Everyone knows that in recent years, the performance of Chinese football has fallen sharply, and the reason for the decline is that our national team has encountered talent breaks and lack of talent. The level of young players can not keep up, the veteran has always been unable to work, so the aging of the national team, the rhythm can not keep up, the physical fitness can not keep up, to the Asian arena by the opponent to lead the nose. Many people believe that the main reason why our talent is broken is youth training, and our youth training has not cultivated enough talents.
But the poor youth training is only one of the reasons, our Chinese football did experience a difficult period of fake gambling more than a decade ago, the football population was lost in large quantities, resulting in the collapse of the youth training system, and now the football population and excellent players are very small. But after all, our country is a populous country. No matter how few people like football, they will have more than some countries with small populations. So our young players didn't get up, there must be some other reason.
In fact, fans who have been paying attention to national brand competitions at all levels will definitely find a phenomenon. That is, when our national brands at all levels start training and games, there will be our players who enter the game state very late, and many balls are prone to mistakes in the handling, and it is easy to be overturned by weak teams. After a period of training and consecutive matches, especially in Europe, the players will be in much better shape. Some of the games that should be won can also be easily won.
In fact, it can be seen that what our players lack most during the critical period of growth. It's actually a game. There has been no systematic, high-quality youth league in the country for a long time, and players cannot improve their playing experience and maintain their status through the league. Natural mistakes will not be less when it comes to the national brand, and the overall strength of the national brand will not be high. And it was hard to get old enough to enter the first team. These players are still not promoted, the key positions on the club use foreign aid, other positions with experienced veterans. It was hard to stay up until he was also a veteran, and everyone couldn't move, opened the mode of health football, and watched the foreign aides performing.
Therefore, another important reason why our talent is broken is that our league level is not high, and the league system is not perfect. It cannot provide more and better growth opportunities and space for Chinese players. So if we want to solve the problem of the weakness of the national football team, let our young players play the game, but also play more high-quality games is fundamental. When these young players have been playing in the high-level league, their level will rise, and you will find that there are not many good young people in our country, they are all quite strong.
A very typical example is this year's AFC Champions League, because of the epidemic and the conflict in the Chinese Super League schedule, two teams in our Chinese Super League have sent their young echelons to play. In the first two rounds, those of us who had not even mentioned the professional league were helpless in the face of the AFC Champions League, which was several times faster than the Chinese Super League, and the result was a big score loss. Guangzhou's two games were 0-5 and 0-8, while Shandong Taishan's were 0-7 and 0-5. In fact, this already reflects the gap between China's young players and Asia's first-class level.
But with the passage of time, our young players began to slowly adapt to this rhythm. So facing such a game, they are not as difficult to cope with as before. For example, in the third round, Guangzhou team faced K League powerhouse Ulsan Hyundai, only lost 0-3, ending their big score fiasco. And even more powerful is the young man of the Shandong Taishan team. They drew 0-0 with the Lion City Mariners in Round 3, which had just beaten Daegu FC 7-0 against Taishan in the previous round. And in this game, one of Taishan's youngsters even had a chance to score their AFC Champions League goal, and his personal ability really shines all over the field.
He is the 21-year-old young general Yi Xianlong. In the 20th minute of this game, Yi Xianlong's high-speed insertion on the right side of the road was directly plugged by his teammates, and then he took the ball to face the defenders, without any hesitation, he chose to cut inside and break through directly through the Lion City Mariners defense, but unfortunately, the foot was slightly off the goal. You must know that this is the closest shot of the Chinese player to the goal of the AFC Champions League. And this ball is completely a flash of personal ability, and it can be seen that our young players have this single point blasting ability.
And this wave of operations by YiXianlong was also looked at by the AFC. Just after the match, the AFC officially released a video of Yixian Dragon's one-stop breakthrough, and wrote: "Yixian Dragon's strong advance almost scored a goal!" "It can be said that this is the AFC's recognition of the youngster, and encourages young players to have such confidence and hard work. If it weren't for this AFC Champions League match, Yi Xianlong himself would not have known that he could perform at such a level, and our fans would most likely not have known that our young players can also have such a level and ability. It can be said that this is what the game, especially the high-quality game, gives the players.
We should be thankful now that we have seen the growth of our young players in this high-level game. At the same time, we will also be more worried that these players have been trained in the AFC Champions League. But back home, they will still not play in the high-level league for a long time. Will they eventually become shooting stars like many new stars before them? No one can be sure, we can only hope that our league will soon become normal, our league level will be improved quickly, and our league system will be improved quickly. Without a good, high-level league, Chinese football will still not rise.
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