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Chapter 281 I'm Still Me
The youth team succeeded.

As a team, they have won the highest honor that no youth team in Chinese football has ever won. Although the performance of the Chinese youth team was often better than that of the adult team in the past.

The ecstatic middle and young players did not expect at this time that the World Youth Championship won by them not only allowed most of them to embark on a more brilliant career path, but also made Chinese football officially rank among the world's first-class. Since the official launch of the Chinese Professional League in 1994, after 15 years of development, it has finally been accompanied by three consecutive World Cup finals, the best result No.3, Olympic gold medals and World Youth Championships. Chinese football has finally been recognized by the mainstream of world football.

Whether a country’s football level is strong does not depend on the results of one game. Bulgaria in 94, Croatia in 98, Senegal in 02, and Switzerland in 06 were all quite good, but they can be regarded as second-rate teams at most, because after the outstanding performance of players in a certain game, they were not able to continue their good results in a certain game, so no matter who they are, they will not regard them as super teams.

A country that can be recognized as a first-class football country must not only have good historical results, but also have sufficient competitiveness now. For example, Uruguay, the two-time World Cup champion, now probably except for the fans of their country, no one will think that they are now a first-class team.

The performance of Chinese football in various competitions over the past ten years has been able to establish the impression of a strong team in everyone's minds. This impression is not achieved overnight, but slowly, through consistent and stable performance.

The three most important events of the national football team are the World Cup, the Olympic Games and the World Youth Championship. In the 98 World Cup, although the Chinese team failed to qualify for the group stage, Denmark, which entered the quarter-finals, could only eliminate them by drawing lots.The Olympic Games, the runner-up in 02, the top eight in 3, and the champion in 06. In the World Youth Championships from the late 2000s to the present, the Chinese youth team has maintained a very good level. Basically, they can qualify for the group stage. They won the championship this year. From this point of view, it seems more important to achieve good results in the World Youth Championship. After all, in the national team, a group of outstanding players can play for many years. .

Of course, at this moment, all the Chinese fans would not think of this. They were just cheering heartily, watching the players of the China Youth Team celebrate wildly on the court.

The arena has become chaotic. Countless reporters surrounded the players who were celebrating wildly in the arena. Among them, Long Bisheng received the most attention from reporters, not only because he was the tallest and most conspicuous person in the arena, but also because his two goals and one assist in the final directly helped the China Youth Team complete this great comeback!

"I'm very excited, really excited." Long Bisheng stammered excitedly: "I... I scored two goals? No, it's not important, the important thing is that we won. We have always been moving towards this goal, but before the start of the World Youth Championship, no one was confident that we would be able to win the championship... We were disappointed when we lost the second goal, thinking that we would suffer a massacre in the final like Qatar and Japan... But we survived, everyone played very well, I think we Thanks to our defenders, if they hadn't defended the German onslaught in the second half, we would not have been able to focus on attacking and score three goals."

"In the World Youth Championship, you participated in five games, but scored six goals. Pato, the top scorer, only scored seven goals. If you participated in the first two games of the group stage, then you are very likely to win the title of top scorer. What do you think about this?" Another reporter suddenly asked, with a cunning light shining behind the glasses.

Long Bisheng calmed down a little, and he looked at the reporter cautiously: "I have no objection. I was able to score six goals because of coach Ding Yu's tactical arrangement. I was the only striker in front, so I got more chances to shoot. I didn't play in the first two games, which was also arranged by the coach. As everyone saw, we won the World Youth Championship. Compared with the World Youth Championship, the title of top scorer is not worth mentioning."

The reporter put away the microphone uninterestedly, Long Bisheng turned his gaze over, then turned away from the reporters and threw himself into the group of other teammates celebrating.

In the later celebration ceremony, Hu Gandang, wearing the captain's armband, held up the championship trophy surrounded by his teammates. At that moment, countless flash lights were turned on at the same time, condensing this picture eternally in the photo.

