The 97 generation of Greentown Youth Training is known as the strongest in history. However, four years later, except for Zhang Yuning, Yan Dinghao, and Tong Lei, the rest of the players such as Xiao Wuwei, Liu Yi, Wen Junjie, and Gao Huaze failed to meet expectations. These players fled after the 2017 Tianjin National Games, and for a while, the Greentown 97 echelon survived in name only, and the so-called strongest youth training in history withered away. Since then, due to the narrow selection of materials and other reasons, the Greentown echelon has been difficult to recruit more excellent seedlings, so it has not eased up.
Luneng's youth training has been prosperous for a long time, and it has matured step by step, while the Greentown youth training with the same name has a false name, and it is difficult to improve. Who is to blame?
It is completely understandable that young players aspire to higher platforms, want to earn higher salaries, and look forward to better development. In the case that the Football Association has not implemented the compensation mechanism for youth training, once the players flee, the Greentown Club can only issue an announcement to state its position, which is really helpless, sinister and incompetent.
The chaos in the club's management accelerated the escape of young players and eventually became unmanageable.
Wen Junjie: Unstoppable checkbooks, unsigned pay slips, embarrassing things that can't be forgotten
The escape of the 97 generation is not unrelated to old acquaintances. Especially Yang Ji. The former coach of Greentown is very familiar with The Greentown team, is familiar with the situation of some young players, and maintains a good relationship with the parents of the players.
Joining the coaching team of Tianjin Quanjian, Yang Ji entered the coaching team of Hebei Huaxia Happiness. Quan Jian and Huaxia Happiness, two local tycoon clubs, are ready to do a big job. In order to cope with the FOOTBALL Association's U23 policy, young players are needed to enrich the team. Therefore, Wang Zheng and Yang Ji targeted the echelon players of the old owner, Greentown.
At the Tianjin National Games, Quan Jian's coaching team carefully examined the performance of young people in Greentown, favored individual players, and did not hesitate to praise them. Among them is Wen Junjie.
Wen Junjie, a central defender, has a good sense of consciousness, belongs to the player who plays football with his brain, and has great potential. In time, the possibility of growing into the successor of the national football team Feng Xiaoting is very high. However, although Wen Junjie's ball quotient is high, his emotional intelligence is average. Under the inducement of Tianjin Quanjian, he was still in the contract period and actually followed Quanjian to Qatar for training. When the news came, the Greentown Club thundered in anger and issued a statement.
Seeing that things were not good, Wen Junjie had to return to the Greentown team. However, at this time, Wen Junjie already had an iron heart to go to Quan Jian. Therefore, the Greentown Club pushed the boat along the water and negotiated with Quan Jian. In the end, Wen Junjie was exchanged for Li Xingcan and a large amount of cash. Both sides took what they needed, and everyone rejoiced.
Subsequently, many media hyped up the news that Wen Junjie joined Quan Jian, especially the media in Wen Junjie's hometown of Changsha, and created momentum for his upcoming participation in the AFC Champions League. Unfortunately, how can such a young player, who is so mentally immature, be successfully promoted?
Soon, Wen Junjie became a victim of the U23 policy and is still nailed to the column of shame and cannot be turned over. The first 55 seconds were replaced, the first 15 seconds were replaced, and the limit record of the Chinese Super League was refreshed again and again, but unfortunately, this is a bad record.
Quan Jian, on the other hand, soon fell apart. Depressed, Wen Junjie dreamed back in the middle of the night, not knowing whether he would regret his original choice. If he stays in Greentown, the playing time he gets will not be far more than that in Quan Jian, and may even become the absolute main force in the team.
In 2020, Wen Junjie even had a fight with Quan Jian. On the 2019 salary confirmation form, Wen Junjie refused to sign it. Quan Jian insisted that he had paid all of Wen Junjie's salary. The two sides disagreed and broke up. The result, of course, was not over. From the original you and my wishes, to the later court of the book, what happened in the middle? Is it that the signing fee has not been settled, or is the promised semi-main position not guaranteed? Outsiders don't know.
He Quan Jian was deadlocked, and naturally did not have the opportunity to join Tianhai. Wen Junjie joined the Cangzhou Lions in 2020, but the team did not register him. For nearly a year, he had no ball to play. In 2021, he transferred to Meizhou Hakka. However, he only played 6 games, averaging 22 minutes per game.
A potential rising star, in four years, three teams, played only a few dozen games. It's embarrassing. The dispensable performance almost made the fans forget that there was such a player. What people remember is also the embarrassing record of his 15 seconds being replaced.
If I have the chance, I would love to interview him and learn about his mental journey and whether he has grown after these setbacks, both in terms of skill and mental. Or the choice in the face of temptation and confusion, there is no new understanding. There is no turning back from the bow, and there is no turning back in life. How to go is your own choice, and you must be careful before you go. The road to life is long, the road to football is very short. Take every step in front of you, young man, after all, you are only 25 years old.
