13. Stars

In the face of Zhang Chen, Zhang Sheng is prepared, that is, for the AFC Champions League this season, Zhang Sheng wants to find a real big star to calm the field, and this transfer operation has reached the final stage. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The matter of finding a strong striker was something that Zhang Sheng decided as early as the beginning of the Chinese League season, because Zhang Sheng, who was sure of promotion, began to consider the difference between the Chinese League and the Chinese Super League very early.

Now China's football league is a very unhealthy inverted pyramid structure, that is, a lot of the second and second leagues are completely unconcerned, and all eyes are on the Chinese Super League. The vast majority of the funds are also piled up in the Chinese Super League, the vast majority of good domestic players are also in the Chinese Super League, and the vast majority of good foreign aid is also in the Chinese Super League.

This leads to a situation, that is, as the second level of the league and the gap between the Chinese Super League and the Chinese Super League is too huge, basically all the Chinese A teams as long as they succeed in surpassing, a large number of local players are replaced, and it has become necessary to spend a lot of money to buy strong foreign aid, otherwise there is only one consequence waiting for the team - relegation. Unless the Chinese Super League team itself is based on Chinese Super League level players, such as Henan Jianye, which was promoted this year, or the team has a very effective and mature tactical system that can restrain the Chinese Super League team, such as Yanbian Fude in the future.

This can be seen from the statistics of the two league matches.

The Chinese Super League is gradually improving with the arrival of a large number of top foreign players and high-level coaches, coupled with a strong coaching team. For example, in 2010, the average distance run by players in the Chinese Super League was only about 7,000 meters, and some players even ran more than 3,000 meters in a game. There are only a handful of team members who can run 10,000 meters in domestic competitions. At the same time, South Korean and Japanese players both ran about 10,000 meters. By 2012, the average distance traveled by players in the Chinese Super League had increased to nearly 9,000 meters, and in the 2014 season, the average distance traveled by each Super League team per game was 105 kilometers or even more than 110 kilometers, and it was very common for players to run 10,000 meters per game. So much so that in the round of 12 of the 2016 World Cup budget tournament, the Chinese Super League players were able to keep the South Korean and Iranian national team players who have always been known for their physical fitness through running, which is very telling.

The average running distance per game of the Chinese League has been about 6,000 meters since 2010, even after several years of development and progress, by 2014, the average running distance of most teams per game is about 90 kilometers, and the average running distance of players per game rarely reaches 10,000 meters.

Although football matches are not necessarily won by running more distance, for example, Henan Jianye, which has the most running distance in the 2012 Chinese Super League, was relegated, but the results of the team with less running are definitely not good, unless your team is superior and can reduce running through accurate passing.

When it comes to the number of passes and the success rate of passes, the data of the Chinese Super League is also far better than that of the Chinese League.

In the past 2013 Chinese Super League, Guangzhou Evergrande, ranked first, had an average of more than 400 passes per game, and their pass success rate was also 84%. In history, Henan Jianye, as the first place in the Chinese League, has an average of only more than 300 passes per game, and the pass success rate is only a little more than 70%, which is still the data of Henan Jianye playing in the Chinese Super League with Chinese Super League players.

On the other side of the intensity of the game, the average net game time per game is also a good reflection of the difference between the two leagues.

In 2010, the average net time of the Super League was just over 45 minutes per game, and in 2013 it reached 53 minutes and 53 seconds, although due to the intensity of the Super League, it dropped to 53 minutes and 23 seconds in 2014, but by the 2015 season, the average net time of the Super League has risen to 54 minutes and 12 seconds.

The average net game time per game in the Chinese League has been maintained at about 50 minutes since 2010, which means that there are a lot of interruptions in a game, unnecessary fouls are rampant, and the number of times lying on the grass is also countless.

In other words, the intensity of the game in the Chinese League and the intensity of the Super League are completely different.

And in terms of tactics, defense has always been a top priority for various Super League teams. Because of the rampant foreign aid in the front field of the super big names, this leads to a problem, many teams will be affected by these big offensive players in the back, so the vast majority of the middle and lower teams will be heavily stationed in the backfield. At the same time, this also gives rise to another problem, once a team does not have a striker with super attacking power in the front, it is difficult to break the opponent's defense, which has high requirements for the ability of the striker players of each team in the Super League.

This is also the reason why in the 2016 season, even a team like Liaoning Hongyun spent 1300w euros to buy a strong striker in the Bundesliga like Ujah, because without such a strong striker, it is difficult to open the door to the opponent.

