Unlike the Youth Super League, which was only launched in 2017, it is now in its second year.

Thanks to the excellent results of the national teams at all levels, the Football Association has invested more than ever, and the good football atmosphere has led to the explosion of participating teams this year.

Last year, the Football Association organized five regions: North China, South China, Central China, Northeast China, and Western China, because most provinces in East China have their own youth leagues, and they did not include the East China region, which is the best football base, but this year it is all unified.

At the same time, due to the lack of teams, last year's group classification was also unreasonable, only U17, U16, U15, U14 four age groups, now is a comprehensive upgrade, changed to U-13, U-14, U-15, U-17 and U-19 five age groups, the number of participating teams has also increased from 74 last year to more than 240, the total number of matches has also skyrocketed from nearly 500 to nearly 2,000.

Among them, U-13, U-14, U-15, and U-17 are all home and away double round-robin systems in the early stage of the division, and the first two will carry out the home-and-away knockout and summary competition system of the playoff system in the later stage.

As for the U19 group of games, the Football Association is in one step, organized 36 teams, of which the Super League and the Chinese League are required to participate in accordance with the age and number of regulations, in addition, the famous Longteng Football School, Evergrande Football School, Luneng Football School and Greentown Football School are also invited to participate, these 36 teams are divided into A, B two groups, Group A consists of 16 Super League teams and the top two teams in the 2016 China A Elite Echelon League, and the remaining 16 teams form Group B.

The most eye-catching is the adoption of the relegation system, the Football Association plans that the two teams in groups A and B will play national home and away matches in their respective groups, and finally be relegated like the Chinese Super League and the Chinese League, which makes the game particularly competitive.

There are 14 U17 teams in central China, including five branch teams of Longteng Football School, and after six rounds of games, Xu Tangdeng has scored eight goals. Among all these teams, he is the most beautiful boy, and he is even called the hope of Shonan football by Shonan provincial football circles.

After watching the video clip of Xu Tangdeng's game, Zhang Sheng also understood the meaning of the most beautiful boy.

In addition to his very strong ability on the field, his style of playing is indeed very elegant, coupled with the young man's sword eyebrows and starry eyes, he looks like the previous football celebrity Yang Chen, and he is indeed a star.

There are many reasons why the Shonan Star City Football Branch wants to recommend him to the professional team of the Longteng team.

Xu Tangdeng's performance has long attracted the attention of all parties, and several local tyrant clubs in the Chinese Super League have already broken through the threshold of his family.

As a player who entered Longteng Football School in 2014, according to the current rules and regulations of the Chinese Football Association - the youth training fee of the youth players of the Chinese Super League team is 50w/year, and other teams buy him out, at least 150w, plus the professional contract pre-signed with his family at the beginning of the year, if you want to buy him forcibly, the funds paid may be tens of millions.

That's a lot of money for a player who has just turned 16.

Even so, there was still an endless stream of agents from all walks of life who came to lobby his parents, and Coach Zeng Tianchi of the Longteng Star City branch that he had cultivated was also annoyed - everyone knew that he was Xu Tangdeng's mentor, and hoped that he would agree.

In the end, Zeng Tianchi handed over the trouble and simply recommended Xu Tangdeng to the professional first team and let Zhang Sheng deal with this hot potato.

After the first-team coaching staff and Zhang Sheng took over, sure enough, everyone who knew Zhang Sheng's power died down. Even if Zhang Sheng asked him to return to Longteng Star City Branch to continue playing in the Youth Super League, the big guy also knew that this was a player coached by Zhang, and if he forcibly dug this, all the ways in Longteng Football School would be completely cut off.

After dealing with Xu Tangdeng's matter, Zhang Sheng was preparing for the Chinese Super League, and his eyes returned to the World Youth Championships.

Zhang Sheng made a special trip to learn about the opponent of the Chinese national youth team, the United States U20, and he mainly asked about two people: the club's head of administration, Shi Junjie, who returned from Major League Soccer, and the other was Roque Gill, who transferred to New York City at the beginning of the season.

Because the vast majority of the players in the U.S. national youth team play in the major leagues in the United States, the only exception is Joshua Sargent, who is well-known in the outside world.

