Chapter 35: The Future, and the Rush Home
This time, the national team played a warm-up match against Chile in South America.
Like the Chinese team recruited many young players this time, the Chilean team is also a second team. The main force basically did not come. However, Rao is still very strong, and the strength of the Chilean team is still very strong. This was confirmed by the course of the whole competition.
The warm-up match between the Chinese team and the Chilean team ended up with a 3:3 handshake. And Yan Feng only played the first half, and he sat on the sidelines early to rest in the second half.
In the first half, the Chinese team sent the strongest formation in the team. With Yan Feng and Lin Fan and several other main players in charge, the Chinese team performed very well in the first half. Not only was half of the field not weaker than the Chilean team, but it also took a lead by one goal.
And after Yan Feng went down in the second half, the Chinese team with more new faces quickly fell into passivity. Confusion, tension, lack of tacit understanding and other situations all appeared.
For most of the second half, the Chinese team was pressed and played by the Chilean team. It was in the second half of the game, after gradually adapting to the game, that the Chinese team rebounded again.
For this warm-up game, Yan Feng personally felt that it was mixed.
The worry is that the Chinese team still does not have the kind of young players who are eye-catching. Compared with many young Chilean players who were also sent to the field, there is obviously still a gap between the young players of the Chinese team. Yan Feng understood that in the foreseeable next few years, among the younger generation, he would only rely on Lin Fan, a good brother. As for the Mesozoic era, the king of martial arts is already the best among them.
Although he was not satisfied with these young players, Yan Feng still saw some hope from them. For example, Guo Yutian and Liu Ruofan are not bad, and Yan Feng thinks they are quite good. These two were the best young players in this game, and they dared to make moves and had a fighting spirit. Although these two are not the talents that can be seen everywhere in Europe, they are quite potential among Chinese players.
Guo Yutian, who is 193CM tall, is tall and strong, has good foot skills, and other basic skills are also very solid. Yan Feng felt that if Guo Yutian played the main force in the Chinese Super League, he would only need to hone for two years to reach Gao Lin's level.
Don't underestimate Gao Feilin, he is actually a team player, his teammates are strong, he is strong, and his teammates are weak, he is weak. He's the kind of guy who, if you put a Premier League team-mate around him, he can perform at a Premier League level. Give him a teammate in the middle league, then he can only show the level of the middle league.
Of course, this Guo Yutian is not similar to Gao Aircraft. Guo Yutian is the kind of high school striker who can be more able to carry and can be nailed to the front point. Three or four years later, his comprehensive strength can completely surpass the peak Gao Aircraft.
Such a potential expectation, although no one wants it in Europe, but a more capable strengthened version of the Gao aircraft, Yan Feng is still very pleased. At least, we can see that the Chinese team will become stronger in the future, right?
As for Liu Ruofan, Yan Feng feels that there will be no shortage of people in the position of full-back of the Chinese team in four or five years. This is a spirited attacker who can switch between midfielders and wing-backs. After having Lin Fan as the front midfielder, Liu Ruofan, who moved to the side, still performed very well.
Yan Feng does not know much about many young domestic players because he is not well connected in the domestic football world. In fact, what he doesn't know, this Liu Ruofan has a lot of background. He is the younger brother of the martial arts king, and he also studied under Xu Genbao and the old man Xu. is a potential player who is considered to be a strengthened version of Wu Lei in the future.
In the chaos of the Chinese team in the second half, these two players performed better. And their performance of scoring a goal each also made Yan Feng smile for the first time after the second half.
"These two people are good!" Yan Feng said to Lippi, and this was also agreed by Lippi.
In this warm-up game that didn't seem to have much gold content, Yan Feng felt that the discovery of these two people was the most valuable. From his conversation with Lippi, he also felt Lippi's appreciation for these two people.
A future enhanced version of Gao Lin and a future enhanced version of Wu Lei. It's not ideal, but it's at least improving.
This is the end of the warm-up match for the national team. For Yan Feng, this game means little to him. However, he has no complaints.
Since Zheng Zhi retired, Yan Feng is now the leader of the Chinese team and the most prestigious boss in the team. The Chinese team, which is starting the handover of green and yellow, needs him to be in charge.
This hot shooting match, if it weren't for Yan Feng's presence in the first half, gave the Chinese team a one-goal lead. But if you rely on someone else, it is estimated that you will be kicked and collapsed by the Chilean second team in the first half.
Young people need to be honed, they need to be experienced, but they also need to keep their confidence. If your faith is lost, you are likely to be mentally depressed in the future.
"Let's see in a few years. Maybe then a large number of talented players will emerge. Yan Feng also figured it out. It is still realistic that China will immediately emerge with many talents that can rival European players. After all, the current group of young players is the fruit of what was planted ten years ago. As for himself and Lin Fan, they can only be special cases. With the influence of the popularity of the Chinese Super League over the years and the good results in this World Cup, Yan Feng feels that there should be some talented players who can really do it in the next four or five years.
For the future of Chinese football, Yan Feng, like countless fans, can't help but think about a lot of things.
However, when he left the national team, these thoughts came to an end.
Completed all the tasks of the national team on several occasions. Yan Feng originally hoped to stay in China for two days, even if it was an extra day. But he could only finish the warm-up, and after the game, he hurriedly followed Lin Fan on the plane to Granada.
Such a journey was in a hurry, and Yan Feng could be said to have no time to rest. But he had to. During the time he and Lin Fan returned to China to play for the national team, Granada's winning streak was terminated.
Originally, during this time, the Granada team was playing two games a week. After Granada played in the Champions League, there will be La Liga matches soon. For their part, the team did not get much rest after travelling to Cyprus to take on Qarabagh FC. The impact of Yan Feng and Lin Fan's return to China is really great.
Originally, there was Modric and others in charge, and the outside world did not think that the Granada team would be much worse. In addition, the team facing is a team that is not very strong, and everyone feels that the winning rate is still very high. After all, the main attacking force of the Granada team is still there.
Unexpectedly, after the game was played, the Granada team lost the game 1:2.
Granada's attackers were still as dangerous in this game, but the problem was that their midfield did not have the hardness and sweeping ability of the past.
Although they don't fall behind on the field, they even have the upper hand. But under the targeted defensive counterattack of the Deportivo team, they were succeeded by two consecutive sneak attacks. At this moment, everyone found that Yan Feng and Lin Fan were indispensable in the midfield.
This snapped up the team's winning streak and gave up the top spot in La Liga.
The loss of the Granada team not only made the Barcelona team lose, but even allowed Real Madrid to catch up with the points.
It's just a defeat, and no one can never go without losing. But the problem is that Modric, Mahrez and others will also be called up by their respective national teams. If Yan Feng and Lin Fan don't return to the team as soon as possible, the Granada team may have potential replenishment left. In that case, two consecutive defeats are almost impossible to run.
Speaking of which, the Granada team should be grateful to the Chinese team for not playing at the same time as the European countries because of the Chinese Super League. Otherwise, the main players of the Granada team will be seven or eight out of ten, and the picture is unimaginable.