Chapter 244: A Fateful Draw
After the match against Kuwait, Tang Wu immediately returned to Liverpool. After the next round of rest, the Reds will cross London Bridge en masse. Facing the old club that is in the limelight in the new season, Tang Wuke didn't have the heart to be invited to return to China to participate in any talk show.
As for the casting of Hollywood blockbusters, it was their director's business, and Tang Wu couldn't even get a bridge.
However, perhaps because of Tang Wu's successful Premier League experience, football has set off waves of enthusiasm in China. All the footballers younger than Tang Wu have worked hard to fight for glory in all levels of competition.
Last month, the final of the U17 Asian Championship was held in Shizuoka, Japan, with a national youth vs North Korea.
After 90 minutes, the national youth defeated the North Korean team 1-0 with the goal of teenager Wang Weilong, and won the Asian championship again after 12 years.
After these 7 rounds of competition, many young players under the age of 17 have gradually been exposed to the fans' field of vision and are well known.
Young players such as Wang Weilong, Yu Dabao, Yang Xu and other young players have also received olive branches from major clubs in the Chinese Super League, promising that they will become key cultivation targets in the future.
However, compared with the situation of being suppressed by the opponent in the whole game, the biggest victory in this game and the biggest merit is goalkeeper Wang Dalei.
Dong Lu, a well-known football commentator, believes that the role of a national young goalkeeper in winning the game is even greater than the value of the entire team + the entire coaching staff. Even if the national junior team can score two more goals through opportunities such as corner kicks, if it weren't for the goalkeeper's high and low gear, the Chinese national junior team would still have lost this game 3-4.
After the game, the youngster, who was born in Dalian, Liao Province, said excitedly to the camera: "My wish is to play in Europe, the Premier League, Serie A, La Liga!" One day, I will become one of the best goalkeepers in Europe and the world like Tang Wu! ”
The young general's ambition and excellent performance are admirable, but many people in the know lamented his "naivety" behind his back.
Wang Dalei is only 5 years younger than Tang Wu, with Tang Wu's current strength and state, as long as there is no accident, he will be the first to start the country in the next 20 years. Unless Wang Dalei can surpass Tang Wu in the performance or results of European football, no matter how good Wang Dalei is, the "encounter" of the German goalkeeper Lehmann in the German national team may be his best destination.
The national youth under the age of 17 has achieved excellent results, and the national youth, as a "little big brother", naturally has not lost face.
Sitting on Dong Fangzhuo, a "Red Devil youngster" who was loaned out by Manchester United, the national youth also reached the final all the way.
At the Shelas Stadium in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on October 9, the final opponent of the national youth team was also the Korean people. But this time it's not North Korea, it's South Korea.
The last time the national youth won the Asian Youth Championship was in 1894, and in recent years, the Korean team has been the dominant team in the Asian Youth Championship. Yin Tiesheng bluntly said at the pre-match press conference that the team is full of confidence in defeating South Korea, and the whole team can be said to be the top in the history in terms of spirit and confidence.
Dong Fangzhuo, who has not been able to play in the past two rematches, replaced Chen Tao as the starter, and he and Zhu Ting formed a double striker. Midfielder Zhou Haibin did not play due to injury, and Zhao Xuri replaced him; Ren Yongshun and Feng Xiaoting partnered in the central defender, and Hao Junmin sat in the single back. This is the fourth meeting between the youth teams of China and South Korea this year, and the first three meetings between the Chinese and Korean youth teams have all been victorious.
In the semi-finals, the Kokujin team beat Syria 1-0, while South Korea beat Japan on penalties.
After 90 minutes of fierce fighting in the rain, with a long-range shot by Hao Junmin in the 61st minute of the second half, the national youth finally won the Asian Youth Championship after 20 years, and at the same time qualified to participate in the World Youth Championship next year.
After the game, Hao Junmin deliberately ran to the camera, and together with Feng Xiaoting and others, shouted Tang Wu's name to the camera. It seems that at this moment, Yin Tiesheng, the head coach, has no influence in their hearts compared to Tang Wu.
And that's exactly what happened.
After winning the Toulon Cup, almost all the players of the national youth team worshiped Tang Wu as a god.
Especially Hao Junmin, Feng Xiaoting and others, they have a demonic worship of Tang Wu.
"Brother Wu, how is it, we won the Asian Youth Championship!" "I've also received an offer to try out at Chelsea at the end of the year, and if it works out, we might meet in the Premier League!" ”
Hao Junmin and Feng Xiaoting's shouts made Tang Wu smile slightly, and he gave a thumbs up on social media to express his appreciation for the national youth.
