Soon, the Chinese national team will face Uzbekistan at home, and this game is another game that must be won for the Chinese team.
In order to prepare for this game, Lippi recently announced the training roster of the Chinese team, and Zhang Xizhe and Li Lei in the Guoan team were selected.
Today, Li Lei, as a newcomer to the national team, was interviewed by the media. In fact, Li Lei is not the first time to be selected for the national team, but the last time the national team training, because of the injury Li Lei failed to achieve his wishes.
As the main left-back of the Guoan team, Li Lei's progress this season can only be described as "rocket". The speed of its soaring has threatened Jiang Zhipeng's main position in the national team. In the league, Li Lei's high-speed running distance is the first in the chinese Super League, and with this, it is also the key for Lippi to look at Li Lei.
Recall that two years ago, when Li Lei just joined Guoan, Yu Dabao and Jin Pengxiang, who appeared with him at the joining ceremony, were considered to have achieved fame. Compared with Zhang Chiming, Chen Zhizhao and others who have been selected for the national team before, Li Lei's fame is much smaller. But Li Lei finally completed the transformation with his own efforts.
In fact, when Li Lei joined at that time, there were internal sources that inviting Li Lei to join was actually looking at its potential.
In the history of Guoan, a young player like Li Lei was bought, and it can even be called a "semi-finished product", but through the tempering in Guoan, he was finally selected for the national team. Similar cases are not uncommon.
For example, Wang Shaolei, a player from Henan Jianye who is similar to Li Lei, is a player from Henan Jianye. At that time, Wang Shaolei's Henan Jianye was still a second-tier team. At that time, no one thought that he from Jia B could gain a firm foothold in guoan.
When Wang Shaolei came to Guoan, he also went through several twists and turns. In 1993, when the Henan team came to Beijing to play the National Games, Yang Zuwu took a fancy to Wang Shaolei and communicated with him, but in desperation, Henan did not let anyone go, which led to a 3-year delay in this transfer. Jin Zhiyang, who later became the head coach of Guoan, once watched a Jia B league game on TV, which happened to be Jianye's game, and he once again took a fancy to Wang Shaolei and suggested that the club sign him to Guoan.
Wang Shaolei was 26 years old when he came to Guoan, and during his time in Guoan, his performance was quite stable. He also has a certain skill in his right-way cross. With a stable performance, Wang Shaolei has also been coveted by the national team, but Wang Shaolei was only selected for the national team training list and did not appear on behalf of the Chinese team.
Xu Yang, who came to Guoan in the same year as Wang Shaolei, is a similar typical figure. Before Xu Yang came to Guoan, he trained in the Bayi Engineering Brigade, but he always longed to come to Guoan to play football, and he admired the style of Guoan in that era. Xu Yang's teammate Li Leilei in the Bayi team was the son of Li Songhai, the goalkeeper coach of the Guoan team, so Li Songhai recommended Xu Yang to Jin Zhiyang, the head coach of the Guoan team at that time.
However, at that time, Xuyang was not the "must-choose" for the introduction of internal assistance in the hands of the Golden Finger, and Xu Yang, who had been denied by the Golden Finger, suddenly received a call from Yang Qun, the leader of the National Security Team, and came to the National Security Report. Since then, he has become a player in Guoan and signed a 4-year long contract.
Xu Yang joined Guoan at the age of 24, which was the rising period of his career, and it happened that Guoan began to undergo upgrading at that time, and Xu Yang gradually gained the main position.
Later, after Milutinovic became the head coach of the national team, he took a fancy to Xu Yang's organizational ability in the midfield and recruited him to the national team. He also participated in the Asian Cup held in Lebanon in 2000. In the last game of that Asian Cup, due to the large-scale injury and suspension of the Chinese team, Xu Yang successively played as a back, full-back, center-back and full-back in that game, but he played quite well, which also showed his all-round attributes.
In 2001, Xu Yang left Guoan as an international footballer, Xu Yang, who originally hoped to transfer to Chongqing Lifan, was intercepted by Luneng, and in Shandong Luneng, Xu Yang was unable to gain a firm foothold in the main squad, and his career began to decline.
Since Xuyang, Guoan has not taken the road of "semi-finished product processing" for a long time. One of the main reasons for this is the joining of the Vickery generation, so that Guoan has its own fresh blood. During that time, Guoan's reinforcements were more practical. Either international players like Xiao Wangtao and Hao Wei, or tough players who are already well-known like Qiu Zhonghui and Li Ming.
