Unconsciously, there are already four players from The Hangzhou Greentown Youth Training in the Guoan team, they are Zhang Yuning, Gao Tianyi, Jin Pengxiang and Zou Dehai. As a key youth training base in China, Hangzhou Greentown has cultivated many players over the years, what is the difference between them and the players cultivated by Guoan itself?
In fact, from the performance of these four players in the Chinese Super League, it can be seen that their physical fitness is first-class.
Zhang Yuning, as a center, although his figure is not particularly tall, but his height of 1 meter 85 does not suffer losses when grabbing points in the front court, the key is that his body is very solid, the confrontation ability is very good, relying on the body, the ability to hold the ball on the back is very good.
Gao Tianyi, as a midfielder, has a height of 1.85 meters, and this height plays in midfield, which is rare in Chinese football. His ability to fight is also very good among the midfielders.
Jin Pengxiang's physical fitness is actually very outstanding, as a center-back, with a height of 1 meter 90, but tall and not stupid, his recovery speed is very fast in the tall center-back, flexibility is also very good, absolutely the physical quality of the top center-back.
Zou Dehai's height is 1 meter 87, which is not particularly tall among the goalkeepers, but like Zhang Yuning, he is also a medium height in the same position, and he does not suffer at all. Its reaction speed, arm span, etc. are also quite good.
In addition to their physical fitness, the foot skills of these four Greentown youth players are also good. Zhang Yuning's center forward technique is very practical at a glance. High Providence has the ability to pass the ball with one foot. Jin Pengxiang's skills are also good at the back, so he can also make cameo appearances at left and right full-backs. As a goalkeeper, although the technique under his feet is not easy to measure, the technology in his hands is still good.
Compared with the players trained by Guoan's own youth training, such physical qualities are enviable. Among the forward players of Guoan, even Yang Chen in the past did not have such a good confrontation ability as Zhang Yuning, and later Du Wenhui, Gao David, and Tan Tiancheng all had a certain speed, but if they were to be arrow centers in physical confrontation, they actually suffered losses. Including the current Leng Jixuan, Li Boxi and other players, compared with Zhang Yuning at the same age, they are obviously much thinner.
As for the midfielder, Guoan's last midfielder with such physical qualities was Zhou Ning, but Zhou Ning's passing skills were obviously inferior to Gao Providence. And like Tao Wei in the past, Zhang Xizhe now, and Chen Yanpu in the future, they can't fight with Gao Tianyi. Maybe the one who can really be stronger than Gao Tianyi in both physical and technical terms is Shao Jiayi.
As for the defenders, Beijing Guoan's own youth training of defenders themselves is small, where can you find players of jin pengxiang's physical fitness? Xu Yunlong's physical fitness is very exciting, but if he is a center-back, his height is indeed a disadvantage, but Xu Yunlong's bouncing and confrontation ability is amazing, making up for some height deficiencies. Yu Yang and Aren's height is also not very high, Zhang Yu has a good height, but the flexibility and speed of recovery are much worse than Jin Pengxiang.
The same is true for the goalkeeper position, although Guoan also has a goalkeeper like Hou Sen who is stronger than Zou Dehai in all aspects, but there are also goalkeepers like Guo Quanbo who are limited by their height, including Zhang Yan, who left the team, and his figure is also short among goalkeepers.
Although the physical quality is exciting and the technology is not bad, the players in the Greentown youth training have the same disadvantage - they can't play football. Of course, Zhang Yuning is slightly better here, after all, he left Greentown very early to go around Europe, so his stadium feels relatively better. The other three are typical.
Gao Tianyi played well in this year of Guoan, which is a surprise, but he has many problems when there is no ball, the awareness of no ball receiving when attacking is general, and the position card slot when defending is even more insufficient, so he has become a big card eater in the Chinese Super League.
Gao Tianyi can pass a few good balls when he has the ball, but he sometimes has a lack of vision, and there is also an unreasonable kick, especially the problem of poor running position.
Jin Pengxiang's problem is actually not to mention, the most objective evaluation of him among fans is: the head is the top center-back in Asia, and the chinese fourth-rate with the brain may not be able to get it. Not to mention Jin Pengxiang's performance in Greentown and Dalian, let's say that he has been in Guoan over the years, from Manzano to Schmidt to Bilic, and the successive foreign teachers have not used him when they first came. Indeed, the physical fitness is too good, tall and fast and strong and technical.
The result is all used, Jin Pengxiang will inexplicably do something, whether it is on the field or off the field, anyway, it was finally abandoned by the foreign teacher.
Some of the things Jin Pengxiang engaged in are particularly nonsensical, and some of them cannot be described as "not calm", but can only be described as "incomprehensible". Because many things are no longer part of the situation produced by human brain circuits.
In fact, Zou Dehai has a similar problem. Because Hou Sen was injured, Zou Dehai played the main force in 2019. In 2020, Hou Sen returned from injury, and Zou Dehai became a substitute, but his mentality collapsed at once. Fa Cup Genesio gave him the opportunity to play, resulting in a series of penalties of his own, although the last penalty was saved by himself, but it is clear that as a goalkeeper, his mentality at that time was not reassuring.
In addition, in addition to Guoan's Greentown youth players, other Players produced by the Greentown Youth Training of other Chinese Super League teams have a similar situation. People like Wu Wei, Tong Lei, Feng Gang, Chen Zhongliu, Xie Pengfei and others actually belong to players with very high physical talent in their respective positions. But several of them performed on the pitch at times feeling "not very smart".
Relatively speaking, the players trained by Guoan Youth have much clearer ideas and feelings about playing football on the field. This is true whether it's receiving and defending without the ball, or organizing and intercepting on the ball.
Obviously, from the selection of materials to the subsequent training of the National Security Youth Training, it is all following the path of "little fast spirit". There is a very important reason for this, that is, the Guoan Youth Academy does not have an advantage in the selection of materials, because Beijing cannot have a football school, so in the early selection of materials, Luneng and Greentown Football School can grab small players with better physical fitness.
When Guoan selected small players, those who were tall, fast, and good at confrontation were all transferred, and the remaining batch were all skinny children. Although the physical fitness of these small players is not particularly prominent, but because of this, these small players are more brainy when playing football, playing forwards are more like to find gaps, playing defenders are better at card positions, and playing midfielders are more accustomed to receiving and organizing, rather than rampage B2B.
In this group of children after Guoan 00, in terms of physical fitness, only Duan Dezhi from the Naxi ethnic group may belong to the outstanding category, which is also the result of Guoan going to remote ethnic minority areas to find treasure. Players like Leng Jixuan, Chen Yanpu, Hu Jiaqi and Ruan Qilong are not outstanding in terms of physical fitness, but they have their own characteristics when they play on the court.
Therefore, it makes sense to say that "one inch long and one inch strong, one inch short and one inch dangerous".