After the end of the FA Cup, the Longteng Club and the Football Association also reached a consensus in the first stage, that is, the team can let most of the players of the national youth team participate in the Four Nations Invitational Tournament from September 6 to September 11, but they can only report after the Longteng team plays the away game against all Hyundai on August 26, and by September 16, these players will return to participate in the second leg of the AFC Champions League match between Longteng and Hyundai.

Moreover, Zhang Sheng also emphasized very definitely that Huang Dawei could not participate in this preliminary training camp, and he could only participate in the preliminary round of the Asian U19 Youth Championship on September 28.

For Zhang Sheng's request, the Football Association finally pinched its nose and agreed, after all, the club has its own demands, and it is impossible to lose all the results and serve the national team specifically.

At the same time, the Football Association is also afraid that the Longteng team will learn from the previous Shandong Luneng, and when it comes to the game, it will be really embarrassing to recruit all the players back under the pretext that the team players are nervous and no one participates in the game.

However, the next recruitment of players for the national Olympic team is very tough, and the Football Association is very tough.

China's unique Olympic plot, coupled with the Football Association's history of gambling on the Olympics, they will not let go of such an event that can win political achievements.

In the two warm-up matches against Bahrain on August 30 and September 4, one before the end of the AFC Champions League match in Jeonbuk Hyundai, the players of the Longteng team's age-appropriate national Olympic team can not participate, but none of the second warm-up matches can be missing.

The next national team solicitation order is completely non-negotiable, and the players cannot be missing for the two matches against Hong Kong and Maldives in China.

However, Zhang Sheng has no objection to the last one, after all, these two games are the world preliminaries, Zhang Sheng does not want to see the Chinese team play ugly like in history, and finally rely on the help of countless outsiders, the media and fans calculate various formulas like mathematicians, and go through various heartbeats to qualify from such a difficult game as the top 40.

In the frequent correspondence with the Football Association, the Longteng team ushered in the 24th round of the Chinese Super League.

Before the game, Zhang Sheng mobilized the players: "Everyone knows. Next, the matches of the national teams at all levels will begin, and the AFC Champions League will also come together. So it was imperative to lock in our title in the Super League as soon as possible. I don't want to go into the last few games and people complain about the distractions of the games. So this fight, I need an undisputed victory. ”

The opponent of the Longteng team in this game is Jiangsu Shuntian, and the team is fighting at home, so such a request can be said to be understandable.

Coupled with the fact that the team is now 14 points ahead of second-place Guangzhou Evergrande, and there are only seven rounds left in the league, it can be said that the league championship trophy is in front of everyone's eyes, which is still very attractive to the players in the team who have never touched the title of Chinese Super League champion.

Although Pato and Tao Wentao were unable to play due to the accumulation of yellow cards, the other players showed their ability.

In the 10th minute of the first half, Nie Jiang assisted Ben Alpha to open the scoring.

In the next 35th minute, substitute Pato Yu Bo was tripped by an opponent in the penalty area, and the Longteng team won a penalty, Ben Alfa scored a brace to extend the score to 2:0.

In the second half, Ben Alpha assisted Wei Zhimin to lead the score to 3:0, and the game was completely meaningless.

Although the Longteng team's control weakened after changing three young players in a row, Jiangsu Shuntian pulled a goal back by foreign aid Escudero, but this goal is nothing more than to save a little face.

In the end, Longteng sealed the victory with a score of 3:1, 14 points ahead of second-place Guangzhou Evergrande with six rounds left in the league, and was only a stone's throw away from the league championship trophy.

However, at this time, Zhang Sheng no longer thinks about the league, because the AFC Champions League has arrived, and Zhang Sheng took the team to South Korea to challenge Jeonbuk Hyundai, the traditional powerhouse of the K League, after playing the league.

In the Chinese Super League, fans are very familiar with the green jersey of Bei Jing Guoan, but at the Asian level, there is a more famous and influential green team than Beijing Jing Guoan, and that is Jeonbuk Hyundai.

Because they are located in Jeollabuk-do, South Korea, which is represented by green, the main color of the club is green, and their fans affectionately call them Green Warriors.