As for the trial of Chelsea, Tang Wuzhen just smiled.
Even if Hao Junmin performs well and passes the trial, then he will most likely be sent to the "grassroots" by Chelsea like Dong Fangzhuo, to familiarize himself with the European arena and make up for his own shortcomings, and by the way, get a labor certificate.
By the time the two meet in the Premier League, it is estimated that it will be two or three years later.
After the national youth won the championship, Tang Wu's national football team drew with Kuwait away again.
Although the scene was dull and the score was not satisfactory, the national football team at least retained the biggest chance to qualify and still firmly controlled the initiative in their own hands.
This is also the fundamental reason why the media and fans did not wantonly spray!
Sun Sun and Li Tie in the Premier League did not return to the team, Tang Wu sold such a big face and came back to play with you, you still play 0-0?
That's too much to say!
But now Kuwait, the most threatening Kuwait in the group of the world preliminaries, has completely crossed the hurdle, as long as it wins Hong Kong at home in Guangzhou, the national football team can enter the second stage of the world preliminaries.
For Hong Kong, the "younger brother of the younger brother", even the second national football team is not afraid.
All in all, the three lines of national youth, national youth and national football go hand in hand in China and have achieved satisfactory results in Asia.
Even Huang Jianxiang, who is extremely picky, also published an article on his Weibo: "From the current point of view, there are players with excellent performance in the three age grades of high, middle and low in China. This means that our football has been very successful in the 80-90 generation! If nothing else, these post-80s players will at least support the national football team in Asia for at least 12 years. ”
"However, this does not become a reason for us to be proud and arrogant, and there is still a big gap between Chinese football and its old neighbors Japan and South Korea."
"Although the registered football population this year and last year has increased several times compared with previous years, looking at my country's huge population base, this football registered population is still far from enough."
"Therefore, continuing to pay close attention to youth training, so that the post-90s group of young players continue to file, and the post-90s and even post-00s have more young players who play football, is the big plan for the future development of our football."
"At present, China's football registration population has been much higher than in previous years, including the children sent to football schools across the country, and last month, China's football registration population has exceeded 500,000, a record high."
"But that's not enough, there are fewer than 8,000 players who can play in the professional game. In other words, if we don't grasp this development opportunity, ten years later, the national football team will still have to select 11 people from these 8,000 people to participate in world competitions, which will definitely be a huge blow to the development of Chinese football. ”
Huang Jianxiang's words resonated with domestic fans.
Yes, without a huge football population base, how can we talk about selecting soldiers and generals?
There are some things that cannot be solved by the leaders at the top with their mouths open, and they also need the support of the masses below.
Now because of the influence of Tang Wuhe and the excellent results of the three grades of national teams, the enthusiasm of the domestic masses for football has reached its peak.
On the streets and alleys, you can see posters of Tang Wu and Liverpool players everywhere.
Even many businesses have used the portraits of Premier League stars for their own promotion without authorization, although such behavior is not worth encouraging, but it can also be seen from another aspect that football has affected thousands of households.
Many parents have bought soccer balls for their children and signed up for soccer training classes. Children also come to the stadiums after school to play football.
Even though there was no turf in the stadium, only sand and stones, the children still had a lot of fun.
Under the influence of this general environment, the deaf and dumb who had just taken over the post had to immediately sign his first document after taking office: to build at least 500 free or low-cost football fields for 167 cities in 20 provinces across the country.
Although the Football Association has no money and no right to speak in the construction of these 500 stadiums, it has bitten to death from top to bottom, and only in this way can it cooperate with the vigorous development of Chinese football.
When all parties were waiting and watching, Mr. Wang, who had announced his withdrawal from the football world, took the lead in speaking: first invest 200 million yuan to build football stadiums in Dalian and Jinzhou and other surrounding areas.
Mr. Wang's vigorous and resolute actions are obvious to all, and when the citizens of Dalian and Jinzhou saw the engineering team surveying the site and preparing for the construction of infrastructure, they all celebrated with joy.
Mr. Wang's leadership immediately caused a chain reaction, and entrepreneurs from various provinces and cities also invested in the construction of stadiums.
This is the general trend, even those teams and owners who collect black money behind their backs to play match-fixing also know that only when there are enough football fields, they can play games and have money to take.
For a time, there was a national football fever in China.
A small ball made of 32 pieces of black and white cowhide sewn quietly changed the trajectory of the big ball of Chinese football at the moment when the national football team drew 0-0 away from Kuwait.