When the Chinese Super League is suspended and the national teams are playing, there is another event that is in full swing, that is, the National Youth Football League, which began trial operation this season.

With the strong support of local governments, the six regions of East China, North China, South China, Central China, Northeast China and West China not only have funds and personnel from the Chinese Football Association, but also the provinces where these regions are located have also allocated corresponding resources.

The first stage of the National Youth League is the Weekend League.

Under the planning of the Chinese Football Association, each region has been divided into many communities, and the bullet trains and high-speed rail lines that the country is now vigorously developing have become the best transportation carriers, allowing young players to reach the competition venue within one to two hours.

It's not just the football associations at all levels that pay attention to the weekend league, but now people of insight in domestic football will basically turn their attention to it, including media people such as Dong Lu and Huang Jianxiang, who have been paying attention to domestic youth football.

For example, Huang Jianxiang saw that there was a team of young players who played very well, but I heard that they usually eat ordinary food in their diet, and he also transferred 5,000 yuan to the team, so that the team could buy more beef for the young players to eat (this is a true thing, Huang Jianxiang will not say anything else, but he really loves Chinese football).

As for people like Dong Lu, he directly sponsored a team and spent a lot of money.

In addition to individuals such as Dong Lu and Huang Jianxiang, many domestic clubs have also sent people to track them, and their goal is very clear - to discover potential young players through long-term tracking.

Among them, the Dragon Club has done the most in-depth.

Now the Longteng football under the Longteng Club has been spread very widely, in addition to the base camp of Hubei Province, which is popularized to every region and even some counties with a good foundation, several provinces around Hubei Province have a lot of branches as early as two or three years ago, plus a few provinces under the sponsorship of Longteng Group, and Longteng Club signed a youth football training base, which allows Longteng Club to participate in the youth league as a participant.

This process is not about how many championships the Longteng team can win, but more about allowing the teams that have cooperated with the Longteng Football School to have more games to play and strengthen the connection with other teams.

For example, when the Longteng Football School team in Jiangjiang Province participated in the competition this time, I noticed a small football school in Ji'an City, Jiangjiang Province, although their scale was not large, but the two coaches who led the team were calm and calm.

Judging from the equipment of this football school, it is really a bit shabby, the shoes of the young players are obviously old, other teams drink water in the game, and the water bottles are basically thrown away after a few sips, but they are drunk a few sips, and then they have to be put in place, and other teams are hydrating with various functional drinks, they are the most ordinary mineral water.

After the game, the staff of Longteng Football School investigated the team and found that they came from a county in the old revolutionary area, where the economy is indeed underdeveloped, but there are not many young people who like football.

The two head coaches had previously worked in a club in the coastal zone, and when they came back to their hometown by chance, they saw their football coach, a 60-year-old man struggling to take these young fellows to play football.

This unwanted team, with no money, no professional facilities and personnel, and not enough contacts to help, the old people are completely relying on enthusiasm to take care of these children, and can only take money from their meager pensions to subsidize them.

Seeing this situation, the two coaches were moved, they worked in clubs in coastal areas, thanks to the hot blessing of football in recent years, their salary package is really good, but this pure love for football has not been felt for a long time.

The two of them decisively resigned from their coastal jobs and resolutely returned to their hometowns and the starting point of their love for football.

Relying on the contacts accumulated in the past few years of wandering outside, they bought back a lot of second-hand training equipment, brought back a lot of materials, and used the accumulated funds to get a stable training ground for the young players.

But there is always a time when the network is consumed, and the money is used up, and now this team still exists, completely because they are still gritting their teeth and persevering.

After learning about these situations, the staff reported the situation all the way to the headquarters of Longteng Football School.

At this time, Zhang Sheng had just used the 200 points obtained in the game during this period of time to summon two coaches, judging from the information displayed in the summoning data, it was these two coaches.

Under Zhang Sheng's explanation, Longteng Football School contacted them as quickly as possible, and a large number of brand-new jerseys and shoes, as well as leading high-tech training equipment in China, were brought over.

After discussing with these two coaches, this small football school also hung up the sign of Longteng Football School.

When the contract was signed, two men who were almost forty years old shed tears of excitement.

In addition to the improvement of hardware conditions, Longteng Football School sent something more valuable - training manuals.

As early as when he first entered the Chinese Super League, Longteng Club began to compile its own youth training manual, and Heiko Fogel, the youth director of Longteng Football School, invested great energy to start this work in the present and benefit the future.

According to the plan discussed by Heiko Fogel and Zhang Sheng, the youth training manual of Longteng Football School is written and perfected, and after two years of painstaking design and practice, the official version has been trialled in Longteng Football School for more than a year.

In the past two years, Haike Fogel has not only traveled all over China's great rivers and all the places where there are Longteng Football Schools, but also traveled to Europe and South America many times to investigate and investigate, and completed this work according to the situation of different regions and local conditions.

From the financial point of view of the club, you can see the huge investment of the Dragon Club - the work cost nearly three million dollars.

After the textbook was compiled, the highest institution of Chinese youth football - the National School Football Office and the Chinese Football Association made a special trip to communicate with the Longteng Club, and they are writing a lot of youth training materials for Chinese football teenagers to draw on the resources of the Longteng Football School, and sent an invitation to the Longteng Football School to let Heiko Fogel participate in this national project as an expert.

Textbooks that were supposed to have been completed in 2017 were also released ahead of schedule.

Now at least within the scope of campus football, this textbook has been widely used, and there are many provincial and municipal football echelons and even some football clubs using this textbook.

In fact, it is not only Longteng Club that supports or even merges these football schools, many Chinese Super League clubs have also begun to extend their tentacles beyond the city where the team is located, and this time the National Youth Football League has become a good carrier.

