Commenting on the 2-1 defeat of Thailand in the first round of the 36-team National Football League (NFF) Preliminary Round on Nov. 17, journalist Chen Hua argued that the more positive significance of the NFF's victory over Thailand lies in the implementation of the old and the new.
Chen Hua wrote:
In addition to the opening of the 36-team World Cup, the national football team debut more positive significance, is the new and old began to implement.
1. The younger backline is starting to be tested. Zhu Chenjie and Jiang Shenglong definitely passed the test as center backs, thanks to Lippi and Li Tie's letting go of the workout, and thanks to Shenhua's coaching staff for insisting on giving the young center back combo a chance to start, instead of bringing in a defender-foreigner package.
2. The Genbao base is probably still the biggest talent arsenal for the national soccer team. In the last World Cup cycle, the Genbao base shipped five international players: Wu Lei, Yan Junling, Zhang Linlian, Wang Shenchao and Zhu Chenjie. The new cycle is Wu Lei, Yan Junling, Zhang Linlian, Zhu Chenjie and Jiang Shenglong. The three Hong Kong internationals are now veterans, with Shenhua's two defenders starting to take over. Xu Genbao clearly asked Wu Lei before, "In the national team, you should bring more Zhu Chenjie and Jiang Shenglong." This is also the handover between international players in Genbao's base.
3. I still think the three candidates for goalie are too close in age and need to recruit a younger three candidates to gain experience and prepare for the future. Just like Lippi and Li Tie, who had the guts to start and pay the tuition fee for 20 year old Zhu Chenjie. Zhu Chenjie, in particular, is an insider who believes that at least three to four domestic defenders conceded goals in the last cycle as a result of their own inexperience. "But which domestic defender will concede a goal, so they'd rather create opportunities for youngsters to work out." .
4. The national soccer team is not a club and should not have too much regionalism, but after all, clubs have to send local talent to the national soccer team. This year, Port and Shenhua don't have strong foreigners, which seems to give more local players a chance to practice and improve. Wu Lei is the best local goalscorer and Jiang Shenglong and Zhu Chenjie are a rare combination of young center backs in the Chinese Super League.
From this perspective, if the CFA wants to adjust the foreign aid policy in the future, it also needs to make a more scientific decision - professional clubs certainly belong to the market, the national team is another level, but in the Chinese characteristics of the system, the national team is often to judge the success or failure of soccer. When this premise can not be changed, a lot of things can not copy the model of European and American soccer, can only self- fine-tune, looking for the largest convention.
