On April 29, Beijing time, the Chinese U16 national youth led by Japanese coach Kenichi Uemura ended the entire journey of the Romanian Four Nations Invitational Tournament and returned with 1 draw and 2 losses. Before this trip to Romania, the national junior team only had a 5-day training camp at the Suzhou Taihu Football Center.
The Chinese Football Association made a major decision in February this year to use Kenichi Uemura, the echelon coach of the Wuhan Three Towns team, to replace Yang Chen as the new head coach of the Chinese U16 national junior team, in preparation for the preliminary round of the Asian Junior Championship and the possible final stage in the future, while looking forward to the U17 Asian Cup and the U17 World Cup.
Kenichi Uemura was born in 1974, a former Japan international, a defender, who has played for Sanfrecce Hiroshima, Sakura Osaka, Tokyo Green, Yokohama SCC and other teams in his career, and is known for his defense. At the end of February this year, Kenichi Uemura, who had just taken office, led the U16 team to lose 0-8 to the U17 echelon of the Bundesliga Borussia Mönchenchen, which was also the debut of Kenichi Uemura leading the U16 national junior team.
In this Romanian Four Nations Invitational Tournament, the U16 national youth played a total of 3 games, namely against Romania U16, Denmark U16 and Poland U16, all three games were against European powerhouses, and the quality of the games was very high.
In the first game, the national youth sent the main lineup to play, and the starting team adopted a 4-back formation, focusing on defense. In the first half, the national youth defense was good, until the 42nd minute, Zhang Hongfu, a young player from Evergrande Football Club, kicked empty when he cleared the siege, and the Romanian penalty area smiled and accepted the gift, and the national youth fell behind 0-1. In the second half, Yibian fought again, and in the 59th minute, the national youth penalty area tackled and sent points, and the national youth fell behind 0-2. In the 68th minute, the national youth penalty area only watched the ball and did not look at people, and conceded 1 more goal. In the final stage, the national youth conceded 1 goal because of a penalty. In the end, the national junior team, which focused on practicing defensive tactics, lost 0-4 in the first game.
Here are the 4 goals conceded from the game:
In the second game, the national youth played against Denmark, and the national youth team played with the main force faced the Danish team with a rotating lineup. Guoshao played very actively at the beginning, and in the third minute of the first half, Guoshao led 1-0. In the second half, it was the first 3 minutes, and the national youth scored another goal and led 2-0. Three minutes later, the national youth led 3-0 and completely went crazy. The Danish team changed the main players, and only 6 minutes later, that is, in the 57th minute of the second half, the Danish team pulled a goal back, and in the 72nd minute, the national youth conceded another goal, only leading 3-2. In the 77th minute, Guoshao scored another goal to lead 4-2, and it looked like he could win the game safely. But in the first minute of stoppage time in the second half, Ambaek J. scored twice, and the score of the Danish team was 3-4, and only 1 minute later, it was Ambaek J. who scored a hat trick, and the national youth led by 3 goals and was equalized at 4-4, missing the first win!
In the third game, the national youth played against the Polish team, in the first half, Abdul Salamu passed in the middle of the second, Wang Gengrui on the right side formed a single knife, and in the face of the Polish goalkeeper, the national youth was the same as the previous round against Denmark, and took the lead again, and entered the second half with a 1-0 lead. In the second half, the situation changed abruptly, and the national junior team was scored four goals in a row by the opponent, and finally lost 1-4.
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In the training camp before the Four Nations Invitational Tournament, Kenichi Uemura recruited 32 outstanding players of appropriate age, including 9 from Evergrande Football School, 6 from Shandong Taishan Club, 3 from Qingdao Peninsula Football Club, and 14 from other clubs. In the end, after a short training camp of 5 days, Kenichi Uemura selected 22 players to go to Romania.
In this tournament, the U16 national youth 3 games, 1 draw and 2 losses are at the bottom, scoring 5 goals and conceding 12 goals, but why will it be supported by fans and think that Chinese football has hope?
China VS Romania starters: Yihesan Yilam, Zhang Hongfu, Sun Tianyu, Zhao Yuang, Du Junhao, Wang Yi, Yao Junyu, Yang Qiandong, Yan Yuzhe, Buniamin Abdusalam, Wei Xiangxin
China VS Denmark starters: Yihesan Yilamu, Li Jiazhen, Buniamin Abdusalam, Wei Xiangxin, Sun Tianyu, Elinizar Luo Heman, Yang Qiandong, Bian Yulang, Zhao Yuang, Yan Yuzhe, Wang Yi
China VS Poland starters: Li Ao, Shang Tianyu, Elinizar Luo Heman, Du Junhao, Han Yiheng, Bian Yulang, Liu Shanlin, Zhang Chengrui, Buniamin Abdusalam, Wang Gengrui, Wang Zicheng
From the starting and rotating lineups of the 3 games, it can be seen that the focus of the Chinese national youth competition in this competition is defense, and the team formation has been changing.
In the first game against Romania, the back line gave away points twice, and the rest of the time was actually quite good. In the second game, after we took a 3-0 lead, we changed a large number of substitute players on the field, and there was a big problem in the defensive line, especially in stoppage time, and it was a pity to concede two goals in two minutes. In the third game against Poland, we led by one goal in the first half and continued to rotate the lineup in the second half, resulting in a 1-4 defeat.
The three opponents of the U16 national youth participating in the Four Nations Invitational Tournament this time, whether it is Denmark, Poland or Romania, are far higher in the world ranking than China's U16, especially Denmark's U16 has defeated Germany, the Netherlands and other teams. This time, the Chinese team chose a strong team to warm up, which is of great value and will be of great benefit to the future of the national youth.
Of course, this tournament did expose a lot of problems, the offense is fierce but the defense is scumbag, the black 3 minutes at the last moment of the game are non-stop, the action in the penalty area is frizzy, and the ability to read the game is too poor. However, by playing with strong teams, we can slowly find and solve problems, which will give hope to the future.
In an interview with Xinhua News Agency, Kenichi Uemura once made it clear that "Chinese youth coaches interfere too much with children in training, and many Chinese players are used to waiting for the coach to give instructions on the field, and will not make judgments based on the game situation, just waiting, and most of the players I have seen since coming to China are like this." "Chinese players know how to shake hands with leaders and coaches, but they don't know how to play well with their feet.
At present, Ivankovic is coaching the national football team, Djurdjevic is coaching the men's U20 national youth team, and Kenichi Uemura is coaching the U17 national youth. I hope that this time, the decision-making of the Football Association is professional, forward-looking and systematic.
Take a look at the Southeast Asian team next door to us, the Indonesian team, all eliminated the South Korean team to enter the top 4 of the U23 Asian Cup and Olympic preliminaries, and take a look at the Iraqi team facing the flames of war, and also entered the top 4 of the U23 Asian Cup and Olympic preliminaries, and they are only 1 goal away from entering the Olympic Games.
We have so many football professionals, so many professional coaches, we have 14 departments of the Chinese Football Association, and the Secretariat of the Football Association has dozens of ministers/deputy ministers and other professional football cadres, plus a large number of professional and technical talents in the field of football, the future of Chinese football may really take off.
Less leadership speeches, less formalism, less whiskers, less eating cards, less sea cucumbers, and putting your mind on football.
Whether it is the leaders of the Football Association, or the coaches, or the players, if they can think less about what football can bring to themselves, if they can think more about what I can contribute to Chinese football, and there are so many loyal fans to support Chinese football, why not worry?
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