After a relaxed and meticulous half-month of training, the pace began to increase on July 15, and then a warm-up match against Germany U17 was scheduled on July 22.

Germany Under-17s demanded that the match be played as normal, with 40 minutes each half and three substitutions. This made Lin Wenlei, who was going to play as the team of the World Junior Championship in the first half and the team of the Youth Games in the second half, have no choice. But fortunately, there is also an U17 with its own club in Cologne, so I arranged to play a game with the U17 of Lin Han's vocal cord at the Lucky Cologne Stadium on the 20th. Then on the 22nd, he played a game against the German U17 in Frankfurt.

After half a month of intensive training, the 23 players of the Chinese U17 team participating in the World Junior Championship in Chile have been basically determined, they are:

Forwards: Sun Ge, Chen Pu, Sono, Zhao Yao, Zhou Duo.

Midfielders: Su Wu, Cai Rongyu, Zhou Bo, Wang Jie, Zheng Zhi, Fan Sheng, Meng Xinyan, Sun Letian, Lucas.

Defenders: Zhou Zhaolin, Xie He, Xia Jixuan, Guiyang, Gan Rong, Su Xin.

Goalkeepers: Lu Yiming, An Shidao, Chu Hongtu.

The Youth Sports team is:

Forwards: Meng Xihe, Gao Rong, Rong Shi.

Midfielders: Feng Yang, Fan Hua, Xia Donghai, Feng Huakai, Ning Zizheng, Sun Qi, Chen Muxin.

Defenders: Wang Yu, Lin Yunyi, Tian Youzhi, Wang Daoxin, Xia.

Goalkeepers: Wei Haiming, Ningxia.

They also have to select a few more candidates according to the U17 competition with Lin Hansheng to form the Jiangxia team to participate in the first Minzhou Youth Games.

This time the team will be led by Wang Xinze, who has been serving as Niu Xiwen's assistant coach and reserve team coach in Vienna since the Asian Junior Championships, and also has his own manpower, and soon built a well-established team.

The team rushed to Cologne on the 18th, which was fortunate that Cologne was not like the small club where Lin Wenlei studied abroad, the stadium could only accommodate a few thousand people, and the training camp was dilapidated and old.

Dassler invested heavily in the 13-14 season, and in the just-concluded 14-15 season, he was promoted to the Bundesliga as the second place in the Bundesliga.

Huge construction is now underway, and a 36,000-seat Adi stadium is nearing completion. The youth academy was built and used a year ago, on the edge of the small town of Verna, covering an area of nearly 1,200 acres.

The academy has 16 training grounds, as well as a large number of digital training equipment, where the Lucky Cologne team and Jiangxia Flame U17 train.

Jiangxia Flame U17, like the youth team of Lucky Cologne, participates in the official youth league in the southwest region, and belongs to the team with points but not ranking, and in the 14-15 season, it can also be ranked fifth according to the points. v5

The team members usually study in the surrounding schools, and the German families who live in the small town are the same as other German youth team members, who go to school on time to study and train for competitions on time.

Jiangxia Flame U17 is known as the second home team in the town and is very popular with everyone.

After all, Lucky Cologne has a strong Chinese color from the beginning, and Lin Wenlei was the first to serve as an intern coach and coach of the junior team here. Jiang Meng, the left wing-back of the 12-13 season, was one of the heroes when Lucky Cologne was promoted from the regional league to the German Second Division, and even if he subsequently transferred to Hoffenheim, there are still many people who love him, and this season will return to Lucky Cologne from Hoffenheim for 9.5 million euros.

In the 13-14 season, the 19-year-old center Bloomberg of Jiangxia Flames entered Lucky Cologne, and played 25 games in the Bundesliga that year, scoring 18 goals and 3 assists. In the 14-15 season of the Bundesliga, he made 28 appearances, scored 26 goals and provided 7 assists, and became the darling of lucky Cologne fans.

In the winter transfer period of this season, Zhao Yao transferred from Bayer Leverkusen to Lucky Cologne for 4.5 million euros, and Feng Yang transferred from Jiangxia Youth United for 3 million euros.

In the most intense second half of the season in the Bundesliga, Feng Yang became the main striker of Lucky Cologne, making 12 appearances, scoring three goals but providing 11 assists. Zhao Yao is also a very competitive substitute, especially in the last 5 games, Bloomberg and Zhao Yao cooperated tacitly and became the main striker partner.

With the return of Jiang Meng, fortunately Cologne has as many as 5 Chinese players. And because of his familiarity with digital training, Lin Hansheng has been recognized by the club's management and will be the head coach of Lucky Cologne U18, so that Lucky Cologne's strong Chinese color is not limited to players.

Lin Hansheng is happy to see Lin Hansheng as the head coach of Lucky Cologne U18, and vigorously provides convenience.

Neumann said very reasonably, with the reputation of a coach in Huaguo, it is too much resistance to directly become the head coach of the five major leagues. Lin Hansheng will take the U18 for two or three years first, wait for the players to grow up, and then wait for the coach of the first team to make a mistake. Even if the results are average, with the experience of acting head coach, it is not a big problem to run a club in the Bundesliga or the middle and lower reaches of the Bundesliga.

Just like Niu Xiwen did quickly in Vienna, Niu Xiwen has already gained a firm foothold with an Olympic Super League runner-up, and this season Dassler has also increased investment, and if he can win a championship or have any shining points in the Europa League, he can operate in the five major leagues.

Lin Wenlei is very satisfied with this arrangement, South Korea and Japan are only working on the player side now, and it is definitely a clever move for them to overtake in the corner in terms of coaching. After the coach has established himself, it is natural to use a few of his own people. There are no troubles of miscommunication, tolerating small mistakes, giving more opportunities to play or anything is a small matter.

But that's where the adaptation and growth of the players comes in.

Lin Wenlei not only fully supports Niu Xiwen and Lin Hansheng, but also prepares to let Rong Yu and Wang Xinze also arrange after the World Junior Championships, and walk on the coach's seat of the five major leagues, which will not only escort the existing youth training achievements, but also be a bridgehead for Chinese players to continue to land in Europe.

Compared with other aspects, it is only an assumption, but fortunately, Cologne's footsteps have been firmly established. Not only the senior management of the club supports the coaches and players of Huaguo, but the fan group also likes these players from Huaguo very much, and there is no resistance to the Chinese color of the club.

With the performance of players such as Gao Xidi and Jiang Meng, as well as Frankfurt's Zhou Bo, Huaguo players have a very good image in the Bundesliga. Maybe it won't be the same way, but at least it won't be directly rejected, it won't be discriminated against, and it's a good start.

So Lin Wenlei took the team to the training base of Lucky Cologne and did not feel strange at all, and the crowd greeted him in addition to the senior management of Lucky Cologne Club, there were many acquaintances, including Jiang Meng and Peng Bo who rushed from Hoffenheim, as well as Lin Hansheng and his U17 echelon in Europe.

In addition, Lin Wenlei also met his old friend Julien Rumorin from his time in Cologne. He is a die-hard fan of Lucky Cologne, and a lawyer. I am also a friend of Dim Neumann, and I heard that I have obtained a lot of lawyer business in Neumann's brokerage business. He is also the vice chairman of the supervisory board of Lucky Cologne, and he has a lot of say in Lucky Cologne.

The more Wei Hongjiang learned more about it, the more he felt that he didn't know Lin Wenlei, and he didn't expect him to have such a wide network in European football.