140. The Club World Cup is approaching
In domestic football at this stage, although there are not many Uyghurs, there are still some.
In front of Hangzhou Greentown's Baal, after Shandong Luneng, Henan Jianye, Tianjin TEDA and many other Chinese Super League teams played for Maitijiang, after Zhang Sheng crossed, there was Henan Jianye's Abdu Waili, as well as Ilham Mujiang, who entered the profession from a school physical education teacher, all the way to the Super League "inspirational brother".
But these players are also very ordinary in the Chinese Super League, and few of them have reached the national team level.
The player called Ahmat Mamat this time is a very typical Uyghur player, fast, hard-working, and has good skills at his feet. And he also has one thing that is generally lacking among Uyghur players in the country - very strong self-discipline and good tactical understanding.
In China, there is a group of fans who have a very strange idea that the poor performance of national teams at all levels is due to the lack of players from ethnic minorities.
In their impression, they always feel that the players of ethnic minorities, especially the Uyghurs, are stronger than the current domestic players.
In fact, on the contrary, whether it is the analysis report of the education department's adolescent physical fitness, or the survey of professional sports journals such as the Journal of the Capital Institute of Physical Education, or the results of the survey on the physical fitness and health of local students in western Xinjiang, there is a common phenomenon, that is, the average physical fitness of ethnic minorities, especially Uyghur teenagers, is worse than that of the Han nationality.
Moreover, the poorer the youth, the worse off the area is than the economically better off area.
It can be seen from this that economic development is the first condition for improving the physical quality of young people.
Specific to the sport of football, if the level of domestic football wants to improve, more money is invested in youth training, and the establishment of a systematic youth training system is the key, rather than relying on which race to change.
For example, Ahmat, who was summoned this time, has very good family conditions, one of his parents is a school teacher, and the other is a police officer of the public security department, which is considered a medium-level family in Western Xinjiang.
In addition, in recent years, many football schools, including Longteng Football School, charitable fund organizations, such as the Soong Ching Ling Charity Foundation, have helped the football youth training system in Western Xinjiang.
The 16-year-old Ahmat is a talent excavated by Longteng Football School in Western Xinjiang, his parents are also very supportive of his football, and he is in a big city like Urumqi, his communication and communication skills are very good, especially after the scientific and efficient training of Longteng Football School, he has grown very fast, and this time he was officially transferred from Xijiang Football School to the echelon of Longteng Team.
Compared with the Uyghur players that can often be seen, another Chinese-French mixed-race player is really rare.
The mixed-race player's Chinese name is Chen Yinuo, and the French name is Luis, although it is a very common French name, but it is much stronger than the French name of Hélodie-Jaqueline of some Futukang quality inspectors.
As the crystallization of love between China and France, Chen Yinuo's origin is still very dramatic.
His father, Chen Erfeng, is a Chinese, and after graduating from China with a bachelor's degree, he went to study at the world's top universities such as the Polytechnique in Paris, and entered the world's top research institutes such as the Fluid Dynamics Laboratory.
Later, after graduation, Chen Erfeng joined the world's top 500 companies such as Citroen, mainly in the field of automobiles.
With the cooperation between Jiangcheng Dongfeng Motor Company and Citroen, it is only natural that Chinese employees like Chen Erfeng returned to Jiangcheng, and Chen Erfeng came back with his wife Heleni and son Chen Yinuo.
Chen Erfeng and Heleni's love is relatively dramatic.
Chen Erfeng was born in a family of engineers, and when the country was building the Second Automobile, his father was a veteran figure as an automotive engineer of the Second Automobile.
In a large enterprise like the second automobile, the income is generally good, the living environment is also very good, sports, especially football is still very popular, Chen Erfeng has been very interested in football since he was a child, after studying in France, he got the opportunity to get close to European football, and it was in the opportunity to watch the game that Chen Erfeng met Heleni.
Heleni's father was also a footballer when he was younger, and although he didn't achieve much, he still raised his daughter to be a fan as a matter of course.
