On March 12, Luneng will sit at home against the defending AFC Champions League champion Kashima Antlers, which is a valuable experience for Luneng against Asia's top teams, but for Luneng captain Arthur Junmin, this game has a special meaning: since he left Germany to join Luneng in 2011, Arthur Junmin faced his former teammate Uchida Taktoshi on the green field for the first time.
On May 29, 2009, in Gao Hongbo's first game in charge, Arthur Junmin broke through the door of the German chariot shortly after the opening. Such an outstanding performance naturally attracted the attention of German coach Magath, and on February 1 of the following year, Arthur Junmin officially joined the Schalke 04 club coached by Magat, and has since become a "miner". At the end of the season, Magath, who has always played football as FM, brought in a number of new players, including young Japanese full-back Tatsuto Uchida, who performed well in Kashima Antlers, which is the first memory of the two Bundesliga years.
As the team's position at full-back fell to Falfan's position, the old horse who admired Arthur Junmin began to let Arthur Junmin change to the position of full-back, but unfortunately, due to the inability to adapt well to this position, Arthur Junmin's main position was gradually replaced by Uchida Tukoto. At the end of this season, Arthur Junmin joined Luneng at the last moment when the transfer window of the Chinese Super League was about to close, and his short stay in the West ended.
In many interviews, Uchida has expressed appreciation for Arthur Junmin's technique. At the beginning of this year, Zibo Keju's head coach Hou Zhiqiang and team leader Zhao Peng also met Magat again when they participated in the football forum in Germany, and lao Ma admitted that his ability to play in the Bundesliga was completely possible. However, although he has done his duty in Luneng arthur Junmin and won the love of Fans in Luneng and even the whole country, his experience of staying in the sample is still a regret that many fans cannot erase in their hearts.
In fact, in terms of individual foot skills, Arthur Junmin is not inferior to Uchida Tukoto, plus he came to the team half a season earlier than Uchida, and he occupied a favorable position in the main battle of full-backs that year. However, the weakness in the defensive ability of Ha Joon-min in the position of full-back was magnified, and his talent in attack was also affected, and eventually the full-back Uchida Took his main position.
In the past, the concept of Chinese youth training was lacking, and the mode of training players was too single; although we still cultivated many players with distinctive characteristics under this football system, they had certain defects in position and tactical adaptability. Not long ago, Deng Shijun, the enlightenment coach of Arthur Junmin, once said in an interview: "My expectation is that he can go to the world and really become famous in the five major leagues; but in the end, there are still some regrets in the Bundesliga." My own summary (all of this) still stems from some deficiencies in the cultivation of teenagers, and did not give him comprehensive intellectual help when he really began to learn knowledge. ”
Arthur Junmin left, but Uchida Tachibana chose to stay, when he first came to Germany, Uchida was extremely uncomfortable with life here, and Magat's "devil training" also made him miserable, and he once had the idea of returning to Japan. "Since you came, let's play for two years", with this idea, the Japanese stayed in Germany for seven or eight years, and he gradually grew into an indispensable presence on the team's side.
However, injuries hampered his progress, and in early 2014 against Hannover 96, Uchida suffered a serious injury. As early as before he landed in the Bundesliga, Uchida Tatsuto was sought after by japanese female fans because of his appearance, but this "jade-faced student" also had his tough side behind it: in order to represent his motherland in the World Cup, he chose conservative treatment.
Unfortunately, in the long run, Uchida's ligaments began to ossify, and in the Champions League match against Real Madrid in March 2015, Uchida was seriously injured and left the field again. This time, he could no longer choose to continue conservative treatment, and the doctor who was the main surgeon for him also lamented the severity of Uchida's injury, saying that it was like a car accident.
It was also this injury that made Uchida Tachibana almost no experience of playing for Schalke's first team in the next two seasons, although the club did not abandon the meritorious old man, and Uchida also hoped to return to the top through active rehabilitation training, but in the end the miracle did not happen, Uchida Tachibana left Schalke 04 to join the Bundesie Berlin United; however, here because of the injury recovery situation, he did not get too many opportunities to play, for his own dream of the last World Cup, Also in order to reunite with former Schalke teammates such as Neuer, Uchida chose to join Kashima Antlers.
Uchida's injury is not an accident, and many Asian players such as Li Qinglong and Li Tie have been greatly discounted by injuries in their foreign careers. On the one hand, it may be because Asians are physically difficult to adapt to the fierce physical confrontation and long and intensive schedules in the European League, on the other hand, the accumulation of injuries caused by incorrect training methods in youth may also be a reason. For today's young players, how to do a good job of strength training and injury prevention in their youth will also be of great benefit to their potential overseas careers in the future.
Two Asian players competing for a major five-league team still sounds a bit incredible even today. Today, Arthur Junmin and Uchida Are no longer wind-chasing teenagers, and although the years never seem to leave a mark on their faces, their history of working together for Schalke has long been a memory of the past.