Oct. 9 (Bloomberg)
Today, Tianjin journalist Gu Ying posted an article on social media about Xie Weijun's growth in recent years and analyzed his future prospects in the national football team.
Xie Weijun from the Jinmen Tigers has been selected for the first time in the new National Football League player list. Journalist Gu Ying describes the progress Xie Weijun has made over the years.
Xie Weijun has height, speed, spirit and potential - this is the first time after the reorganization of the 2021 Jinmen Tigers departed, head coach Yu Genwei and the coaching staff made a unanimous judgment on him. On the basis of this judgment, the coaching staff also identified three priorities for enhancement: strengthening upper body strength, enhancing header scoring ability, and enhancing the ability to hold the ball in the back.
With direction, there has to be a way to be consistent. In the past two and a half years, it was normal for assistant coaches Sun Jianjun and Xie Weijun to practice together, every one or two days, and that is still the case today. There are also the famous scenes of seven coaches working in tandem to help Xie practice headers from multiple angles and levels. Coach Yu Genwei broke down Xie's technical moves one-on-one and taught him about handling the ball, especially at the beginning of the Jinmen Tigers' start.
In today's league environment, teams generally rely on foreigners for the striker position, the development space for domestic strikers has been squeezed, and there are only a few strikers with outstanding characteristics and great potential. At 1.90 meters tall, Xie Weijun is nearly 10 years younger than Tan Long, another regular striker recruited by the national soccer team, and has a greater height advantage. In the long run, Xie Weijun is not the same type of player as Beijing Guoan striker Zhang Yuning, who is suffering from an injury, and the national team is not mutually exclusive... As long as you work harder, Xie Weijun, who turns 26 next month, will surely keep refreshing his ceiling.
