The Longteng team is preparing for the new season to count the players, and the Chinese team is also doing this at this time, but they are embarrassed now because the team is now empty.

There are a lot fewer players in the training camp list of Evergrande and Longteng, so Jiangsu Suning and Shanghai SIPG, the two clubs that entered the AFC Champions League last season, have naturally become the teams with the most players drawn. After the first match with Iceland, the two clubs with the AFC Champions League task began to exert their strength - they recalled most of the selected players on the grounds that they needed to prepare for the AFC Champions League, and the national team was not easy to embarrass the club at this time, after all, the opponent was eliminated from the AFC Champions League qualifying round, and the Football Association really couldn't afford to bear this pot.

The consequence of these players being recalled is that there are now only 18 players in the national team, that is, it is only enough to form a squad, and there is no room for selection - this really corresponds to the joke on the Internet: the Chinese team is trying to pick a few people who can play football to form a national team, and it is really impossible to pick people from those who can't play to form a national team, and there is no choice.

In the case of such untidy players, the Chinese team played unexpectedly well under Lippi's scheduling.

Yan Xiaoyu as the core of the midfield makes all fans shine, he takes the ball in the forward position, organizes, and dispatches vaguely with the shadow of Conca, and the height of 1.72 meters does not look strong, but the confrontation ability is leveraged, this is another Longteng player who is brilliant in the national team.

In the second half, Yan Xiaoyu was strictly guarded by the Croatian team, the Chinese team's attack became difficult, the Croatian team also took advantage of this opportunity to score a goal, the backward Chinese team continued to deploy troops, and got a chance to take a free kick in front of the game before the end of the game, Yan Xiaoyu's free kick was ready to find the club teammate Zou Weijia who was ambushed in the penalty area, and the latter's header equalized the score, which was the first goal scored by the Chinese team in the China Cup, and it was the players of the Longteng team who performed brilliantly.

At the end of the 90-minute game, the Chinese team and Croatia played 1:1, and in the next penalty shootout, Zhou Wei, who was already a Kaisa player, was extremely excited, and he saved two penalties from Croatia in a row, helping the Chinese team defeat Croatia in the penalty shootout and won the third place in the China Cup.

The comments after the game were: former Longteng players and current Longteng players saved the Chinese "second" team.

can see his players perform well in the national team, even if it is only the second team, Zhang Sheng is very happy, after all, he is a player trained by himself, but then Zhang Sheng is not happy, because the two players who performed well were also favored by outsiders.

Compared with the history of their AFC Champions League qualification this season, Shanghai Shenhua ranked fifth in the league last season, and missed the opportunity to participate in the AFC Champions League.

And the transfer period has been criticized so far on the Shenhua side, if Mao Jianqing can still be said to be a veteran homecoming, then what is the next Sun Shilin, Li Peng, and Zhu Jianrong? Especially the latter two, a player who has been relegated from the middle league to the second team, and they are all 25,6, basically no potential to be tapped, and the last introduced Tevez is famous, the problem is that he is 33 years old plus 33-year-old Martins, and then 31-year-old Guarin and Moreno. According to Shenhua fans, it is the Football Association that is engaged in the U23 policy, and we are adjusting to the U35 policy.

In order to appease the resentment of the fans, to have a qualified successor to the risk of the elderly, and to meet the Football Association's U23 policy, it is well worth bringing in Zou Weijia, a young player from 1996.

Zou Weijia played 19 games in the Chinese Super League last season and scored 7 goals, scored 2 goals in 7 games in the AFC Champions League, and also played 5 games in the FA Cup and scored 1 goal.

The trio of the Longteng team, who had previously transferred to Shanghai Shenhua, were obviously very optimistic about this little junior brother, and when the club consulted them about the situation, including Wen Kai, who had a competitive relationship with Zou Weijia, he said a few good words for him, and finally Shenhua made up his mind to start snapping up the future star of the striker.

Unlike Shanghai Shenhua, another Shanghai team, Shanghai SIPG, has their eye on Yan Xiaoyu, a player known as "Little Conca", who once owned Conca and later lost it due to injury, knows how important such a player is to the club.