The reason why they have a big influence in Asia is that in recent years, Jeonbuk Hyundai has not only been a strong contender for the title position in the K-League, but they also have a very illustrious history in the AFC Champions League.

In the years since the establishment of the AFC Champions League, Jeonbuk Hyundai has rarely been eliminated in the group stage except for the 2012 season when it was in a group with Guangzhou Evergrande, and it is common to enter the quarterfinals and semi-finals.

They also won the AFC Champions League in 2006, the first East Asian team to win the AFC Champions League since its inception in 2003.

In 2011, they lost to their opponents and finished runners-up in the AFC Champions League. In fact, in the year that Zhang Sheng crossed, Jeonbuk Hyundai won the AFC Champions League again, and swept the Chinese Super League upstart Shanghai SIPG 5:0 in the knockout round.

Of course, the Chinese Super League team that was eliminated by Jeonbuk Hyundai was not just Shanghai SIPG. In the history of the AFC Champions League, in addition to Evergrande and Jeonbuk Hyundai in the same group for 3 consecutive years, including Dalian Shide, Shanghai Shenhua, Changchun Yatai, Tianjin TEDA, Shandong Luneng, Beijing Guoan, and Jiangsu Shuntian eight teams (10 times), whether it is in the group stage or the knockout stage against Jeonbuk, no team can pass the Jeonbuk pass.

Therefore, Jeonbuk Hyundai is the real sufferer of the Chinese Super League team.

The fact that this team has been able to maintain such a consistent performance over the past decade or so is closely related to a lot of their club's approach.

Because the club has the support of a comprehensive consortium such as Hyundai Motor behind it, Jeonbuk Hyundai has always been very stable.

The investment is stable, the coach is stable, and the club's development ideas are also stable.

As early as last ten years ago, when the K-League investment was at its highest, their annual investment exceeded 100 million yuan, and the Chinese Super League teams that were all eliminated by modern times at that time were still very envious of them.

Zhang Sheng also remembered that when Shanghai Shenhua was eliminated by Jeonbuk Hyundai, the Shenhua Club, which invested 80 million people in the season, was very unconvinced and said: "We still need to surpass our opponents in terms of investment in order to have the ability to compete with the Korean team." ”

But now there are many clubs in the Chinese Super League that have invested more than 500 million yuan, and they are still often beaten, which can show that it is not just a matter of money.

For example, Jeonbuk Hyundai spent about 12 billion won (about 70 million won) this season, which is nearly 50% smaller than in its heyday, but they still eliminated Buk-Kyung Guoan in the 1/8 finals.

According to Zhang Sheng's understanding, that is, their output input ratio is far higher than that of the Chinese Super League team.

The first is that the K League is different from the Chinese Super League.

In the K League, there is no shortage of good players, so the transfer value and wages of players are very low, on the contrary, all teams in the Chinese Super League are short of good players, and most of the club's investment funds are consumed on the high salaries that have been paid to players in the transfer of players.

The second is the proportion of investment funds.

Jeonbuk Hyundai, which has already passed the need to rely on strong foreign aid to achieve results, now allocates a large part of its investment to youth training.

For example, in Jeonbuk Hyundai's pre-season planning book this season, the expenditure on youth training is 2 billion won (equivalent to about 12 million yuan), that is, 20% of their club's annual funds are used for youth training.

In fact, Jeonbuk Hyundai's annual capital investment allocation is like this, such investment is a norm for Korean clubs, in the Chinese Super League, only Luneng and Greentown a few clubs can insist on long-term investment in youth training.

Of course, bug teams like the Dragons are the exception.

Of course, the way they allocate funds is also related to the requirements of the Korean Football Association.

Starting from the 2014 season, the Korea Football Challenge League (equivalent to the Central League) stipulates that "each team must have 18 players in each game, including 2 U22 players, and 1 player must play in each game".

In the 2015 season, the classic league (equivalent to the Chinese Super League) also fully implemented the rule that "each team must have 2 U23 players in 18 players per game, and 1 person must play in each game".

This mandatory requirement is very similar to the 2017 season of the Chinese Super League.

Therefore, a team like Jeonbuk Hyundai, stable investment, and stable development ideas have allowed them to enter a virtuous circle.