As a player valued by the old Bundesliga powerhouse Bremen at a very young age, the club spent a lot of effort to poach from Bayern, Schalke 04 and other giants, and he has been focused on training in the club, if it weren't for the fact that the Bundesliga is limited by German law, players under the age of 18 cannot be hired - or illegal, Bremen would have signed a professional contract with him.

In real history, in February 2018, Sargent was just an adult, and Bremen couldn't wait to sign him, and in February 2019, Bremen renewed his contract again, raising the liquidated damages, for fear that the 2000 teenager would be poached.

In fact, Zhang Sheng has always been not very interested in the American "geniuses" blown out by the media, such as Adu, an American player who was known as the next Pele before, and he really responded to the famous saying that it may not be good for an hour.

And the big leagues, which like hype and are keen on commercial operations, always want to apply the NFL (football), MLB (baseball), NBA (basketball), and NHL (ice hockey) models to football, and now it seems that they have not achieved the same achievements as these four sports.

It should be said that it is precisely because of these four sports that all young people with good athletic talent have been attracted to the past, in the United States, boys play football, either Hispanic, or young people who have been eliminated by the four major sports, unless his love for football comes from genes.

Like Brooks Lennon, the so-called Liverpool echelon player in the American U20 team, and Palmer Brown, a Manchester City echelon player, are not small, and their actual ability is just like that. The former left Liverpool at the age of 20 to return to Real Salt Lake City in the major leagues, while the latter has been battling in the relegation team of the Eredivisie.

Of course, in terms of overall strength, the U.S. U20 national youth team is also in line with their national team's status in world football - there is no problem with ranking in the top 30, and the Chinese team has a big gap with it in terms of ranking, but in Zhang Sheng's view, if it is only limited to the level of the national youth team, the Chinese national youth team is really not worse than the American national youth team.

Some people may say that players like Pulisic, who was born in 1998, who can play as the absolute main force in Dortmund, have not come, but to talk about the Golden Boot of the World Junior Championships, the best player Nie Jiang has not yet arrived.

In the group stage, the U.S. national youth team won one win and two draws to qualify undefeated as the first in the group, but the Chinese national youth team also won one win and two draws. It's just that the two draws of the United States are 3:3 and 1:1, China's two 0:0, and the other win, the United States is 1:0, and China is 3:0.

In fact, when it came to the game, the two teams were indeed evenly matched.

The U.S. national youth team has a 4-2-3-1 balanced offensive and defensive formation, while the Chinese national youth team has been sticking to 3-5-2.

As the head coach of the team, Tarb Ramos is very influential in the American youth football community, and in this game, he also tried his best to put the former center Joshua Sargent in the position of the second striker, but Brooks Lennon was at the front, obviously he was very concerned about the defensive ability of the Chinese national youth team.

Before the game, under the domestic media reports about the game, there were many opinions.

Some people extended this game to the THAAD incident related to the previous Sino-Korean war: "I just beat the dog a few days ago, and now I want to beat the dog owner." ”

There are also people who don't know whether it's black or stupid and shout: "The one who loses the game is the sinner." ”

Others are very disgusted that sports and politics are linked: "The little pinks are starting again." ”

Don't force too many irrelevant things into football games, which Zhang Sheng approves, but it is too too young, too simple to think that sports have nothing to do with current affairs and politics.

Sports diplomacy has always had a tradition: from the world-famous "table tennis diplomacy" to the Soviet Union earlier, Bulgaria gave up the championship and fourth place in the 1959 World Basketball Championships and did not go to war with "China's Taibei", from the "Go diplomacy" between China and Japan in the 60s of the last century, to the "basketball diplomacy" of Wang Zhizhi and Yao Ming, from the United Nations specially arranged friendly football matches between Uganda and Kenya after the war, to the "cricket diplomacy" between India and Pakistan.

From 1959 to 2012, the "baseball diplomacy" between the United States and Cuba has always been the focus of attention in the American media.

Tarbes Ramos is not without this consideration, but the head coach of the Chinese national youth team, Madaloni, has been less affected, and the main force in the three games of the group stage has started this game, and the personnel and tactics have not changed.

From the first seconds of the game, both sides played cautiously, and everyone knew that the knockout stage was not a group stage, and there was a chance to make amends.

Zhu Chenjie, Huang Zhengyu and Shen Jun's three central defenders, plus the two wingbacks of Xiang Tiange and Peng Langjun, through this period of running-in, it can be said that it is one of the most solid defenses in the South Korean Club World Cup so far.

