Recently, the Portuguese Sports Football Club announced through official channels that Shen Menglu, a 19-year-old Chinese female player and former Jiangsu female footballer, has 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.
Shen Monroe’s plan to stay abroad is implemented
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. And 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 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.
Players stay abroad do not set double standards
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. Take 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 national youth 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. Previously, 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. On the issue of implementing related plans, the Chinese Football Association specially hired Belgian technical director Kreis to participate 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 the Beijing Youth Daily, there were three players who were the first to enter the men’s football candidate list for overseas studies, namely 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.
Realistic problems need to be tackled one by one
Up to now, in addition to Shen Monroe’s overseas study has been implemented, the overseas work of some candidate players has been 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. Also take the women’s football overseas plan as an example. Wang Shuang will go to Japan to participate in the Olympic football game with the national women’s football team. Whether she can stay overseas again to a certain extent depends on her excellent performance in this tournament.
Another point worthy of attention is that 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 that the local representative teams rely on. Therefore, the Chinese Football Association, various sports departments, and players’ units also need to focus on these factors when promoting players to stay abroad. Once the opportunity is missed, the players Staying abroad is facing even greater difficulties.
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.”
However, the Chinese Football Association will not waver 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.
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