Chapter 15: Asian Junior Tournament (II)
After Yu Hai cut in to the middle, there were more options to attack, but the players of the South Korean team didn't know how to defend for a while, and the originally tight defense line suddenly became full of holes. And Yu Hai, who fully exerted his ability to change speed and direction, got two opportunities to hit the goal in the middle in a row, but unfortunately he had to shoot with his right foot after cutting inside from the left side (in fact, Yu Hai's left-footed shot was also very bad, even before there was no major injury, at that time he was mainly a breakthrough and cross, and when he first debuted at the age of 17, he became the half-way assist king of the Chinese Super League. The accuracy is really flattering, and the shots with good opportunities are all missed, which makes Coach Liu Chunming beat his chest on the field
But as the so-called "nothing more than three", Yu Hai's third shot finally hit the range of the goal frame, although unfortunately was saved by the goalkeeper of the South Korean team, but the ball did not fly far, I don't know when to run to the edge of the penalty area of the right-back Zhang Chenglin volleyed a wonderful world wave, the goalkeeper of the Korean team who had fallen to the ground had nothing to do about it, but to watch the ball into the net, and the two sides returned to the same starting line
After the score was equalized, the South Korean team immediately counterattacked, but as Gao Jun is well aware, the tactics of the South Korean team's positional attack are quite simple, as long as the fence is tightened and not distracted, it is difficult for them to get good opportunities, on the contrary, the Chinese team has used the opportunity of counterattack to threaten the goal of the South Korean team many times.
In the 11th minute of the second half, Gao Jun, who had been closely guarded by the South Korean defenders, finally got the first opportunity to shoot with his feet in the game, but due to the psychological pressure caused by the opponent's goalkeeper Biao Xiàn's bravery, Gao Jun was too keen to pursue the angle and hit the post and popped up, but fortunately, Yu Hai, who had already formed a tacit understanding with him, stepped forward in time and easily shot the ball into the net.
15 minutes later, Mao Jianqing drew a high-quality shot before being substituted, but it popped off the lower edge of the crossbar, and Gao Jun, who stepped forward in time, jumped to the top and scored his only goal of the game, which was also the last goal of the game, and the Chinese U17 junior team defeated the long-cherished rival South Korea 3:1 and won the championship of this Asian Junior Championship!
Gao Jun's outstanding performance in the last two games of the Asian Junior Championship won praise from many industry experts, but because Xu Genbao "blew too much", those who had a strong rebellious psychology kept clamoring that Gao Jun was "short-lived", "just lucky" and so on, and the media seized this opportunity and hyped it up, as for whether the children would be abolished because of this, they didn't care!
But now Gao Jun has no time to pay attention to them now, after pulling Hao Junmin into the base, inspired by this, Gao Jun, who remembered several other domestic calves, made a request to Director Xu
"What? Scouts? Although Coach Xu is currently the best local coach in China, he is still accustomed to the old model of scouting work done by the coach, and does not have the idea of setting up full-time scouts in the base or even in the future club, so he was surprised to hear Gao Jun offer to be a part-time scout, but Coach Xu finally agreed to Gao Jun's request after thinking about it for a while
On the one hand, it is due to the fact that those top talented players often have unique vision, and the precedent of Gao Jun helping Xie Wenjun, Cai Huikang and others to change their positions quickly is enough to prove his ability in this regard, and the Artemisia Junmin he recently recruited did not cost a penny to the base, but it is enough to become the core player after the establishment of the team in the future, which shows Gao Jun's vision.
What's more, Xu Genbao took into account that Gao Jun worked too hard after coming to the base, and he taught himself all kinds of knowledge every day in addition to training, and never saw him laughing and playing like an ordinary child. Although Xu Genbao is known for being strict, he also knows that if a child loses his innocence since he was a child, it is not a good thing for his growth, so it is good to give him a chance to leave the base to go out for a walk, and if he can really find some good seedlings, it will be even better
Although Xu Genbao came from that era, some of his thoughts are inevitably more conservative, but he did not object to the idea of Gao Jun directly going to other football schools and even club echelons to poach people, after all, even those famous youth teams in Europe often dig seedlings from the echelons of other clubs, in fact, in history, Xu Genbao did this from Jiangsu to get the king of martial arts
It must be explained that there is another direct reason why Gao Jun is in a hurry to help the base poach people, that is, Xu Genbao has decided to overturn the original plan and form a team to participate in the second division league in advance. Originally, in Xu Genbao's plan, the team to participate in the second division league would not be until 2005 or even 2006, but after the demon Gao Jun, in order not to delay this unprecedented genius in China, Xu Genbao decided to form a team to participate in the second division in advance in the next year, that is, in 2003.
To this end, Xu Genbao has streamlined the echelons at all levels of the base, the original 87 age group and 88 age group combined into a team, the total number of people compressed to 25, the original 89 age group and 90 age group combined into a team, also compressed to 25 people, and the later recruited 91 age group and 92 age group are still a separate team, the number is much larger, or the old model.
This is naturally very painful for the children who are eliminated from the competition, but it is not necessarily a bad thing in terms of their future prospects. Under the current system of Chinese football, playing football will inevitably affect your studies, especially after high school, if you insist on staying even if you have no football talent, you will not be able to become a professional player and will not be able to support your family, but you will delay going to school, and the loss will be too great
Although Coach Xu has already started to prepare in advance, it is still likely to encounter great difficulties in forming a team at Chongming Base to participate in the second division league in the coming year, because even the players born in 87 were only fifteen or sixteen years old in 2003, and because the young players in Chongming Base are basically real ages, the actual gap is even greater. After all, football is a fierce sport, the body is very important, a team of fifteen or sixteen-year-old teenagers even if the technical awareness is good, it is difficult to compete with tall and strong adult players, not to mention the current team in addition to the demon of Gao Jun, other small players do not have such a big advantage in technology, the best few are only the level of the main force of the A A weak team (just referring to technology), which does not take into account the huge gap in actual combat experience.