At 18:00 on April 13, Chengdu Rongcheng Football Club released the fifth wave of new internal support of the season: Liu Ruovan, Li Jianbin, Liu Chaoyang, Yang Zexiang joined! Coupled with Han Guanghui, Zhang Yan, Xing Yu, Xiang Baixu, Gan Chao, Han Xuan, Jin Chengjun, Liu Bin, Tang Xin, Li Zhi, Gou Junchen and others who have been officially announced before, Chengdu Rongcheng's newly introduced internal assistance this season has all appeared!
The last 4 players officially announced today are all "old acquaintances" of Sichuan football and Chengdu football:
Li Jianbin and Gao Xiang, two young generals from Qingdao, were brought to Chengdu by their mentor Wang Guodong and played for Chengdu Sheffield United for many years. In 2011, Li Jianbin and Peng Xinli moved to Guangzhou Evergrande together, and after 10 years, they continued the frontier with Chengdu football.
Liu Chaoyang, the son of Sichuan football star Liu Bin, was trained by the Chengdu Football Association and was previously loaned to Sichuan FC by Luneng.
Yang Zexiang is from Mingyu Football School, represented the Sichuan team in the National Games, and later played for Tianjin TEDA for a long time, before joining Dalian and Shanghai Shenhua.
And Liu Ruovan, who has always been highly anticipated by the outside world as a "leader of the young generation of Chinese football", although he is a native of Nanchong, he left Sichuan since he was a child, which is the first time he has played for a professional team in his hometown.
In this year's reinforcements, Chengdu Rongcheng introduced Liu Ruovan, Xiang Baixu, Li Jianbin, Xing Yu, Liu Chaoyang, Yang Zexiang and many other Sichuan players and "Made in Chengdu" players, which was also an important goal of Chengdu Rongcheng at the beginning of its establishment - to provide a platform for Sichuan players and "Made in Chengdu" players to return to Chengdu football. Chengdu Rongcheng has also been practicing its commitments in recent years, Liu Ruovan also told the Red Star News reporter after returning to his hometown team: "The mood is very excited, and it is very cordial to communicate in Sichuan dialect in the team, and I hope that the new season can try to show my ability and help my hometown team enter the top league!" ”
Without introducing the fans, he recognized him: "Liu Ruovan, Xiongqi!" ”
At the first fan open day in Chengdu Rongcheng this year, team leader and Sichuan football celebrity Li Qing introduced the newly introduced players to more than 100 members of the Sichuan Provincial Football Association. When Li Qing pointed to a young man who was nearly 1.9 meters tall and had not yet spoken, the fans on the opposite side could not wait to shout: "Liu Ruovan, Xiongqi!" It can be said that in the meeting of new recruits on the same day, Liu Ruovan got the most cheers and applause.
Fame is the most important thing for 22-year-old Liu Ruovan. He became famous at a young age, was the ace center of the 98/99 age group of Genbao Football School, and is even considered a leading figure in Chinese football in this age group. Liu Ruovan was preemptively recruited by Shanghai Shenhua very early on, and because he scored goals in various youth competitions since childhood, he was also nicknamed "Liu Ruma". At the age of 18, Liu Ruovan debuted in the FINAL OF THE FA Cup and assisted Martinez to score a key goal to help Shenhua win the FA Cup. In this year, Liu Ruovan also won the U18 men's football championship at the National Games, the 2017 China U18 Golden Boy Award, and was selected for the 95 national youth team in two consecutive jumps.
In January 2018, Liu Ruovan, who has not yet reached the age of 19, was selected for the final round of the U23 Asian Cup by the U23 national football team, and competed with Asian players 3 to 4 years older than himself, and was called "the biggest discovery" by coach Maddaloni after the first round of substitute appearances! After that, Hiddink let Liu Ruovan skip the ranks and be selected for the 97-year-old national Olympic team. Shanghai Shenhua "team soul" Moreno once told Liu Ruovan that in the future he will inherit his No. 10 jersey... It can be said that Liu Ruovan at the beginning of his debut is a collection of thousands of pets in one!
However, in recent years, due to many factors such as injuries and illnesses, Liu Ruovan's development has not been as expected. After joining Chengdu Rongcheng on loan, he also hopes to regain confidence in his hometown team, help Chengdu Rongcheng to surpass success, and return to the U22 national football team in the U23 Asian Cup qualifiers in October this year, and complete the team's goals with his teammates.
Liu Ruovan was interviewed by a Red Star News reporter photojournalist Zhang Zhi
Liu Ruovan's father and son used to be a little bit worse than Chengdu football
Liu Ruovan is a native of Nanchong, Sichuan, and he and his father Liu Peng have a good relationship with Chengdu football, but they have always lacked such a little fate before.
Liu Peng, a former footballer, represented Nanchong in the Sichuan Amateur Football League in the 1980s, when Liu Peng was elected the tournament's top scorer against Chongqing striker Yao Xia, who was competing in the same field. With this outstanding performance, Liu Peng was selected for the Chengdu Sports Team in 1990, the head coach is Gu Jianming, the current executive committee member of the Chinese Football Association and the secretary general of the Chengdu Football Association, and the same room with him is the later Quanxing famous player Peng Xiaofang, which was formed to prepare for the second National Urban Games.
At that time, Liu Peng was excited to be selected for the Chengdu Sports Engineering Team, but he said in an interview with The Red Star News reporter that his basic skills were indeed inferior to those of Chengdu players, so the more he played, the less confident he was, and he left the Chengdu Sports Team before the start of the City Games. After returning to Nanchong, Liu Peng said goodbye to football, entered the Nanchong City Water Supply Company, and formed a family.