For example, Suning, which is ready to exert its strength in football, has successively built branch schools in Yancheng, Nantong and other places.

Of course, compared with the slow way of developing football schools, more clubs choose to poach people directly.

The most fiercely dug is the Longteng Club with the most football schools, which is the same as what happened to the Luneng Football School in history.

The club was established early, and its Luneng Football School is also the earliest group of football schools established by the club in China (later became an independent legal person).

Therefore, when the national youth training collapsed a few years ago, Luneng Football School, which has been insisting on investment, has cultivated a large number of small and powerful players, including Wei Shihao, Tang Shi and other young players who later shined, and there are more than 40 players who can play the main role in the Chinese Super League and the Chinese League.

Players who can play in the Chinese Super League and the Chinese League are very valuable in the current Chinese football world, which generally lacks good players, and they have naturally become big players who have been poached.

The only difference from history now is that in addition to Shandong Luneng Football School, many people have also set their sights on the young players of Longteng Football School who are participating in the National Youth League.

After years of development, Longteng Football School has become more and more on the right track, and has long gotten rid of the embarrassing situation of relying entirely on Zhang Sheng to summon players to play with a group of players with mediocre qualifications.

There is a huge excellent youth training team, ultra-high investment training conditions, as well as very advanced youth training teaching, coupled with a good management level, with the scale of Longteng Football School has become larger, although the proportion of players called by Longteng Football School is getting smaller and smaller, but the small players generally have a firmer foundation and higher technical and tactical awareness.

In this national youth league, Longteng Football School and Shandong Luneng Football School played the best. Luneng's strength lies in the prominence of some players, and the most important thing about the Longteng team is reflected in the team as a whole, the players generally have good basic skills, especially in the running position, unlike other domestic players who like to stand and play, as long as they are in the game, the players are always running on the field.

Since the start of the league, whenever the Longteng team has a game, there are a lot of onlookers, and it can be said that basically every local tyrant in the Chinese Super League and the Chinese League will send scouts to follow.

Among them, several players called up by Zhang Sheng at the end of last season and this season have received great attention, and they can be said to belong to the group that stands out from the crowd in the Longteng team with the highest overall level.

For these players, some Chinese Super League clubs have given millions of dollars in cash to their players' families.

And when it comes to poaching people, it can only be said that Huaxia happiness is the fiercest.

As a rising star of the Chinese Super League, they have established a nine-level echelon in one go, and the youth training of their predecessor Hebei Zhongji can be said to be a mess, so that the team is full of players who have been eliminated from Hubei Province, because they have not cultivated any good players at all.

In such a situation, a ninth-level echelon was also built, and they didn't have much to do except dig people.

The wanton digging of people in youth training led to Huaxia Happiness having the nickname of excavator youth training.

Historically, they first set their sights on Liao Ning, who has always been the most talented player in Chinese football, and poached the two coaches of Liao Ning Hongyun U15 and the 12 young players they brought at one time, but in the end, Liaoning Hongyun sued the Chinese Football Association, and Huaxia Happiness was forced to release him.

If they didn't succeed, they had another plan, and Hubei Province, which had good youth training results in recent years, was targeted.

Digging Yang Ji, Zheng Bin and other Jiangcheng youth training coaches is the first step, and then relying on the relationship between these coaches, the Jiangcheng youth training echelon will be dug up as a team, from U12 to U18, and no one will be spared.

After digging Jiangcheng, they began to cast a net across the country, where there are outstanding players, they will go, Gong Qiule and Chen Biao in Sichuan, Li Yiying in Guangdong, and even core youth players such as Tao Qianglong in Beijing Zhonghe Guoan were also poached away by them, and those who dared to do it in Beijing Guoan really had "confidence".

Thinking of the "Thousand Talents Plan" of Huaxia Fortune Group, the group behind China Fortune Group - the Thousand Talents Poaching Plan - and the transfer of cadres at the government, government and department levels, it can be said that the genes of poaching people have long been integrated into their corporate culture.

Fortunately, now the Longteng Club has long been famous for the cultivation of young players, and Zhang Sheng is also willing to give young players the opportunity to participate, several summoned players are valued by Zhang Sheng, and they don't want to leave casually, their attempt to poach people failed, and only a few non-summoned players were poached.

On top of that, the young players who have been loaned out by Dragon FC this season have performed just as well as their predecessors, and this group of players, who are generally under the age of 20, have also been tempted by countless temptations.

Some clubs offer five or six times their annual salary to attract them, but they have already played football, and they basically reject these pure financial temptations.

In the face of increasingly turbulent mergers and acquisitions of football schools, youth football poached people, and even forced the Football Association to start thinking about how to regulate the transfer of young people.

It is said that the Chinese Football Association is already considering raising the transfer compensation standard for youth players again, planning to set the youth players in the Chinese Super League at 500,000 / year, the first class is 250,000 / year, and the second or 12-15 years old is 100,000 / year.

More clubs are starting to learn from Longteng and loan young players they feel have a promising future to play in the first and second divisions, rather than spending time in the reserve league.

This can also be regarded as the exemplary role of the Longteng team, which has prompted domestic clubs to change the way of training and using young players.

At the same time as standardizing the transfer of young players, the Chinese Football Association has also begun to put the mandatory appearance of U23 players on the agenda, but in view of the fact that several national echelons of Chinese football have performed well in recent years, although there is such a voice, it is not big, and the proposal is not very radical - at least one U23 player must enter the 18-man game squad and must start, otherwise the team's game registration will be punished by two.

What Zhang Sheng didn't know was that in real history, the Chinese Football Association's policy towards U23 was extremely aggressive, in addition to the U23 must start, it also required the U23 to play the same number of times as the foreign aid in the game.

This is clearly suspected of overkill.