Chapter 22: Entering the List
Since the success of Evergrande's Jinyuan football, Chinese professional teams have invested more and more, club management has become more and more standardized, and the strength has been significantly improved.
In 2014, there were also several local tyrant teams in the Chinese League.
The first to bear the brunt are the two teams that were relegated from the Chinese Super League in the 13th season - Wuhan Zall and Qingdao Zhongneng.
Both teams have basically maintained the personnel who played in the Chinese Super League last season, although they have been relegated, but the strength and experience of the players are undoubtedly the top in the Chinese League.
Especially Qingdao Zhongneng, it has a long history, once the FA Cup champion, compared with other teams, its heritage is the deepest in the Chinese League. Before the season, the team signed former Chinese Super League player Dana Lach, Costa Rica international Maulicio Castillo, Honduras World Cup international Ousmane Chávez and former Chinese international Mao Jianqing.
There are also Beijing Institute of Technology, and North Baxi are teams backed by large state-owned units, and their strength on paper may look average, but the team's remuneration is stable and the bonus is extremely high, and such a team is not easy to play many times.
In addition, it is a team that can invest and is strong.
The first such team to bear the brunt is Chongqing Lifan, Lifan announced an investment of 70 million in the new season, and their goal is to surpass.
Not long ago, Wang Dong, the midfield core of the Chinese Super League team Changchun Yatai, joined Lifan, two former internationals who hit the face Albin Liu Yu and Chen Lei joined Lifan, and also brought in midfielder Elias and striker Orlando from Brazil.
The strength of the imaginary sail should not be underestimated.
In addition to Lifan, it is Hunan Xiangtao, they were ranked lower last season, this season they introduced two powerful foreign aids, Cabezas and Damjanovic, and another point is that many of the Hunan Xiangtao team are players from the Chinese Super League team. In addition, the team's style of play is tough, so it is very difficult to play.
Of course, in addition to these teams, the other teams are not weak chickens, like Yanbian Changbai Mountain, a team composed mainly of Korean ethnic groups, with a very similar style of play to the South Korean team, with firm will, full of physical strength, simple and rough.
Of course, Shijiazhuang Yongchang is not a weak team.
In the winter transfer, Yongchang introduced eight people, namely Brazilian striker Caron, Bulgarian forward Joro and Brazilian defender Diego, three foreign aids, and five domestic aids, namely Sun Haosheng, a fullback who played for Dalian Albin, Guangzhou R&F's midfielder Gao Zengxiang, Hong Kong Nanhua's forward Bai He and Huang Fengtao, who played for Hangzhou Greentown last season, and Li Yun, a free signer.
The plan of Yongchang's high-level is to reserve strength in 14 years and surpass in 15 years, but Yasen hopes to surpass this year, but it is clear that there are only two places to surpass, and Yongchang's strength on paper is not superior, so Yongchang generals need to work harder and be more united.
After 20 days of intensive training in Shenzhen, the whole team of Yongchang rushed back to Shijiazhuang, and Li Yun began his real life in the Yongchang club.
What is the life of a professional player like, Li Yun used to watch the news and gossip, all kinds of things, such as Xiao Luo going to a nightclub to have an all-night hi, such as Xiaobei following the hot girls to the show all day long, such as Inzaghi collecting stamps everywhere, such as Messi playing live FIFA.
Of course, the news reports are only part of the lives of football stars, because they are football stars, and the little things will be infinitely magnified.
And an unknown young player like Li Yun is actually similar to ordinary people.
Li Yun lives in a single dormitory, with bedrooms, bathrooms, bathrooms, and no kitchens. The room has an LCD TV, there is an Internet cable but no computer, fortunately Li Yun brought his laptop.
Every morning, there is no alarm clock, Li Yun wakes up early, he goes out for a morning run, and meets many people along the way, at least more than when he was in Guangzhou before.
Then go to the staff restaurant for breakfast, the time is too early, there are almost no teammates, the restaurant only Li Yun and a few logistics uncles, after breakfast, the time is still early, Li Yun returned to the dormitory, rested for a while, and then played in the dormitory while watching football clips.
After spending an hour in the dormitory, Li Yun went to the training ground, and then began the morning training.
Because there is still a week before the Chinese League to start, Yasen is not as strict as he was required in the previous training camp in Shenzhen, he deliberately reduced the amount of training, and at the same time kept telling the players to relax.
Despite this, the players trained hard and at this point, no one could relax, as Yasen said that he was arranging his playing places based on the form of the players.
Naturally, the new players want to perform early and establish themselves. The veteran players don't want to be brushed off and can keep their position last season.
So on the training ground, the players are very hard, and Yasen sees that the players are full of momentum, so he doesn't talk about relaxation.
Li Yun is naturally very hardworking, he didn't expect him to be in the team squad, so he didn't call Li Sheng and let Li Sheng watch his game. Li Yunpin is just a habit, he doesn't like the feeling of slacking off, then he will feel very decadent, the whole person is boring, only running and rushing, he feels fulfilled.
Physical training in the morning and technical and tactical training in the afternoon, Yasen focused on arranging the kicking style of contact set-pieces and corners.
Li Yun had been playing amateur before, and he didn't like to fight for it, so his header was very bad.
Tactical drills of set-pieces and corner kicks, Yasen soon found that Li Yun was not good at heading, for this, Yasen was not satisfied, he felt that Li Yun's attitude was not good first, Li Yun was afraid of scrambling, not afraid of headers not hitting the goal.
Under the urging of Yasen, Li Yun had to practice heading, of course, the effect was average.
Life at night is simpler than during the day, except for the first night when the captain Li Chao invited everyone to dinner, Li Yun nested in the dormitory at other times, he used to accompany Hu Susu to watch movies, and now he is alone, he also watches movies, just playing football while cutting movies.
The reason why Li Yun didn't go out was because he was not familiar with his teammates, and second, because he was not familiar with Shijiazhuang.
Li Yun's first week in Shijiazhuang was spent like this, no one knew Li Yun as a player, in fact, even Li Yun's classmates and friends didn't know that Li Yun was playing, Li Sheng didn't dare to tell his neighbors that Li Yun was going to play football, he was afraid of being embarrassed, and even the official website of Yongchang Club did not follow up and update Li Yun's information.
On March 15, 2014, at the training ground of Yongchang Club, all the players gathered, Yasen stood at the front, holding a piece of paper in his hand, "The person whose name I read will enter the team squad and play with the team tomorrow." ”
"No. 12 Wang Guoming."
"No. 4 Li Chao."
"No. 28 Huang Fengtao."
……
"No. 77 Li Yun."
Li Yun was stunned, he couldn't believe that happiness came so quickly, in the first round of the Shijiazhuang Chinese League, he faced Shenzhen Mavericks Red Diamond at home, he was able to enter the squad, he had only been a professional player for more than a month, and he was able to enter the squad.
Li Yun was extremely excited, he looked at Yasen, and seeing that Yasen was looking at him, Li Yun nodded firmly, "I will definitely work hard." ”