I believe that many fans know that feng powerlessness has plagued the national football team for many years, and the reasons are also very clear. That is, foreign aid strikers dominate the club's front line for many years, and local strikers survive in the cracks, it is difficult to have a stable playing time, slow growth, and poor state. There are even a lot of players who were originally on the front line, forced to play as a defender. An example is Beijing Guoan's Yu Dabao and Wang Gang, who were once the two stars of the Portuguese Super League's Benfica team and scored goals efficiently. However, after returning to China, it is difficult to compete with foreign aid, especially after the opening of the Golden Yuan era, the front lines of each team are big-name foreign aides, and if they do not change to play as defenders, they can only sit on the cold bench.
And over time, we have fewer and fewer homegrown strikers available, because young strikers entering the first team is basically equivalent to losing their jobs or facing a change of position. So this is also the reason why Lippi was very angry when he learned that Yu Dabao changed to play as a defender, and there are fewer and fewer good strikers.
So what to do to change this situation? The answer is actually very simple, that is, to let our club give local strikers the opportunity and space to grow, but this is not easy, because the growth of a local striker requires the accumulation of game time, and most of our clubs have great performance pressure, so they generally choose to directly bring in strong foreign aid to solve the problem of goals. That is to say, as long as the club has a lot of money, then the forward position will definitely be a strong foreign aid for the first time.
However, some fans will have questions, so now give the Chinese local strikers a chance, what level can they play? Will the gap with foreign aid be too large. In fact, the question is also very easy to answer, we see that these two seasons without the interference of gold dollars, many of our local strikers have emerged in the Chinese Super League. For example, Zhang Yuning and Guo Tianyu, they both scored 10 goals last season, and the number of goals is also quite large. It cannot be said that they are stronger than foreign aid, but at least it can be proved that at the level of the Chinese Super League, their ability is enough.
And recently there's been a good example. Although the Chinese Super League and the Chinese First Division have not yet started, some clubs have begun to prepare for the new season, so there are more warm-up matches. Recently, the Cangzhou Lions, a Chinese Super League team, played a warm-up match with the Chinese League One team Shaanxi Chang'an Athletic. As a result, the Cangzhou Lions, who played with double foreign aid, won 3-1 against their opponents. Among them, Cangzhou Lions foreign aid Oscar scored a goal, while Shaanxi team's local forward Yang He also scored a goal.
Interestingly, Oscar was also once a member of the Shaanxi team, when local striker Yang He was Oscar's partner and was named a greeting card group by fans. Yang He was the absolute brother of the Shaanxi team in the 2018 season, he single-handedly scored 16 goals, and repeatedly scored goals in key games, helping the team to win the third place in the second division and successfully substitute into the middle division. In the 2019 season, he became Oscar's partner, helping Oscar score 22 goals to become the Golden Boot of the Chinese League One, while Yang He himself also scored 4 goals and 2 assists.
Although in the middle division, Yang He's role is more to assist foreign aid, but Yang He's ability to finish is not bad. Last season he made 16 appearances for the team, made 16 starts, scored five goals and six assists, and became one of the team's most critical figures. It can be said that Yang He is already an iconic figure in the Shaanxi team.
And this time the all-China class faced the Cangzhou lions of the Chinese Super League, Yang He also scored a goal for the team, and in the absence of foreign aid, he was able to support the team's front line. And although the team lost 3-1, the scene was not behind, they still had 2 uprights and one missed empty goal. So our homegrown strikers may not really be as good as the foreign strikers, but if you're willing to give them a chance, they're able to meet the standards of the team's needs and even give back to the team more. Just like Yang He, who can become the soul of the team, he can save the team and lead the team through difficulties at key moments. So sometimes a good local striker plays a role, and sometimes foreign aid doesn't necessarily play a role.
What do you think? How do you think Chinese Super League teams should choose when faced with the question of using foreign strikers or developing local strikers? Friends are welcome to discuss together in the comment area!