In the end, Chen Erfeng was all beauties, and soon they had Chen Yinuo.
Chen Yinuo showed good football talent from an early age, and gained the attention of his grandfather's former team, Paris FC, a sworn rival of Paris Saint-Germain in Ligue 3, a split from the famous Paris Saint-Germain.
Although the team has a short history and is not very strong, their youth team has still produced a lot of players, including Sarco who used to play for Liverpool, and even the head coach like Roger Lemaire, who helped the French national team win the European Championship, started coaching from this team.
Helenie agreed that Chen Erfeng would come to China with her children from France, which had a lot to do with the city of Jiangcheng.
As one of the earliest cities in modern China, Jiangcheng had long been associated with France, and the most advanced Hankou railway station in Asia was designed by the French, and the later reconstruction was also carried out by the French.
When the famous historical figure Zhang Zhidong was the governor of Huguang, he also issued a document calling on the people of Jiangcheng to learn French, and in the Republic of China, many new-style schools even opened French courses.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, more than one-third of France, 40% of the direct investment in China in Jiangcheng, French enterprises settled like goose feathers, Citroen and Dongfeng Motor, formerly known as the second automobile, joint venture is one of the big projects.
So there are a lot of French people in Jiangcheng - more than 2,000 people is the largest of any city in China.
To this end, Jiangcheng became the first city to have a French consulate, CCTV's French international channel landed in Jiangcheng, in order to solve the problem of the children of these "migrant workers" in France, the establishment of a "dragon" from kindergarten to high school, obtained the qualification certification of the French Ministry of Education, the syllabus is completely synchronized with France, and it is logical for students to go back to France to take the entrance examination.
Based on this situation, Helenie agreed to come to Jiangcheng, a city that is very friendly to the French.
After returning to Jiangcheng, Chen Erfeng's family leisure activity was to watch football matches.
The family's first encounter with the Longteng team was when the Longteng team was playing in the amateur league, and the fledgling Longteng team defeated the Dongfeng Honda team, the enterprise team of the Dongfeng Group, where Chen Erfeng worked, 1-0.
Chen Erfeng thought that the Dongfeng Honda team, which was based on the framework of former professional players, must have won against the Longteng team, which did not have any professional players, and the latter defeated the Dongfeng Honda team 1:0, which thought it was a sure win.
Since then, Chen Erfeng has left a deep impression on the Longteng team with a beautiful style of play.
With the continuous upgrading of the Dragons, the team is getting stronger and stronger, and there are more and more stars, especially the arrival of Ben Alpha, which even makes Heleni a fan of the Dragons.
Chen Yinuo, who has always loved football very much, also transferred to another school and became a member of the Longteng Football School.
This season, the family of three bought a season ticket for the Longteng team, and the AFC Champions League game was also undefeated, and the AFC Champions League final bought three tickets for 3000 to come to the home stadium to cheer for the Longteng team.
It was also this game that made Chen Erfeng and Heleni, who had been swaying between Chen Yinuo's choice between amateur football and professional football, agreed that Chen Yinuo would officially join the professional youth team of Longteng Club.
Chen Yinuo has a football foundation since he was a child, and his talent is high enough, coupled with his special mixed-race identity, he has always been a man of the year in Longteng Football School, and he is also a player that echelon coaches focus on.
But Chen Erfeng has always been hesitant to let his children become professional players, and after the AFC Champions League final, Chen Erfeng also realized that Longteng Club is a club that can allow young players to show their abilities.
Chen Yinuo completed a crucial step in his transformation into a professional player.
After completing these two calls, Zhang Sheng put his mind at ease about the summoning problem that he had been relieved of, and devoted his energy to the preparation of the Club World Cup.
In the process of preparing for the Dragons, Japan's J-League finals came to an end, and the last team to participate in the Club World Cup was confirmed, and Sanfrecce Hiroshima won the J-League championship with a score of 4-3 after drawing at home with Gamba Osaka, and successfully entered as the host.
Three days later, the Dragons finished their pre-match training camp and flew to Japan to start their Club World Cup journey.
