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This is the usual training ground for Juventus players, and the training for the new season has officially begun, and the players have returned to the team one after another, Zhang Shujie and Li Mu are also in the crowd. There are many reporters outside the barbed wire fence at the base, most of them Chinese, who just want to take more photos of the two in training.

Chen Hui and Shen Hao looked at the two teenagers outside, and judging from the training, the two didn't seem to be uncomfortable. Of course, this cannot be ruled out because the players have just assembled for a few days, and the team's training intensity is not very high, and the tactical training is not very much.

Li Mu received a pass from Pirlo, a diagonal kick on the left rib, Zhang Shujie pushed the shot from a small angle in front of the goal, was saved by Buffon, and Marchisio made up for it and went into the net. He smiled and gave a thumbs up to Zhang Shujie and Li Mu, and the two walked back with a smile.

Prima facie, their integration into the team has been quite smooth.

In the early morning of July 23, Beijing time, the official website of Juventus announced that Chilean star Vidal would transfer to the team with a contract period of 5 years, a transfer fee of 12.5 million euros, and an annual salary of 3 million euros after tax. This is Juventus' fourth signing this season after Zhang Shujie, Li Mu and Pirlo.

The 24-year-old previously played for Bundesliga side Bayer Leverkusen and was named the best defender in the second half of the Bundesliga last season for his outstanding performances last season. Since Vidal and Bayer Leverkusen only have one year to go, and the Chilean is reluctant to renew his contract with the team, Leverkusen has no choice but to sell him. After learning that Vidal was leaving Bayer Leverkusen, the major European giants rushed to do so, including Bayern Munich, Juventus and Milan. In the end, the Bianconeri had the last laugh and snatched the Chilean pearl.

Vidal's transfer fee was paid in three parts, with the first payment of 5 million euros, another 3 million by June 30, 2012, and the remaining amount on December 31, 2012. According to the terms of the contract, Juventus will also pay an additional 2 million euros to Bayer Leverkusen based on Vidal's performance. In this way, Vidal's transfer fee can reach up to 12.5 million euros, which is also higher than Zhang Shujie and Li Mu.

Counting five years of wages and transfer fees, Juventus' investment in Vidal will total more than 42.5 million euros, which is already a high figure in Italy, which is already very high in a depressed economy. However, "Torino Sport" believes that Juventus's investment is absolutely worth it!

Prior to the signing, Vidal had already undergone a medical examination with Juventus, and according to the contract plan, the Chilean star will undergo another routine check-up on Saturday afternoon local time in Turin, after which Vidal will temporarily bid farewell to Italy and enjoy a holiday delayed by playing in the Copa America before joining the team in two weeks.

Before the end of last season, Marotta said that Juventus' first goal next season is to revivenation, and from the transfer investment, it seems that he is not on paper, but in action. Among the four most important people, except for Pirlo, who is free of visa, the remaining three have spent more than 30 million euros, and so far, Juventus is the most invested by the 20 teams in Serie A. Even in the whole of Europe, it is among the best.

Local tycoons like Manchester City and Chelsea have not made a big deal for the time being, but many media have broken the news that Manchester City is about to start action. and this summer's "upstart tycoon" Paris Saint-Germain, who is also eyeing the transfer market, as long as the time is ripe, there will inevitably be big spending.

Judging from the past transfer market, from the end of July to the moment the transfer market closes, it is usually a month with a high turnover of players, even in the slightly quiet summer of 2010, there are eye-catching moments such as Ibrahimovic and Robinho defecting to Milan City at the last minute.

However, Chinese fans are still paying more attention to their own players, and just after Zhang Shujie and Li Mu moved to Juventus and Xu Ziyi moved to Sevilla, another Chinese teenager caused a stir in China.

On July 25, Ajaccio, who had just been promoted to Ligue 1, announced that Chinese player Chen Zihua had successfully passed the team's trial. As for the contract, the team has given a three-year contract with the number 15 jersey.

After the news reached China, the entire Chinese football world was boiling! At the age of nineteen, the club tried to put him in the first team despite the lack of professional training! What kind of concept is this? Although Ajaccio is only a promoted team, it is also a French team. You must know that Zhang Shujie and Li Mu, who are now popular in China, both trained in the Parma youth team for two years before being promoted to the first-line team.

Who is Chen Zihua? His name is still very unfamiliar to the ears of many Chinese fans and media, and people began to look for his information, and soon these omnipotent reporters unraveled the secret cloud.

As early as junior high school, Chen Zihua represented Guangzhou Kaisheng Middle School in the National Junior High School League and reached the semifinals, and his opponent in the semifinals was Ma Junqiang's team. It's a pity that Chen Zihua only played for three minutes before he was injured and went off the field, and he didn't have the opportunity to talk to Ma Junqiang in the game, which was the only game in which Chen Zihua did not score in the junior high school league. After that, he was named the "third midfielder" in the national junior high school league, and the two people in front of him were Li Mu and Xu Ziyi. It's just that now Li Mu has successfully transformed into a striker, basically bidding farewell to the midfield position.

These things are nothing to Chen Zihua, what is even more surprising is his high school career, he actually went north to Dalian and went to Yuying Middle School when he arrived in high school. In this school, his teammates are Zhang Shujie and Yan Tao, his coach is An Rong, and his opponent is Li Mu!

