Chapter 25 Zheng Xin and Chinese Football

In an apartment in London, Zheng Xin is packing his things and putting his prepared clothes into his suitcase.

He will leave for Paris, France in three days.

Unconsciously, Zheng Xin has been working in London for eight years.

After the 2002 World Cup, he was assigned to work in London. As a sports media practitioner, during his eight years in London, he welcomed batches of Chinese players and watched them leave the land. .

From the beginning of Fan Zhiyi and Sun Jihai, and then to the vigorous development of the planned youth training, we welcomed players such as Yu Hao and Guo Liang.

Unfortunately, none of them had enough success in this land.

Perhaps Sun Jihai, who wore the Manchester City captain's armband in the final parting battle, is the most successful Chinese player in the Premier League.

Think back to eight years.

Zheng Xin chanted 'Fan Zhiyi! Awesome! '

At the Manchester City home, with tens of thousands of Manchester City fans shouting 'Chinese Sun! '

But these become memories after all!

After that, Yu Hao and Guo Liang left the Premier League stage after only two seasons and switched to other parties.

After Guo Liang left West Ham United, Zheng Xin's work in London also came to an end.

He will go to Paris, France to start a new career as a journalist.

And there, it must be much more exciting than London.

Chinese player Wang Yi is playing for Paris Saint-Germain, scoring 20 goals in a single season, helping Paris Saint-Germain win the Ligue 1 championship again.

23-year-old Wang Yi used his 'golden right foot' to kick out the confidence of the Chinese people!

Of course, it is not just Wang Yi that Chinese players studying abroad in Europe have performed.

For example, the Chinese teenager Chen Man who is currently playing in the Portuguese Super League Porto.

Chen slow's name is slow, but this guy is a fast side horse. Porto even said that when Chen slow is running at full speed, the speed is no less than that of Tottenham Hotspur's Bell.

It is this kind of quickness that makes 18-year-old Chen slow firmly in Porto's main position.

Speaking of which, Chen Wan is still the product of the third batch of planned youth training.

The Youth Training Program is a youth football training project jointly conducted by the General Administration of Sports and the Chinese Football Association after 2002.

In the case of approaching marketization, the General Administration of Sports and the Football Association will jointly control.

Using hard indicators to continuously train a large number of young players, after layers of screening, they are immediately sent abroad for further study.

Today's planned youth training delivery points are distributed in various European leagues, and these channels have also brought a steady stream of Chinese teenagers to the top professional arena.

In terms of defenders, the iron defender Liu Kairui, who played for Atletico Madrid in La Liga, announced that he has become a Chinese citizen.

19-year-old Liu Kairui is of mixed race.

My father is Chinese and my mother is Spanish.

Liu Kairui has shown amazing football talent since he was a child, and he rose all the way to the first team in the youth training of Atltico de Madrid.

is now a stable starter at the age of 19.

The most gratifying thing is that when Liu Kairui became an adult at the age of 18, he resolutely chose Chinese nationality and gave up Spanish nationality.

And this also injected a booster into the Chinese backline.

Zheng Xin also asked Liu Kairui why he chose Chinese nationality.

In this regard, Liu Kairui's response is very simple. His father hopes that the Chinese team can go further in the World Cup, so he chose Chinese nationality in order to realize his father's wish.

After Liu Kairui chose Chinese nationality, the national team quickly contacted him. Such a strong aid is a booster for the Chinese team.

Atltico de Madrid's Iron Guard!

This is the sweet pastry in the eyes of many teams.

Wang Yi!

Chen slow!

Liu Kerry!

These three correspond to center, wing, and defender respectively!

can be a huge help for the corresponding location.

The only pity is that there has never been a so-called midfielder in China!

The appearance of Wang Yi made the Chinese team break through the problem of powerlessness. A player who has killed all sides in the Ligue 1 is capable enough to break through this predicament.

It even often happens that the midfield cannot keep up with Wang Yi's forward speed.

After all, compared to Wang Yi, a player who is active in the European arena, the pace of competition in China's internal leagues is actually slower.

