Reporter Chen Yong reported that on the evening of March 26, in the Dubai Cup match against Thailand's U23, with Fang Hao's senior four joys, China's U23 defeated the opponent 4-2. After this game, the "Little Steel Cannon" became famous in one battle, and even many fans affectionately called Fang Hao "Fang Huang", which originated from Lingard's "Lin Huang", and Wu Xinghan had also been called "Wu Huang" by Taishan fans when he played well before.
Fang Hao was born on January 3, 2000 in Yangzhong City, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province. In 2008, 8-year-old Fang Hao showed good physical fitness, at that time, he was selected to yangzhong sports school to practice athletics, at that time, he did not think of playing football, and many football teenagers of his age have been playing for a while.
By chance, Fang Hao represented Yangzhong in the Zhenjiang Youth Football Competition, in which Fang Hao, who had not been exposed to football before, won the top scorer and helped the team win the championship. Fang Hao's outstanding performance attracted the attention of the Zhenjiang football team, and from March 2011, Fang Hao began to receive "formal" training.
I started practicing at the age of 11, it seems a bit late, and my peers may have been playing for three or five years. However, due to his good talent, Fang Hao quickly broke through, in 2011, he was selected for the Jiangsu Provincial Junior Team, and from 2013 to 2015, he was selected for the National Junior Team for three consecutive years.
In 2015, in order to have better development, Fang Hao entered Luneng Football School and became a member of Luneng Youth Training.
In Luneng Football School, Fang Hao is also very top-notch, although the practice time is late, but he has a good sense of ball, and he has a strong body, a low center of gravity, and a strong ability to resist, so he is also named "Small Steel Cannon", of course, his biggest weapon is speed. In 2017, Fang Hao helped Luneng U18 team win the national championship and win the top scorer.
Like Duan Liuyu, after Fang Hao joined luneng football school, he was very interested in the opportunity provided by the football school to go to Brazil to stay in the ocean.
Luneng Football School Brazil's strategic model is that some outstanding players are dispersed to Brazilian clubs for integrated training, mainly in Brazilian DB clubs, participating in the São Paulo State U20 competition and the São Paulo State A3 League (that is, the third division of São Paulo State), in addition, Luneng Football School will also arrange U16 teams to stay in Brazil for a year.
There are not many Taishan players who can play in the Brazilian DB, Chen Pu, Duan Liuyu and Fang Hao performed well, and they are players who focus on training, Chen Pu and Duan Liuyu have returned to the Chinese Super League after training, and Fang Hao has to suspend the plan to stay in the Ocean because of the epidemic.
In the diary of Fang Hao released by the Luneng Football School official Wei "Luneng Youth Training", he introduced the meticulous care of the Football School at that time before and after he was forced to end staying in Yang, which made Fang Hao very moved, and this also highlighted the great importance that the Football School attached to him.
Fang Hao also went to Belgium for trial training, which affected his preparation for the A3 League in São Paulo State and the first 5 rounds of matches, and from the 6th round to the 10th round of 5 matches, Fang Hao made 2 starts and 1 substitute, which was originally a very good start, but because of the epidemic, Fang Hao had to return to China in August 2020.
After returning to China, Fang Hao has been on loan. In 2020, he was a Chinese League one in Inner Mongolia, and he scored 2 goals in 5 of his 7 starts, becoming the first player in Luneng's youth training to score in the professional league.
In the 2021 season, Fang Hao was loaned to Wuhan and played under Li Xiaopeng and Li Jinyu successively, and throughout the season, he started 7 of 11 games as a substitute, without scoring a goal but having 1 assist, while in the FA Cup, Fang Hao scored 1 goal.
In two years, the league and the FA Cup have only scored 3 goals, but a U23 warm-up game staged a senior year, such a trend chart makes the outside world wonder: Is Fang Hao a good scorer in the end? What is the real Fang Hao's combat strength?
In fact, in the warm-up match against Waheda in the Uae before the start of the Dubai Cup, Fang Hao had hit the goalpost with three people in a row, and then his teammates scored the equalizer. At that time, Fang Hao's father said that his son needed to strengthen his training in shooting, and after losing to the UAE U23, Fang Hao also said that his ability to seize opportunities in front of the goal needed to be further improved.
Against Thailand's U23, Fang Hao's four goals highlighted his excellent ability to grasp opportunities, the first goal was to face the goalkeeper who attacked the near corner; the second goal was to use light movements to calmly get rid of the defender and push the goalkeeper in the opposite direction of the save; the third ball was a supplementary shot, which is normal; the fourth was to wear the crotch. Four goals, good sense of position, very calm, very observant, showing the smell and feeling that a shooter should have.
In fact, the professional league performance is not good, there are many reasons, first of all, Fang Hao never spared no effort in the game, in the defense, scrambling, confrontation in the consumption of too much physical energy; in addition, in the professional league, Fang Hao is facing mature defensive players and foreign aid, even if he is physically strong and low in center of gravity, but still has no advantage; then there is the position and the team's way of playing, in Wuhan team, Fang Hao plays full-back, consuming more in defense; of course, there are also Fang Hao's own reasons, the 2020 season is his first time to play the professional league, In fact, when Guo Tianyu was loaned to Wuhan in the 2019 season, he also did not score a goal in 7 starts and 8 substitution games, but in the same time (more than 500 minutes) he helped Taishan score 4 goals in the same time (more than 500 minutes), and the total number of goals in the 2021 season rose to 10 goals.
As for the Dubai Cup, in addition to his own efforts, there are also elements of luck, some of the goals come from the opponent's mistakes, there is no excessive consumption, and it also greatly improves his ability to seize opportunities.
A game of senior happiness does not mean that Fang Hao can become a top scorer, there are still many places for him to improve, and in the future, he will return to the professional league, he will still have to face a lot of excellent defenders, and he also has to find a more suitable position for him, all of which are challenges.