It was already surprising that he could play with these people, but it was not over, the next year Zhang Shujie and Li Mu went to Europe, Chen Zihua and Yan Tao led the Yuying Middle School football team met Xu Ziyi and Zhao Wenkang in the finals of the national competition, the two teams fought hard for 120 minutes, Yuying Middle School unfortunately lost in the penalty shootout and was the runner-up, but in the selection of the best players, Chen Zihua beat Xu Ziyi and Zhao Wenkang to win this award. In this competition, Chen Zihua played all the team's games as the captain, scored eight goals and assisted ten times, and Yuying Middle School only scored a total of 22 goals without Zhang Shujie, and Chen Zihua created eighteen of them!

Unfortunately, Chen Zihua could have gone to Europe for trial training like Zhang Shujie and others, but he was influenced by his father and chose to study in France. In the following three years, he also disappeared from public view. It wasn't until today, when he signed with Ajaccio, that Chinese fans were able to get to know him in full.

When the "Sports Weekly" showed all the information and materials of Chen Zihua in front of the fans as quickly as possible, people not only sighed: "I can't imagine that there are so many young people with football talent in China!" More fans looked up to the sky and sighed: "Chinese football has been sluggish for so many years; Chinese fans have prayed for so many years, and they have finally moved the heavens and continuously bestowed excellent players on us!"

Chen Hui also wrote a separate report: "It is natural for Chinese fans to be happy for the young Chen Zihua to sign with Ajaccio in Ligue 1, but it is not difficult for us to find a key point from it, that is, among the Chinese players who have played in Europe in recent years, none of them have experienced professional leagues in China, and almost all of them went to Europe in the year of the weak championship and successfully stayed there!" This can show at least two aspects, first, there is no shortage of football geniuses in China, and second, the general environment of Chinese football is difficult to breed real stars!"

Chen Hui continued: "Everyone should know very well what kind of environment Chinese football is, and Li Huayun, who was as famous as Basten many years ago, was destroyed in the big dye vat of domestic football. There are also the teenagers who won the 2005 World Youth Championships, and they did not become big in China. Let's take a look at these teenagers now! From Ma Junqiang to Chen Zihua, there are also Zhang Shujie, Li Mu, Yan Tao, Xu Ziyi, and Zhao Wenkang in the middle, a total of seven people! Except for Ma Junqiang, who came to Europe on his own after graduating from junior high school, the other six have all participated in the National High School Football League. They have not experienced the ** of domestic professional football, and they almost go to Europe cleanly, just like an unpolluted flower, growing alone in a new environment. ”

Chen Hui also wrote about the importance of campus football: "If Chinese football wants to emerge more talented teenagers, campus football will be an indispensable part, just like Japan, Nakata Hidetoshi, Nakamura Shunsuke, Nagatomo Yuto, Honda Keisuke and other stars were first from the domestic high school league. Although China has been vigorously promoting school football in recent years, and has stepped out of Zhang Shujie and others, in many places, due to the heavy academics, the education system and the test questions that only rely on scores, there are great restrictions on children who love football; Whether it is Zhang Shujie, Li Mu, or the blockbuster Chen Zihua, they are actually just lucky people, and in this country with a population of 1.3 billion, there should be more geniuses. ”

His analysis is not without reason. Just after he and Shen Hao returned to China from Italy, they learned something about the high school league from the mouth of their domestic counterparts, and there were two teenagers in this national competition who were favored by European clubs, one of which was Zhang Shujie and Li Mu's old club Parma, but the parents of these two children did not allow them to play football and wanted them to continue studying, and their parents thought that playing football was too risky, much riskier than studying, and they were not allowed to go to Europe for trials. This also invisibly interrupted the future of the two.

There are many such parents, and the former Chen Zihua is one of them. Fortunately, his mother supported his idea and managed to convince his father, otherwise Chen Zihua would only be an ordinary international student now, and he would not be able to become a professional player at all.

Finally, Chen Hui also pointed out sharply in the report: "If we hope that Chinese players can continue to appear in the European arena in the future, then build more football stadiums among the high-rise buildings of steel and concrete! Let Chinese children have more places to play football." ”

Chen Hui's idea is also the wish of all Chinese fans, and now China does have a number of promising players such as Zhang Shujie, and also has a relatively systematic high school league. However, since 2007 and 2008, for the next three years, for various reasons, not a single member of the high school league has been able to make it to Europe. If this continues, I am afraid that China's young talents will be cut off.

After Chen Zihua's joy of signing Ajaccio in Ligue 1, the Chinese people had to fall into contemplation. The person in charge of the football branch of the Chinese Youth Sports Association also said that at present, whether it is in the high school league or the junior high school league, no one can be as dazzling as Zhang Shujie's gang at the beginning. The implication of this is that China's youth football has been lacking in stamina.

Of course, whether someone from a certain club can join a European team in the domestic professional league is another matter, it is a professional game, and it has nothing to do with the high school league.

Therefore, how far youth football can go in the follow-up training and development, whether it can shine again after the silence of the past few years, it depends on whether this promotion can continue to expand, and whether more children who like football can play happily, this important task falls on the shoulders of the leadership of the Chinese Football Association.