Little Wu Wei - reckless teenager, difficult to become a big instrument; Gao Huaze - bicycle teenager, a flash of inspiration
Compared with Wen Junjie, who eventually left more or less transfer fees for the old owners, Gao Huaze, Xiao Wuwei, Liu Yi, Liu Jing and many others left after the contract expired, ignoring the ambition of vigorously cultivating these teenagers. Old Song Hao gambled on all luck and borrowed the Practice of gambling on gold medals in the Chinese League A has become a complete joke. Four years later, looking back at these teenagers, none of them have become the pillars of the team, and the road of football has become narrower and narrower.
From Tianjin Quanjian to Dalian, Xiao Wuwei's ball quotient has not improved much, interception, siege, blocking data are very general, and the recklessness after the hot head makes it more difficult for him to become a handsome talent, and the scars in the Dalian people's back line are related to his panic in the back position. Wu Wei could not become an impregnable barrier, which eventually led to the demotion of the Dalian people.
This year, the deep impression left by Wu Wei was a rough foul behind the back to bring down Vieira, this ball Vieira was near the middle circle with his back to the goal to receive the ball, it was difficult to pose a danger to the goal, but Wu Wei grabbed close to his body, tried to intercept the ball, and did not expect to shovel Vieira to the ground. Vieira rolled over the turf in pain and went straight to the ambulance, helplessly injured. So the Guoan fans in the stands shouted angrily. Unexpectedly, Wu Wei single-handedly destroyed the harmonious atmosphere between the two teams and the fans.
In addition to this foul, Wu Wei finally scored a goal in the FA Cup, helping the team to a 2-0 victory over Jinmen Tigers and reach the quarterfinals of the FA Cup.
Fading away the green and moving towards maturity is the hope of Dalian fans for Wu Wei, but as one of the representative figures of the youth storm, Wu Wei obviously cannot bear the fans' love for him.
Compared with Xiao Wuwei, Gao Huaze's performance is much better, but it is only a flash in the pan.
He is fast, has momentum and has a strong ability to break through. From 2018 to 2021, Gao Huaze has been successful in the four years of happiness in China. In the gap between big stars and local players, Gao Huaze can still only get some playing time as a U23, which is difficult for him to accept.
In the 2018 season, there were 16 appearances, including 10 starts, averaging 50 minutes per game, 2 goals and 2 assists; in the 2019 season, due to injury, only 8 appearances, including 3 starts, averaging 21 minutes per game, no goals and assists; in the 2020 season, 11 appearances, 2 starts, 25 minutes per game, 1 goal and 1 assist.
By the 2021 season, there were 5 appearances and 3 starts, averaging 55 minutes per game for a total of 277 minutes. Oh, and there was also an FA Cup that filled the pitch. No goals scored this season, just one assist. As a striker, it is clearly unqualified.
At the age when the ball is most needed, he can only sit on the cold bench, and Gao Huaze has a skill in vain.
His highlight was the long-distance rush in 2020. After the midfielder won the ball, he threw off two defenders and rushed forward, and after bursting into the penalty area and stepping on the bicycle continuously, he shook open the angle and fired a shot to open the gate of Qingdao Huanghai. This one-stop goal highlights Gao Huaze's domineering and aura, and suddenly reminds people of what Inspector Chievo said: he is very similar to Sanchez, whether it is movement, coherence or turning with the ball. Defensive counterattacks are exactly what he's good at.
But that's all, four years, and all that's left for the fans is this beautiful goal from two years ago. Time flies, and teenagers can't afford to consume.
Maybe this season, he will have a turning point. With many veteran players leaving the team, he is still sticking to Hebei, the team that threw an olive branch to him that year. It is impossible for him not to know the plight of the team, but in such a situation, he may not have nowhere to go, but he is still persistent. Obviously, in his heart, he has fully realized that staying in the team to play the main force can promote his own growth. Such a state of mind and mentality is an important process for him to mature.
If he had recognized this four years ago, his achievements would be far from comparable to what he is now. You know, the most appearances in his career is still in Greentown, that is, in 2017, he made 13 appearances and scored 2 goals.
However, if he stays in the Greentown team, his salary and treatment will certainly not be comparable to that of the Huaxia Happiness Team, and the practice of the local tycoon is not comparable to the Greentown Club run by Xiaoben. So he must have this experience, in order to understand that there is a ball to promote his own growth.
Conversely, will staying in Greentown be a sure success?
Conclusion: Talent, hard work, opportunities, one is indispensable
There were three main members of the 97 echelon who remained in the team. Tong Lei, already as a chip, traded Mushekwi. Fortunately, he was reused in the Dalian people's team and became a reserve candidate for the national team. Central defender Xu Jizu, after staying in the team for three years, was loaned to Nanjing City, and this year could not renew his contract, only to play in the second division, it is said that it is a team in Shandong. And striker Wang Dongsheng, transformed into a full-back, the ball is far from enough, between the main force and the substitute in the team.
So, no matter where you are, you can play the ball to raise the ball, it really can't go up, that's the time and fate, the talent qualification is not enough. Therefore, I thought of Bao Yaxiong, Zou Dehai and Lai Jinfeng, and their encounters were also very representative. What can you do between choosing and being chosen?
In the next article, we talk about these goalkeepers, which may give us more inspiration.