Of course, Jeonbuk Hyundai also has the most stable place is the head coach, as the traditional giants of the K League, they have not changed the head coach for more than ten years (except for the period when the head coach was transferred to the Korean national team as the head coach).

As a native of Jeonju, Jeon Jae-hyun head coach Choi Kang-hee has been an iconic figure of Jeonbuk Hyundai Club over the years.

He has been coaching Jeonbuk Hyundai since 2005 and has deeply integrated his personality and characteristics into this team.

In his second year in charge, he led the team to the AFC Champions League title, and was named the best manager of 2006 by the AFC, and in 2016, he won the honorary title again.

I don't know how many Chinese Super League club managers have played against Cui Kangxi, but Cui Kangxi will always be in the same posture of directing the game - standing on the sidelines hunched, with shiny hair, and always with a poker face.

However, most of the opponents' head coaches were disgraced, and only Choi Kang-hee still stood on the sidelines of the AFC Champions League as a winner.

Therefore, when Korean fans affectionately call Choi Kangxi "Fengdong Village Chief", Chinese fans who are familiar with Jeonbuk Modern call him "Kangxi the Great" with respect, indeed, his long-term reign is similar to the Kangxi Emperor in Chinese history.

At the beginning of this season, Jeonbuk Hyundai, led by Choi Kang-hee, has already revealed the championship of the league.

They topped the table with nine wins and one draw in 10 games at the start of the season, but later due to the AFC Champions League and the Korean FA Cup (the equivalent of the Chinese FA Cup), their form has slipped in the third line, such as in the round of league games before the game against Yongteng, they lost 0-1 at home to Incheon United, and even so, they are still five points ahead of second-placed Suwon Samsung, and they have indeed won the K-League title by eight points ahead of second-place in history.

However, their recent decline in results is also related to the sudden shortage of manpower in their forward line. The team's absolute main center Edu was poached by Hebei Huaxia Happiness, and another powerful foreign aid Eninho also suddenly terminated the contract and left, which greatly reduced the team's strength on the front line At the same time, Cui Kangxi's Edu-Li Tongguo's double-forward system was disrupted, and the pre-season tactical framework was completely overthrown.

Edu has scored 11 goals and three assists in 20 appearances in this year's K-League, and he has about one-third of Jeonbuk Hyundai's 34 goals in all offensive firepower.

Even Li Gang, who went to Hebei Huaxia Happiness, said jokingly when Zhang Sheng chatted: "Brother, I can only help you get here." ”

At the pre-match press conference, when asked this question by a South Korean reporter, Choi Kang-hee also looked very helpless: "It's really a bit too sudden, but our goal is still to win the championship." ”

However, when the Chinese reporter asked a question, he seemed very perfunctory, and just dealt with it hastily, which is actually related to the death of the Chinese reporter himself.

During the AFC Champions League last year, Cui Kangxi led the team to Guangzhou to challenge Guangzhou Evergrande away. At the pre-match press conference, an S.B Chinese reporter challenged Choi Kang-hee, who wanted to make a big news, asked: "You reused local players during your time in charge of the national team, including as many as 5 players from the Jeonbuk team, but did not achieve a decent record, on the contrary, the current coach of the South Korean team, Hong Myung-bo, boldly used returnee players and achieved good results in the game with the Greek team, what do you think about this?"

Choi Kang-hee was a little unhappy with this obviously provocative question, he said: "You should go directly to Coach Hong Myung-fu for this question, many returnees who have performed well in Europe have grown up in South Korea's K-League, including Kim Nam-il, Lee Tong-guk and other experienced players will play an important role in the game against Guangzhou Evergrande." ”

And at the press conference, Cui Kangxi was very angry at the SB reporter's deliberate provocation, and he scolded back on the spot: "It is indeed unforgivable to repeatedly hurt people on such a formal occasion, it is not once or twice that you Chinese reporters have asked such vulgar questions, and the hurtful questions have intensified, which is indeed too much." ”

Later, the South Korean media also thought that the Chinese reporter was seriously rude when asking questions to Choi Kang-hee, and deliberately provoked the coach of the visiting team with questions unrelated to the AFC Champions League.