After this round of the league, the Longteng team has encountered another big hurdle, that is, a large number of players in the team will leave the team to participate in the 2017 World Youth Championship (U20 World Cup) in South Korea.

For the recruitment of players to participate in the World Youth Championships, there have been a few tricks between the Longteng team and the Football Association.

At the beginning, the Football Association wanted to recruit all the players of the appropriate age of the Longteng team into the national youth team to play the World Youth Championships, but the actual situation is that once this standard is followed, the Longteng team will not even have a squad of 18 people.

Secondly, the national youth team wants people, and the national youth team also needs people.

Odd-numbered years are generally junior international tournaments in order to stagger senior international competitions, and this year 2017 was the case. This year, there are not only the World Youth Championships (U20), but also the World Youth Championships (U17), and the Chinese team has successfully entered them.

Although the domestic youth training is affected by the Longteng team, all clubs have seen the benefits, increased investment, and made certain improvements. However, youth training has never been an overnight thing, and the youth training of Chinese football is not a year or two, but more than ten years, so in terms of excellent young players, the reserve is very poor.

It can be said that the vast majority of outstanding young players are concentrated on the side of the Longteng team, as is the case in the 1997 age group participating in the World Youth Championships, and the same is true in the 2000 age group participating in the World Junior Championships.

If you look carefully at the age of domestic players, you will find a strange phenomenon, that is, there are more births in odd-numbered years than even-numbered years, and more births in the first half of the year than in the second half of the year.

Because even years are only one major tournament for a player's youth career, that is, the U16 Asian Junior Championship, and the national brand only temporarily forms one U16, which will be disbanded after that. At the same time, there are no competitions in the even-numbered National Games at all, and the football associations in the provinces and cities do not form teams. As a result, players born in even-numbered years will be abandoned as long as they are over 16 years old, and players must compete with national, provincial and municipal teams that are one year older.

On the other hand, in odd-numbered years, there are U19 Asian Youth Championships (U20 World Youth Championships), U22 Asian Cup (Olympic Games), U18 National Games, and U20 National Games.

Therefore, domestic players are "willing" to be born in odd-numbered years.

Not so with the Dragons.

Because of the system calling, many players of the Longteng team are actually players who have been pitted by the curse of Chinese football of "even-numbered years", which leads to the fact that there are far more even-numbered players in the Longteng team than in odd-numbered years, and they also happen to be between the two age groups of the World Youth Championship and the World Junior Championships, compared with other players participating in the competition, the age is on the younger side.

In the end, the Longteng team and the Football Association reached an agreement, whether the players who occupy the starting position in the club will be decided by the Longteng team, and the rotation of substitute players will ensure that the Longteng team has at least one qualified substitute in the same position, and the reserve team and the qualified age group of the football school can be recruited.

In this way, Xiang Tiange, Zeng Fanfang, Wang Xing, Shen Jun, Peng Langjun, Wu Qingmin (loan), and Gong Yuzhe (loan) were sent to participate in the World Youth Championships.

Among them, Xiang Tiange, Zeng Fanfang and Shen Jun will only play the first game with the national youth team on May 22 after playing the key Chinese Super League match with Shanghai SIPG on May 13.

After letting go of these players, there are only 22 players left in the Longteng team who can play, among which there are not a few young players born in 2000 who are not capable enough to play.

Now it seems that how important it was to win away from home to Monton United and then win the group one round earlier, and in the AFC Champions League match on May 10, the Longteng team playing at home can use some rotation players to cope with the game.

In addition, fortunately, the host of this World Youth Championship is South Korea, the venue of the game is close to China, these players of the Longteng team have a lot of opportunities to go to South Korea every year to play, what long distances, jet lag, unfamiliar with the venue and other bad factors can be offset a lot, and even because South Korea has a large number of Chinese, in the national youth team competition, the team can also enjoy the treatment of "home battle".

As analyzed by the outside world, in the AFC Champions League match in the middle of May 10, the Longteng team, which has already qualified first in the group, faced Ulsan Hyundai, who had already been eliminated from the group, at home, and both sides were substitutes.

Ulsan Hyundai not only didn't have any foreign players, but even the eighteen-man squad was made up of substitutes and young players from the echelon, like their goalkeeper was a complete newcomer, and he didn't have any experience in a full-fledged senior team game before.

