Chapter 667: Founding an Amateur League
After the end of this invitational tournament, it not only helped nearly 100 students take a solid step towards the road of professional football, but also made more teenagers who love football yearn for Wande Football School.
Considering that Wonder International Football School can only accommodate a maximum of 1,400 students at the same time, even if the nearly 100 students who have been "signed" by professional clubs are excluded, there are still more than 900 students in the current school.
As a result, even though there were only 500 enrollment places in 2015, nearly 100,000 school-age children signed up for the exam despite the success of the Wande Football School Invitational Tournament.
Although the number of applicants for Wande Football School this year is far higher than last year, the overall talent of the candidates is much worse than last year, compared to last year's 10 people who were invited to the echelon of Atletico Madrid, this year only one 13-year-old boy from Sichuan Province won the favor of Spanish scouts.
In fact, such a result was actually expected by Feng Quan, he did not expect a genius like Wang Xiaobei to appear every year, after all, even Brazil, which is known as the kingdom of football, it will take decades for peerless geniuses like Ronaldo and Ronaldinho to emerge.
Feng Quan's original intention of choosing to establish a football school is to consolidate the youth training foundation of Chinese football as much as possible through his own efforts, so as to avoid the embarrassing situation that there were only 51 school-age players in the national junior team in 2012.
Although the development of Wande Football School in the past year or so is good, because there are less than 100 professional football clubs in China, and most of the clubs in the Chinese Super League have their own youth training echelons, most of the students of the football school are destined to only become a "football lover" in their lives and cannot get on the real professional field.
The overall strength of Spain, Germany, Brazil, Argentina and other football European and American powers has been able to stay at the top of the pyramid of world football for a long time, in addition to having a solid and complete youth training foundation, a scientific and complete professional football system is also a very important part.
Anyone who has played an official match knows very well that even if they are only participating in an amateur league at the city level, from the perspective of "participation", it is better than watching the finals of major events such as the World Cup and the Champions League live. After all, it's always more exciting to end up playing by yourself than watching someone else play.
Therefore, even if Fengquan's series of measures basically solve the future path of football school students, if more football lovers can experience the true fun of football, even if there are hundreds or even thousands of people like Fengquan who sincerely dedicate themselves to the cause of football, it will be difficult for China's football population to increase by leaps and bounds.
After learning about the development of Wande Football School for more than a year and the preparation for the construction of the new football school, Fengquan is ready to create an amateur league with national participation, so that more football fans can really participate in the game.
Although Fengquan's final plan is a national-level event, in order to ensure the stable and healthy development of the event, Fengquan still decided to do a pilot in his hometown of Beixi first, and then promote it to the whole province and even the whole country after the event is mature.
As a result, Feng Quan found the leaders of Beixi City who focused on sports, hoping to cooperate with the municipal government to establish a city-level amateur football league.
Although the leader surnamed Huang is not interested in football at all, considering Fengquan's huge influence in the country now, and the fact that he has not had any decent political achievements for so many years, he sincerely expressed his gratitude to "Fengquan's great contribution to the development of hometown football", and then patted his chest and said that the municipal government and the Sports Bureau will do their best to help Fengquan organize this event.
In order to attract more public attention to this competition, Feng Quan not only served as the image ambassador of the event, but also promised to spend it every year for the promotion and operation of the event, and also set a total prize money for the top four teams.
Although 900,000 yuan is nothing for today's Fengquan, Fengquan, as a member of the "system", knows very well that if this money is directly handed over to the relevant departments, more than half of the funds that can be used in the final game will be regarded as "selfless".
As a result, Feng Quan asked his friend Zhang Xin, who has been following Zhao Shijie's "study" recently, as the person in charge of the "Nord Stream Amateur Football League", and every fund for the game must be reviewed by him before it can be used.
In this way, not only can the event funds be used to the maximum extent, but this event is also a good opportunity for Zhang Xin to experience.
After finalizing the details of the establishment of the amateur league with the Nord Stream Sports Bureau, Feng Quan took the high-speed train to the capital, and from there took a flight back to Milan, Italy.
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Serie A, which was a week-long break on the national team's break, started the 8th round of the competition on Sunday.
Although the poor form of a large number of main players has greatly affected the strength of many strong teams, even if they have three points with the advantage of overall strength, the process of winning the game is very difficult.
AC Milan, on the other hand, were completely different, with seven players in the starting line-up playing for the national team, but they showed far more competitive form than the home team in the away game against Torino.
Eight minutes into the game, Feng Quan broke through along the right wing to 6 meters from the baseline and sent a flat arc to the front of the goal.
In the next moment, Mandzukic, who was outflanked in place, pressed a powerful header from Glick and smashed the ball close to the top right corner of the goal.
Although the home team Torino immediately stepped up their attack after conceding the goal, they struggled to get shots in the box against the AC Milan defense led by Romagnoli, and could only rely on long-range shots from outside the box to constantly refresh their shots.
The embarrassing situation of not being able to attack for a long time made the Torino players more and more impatient, and then there were frequent passing errors in the game.
On 33 minutes, Torino midfielder Baseli's pass to the flank was too strong and Kuczka cut it off.
Kuczka pushed forward near the halfway line and passed to Bonaventura, who was cutting forward at high speed.
After receiving the ball, Bonaventura first subconsciously looked at Feng Quan on the left side of the front court, but after seeing the three Torino players surrounding Feng Quan at the same time, he quickly advanced forward with the ball.
Due to the fact that AC Milan would choose to pass the ball to Feng Quan as soon as they got the ball in the previous attacks, the Torino players were obviously a little unprepared for Bonaventura's sudden personal breakthrough.
So much so that it wasn't until Bonaventura drove the ball to less than 10 meters from the penalty area line that the two Torino midfielders who had been preparing to help the full-backs help defend the wind did not have time to stop Bonaventura from continuing to advance.
However, just as the two Torino players were about to break the ball, Bonaventura sent the ball to the left side of the box with a pick-and-roll pass.
The next moment, Feng Quan, who was lightning into the penalty area, first unloaded the ball to the side with his chest to avoid the onslaught of Torino defender Bovo, and then sent the ball into the top left corner of the goal with a volley without waiting for the ball to hit the ground.
After the change of sides, the Torino team, which was unwilling to lose at home, completed a number of threatening attacks in the game, but Diego López, who was in great form in this game, tried his best to keep AC Milan's goal and did not even leave a corner kick opportunity for the opponent.
While the defensive line continued to defuse Torino's attack, the attacking line led by Feng Quan also helped the team expand its results twice.
In the 16th minute of the second half, Torino goalkeeper Padelli barely blocked Mandzukic's burst near the penalty spot, but the rebounding football was all made into the goal by the swift wind.
11 minutes later, Bonaventura, who once again took advantage of the opportunity to attract multiple defenders, suddenly stepped forward, advanced the ball to the opponent's 30-meter area and passed the ball to the space on the right side of the front court.
Desiglio, who assisted in the front court, took the ball to 3 meters from the baseline and sent an inverted triangle pass towards the space on the right side of the penalty area.
Kuczka, who was inserted into the gap, first picked up his right foot to shoot, but when the defender subconsciously stretched his leg to block, he swept the ball towards the space near the penalty spot.
Bonaventura, who quickly cut into the box, coolly pushed the ball into the bottom right corner of the net.
Three minutes after Bonaventura's goal, Mihajlovic replaced Mandzukic and Fengquan with Niang and Shaarawy.
Although Feng Quan's departure led to a "significant decline" in AC Milan's performance, the Torino team, which had long been unwilling to fight, failed to score a face-saving goal until the end of the game.
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