If Xiang Tiange has the excellent past experience of being the world junior champion and the third place in the Olympic Games, he was favored by the sports media all over the world before the game. Then Peng Langjun, who was unknown before, is known as the biggest discovery of the Chinese national youth team in this World Youth Championships.

His talent is clearly higher than that of other players, and he is getting better and better in tournaments like this, and with the three games played in the group stage, his ability to go back and forth on the flanks is terrifying, and the attacking threat has turned the pre-match anticipation of the left side into a strong attacking channel for the team.

The stability of the back line has given the team a lot of confidence, and Madaloni, as an Italian coach, knows how to play with a solid defense, and his combination of Jiang Shenglong and Wu Weijia in the midfield has also strengthened the defense to the greatest extent.

As for Lin Liangming on the front line, Zhang Yuning's high and fast has become the standard.

Since the game is being followed, there should be more people watching it accordingly. The actual situation is that the game has been played for nearly 40 minutes, and the ratings of CCTV5+ channel, which broadcasts the World Youth Championships, have plummeted, and the dull and boring game has driven everyone who watched the excitement far away.

"Hypnotists aren't as good as you. ”

"I'm so sleepy. ”

"When I woke up, the ball was still in the midfield, and someone had stolen it half an hour earlier. ”

"The garbage game, inheriting the tradition of the predecessors, can make a pass error highlights plus a walking competition, Chinese football is hopeless. ”

The fans who still insist on watching are complaining or complaining.

When everyone thought that the first half would end like the first 40 minutes, the Chinese national youth team suddenly made a force on the right side.

In the 41st minute of the first half, Xiang Tiange suddenly attacked Danilo Acosta, the left-back of the United States national youth team.

After a series of shaking, Xiang Tiange chose to pass the ball through the gear, Danilo Acosta was obviously unprepared, and the player who couldn't even play as a substitute in Real Salt Lake City in the major leagues had a big problem with defensive concentration.

It is worth mentioning that the details of Danilo Acosta came from Shi Junjie, Zhang Sheng specially relayed it to Madaloni, and Xiang Tiange, who was in the position of him, also received a reminder.

After completely passing Danilo Acosta, Xiang Tiange entered the penalty area, chose an inverted triangle return pass, and after Lin Liangming and Zhang Yuning attracted most of the defensive attention, Zeng Prosperity was disappointed, and his welcome shot broke the deadlock on the field.

The Chinese national youth team led 1:0.

"There was thunder on the ground. Liu Jiayuan, the CCTV commentator in charge of commenting the game, shouted excitedly, "This ball has contributed at least half to Tiange." Zeng Prosperity will be stable as long as he runs in place. ”

The head coach of the U.S. national team, Tub Ramos, was very upset, and he was misled by the media before the game.

The Chinese national youth team is not a strong team, this is the consensus of the outside media on the tour of the teams before the game, one of the five major leagues did not, and the most eye-catching Nie Jiang did not participate, in the eyes of everyone, this is a typical fish belly team.

Underestimating the enemy was the first mistake Tarbes Ramos made.

After the group stage, after the Chinese national youth team qualified for two games 0:0 and one 3:0, the media that found a point of non-hype aimed at Peng Langjun, who sent a pass and a shot in the last game, and rendered him the most threatening player of the Chinese national youth team.

But in fact, with an ability value of 82, Xiang Tiange, who has reached his peak, is the strongest one in the Chinese national youth team.

Once you let your guard down against him, his threat at this level of the World Junior Championships is palpable, and that's the second mistake Tarb Ramos makes.

After 1:0, the game was easy to play, and the U.S. national youth team, which played at a slow pace for more than 40 minutes, wanted to raise the rhythm all of a sudden, obviously because it was not enough, and the Chinese national youth team that insisted on playing defensive counterattacks was happy.

After another counter-attack from Xiang Tiange caused Danilo Acosta to receive a yellow card, Tarbeo Ramos calmed down.

It is already unrealistic to rely on the last two or three minutes of the first half to equalize, and stabilizing the mentality of the players, not conceding again, and waiting for the second half to plan is the most important thing for Tarb Ramos to do.

Experienced, he chose to be steady.

The Chinese national youth team relied on a surprise attack to take a one-goal lead into the break.