The same is true for the Dragons, who have been playing as a substitute for 21-year-old goalkeeper Jiang Mingming, who made his AFC Champions League debut again after the last FA Cup game, and the non-call-up player can be said to be very lucky.

In other positions, in addition to sending those players who started in the World Youth Championships, the Longteng team also sent a large number of newcomers in other positions.

For example, Peng Langjun, who played in the FA Cup this season and played the AFC Champions League for the first time, Tian Qijie, such as Chen Yinuo, who entered the AFC Champions League 18-man squad for the first time.

When it came to the game, the two teams with an average age of only more than 20 years old played a scene that was as fierce as a tiger, and the actual situation was unbearable, and both sides played a rare "happy football".

The striker is very happy, all kinds of single knife flying, the empty goal is missed, the midfielder is also happy, there are many people who want to perform with the ball and are repeatedly broken, and it is common for the defense to leak people and positions; as for the defenders, all kinds of positions overlap, and there are mistakes in watching the ball and not looking at people.

Fortunately, the goalkeepers on both sides played fairly steadily and did not make too low-level mistakes.

After the second half, the players on the field of the Longteng team are like Xiang Tiange, Zeng Prosperity, Zhang Hao, Lu Yangyang, after all, they still have a lot of game experience, and under their leadership, the new players are also slowly stabilizing their positions.

In the end, goals from Zeng and Tang Jin helped the team win 2-1 at home against Ulsan Hyundai and maintain this season's unbeaten AFC Champions League record.

At the same time, in the other game that decided the second place in the group, Kashima Antlers defeated Monton United 2:1 at home and beat their opponents to qualify from the group.

The Longteng team easily won the first place in the group, and the Chinese Super League teams in the other groups also did not lag behind, and they also successfully qualified from the group, and except for Shanghai SIPG, the others were the top positions in the group. Coupled with last year's AFC Champions League, the four teams of the Chinese Super League also won the first place in the group, and for a time the Chinese Super League dominated Asian football was very loud.

In fact, these four Super League teams are not as easy as everyone thinks.

Aside from the Longteng team, which is still scratching its head for the shortage of personnel, Guangzhou Evergrande's easy group first is based on ultra-high investment and over-class foreign aid, and the hoarding of international players in the Evergrande team can be said to make most teams daunting.

Shanghai SIPG is relying on the support of the group of outstanding players cultivated by Xu Genbao for ten years, of course, the super high investment of SIPG Group is also of great help, but their AFC Champions League results are not as good as the first two. In the first five rounds of games, Urawa Ruby has always relied on the advantage of more away goals to suppress Shanghai SIPG, which has the same score. Neither team wants to finish second in the group.

In the final round, Seoul FC, who had been eliminated from the competition, made a contribution - they relied on a stoppage-time stunner to win 1-0 at home against Urawa Ruby, while SIPG, who flew thousands of miles away to Australia, was plagued by injuries and fitness, although Yan Xiaoyu performed well with one pass and one shot, the team still lost 2:3 to Western Sydney Wanderers, Urawa Ruby relied on more away goals in the match-up relationship to beat SIPG to win the group.

The next knockout round will be a civil war in the Chinese Super League - SIPG vs. Suning.

As for SIPG's knockout opponent, Jiangsu Suning, let's not talk about it. The team's personnel reserves are insufficient, and there are injuries, although the AFC Champions League played well and easily won the first place in the group, but now after eight rounds of the league, the team has not won a single game, ranking first from the bottom, which is incredible for a club with huge investment, but things have really happened.

It can only be said that the difficulty of fighting on two fronts is a hurdle that all teams cannot get around.

On May 13, another key battle of the season began, and the Longteng team will face Shanghai SIPG at home, which also deliberately rotated the lineup in the AFC Champions League for this game.

Therefore, the starting list of the Shanghai Port team announced before the game, you can see the three major foreign aid Oscar, Hulk and Akhmedov all played, plus a Wu Lei who broke out this season and topped a sub-foreign Wu Lei, which can be said to be very strong.

Zhang Sheng also attaches great importance to this game, and has made a lot of targeted arrangements with the coaching staff.

