I believe that many fans know that the biggest problem in Chinese football now is that the talent is not broken. The players in the 85-89 years have long been over 30 years old, but they have been slow to retire, and they are still the main players of the club and the national team, because no one can take over. It seems that our Mesozoic generation is directly out of gears, and no one is available. Many people blame this problem on our youth training, believing that our youth training has not produced enough and excellent talents for our national brand and league.
But more than a decade ago, our youth suffered a major blow, and almost two-thirds of the country's football schools disappeared. However, Chinese population base is large, and no matter how few our youth training institutions are, they will not be completely empty, and they will certainly be more than some countries with small populations. But these people have very few people to play, and even the level of performance is not as good as that of Southeast Asian players, which is not enough. This shows that our players are not good, not only the problem of youth training, but also has a lot to do with our league system.
In fact, comparing the leagues in Southeast Asia and the Chinese Super League, we know that the league system in Southeast Asia is now very complete, not only multi-level adult leagues, but also their youth leagues are also very sound. Our youth league, on the other hand, has only been played in the past few years, and it has hardly been played for 2 years because of the epidemic. How can a young player grow without enough game experience? That's why our national youth and national juniors are getting worse and worse in the Asian arena.
Of course, the most serious thing is that after our young players enter the adult team, the central axis of our club is almost completely dominated by foreign aid, and the auxiliary positions are also experienced veteran players, so it is almost difficult for young players to get enough playing time. Basically our team is in this order, first foreign aid, foreign aid can not go, on the old players, the old players can not go on the young players. So many of our Mesozoic players are after the age of 25 before they really play more games in the league, and the yellow broccoli is cold at this time. A typical example is Xu Xin, who was originally capable enough, and it turned out that he played and scored goals in the national team at the age of 27, and at this time we knew that this player could still play.
And this is also why our best newcomers in the Chinese Super League have a spell, that is, after winning the best newcomer in the Chinese Super League, the next few years are not smooth, and the good can also play a substitute in the league or the national team, such as Liu Binbin, Huang Zichang, etc., the poor one is completely invisible in the top league, such as Li Xiaoming. It can be said that these newcomers are almost all after the first year of highlights, and then poached by the giants, or focus on taking care of injuries. Then I waited on the bench for my chance, waiting for my age. A typical example is Hu Jinghang, the best newcomer in the Chinese Super League in the 2017 season.
Hu Jinghang, who was born in 1997, was Wu Lei's disciple and the leader of the 97-year-old age stage of Genbao Football School, and even many people at that time thought that Hu Jinghang would become the second Wu Lei. At the age of 19, he played for Shanghai Harbor in the AFC Champions League, and at the age of 20, he won the best newcomer in the Chinese Super League on loan with Henan Jianye. I thought he would be very popular in the future. But after returning to Shanghai Harbor, he didn't get any chances to play. Unwillingly, he transferred to Henan Jianye again, but the feeling of the game could not be found. And it's been years since this search. Last season, he made only 4 starts in 11 appearances with Shanghai Harbor, scoring only 1 goal, completely overshadowed by several post-00s in Shanghai.
It can be seen that Hu Jinghang has almost no prospects for the giant Shanghai Harbor Team, and he will be 25 years old this year, if he does not work hard and does not exert force, we may find it difficult to see him shine in the future. Just today, a good news came, the Chinese Super League Wuhan team officially announced that Shanghai harbor striker Hu Jinghang officially joined the Wuhan team. It is reported that hu Jinghang's contract with Shanghai Harbor has expired, and he did not choose to renew his contract, but left, which proves that he wants to change.
And this time Hu Jinghang joined the Wuhan team can actually be seen as a return. Because just in the 2020 season when the epidemic was serious, Hu Jinghang took the initiative to apply to return to his hometown Wuhan, played for Wuhan for a season, helped Wuhan team to relegate, that season Hu Jinghang made a total of 19 appearances for Wuhan Zhuoer team in various competitions, contributed 4 goals and 3 assists, and his performance on the offensive end was remarkable, especially at that time, foreign coach Jose was very appreciative of Hu Jinghang, and specially named at the press conference, saying that Hu Jinghang played well. So this may also be an important reason why Hu Jinghang chose to return to the Wuhan team, which is his blessed land.
Do you think 25-year-old Hu Jinghang can still kick out? Can he get more opportunities in Wuhan? Friends are welcome to discuss together in the comment area!