As we all know, an invincible dominant force has emerged in China's soccer world in the past decade, that is, the Guangzhou
Evergrande (name)
Team. They have won 8 titles and 2 second place in the Chinese Super League, and are firmly in the dominant position. In addition, they also won the FA Cup twice and the Super Cup four times. More convincingly, they won the AFC Champions League twice, becoming the pride of the Chinese Super League. The following year, they twice advanced to the quarterfinals in the Club World Cup, once again becoming the pride of Asian soccer. It can be said that Evergrande has been among the ranks of Asian giants.
However, many fans do not buy the results achieved by Evergrande, they think that Evergrande's power is completely the result of money piling up, no blood production function of their own, can only rely on the poaching of other teams to maintain. If this continues, Evergrande is likely to form a monopoly of excellent players, and the operating costs continue to rise, until the huge material base is exhausted. This is also why many people initially thought that Evergrande's splendor would be difficult to sustain.
However, Evergrande still persisted for many years, and only in recent seasons did they begin to reduce their investment. The main reason is that they initially had a long-term layout, just like Shandong
Luneng (city in Shandong)
Zhejiang
Greentown, capital of Hong Kong
The team started to invest in their own youth training. Because they know that the team must have the function of blood production in order to develop in the long run, otherwise the simple burning money will be self-defeating. And once the success of youth training, not only to meet their own talent needs, but also through the exchange of talent to recover funds, to realize the virtuous cycle of investment and income.
Although Evergrande youth training initial momentum, but youth training is, after all, a long-term investment project, the real output needs time, and the time may be very long. Therefore, with Shandong
Luneng (city in Shandong)
Zhejiang
Greentown, capital of Hong Kong
Even compared with the youth training organizations that have accumulated for a certain period of time such as Genbao Football School, Evergrande's youth training still has a gap for the time being. However, everyone is still very concerned about Evergrande's youth training, after all, Evergrande's youth training has a strong start, and it has really absorbed many excellent seedlings from all over the country, and people want to know whether Evergrande's professional team can rely on its youth training to achieve success.
Previously, not many players trained by Evergrande's youth training have become famous, which has raised some questions. Recently, however, Evergrande youth training finally came out of a supernova, the 17-year-old youngster in his debut in the Central League, passes and shoots to build a success, showing the momentum of the newborn calf is not afraid of tigers. He is Efirdin.
Mention Efirdin, I believe that the attention of youth soccer fans are not unfamiliar. 2015, CCTV held a "who is the king of the ball" folk soccer competition, Kashgar son of the doll team all the way through, and eventually won the championship, and the core players of this team is Efirdin, he wore the No. 9 jersey, won the Golden Boot Award, became the real little king of the ball. The real small ball king.
It was this outstanding performance that Efirdin realized his soccer talent and started to enter professional soccer. He initially joined the Shaanxi Laochenggen team in the second division and became a player in the u14 team. Due to his outstanding performance, Efirdin was selected for the national junior team several times. In one match for the Hebei Huaxia youth team against Japanese u18 league champions Shimizu Heartbeat, he scored a hat-trick of goals, including a spectacular reverse breakaway. This caught the attention of the j1 league team and Shimizu Heartbeat decided to bring him in from Shaanxi. Since then, he has also appeared and made his debut for Shimizu Heartbeat u18 in the All-Japan tournament, and later had a transfer to Kashima Antlers Youth Training, where he received a very systematic and scientific training in Japan.
In 2018, Evergrande stepped up to the plate by transferring Efirdin to Evergrande's own soccer academy team. Efirdin quickly became one of the team's top players and helped Evergrande win the inaugural Evergrande Cup u18 Champions League, and in the 2020 season, Efirdin was selected for the u19 National Youth League and played with the team in the Central League B. In his first professional league season, he played eight matches and scored three goals, becoming one of the top players in the league. In his first professional season, he scored 3 goals in 8 games, making him the top scorer in the national youth team. It is worth noting that he is only 17 years old, which speaks volumes about him being a very talented, potential player.
According to reason, such a talented and potential player Evergrande should stay, however, the reality is that even if he now enters the first team of Evergrande, with the current Evergrande's lineup, he certainly can't play, and such a young player is more in need of the game. Therefore, Evergrande finally chose to give up on him and did not renew his contract. So he moved to Suzhou Dongwu in the Central League as a free agent.
Surprisingly, the youngster, who is not yet 18 years old, shone in his debut in the Central League, with a pass and a shot, and his confidence and expressiveness in front of the goal made people feel that this is not a young Chinese player, but clearly a foreigner. The match was the first round of the Central League, between Suzhou Dongwu and Heilongjiang Bingcheng, and Suzhou Dongwu finally won 3-1, and the most brilliant player in the match was definitely Efirdin! He played a pass and a shot, which made the whole match a success.
In the 17th minute of the game, Efirdin took the ball on the left side of the road, he didn't choose to go down the bottom, but he saw the gap and passed it decisively, the ball accurately found his own winger Tang Chuang, the latter easily header to break the goal. This goal fully demonstrated that Efirdin has a very wide passing vision and imagination, and the accuracy of the pass is also very high.
In the 60th minute of the game, Suzhou Dongwu won a free kick. After the free kick was kicked out, there was a scramble in the penalty area, and Efirdin got the ball, stopped the ball with his chest, and shot it in the air, and the ball went into the net. This goal shows that as a goal scorer, Efirdin is very calm in front of the goal, and his shooting skills are also very good, very confident. To be honest, this kind of kicking style is more like what foreigners do, which fully shows that Efirdin is a very talented striker.
At only 17 years old, and with such an outstanding performance in his first time playing in the Central League, it must be said that Efirdin is a real star of the future. As a former member of Evergrande's soccer academy, Efirdin can be said to be a starting point for the rise of Evergrande's youth training. Do you think Evergrande's youth training is about to blossom? Which players do you still expect from the current Evergrande football school? Welcome friends in the comments section to discuss together!
