As the wave of gold dollar soccer gradually fades, those shining foreign stars have left, the Chinese Super League teams began to turn their attention to the cultivation of local young players. In recent years, the league has seen the emergence of a number of young standouts who have not only become the mainstay of their teams, but have also been selected for the national team. This generation of players is tall, many of them are more than 1.9 meters tall, and some of them have even embarked on the road to stay in the ocean. Let's take a look at the 11-player squad (442 formation).
**Goalkeeper: Peng Peng (Kunshan FC**) - the first 00 goalkeeper to make his debut in the Central League, and the best goalkeeper in the Panda Cup. Peng Peng, born in Guangdong in 2000, 186cm tall, currently plays for Kunshan FC. he came from the youth training of Xu Genbao, joining Shanghai Shenhua at the age of 17, Qingdao Yellow Sea at the age of 18, and then Kunshan at the age of 19. he has been selected for the national youth and national youth teams. Peng Peng has been selected for the national teams of all age groups of national junior and national youth, and has been selected for the U24 Asian Games training team of the national soccer team. He has won the National U13 Championship, the Shanghai Municipal Games Championship, the National Games U18 Championship, and was the runner-up in the China-Japan-Korea Games and the Yunnan Qujing Cup for the Chinese National Youth Team in 2017, as well as the Panda Cup Championship and Best Goalkeeper in 2018.
Peng Peng, 22 years old, has been the starting goalkeeper in the Chinese League for three seasons, with an average of one shutout in every three games, and is also a regular player for national teams at all levels. 2020 season, Peng Peng transferred to Kunshan and became the team's starting goalkeeper, and he was also the only "post-zero" starting goalkeeper in the Chinese League that year, nearly helping the team complete a three-stage jump to the B-A Super League. Peng Peng was also the only "post-zero" starting goalkeeper in the Central League that year, and nearly helped the team complete the three-level jump to the B-A Super League. With his excellent play, Peng Peng was shortlisted for the 2020 China Golden Boy Award that year. **Left back: Wu Shaocong (Turkish Super League Istanbul)** - the first Chinese soccer player to stay at home in 2023. Wu Shaocong, born in Henan Province in 2000, is 192cm tall and currently plays for Basaksehir Istanbul in Turkey. He is a player who has been staying in the world for a long time, joining Japanese J1 Shimizu Heartbeat FC in 2018, before going on loan to Kyoto Immortals FC in the J2 League, then returning to the Chinese Super League to join Guangzhou, and in January 2023 transferring to Turkish League powerhouse Istanbul.
Wu Shaocong is tall enough to play as a left back and center back, and from his performance in the Chinese Super League, as a young defender defensive stats are pretty good, with the number of tackles ranked 3rd among all defenders in the season, but this has more to do with the fact that the Guangzhou team is currently weaker and has been on the defensive for a long period of time. He has a height of 192cm, but is not involved much in set-piece play and does not have much to show for it, and needs to learn to utilize his height and physical strengths as soon as possible. **Centerback (I): Zhu Chenjie (Shanghai Shenhua**) - the first post-00 international to play in the history of the national soccer team, the first post-00 goal scorer in the Chinese Super League, and China's Golden Boy Award in 2021. Zhu Chenjie, born in Shanghai in 2000, is 185cm tall and plays for Shanghai Greenland Shenhua. Zhu Chenjie from the Genbao soccer club ladder, and then with the ladder team as a whole into the Shanghai Greenland Shenhua, less than 18 years old on the debut of the Chinese Super League, became the youngest debutant in the history of Shenhua, when the season against Guangzhou R&F scored a goal, became the first 00 after the Super League history of the goal scorer, but also the youngest goal scorer in the history of the Shanghai Greenland Shenhua team, was elected to 2019 season of Super League best newcomer, and selected to the 2019 season of Super League best newcomer. He was also selected as the best lineup of the 2019 CSL season.
Zhu Chenjie is in recent years the Chinese Super League emerged as a rare excellent center back, he has some of the shadow of Fan Zhiyi, strong body, strong confrontation ability, strength advantage is obvious, good at close pressing, facing the league's top strikers in the one-on-one confrontation he does not suffer, so that the other side is difficult to turn to start speed. At the same time, his height and bounce in the domestic advantage, in the league using the set-piece to grab a number of breakthroughs, Shenhua set-piece tactics become an important point of attack, but also the ideal candidate for the future of the national football team center back. **(To be continued**)
