On July 12, the Portuguese sports soccer club officially announced that China's 19-year-old female football star Shen Menglu, a former member of the Jiangsu women's football team, officially stepped into the European green field. Shen Menglu's joining, marking the first successful practice of China's football association "players stay in the ocean program". Under this program, seven players, including Zhang Yuning, Guo Tianyu, Duan Liuyu of the men's soccer team and Wang Shuang, Tang Jiali and Shen Mengyu of the women's soccer team, are initial candidates.
Although the local young players to go abroad to play football in the road, the Football Association, clubs, individual players have encountered a lot of challenges, the candidate may also be adjusted due to practical factors, but the Football Association on the "stay in the ocean program" implementation determination. In other words, once a player meets the conditions to stay in the ocean, it will act immediately.
National player Wu Lei is one of the key figures in the promotion of the "stay in the ocean program", after the end of the 40 matches, the Football Association President Chen Xuyuan emphasized that it will continue to promote the young players to stay in the ocean program. Wu Lei's outstanding performance in the 40 strong match has strengthened the confidence of all parties in this program. Shen Menglu's path to stay in the world is exactly in this context.
It is reported that in order to accelerate the implementation of the "stay in the ocean program", the Football Association since 2019 has been in-depth exchanges with FIFA, UEFA, senior leaders even reached a consensus with the UEFA Secretary General Severin on the matter of the players to go to Europe. However, affected by the epidemic, the program was slowed down last year.
At the beginning of June this year, the national football team went to Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates to participate in the remaining matches of the Top 40 tournament soon, the Football Association held a symposium on the "promotion of local men and women's football young players to stay in the world". At this time, Shen Menglu to Portugal to play football matters have been nearly realized.
On the issue of players staying in the ocean, the FA is not biased towards men's and women's soccer, and is fully promoting it. Taking women's soccer as an example, in addition to Shen Menglu, current international players Wang Frost and Tang Jiali, as well as Shen Mengyu, who had a great success in the 2018 U20 Women's World Cup, are all alternative players in the plan. The FA has already connected them with well-known clubs such as Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur in the English Premier League and Celtic in the Scottish Premier League through various channels. In addition, the Belgian technical director Kreis is also involved in the coordination work.
Regarding the men's soccer program to stay in the ocean, the outside world speculation continues. According to the Beiqing-Beijing headline reporter, the earliest men's soccer players to enter the waiting list are Zhang Yuning, Guo Tianyu and Duan Liuyu. The FA has helped them contact clubs in Spain, Belgium and Wales.
Up to now, Shen Menglu's plan to stay in the ocean has been successfully implemented, other candidates for players to stay in the ocean work is also being actively promoted. It should be noted that, affected by the current situation of China's soccer, the player's original club (unit), the player's personal wishes, the game environment, the prospect of appearing, economic treatment and other factors, the Association in promoting the "stay in the ocean program", still need to actively negotiate with all parties, to overcome the various types of practical problems.
It is worth mentioning that this year is the year of the National Games, and some provinces and cities attach great importance to the performance of the soccer program. The above women's soccer players are also the main force of the local representative teams to compete for the championship, so in promoting the players to stay in the world, the Football Association and the sports departments of all parties, the player's affiliation need to focus on considering these factors. Once the opportunity is missed, the players will face greater difficulties in staying abroad.
The men's soccer team is also facing a series of challenges. For example, the candidates mentioned above are all young players trusted by their respective clubs and can even serve as starters in the Chinese Super League. Due to the intensity of the remaining matches in the first phase of the upcoming Chinese Super League, players may suffer from unexpected injuries. Zhang Yuning, as a national team player, will also be involved in the preparation for and playing in the longer period of the 12-team tournament, and all these practical problems may create obstacles to "staying in the ocean".
However, the Association will not be difficult to shake the determination to send local potential male and female players to stay in the ocean, the Association will also be based on the specific circumstances, appropriate adjustments to the program, and even adjust the specific candidates to stay in the ocean. Only to ensure that all aspects of the conditions are ripe, will release players to stay in the ocean, in order to ensure the quality of stay in the ocean.
From the leadership of the FA personally visited Genbao base, it can be seen that the FA has not neglected to pay attention and support to youth soccer while fully assisting the national football team to impact the Qatar World Cup. Chen Xuyuan combined with the current European Cup tournament, Xu Genbao guidance expressed exclamation, pointing out that in the European Cup tournament, 18, 19-year-old young talent has been able to pick up the beams of the powers. China's soccer to do a good job of foundation work, need to do a good job of lower age level young players to dig and cultivate. From the players, coaches, foreign exchange program of the overall plan, the association's next "stay in the ocean program" will focus on the main goal of the low age group of local elite players, such as Cheng Yaodong coached the 2001 age group of national youth team part of the sharp players.
