100 articles to awaken the cultural cognition of Chinese football, this is the 5th article, and the progress is 5%.
The Olympic Games are underway, although the Chinese women's football team has not been able to appear in the Paris Olympics, but Shen Menglu and Shen Mengyu, the two stars of the women's football team, have come to the good news one after another, Shen Menglu joined the Bundesliga Bayer Leverkusen, and Shen Mengyu joined the London City Lionesses women's football team. However, many people questioned Shen Mengyu's choice: Shen Menglu, who is also a Celtic women's football team, can go to the Bundesliga giants, while Shen Mengyu, who is the core of the midfield at the Celtic women's football team, wants to go to an "unknown team" in the Championship? And not the Premier League of her dreams?
Shen Mengyu and the team owner, Ms. Kang
Paying tribute to Sun Jihai, going to the Championship is the smartest choice
In fact, Shen Mengyu made the smartest choice, and may even replicate Sun Jihai's legend of staying abroad and become the most successful foreigner in the Chinese women's football team. The London City Lionesses women's football team is not an idle generation, the team owner Ms. Kang is a Korean-American, focusing on women's football investment, with grand ambitions, sitting on the Lyon women's football team and the American Professional League Washington Spirit Women's Football Team, and this London City Lionesses is her number one weapon to enter the Premier League.
Throughout the history of Chinese football, the most successful foreign player is Sun Jihai, and the initial stage of his trip to United Kingdom was the second division of England, the first time to join Crystal Palace, the second time to join Manchester City, and the difference is that Crystal Palace is not a wind, at that time ready to enter the Premier League Manchester City is the biggest trend, Sun Jihai followed Manchester City from the second tier of England to play, and helped the team to reach the Premier League, as the main player in Manchester City for 6 years, participated in 135 Premier League games.
Compared with successful cases, it is not uncommon for Chinese players to join giants and become "phoenix tails", but in the end they return home, from the men's football team Dong Fangzhuo joined, Zhang Xizhe joined Bremen, Zhang Yuning joined West Bromwich Albion, and then the women's football team Zhang Linyan joined Tottenham Hotspur, Tang Jiali joined Madrid, and the expectations of Chinese fans have been disappointed again and again.
Now, Shen Mengyu can be called the next Sun Jihai, how is this "London City" not like the "Manchester City" that was about to rush to the Premier League, Shen Mengyu seems to have given up the opportunity to land directly in the Premier League, but in fact, he took advantage of the trend and made the smartest choice!
Gao Lin also "took off" from Zhongjia
One of the most successful players in Chinese football in recent years who has "seized the wind" may be Gao Lin. The 19-year-old as the main force of the national youth team in the 05 Netherlands World Youth Championship of the popular star, that year entered the Shanghai Shenhua first team and won the national team call-up, at the age of 20 in the Chinese Super League and the AFC Champions League goals, after which he helped the Chinese team defeat Korea for the first time in 32 years, such a hot star in Chinese football, but in 2010 unexpectedly joined the Chinese League A team Guangzhou Evergrande, when Evergrande just bought the Guangzhou team for 100 million yuan, Gao Lin received an annual salary of up to 3 million yuan in the Chinese League that year.
In just 1 season, Gao Lin scored 20 goals as the absolute main force, leading the team to surpass the success of 3 rounds in advance, and in the Chinese Super League, Gao Lin followed Guangzhou Evergrande to experience a complete 9-year Jinyuan football period, and obtained a huge wealth accumulation.
What's even more amazing is that Gao Lin sold his mansion to Hong Kong singer Lin Zixiang at a price of 130 million in October 2022, you must know that Gao Lin spent 40 million to buy this mansion that year, and he made a net profit of 90 million through this mansion in 6 years. In one fell swoop, he became the Chinese player with the most honors and the most income in the Chinese Super League over the years, and the choice to seize the wind again and again made him greatly surpass any other Chinese player in the same period!
Open-mindedness + following industry leaders = seizing the wind
Shen Mengyu, Gao Lin and Sun Jihai are all players who dare to stand on the cusp of Chinese football, and the most important thing they have in common is undoubtedly "keep open". In the context of their own small achievements in the early years, these players did not lie on the credit book in a closed line, but always maintained an information capture and an open mind to the football industry, understood the market and trends, and were willing to take the risk of entering the lower leagues to start fighting.
Comparison of Sun Jihai, Gao Lin and Shen Mengyu when they joined the lower leagues
Just like Shen Mengyu, she was able to accurately capture the opportunity of the London City Lioness Women's Football Team, which is obviously related to her long-term open communication mentality. She went to the Soviet Super League women's football giant Celtic alone at the age of 19, often shooting interactive videos on social platforms, taking the initiative to communicate with teammates, and going out to play and communicate with Tang Jiali and other European players, more than 1 month ago, Shen Mengyu participated in the Milan fashion show and took photos with many celebrities, she dared to try and accept challenges, which is a trait that many players can't do.
In addition, if you feel that your judgment is not accurate and you don't like to communicate, perhaps it is easiest to follow industry leaders, whose actions are indicative of trends.
The London City Lionesses are a Championship club that is not affiliated with any men's Premier League team, but there are many leaders in the football industry. Former Paris Saint-Germain coach Jeslin Jr. became the new head coach of the Lions of London City, while Asllani, the only current female footballer to win the "Golden Foot Award" and captain of Sweden women's football, also chose to join the team in the second division.
Now, Shen Mengyu will wear the No. 7 jersey that symbolizes the main position in the new season, and become an indispensable and important part of the trend of the London City Lionesses women's football team!
Jeslin and Asllani
Lifelong learning is king
If you want to seize every opportunity, ability and cognition are indispensable, and the reason why Shen Mengyu was able to get this opportunity is obviously inseparable from her contribution to the Celtic women's football team's 11 assists in a single season and helping the team win 4 championship trophies in 3 years, and she has always maintained an amazing rate of improvement.
As Warren Buffett famously said, "Only when the tide is low can you see who's swimming naked!" "This great investor reads a lot of books and newspapers every day, constantly learns knowledge, and maintains a keen eye for the market, which has allowed him to survive market crises and achieve great success.
The learning ability of players also determines the height of their future careers, always maintain humility, lifelong learning, and turn learning into habits, so that they can see more angles of the world, in order to be ready to wait for the emergence of every outlet in the industry, and to become a truly great star after the tide fades!
(Qiu Zeyun's personal opinion, please indicate the source for reprinting)