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Chapter 247 This is Professional Football

The 2009 World Youth Championship was held in Egypt, Africa, and the game time made all participating teams feel awkward—the first group match was held on September 24, and the final was held on October [-].

This kind of schedule is a relatively big blow to European teams. Apart from Hungary, the six European teams participating in the World Youth Championship have many players from Italy, Spain, Germany, England and the Czech Republic.

However, this World Youth Championship had an absolute upset before it even started—the defending champion and six-time World Youth Championship winner Argentina’s youth team was at the bottom of the South American qualifiers and was eliminated. The No.17 World Youth Championship will be held without the defending champion.

The Chinese youth team has never encountered an absolute death group like two years ago. Instead, it may be because the poor grouping of the World Junior Championships two years ago has brought the bad luck of the Chinese youth team to the peak. In the grouping of this World Youth Championship, the Chinese youth team has drawn an absolute lottery. South Africa, which is not the strongest in China, and Honduras, which is only the last two of the four North American teams.

Such a pick can be said to be the best pick. Compared with the situation where Ghana, England and Uruguay are in the same group in Group D, it is simply heaven.

If a team wants to win the cup, in addition to its own strength, the quality of the lottery is also a very important factor. If Brazil in 02 hadn't met a former world champion except England and Germany along the way, I'm afraid it would not have won the World Cup.

Encountering a good group means that they don't need to waste too much physical energy in the group stage. At the same time, they can hide their strength and control the state of the players so that they can burst out in their best state in the knockout stage.

It is precisely because of this that Ding Yu regards participating in the World Youth Championship as very important. You must know that although Chinese football is now considered an absolute hegemon in Asia, with a strong national team and endless reserves.

With the strength of Chinese football, it may be impossible to dominate the four-yearly World Cup for the time being. The most effective way to improve the overall image of Chinese football is to win the World Youth Championship and the Olympic Games, which are less influential than the World Cup.

In the BJ Olympics last year, the Chinese Olympic team led by Messi won the gold medal. Messi himself won the Golden Boot and the Golden Ball with seven goals and five assists. While personally ranking among the world's superstars, it also allowed Chinese football to truly establish its own image. This World Youth Championship is the best opportunity to consolidate its image.

Therefore, Ding Yu plans to conduct three relatively long training camps in early June, mid-July and early August respectively. It is not too difficult to truly combine European players and domestic players.

The best results of the Chinese Youth Team in the World Youth Championship are the quarterfinals -a total of three times has achieved such results. The most pity is the World Youth Championship two years ago. The Chinese youth team led by Messi encountered the Argentine team who later won the championship in advance. In the end, it was defeated in the penalty shootout. The Olympic Games won the first important World Championship in Chinese football history, and it can also be regarded as the mulberry of the East.

The last China Youth Team was not very lucky, but this year's China Youth Team seems to be much better luck. At the same time, the biggest flaw of the last China Youth Team is that the cooperation between domestic players and European players is not very tacit. Although Messi has excellent personal ability, he failed to form a tacit cooperation with other players. Even so, he fought against Argentina, who won the championship.

With lessons learned from the past, Ding Yu is naturally very concerned about the running-in between players. A team composed of eleven stars who are scattered may not be able to defeat a team composed of second-rate players who cooperate with each other. Ding Yu is very clear about this reason.

In the roster of players convened this time, there are 22 overseas players and [-] domestic players. With overseas players as the main body and domestic players as the branches, the big tree of the China Youth Team can be deeply rooted and leafy. This is Ding Yu’s long-established strategy.

Players who can gain a foothold in Europe must be better than domestic players in terms of ability. At the same time, after playing in Europe for such a long time, they must know more about the football styles of other countries in the world football world than domestic players. It is naturally best to take them as the main body and others to assist.

These three training camps are to allow overseas players to show their superior strength in front of domestic players, so that players who are also selected by domestic elites can be willing to be green leaves.

Ding Yu believes that it is not difficult to achieve this. In the European League that just ended, whether it is Long Bisheng, Dai Guangming and other seven players, or Jiang Qi who plays in France, they performed very well. As long as they can perform at their normal level in the three training camps, no one will have any objections to becoming the main force.

Sure enough, in the first training camp, the overseas players immediately showed their strength.

Long Bisheng's powerful ability to grab points in front of the goal, Dai Guangming's gorgeous passing skills in the midfield, Hu Gandang's calm and dispatching general demeanor in the midfield and backcourt, ghostly breakthroughs around the wing, Zhang Yi's excellent free kick skills, Li Jie's fierce tackles and excellent blocking skills, Jiang Qi's wide-range running and accurate timing of inserting assists, Wu Bufan's accurate attacks and large-scale control areas...Compared with two years ago, domestic players are improving, but European players are improving even more , progress faster than them.

It took almost only one week for the players in Europe to establish their status in the team. In the remaining week, Ding Yu began to practice tactical cooperation. When the World Youth Championship began, the players in Europe had just finished their pre-season training in their respective teams. There would be no physical problems. The domestic players were also in the season, and there would be no physical problems. Therefore, Ding Yu did not need to worry about physical fitness, but put more effort into tactical cooperation.

Half a month of training time passed quickly. Domestic players returned to their respective clubs to continue participating in the league, while overseas players got half a month's vacation to take a good rest and relax their bodies after a season of exhaustion. Dai Guangming and others made an appointment to go to the Maldives for half a month of leisure, but Long Bisheng stayed in Haigeng - the game he participated in ended nearly a month earlier than the others. He is not interested in wearing a pair of shorts and basking in the sun on the beach, looking at girls in three-point swimsuits in a daze, so he might as well stay in Haigeng for a good exercise.

Haigeng is a good place with a higher altitude. The effect of exercising here is three points better than that on flat ground. The only downside is that Long Bisheng's physical fitness cannot be exercised in Haigeng for more than eight hours. However, Long Bisheng is not a training madman. He is very satisfied if he can have the effect of exercising.

During this period of time, Ning Xi had been in contact with Long Bisheng on the phone, telling him about some changes in the Leeds United team - from the League One to the Championship, the opponents faced were different, and the team would definitely have personnel changes, but what Long Bisheng didn't expect was that the first news Ning Xi sent him was - Beckford's transfer!
With only one year left in the contract and the Leeds club unable to meet Beckford's salary requirements, Betts decided to put Beckford on the transfer market. Finally, Middlesbrough, which was relegated to the British Championship last season, bought the striker who scored 80 goals in three seasons at a price of 69 pounds.

"What does the club think! Is Jermaine only worth 80 pounds?" Long Bisheng said to Ning Xi annoyed, "Look at his scoring rate! Can the team easily find a better striker than him in the transfer market?"

"Don't forget that he only cost the club £27 when he came here... and he's almost [-] years old. There are only a few years left in his peak period. If you sign a contract with him at this time, you may not be able to sell him for the price. What's more, the club has already found a striker who can replace him, and that is you, Aaron." Ning Xi said calmly on the phone.

"You mean to say that I, the top scorer who has only been here for a year, forced the original top scorer away." Long Bisheng smiled bitterly: "But Jermaine kept helping me score goals in the last few rounds."

"This is professional football, Aaron." Ning Xi said softly.

(End of this chapter)