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Chapter 108 National Youth Team

Those selected into Zheng Xiong's big list should not be underestimated either.

This U19 national youth team is also known as the most "foreign style" national youth team in Chinese history.

Among the 23-man roster, there are 13 overseas players.

Among them are Wei Shihao who we mentioned earlier in the first team of Boa Vista, and Tang Shi of the U20 youth team of the Brazilian giant Botafogo (currently Tang Shi is in the trial training of the Real Madrid B team, I wish this young man success!!! ).

Among the 13 overseas players, only four are completely personal. They are central defender Gao Zhunyi (son of Yanbian famous star Gao Zhongxun) who plays for Japan's Toyama Victory Team, Spain's Sevilla forward Gui Hong, Portugal Wei Shihao, the frontcourt player of the Boavista team, and Tang Shi, the frontcourt player of the Brazilian Botafogo team, were sent overseas by different agents.

Other overseas players, defensive midfielder Zhang Xiuwei, who played for Lyon and Saint-Etienne in France, and high center forward Xiang Baixu are the result of cooperation between the Chengdu Football Association and France. Central defender Liu Junshuai, defender Huang Jiajun, defender Yan Zihao, and midfielder Chen Zhechao They belong to the players in the "Stay in Portugal Project" in cooperation between the Chinese Football Association and Portugal.

The potential midfielders Chen Kerui, Yao Junsheng and goalkeeper Zhou Yuchen from the two Luneng Football Schools are the players sent out by the Luneng Club to cooperate with Portugal at the end of 2013.

Zheng Xiong's formation is different from Cao Yu's. Zheng Xiong uses a 4-5-1 stance. This tactical stance is also very in line with the top and bottom abilities of the two U19 National Youth wings Wei Shihao and Tang Shi. As the saying goes: Jin Ke Attack, retreat and defend.

Zheng Xiong's starting lineup is as follows: (It is also the formation that Zheng Xiong put up in the Asian Youth Championship.)
Goalkeeper: Zhou Yuchen (Portugal Hope Team);
Defenders: Tomorrow (Wuhan Zall), Liu Junshuai (Sporting Kasem, Portugal), Micro Motion Tsubasa (Toyama, Japan), Chen Zepeng (Guangzhou R&F);

Midfielders: Wei Shihao (Boavista, Portugal), Zhechao Chen (Sakavinense, Portugal), Zhang Xiuwei (Lyon, France), Cheng Jin (Hangzhou Greentown), Tang Shi (Botafogo, Brazil);
Forward: Gui Hong (Sevilla, Spain);

Substitutes: Fu Yunlong (Guangzhou R&F), Huang Jiajun (Portugal Sacavenense), Xiang Baixu (France Saint-Etienne), Lu Pin (Shanghai Greenland Shenhua), Wei Jingzong (free agent), Yao Junsheng (Portugal Xin Tela United), Xiang Hantian (Guizhou Renhe), Long Wei (Wuhan Zall), Yan Zihao (Sporting Lisbon, Portugal), Jia Xinyao (Wuhan Zall), Zhao Tianci (Guangzhou Evergrande), Chen Kerui ( Belenenses, Portugal).

(I briefly introduced the situation of players in the 19-20 age group. I hope that everyone will pay more attention to the young players. After all, they are the future successors. The U19 team defeated Japan last year, tied with South Korea, and qualified after Vietnam. The "naturalized brigade" Qatar team lost when they lost, and finally stopped in the quarter-finals of the Asian Youth Championship. The Chinese national team also stopped in the quarter-finals of this Asian Cup. Such a record is worth looking forward to. Especially the players in the team : Goalkeeper Zhou Yuchen, central defender Micro Motion, midfielder Chen Zhechao, two wingers Wei Shihao and Tang Shi, these are all players with great potential to succeed. I hope everyone has confidence in the young Chinese players!!!)
Such a friendly match can be said to have gathered nearly half of China's outstanding young players (around 20 years old). Fans and spectators at the Huangpu Stadium are still looking forward to this game.

