Chapter 156: Why I Came to China
Chen Haonan is naturally the most concerned Chinese player besides Wu Jie, and he has just set the highest transfer record in the world.
European fans want to see how this kid, who is not yet 17 years old, can make Real Madrid so costly.
Barcelona even laughed at Real Madrid for a while after the deal was made, but they soon couldn't laugh anymore.
Although Chen Haonan is due to his height and confrontation ability, he cannot become the main force for the time being.
But he has already made three substitute appearances in January and has provided one assist, especially with his trademark 'croquette' move that has amazed the Spanish media.
However, the most commendable thing is his football IQ that does not match his age, this Chinese player who is not yet 17 years old has an amazing calmness, the ability to control the tempo is very outstanding, long passes and through balls are also quite hot, especially when defending, he has amazing mobility and strong pressure, and even occasionally inserts a long shot.
Although such a player is not as radiant as Wu Jie, he is definitely a midfield leader who is enough to be the cornerstone of the giants.
If it weren't for being too short, Barcelona wouldn't have laughed at all.
But according to the information revealed by Real Madrid, it doesn't seem to be a troublesome matter.
Chen Haonan's epiphyseal line has not yet closed, and he has at least a year to grow taller.
In fact, Chen Haonan was 162cm when he came to Spain at the end of December, but when he measured it at the end of January, he had grown to 163cm, which was only 2cm shorter than the Argentine genius that Barcelona fancied.
Real Madrid have hired a special sports expert for Chen Haonan to develop leg exercises and training for him, which is to help him continue to grow taller.
If he can grow to more than 170cm, then Chen Haonan is enough to become Real Madrid's Platini.
All in all, Chen Haonan went well in Real Madrid, although he could not compare with Wu Jie in terms of data, but Wu Jie was 18 years old when he arrived in the Bundesliga.
Chen Haonan can play as a substitute at Real Madrid at this age, which is unprecedented, and Real Madrid has not yet become the main rotation player before the age of 17.
However, Gu Guangming, who is also in La Liga, did not develop very smoothly, and he also played two games as a substitute in January, but his performance was too different from the time of the national team, and he was obviously a little uncomfortable.
Wu Jie wasn't too worried, he knew that Gu Guangming was a normal situation.
Chen Haonan has already conducted three dream trainings, and has already played more than a thousand games, of course, he can easily integrate into Real Madrid's tactical system, showing incredible football IQ and organizational talent.
Gu Guangming joined a new team halfway through the winter break, it can be said that he is not familiar with the place, he cannot communicate normally in language, he does not understand the tactical system of the new team at all, and he does not have enough playing time, so this performance is normal at present.
This Wu Jie couldn't help, so he could only call Gu Guangming and tell him that he must be confident, the level of the wingers in Madrid is not as good as him, as long as he trains seriously and watches more game videos, he will slowly increase his playing time.
Next season is the time for him to compete for the main team, this half season is mainly to learn the language, adapt to the La Liga style of play, and don't be too ambitious.
Zhao Dayu has a similar problem in Lyon, but his situation is obviously much better.
This bantam tiger is very good in running awareness and scoring smell, and his state is becoming more and more stable after quitting drinking, and he belongs to the kind of striker who has many defects and is always despised because of his height, but as soon as he scores a goal, he can find the goal by himself.
Of course, this ability can only be seen in a league that is not very competitive.
The overall strength of Ligue 1 in this era is much worse than that of La Liga, and Zhao Dayu joined another team that lacks excellent strikers and is about to be relegated.
That gave him a much bigger chance than Koo, who played four games in January, scored two goals, and even started the most recent one.
This performance was beyond Wu Jie's expectations, because he always despised Zhao Dayu because of his height.
But I have to say that Zhao Dayu, a point-grabbing striker with excellent sense of smell in front of the goal and good skills, as long as his luck is not too bad, he really doesn't need too much run-in to have a good performance.
Now it is clear that Zhao Dayu is not only not badly lucky, he is also very lucky, and he has a good chance to sit in the starting striker position of Lyon.
If you can help Lyon succeed in relegation, I am afraid that you will become a team hero.
Gu Guangming saw that the old guy performed so well, and he also regretted coming to a mid-tier team in La Liga.
Now that I think about it, he might as well go to a last-train team in La Liga.
Jia Xiuquan also has the same idea, although he is very valued by Udinese, but the position of central defender is different from the front-court player, even if he shows a better level in training, but the tacit understanding with the team is not enough, and it is difficult to communicate, or he still does not even have the opportunity to come off the bench.
There is really no way to do this, what the central defender position wants is stability, and the central defenders who joined during the winter break basically have to sit on the cold bench except in rare cases.
Fortunately, Udinese has loaned Jia Xiuquan to the Serie B team, and his strength can ignore many tacit understanding and communication problems in this level of the league.
Wu Jie knows that Jia Xiuquan, like Gu Guangming, must first familiarize himself with the style of their respective leagues this season, learn the language used to communicate on the field, and then be able to impact the starting position after training with the team next season.
Now of the four players in the Chinese team who have been bought by the first-division team, only Chen Haonan and Zhao Dayu seem to have developed smoothly.
However, the two players who were bought by the second division team actually mixed very well.
Chen came off the bench in his first game at Hertha Berlin and provided an assist.
After that, he played another game as a substitute and was promoted to the starting XI in the third.
In January, Chen Jingang played 3 games, 1 start, 2 substitutes, and scored 1 goal in addition to 2 assists.
Hertha Berlin fans are very satisfied with his performance, although the Chinese center forward is not fast, the foot skills are average, but he has a strong body enough to cope with the Bundesliga level confrontation, the physical fitness is also excellent, can carry out front-court pressing, especially the header is very brilliant, in the game to fight actively, fighting spirit.
