Chapter 1040: One Man's Youth
With the end of the Chinatown Youth Football Invitational Tournament, Beijing Chinatown, which won the championship for the first time, was unanimously praised by the whole country, and many media reporters and football professionals spoke highly of Beijing Chinatown's victory.
Especially in the last crucial final, the performance of Beijing Chinatown can be described as neither humble nor arrogant.
Director Zhang, a well-known TV commentator in China, praised it on Weibo.
"There is no doubt that Beijing is still inferior to Madrid in terms of overall strength, but if we focus on specific players, it is not difficult to find that Beijing has indeed cultivated several very good seedlings, and there are several players who are not even inferior to the genius of Madrid's China Town. ”
But for the specific name, in order to protect the children, Director Zhang did not point it out directly, but everyone who watched the live broadcast of the game knew who it was.
If Director Zhang still has some concerns, then Matayana, the deputy editor-in-chief of Marca Newspaper, who came to Beijing from Spain to supervise the game, has no scruples, and he has high-profile comments on the performance of several players in the Beijing Chinatown team in his column for Marca Daily.
"Zhao Jun, the hero who gave the stunner when Beijing won the championship, his passion in the final, and his header at the last moment, easily reminds me of one person, Ramos of Atletico Madrid, and if you only look at his ball and play at the back, it is easy to remind me of another person, Barcelona's Pique. ”
"And Wang Lei, who is undoubtedly the star of the Beijing Chinatown team, the heart of the midfield, his delicate foot skills, excellent overall vision and ability to organize and control the ball, let me see the shadow of Pirlo at a glance, but his excellent positional sense and diligent defense reminded me of Xavi Alonso. ”
Of course, there is also Gao Ren, a Chinese player who is second only to Mbappe in scoring goals in this tournament. ”
Like Mbappe, he is only 14 years old, but his performance is not inferior to those players who are a year or two older than him, but unlike Mbappe's characteristics, Gao Ren's style is more like Messi, and his outstanding dribbling skills make him stand out on the pitch. ”
"Of course, these players are still young, and it's too early to say too much, but after the game, after my in-depth communication with Gao Han, he is also very optimistic about these Chinese players, plus Yang Xin and Mbappe, who are already in the Chinatown team, he firmly believes that these players will become the backbone of Chinatown in the next ten years. ”
Gao Han told me that China has a huge population base and is a treasure trove of amazing potential, but it is limited by youth training, which means that many talented children with football talent do not receive formal training every year. ”
"Chinatown has only been in China for a few years, but it has already cultivated a group of outstanding youth players, Zhao Jun, Wang Lei and Gao Ren are just a part, there are several players in the fifteen-year-old age group who are concerned by European youth teams, and there are also a number of outstanding youth players waiting in the youth team. ”
Gao Han said that as early as two years ago, many teams, including Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Real Madrid and many other European giants, began to contact Chinatown, wanting to get Gao Ren, Wang Lei and Zhao Jun and other players, especially for Gao Ren, and even some teams offered a sky-high price of 5 million euros. ”
"But both Gao Han and Chinatown have explicitly refused. ”
In addition to a few remaining in the team, Chinatown will also take the initiative to contact other teams to discuss cooperation and training, and send this group of young players to European teams for further training, in order to stay in the European league in the future. ”
According to Chinatown's technical director Cantarero, a number of European teams have already expressed their interest, including the giants, but in the spirit of being responsible for the players, Chinatown will further negotiate to ensure that the players can be trained and cared for in the best possible way. ”
At the end of the column, Matayana spoke highly of Gao Han and Chinatown's attitude of insisting on youth training in China, believing that this is a way for Gao Han to give back to the motherland and fans.
Gao Han said that further promoting youth training in China and cultivating more young players is the most important thing for him in the future and even in this life, and he will unswervingly adhere to it, hoping to cultivate more and better football talents for China. ”
It has been a long time since the world has received news of the high cold, and when Matayana's column was published, it immediately attracted huge attention around the world, and more fans and media paid more attention to China, which has always been mysterious but weak in football.
The most authoritative party newspaper in China also soon published a commentary article, titled "One Man's Youth Training", focusing on Gao Han's deeds of insisting on promoting football youth training in China over the years, not only giving high praise to Gao Han's behavior, but even full of expectations and firmly believing that the future Chinese stars will come from Chinatown.
Under the authoritative party newspaper, domestic newspapers, magazines and websites have also forwarded, commented and reported, coupled with the youth training of Beijing Chinatown has indeed done a good job, and the final broadcast of CCTV is also exciting, which quickly sparked heated discussions in China, and countless fans have begun to look forward to this group of young players in Beijing Chinatown.
But at the same time, there are not many apprehensions, after all, there are not a few cases in the history of Chinese football.
At the same time, the turmoil over the dismissal of Camacho by the Football Association is also rapidly fermenting, and more and more fans have begun to call for the Football Association to seriously consider inviting Gao Han to be the head coach of the Chinese national team.
