Although our Chinese soccer is not good, there are always some players who pick the generals among the cripples, and they have earned quite loud titles. For example, the golden generation, 85 super platinum generation, 93 national Olympic top ten supernova, 974 swans and so on. Today, let's talk about the current status of the 974 Little Swans. 974 Little Swans are Zhang Yuning, Lin Liangming, Yang Liyu and Hu Jinghang. Compared with others, these four people have a very high starting point. Zhang Yuning has a Dutch Bundesliga and Premier League resume, and Lin Liangming is a Real Madrid ladder player. Yang Liyu trained in Portugal and Hu Jinghang is a native of the Genbao base. Now they're 26, but the 97th grade players represented by them are embarrassing.
1. Zhang Yuning: The Most Successful 97 Players
Zhang Yuning is the only one of the four to have managed to establish himself in the national soccer team. at 18 he became a first team player for Dutch Vitesse, at 19 he became a 93rd Olympic player, scoring twice against Morocco, and in the same year he was selected for the national soccer team and scored.
Zhang Yuning's family is not short of money. His father once said that he threw a dozen houses into Shanghai in order to train Zhang Yuning. Moreover, when the golden dollar soccer was in full swing, Zhang Yuning insisted on studying abroad and signed for the Dutch Bundesliga and English Premier League teams, but it was difficult to take part in official matches when he was limited to his own strengths.In 2019, 22-year-old Zhang Yuning chose to join Guoan, catching up with the last wave of the boom of the golden dollar soccer. Thanks to his physical fitness and years of training overseas, Zhang Yuning has established himself at Guoan and the national soccer team. He is the most successful player at 97. It seems success also has a lot to do with family strength.
Last year, there were rumors that Guoan was owed eight months' worth of wages, and now Zhang Yuning is recovering from an injury in the Netherlands, and in between, it's intriguing to see what's going on.
2、Lin Liangming: the first Chinese player to join Real Madrid
Lin Liangming was selected for the U19 national youth team led by Li Ming, and participated in the Eight-Nation Youth Championship in Slovakia and the Four-Nation Championship in Lisbon. Li Ming had praised Lin Liangming as very good and said that many top European clubs were watching him. Sure enough, in 2015, at the age of 18, Lin Liangming was invited by Real Madrid to join the Real Madrid ladder and Real Madrid B team Castilla. However, Real Madrid put a price tag of 100 million euros on Lin Liangming, instantly changing the flavor of the signing.
After five years of study in Spain and Portugal, Lin Liangming joined Dalian in 2020. Currently, he is the core of Dalian's offense and the team's top scorer. Dalian is doing its best to keep Lin Liangming. Among the four swans, Lin Liangming is the most stable living environment.
3, Yang Liyu: The Luckiest and Most Profitable 97 Players
Yang Liyu was lucky. He was 17 when he was run by his agent to study abroad, then participated in a program of the Song Foundation and played in the league in Gondomar, Portugal. Gondomar, as you know, is the equivalent of a Yangcheng Lake, in which he was rinsed and returned with a much higher value.
In 2017, the Chinese Football Association (CFA) began to implement the U23 policy. 20-year-old Yang Liyu immediately returned to China and became the first wave of beneficiaries. He made 27 appearances for Tianjin Teda, averaging 48.4 minutes, scoring 2 goals and contributing 2 assists. Yang Liyu's outstanding performance also attracted Evergrande's attention and subsequently brought in a sky-high fee. His annual salary is reportedly as high as 8 million dollars, which puts many international players to shame.
After five years at Evergrande, Yang Liyu moved on a free transfer as Evergrande was relegated and began to lighten its operations. It was reported that he joined Hong Kong along with Wei. It has to be said that Yang Liyu is the luckiest of the 97 class players. The lucky index is second only to Gao Lin. Yang Liyu caught up with the good thing about making money, while the other three couldn't.
Fourth, Hu Jinghang: the most stifled one
Of the four swans, how much should Hu Jinghang have been stifled as a homegrown swan when the others went overseas for gold plating and then came back to sign sky-high contracts. He comes from the Genbao youth training base, often signed with Hong Kong, and is also a fringe player in Hong Kong.In 2017, he was sent by Shanghai to the Jianye training course, and won the best newcomer of the Chinese Super League with a bang.Then, he was recalled by Shanghai, but still had difficulty adapting to the rhythm of the strongest team, and was sent back to Jianye, but he missed the best time to make personal progress.
Seeing that Jianye was no longer developing Hu Jinghang, Shanghai loaned him to Wuhan Zall, who then signed him as one of Zall's mainstays. However, Zall was plagued by rumors of wage arrears for 21 and 22 years, and eventually disbanded. Hu Jinghang worked for nothing for another two years. It is reported that Hu Jinghang has now appeared in Jinan and is expected to sign with Taishan.
In terms of making money, Hu Jinghang is probably less than a fifth of Yang Liyu, so we can understand why many youth players and their parent teams (Wei Shihao vs Luneng, Hu Rui Bao vs Evergrande, etc.). Many players are bound by contracts during youth training. Next time we will talk about players and the need for youth training bases.
To summarize, the success rate of players in the 97th Olympics is very low. Apart from Zhang Yuning who managed to establish himself in the national football team, Yang Liyu, Hu Jinghang, Lin Liangming, Huang Zhengyu, Wei Zhen, Chen Wei, Zhou Junchen, Feng Boxuan, Chen Pu, Tong Lei, Duan Liuyu, Chen Binbin, Liu Ruofan, Jiang Shenglong, etc. almost never participated in the official matches of the national football team. We can't count on 26-year-olds. Who else can we count on? Of course, based on the average age of 30 years old in previous national football teams, we should count on them in four years.
