuan." The club had planned to discuss this part of the bonus with the player after returning to the team after returning to the country after the quarantine ended, but now he could not answer the phone, text messages did not return, and could not be contacted. ”
On September 7 last year, in the World Cup qualifiers in the Asian round of 12, China lost 1-0 to Japan, and Arthur Junmin came off the bench in the second half. Former Japan international Tokuto Uchida, who played as a commentator in that match, had team-mate with Junmin Haru at Germany's Schalke 04 club. When he saw Arthur Joon Min on the live stream preparing to appear, he said: "Oh, it's Arthur Joon Min! "I was a teammate with him in Schalke, and it was nostalgic!" He showed up here! He's a good player and the technique is good. He and I often pass the ball to each other. ”
Teammates at that time have retired to become informants, while Chinese football still relies on these nearly 35-year-old players to support them, and they even face the problem of unpaid wages. After the "golden dollar football" bubble, the Prosperity of the Chinese Super League is no longer there, and when wage arrears have become the key word throughout the year, the national football elders have also suffered from unpaid wages. The Chinese professional football league has really reached the juncture of "life and death".
For Shanghai fans, more attention may still be Moreno, and Moreno, who is still the "soul of the team" in our hearts, scored the first goal after returning to the national competition today. After leaving Shanghai Shenhua in January this year, the 35-year-old Moreno finally scored in this season's Colombian Autumn League, and in the seventh round of Beijing time this morning, Moreno started for the first time for National Athletic, he received a cross from his teammate in the 45th minute and scored his first goal after returning to the team, which was also his second goal for the parent team after 12 years, helping National Athletic to finally defeat EnviGado 2-1!
In just one day, all kinds of things about Chinese football are displayed in front of the world like a microcosm, which can't help but see the hope for the future, but also see the helplessness of reality, and the nostalgia for the past. But in any case, when Chinese football comes to the crossroads of determining the future and chooses a correct path to the end, then we are no longer confused...