Zhang Sheng began to select strong strikers at the beginning of this Chinese League season, and Zhang Sheng was doing things with the idea of looking for a high-quality and inexpensive striker, but after looking around in the market, Zhang Sheng found that it was too difficult to do such a thing, as a team that was interested in impacting the league's AFC Champions League qualification and wanted to make a difference in the AFC Champions League, Zhang Sheng had to focus on those star strikers.

Zhang Sheng's first thought was the Red Bull team, which has a close relationship with his club. And the Red Bulls did give a good suggestion, that is, the Australian star Cahill of the New York Red Bulls, who is also a Red Bull club.

Cahill, who has played in the World Cup three years in a row and has scored five goals, is Australia's number one star before him. As a player who has played in the Premier League for many years and has been able to lead the team to the top four of the Premier League with his excellent performances, his ability is undoubted.

As he got older, Cahill moved to New York Red Bulls, where he existed at superstar level. Historically, he came to the Chinese Super League after playing for the New York Red Bulls for 3 years and joined Shanghai Shenhua, where he performed very well, scoring 11 goals in 28 appearances, which shows his ability.

However, after investigating his specific situation, Zhang Sheng still felt a little inappropriate, that is, his technical ability at his feet and the tactics of the Longteng team did not match very well, because what Cahill was really strong was his ability to score goals with his headers. The Longteng team mostly uses short passes to score goals, and although Cahill is strong, he does not meet Zhang Sheng's requirements.

After declining the Red Bulls' kindness, Zhang Sheng set his sights on the Brazilian league. And Zhang Sheng's partner in Brazil, Costa Sr., did provide Zhang Sheng with information about several players. These players are not small, they are Fabiano, Leandro Damion and Pato.

All three of these players have been the main strikers of the Brazilian national team, and it should be said that they are all excellent in terms of ability. But at the same time, they are both in the form of returning to Brazil from European football.

Fabiano was known as Ronaldo in his early days, and he once scored an astonishing 55 goals in 48 games in the Brazilian league. After moving to Europe, he joined Sevilla FC in La Liga, scoring goals that helped Sevilla win the UEFA Cup in 2006.

In the Brazilian national team, Fabiano won the 2004 Copa America with two goals, and in 2009, Fabiano won the Confederations Cup top scorer and the Silver Ball with five goals.

However, in 2011, Fabiano returned to his parent club Sao Paulo due to injury, although he briefly went to Turkish giants Galatasaray for a year, and returned to Sao Paulo, where he transferred to Tianjin Quanjian in 2016.

He was definitely the most experienced of the three players recommended by the elder Costa, but since Fabiano's return to Brazil from Europe, he has lost his position as a striker for the Brazilian national team, and although there was a brief return, he was completely abandoned.

Zhang Sheng is skeptical that Fabiano can guarantee good form, and although he is still in his thirties, he is still very efficient, scoring 23 goals in 32 appearances in two years. But Zhang Sheng knows that his form has declined very much since the 2014 season, and he has been abandoned by Sao Paulo because he has not been able to maintain his form in history.

At the same time, Zhang Sheng asked the team's scouts to scout the second player, Leandro Damian.

Leandro Damian, nicknamed "Big Meow", played late. It wasn't until 2007, when his father took him to an exam, that the 17-year-old Damion played serious football at the small club Ibiramar in Santa Catarina. In 2010, Darmion officially moved to the Brazilian international first team, and although he didn't get many playing opportunities, he scored a number of crucial goals, but his real explosion came in 2011. In 2011, Damião became the main player and wore the number 9, scoring 13 goals in 17 appearances in the Rio Grande do Sul Championship, winning the Golden Cup, Golden Boot and Golden Ball.

Also in 2011, Darmion was selected for the Brazilian national team and played in the Copa America, but his performance was average. Subsequently, Damion beat Pato to occupy the position of the main center forward of the national team. At the 2012 London Olympics, as Brazil's number one killer in the Olympic Games, Damion's performance can be said to be very eye-catching. His efficiency with six goals in five games has made him the top scorer of the Games.

Who knows, since the London Olympics, Darmion has started to decline, with constant injuries and poor form. Despite the constant transfer talks, no European club dared to ask for him. His poor performances were also seen by Scolari. Historically, he did not make it to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

And in a match in the 2014 Brazilian league, Darmian also made a farce of pulling his shirt in the opponent's penalty area and trying to deceive the referee to take a penalty, which became a joke in Brazilian football. Because of his clumsy behavior, Damion was named the "most crappy actor" in that round of Bajia.

Zhang Sheng didn't want this player who had never played in later generations. (To be continued.) )