That night, the Chinese youth team held a grand celebration party in the hotel where they stayed. Although it was grand, the party was quite private in nature. The participants were basically the entire Chinese youth team and the Football Association staff in charge of the World Youth Championship. Only a few journalists who had a good relationship with the Football Association could enter.And the vice-chairman in charge of the Youth Department of the Football Association, who had the highest status on the scene, left the field after encouraging the players a few words. This was to allow the players to relax and celebrate without feeling nervous.

Ding Yu also let go tonight, especially the vice chairman patted him on the shoulder meaningfully before leaving, and encouraged him a few words, saying that he hoped to continue working with him in the future...

With these words, Ding Yu is very clear about his future—leading the youth team to achieve good results in the World Youth Championship, he will generally continue to lead the National Olympic team three years later. If he still performs well, then the position of head coach of the national team may not be too far away... Isn't this exactly his goal?

Although in the past few years when the national team used to use foreign coaches, this practice no longer became a practice, but a football power often uses foreign coaches is only a transitional means. After leading the team to win the Olympic championship, Hiddink resigned from the position of the head coach of the Chinese Olympic team and the national team. The current head coach of the national team is the head coach of Yunjia Tianyu. Working on the coach position at the same time - that is a very tiring job after all.

According to Ding Yu’s estimation, after the 2010 World Cup, the national team, which mainly consisted of players from the 2000 Olympic Games, will usher in a period of renewal. At that time, as long as he leads the national Olympic team to achieve good results in the 2012 London Olympic Games, no one will be able to compete with him for the head coach of the national team.

Ding Yu knows that he may not be suitable to lead a club to achieve brilliant results, but at the national team level, he can do well, just like some coaches who can achieve brilliant results in the national team but fail in the club coaching, as a coach, you have to find a suitable position for yourself.

This is the way that suits Ding Yu.

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After a night of frantic celebrations, the China Youth Team did not return home with a high reputation. Participating in the World Youth Championship at the embarrassing time of September and October left them no time to breathe a sigh of relief after the game. Players who played in the European League had to report back to the team immediately, because the club where they were absent for nearly a month was almost exhausted, and domestic players did not have so much time to accept various celebrations. The domestic league is now in full swing!

There are too many outstanding performances in Chinese football now, and Chinese fans will no longer be as happy as they used to be when they get a little result—although the Chinese youth team won the World Youth Championship this time is quite an achievement, but Chinese fans will not feel sorry for not having a series of large-scale celebrations.

For Long Bisheng, although he helped the Chinese youth team win the World Youth Championship, and he himself became the silver boot of the World Youth Championship and beat Walcott, Balotelli, Bojan and other already famous young talents to be selected into the best team of the World Youth Championship, but life is no different for him. He is still a part of the British Championship team Leeds United, and he is working hard for Leeds United to enter the Premier League after the season.

The last Long Bisheng who returned to Leeds was warmly welcomed by other Leeds players. The first thing everyone said after seeing him was: "Ha, the world champion is back!" This made Long Bisheng feel a little embarrassed.

Even the Leeds fans welcomed him warmly—although his goal helped the Chinese youth team eliminate the England youth team, for Leeds fans, there are very few players in their team who have won world-class championships!
On October [-]th, Long Bisheng, who appeared on the training ground immediately after returning to Leeds regardless of his exhausted journey, caused a sensation among Leeds fans watching the training. Soon, the number of fans watching the training increased from a mere dozen to hundreds of people!
"Tarzan! Tarzan! Tarzan!"

The fans were very quiet when the players were training, but when they finished training, the fans on the sidelines immediately shouted the nickname of Long Bisheng, as enthusiastically as in the stands of Elland Road Stadium.

"Long! Now you are a big star!" Huntington patted Long Bisheng's back exaggeratedly and said with a smile.

Long Bisheng laughed: "But I am still the old me."

PS: I came back from BJ. Although the trip to BJ was very tiring, it was still worth it. I took some photos and posted some on the Internet. If you are interested in seeing it, log on to Baidu Guo Nu, and you can see it in the top post.

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