The arrival of Oscar and Akhmedov has given SIPG good candidates in the forward and back positions, but the new 3+1 policy, coupled with the previous injury of Conca, has made SIPG's memory still fresh, and it is too important to find a reliable high-level rotation player.

Last season, the team in the AFC Champions League, the league, the FA Cup three lines, and the three lines out of the situation made SIPG realize the weakness of their bench, Yan Xiaoyu, who was born in 1996, can replace the role of Akhmedov in the league, in line with the new policy of the Football Association at the same time, to ensure the competitiveness of the team's strength in the Chinese Super League, it is indeed killing three birds with one stone.

Of course, they also know as well as Shanghai Shenhua that such players are not cheap.

Before the Longteng team set off for Hainan winter training, the two Shanghai teams began to make frequent contact with the Longteng club.

The attitude towards these two players, the club and clear, Zou Weijia can go, but Yan Xiaoyu must have a transfer fee that can match his value, especially Zhang Sheng knows that this player's potential value is as high as 83, this is a player who can play the absolute main force in any Chinese Super League team.

On January 14, Zou Weijia's national team goal made Shanghai Shenhua give up bargaining, and the high school striker of the Longteng team transferred to Shanghai Shenhua at a price of 100 million, and after entering Shenhua, Zou Weijia's annual salary of 2.8 million instantly rose to 4 million.

At the same time, after hesitating for a long time, there is also Shanghai SIPG. Yan Xiaoyu's performance in the national team proves that even at the international level, this player is also very competitive, and it is already a great opportunity for the Longteng team to release people, and it can be earned if you can buy it, and it is not only SIPG that is staring at this player, but also Beijing Zhongbo Guoan and Jiangsu Suning, and the other two Tuhao Xia Xingfu and Tianjin Quanjian which lack these stinky money.

On January 15, SIPG won the midfielder tower type player for 150 million yuan, and the Longteng team received a large amount of money, and the player's personal treatment also exploded, from an annual salary of 2.5 million yuan to 6 million, more than doubled.

In addition to the financial improvement of the Longteng Club, the Longteng Group also has a good start in the Shanghai market, in the transaction with Greenland and Shanghai Hong Kong, two large real estate developers in Shanghai, the Longteng Group began to initially explore and they in the Shanghai joint development of real estate, especially with sports, football characteristics of the real estate intentions.

The transfer of players has become a stepping stone to the business cooperation between the two parties.

Two blockbuster transfers in a row, once again in the 2017 Chinese Super League transfer market set off waves, and more fans found a terrifying fact, this time the national team recruited six players of the Longteng team, three of them transferred away, and the three players left from the national team, and went directly to the transfer procedures.

"Yan Xiaoyu, Xiong Jian and Zou Weijia are gone, Zhang Hao, Huang He and Ni Kai have returned to the Longteng team like a desperate escape, if you slow down, you may be served in a pot. This national team training camp is toxic to the Longteng team. ”

"Not bad. The Longteng team has not sold the captain so far, and even the vice captain is not as restrained as in previous years. ”

The dialogue of the fans has made the Longteng team, a famous black store in the Chinese Super League, even darker.

In the discussion of how much the transfer income of the Longteng team can earn, Zhang Sheng put forward the requirements for the end of the team's winter window transfer to the club, and the team now has a good player as a substitute in most positions, which has basically met the requirements of the players for the new season, and the team has officially entered the right track for the new season after more than a week of adjustment.

The winter training of the Longteng team is divided into two stages, from January 5th to January 25th, the Longteng team in China, in Hainan for physical training of the devil, for the new season's third-line combat reserve physical fitness; and then the Spring Festival holiday for five days, the team again gathered and flew to the Portuguese national base for the second phase of training, from January 31 to February 15, the Longteng team will play intensive warm-up games, the opponent will be the Europa League-level team-based, in order to verify the tactics of the new season.

This season, the fitness team of the Longteng team has changed a lot, and local fitness coach Huang Long has begun to separate from the duo of Leutard and Zetel Meisle, and officially lead a small team, responsible for the physical training of the reserve team and some substitutes.

According to the Chinese, Huang Long is considered to be a teacher and a self-reliant man.

