51. Inquiries from abroad

After taking the lead, the national youth team played better in the next game, and the national youth team used Qin Minghao, Xu Mingyu, Lin Feng, Gao Jun, and Liu Xing in the midfield to start a long-term possession of the ball. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 The Colombian team, which is one goal behind, is playing more impatiently, and even their midfield core Juan Quinteros has begun to use his personal ability to break through the defense of the national youth team, but the joint defense of several players of the Longteng team has been cooperating for more than 2 years, Juan Quinteros often passes a person, the ball is broken, and the Colombian team that relies on him too much has completely lost its power in the attack.

In the second half, the Longteng team used Juan Quinteros's overly sticky ball to break the ball again and played a successful counterattack, and Xu Mingyu scored another goal with a long shot in front of the penalty area, locking the score at 2:0.

Seeing the national youth team defeat the opponent 2:0, Zhang Sheng also waved his fist happily in front of the TV.

After the match, the outside media also called this match the biggest upset of the first round. One of them, Xu Mingyu, who passed and shot, also received a lot of attention. And like Zhang Sheng, he is also concerned about the national youth team, as well as Porto's chief scout Aurelio Pereira. Xu Mingyu's performance also made him more determined to introduce this player.

With both the Longteng team and the national youth team winning the double victory of the game, Zhang Gao happily returned to Jiangcheng with the players of the Longteng team.

On the second day back in Jiangcheng, Longteng Club received an inquiry from Sporting Lisbon. This is also the first time that the Longteng team has received an inquiry from a foreign team for their players, and it is also a well-known club in Europe.

In the face of this inquiry, Zhang Sheng was also a little undecided. Whether to let Xu Mingyu go or not, Zhang Sheng is also very entangled.

Now Xu Mingyu is only 18 years old, he is in the stage of high-speed ball, if he stays in the Longteng team, Xu Mingyu will be able to represent the Longteng team in the second half of the season. Then Zhang Sheng will definitely arrange a lot of games for Xu Mingyu to play, which is very helpful to Xu Mingyu's progress.

And if Xu Mingyu arrives at Sporting Lisbon, first of all, with his current ability, he will definitely not be able to play in the first team, then his chances to play will be very few. This is very detrimental to Xu Mingyu's development.

But he also has his advantages in going to Sporting Lisbon, first of all, the training level of Sporting Lisbon is much higher than that of China, even if Zhang Sheng has introduced very powerful coaches in both the first team and the football school, but the high-level training is not only the coach, some ubiquitous small details are not yet experienced by the Longteng team.

Secondly, Xu Mingyu arrived in Europe a day earlier, and was able to get in touch with the European football environment a day earlier, even if he couldn't play many games at Sporting Lisbon, he could also have a good relationship with those European players earlier, and he could officially understand what it was to play abroad, especially since he had an unhappy past in Portugal before.

But whether to go abroad or not is not only for the club to consider, but also for the opinions of the players and the parents of the players. In order not to affect Xu Mingyu's competition in the World Youth Championships for the time being, Zhang Sheng chose not to tell him first, but contacted Xu Mingyu's father, Xu Angran, first.

Xu Angran was also hesitant about this invitation, because Xu Mingyu's previous two-year training trip to Portugal made him feel uneasy. In those two years, Xu Mingyu was still a child who couldn't speak Portugal at all, even though he worked very hard to integrate into the team abroad, but the inherent cognition and contempt of foreign players for Chinese players made him very unhappy. That study abroad experience almost made Xu Mingyu give up his football career.

Zhang Sheng also carefully analyzed the advantages and disadvantages of Remain and not to Remain in Europe for Xu Angran. In the end, Xu Angran still didn't make a decision, and his opinion was to wait until Xu Mingyu returned from Turkey after playing the World Youth Championships to see Xu Mingyu's own attitude. Zhang Sheng also had to agree with him.

The day before Zhang Sheng was about to take the team to the next league game, the national youth team ushered in their second World Youth Championship game. The opponent is El Salvador, who are considered to be the weakest of the entire 24 teams.

El Salvador will compete at the World Junior Championship for the first time by finishing third in the 2013 Under-20 Copa Nations. However, El Salvador's U20 squad is so weak that it even needs to call up several American college league players to make up the numbers. Even the so-called European-based players, including Brondby (Danish Premier League team) striker Oviranger, Zurich defender Baum Gartner and Lyon defender Oliva Ayala, only play in the youth team of their respective teams, and their combat effectiveness is quite limited, and they cannot contribute much to the team.

In fact, El Salvador lost 0-3 to Mexico U20 in the group stage of the U20 CONCACAF Nations Cup, and suffered another 0-2 defeat in the top 4, reflecting that the strength of El Salvador's U20 is a certain distance from other opponents, coupled with the general lack of experience in the team, stage fright seems to be inevitable, so basically the media do not see them qualify from the group stage.

