Chapter 139: Asian Footballer

Shen Feng, who was born in November 97, fully meets the competition for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics football competition!

The U23 Asian Cup was held in January 2018, and the players participating in the competition were mainly players aged 95, unless these players could gain a firm foothold in the Dragon Country team in the future, and Shen Feng would not have too much intersection with them.

Originally, according to the opinions of the head coach of the Dragon Country Team Lippi and the Jianye team, Shen Feng was not going to let Shen Feng participate in the U23 Asian Cup, because although he was a player of appropriate age, he already had a heavy task in the club and the Dragon Country team, and he didn't need to prove himself in a game at the level of the U23 Asian Cup.

However, the Dragon Football Association hopes that Shen Feng can accept the signs of the national youth team, firstly, it hopes that he can help the national youth team achieve ideal results in this U23 Asian Cup, and secondly, the U23 Asian Cup is held at the door of the Dragon Country, which is a good platform for promoting Dragon Country Football, and Shen Feng, as the current face representative of Dragon Country Football, if he cannot appear in this event, then this event will be much more disgraced and will receive a lot less attention.

Shen Feng himself has no resistance to participating in this U23 Asian Cup, because he knows that according to the urine nature of the "Shenfeng" system, if he can lead the Longguo National Youth Team to win the championship in this event, he will definitely be rewarded with a certain amount of free attribute value!

Although there will not be many rewards because of the low level of this season, for Shen Feng, who is in urgent need of free attribute value, even if it is 1, it is good.

So after thinking about it, Shen Feng himself agreed to accept the call-up of the Dragon Country U22 national youth team.

However, due to the overlap between the training time of the Dragon U22 national youth team and the Dragon National team with the task of the East Asian Cup, Shen Feng could not participate in the training of the U22 national youth team throughout the whole process, and could only go to meet with the U22 national youth team after the East Asian Cup game.

A total of 28 people have been recruited for the training list of the U22 national youth team, and a list of 22 candidates is required, with a total of 50 recruits!

In addition to Shen Feng, there are five people including Hu Jingheng, Long Cheng, Du Changjie, Liu Heng, and Zhang Ziru selected, among which Hu Jingheng, Long Cheng and Du Changjie are all in the main list, Liu Heng and Zhang Ziru are temporarily listed in the candidate ranks.

In fact, in addition to Shen Feng, there are several players in the training list of the U22 national youth team this time, and they are also selected for the upcoming East Asian Cup training list, including Wei Shihao, Gao Zhunyi, Yang Liyu, He Chao and Liu Yiming.

Being able to be selected for both the Dragon Country Team and the National Youth Team shows that these players will be the backbone of Dragon Country football in the next ten years!

Before going to report to the Dragon Country, Shen Feng first went to Bangkok, Thailand, with the head coach of the Dragon Team Lippi and officials of the Dragon Country Football Association on November 29 to attend the 2017 AFC Awards Ceremony held there.

At this year's AFC Awards Ceremony, Shen Feng was nominated for the "Asian Footballer of the Year" and "Best Young Men's Player" awards due to his outstanding performance in the club and national team.

Due to their outstanding performance in the World Cup qualifiers, the Dragon Country team has become the favorite to win the three awards of "Dream Asia Award", "Best Association (Incentive Group)" and "Grassroots Football Commendation Award (Incentive Group)".

Lippi is also a strong contender for this year's AFC "Best Men's Coach" because he led the Dragon Team to the World Cup finals for the second time!

Shen Feng has an obvious advantage in this year's AFC "Best Men's Young Player" selection, and this award has been 100% booked by him in advance.

In this year's Asian Footballer of the Year, his two opponents are Khribin from Syria and Qatari player Omar, who is known as the "Messi of the Gulf".

Omar was last year's "Asian Footballer of the Year", and this season because of his Qatar team, which did not perform well in the World Cup qualifiers in the Asian round of 12, finished bottom of Group A, and the club he played for did not perform very well this season, so it is unlikely that he will be awarded the "Asian Footballer of the Year" this year.

Hribin from Syria, the club he played for reached the final of this year's AFC Champions League, Kribin scored 5 goals in the semi-finals of the two legs, it can be said that he single-handedly helped the team advance to the final, although he lost to the Japanese team Urawa Ruby who eliminated the SIPG team in the final, but because the players of the Urawa Ruby team were not shortlisted for the "Asian Footballer" selection, so at the club level, Kribin may win more.

Although Shen Feng led Jianye to win the double of the Dragon Super League and the FA Cup this season, he did not have a chance to perform in the AFC Champions League.

However, Shen Feng led the Dragon Country team to the World Cup finals for the second time in history, which was a big plus for him!

Fan Zhiyi, the first player in the Dragon Country to win the title of "Asian Footballer", led the Dragon Country team to the World Cup finals for the first time, and had the last laugh in the selection of "Asian Footballer".

And Khribin's Syrian team, although it performed well in the World Cup qualifiers in the Asian round of 12, but lost to the Dragons in the competition for qualification for the Group A play-offs, and then watched the Dragons defeat strong opponents in the Asian play-offs and intercontinental play-offs.

Therefore, Khribin and Shen Feng each have a certain advantage in the selection of this year's "Asian Footballer", relatively speaking, Shen Feng's advantage is slightly greater!

However, the AFC is currently under the control of the West Asians, and no one can say whether it will be a bit boring in the selection of "Asian Footballer" before the award is awarded!

Therefore, after Shen Feng arrived in Bangkok, Thailand, he behaved quite low-key, facing reporters, just saying that he was honored to be shortlisted for the "Asian Footballer" selection in the first year of his career, and did not show full confidence in the final award.

may be because of his prudence, which saved him a character, and the "Asian Footballer" awarded in the finale of the awards ceremony was finally awarded, and it was really Shen Feng, who had already had a "Best Men's Young Player" trophy in his hand before!

Shen Feng not only became the first player in the history of the AFC to win both the "Asian Footballer" and the "Best Men's Young Player" awards at the same time, but also the youngest "Asian Footballer" in history, who had just turned 20 when he won the award!