In soccer, staying true to your roots is a major challenge.
"Look, who's here?"
Wu Lei (1979-), Chinese footballer
! Yan Junling! Stanley Wang! Welcome back!"
On July 7, Shanghai Chongming Genbao Football Base celebrated its 21st birthday; on the same day, three outstanding alumni of the base - Wu Lei, Yan Junling and Wang Shenchao - returned to their hometown to visit their mentor Xu Genbao.
Nian Weisi, the 89-year-old titan of Chinese soccer, expressed his appreciation for Wu Lei through a video link, "Your penalty kick was both accurate and solid." Xu Genbao, on the other hand, discussed with his disciples, "I look forward to you helping the national soccer team to break out of Asia, when we celebrate Wu Lei's birthday together!"
Genbao inspires three internationals
The first step is to make sure that you have a good understanding of the situation, and that you have a good idea of what you are doing.
Xu Genbao commented on his disciples' performance in the national soccer team, "Congratulations to you for helping the national soccer team advance to the Top 12, you all performed very well, especially Wu Lei's penalty kick, which was quite difficult! Zhang Linpeng's mistake has been criticized by the outside world, but in the face of pressure, we should remain confident and meet the challenges of the Top 12!"
Genbao introduced Wu Lei, Yan Junling and Wang Shenchao's return to the base to visit the coaches, stemming from a spontaneous proposal by the disciples. "We have never held similar celebrations at our base because July is the most intensive period of the Chinese Super League schedule and the players are all in the middle of matches. Last year, we had planned to celebrate the 20th anniversary, but it was canceled due to the epidemic." This time, Wu Lei returned to Shanghai after two years due to the epidemic, which led to this "small-scale celebration", "the re-launch of the Chinese Super League is imminent, Zhang Linpeng was also going to come, but Guangzhou Evergrande had a training session in the afternoon, and his leave was not approved, so he flew back to Guangzhou early in the morning."
The arrival of the international players for the base is training hard for the young players injected a strong impetus, so that they feel the power of role models. Genbao base has a number of small players have been selected for China's national junior U16 training team, Wu Lei through the video link for the small players to send encouragement: "you enter the national junior team, it proves that you are now the strength of your hard work while enjoying the game, and continue to improve, and strive to enter the national team as soon as possible."
Master appreciates grandson Wu Lei
The just-concluded World Preliminary 40, the national football team successfully advanced, as the only Chinese player playing in Europe's top five leagues Wu Lei, eye-catching performance. He scored 8 goals and 3 assists in 8 games, and is the key player with the highest offensive efficiency, the highest number of goals and the strongest presence in the team. Many national football teammates also exclaimed, "Wu Lei is a phenomenal player in the Chinese Super League, but after staying in the ocean for more than two years, the strength is even stronger."
Xu Genbao base, is Wu Lei and other international players "home". 2000, Xu Genbao in the motherland's third largest island of Chongming Island to create a soccer base, this group of children have arrived, and Xu Genbao and other a group of veteran coaches to train and live together, and for the dream of the struggle, ten years to sharpen the sword. 2018 Super League, Wu Lei scored 27 goals to become the league's best scorer, best player, and helped Shanghai SIPG win the Chinese Super League title. top scorer and best player, and assisted Shanghai SIPG to win the Chinese Super League title. This is also the first Chinese Super League title in the history of the city of Shanghai.
After helping Shanghai Hong Kong to win the championship, Wu Lei joined the La Liga team Espanyol in 2019 and played eye-catching in the first season.In the summer of 2019, Wu Lei returned to Shanghai from Barcelona, the first time with his family to return to Chongming Genbao soccer base to see his teacher, to express his gratitude to the base coaches for the hard work of the cultivation of the.2020, the global outbreak of epidemic, far away from Spain, Wu Lei accidentally infected with the new crown, the trough He even thought of giving up during the period, but chose to insist after the body healed. This is why he represented the national football team to kill the scene of the four sides.
Wu Lei's mentor is Xu Genbao, while Xu Genbao's mentor is former Chinese national team manager Nian Weisi. When Xu Genbao was a player, he was the captain of the Chinese national team, and at that time, the head coach of the national football team was Nian Weisi. This time Wu Lei back to the base, Xu Genbao also special video link Nian Weisi, so that the master to Wu Lei advice.
"I have always been concerned about the games of our national team. Especially now that there are many disciples trained by Genbao, I care even more. In this World Qualifier, the national soccer team played well." Nian Weisi especially praised Wu Lei, "Wu Lei created three penalties this time and also scored them all. We do not think that penalty kicks are very simple, in the history of our national team, penalty kicks eat too many losses! World Cup qualifiers in the history of the Asian region, we have a number of times because of penalty kicks lost lead to not out of the line. This time, Wu Lei's penalty kicks are very good, the key is a stable mentality. I'm especially happy to see his progress."
Meet to celebrate Wu Lei's birthday
This is Wu Lei after 2 years back to "home". The family will always leave the best to their own children, Genbao routinely arranged the base of the signature "Genbao wontons", when the most popular Wu Lei beef curry soup, red house salad will not be absent, the table also appeared a new product "lamb pot", "today is just a little summer, Yan Junling and Wang Shenchao, you try to make up for it! "Today happens to be a little summer, Wu Lei, Yan Jun Ling and Stanley Wang, you taste it, make up for it!"
Last year, Wu Lei infected the new crown, so that Genbao now said still heartbroken, "2019, I went to Spain to investigate, we gave Wu Lei's birthday in Barcelona.2020, because of the epidemic we did not meet. This time, several of your international players are not simple to return to Shanghai together, back to the base, I hope that you will be able to charge out of Asia in the future, and at that time we will make an appointment to give Wu Lei a birthday together."
As an old Communist Party member, Xu Genbao recently watched a lot of red-themed films and TV dramas, the most moved him to find the way. "Many assignments, to 10 years, 20 years of persistence, to pay sacrifices, in order to see results. Chinese soccer also need to find their own way, a right way!" Engage in soccer, Xu Genbao's biggest insight, is still "willing to be lonely", "the average age of our base coaches may be the country's largest, but not the old coach may not stick around for so long. This is also the most difficult place to engage in soccer, how to keep the original intention? Now the whole environment is more impatient, quick success."
The performance of the national football team to fight for the 40 strong let Genbao is very satisfied, especially Wu Lei penalty into the key penalty, "he not only can create their own opportunities, but also their own penalty, which is very uncomplicated in the major games. Pele player career is most afraid of penalty kicks, including this European Cup, many European goalkeeper body master long, need to penalty kicks to deceive the goalkeeper in order to score. Here is not just a technical problem, more or mentality." Wu Lei is to the teacher "report", in Spain to stay in the high-level environment to play football, to help themselves grow up a lot, "is still to go out, brave to stay in the ocean. Even if you can't play the game to play on the bench, in that environment back, it is still much better than the domestic obviously."
Next, the national football team to fight for the 12 strong tournament is significantly more difficult. GENBAO do players' ideological work is very good, he especially asked party members Yan Junling and Wang Shenchao, "You are communists, right?" After receiving an affirmative reply, Xu Genbao said, "There is an old saying: 'Communists are not afraid of death, what else are they afraid of?' Now I'm giving you this saying!" The three internationals have said that they are fully aware of the difficulties of the Top 12, "None of the opponents are weak, but we will not lose confidence, even if there is only a glimmer of hope, we will not give up!"
