The smoke of the 2022 season cleared, the Guoan team's new and old change more and more rapidly. After a season of baptism, a group of new players such as Bibi Jiang, Jiang Wenhao and Yan Yu stood out. After the game, their performance won the fans consistent applause. They exude youthful vigor and unremitting efforts, so that people are full of expectations for the succession of a new generation of players. Baitijiang is sitting firmly in the starting position, and while I am not stingy with praise here, I do not want the media to over-interpret it. While the afterglow of the victory in Rongcheng was still lingering, we contributed a key assist in the battle of Shenzhen, collecting goals for the second consecutive game. Many fans wonder how Guoan brought in Nai Bie Jiang, and it all goes back five years.
In 2018, the national team signed Nai Bie Jiang, and he then entered the ladder team to receive training. Since then, Northgate has been following his growth, and related reports have been coming out. In the past five years, Nai Bijiang has gone through ups and downs, but thanks to the club's care and attention, his career has continued. Now, we are very happy to see his growth. After all, for a player, the club's investment is huge.
Incredibly, as a strong contender for the "Golden Boy" and captain of the National Youth Football League, Nai Bijang made a name for himself in the domestic soccer world at the age of 16, and was pursued by a number of teams. However, Guoan signed the leading player of his age without paying a transfer fee. In addition to the club's resource advantages, the well-established youth training system was also a key factor in Bijiang's choice of Guoan.
When it comes to the youth training system, its construction is not a one-day effort and requires patience to wait for the flowers to blossom. The youth training of professional clubs mainly covers two aspects: one is to cultivate athletes by self-production; the other is to sign potential new stars and integrate them into the training system to realize their transformation. Taking Nai Bijiang as an example, he has already established himself in the Chinese Super League after five years of training, and won the best player in 14 rounds of matches, so this signing is undoubtedly a wise move. If the status quo is maintained, he could be selected for the national soccer team, and Nai Bijiang's peak is yet to come.
The five-year training path is simple, but behind it is a huge financial and human investment. Since 2017, the club has clearly proposed to strengthen the construction of youth training, and the concern of investors has prompted the club to evolve: first, the introduction of foreign coaches and the integration of European youth training concepts; second, the club has actively combined youth training with digital technology to realize digital office and systematic operation. Data monitoring is fine-tuned to each player, getting rid of the traditional constraints of experience, and inserting "digital wings" for the growth of young players.
In the past, allowing young players to study abroad and receive youth training in Europe was seen as a way to grow faster, but it meant huge investments and the results were not always ideal. For young players from ordinary families, the opportunity to study abroad is even more rare. In light of these dilemmas, Guoan's team is actively seeking changes to bring European youth training to China so that young players can enjoy the same conditions at home, which will greatly benefit both the club and domestic soccer youth training.
It is true that youth training is sometimes not proportional to the effort and reward, and the effort behind it is often unknown to the outside world. Huge investments often go unrecognized. In addition to team investment, numerous investors are also concerned about youth training. In the past period, some media reported negatively on Guoan's youth training, but the reality is that many domestic clubs have come to learn from the experience. As a big club, Guoan is not stingy in sharing its experience and even building a platform, which shows its atmospheric pattern and sense of responsibility. Old clubs should have a pattern and sense of responsibility rather than self-indulgence, not to mention painting the land as a prison.
In terms of youth achievements at this stage, Guiao is most proud of its 2001 championship ladder. Currently, some players will return to the club in the future when they are mature enough to work out on loan, and are expected to be important additions to the team. It is hoped that more Chinese Super League players, such as Nai Bijiang, will appear on the green field, which will contribute not only to the Guoan club, but also to the Chinese soccer talent pool. In this regard, Guoan set a higher standard: the training of players not only for their own use, but also high-quality output, sharing the results of youth training, for young players to provide a broader space for development. The "Guoan product" will become an important direction of youth training brand building in the future.
Of course, training young players is a process full of successes and failures, especially failures, which are losses that must be borne in youth training construction. In the face of failure, we need to treat and analyze it rationally. All in all, fans should keep a good mindset, find more bright spots, give more encouragement to the youngsters, and look forward to their next blossoming.