This time, the Longteng team is scheduled to play Mexico America on December 13, if they lose, they will enter the 5th and 6th place qualifying, if they win the opponent, they will face the winner of the other quarter-final on December 17, and once they can beat the opponent in the semi-finals, then the final on December 20 will wait for the Longteng team.
Judging from the schedule, the Longteng team is likely to meet the Cosmos team - Barcelona in the 1/4 finals. Of course, it is not so simple to meet Barcelona, after all, Mexico America, as the champion of the CONCACAF Champions Cup, is not to be underestimated.
As one of the most popular and successful football clubs in Mexico, they have won the Mexican Primera 10 times and the Copa MX five times.
In the CONCACAF Champions Cup, which is at the same level as the Champions League and the AFC Champions League, they have won seven championships and are also the team that has won the most honors.
If you look at the value of the players alone, the value of the Mexican American team is above that of the Dragons, in addition, the value of their players is more balanced, that is to say, in terms of value, the overall strength of their team is stronger.
With no foreign restrictions, the América team has a significant number of non-Mexican players. In addition to the four current Mexican internationals, the team also has three Paraguay internationals, three Argentine foreign players, as well as foreign players from Ecuador, Colombia and the United States.
The team's current number one star is Mexico international centre-forward Peralta, who has never played in the Europa League, but his resume is not thin.
At the 2012 London Olympics, in the final, Peralta, who participated as an overage player, scored two goals to help the Mexican Olympic team defeat the Brazilian Olympic team led by Neymar, Oscar, Thiago Silva and others 2-1, winning the Olympic men's gold medal for the first time in history, and also perpetuating the "curse" that Brazil could not win gold in the Olympic Games.
In other positions, the goalkeeper is Mexico's No. 2 national Muñoz, and three of the four defenders are relatively fixed, they are the main left-back Samudio of the Paraguayan national team, the main right-back of the Mexican national team Paulo Aguilar and the main central defender of the Paraguayan national team Pablo Aguilar, and the other central defender position is generally rotated by the United States foreign player Alvarado, Argentine foreign player Golz and local defender Pimentel.
In the midfield, Mexico international Javier Guermez has only joined this summer, but he is already an absolute defensive iron gate in the midfield, and he is replaced by Colombian international Andres Andrade, another Paraguayan international Osvaldo Martinez, who is the team's attacking engine, and José Daniel Guerrero as a Mexican national team international is Martinez's substitute, but his ability is also very good.
The most dangerous attacking positions for the Americas are on the two flanks.
Argentine winger Sambueza on the left and Colombian foreign player Quintero on the right are both extremely fast and have a strong impact. At the same time, in the substitute position, both Ecuador international Arroyo and teenager Adrian Marin are famous.
In the forward position, Benedetto, who has partnered Peralta, is no less famous than Peralta, at least in terms of recent form, and he is even slightly better than his team-mate.
He also won the Ballon d'Or and Golden Boot in helping the team win the CONCACAF Champions Cup.
Historically, he returned to Argentine giants Boca Juniors the following season, scoring 19 goals and providing three assists in 24 Serie A games for Boca, helping them win the Serie A title. In the summer of 2017, it was a target for European teams such as Roma and Sevilla, but it didn't happen later.
Such a staffing can be said to be slightly above the Dragon Teng team.
But they're not without their pitfalls.
In terms of head coaching, Ambriche, as a local Mexican coach, has not been very good in coaching.
The 50-year-old has been in charge since 2002 and has the best experience as first assistant coach at La Liga powerhouse Atletico Madrid, which he took over after winning the CONCACACAF Champions Cup this year.
This season, he entered the playoffs with the Americas only finishing sixth in the league and was eliminated 3-0 at home in the playoffs.
At the same time, in terms of players, the team's defensive core Gomes will be out for 6 to 8 months due to a tibial fracture, and the team's captain Sambuesa has been rumored to refuse to renew his contract and is about to leave the team.
It can be said that the whole team is not in good shape, there is constant infighting, and morale is very low.