Following his father's life in Guangzhou, Zheng Ziyi undoubtedly joined Evergrande Soccer School and started to receive professional soccer training. Inheriting his father's excellent genes, Zheng Ziyi can be said to be a promising youngster, winning the Guangzhou Youth Football League for Evergrande's U9 team at the age of 9. Combined with the fact that his father has been a premier player for the national soccer team for many years, Zheng Ziyi is also highly regarded by fans.
In 2021, at the age of 13, Zheng Ziyi was selected for the Chinese Football Association's U14 Top Junior Players Camp and became part of the National Junior Team roster for the first time last year. However, the National Junior Team's poor performance in Asian tournaments over the past two years has raised questions about Zheng Ziyi's performance, with many believing that his talent and ability has not yet reached the level of Zheng Zhi's year. Therefore, Zheng Ziyi's failure to make the National Junior Team this year did not come as a surprise.
Currently, Zheng Zhi is a member of the coaching staff of the Chinese men's national soccer team and enjoys a high reputation among the team. However, his son's failure to make the most recent roster for China's national junior soccer team shows that the management of the Football Association, in terms of youth training, does not favor Zheng Zhi because of his unique status.
This year, the new FA leadership has already brought many changes, especially in player selection. Now, the FA's criteria for selecting players for the national team is that no matter who you are and how you are related to the national team, if your ability does not meet the criteria, you will not be included in the national team.
Zheng Zhi is also very frank about this. Because, even for his own son, if he can't reach the level of the national team is also very normal, and there is no need to deliberately facilitate. If Zheng Ziyi is really not interested in soccer, he can also plan other development paths for his son, such as concentrating on his studies, and in the future, he will be able to get into a first-class university and be equally successful, right?
