The former eight-time champion Guangzhou team in the face of the parent company's financial constraints and other situations, not only "survived", but also obtained the 2022 Chinese Super League access qualifications, but under the "strongest salary limit" of a paper contract, there seems to be not many players who can stay, and the previous explosion of the Guangzhou coaching staff sinking to Evergrande Football School to select new players has finally come to fruition, on May 2, Guangzhou team's new season first team 35 people list was finally officially announced. The shock that followed was the incredible average age of the team...
Most of these players are probably no one will know, after all, 29 of them are from Evergrande Football School, not counting Wei Shihao and several other members of the team, the average age of these young players is only 20 years old, even if you count the "veterans" who stay in the team, the average age of the whole team is only 21.12 years old, which is the youngest team in the history of the Chinese Super League. As soon as the list was announced, it immediately caused many discussions among media fans and other parties, as the former hegemon of Chinese Super League and even Asian clubs, the glory of Guangzhou team is still vividly remembered, but with the arrival of the reform of Chinese football, the former "giant" has also lost its style, so many young people gathered in the team is not only full of vitality, but also worrying about how far they can go under the leadership of inexperienced players. There is a view that the Guangzhou team is a move to break the boat, so many young people are already the last resort of the current Guangzhou team, if you can not make up the list of players, I am afraid that the Guangzhou team will also follow in the footsteps of the Jiangsu team in the case of financial constraints of the parent company. On the other hand, there are also views that Guangzhou's move also has the idea of "not breaking and not standing", in the case of the overall age of the Chinese Super League rising sharply, there are fewer and fewer new people, it is a good thing to let young players have the courage to show themselves and grow in the game, but there is not much constructive speech on whether it is conducive to the development of players.
According to people familiar with the matter, the current pre-tax salary plan of the Guangzhou team has been announced, of which the average annual salary of the 29 Evergrande football school players in the first team is 180,000 yuan; the average annual salary of U21 players is 113,800 yuan; and the annual salary of U19 players is only 60,000 yuan. The "dare to be the first" Guangzhou team not only set a record for the youngest average age this season, but also set a new record for the lowest salary in the Chinese Super League for more than a decade. The youngest, the most "cheap" - even if all parties have basically no great expectations for the results of this team, they all appreciate the courage of Guangzhou...
Any competitive sports, young is always a kind of unreachable combat effectiveness, when the age is old, more physical strength and momentum are transformed into experience and intuition, only to cast a lot of sports veterans immortal legends, of which, as the accumulation of the young age must be very important, Guangzhou team this time not only the whole Chinese class, but also boldly use new people, perhaps can also inject some vitality into the Chinese Super League of today's "backwater pool", The arrival of young people can also allow more fans and media to truly understand the strength of the future successors of Chinese football, neither blindly pessimistic nor overly expectant.