Young Football Player

Li Chenglong didn't know that because of his mixed-race face, he had already caused a lot of discussion in the country. He was still preparing with the team for the upcoming Scottish Premier League.

Dundee United was the champion of the Scottish FA Cup last season. It stands to reason that they will participate in the Super Cup, but the Scottish League is quite unique, and there is no Super Cup.

The Scottish league first had the Super Cup, but during World War II, European football leagues were suspended, and the league restarted after World War II. The Scottish teams were arguing over who should qualify for the Super Cup, so the Super Cup was temporarily suspended. For decades, the Scottish League has no Super Cup.

This is also the characteristic of the small leagues in Europe. Compared with the five major leagues, the small leagues often have some special competition systems.

The simplest point is that there are often not many participating teams in small leagues. If a simple double-round home and away game is carried out according to the competition system of the five major leagues, it will result in very few games in each season, which is not conducive to attracting fans. It is beneficial for the league teams to participate in the European war.

If you play too few games, it will be difficult to maintain your state, and you will naturally suffer a disadvantage if you play in the European game.

For example, the Scottish Premier League has only 12 teams. If only a simple double cycle is played, there are only 22 league rounds per season. People play one game a week, but you play one game every two weeks. How can you maintain your state?

Therefore, the European minor leagues have set up some unique competition systems to increase the number of games.

At present, the most common in Europe is the regular season play-off system. After two rounds, they are divided into the championship group and the relegation group according to the points, and the championship play-offs and relegation play-offs are held respectively. about there.

However, the competition system of the Scottish League is different from other minor leagues.

The Scottish Super League is a three-round cycle. Each team plays three games with the other 11 teams, so they played 33 rounds.

After the end of the three rounds, the top six teams will enter the championship group, and the bottom six teams will enter the relegation group. Each of the two groups will have another single round, so that each team will play another 5 rounds.

In this way, a total of 38 rounds will be played together. The player with the highest points will be the champion, and the player with the lowest points will be relegated.

The competition system is a bit weird. I always feel that the Scottish football team is deliberately arranging to force the number of matches in a season to 38 rounds, so as to be on par with the Premier League.

Although the Scottish League is the only one in the world that has a three-round-robin system, they are not the most unique in the world. After all, there are many weird football associations in the world.

The Austrian League is played in the unique four rounds, but it is understandable. After all, there are only 10 teams in total, and the four rounds only play 36 rounds, which is two rounds less than the 38 rounds of the league.

The American major leagues are quite unique. Their competition system is completely copied from the NBA, and they are divided into east and west teams. Therefore, they are both American teams. Some teams only play one game, some play two games, and some Three more games to play.

At the beginning of the establishment of the MLS, the U.S. Soccer Association had a big brain hole, requiring each game to be divided into winners and losers, saying that this would increase the excitement of the game, so the 90-minute draw directly entered the single-handed battle.

The so-called single-handed battle is to let each team send five players to take the ball from outside the penalty area into the penalty area, face the opponent's goalkeeper single-handedly, and complete the shot within five seconds.

I have to say that the U.S. Football Association's brain hole is indeed good. After the penalty shootout was revised, it played a new trick, a single-handed fight.

It is said that the U.S. Football Association wanted to promote this kind of gameplay to the whole world, but in the end not only failed to promote it, even the American Major League itself abolished this weird gameplay.

If there is anyone in this world who can compare with the American Football Association, the Argentine Football Association is definitely one.

The Argentine League implements two sets of points system,

Championship points and relegation points are calculated separately.

To put it simply, the championship is calculated according to the level of points in the current season, which is no different from the common calculation method in football.

However, in terms of relegation points, the Argentine Football Association has its own unique wonderful idea, requiring the calculation of the average points of each team in the past five seasons, and the lowest three relegation.

According to the Argentine Football Association, this calculation method is more fair and will not allow some strong teams to be relegated because they have not played well in a season.

The Argentine Football Association is still complacent, thinking that this is a groundbreaking calculation method, which has never appeared before in world football, and Argentine football has created history.

But they forget that this method can indeed prevent those strong teams from being relegated because they did not play well in a season, but it will make some teams that have been relegated every year suddenly rise in a certain season and win the championship. A very good result, but suffered a relegation.

The most intuitive manifestation is that such a miracle has appeared in the Argentine League. A team that has been relegated every year suddenly became rich this season. After introducing strong support, it achieved good results and won the Copa Libertadores next season. qualifiers, and they were relegated.

The reason for the relegation is that the newly promoted teams performed well last year. When comparing the average points, the upgraded teams only count one season, but they have to compare five seasons, so their average points were lowered, so they suffered relegation. (If the upgrade team has to calculate the average points of five seasons, it is almost impossible for the upgrade team to succeed in relegation)

Therefore, a magical thing happened. A team qualified for the intercontinental competition, but was relegated in the league. And this kind of thing is not rare in a century, but everyone can witness it every few years.

And in the most extreme case, it may even happen that a certain team wins the league championship of the season, and then they suffer relegation.

While the chances of this happening are extremely small, it's not entirely impossible. If that day really comes, the Argentine League will definitely be popular all over the world as the Argentine Football Association hopes.

I have to say that the Argentine Football Association has indeed created history, and they are really unparalleled.

Of course, the Chinese Football Association on the opposite side of the earth is also pretty good, and they have done a lot of weird things, so I won't repeat them here.

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On Saturday, August 14, 2010, the 2010/11 season of the Scottish Premier League officially started.

Dundee United needs to go away to challenge St. Mirren in the first round of the league, an ordinary mid-lower team, a team that barely managed to relegation in the last round of last season.

Li Chenglong undoubtedly entered the squad and went to the away game with the team, but he did not start, and also came off the bench in the second half.

But Li Chenglong's league debut was not too successful. He did send two good crosses within half an hour of coming off the bench, but his teammates couldn't grasp it. In the end, Dundee United played away against St. Mirren. It was a 1:1 tie and failed to bring back three points as expected.

Obviously, the St. Mirren team learned something from Liverpool and specially arranged the kind of strong defenders to follow up with Jackie Lee, so that his chances of performance were greatly reduced.

Li Chenglong couldn't help but think that before the start of the league, the head coach Peter Houston had a private chat with him, and the other party said something really good.

My body is still too thin.

In the British Isles, there are few players with outstanding skills, and there are a lot of players with rough skills but full of muscles. It is really difficult for Lee Chenglong's current body to handle it.

If the body can't handle it, any technical talent will have to be discounted.