I believe that in the hearts of many Chinese, there is a problem, and this problem is how to save Chinese football. At a high speed, we have come to the forefront of the world in many fields. However, only football, the world's largest sport, we can't do anything about it. Over the years, we have really tried many methods, such as asking foreign aid, asking foreign teachers, and even crazy money to open the Golden Dollar era of the Chinese Super League, which once made the player's income rise dozens of times. But the level of Chinese football has not improved, and even continues to decline.
So everyone began to think, is it really not suitable for us to play football Chinese? If we really look at the physical condition, it is true that we have a gap with European, American and even African players, but the Japanese and Korean footballs that are also East Asians have done a good job, and even the World Cup can qualify from the group. After all, our physical condition is better than theirs, and Chinese football with more types of players can't do it? Later, we had a Chinese Super League club team that walked a path to success, and this team was Guangzhou, which was once Guangzhou Evergrande.
At that time, Guangzhou Evergrande team created a miracle in the Asian arena by hoarding a large number of international players and equipped with first-class big-name foreign aid. They became AFC Champions League champions in the 2013 and 2015 seasons respectively. And what is even more powerful is that they represented Asia in the top 4 twice in the Club World Cup the following year, becoming the pride of Asian football. It can be said that at that time, everyone thought that using Evergrande's way in the club could be successful.
So success at the club, can it be successful in the national team? So our football managers have this idea. During the 2018 World Cup in Russia, our Chinese football opened up a whole new era, that is, the era of naturalized players. At that time, our idea was that by naturalizing the powerful Chinese and powerful Chinese Super League foreign aid, helping the national football team to enhance its own hard power was equivalent to asking for foreign aid for the national team, so wouldn't our national football team be able to kill four parties in the Asian arena like Guangzhou Evergrande?
The ideal is very full, the reality is very bone. Our naturalization efforts have been slow and ineffective. One reason is that there are too few excellent players of Chinese descent, and the other is that foreign aid in the Chinese Super League must play in China for more than 5 years to qualify. And after 5 years, these foreign aid are old. And the foreign aid we can naturalize is still concentrated in the front, they have to be on, and the lineup of the national football team will be top-heavy.
Therefore, after a trip to the round of 12, the national football team with the assistance of naturalized players only played 1 win, 3 draws and 6 losses, which was not as good as the previous all-Chinese class. And with the return of most of the naturalized players to Brazil, the naturalization campaign of the national football team is also an official failure. What should the national football team do next? What better way to improve the status quo of the national football team?
Recently, a young player has attracted everyone's attention, and it seems that a new era of Chinese football is coming. The youngster is 14-year-old Huang Shenghao, who plays for Guangzhou City. Although the young general's ID card was written as a Cantonese, he had black skin. It turned out that he was of mixed race, his mother was Chinese, and his father was Nigerian. Everyone knows the level of Nigerian football and what kind of football talent Nigerians are born with. And did Huang Shenghao inherit the blood of football in Nigeria? Huang Shenghao's recent dynamics prove it all.
In the newly announced 2022 second U17 national football training list, Huang Shenghao, a 14-year-old mixed-race player from Guangzhou City with a height of 1.78 meters, has been selected for the training list again in this period after being selected in the first period. It is reported that the vast majority of the 26-man roster in this period of U17 national football training are 2006 age-appropriate players, and only three are players born in 2007, and Huang Shenghao is one of them. The 14-year-old has been selected for the U17 national team twice, and it is also a key position to play in the midfield back, and it is clear that the U17 coaching staff has great trust in the mixed-race player. It also proves that the young player is more talented than his age.
Could it really be that the genes of the mixed race are stronger? If yes, then there are more mixed races entering the national brand, will the results of our Chinese football change? This is actually a line of thinking, a direction, or a new era that we will face. However, we still have to say that if Chinese football wants to really rise, it must do a good job in youth training and leagues, and only when more talents are trained in youth training, these talents can grow in high-level leagues, and our overall level can be improved. Otherwise, no matter how high the talent is in the low-level league every day, it is difficult to become a superstar, what do you think? Friends are welcome to discuss together in the comment area!