In Zhang Jian's view, this is a close match, and Cao Yu...

...the locker room before the game...

While picking his teeth, Lao Cao yelled: "Don't bully him badly. There are always guests coming through the door. Also, Ji Wenjie, don't be too hard on your feet. It's not good to have conflicts then."

After leaving this sentence, Cao Yu leisurely left the locker room. Uh, our great coach Cao didn't even arrange tactics for this game. Anyway, he played as he pleased.

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The two sides completed the most basic procedures - players from both sides shook hands, the referee shook hands, picked the ball, and chose the direction of attack; the game also started with the whistle of the referee.

The rattan team kicks off.

Since Xu Liang is not on the field, the Fujixun team at this time is not the usual left-back as the starting point of the attack, but a more balanced organizational midfielder.

The position of the organizational midfielder, Wang Chu, must have stood up for his part.

Since Wang Chu's personal characteristic is that he likes to go forward more, Cao Yu, in order to improve his habitual dislocation, Wang Chu only started 11 times in the first 3 rounds of the first round. 5 substitute appearances.

Over the past few months, Wang Chu has gradually reduced the number of crazy forwards he used to do before as he got used to the midfielder position of the substitute lineup during tactical drills.

More is to deliver shells to teammates in the frontcourt under the cover of a defensive midfielder.

Fuji Xun team in the backcourt of this game can be described as a big change of face.

But in the first 10 minutes of the game, this substitute-level defense did not have any problems.

Although Wei Shihao once cooperated with teammate striker Gui Hong on the left in the 3rd minute, Li Zhihai still broke the ball from Wei Shihao's feet under the active pursuit of Li Zhihai.

In the 7th minute, Li Yuming also had a good chance.

Midfielder Wang Chu sent the ball from the right to the left. Li Yuming used his body to lean on the right back Chen Zepeng. After stopping the ball with his chest easily, he turned around and lay down the ball.

Chen Zepeng is not one of the players in the overseas team. Chen Zepeng, who can only train in the Guangzhou R&F Youth Team, is obviously not Li Yuming's opponent.

Li Yuming's high-speed horizontal inward cut couldn't help distance from Chen Zepeng behind him, and also shook away the central defender Gao Zhunyi who was coming to defend. In this way, Li Yuming got an excellent chance to kick the goal.

Li Yuming kicked his right foot very decisively and volleyed very powerfully.

However, Zhou Yuchen, the goalkeeper of the National Youth League, made a very accurate judgment and flew to pick the ball off, refusing Li Yuming's shot.

In these 10 minutes, the two sides played quite well. After all, in the opening stage, everyone had plenty of energy, and they were testing each other more.

But obviously, the tentative attack of the national youth team did not get any effect.

Zheng Xiong, head coach of the national youth team, put his arms around his chest and watched the game seriously.

Zheng Xiong was very annoyed, and the reason was very simple: he asked Li Yuming and Cao Yu not to let him go.

On that day, after being rejected by Cao Yu, the Football Association officials immediately notified Zheng Xiong. After hearing this, Zheng Xiong was also annoyed. a... beep..."

(Uh, the officials of the Football Association said that they were very hurt. They called this one and were scolded by this one, and they were scolded by that one when they were called. This is like crying without tears...)
In the end, Zheng Xiong had no choice but to compromise. After all, at this time, there was a word "agent" in front of his position. To be complete, Zheng Xiong should be called: Acting head coach of the U19 National Youth Team of the Chinese Football Association.

Zheng Xiong has good contacts in the football circle, and he has also heard that Zhang Jian is about to replace him with Cao Yu. After all, it is impossible to keep everything secret. His on-the-spot control ability was not only criticized by the media, but even the high-level football associations who had always supported him secretly pointed out his inaction.

"Ugh."

Zheng Xiong could only sigh to himself, and wholeheartedly led the last game of his national youth team.

When Zheng Xiong was thinking, the national youth team short-circuited in the midfield.

(End of this chapter)