Although last season's Chinese Super League entered an unprecedented trough, the Chinese League One presented a thriving scene. Wuhan Sanzhen, Meizhou Hakka, Zhejiang and Chengdu Rongcheng all successfully broke into the Chinese Super League.
Today's professional leagues fight for money, and the strength of a team depends on the money invested by the club. The success of the 4 teams in the Chinese League One also shows that investors are more willing to spend money on the Chinese League One clubs.
The recent large-scale reinforcements of Wuhan Three Towns Club are enough to prove this, after signing 3 strong foreign aides in a row, the focus of Wuhan Three Towns' reinforcement work has shifted to local players.
Recently, many domestic media have reported that wuhan three towns are expected to introduce a number of Guangzhou team players, at present, Liu Dianzuo, Gao Zhunyi, Deng Hanwen, He Chao and many other main players of the Guangzhou first team last season have begun to train with the Wuhan three towns team.
In addition to the above 4 players, Guangzhou's popular international Wei Shihao is also likely to join Wuhan Sanzhen in the new season, coupled with Wuhan veteran Mei Fang, who is expected to return to the roots, the Wuhan Sanzhen team in the new season has introduced nearly half of the Guangzhou first-team players.
The three towns of Wuhan have so arrogantly attracted reinforcements, so that fans can see the economic strength of this new chinese super army. But let's not forget that in Chengdu Rongcheng, which also successfully overtook this year, the financial strength of the club is not much worse than that of the three towns in Wuhan.
As the fourth-ranked team in the Chinese League A last season, Chengdu Rongcheng was able to beat Dalian in the Super League play-offs, which also proved that the strength of Chengdu players is not worse than the Chinese Super League team, and even stronger than Dalian.
The success of Chengdu Rongcheng is also largely due to their reinforcements. Last season, Chengdu Rongcheng loaned Liu Ruovan from Shanghai Shenhua, and the U23 striker scored a total of 23 goals in 27 Games of the Chinese Super League, making a great contribution to the team's ability to enter the Super League as the fourth place in the Chinese First Division.
As we all know, Sichuan football was once a force that cannot be ignored in domestic football, and many international football players are from Sichuan. Although Sichuan football has gradually declined in recent years, Sichuan's football talents are not much at all.
Liu Ruovan from Nanchong, Sichuan is a typical example, and his success in Chengdu last season also made Rongcheng Club decide that the future team will continue to build a team based on local players in Sichuan. At present, there are many Sichuan players with good strength in the domestic football market, such as Yan Dinghao, Yang Liyu and Zhang Xiuwei of Guangzhou.
Born in Mianyang, Sichuan Province, Yan Dinghao, 24, trained professionally at the Beijing Sangao Club as a young man and later stayed in Europe, playing for the youth teams of Porto and Aloka, two Portuguese Super League clubs.
Yan Dinghao, who returned from staying in Yang, joined Guangzhou Evergrande in 2019, although he was not too old, Yan Dinghao gained a foothold shortly after joining the Guangzhou team and became the main rotation player under Cannavaro.
Last season, due to the departure of many big-name foreign aid and naturalized players in the team, Yan Dinghao also became the absolute main force of the Guangzhou midfield. Six assists in a single season also made him the king of assists for Guangzhou last season.
Similar to Yan Dinghao's situation, Yang Liyu, who was born in Chongqing, also stayed in Portugal, and after returning to China in 2017, he joined tianjin Teda team.
Due to his outstanding performance in the league, Yang Liyu was favored by Evergrande. After the end of the 2017 season, Evergrande poached Yang Liyu back to Guangzhou, and as a result, there were some disputes with TEDA Club.
Compared with Yan Dinghao, Yang Liyu, who was born as a winger, became the main force of Evergrande earlier, and he and Wei Shihao were the main commandos of the left and right wings of the Guangzhou team.
Last season, Yang Liyu played 20 games for Guangzhou in the Chinese Super League, scoring 5 goals and 1 assist, such an outstanding performance also made him selected for the national team coached by Li Xiaopeng.
Finally, Zhang Xiuwei, born in 1996 in Dazhou, Sichuan, debuted in the Chengdu youth training system. At the age of 19, Zhang Xiuwei went to France and joined the youth team of the Ligue 1 giants after passing the trial training of Lyon.
Zhang Xiuwei, who returned from school after 2 years, joined Tianjin Quanjian, the most powerful team in the Chinese Super League at that time, and became the love of the then coach Cannavaro.
Zhang Xiuwei, who was short in stature, was widely disliked, but his talent and ball quotient allowed him to overcome his physical deficiencies. As a back-up player, Zhang Xiuwei not only has super running ability, but also has excellent stealing and interception ability, and is unique in the attack of tandem teams. As a result, he also received the title of "Chinese Magic Flute".
The above 3 Sichuan players, the ability is undoubtedly the most prominent in the domestic players of the same age. If they can return to Sichuan and join Chengdu Rongcheng together, it will greatly increase the strength of the Chengdu midfield and help the team achieve better league results on the basis of completing the relegation task.
Here, we also hope that they can get the call of Rongcheng Club to join this Chinese Super League promotion team, and contribute to the revitalization of Sichuan football in the past and contribute their own strength.