"The national football team has been weak for many years, and it is precisely in need of a vigorous reform, Gao Han, as the best coach in the world, is the pride of all Chinese, and he is fully capable of leading the national team to success." ”
"That's right, Gao Han has made it clear many times before that if he comes back, he must only be for the Chinese national team, what a strong signal this is, why is the Football Association still unwilling to invite him to be the head coach of the national team?"
The appeal on the Internet quickly passed to reality, and more and more media began to join the call camp, hoping that Gao Han would be the head coach of the Chinese national team, and everyone firmly believed that under his leadership, Chinese football is bound to prosper.
Under the pressure of public opinion, the Football Association also quickly came forward, and the press spokesman said, "Mr. Gao Han is the greatest and best head coach in the world professional league, and the pride of all Chinese, but he has no national team coaching experience so far, which is something we must seriously consider." ”
"In addition, there are all kinds of factors that need to be taken into account, such as the annual salary, the coaching environment, the player selection mechanism, etc. ”
But the spokesman also said that Gao Han has always been the first choice for the national football team to select a coach.
Soon, well-known domestic media dug up the inside story, saying that they got the news from anonymous people within the Football Association that Gao Han had no role in serving as the head coach of the national team.
"Annual salary has never been a problem, according to the news conveyed by the intermediary, Gao Han even made it clear that he is willing to coach the national team for free, but the problem now is that the management mechanism of the Football Association is not able to give Gao Han the coaching power he wants, which is unacceptable to Gao Han. ”
However, the insider also revealed that although Gao Han may not be the head coach of the national team, the Football Association still hopes that Gao Han can make suggestions for the next selection of coaches, and the Football Association will continue to carry out more in-depth cooperation with Chinatown in youth training, coach and referee training.
At the same time that Beijing Chinatown can beat the European giants' youth teams to win the championship, local governments are also flocking to the youth training center of Chinatown, especially the five major cities that signed agreements with Chinatown earlier.
When Beijing learned that Chinatown intends to further expand its scale and build the Beijing Chinatown Youth Training Center into the top football training center in Asia, it not only strongly agreed, but even said that it could give preferential treatment in terms of land.
Guangzhou and Shanghai have also begun to pay close attention to the preparation of youth training centers, Chongqing and Wuhan are also constantly urging the youth training centers to start construction as soon as possible, and some other large and medium-sized cities in China have also taken the initiative to come to the door, hoping to carry out cooperation.
However, under the auspices of Lin Guoping and Xiang Tianming, Chinatown coped with the relations from all sides, and still promoted it in an orderly manner according to its original plan and rhythm.
It is not difficult to build 10 youth training centers across the country in one go, as long as you have money, but where do the youth coaches come from? Where do the managers come from?
A large part of the reason why the youth training in Beijing Chinatown can produce results is that it depends on this group of top youth coaches in China, as well as a professional and perfect management mechanism.
Gao Han, Lin Guoping and Xiang Tianming all insisted that the rice should be eaten slowly one bite at a time.
The obscure youth training has persevered over the years, and there is no need to take big strides to catch up with this trend.
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After Gao Han finished dealing with domestic affairs, the time came to mid-August, and Gao Han immediately flew to Madrid to sit down.
Rakitic eventually moved to Barcelona, and the La Liga giants paid him a release fee of up to 50 million euros.
After announcing the sale of Rakitic, Chinatown officials quickly announced that they had brought in Denis Suarez, a young player of the Spanish U20 national team, from Manchester City for one million euros.
The 19-year-old debuted at Celta Vigo and received interest from a number of teams in his first year, but opted for Manchester City.
According to him, he was hoping to play under Gao Han, but in the summer when he initialled Manchester City, Gao Han left with the honour of the treble, and then he did not get a chance at Manchester City.
This time, China City will be competing with Barcelona and many other teams to win the Spanish youth international, and Cantarero's technical department will speak highly of him and will arrange for him to enter the first team and play under Zinedine Zidane.
In addition to Denis Suarez, Chinatown soon signed an agreement with Brazilian Flamengo to bring in 13-year-old Vinicius Júnior, but due to the 18-year-old ban on international transfers, Vinicius will remain with Flamengo in the next few years.
In order to sign the Brazilian youngster and give him as much room to grow as possible, Chinatown signed a full training contract with Flamengo, which can earn up to 10 million euros in the entire transfer transaction.
This is undoubtedly extremely high for a youngster with an unknown reputation.
Coincidentally, Chinatown also brought in 16-year-old Gabriel Jesús from Palmeiras, Brazil.
The player, who has yet to play in the first team and is not even well-known in Brazil, has paid a total of €10 million in transfer fees plus training fees for him, and he will remain with Palmeiras until he turns 18.
Vinicius and Jesús are both agents of Mendes, who also ran the transfer himself, and will continue to monitor Vinicius and Jesús in Brazil in the coming years.
Selling three main players, but signing several potential youngsters in a row, is basically in line with the business idea of Chinatown.
After Gao Han arrived in Madrid, the new season of La Liga finally kicked off.
Zidane's debut has finally arrived!
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