Without Paulinho and Talisca, without Cannavaro, Axon, Fernando, and even without captain Zheng Zhi, Evergrande, who is poor and white, still has to play in the AFC Champions League. In the words of Evergrande boss Xu Jiayin: never give up the AFC Champions League. After all, the AFC Champions League performance is related to the face of Chinese football. What's more, the participants are all the top teams in Asian countries, which has great training value for young players.
In the middle of this month, the new season of the AFC Champions League group stage will begin. Zhu Yi, administrator of German Transfer China, announced the preliminary selection list of Guangzhou (Evergrande) for the new season AFC Champions League.
It can be seen that Evergrande will be led by Pan Yonghe to Malaysia to participate in the AFC Champions League group stage of the new season. It is worth mentioning that he participated in the AFC Champions League as an assistant coach last year and has some experience.
In the player list, goalkeeper Zhang Jianzhi and midfielder Chen Zhengfeng are somewhat familiar players, the former had a stunning performance in last year's AFC Champions League, and the latter was promoted to the first team and has experience in the middle and beyond. The other players are all between the ages of 17 and 22, all post-00s. The biggest highlight in this list is undoubtedly the mixed-race player Wang Mu. Born in 2003, he is only 19 years old, plays as a midfielder, can play in the front and back of the waist and defensive midfielder, and has previously been selected for the national team.
It has to be mentioned that just last week, the U19 national football team announced the training list, of which Evergrande has as many as 8 people selected, including Zeng Yaozhang, Liu Langzhou, Yang Minjie and others, which is the largest household of the U19 national football team. In fact, if these 8 national youth players can stay in the team, or participate in the league, or participate in the AFC Champions League with the team, the training they will receive will never be smaller than going to the national youth team for training.
Evergrande sent the echelon of the echelon to participate in the AFC Champions League, which also worried some fans, after all, it is a young player, and the strength is far inferior to the opponent, in case of a tragic accident, it is likely to be detrimental to growth. But Xu Jiayin did not understand it this way. According to media person Li Xuan, this time Evergrande did not give up the AFC Champions League in advance like Yatai, mainly because Xu Jiayin personally ordered not to give up. The reason for not giving up is simple, one is for exercise, and the other is also to give the Chinese Football Association face. After all, as the former façade of Chinese football, if Evergrande voluntarily gives up the AFC Champions League, it will embarrass the AFC and the Chinese Football Association.
Attached Guangzhou team AFC Champions League schedule:
15 April Johor DTvs Guangzhou Team
April 18 Guangzhou vs Kawasaki Striker
April 21 Ulsan Hyundai vs Guangzhou team
April 24 Guangzhou vs Ulsan Hyundai
April 27 Guangzhou vs Johor DT
April 30 Kawasaki Striker vs Guangzhou