I believe that many fans know that our national football team was once a first-class strong team in Asia, it was easy to enter the final four of the Asian Cup, and it also reached the final round of the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup, which is completely different from the status of today's national football team. Compared with the previous national football team and the current national football team, we can find a very big difference, that is, the current national football team has no characteristics and does not know what they are good at. In the past, the national football team had its own obvious label, and many Asian opponents called us the head team. Because at that time our high school striker tactics were almost invincible, the Southeast Asian team was helpless against us, and other opponents would be very troubled with how to limit our high school forwards, because they could sometimes dominate the scene, but we solved the battle with a single header.
In fact, this means that as early as 20 years ago, we have found the right way of playing and thinking for us. But unfortunately, we did not continue and pass on what we were good at, but tried our best to take off the hat of the "head team" and began to try other ways of playing, learning from the Netherlands, learning from Spain, and even learning from Japan, in short, we were not willing to use the way we were good at, and we did not train high school strikers. As a result, today, any Southeast Asian team can move the ground on the head of the national football team, and the national football team, which has no height advantage, has little way to face the more flexible and fast Southeast Asian team under the feet. It is one of the important reasons why the national football team can lose 0-1 at home to Thailand and 3-away to Vietnam.
But fortunately, there are teams in our Chinese Super League that still adhere to this high school striker style of play, and have carried him forward in recent seasons, this team is Shandong Taishan. Since they introduced the Italian Gaultapelle, the high school striker tactics have once again become popular in the Chinese Super League. Because most teams have seen Shandong Taishan, in the absence of large investment, they can still maintain the top 5 in the Chinese Super League and the level of the AFC Champions League group qualification. And everyone found that there is such a high point as Pele, no one can defend in the Chinese Super League, and in the AFC Champions League, the Japanese and Korean teams have no way of taking him. So our other teams followed suit, bringing in high school strikers, and all of them had good results. For example, Arnautovic introduced in Shanghai Harbor, Santini introduced by Jiangsu Suning, Jin Xinyu introduced by Shanghai Shenhua, Malkang introduced by Hebei Huaxia Happiness and so on.
So this also proves that we once had the advantage of being in Asia after nearly 20 years. So we have to get this advantage back. But because we haven't trained high school strikers for many years, the talent of high school strikers is also withering away very quickly. At present, there is only one high school striker in the Chinese Super League, that is, Guo Tianyu, a young player with a height of 192 and plays for Shandong Taishan. Last season he scored 10 goals in the Chinese Super League, becoming a local silver boot, just one goal less than Axon, helping Shandong Taishan win the championship. Many people call him the native Pele.
But how can a Guo Tianyu be? Chinese football needs more Guo Tianyu, and after our other clubs can't bring in big-name foreign aid, the front line also needs an air bully with enough air supremacy, so the demand for high school forwards is great now. Since foreign aid cannot afford it, and there is no such resource in the transfer market, it can only be cultivated by itself. Recently, the Beijing Guoan team seems to have taken a big step on the road to cultivating the next Guo Tianyu.
On the morning of the 23rd, the Beijing Guoan team and the new army of the Chinese Second Division, Hainan Lingshui Dingli, conducted a teaching match, and the result was that the Guoan team unsurprisingly won 5-1 against the opponent. Among them, Liu Guobo, a local striker with a height of 189 who has been concerned by everyone, has scored again, and it can be seen that his state is getting better and better. Because just before this warm-up match, Beijing Guoan team had a warm-up match with the North Sports Team of the Central League, and the result was that Guoan won 6-1 against the opponent. Among them, Liu Guobo performed very well, creating penalties at the same time, he also achieved a double, and one of the goals was a standard head hammer.
It should be known that Liu Guobo has actually been playing in the front waist before joining Guoan, although he has a height of 189, but the main way to play is still at the foot. After Xie Feng took office, he received attention, but he also intended to cultivate him to play as a high striker. Just after the warm-up match, Xie Feng mentioned Liu Guobo separately, saying: "Many young players are still lacking, so they will be given extra training when the old players rest. Although some players did not practice a lot and caught up with the snow, through several trainings, like Liu Guobo's previous poor headers, you can see that there is progress, and the last game header also scored. It can be seen that Liu Guobo has become the focus of the team's training object due to the advantage of height.
Scoring 3 goals in 2 warm-up matches is very efficient, but this does not mean that Liu Guobo will be able to kill the four parties in the Chinese Super League in the future. But what is certain is that none of the current Chinese Super League teams will refuse to have a high school striker. Although Beijing Guoan now has Zhang Yuning, Zhang Yuning's height is only 185, and there is no absolute air superiority, so this is the reason for cultivating Liu Guobo. Are you optimistic about Liu Guobo's appearance as a high school striker in the new season? Do you think Guoan's front line now, Liu Guobo is competitive? Friends are welcome to discuss together in the comment area!