Even if such a tactical center forward does not have enough tacit understanding with his teammates to communicate fluently, he can rely on the advantage of being able to involve a lot of defense in the front court, win a lot of high-altitude balls for the team, and complete the header on goal, which is enough to occupy a place in the second division of the four major leagues.
Liu Haiguang is the same, but he has received more attention, because he is obviously stronger in physical talent, including slightly better foot skills, which can be regarded as a fully strengthened version of Chen Jingang.
This allowed him to come off the bench in his first game at Munich 1860 and complete the goal.
Since then, he has been a starter, playing four games in January, contributing three goals and one assist.
Although this is only the Bundesliga, Liu Haiguang is the best performer in the Chinese foreign team except for Wu Jie and Zhao Dayu for the time being.
Although Chen Haonan has more potential, he can only play twenty or thirty minutes in a game at this stage.
Of course, this is the opinion of the Chinese and European media.
If in the eyes of Asian fans, especially Japanese and South Korean fans, the performance of these Chinese players is not bad.
Two years ago, China didn't have a single player in Europe.
But now there is not only the world's No. 1 libero, but also a record transfer record, three players who have played in the first division of Europe's four major leagues, and two players who have started in the second division of the four major leagues.
If in two more years, what will become of the Chinese team?
Will they have another genius like Wu Jie and Chen Haonan?
That's a good question, but it doesn't seem like it's been more than two years......
This year's Chinese Lunar New Year is January 25, after the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, a Hong Kong guy holding the "Hong Kong and Macao Compatriots Home Return Permit" came directly to Guangzhou, and then ran to the Guangdong team that would officially go to work for another three days, and the Guangdong team that resumed training after the first month asked to join the team.
As a result, of course, I only saw the aunts and uncles who watched the gate and swept the floor.
Lin Yaodong waited for three days, and when the staff started to work, he came again to ask to join the group.
But at this time, the team's coaching staff was still on vacation, but the head coach of the national team, Su Yongshun, who returned to Guangzhou for the New Year, heard the news.
This intrigued him, and the next day he went to the guest house to meet the goalkeeper from Hong Kong.
Su Yongshun felt even more novel after seeing Lin Yaodong, this little guy was obviously a crazy fan of Wu Jie, he tattooed a portrait of Wu Jie on his shoulder, and his words were full of admiration for Wu Jie.
This is not unusual, and now there are fanatical fans of Wu Jie all over the world.
What really makes Su Yongshun regret + egg pain is that this guy not only wants to join the Guangdong team, he wants to join the national team to fight side by side with Wu Jie.
Hong Kong people want to join the Guangdong team, but he only thinks it is fresh and interesting, and this thing is not impossible.
But if Hong Kongers want to join the Chinese national team, the problem is not so simple.
Lin Yaodong immediately said that he wanted to become a Chinese citizen, on the grounds that although his parents were smuggled to Hong Kong, as a descendant of Yan and Huang, he had the right to freely choose his household registration.
Besides, Hong Kong is about to return to China in 97, can't he restore his Chinese nationality ahead of schedule?
Su Yongshun soon found out that this matter is really difficult to handle, and if it is not good, it is a political problem!
"Why did I come to see him? Why should I be nosy? ”
After Su Yongshun understood the seriousness of the problem, he soon regretted coming to meddle in things.
But as the current coach of the national team, since Lin Yaodong has seen this one, of course he has to be stubbornly entangled.
In the next few days, Lin Yaodong took out the strength of stalking and simply ran to Su Yongshun's house.
After the news spread, it quickly attracted newspapers and television stations in Guangdong to report on it.
Now is the peak period for Cantonese people to smuggle into Hong Kong, and some people run to Hong Kong every day, but I haven't heard of anyone running back from Hong Kong, which is really a new thing!
Su Yongshun was forced to have no choice, so he simply used his Hong Kong household registration as an excuse to let him restore his Chinese nationality first.
Lin Yaodong then really went to various departments to inquire about the restoration of household registration in the mainland, but how many people in this era have taken foreign household registration, or their nationality has run back?
So at first, these departments passed the buck to each other, but when the TV station and the newspaper started to report, they had to report to the higher authorities for instructions.
At this time, Wu Jie didn't know where to learn about it, and when he was interviewed by Xinhua News Agency's foreign correspondent in Germany, he said that the Hong Kong athlete should be given a chance to try.
If he is really talented, why can't he be allowed to recognize his ancestors and return to his ancestors?
After this remark was transmitted back to China, it quickly caused a nationwide discussion, because this is indeed a new thing!
It fermented until the end of February, and the Guangdong team finally expressed its willingness to give Lin Yaodong a chance to try.
However, the trial not only attracted news media from all over the country, but also many media from Hong Kong.
The Hong Kong media was naturally very interested in this matter, although most voices were very unhappy with Lam's kneeling behavior.
"Why don't you go to Hong Kong for a tryout?"
This is a question from a Hong Kong journalist that represents the voice of most Hong Kong media, including Hong Kong fans.
"Hong Kong's news likes to report on China's natural and man-made disasters the most, and when you scold China's poverty, backwardness, colons, and systems, you seem to be standing in an irrelevant position. But every time I see these news, I can't help but feel sad and ashamed. I don't think I'm proud to be Chinese. China's shame is my shame, and China's pain is my pain. So I can only be a Chinese, and those foreigners always treat me as a Chinese. That's why I'm here. ”
Lin Yaodong's remarks were not only told to the Hong Kong media, but the most important thing was to the mainland media, and this is the real point.
He has said it to this point, and if China still doesn't restore his identity, won't that chill the hearts of Chinese people all over the world?