In the face of such an opponent whose strength is far inferior to that of the Chinese national youth team, Rick Link's all-attack and all-defense tactics can be regarded as useful.

After the opening, the national youth team used the usual pressing style of play of the Longteng team to press the Salvadoran team in their backfield. Several players in the midfield used their technical advantages to set off an attacking frenzy.

In the 23rd minute of the first half, the national youth team used the passing and cooperation between Qin Minghao and Xu Mingyu to completely penetrate the opponent's defense, and finally Xu Mingyu passed, Qin Minghao broke the deadlock on the field with a light shot.

In the 44th minute, the national youth team won the sixth corner kick of the first half, and Li Yun, who came up to participate in the offensive corner, used his header to expand the score to 2:0.

After the goal, Li Yun and the players of the Longteng team came to the sidelines, reproducing the classic Bebeto's cradle celebration, Liu Jianhong, who was in charge of commenting the game, also smiled: "After nearly half a year of recovery from a serious injury, Li Yun's performance is becoming more and more mature, not only can command the team's defense in the backfield, but also can play his header ability in the frontcourt attack, it should be said that the Chinese team has an excellent talent reserve for the position of the central defender in the future." His celebration should be to celebrate the upcoming birth of his club's mentor Coach Zhang Sheng. ā€

Tao Wei, the commentator of the partner, also said: "Li Yun should indeed thank Coach Zhang Sheng, he is a player that Coach Zhang personally brought back from Europe, and it was Coach Zhang who changed him from the position of striker to central defender, which is too important for Li Yun's growth." Hey, Jianhong, have you noticed that the two strongest players in the Longteng team are brought back from abroad by Coach Zhang, and Qin Minghao is also brought back from Brazil. ā€

Liu Jianhong also said: "Yes. Even Xu Mingyu came back from studying in Portugal for two years, and it seems that Coach Zhang and these young Chinese players abroad are very fateful. We also look forward to Coach Zhang digging out more good young players. ā€

In their commentary, the national youth team ended the first half of the game.

In the second half, the national youth team's passing and control cooperation was more comfortable because of the opponent's physical decline, and in the 17th minute, it was Xu Mingyu who used his foot skills to cause a foul by the opposing player, and the national youth team got a very good position in the front of the free kick opportunity.

Liu Jianhong said: "The position of this free kick is very good, and now in the national youth team, whether it is Qin Minghao or Xu Mingyu, or even Lin Feng has a good free kick kung fu, see who will take the penalty for this ball." ā€

Standing in front of the ball on the field are Qin Minghao and Xu Mingyu, after Qin Minghao ran over the ball with a false dangling, Xu Mingyu took a free kick with his left foot, the ball went directly around the human wall of El Salvador, there was an obvious drop in front of the goal and then drilled into the net, and the national youth team led with a score of 3:0.

Liu Jianhong also applauded the goal: "The ball went in, it went in, it went in, Xu Mingyu passed and shot in the last game, and this game was another pass and a shot." The 18-year-old has come into full bloom and his talent has been on full display against opponents who are generally two years his senior. We also look forward to a bright future for him. ā€

Aurelio Pereira was not the only scout watching the national youth team play from the sidelines this time. The excellent performance of the national youth team in the last game made many scouts of European clubs set their sights on the Chinese national youth team, and the scouts watching the game from the sidelines were all over the clubs of most of Europe's mainstream leagues. Xu Mingyu's highlight performance has caused many scouts to draw heavily on their notepads or electronic devices.

Seeing Xu Mingyu's performance, Aurelio Pereira was also a little worried, he saw scouts from at least 5 or 6 clubs on the field, which he still knew, and there should be more who didn't know. Although he has already sent a request for a quote to the Longteng team one step ahead, who knows if other teams will do the same. It seems that he should step up his contact with the Longteng team, after all, he has the advantage of being a first-mover and knows the coach of the Chinese national youth team.

After taking a 3-0 lead, Rick Link was also completely relieved, and when there were more than 20 minutes left in the game, he replaced Xu Mingyu to let him rest well and prepare for the next hard battle. Then he replaced Li Yun again, after all, Li Yun has only been recovering from the injury for more than a month, and as his most trusted defensive core, it is good to rest more.

After Xu Mingyu and Li Yun went off the field, the control ability of the national youth team dropped very much, mainly because the gap between the two substitute players and their strength was too big, and they were not used to the rhythm of the game of those Longteng players on the field. In the 83rd minute, El Salvador pulled a goal back through their striker Ovilange.

Rick Link also replaced Qin Minghao with a midfielder and began to strengthen the defense of the national youth team, but this substitution made the national youth team more passive, and in the last few minutes, the national youth team played very embarrassed. Fortunately, time was running out, and the national youth team held on to the victory. (To be continued.) )