In fact, at that time, Guoan did not introduce young players to cultivate, but did not cultivate. The most typical is Shang Yi. Shang Yi originally belonged to the Lokomotiv Sports Association, after the dissolution of Jianlibao, due to the low level of locomotive, Shang Yi, as the youngest and most talented player among the Jianlibao players, urgently needed the training of the top league, so Shang Yi finally chose Guoan, for which he endured several months of training and could not play, when Guoan and Lokomotiv Club were deadlocked on some issues in the transfer, so Shang Yi could not obtain a participation certificate, at that time, Li Weifeng of the Locomotive team also wanted to come to Guoan, which was also a similar problem. After training with the team for a long time, Li Weifeng finally couldn't bear it, and went to the Shenzhen team through Dong Lu's introduction, and Shang Yi never left, and finally stayed.
Therefore, Guoan was very important to Shang Yi and once gave him the No. 10 jersey.
However, Shang Yi's years in Guoan were spent with injuries. Due to his thin body, his speed and technique could not be used. In the end, Shang Yi retired due to injury before he was 30 years old. Although Shang Yi was also selected for the national team once, he also scored goals. But that's just a friendly. And compared with the expectations of Shang Yi at that time, this "semi-finished product processing" was a failed work.
In 2004, Guoan brought in a player from the Bayi team who was in a position very similar to Shang Yi, and he was Yan Xiangchuang. Yan Xiangchuang was only 18 years old when he joined Guoan, and on May 26 of that year, he scored for Guoan. In 2005, Yan Xiang broke into the best newcomer in the Chinese Super League and became the main force of the Guoan team.
Yan Xiangchuang was able to join Guoan thanks to the recommendation of the late coach Hong Yuanshuo. At that time, the vice chairman of the club, Zhang Lu, expressed doubts about Yan Xiangchuang's potential, and later Hong Yuanshuo used his one-year salary as a guarantee ticket to persuade Zhang Lu to sign Yan Xiangchuang, and Yan Xiangchuang was also selected for the national team because of his later outstanding performance. However, since Pacheco came to Guoan in 2011, Yan Xiangchuang suddenly began to go downhill, and after several turns, he played the ball and is currently the captain of the North Control team.
Yang Zhi, Guoan's goalkeeper who came a year later than Yan Xiangchuang, may be the top of the "semi-finished product processing" type of players in Guoan's history. In 2005, Li Lixin recommended the 22-year-old Yang Zhi to Guoan, and when Yang Zhigang joined Guoan, he also needed to share some league matches with Yang Shizhuo (Yang Jun). But later, Yang Zhi sat firmly in the position of Guoan's main goalkeeper, and has continued to this day, he has played more than 300 games for Guoan. During this period, Yang Zhi was also awarded the best goalkeeper candidate in Asia by the AFC.
In 2004, he joined Yan Xiangchuang, in 2005 he joined Yang Zhi, and in 2006, Guoan continued to play its own characteristics of "semi-finished product processing" and won Lang Zheng in Hebei.
Lang Zheng was favored by Guoan after representing the Hebei team in the National Games. Later, the old guoan team member Han Xu introduced the guoan trial training and eventually stayed. The tall Lang Zheng is tall and not stupid, and his passing skills are also quite good. At that time, the head coach of the National Security Team, Shen Xiangfu, was very optimistic about him. At that time, because there was no professional team in Hebei, Lang Zheng was in a state of no ball to play, and Han Xu's recommendation and Shen Zhi's weight made Lang Zheng a professional player.
Lang Zheng's growth in the national security team is quite bumpy, and because of the position of playing as a defender, sometimes some very normal mistakes are easily amplified. Even so, Lang Zheng was selected for the training list of the Chinese national team.
Finally, in the three years from 2013 to 2015, Lang Zheng ushered in a full-scale outbreak of his own state. Although In the end, Guoan still agreed to Lang Zheng's transfer this year, but Lang Zheng still achieved good results in Guoan.
Yan Xiangchuang, Yang Zhi and Lang Zheng are all considered to be Guoan who have eaten the sweetness of "semi-finished product processing". In 2011, just one year after the general manager of Climax took office, he signed Park Sung from Yanbian. Park Sung, who was 21 at the time, was definitely a talent reserve for Guoan, and it turned out that Guoan's reserve was right. Park Sung became the main force of the team in 2011, and then gradually grew up to become the core of the Guoan team's midfield. Since 2014, Park Sung's state has declined. But to this day, he is still an indispensable force in the national security midfield.
After Park Cheng, Guoan introduced many players every year, but most of them were famous, such as Chen Zhizhao, Song Boxuan, Yu Dabao and so on. The real person who came from a relatively "poor and lowly" background is Li Lei of Henan Jianye. It is said that the selection of Li Lei at that time was also decided by the coaching team after seeing his training indicators. Because the coaching team was unanimously stunned by Li Lei's physical test data.
Counting up, the players introduced by Guoan in these years of "semi-finished product reprocessing" are not a minority, and most of them have made progress, become a member of the national team, and contributed a lot to Guoan.
Guoan should see this from Yang Zhi, Park Cheng, Li Lei, in addition to their own youth training needs to continue to strengthen, there are scouts to dig more and better "semi-finished" young players, is also an important task for Guoan's future benign development.