As we all know, what Chinese football lacks most now is talent. Due to the dark period of fake gambling black in Chinese football in the past few years, the youth training system completely collapsed. So since the 90s generation, the number of people playing football has become less and less, without quantity there is no quality, so we have seen all the national youth and national minorities after the 90s, no national brand has participated in the World Youth Championship and the World Junior Championship, and even after 2000, the players have fallen to the Asian Youth Championship and the Asian Junior Championship. That is to say, we are not even in the 3rd class in Asia.
Although the overall level of Chinese football is currently plummeting, we are always looking forward to a star in Chinese football to help Chinese football come out of the trough. So over the years, there have been a lot of our own Messi Ronaldo, and many Messi Ronaldo has also performed very well in some games, and even let us see hope. But with the passage of time, these Messi Ronaldo are more short-lived, and in the end most of them are ignored, or some directly quit professional football, which makes people sigh. For example, Mao Biao, a former TEDA local forward star, such as Zhang Chiming, who is known as Chongqing C Luo, has been placed high hopes by everyone, and eventually disappeared into our vision.
Recently, there was a former supernova, basically announced his retirement, and he is only 22 years old this year. He is Chen Xiaomao, a 97-year-old youngster who used to play for Liverpool in the Premier League. In 2011, at the age of 14, Chen Xiaomao tried out liverpool in the Premier League with 16-year-old Long Cheng. And frank, the director of the player development department of Liverpool Club at the time, said in the Youth Department of the Chinese Football Association that the "huge potential" shown by the two Chinese football teenagers during the Liverpool trial training was amazing, and Long Cheng and Chen Xiaomao became members of the U18 and U16 echelons of Liverpool Club respectively. Frank said: "This is the first time to come to China and it is very happy that two young Chinese players can join the Liverpool club, this is also the first time that a Chinese player has appeared in the Liverpool echelon, and they have a good chance to play in the Premier League as first-team players in the future. In 2012, Chen Xiaomao also officially joined the Liverpool U16 echelon and can participate in the English Youth League.
However, since then, Chen Xiaomao has not been heard from, and Long Cheng, who went with him, has performed well in the past two years, playing the main force in the Henan Jianye team, and then joined the Shanghai Greenland Shenhua team, an old powerhouse in the Chinese Super League. Where did you go to become a potential supernova? Forgive Chen Xiaomao for joining the reserve team of Shanghai Greenland Shenhua after returning to China, but he never had the opportunity to enter the first team. In the 2019 season, he also trained sichuan FC in the middle division, but was not left behind by the team.
Because it was too long without a ball, Chen Xiaomao made the decision to retire. Recently we saw the former Liverpool player on a football training flyer, who was 22 years old in 97 and has become a u11-u12 coach at a youth club.
Of course, we also have to sigh that this professional football is still very cruel. And football is not enough to have talent and potential, it also requires a little bit of hard work from the players to be down-to-earth, success and hard work are absolutely inseparable! What do you think? Friends are welcome to discuss together in the comments!