As we all know, an invincible division - Guangzhou Evergrande - has emerged in China's soccer world in the past decade. They won eight titles and two runner-ups in the Chinese Super League in ten years, with a remarkable record, and stayed at the top of the league. In addition, they also won the FA Cup twice and the Super Cup four times. What is especially convincing is that they have won the AFC Champions League twice, becoming the pride of the Chinese Super League. What is even more rare is that they broke into the quarterfinals twice in the Club World Cup, once again competing for the glory of Asian soccer, Evergrande has become the giants of Asian soccer.
However, many fans do not buy the brilliant achievements of Evergrande. They think that Evergrande's power is completely piled up by money, lack of blood production function, and can only rely on tapping to maintain its strength. In the long run, Evergrande may form a monopoly of excellent players, and the operation cost will keep climbing until the material base is exhausted. This is also the reason why many people initially predicted that Evergrande's scenery will not last long.
But in fact, Evergrande insisted for many years, until recent seasons began to reduce investment. The main reason is that they started with a long-term layout, as Shandong Luneng and Zhejiang Greentown, began to invest in youth training. They know that the team wants long-term development, must have the ability to create blood, otherwise excessive reliance on burning money will eventually come to an end. Although the investment cycle of the youth training program is long, but once successful, not only to meet their own talent needs, but also through the exchange of talent to recover funds, to achieve a virtuous cycle of investment and income.
Although the Evergrande youth training is showing its first signs, but after all, the youth training program cycle is long, the real output needs time, and the time may be longer. Compared with Shandong Luneng, Zhejiang Greentown and even Genbao football school, Evergrande youth training temporarily has a certain gap. However, we are still full of expectations for Evergrande youth training, after all, Evergrande youth training of the initial momentum, really attracted a lot of excellent seedlings in the country, people are concerned about whether Evergrande youth training can successfully train professional players.
Previously, Evergrande youth training has produced not many players who have become famous, and it has also raised some questions. But recently, the Evergrande youth training finally came out of a supernova, the 17-year-old youngster in the debut of the Central League, passes and shoots to build a success, showing the momentum of the newborn calf is not afraid of tigers. He is Efirdin.
Mention Aifeldin, I believe a lot of attention to youth soccer fans will not be unfamiliar. 2015, CCTV held a "who is the king of the ball" folk soccer competition, when Kashi son of the doll team all the way through to win the championship, and the team's core player is Aifeldin, he wore the No. 9, won the golden boot, become a real The little king of the ball.
It was this outing that Efirdin realized his soccer talent and started to enter professional soccer. Initially, he joined the Shaanxi Laochenggen team in the Central League B and became a player of the U14 team. Later, due to his excellent performance, Efirdin was selected for the national junior team several times. In one match for the Hebei Huaxia youth team against Japanese U18 league champions Shimizu Heartbeat, he scored a hat-trick of goals, including a spectacular reverse breakaway. This attracted the interest of the j1 league team and Shimizu Heartbeat decided to bring him in from Shaanxi. He then went on to represent Shimizu Heartbeat U18 in the All Japan tournament and made his debut, and later had a transfer to Kashima Antlers Youth Training, where he received very systematic and scientific training.
In 2018, Evergrande stepped in and transferred Efirdin to Evergrande's own soccer academy team. Efirdin quickly became one of the team's top players and helped Evergrande win the inaugural Evergrande Cup U18 Champions League, and in the 2020 season, Efirdin was selected for the U19 National Youth League and played with the team in the Central League B. In his first professional league season, he played eight games and scored three goals, becoming the team's best player. In his first professional season, he scored three goals in eight games, making him the top scorer in the national youth team. It is worth noting that he is only 17 years old, which just goes to show that he is a very talented and promising player.
According to reason, such a talented and potential player Evergrande should stay, but the reality is that even if he now enters the first team of Evergrande, in the current Evergrande lineup, he certainly can not play. Such a young player needs more games. Therefore, Evergrande finally chose to drop him and did not renew his contract. So, he moved to Suzhou Dongwu in the Central League as a free agent.
Unexpectedly, the youngster, who is not yet 18 years old, shone in his debut in the China League One (C-League) with a pass and a shot, and his confidence and expressiveness in front of the goal made people feel that this is not a young Chinese player, but clearly a foreigner. The match was the first round of the Central League, between Suzhou Dongwu and Heilongjiang Bingcheng, and Suzhou Dongwu finally won 3-1, and the most brilliant player in the match was Efirdin! He played a pass and a shot, which made the whole match a success.
In the 17th minute of the game, Efirdin took the ball on the left side, he didn't choose to go down the bottom, but he saw the gap and passed it decisively, the ball accurately found his own center forward Tang Chuang, who easily headed the ball into the goal. This goal fully demonstrated that Efirdin has a very wide passing vision and imagination, and the accuracy of the pass is also very high.
In the 60th minute of the match, Suzhou Dongwu won a free kick. After the free kick was kicked out, there was a scramble in the penalty area, and Efirdin got the ball, made a stop on his chest, and shot in the air, and the ball went into the net. This goal fully demonstrates that as a goal scorer, Efirdin is very calm in front of the goal, and his shooting skills are also good, very confident. To be honest, this kind of kicking style is more like what foreigners do, enough to see that Efirdin is a very talented striker.
At only 17 years old, and with such an outstanding performance in his first time playing in the Central League, I have to say that Efirdin is a real future star. As a member of the Evergrande Football Academy, Efirdin can be considered a starting point for the rise of Evergrande's youth training. Do you think Evergrande's youth training is about to blossom? Which players are you still looking forward to coming out of the Evergrande Football School now? Welcome friends to discuss together in the comment section!
