A strong belief in change is an indispensable strength on our path to soccer.
In the just concluded fourteenth national games men's soccer U20 group final, zhejiang team beat xinjiang team by 2-1, successfully won the championship. This has not only become the first gold medal for Zhejiang competitive soccer in the history of the National Games, but also the heaviest national championship in the history of Zhejiang soccer.
In the face of the victory of the Zhejiang team, some Shanghai fans may be a little lost. 2017 Tianjin National Games, Shanghai soccer has won four gold medals in one go, creating history; and to the 2021 Shaanxi National Games, Shanghai soccer but with the "Grand Slam" has no chance.
In the face of this "contrast", I think that the brilliant achievements of Shanghai soccer in the Tianjin National Games is the perfect combination of timing, location and people, and it is difficult to copy. And Shanghai soccer in the process of learning from Zhejiang, Xinjiang youth training, more should maintain the firm belief of sticking to the original heart, the courage to change.
Tianjin splendor, difficult to reproduce
Recalling the last Tianjin National Games, Shanghai soccer realized the National Games soccer project "Grand Slam", becoming a major highlight of the Shanghai delegation. The success behind this, test the stage of soccer reform results: Shanghai four championship teams, respectively, from four innovative training mode.
Shanghai U20 women's football team from the system, U18 women's football team from the "combination of sports and education" school soccer, U20 men's football team relies on the Shanghai-Hong Kong Football Club, U18 men's football team by the base of the Genbao socialized professional youth training club. These four different socialized and diversified training modes have given birth to four heavy champions.
However, at the Shaanxi National Games, the Shanghai U18 boys' soccer team, which was based on Seaport, performed poorly, while the championship-winning Shaanxi team included 18 Seaport native rookies. The Shanghai U20 men's soccer team did not qualify for the quarterfinals, losing to the championship-winning Zhejiang team. Previously, the Shanghai U18 women's soccer team won the title strongly, and the Shanghai adult women's soccer team also has the possibility to rush to gold, but facing the powerful Olympic joint team (i.e., the Chinese women's national team), winning the title may become a small probability event.
Photo: Shanghai women's soccer team five players selected for the Olympic team, two players to stay in the ocean, head coach Shui Qingxia also fire line "Chui aid".
The green field is ever-changing, and victory or defeat is just a hair's breadth away. The Shanghai soccer team was unable to defend its "Grand Slam" title in Shaanxi, which is the best interpretation of soccer competition and the gap between teams.
Of course, there is inevitable in the accident, Shanghai soccer in Shaanxi Games "results change", micro level need to reflect on the summary, but at the macro level, it is a return to normal, after all, four years ago, the ultimate peak is difficult to surpass.
Encouragement to stay abroad and expand international horizons
Whether it is a historic breakthrough in Zhejiang U20 men's soccer team, or low-key pragmatic Shanghai women's soccer team, have chosen to actively support the players to stay in the ocean. The exploration of Zhejiang and Shanghai's soccer in line with the international scene deserves attention.
Zhejiang U20 men's soccer team all the way through, every time to save the day, there are distinctive traces of staying in the ocean. Zhejiang team and Shanghai team game, in the 89th minute scored a tie-breaking goal Gao Tianyi, last year, or Japan's J3 Morioka Senzuru team players, but also played in the J3 league.
Photo: Shanghai women's soccer star striker Tang Jiali stayed abroad to join the English Premier League Tottenham Hotspur women's soccer team.
Goalkeeper Wang Xiaofeng, who has made a number of spectacular saves, signed with Japanese J3 team Nagano Passero in March last year. In addition, Zhejiang team players Huang Xinpeng, Li Yalun also stayed in Japan. They returned to the All-China Games and lamented, "It feels easy to come back and play in the same age group after staying in the ocean!"
In contrast, the Shanghai women's soccer team is willing to pay the price of the impact on the results of the National Games in order to support the players' dream of staying in the ocean. Shanghai women's soccer star striker Tang Jiali is currently playing with Tottenham Hotspur Hotspur in the English Premier League, and rookie Shen Mengyu, representing Celtic Women's Soccer in the Scottish Premier League, has performed well and has been selected for the "AFC Player of the Week" list.
The two foreign sisters, are unable to represent Shanghai to fight in the National Games. The team is very frank: "Now may be a little lost, but when they return from their studies, our Shanghai women's football, Chinese women's football is not the biggest winner?"
Not caring about a city and a pool of gains and losses, pay more attention to the healthy and sustainable development of the soccer cause, is to encourage the significance of Chinese players to stay in the world. 2018 season Shanghai seaport after winning the championship, the club actively support the national footballer Wu Lei to stay in the world, in the price of the transfer fee and other aspects did not set any obstacles. Wu Lei stayed in the ocean, the club will of course get less domestic league trophies, but for the whole of Chinese soccer, undoubtedly benefit more.
The national interest is the big gold medal
Whether or not to support the development of Chinese players to stay in the ocean, the need for clubs, local provincial and municipal soccer managers to have a commitment to look at the long term, willing to give up some short-term interests. Well, Zhejiang U20 men's football, Shanghai women's football practice, has been the majority of fans and netizens understanding and praise: "Chinese soccer needs to learn from Japan, South Korea, to encourage more players to stay in the ocean to comprehensively improve the level of the national team, which is in line with the overall interests of the development of Chinese soccer."
Obviously, local provinces and municipalities soccer in the "heroes dare to compete in the first" the results of the idea outside, more need to have the national interest of the "big gold concept": focus on youth training good seedling cultivation and selection, for the Chinese national team to create a steady flow of talent delivery system, to some extent, is more important than winning the National Games football championship "small gold medal". To a certain extent than winning the National Games soccer championship "small gold medal" is more important.
Obviously, the development of Shanghai soccer youth training, not only to have "heroes dare to fight for the first" the idea of the champion, but also to have "out of talent is more important than out of the gold medal" of the pattern of mind.
The Chinese women's soccer team is currently preparing for the 2022 Qatar World Qualifier in Sharjah, UAE, and many of the international players have participated in the 2009 Shandong National Games. At the time, Xu Genbao coached the Shanghai team to the title and sent a number of leading internationals such as Wu Lei, Yan Junling, Zhang Linpeng and Wang Shenchao to the current Chinese women's soccer team. Similarly, the current Chinese women's soccer team captain Wu Xi played for Hebei at that time, although the team did not qualify for the quarterfinals, but Hebei soccer can send an excellent international player for the national cultivation, undoubtedly took a more in line with the national interests of the "big gold medal".
Photo: The Games championship is important, but it is more important to focus on the cultivation of high-level youth training talent transported to the national team.
Throughout the 60 years of history of the National Games, it is not only a "parade ground" for the strength of competitive sports in local provinces and municipalities in new China, but also a "practice ground" for China's national team to compete in the Olympic Games and the World Cup, and a starting point for Chinese athletes to practice domestically, work together with foreign countries, and go to the world. It is the starting point for Chinese athletes to practice domestically, to work together externally, and to go global. From this point of view, only when the Games cultivate the star of hope to help Chinese soccer out of Asia, to the world, the Games soccer gold medal gold, is considered a qualitative leap.