Compared to last year's Shanghai SIPG team, the new head coach Villas-Boas is an extremely characterful manager, and Eriksen, who was slick and almost a good old man, is completely different types.

Villas-Boas's starting point is very high, at the age of 17, he was recommended by the famous coach Robson, and entered the FA's coaching training course for those over 18 years old, and at the age of 17, he obtained the UEFA C-level coaching certificate, and the following year he got the B-level coaching certificate.

Later, he has been following Mourinho as an assistant coach to the top giants in Europe, helping Mourinho win the league championship and the Champions League. Mourinho did not forget to bring his little brother with him: "Villas-Boas is my eyes and ears, without him I can't do anything. ”

In this way, Villas-Boas returned to Porto, where Mourinho made his career, and was given a heavy responsibility by his boss, and he led Porto to the "treble" of the Europa League, Portuguese Super League and Portuguese Cup that season.

It was as if another Mourinho had reappeared in European football.

However, his subsequent coaching career was full of twists and turns, first after Chelsea's poor results, and then after Tottenham Hotspur recovered, he left for Russian Premier League giants Zenit St. Petersburg.

In fact, this already means that he has been abandoned by mainstream European football circles.

And the reason why he was rejected like this has a lot to do with his character.

Back in mainstream European football, Villas-Boas was known as the Madman (Mourinho's nickname) II, although Boas's real nickname was "Little Bird".

In fact, maybe the family is a veteran aristocrat in Europe, with a pretentious high level, maybe it is an upright nature, maybe it is the character of a "character coach" who has been concave, and Boas's sometimes actions even make people think that he is too naïve.

The madman Mourinho looks crazy, but when it should converge, it will converge, if it should be muddy waters, if it should be for it, if it should be for it, it will be for it. He fought with countless people, sprayed with "Professor" Wenger, scolded each other with Lord Ferguson, and put pressure on his boss Abu, these are more operations at the level of psychological warfare, how to interact or how to interact in private.

For example, no matter how stiff the public opinion between the two sides was before the game, Mourinho and Ferguson would go together after the game to cook wine and talk about heroes - have a drink. When Ferguson recalled that the first bottle of wine that Mourinho gave him tasted like "painkillers", "the madman" immediately ordered a bottle of Portuguese wine worth 300 pounds to give to the old man, and Wenger made everyone think that they were dead and dead, but at the Dream Theatre at Old Trafford, Muniao personally invited Wenger to the center of the pitch, and together with Ferguson, he gave Wenger a farewell of the highest standard, which made a good story, and later commented on the Champions League final together.

Compared to Mourinho, Boas's quarrel is really a falling out.

During his tenure at Chelsea, he had a bad relationship with Frank Lampard, Ashley Cole and others, and did not compromise with his owner Abu, and as a result, the team committee sent him away en masse. Later, in Tottenham, in the face of Chairman Levy, there was also a rift! In the Russian Super League, he was afraid of the sky at every turn, and made news many times.

In an interview with the news, he directly said that Mourinho had a bad personality and had turned against him, but he was sarcastically naïve and childish by Mourinho.

Even when he came to China from Europe, Boas did not restrain himself.

At the beginning of his tenure, Villas-Boas declared that he wanted to win at least one championship in a very high-profile manner; then informed the club that the previous coaching team was rubbish, and all of them had to be replaced by their own teams; when they first came to the club, it was originally a courtesy welcome meeting, and the president of Shanghai Port, who had seen a big scene, led Boas to visit the team's base and club, and thought that Villas-Boas would politely praise the club's hardware facilities, and then put forward some suggestions euphemistically, both sides were happy, but they didn't expect the Portuguese to criticize when they opened their mouths, and directly expressed their opinions on the modification of the club's base, waiting for the polite club leaders to touch their noses。

Its emotional intelligence can be seen.

In the use of players, Conca was the first to be abandoned, Boas didn't even say a word to him, and then because of the 3+1 principle of the Chinese Football Association this season, Elkeson was also left out in the cold, the last round of the AFC Champions League away to the Western Sydney Wanderers team rotation, rather only two foreign aid to lose, rather than Elkeson;

Even in this time and space, Wu Lei has a lot of differences.