I believe many fans know that set-pieces are a very important way to score points in football. Sometimes a goal from a set-piece can often change the course of a game. And players who play free kicks well are often impressive, such as Beckham and Carlos, and now C Ronaldo and Messi, whose free kick skills are breathtaking, and at key moments, their set-piece scores can also change the outcome of a game, and even the fate of a team. Of course, for the weak team, it is more important to have a free kick master, in the case of the overall passive team, get the set-piece, and then score through the set-piece, become the magic weapon of the weak team to counterattack the strong team.
In the past, there were also many players in our Chinese national team who had good free kicks, such as Xu Liang, who used to be Xu Keham, Shao Jiayi, who could score goals in corners, and so on. However, in recent years, what everyone misses the most is the No. 10 of the national football team, Deng Zhuoxiang. At that time, the young Deng Zhuoxiang was pushed to the front of the waist by the then head coach Gao Hongbo and became the quasi-core of the national football team. His famous work is to face the South Korean team in the East Asian Final Four, and after cooperating with Qu Bo, he scored the third goal of the national football team by three people in a row into the box, helping the national football team to win 3-0 against South Korea and breaking the Korean phobia that lasted for 32 years. At that time, everyone remembered this white-robed young general.
In fact, Deng Zhuoxiang's long-range shooting talent was already reflected as early as his youth. When he participated in the World Junior Championship with the national junior team, as a left-back, he once blasted into an ultra-long-distance world wave to help the team successfully enter the quarterfinals of the World Junior Championship. After the East Asian Final Four became famous, Deng Zhuoxiang still had many classic battles. For example, before the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, the national football team challenged France away, and in the second half, the national football team won a free kick in the front court, Deng Zhuoxiang came to take the penalty, and as a result, Deng Zhuoxiang scored a strange arc of falling leaves, helping the Chinese team to kill the French team 1-0. That game really made france anxious, but the more anxious they were, the more they couldn't score the ball, and eventually lost. In addition to this game, in the 2011 Asian Cup, Deng Zhuoxiang also used an unreasonable free kick to knock on the opponent's door in the first round of the match against Kuwait, helping the national football team to win 2-0 against the opponent and achieve a good start. It can be said that Deng Zhuoxiang left us too many good memories at that time.
Unfortunately, later, Deng Zhuoxiang left the national team due to injury problems, and due to the failure of surgery, he could not return to his peak state. Since then, the national team has not seen such a player, until now, the national team currently has even less players with particularly good free kicks, and we have not seen the scene of the national football free kick for a long time. But with the constant emergence of new players in these two seasons, we have found a new free-kick star with potential. This player is Liang Shaowen, a 19-year-old young player from Beijing Guoan.
I believe that many fans at least Liang Shaowen was still in last year's AFC Champions League, when Beijing Guoan sent a youth army, and lost a lot of big scores in the group stage against The Asian strong opponents. However, Liang Shaowen scored a super high-quality free kick in the match against United City FC, and the ball arced into a dead corner, which was completely unreasonable. In the end, he helped Guoan team draw 1-1 with United City FC, which was the first point of the AFC Champions League that the Chinese Super League team won that season, and the first goal of the Chinese Super League team.
It was also in the AFC Champions League that Liang Shaowen also got the opportunity to play in the middle of the league last season, and he made three appearances for Guoan and started two of his three games. However, no data were obtained. However, through such exercises, Liang Shaowen also has a certain understanding of the Chinese Super League, and also renewed his contract with the team, which also proves that he is valued by the Guoan Club. And just recently, Liang Shaowen really broke out. In a warm-up match in Guoan, he slammed into a very beautiful free kick, which let us see the shadow of Deng Zhuoxiang.
In this game, Beijing Guoan's opponent is Beijing Polytechnic, which is a free kick on the right side of the arc of the penalty area, Liang Shaowen stood in front of the ball, trotted two steps directly into the right corner of the goal, the goalkeeper struggled to save, but the whip was out of reach, the ball was too beautiful. It can be seen that Liang Shaowen's free kicks pay attention to angle and ball speed, which is also the effect of cultivation for a long time. And at present, Liang Shaowen is the captain of the national youth team, and if he grows up well, the probability of him entering the national team in the future is not small.
We are also looking forward to Liang Shaowen being able to play, the national team now needs more young blood replenishment, and also needs a person who can knock on the opponent's door with a free kick. Do you think Liang Shaowen has a play? Among the young players, who else are you looking up to? Friends are welcome to discuss together in the comment area!