The current Longteng coaching staff is very large, unlike many clubs where the head coach leads a coaching team to be responsible for all the team's games and training, the Longteng team is equipped with one or two substitutes for the main force in each coaching position, and there are also an indefinite number of interns to study together.

Even for interns, the requirements of the Dragon Club are very strict.

For example, when Huang Long was still in the internship stage, in addition to studying with two foreign masters, he also had to spare a lot of time to continue his studies.

As soon as he entered the Dragon Club, he picked up the English of the university, plus the German that he had to communicate with the two masters, and the study of the two languages alone squeezed the free time cleanly.

After spending more than half a year and being able to communicate with the two teachers normally, he began to prepare for the CSCS certificate of NSCA.

NSCA is the abbreviation of the American Strength and Conditioning Association, and CSCS is a certificate issued by this association for physical training experts.

The study of this subject requires the purchase of a large number of English materials, and at the same time, although both Chinese and English can be selected, the quality of the English translation is very poor.

In the end, in this exam, which had a pass rate of only 10%, Huang Long successfully got off the horse and got the certificate.

It was with this certificate that the coaching staff agreed to Huang Long to form his own small team after nearly three years of internship.

In Hainan's winter training, the Longteng team also played a few warm-up games, but the main opponents were some Chinese A, Chinese B and even Hainan's local semi-professional teams.

This kind of game is not about winning or losing, as long as the players keep the ball under their feet and don't get cold feet.

After the holiday on January 25th, except for foreign aid, all the players went home for the Spring Festival, which was really a difficult time for them.

Watching their families and relatives feast, the Longteng players who ate boiled chicken breast just wanted to hurry back to the club, after all, the nutritious meals of the club's diet team tasted much better than those made by themselves.

As soon as the Spring Festival passed, all the players of the Longteng team flew directly to Portugal.

The Dragons' first opponent is Sporting Lisbon B. Although Xu Mingyu has transferred to the Rexor club in the Portuguese First Division, the cooperation between the two clubs has been retained, and the scouts sent by Sporting Lisbon have been following the Longteng team to investigate, and they don't know how many times they have paid attention to Nie Jiang and asked for it.

Sporting Lisbon B have a very poor record this season, they are now 20th out of 22 teams and have reached the relegation zone, and the reason for the poor results is that the players of the first reserve team who were supposed to play in the B team have been loaned out to other teams in the Portuguese Super League, and the team is now a number of young players, and they are also young players who have not played before.

The match with Sporting Lisbon B shows that the Dragons have grown greatly in the past year.

Zhang Sheng and the coaching staff are expected to be the main lineup this season is still 3-5-2, the goalkeeper is Huang Dawei, the three central defenders, Liming, Ma Yongli and Lu Zhihui, the midfield is Tao Wentao, Qi Ming and De Paul from right to left, the two wingbacks Ni Kai and Fernando are separated from the left and right, and the front line is still Chavez and Nie Jiang.

It can be seen that the lineup of the Longteng team has not changed much from last season, except for Qi Ming moving from the left to the middle, Fernando is the only newcomer.

Aurelio Pereira came to watch the game as usual, and the 3-5-2 pressing style that he saw as immature last year now seems to be very skillful.

Compared with last year, the players of the Longteng team not only have more than one year of game experience, mainly for the young players of Longteng, the growth of physical fitness in one year is also not to be underestimated, like now on the field, the average age of the Longteng team is 22.4 years old, nearly half a year more than last year.

This average age is arguably the strongest number in the team, and the players have a lot of experience in the game.

Facing Sporting Lisbon B, whose average age is about the same as their own, the Dragons led 2:0 in the first half.

Qi Ming, who came from the left side of the midfield to the middle of the midfield, has already revealed the superior ability of the midfield commander, and Aurelio Pereira, who originally came to watch Nie Jiang's performance on the field, his eyes lit up.

As a professional scout, in his opinion, Qi Ming was far more active than in the first half, and Nie Jiang, who also scored a goal, was precious.

There are not many strikers who can score goals, but it is rare to find a midfielder like Qi Ming who can both attack and defend.