On July 12, Beijing time, the Portuguese Sports Football Club announced through official channels that the 19-year-old Chinese female player and former Jiangsu female footballer Shen Menglu officially joined the club. Shen Menglu is actually the first person to be “propelled” to a professional club in Europe among the candidate players involved in the latest “Players Overseas Program” of the Chinese Football Association. It is understood that male football players Zhang Yuning, Guo Tianyu, Duan Liuyu; female football players Wang Shuang, Tang Jiali, Shen Menglu, Shen Mengyu and other 7 players are the initial candidates for this plan.
Although in the process of promoting local young players to study abroad, the Chinese Football Association, the clubs or units to which the players belong, and individual players are faced with various problems and difficulties. The specific candidates may also be affected by various realistic factors. There is a possibility of adjustment. However, the Chinese Football Association The attitude towards the implementation of the plan is extremely resolute. In other words, if one of the candidate players is mature enough to stay abroad, one will be given away.
International footballer Wu Lei is undoubtedly one of the important driving forces of the Chinese Football Association to promote overseas studies. After the top 40 match, Chen Xuyuan publicly reiterated that the Chinese Football Association’s plan to promote outstanding young players to study abroad remains unchanged. Wu Lei’s stunning performance in the top 40 further strengthened the association and all parties concerned to implement this plan. The implementation of Shen Monroe’s plan to study abroad is based on this background.
It is reported that, in order to initiate and accelerate the implementation of players’ overseas studies, the Chinese Football Association had conducted in-depth communication with FIFA and UEFA on such issues as early as 2019. The senior officials of the association even communicated with current UEFA regarding players’ overseas studies in Europe. Secretary-General Severin reached a consensus face to face. Only affected by the epidemic, the progress of this work was slowed down in the last year.
In early June of this year, shortly after the national football team set off to Sharjah, UAE to participate in the remaining three games of the top 40, the Chinese Football Association held a special work meeting on “promoting young local male and female football players to study abroad”. At that time, Shen Menglu went to Portugal to play football has been almost implemented.
Wang Shuang
On the issue of players staying abroad, the Chinese Football Association did not set double standards for men’s and women’s football, but pushed forward at the same time. Taking the women’s football overseas plan as an example, in addition to Shen Menglu, the current national women’s football forward stars Wang Shuang and Tang Jiali, the 20-year-old former U20 female football player from the Shanghai team, and Shen Mengyu, who used to shine in the 2018 U20 Women’s World Cup, etc. The three players are also female candidates in the plan. Prior to this, the Chinese Football Association contacted well-known European football clubs such as Manchester City, Tottenham, and Celtics in the Premier League for these players through various channels. In the implementation of related plans, the Chinese Football Association’s special Belgian technical director Kreis also participated in the coordination work.
There have been different speculations about the content of the men’s overseas study plan. However, according to a reporter from Beiqing-Beijing Toutiao, the first three players to enter the men’s football candidate list for overseas staying abroad are forward Zhang Yuning from Beijing Guoan Club, forward Guo Tianyu from Shandong Luneng Club, and Liu Yu from the midfielder. The Chinese Football Association previously assisted the candidate players to contact some clubs from Spain, Belgium, and Wales.
Shen Monroe
Up to now, in addition to the implementation of Shen Monroe’s overseas study, the overseas work of some candidate players is already in the process of operation. It needs to be explained that due to the current situation of Chinese football, the players’ original clubs (units), the players’ wishes, the competition environment, the players’ appearance prospects, economic treatment and other factors, the Chinese Football Association still needs to cooperate with all parties in the process of assisting in the operation of this plan Active coordination, all kinds of practical problems encountered also need to be tackled one by one. Take the women’s football overseas plan as an example. Wang Shuang will go to Japan with the national women’s football team to participate in the Olympic football game. Whether she can stay overseas again to a certain extent depends on her excellent performance in this tournament.
There is another point worth paying attention to. That is, this year is the year of the National Games, and some provinces and cities attach great importance to football performance. The above-mentioned female football players are also the main force for the glory of the local teams. Therefore, the Chinese Football Association, various sports departments, and players’ units also need to focus on these factors when promoting players to go abroad. Once the opportunity is missed, Then the players are facing greater difficulties when staying abroad.
Men’s football abroad also faces a series of difficulties. For example, the above three candidate players are all currently trusted young players of their respective clubs, and they can even be qualified as the main players of each team in the Super League. Due to the unprecedented intensive schedule of the remaining matches in the first stage of the upcoming Chinese Super League, players may suffer accidental injuries. In addition, as a national team player, Zhang Yuning will also devote himself to the long-term preparation and competition of the top 12 national football matches. These practical problems may create obstacles to “study abroad.”
Zhang Yuning
However, the Chinese Football Association will not shake its determination to send local male and female players with potential to study abroad because of the many difficulties. The association will also adjust the plan appropriately according to the specific situation, and even adjust the specific candidates to study abroad. Players must be released to stay abroad only after all the conditions are mature to ensure the quality of staying abroad.
From the perspective of Chen Xuyuan, Gao Hongbo and other Chinese Football Association leaders visiting the Genbao base, the Chinese Football Association has not neglected its attention and support to youth football while fully cooperating with the national football team in its impact on the World Cup in Qatar.
Chen Xuyuan combined with the current situation of the European Cup and sighed to Xu Genbao’s guidance. While Chinese football was still trying to “uplift” U23 players, in the European Cup, 18 and 19-year-old young talents could already provoke. Zhu Qiang’s main beam. If Chinese football wants to do a good job of basic work, it needs to do a good job in the excavation and training of younger players at lower age levels. From the perspective of the overall design of the player and coach’s external exchange program, the main goal of the Association’s next “Study Abroad Program” will focus on local elite players in the low age group, such as some top players in the 2001 National Youth Team coached by Cheng Yaodong. .
Text / Beiqing-Beijing headline reporter Xiao ZheReturn to Sohu to see more
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