Beijing Guoan and Shanghai Seaport shook hands 1-1 in the second stage finale of the 2022 CFA U21 League in Zhangzhou, Fujian Province on Christmas Eve 24, finishing undefeated at the top of the table with 17 points. Shanghai Shenhua and Guangzhou were second and third.
As the only winning team, Beijing Guoan U21 not only dominated the standings, but also won and scored the most goals, conceding only 6 goals in two phases, which was the least among all participating teams. The team's No. 66 player Yan Yu won the tournament's best player, he scored seven goals in the U21 League, but also in the 32nd round of the Chinese Super League, "catching up" to support the first team, in the game against the Guangzhou team scored the first goal of his career in the Chinese Super League. In recent years, the national security club to increase investment in youth soccer, constructed a more perfect reserve talent system, including adult team, youth team and junior team, but also with social amateur youth soccer clubs to carry out multi-faceted cooperation.
This season, many young players in the U21 League to sharpen their skills, the first stage of the 12 teams, a total of 35 players in the end of the tournament by the club called up to the first team, and in the professional league. It is believed that in the future, "Yan Yu" will gradually become the backbone of the team, towards a higher and bigger stage.
Just concluded the Qatar World Cup, although the French team failed to successfully defend the title, but thanks to the accumulation of youth training in recent years, the young players who have been given enough space still make French soccer shine in the competition. In addition, to create the history of African teams for the first time in the World Cup quarter-finals of the Moroccan team, their Mohammed VI soccer academy facilities first-class, adhering to the "do not miss every talented child" concept of youth training, training a lot of outstanding soccer talent, such as Ennesri, Onassi, etc. in the World Cup performance. This fully demonstrates the importance of youth training in the development of soccer: in the case of maintaining a certain level of youth training, the local professional league provides more space and opportunities for young players, and to a certain extent, can also "feed" the national team.
In recent years, the education department and sports department for the development of youth soccer has made many efforts, how to attract more children to join the soccer has become a key issue for the development of domestic youth soccer at this stage. China's soccer reform and development of the overall program also proposed: "to promote the growth of youth soccer talent scale." In the current not ideal environment, professional clubs have the responsibility to adhere to the soccer youth training, rooted in the foundation. Let more and more young people fall in love with soccer, on the pitch, with the continuous development of professional clubs at all levels of the ladder league, there will be more soccer talent to stand out, retain more professional fire, out of a club with Chinese characteristics and advanced concepts of the development of youth training road.
