On the morning of April 22, the social media of The German Transfer Market China confirmed that Tian Yuda, a 20-year-old high school in Taishan, Shandong Province, joined Beijing Guoan. Whether the transfer will be permanent or on loan has yet to be revealed, but it is enough to spark a heated debate among fans of both teams. It is worth mentioning that Tian Yuda was born in Beijing, and joining Guoan this time can also be regarded as a fallen leaf.
Born in November 2001, Tian Yuda is only 20 years old and is an outstanding representative of Luneng's youth training 2001 age group. As a center forward, he is 1.91 meters tall and has excellent physical fitness and good foot skills. Last season, Tian Yuda joined The North Sports University of China League One on loan, scoring five goals and providing one assist in 25 games in the China League One. Prior to that, he had also joined Central B Hebei Zhuo'ao on loan, with 1 goal in 9 games, when Oda was only 19 years old. In fact, at the end of 2019, Tian Yuda was also invited to the famous French club Auxerre team for trial training, and once won a formal contract, but due to the outbreak of the epidemic, he could not stay, but his personal ability was also evident.
Tian Yuda's football career originated in the Beijing Renmin University High School With an excellent football tradition, but before that, he had already shown good football talent. In 2014, the third high school of the Renmin University Affiliated High School teamed up to play at Weifang Luneng Football School, and as a result, Tian Yuda successfully attracted the attention of Baresi, the youth training director of Luneng Football School, and after doing the ideological work of Tian Yuda's parents, Oda officially became a member of Luneng Youth Training, and his performance was also unattainable.
In the 2016 National Youth U-15 League, Tian Yuda scored 22 goals. During the national junior and national youth competitions, Tian Yuda scored 8 goals in 10 official matches. In 2018, the Chinese Football Association organized the "I want to go to the Olympics" football selection competition, and Tian Yuda, who was only 16 years old at the time, jumped three times and was selected for the Luneng U-23 National Olympic Selection Team, and had a very good performance. Also in that year's Weifang Cup International Youth Football Invitational Tournament, Tian Yuda's goal helped Lu Like Espanyol reach the final.
However, due to the abundant talent of Luneng's first team, although the young Tian Yuda played for the reserve team as early as 2018 and set a record for the smallest player in the Chinese Super League reserve team that season, he never played for the Luneng first team, and was loaned to Teams such as Beiti University and Hebei Zhuo'ao. Now, he has joined the Chinese Super League giants Beijing Guoan, which is also a high recognition of his personal strength.
Of course, sending away such a young player with unlimited potential will also make Taishan fans feel very sorry, after all, before this, Guo Tianyu, who had an outstanding performance in the Chinese Super League, had already stayed in the Portuguese Super League, and now Tian Yuda also chose to leave, which will somewhat make Shandong fans with a strong center complex a bit of mixed feelings.
In fact, this is precisely the change in the management thinking of Luneng Football School. Before that, their first task was to provide a reserve force for the first team, and in the past two seasons, Shandong Taishan has indeed tasted the sweetness of youth training, and in the league with a dense schedule, the huge youth training team has always made them appear to be at ease in the platoon. However, for a giant team that aspires to compete for the championship, there are too few places left for youth players, and many young players of Luneng Football School are undoubtedly thousands of troops crossing the single wooden bridge if they want to join the first team to gain a foothold.
In fact, before this, Luneng Football School also chose to increase the first team and loan to other Chinese Super League Chinese First Division and even Chinese Second Division players in parallel to solve the employment of young players, but loan is not a long-term solution for young players. Therefore, now Luneng Football School has established the business idea of "the primary goal of sending first-team teams, followed by other professional teams, and even purposefully transporting them to colleges and universities", so that even if youth players cannot gain a foothold in the Taishan first-team team, they can also play in other teams, and even go to colleges and universities with football expertise to seek a path other than professional football.
This practice allows the young players of Luneng Football School to have more choices, and also provides more channels for their future employment, at the same time, the football school can also obtain benefits from the process of transferring players, forming a kind of feedback on youth training. At present, the chinese football environment is sluggish, this practice is still very worthy of praise.
In addition, to say a little more, the reason why Taishan team dares to let Tian Yuda leave the team, in fact, is because the team is full of talents, even if Guo Tianyu and Tian Yuda leave, Taishan team still has Lu Yongtao, Baihe Lamu and other talented front line seedlings, in the AFC Champions League, both have a good performance, the new season of the Chinese Super League, these two young people are very worth looking forward to.