Although he is not engaged in the football industry, Liu Peng has always had an obsession, that is, he hopes that his son Liu Ruovan will one day play for chengdu teams. When Liu Ruovan was 7 years old, Lan Ting, the coach of the Chengdu Football Association echelon at the time, just watched Liu Ruovan's game, took the initiative to find Liu Peng and left a phone, and said: "This doll is good, we will follow up and investigate in the future." This further ignited the fire in Liu Peng's heart.
In order to give Liu Ruovan a chance to realize his "Chengdu football dream", Liu Peng also refused the chongqing football management center's suggestion to register Liu Ruovan and brought his son to Chengdu to seek opportunities. However, it is a pity that at that time, the Chengdu Football Association had not yet formed an echelon for the 99/00 age group, and the Chengdu Sheffield United Club that still existed at that time had just been relegated and the echelon was disbanded. Chengdu, for the time being, there is no place for Liu Ruovan.
In 2010, after watching Liu Ruovan's trial training, Xu Genbao made a decision on the spot to waive all fees, and then signed a contract with Liu Ruovan for ten years, which led to the famous "Liu Ruma"!
Gu Jianming called to invite Liu Ruovan, and his father's opinion played a big role
Last season, Liu Ruovan was loaned to Tianjin Teda by Shanghai Shenhua, and this season there are also a number of Chinese Super League teams looking to loan him from Shanghai Shenhua. But in the end, Liu Ruovan chose Chengdu Rongcheng. Giving up the opportunity to continue playing in the Chinese Super League and choosing to play for the team in his hometown of Sichuan for the first time, how did Liu Ruovan make this decision?
"At the end of last season, Gu Jianming called me and hoped that if I had the opportunity, I would be able to return to my hometown to play for the team." Liu Ruovan said in an exclusive interview with a Red Star News reporter. He smiled and said that his father was Gu Jianming's apprentice, and he should be Gu Jianming's apprentice, "So Master Zu sent me an invitation, and my disciple must be put in my heart!" ”
Liu Ruovan also revealed that this time he joined Chengdu Rongcheng, and his father's opinion also played a very important role. "My father has always loved football and is proud to have been selected for the Chengdu team. Since he was a child, he would tell me about the Chengdu team or something, and he would take me to the scene to watch the Sichuan team's game. He has always regretted that he has not been able to really gain a firm foothold in the Chengdu team, so he also hopes that I can make my own contribution to Sichuan football and Chengdu football in the future. This time there was such an opportunity, my father, whether on the phone or when he met me, had the intention of hoping that I could play for my hometown team. ”
Speaking of which, this is the first time that Liu Ruovan has joined a professional team in his hometown, and in the past he has been an opponent many times, representing Genbao Football School and Shanghai team against Sichuan and Chengdu. Liu Ruovan said that he was very excited after joining Chengdu Rongcheng, "I feel a lot of belonging, I have followed the national youth team to Chengdu twice to participate in the Panda Cup, and every time I play in Chengdu, I am very excited." So I hope that this time back to my hometown, I can have a good performance and show my ability to the fans in my hometown. ”
After returning to Chengdu, the water and soil were not satisfied, but the atmosphere in the team made Liu Ruovan enjoy it
Leaving Sichuan since he was a child, Liu Ruovan has lived more in Shanghai, Tianjin and other cities over the years, and returned to Chengdu, but he is not very adaptable. He told Red Star News: "When I first came back, I still felt a little unsatisfactory, and I played a warm-up game with the team before, and as a result, I had a fever for three days after the game. ”
Although the climate is a bit uncomfortable, Liu Ruovan still enjoys the current team atmosphere in Chengdu Rongcheng: "The players are very harmonious with each other, and here I can communicate with many teammates in Sichuanese, which will feel very kind to me." And head coach Xu Zhengyuan coach although there is a strict tradition of Korean coaches in training, he is usually very kind and very good at adjusting the atmosphere in the team, so the whole feeling is very comfortable. In Chengdu Rongcheng, Liu Ruovan and Luo Xin and Liu Chaoyang were teammates of the national youth team, and Xiang Baixu, who also joined this season, is also very familiar, so there is no strange feeling in the team, and he can quickly get along with his teammates.
After joining Chengdu Rongcheng this year, Liu Ruovan will participate in the Chinese League A for the first time in the 2020 season, saying that his goal is to help Sichuan Football and Chengdu Football have a Chinese Super League team, "As for me personally, try my best to show myself and do the best." ”
At the time of his debut, Liu Ruovan was considered a "strengthened version of Wu Lei" and "a leader in the future of Chinese football", but now the outside world believes that his progress in recent years has not met expectations. In this regard, Liu Ruovan said: "There are injury factors, and the serious injury in 2019 does have a great impact on himself, but the main thing is that there is a problem with his mentality. Last season, I think the performance in Tianjin Teda was quite good, that is, the one in front of the goal was not done well, but also because I wanted to prove myself with goals, and the result was not fast. I hope that this year I can adjust my mentality and face every challenge with a normal heart. ”
In addition to the Chinese League One this year, Liu Ruovan also has a task - to participate in the U23 Asian Cup qualifiers in October with the U22 national football team. During the U22 national football training camp in March, Liu Ruovan and Guo Yutian, the two "biggest" players of the team, were not selected. In this regard, Liu Ruovan said: "I played two warm-up games in the U22 national football team before, the first one was quite good, but I did not play too well against Yatai that game. Coach Jankovic talked to me a lot after the game and wanted me to try my best to adjust to my form. I was not selected for the team training in March, probably to stimulate and motivate me. So I still hope to perform well in this year's Chinese League One, play at a high level, find confidence, and believe that in October, I will definitely help the U22 national football team to impact the U23 Asian Cup! ”
Red Star News reporter Jiang Shan
Edited by Ge Ping
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