Dialogue with young player Jia Boyan: Losing the national youth team, and in the future, I believe that the door of the national team will be open at any time

The interview with the men's football team Liuyang that I told you before is coming~ The protagonist is Jia Boyan, a young Chinese player who stayed in Switzerland/Croatia. In the future, we will also strive to present the most real story of staying in the ocean to everyone, thank you for your attention and support~

Domestic career experience

Jia Boyan, a native of Luoyang, Henan Province, studied at Luoyang Xiyuan Road Experimental Primary School and won the top scorer of the Henan Youth Campus Football Champions Cup (Primary School Group).

Subsequently, he was discovered by the scouts of Shanghai Lucky Star, a well-known social youth training club in Shanghai, came to Shanghai to study, and was integrated into the Shanghai SIPG 2003 age echelon in junior high school, and was the absolute main striker of this echelon.

In 2019, Jia Boyan was selected in the squad of the national junior team's "Silk Road Huashan Cup" and scored goals in both matches of 5-0 Myanmar U15 and 6-0 Kyrgyzstan U15 as the main right winger. And the Marseille roundabout assist against Kyrgyzstan made him enter the field of vision of the majority of fans.

In August 2020, Jia Boyan made his professional debut for Shanghai Port, becoming the third youngest player to make his debut in the Chinese Super League at the age of 16 years and 275 days. Jia Boyan is also an important member of China's national youth teams at all levels.

In the 2020 list of the world's 60 most promising rising stars by the British newspaper The Guardian, Jia Boyan was selected, and he is also the only Asian player selected.

Experience in the ocean

The 19-year-old joined Swiss Grasshopper early last year before being loaned to Croatia's Dubrava, where he played in the Croatian League, Cup and Under-19 matches.

In fact, as early as the end of 2019, as one of the two strikers trained by SIPG, Jia Boyan and teammate Liu Zhurun went with the team and entered the Espanyol echelon trial when the SIPG U20 echelon was training in Spain, and also represented Espanyol in friendly matches.

Unfortunately, due to the pandemic, the two did not remain in Espanyol.

In the 2021-22 season, due to visa and epidemic reasons, Jaboyan did not travel to Croatia, and in August 2022, Jia Boyan, who completed the loan renewal, successfully applied for a visa and arrived at Dubrava Club.

Initially, Jia Boyan played in the U19 league with the team, starting all four games in September. On October 11, in the FA Cup in Zagreb, Croatia, Jaboyan started for Dubrava and was substituted in the 59th minute to make his debut. In the second round of the FA Cup, Jia Boyan scored a goal in the opening 37 seconds to give his team the lead.

On 3 December, in the Croatian First Division, Dubrava lost 1-0 away to CIBALIA, and Jaboyan started for Dubrava and was substituted in the 56th minute to make his Croatian league debut. 

Stay in the ocean to feel

Playing abroad has been Jia Boyan's wish since childhood, and when given the opportunity to travel to Europe to stay in the ocean, he certainly did not want to miss it.

However, after only a month or two in Croatia, Jia Boyan also encountered a lot of difficulties: "The local language is not clear, and there are no matches at the beginning. It is reported that Jia Boyan stayed in the ocean this time, and the team did not equip him with an interpreter.

However, fortunately, Jaboyan and his teammates have a very good relationship before, and he will also learn Croatian from his teammates through English, and gradually he can understand more.

Having been in midfield at the age of 16 is a very valuable experience that allows him to see what a top player level looks like at a very young age. He also said that compared to the training method of Croatian team Dubrava, the overall training system of Harbour is more professional, and Dubrava's training is more about physical confrontation and offensive and defensive conversion.

"I feel good and it's nice to have the opportunity to prove myself. The football environment in Europe is very good, and the stadiums and facilities are better than in China. ”

"The league is basically younger, they are a group of very strong players, and the pace is faster."

As early as 2019, with the help of Shanghai Port, Jia Boyan entered the Espanyol echelon for trial, but due to the outbreak of the epidemic, Jia Boyan was unable to stay in Spain. Speaking about that experience, Jia Boyan said: "I played half a game with Espanyol B and I am very grateful to Harbour for giving me the opportunity to play with Espanyol B team, and when I played with them, I found that I needed more observation, made a more rational choice, how to get closer to the opponent's goal faster, and the overall conversion speed after mistakes. ”

In a previous interview, Jia Boyan also talked about the level of the Croatian League and the Chinese Super League: "In the Chinese Super League, I feel that it is equivalent to the level of the Croatian second division, and it may even be slightly worse. Of course, I am referring to the current Chinese Super League, not the Chinese Super League with super foreign aid in the past. (Interview during the National Youth Campaign)

In the warm-up match between the national youth team and Dubrava, Jia Boyan also scored a goal for the team. In the face of the ridicule of the "big brothers", Jia Boyan replied with a smile: "That is Brother Tao (Ji Tao) who saw me small and gave me face, and deliberately let me in!" ”

In January, the Croatian league was in the off-season, and Jaboyan also returned to the grasshopper and followed the first team for winter training to familiarize himself with the club environment. There, he met Li Lei, who also stayed in the grasshopper: "I am very grateful to Brother Lei for his help and advice, and he is also a role model for me." ”

Jia Boyan said: "Kerga pays more attention to physical confrontation, and the Swiss super technical tactical level is higher. ”

Future planning

Jaboyan and Dubrava's loan contract expires in May and he has already played two league games for the team. When it comes to future arrangements, Jia Boyan hopes to play the rest of the game first, and then decide the future path after returning to the grasshopper in the summer window.

Although he was not included in the squad for the upcoming U20 Asian Cup in March this year, despite having trained with the 01-year-old youth team last year, he believes that whether it is the national youth team or the national team in the future: "The door of the national team is always open for everyone. ”

Stay-a-ocean suggestion

"To feel football and culture, to constantly learn new things, to try to reflect, to make changes, to keep improving, I really hope that more Chinese players will come to Europe, I think the European second and third divisions are very suitable for us to experience, after the storm, Chinese football will also be rainbow."

——Jia Boyan's advice to future overseas players

Write at the end

"Take the next path step by step and realize your childhood dream of becoming a professional footballer." In an interview, Jia Boyan said this. Talent plus hard work, now Jia Boyan has already "exceeded" the goal, the future national youth team and even the national team, hope to see his figure. For Chinese football, after the storm, if more and more "sparks" can go to Europe, even if it is to join the second and third divisions, the future development of Chinese football will definitely be better and better.

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