Although these players are excellent, they still cannot show Wang Yi's strongest side.

In the 2010 World Cup group stage, in the match between the Chinese team and Denmark, Wang Yi scored twice, but he was still unable to turn the tide.

The overall gap cannot be filled by Wang Yi alone.

In this regard, Wang Yi after the game also showed extreme sadness, and the fans felt distressed when they saw it.

But there is no way!

The Chinese team at this stage wants to break through and enter the knockout stage, they need a lot of Wang Yi!

What Wang Yi needs is not a team member who only knows how to rely on him, but a partner who can fight side by side with him!

Therefore, the appearance of Chen Man and Liu Kairui made many people optimistic about their future.

"It's time to go!"

Zheng Xin stretched his waist and lived in London for eight years, but he was suddenly reluctant to leave.

Jingle Jingle!

The phone rang.

Zheng Xin picked up the phone and connected.

"Laun, are you here to say goodbye to me?" Zheng Xin said with a smile.

Lawn is a reporter for the London Sport. Although he works in London, this guy is a Manchester City fan. They also met at Manchester City Stadium and became good friends.

Also as a media worker, sometimes they exchange information, and they have a good relationship.

"I don't think you can go!" Lawn's voice was full of playfulness.

In this regard, Zheng Xin only said that the other party was joking; "Give me a reason!"

"Maybe there is a reason!" Lawn laughed and said; "My friend who works at the Labor Bureau told me that a Chinese player passed the hearing of the 'special talent clause' yesterday and officially joined the Arsenal club!"

Hearing this, Zheng Xin was stunned.

"Are you sure?" Zheng Xin couldn't believe it.

To this, Lawn said; "That's a trusted friend, and he doesn't need to tell me such a lie, no need!"

Zheng Xin's heart suddenly shook!

A Chinese player joins Arsenal with a special talent clause!

This is big news!

"wait for me a while!"

After finishing speaking, Zheng Xin clamped his mobile phone with his head tilted, opened the organized suitcase with both hands, and rummaged through it.

Take a laptop out of it, quickly open it, and go to the official Arsenal website.

He began to quickly flip through recent news.

If there is such a thing, the official website will definitely report it.

Sure enough, Zheng Xin found a notice in a corner.

The notice is extremely concise, if it wasn't for Zheng Xin's intentional search, he would not have noticed it at all.

'On July 3, 2011, Arsenal signed a Chinese teenager from Sporting for 800,000 euros! '

Seeing this, Zheng Xin's eyes suddenly widened!

it is true!

"Man, I'll be calling you later!"

After Zheng Xin finished speaking, he hung up the phone.

Immediately, he started typing desperately on the keyboard.

He first looked for the information of the Chinese teenager on Arsenal's official website.

But other than that sentence, there is no information.

This made Zheng Xin feel an incomparable headache.

He could only adopt detour tactics, trace the origin, and run to the official website of Sporting Portugal.

After another round of rummaging, I finally found the lineup of last season.

Finally, he found it.

This is a green face, it looks like seventeen or eighteen.

Name: Lucky

Age: 17

Position of the court: defender/left and right feet

Status; Sold

Zheng Xin stared blankly at the young face in the photo. A player who made Arsenal use a special talent clause was right under his nose, and he almost missed it.

Zheng Xin was a little annoyed at the same time with a glimmer of hope.

He opens a match data website.

Here you can view the performance of all players under UEFA in each season.

When he found Lucky, he finally saw Lucky's data.

Participated in a total of 25 games, which means that the beginning of the season was not stable, and gradually stabilized the starting position in the later period.

But the next stat scare him.

80 steals?

What is this efficiency?

Although Sporting is indeed a defensive team, the 80 steals is a bit surprising.

With an average of 3.2 steals per game, it is no wonder that Wenger is excited.

"No! I have to watch the video of the game!"

After finishing speaking, Zheng Xin found the game video of Portugal Sports last season. He only watched Le Kai's performance on the field.

With this look, the whole night has passed.

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(end of this chapter)