Zhang Yuning signed with Vitesse on July 1, 2015, which became a major event in Chinese football.

Because, from March 24, 2011 (that day was known as the "dark day" of Chinese football) Shao Jiayi, Hao Junmin, Dong Yuanzhuo were abandoned by the club, Zhang Chengdong said goodbye to the season early due to a fracture, and after the "annihilation" of Chinese overseas players, after 4 years and 4 months, there were finally Chinese players in the European League.

On the same day that Zhang Yuning's last of China's last stalwarts in overseas arenas reluctantly faded out, domestic media disclosed a set of figures that reflected the cruel reality of China's teenagers:

Between 1990 and 1995, the number of young people participating in football in the country reached an all-time high of 650,000;

610,000 between 1996 and 2000;

It fell sharply to 180,000 from 2000 to 2005;

After 2006, it has been declining year by year, and by the end of 2010, there were less than 7,000 young players registered with the Chinese Football Association;

The number of football schools has dropped from more than 4,000 at its peak to more than 20 at a terrible time......

On the surface, Shao Jiayi and others leaving the European arena do not seem to be directly related to the following set of numbers, but in fact, these are the most important ends of the Chinese football biological chain.

The break of the chain itself, the latter inevitably leads to the former, which in turn worsens the latter. It can be seen that the entire biological chain of Chinese football has fallen into a vicious circle from imbalance to rupture, and it is difficult to extricate itself.

The order of the soccer bio chain is roughly as follows:

People who love and participate in playing football, especially children;

perfect youth training system;

a pyramid-shaped multi-level amateur, semi-professional and professional league system;

High-level and consistent national teams of all ages.

Among them, the football population at the top of the chain and the number of young players at home, as well as the quality of players playing in the European leagues, especially the top five leagues, at the end of the chain, are the basic indicators of the health and completeness of the chain.

Compared with neighbors South Korea and Japan, the growth of China's football biological chain is not lagging behind at least in the formative period, and even led for a time.

Yang Richen in the Bundesliga, Li Jinfu and Sun Jihai in the Premier League, are not inferior to Miura Chiliang, who was shoehorned into Serie A by the Japanese company, and Che Fangen of the Gold Rush Bundesliga is also compared.

It is a pity that Japanese and South Korean football, which firmly believes in the natural success, pays more and more attention to the nourishment of the head of the biological chain, and gradually creates the most solid youth training system and the highest level of professional league in Asia.

In contrast, the number of young players registered in Japan has been above 600,000 for the past 10 years, and the number of young players registered with the Korean Football Association has also reached 500,000.

In contrast, the Japanese and South Korean national teams have firmly dominated Asian football, with the Japanese and South Korean national teams having participated in the World Cup finals for more than 20 consecutive years, including many group progressions.

The Chinese national football team only appeared once in the finals of the 2002 South Korea-Japan World Cup, and the group was completely beaten back to its original form without scoring 1 point in 3 group games.

Looking at the quality of China's "last overseas players", Shao Jiayi's owner is Decbund Fortbus; Dong Yuanzhuo first started high from Manchester United, and then went low to Poland and Portugal; Hao Junmin's Bundesliga Schalke 04 is not small, but unfortunately he has a total of 13 appearances in two seasons, zero goals and zero assists.

and South Korean and Japanese players who traveled to Europe during the same period, Park Ji-sung won the Premier League three times at Manchester United and the Champions League once; Li Qinglong played the ball in Bolton Wanderers and his use in Celtic; At the age of 18, Son Heung-min, who broke Cha Fangen's record as the youngest South Korean international in 39 years, is a rising star of Bundesliga powerhouse Hamburg, and later transferred to Tottenham Hotspur in the English Premier League to become the absolute main force.

Japanese players are coming from behind, Keisuke Honda played from the Eredivisie to Serie A and the Champions League; Borussia Dortmund's Shinji Kagawa was named the Bundesliga Player of the Half; Yuto Nagatomo is Inter's full-back, along with Wolfsburg's Makoto Hasebe, Schalke 04's Atsushi Uchida and Dutch Ferron VVV's Maya Yoshida......

In the first half of this year, he was born, raising the banner of Chinese foreign players, and the light covered Asia, Zhang Zhetian, who was expected to become the first world-class superstar of Chinese football, but because of a ban from the Football Association that could not tolerate people, the Great Wall of China was forced to change the court, so that Chinese fans only dreamed of less than a few months and found that their superstar was German.

In recent seasons, Zhongrough has sprung up with a group of top stars from Europe and the United States, winning the AFC Champions League twice, and in terms of record alone, it has not fallen behind or even caught up in the competition with the J League and K League.

But this happened under the premise that most of the first-line stars of Japan and South Korea are playing in the European League, and every time these stars are recalled to their home countries in international competitions, the Japanese and South Korean football teams are still at the top level in Asia, and they have lost the help of Ricardo Goulart, Hulk, Alexander Pato, and Ezequel Ravitch, only Zhang Yuning, a European reinforcement (after Zhang Zhetian left China) and the dispensable Chinese national football team, or the Adou who can't be supported!

Optimistic people say that although Chinese football has made a comeback due to the popularity of Chinese and rough money, there is a long, long way to go under the illusory bubble. The hope of recovery cannot always be pinned on the national football team to create miracles, but to start from a solid increase in the football population and repair its own chain of life as soon as possible.

When Zhang Yuning, who plays in Europe's top five leagues, is not one but a group, and has the ability to occupy a place in the main lineup, when Lippi will never give up any mainstay of the returnee international players due to "misunderstanding", the day will really come when Chinese football will turn over.

But what they don't know is that this day, maybe a hundred years, maybe a thousand years, or even longer.

If it weren't for the cousin Zhangying's combination of soft and hard, Zhangzhetian really didn't want to call Lippi, and people had already publicly stated in the media that they would not recruit Zhang Yuning, how could he slap himself in the face?

Once something that undermines one's authority is done, how do you manage your subordinates?

And Zhang Zhetian is also angry with Zhang Yuning, and he used his connections to help him find a team that can give him a stable chance to play, but this kid has to listen to his agent, and he thinks that the platform and level of the Portuguese league are low, and he has to go to the Premier League and the Bundesliga.

Don't want to think about what strength you have? You can't even play in the Eredivisie, you don't want to have such a good opportunity to practice, now it's okay, the situation in Bremen is not much better than in Vitesse.

Taste the bitterness of your own death!

Just make a phone call and say it casually, anyway, Lao Tzu has acted, and my sister can't clean me up with this.

"Mr. Lippi, it's me, ...... Chelsky Palm"