I am the Coach of the National Youth Team

After watching Tian Runtao's first show, Li Long and Tian Runtao met in private, and Li Long returned home without stopping.

On January 28, the first training camp for the 97-year-old national youth team was held. Seeing so many new players, Li Long sighed and wanted to get to know these players again.

Among the first batch of players, there are still several well-known players in Li Long's previous life, such as forward Zhang Yuning and his teammate Yan Dinghao, Shanghai SIPG's Hu Jinghang, Wei Lai, goalkeeper Chen Wei, and Guangzhou's Lin Liangming.

Of course, there are several players brought by the scouting system, Shanghai SIPG's midfielder Ding Kai and right winger Qin Hao, and Beijing Guoan's central defender Li Bo also appeared in the first training camp.

However, Tian Runtao, Chi Ruofei, Huang Haiming and Mu Wentao, who performed well in the Asian Youth Championship before, were not recruited by Li Long this time.

The reason is that this time is only a preliminary training camp, and Li Long still focuses on getting to know the players.

But I have to say that most of this group of players are very poor, whether it is strength or potential, they are generally average.

The time came to February 10th. On this day, the group draw for the World Youth Championship will be held. In the end, the Huaxia National Youth Team was assigned to Group A.

In the same group are the host New Zealand National Youth Team, the Ukraine National Youth Team and the US National Youth Team. Li Long is quite satisfied with this group.

Except for the US National Youth Team, the other teams in this group are actually strong. Li Long is very confident that the group will qualify.

After the grouping, Huaxia fans, like Li Long, were optimistic. They all believed that the Huaxia National Youth Team had a great chance of qualifying.

Time passed quickly, and April 7th was the day for the second training camp. The purpose of this training camp was to prepare for the next Slovak Cup Eight Nations Invitational Tournament.

As the name suggests, the Slovakia Eight Nations Cup Invitational Tournament has a total of eight teams divided into two groups with four teams in each group.

Then for the first place in the two groups, the winner of one game is the champion, the runner-up is the loser, the second place of the two groups, the third place is the winner of one game, the fourth place is the loss, The third place in a group, the fifth place is the winner of one game, the sixth place is the loss, the last place in two groups, the seventh place is the winner of the same game, and the last one is the loss. name.

It is not difficult to understand the competition system for Slovakia to participate in the Cup of Eight Nations Invitational Tournament. The Huaxia National Youth Team was assigned to Group A, along with Poland, Canada and Slovakia.

And another group B group, respectively has the Russian team, the Norwegian team, the Czech team and the UAE team.

Finally, the roster for this overseas competition was announced:

Goalkeepers: 1 Ding Zheng (Qingdao Zhongneng), 13 Zhang Yan (Beijing Guoan);

Defenders: 5 Qiu Hailong (Shandong Luneng), 19 Wei Lai (Shanghai SIPG), 3 Li Bo (Beijing Guoan), 4 Guo Jing (Real Sporting Portugal), 20 Wen Junjie (Hangzhou Greentown), 21 Xu Jizu (Hangzhou Greentown ), 22 Li Yang (Jiangsu Football Association), 2 Tong Lei (Hangzhou Greentown);

Midfielders: 18 Liu Tao (Changchun Yatai), 14 Lin Liangming (Guangzhou R\u0026F), 8 Lu Lei (Henan Jianye), 6 Ding Kai (Shanghai SIPG), 12 Yan Dinghao (Hangzhou Greentown), 17 Yao Daogang (Wuhan Zhuo Er), 10 Huang Haiming (Zhejiang Greentown), 7 Qin Hao (Shanghai SIPG);

Forwards: 9 Zhang Yuning (Hangzhou Greentown), 11 Mu Wentao (Tianjin TEDA), 15 Yang Liyu (Bugara), 16 Liu Ruofan (Shanghai Shenhua).

This is Li Long's big list after repeated screening, but after this big list came out, it caused quite a stir in the country.

For ordinary fans, there are basically no players they know in this big list. After all, they are all young players, and most of them have never even played in the Chinese Super League or the Chinese Premier League.

Some fans looked at the roster in detail and suddenly discovered a problem.

Zhao Wenchao was born in 1996. It is completely understandable that he was not selected for the big list, but what about Chi Ruofei? And what about Tian Runtao?

Why didn't the two of them even make the big list, so some people began to speculate whether there was some internal strife, so the two of them weren't selected.

At the beginning of the year, Zhang Xizhe and Tian Runtao, the two Guoan players, both left the club and chose to study abroad. Because Tian Runtao joined the Dutch second team, all the attention was on Zhang Xizhe.

But as time went by, Zhang Xizhe hadn't played the scene until now. From the earliest excitement, it gradually cooled down, and then he taunted Zhang Xizhe, and some even mocked Zhang Xizhe as "Wolf King".

On the contrary, Tian Runtao, although he joined the Dutch second team, played very well. Tian Runtao's wonderful debut was recognized by the head coach, so Tian Runtao's chances of playing were greatly improved.

Currently in the Dutch second league, he has already won 10 games. The two forwards competing with him, one has been reimbursed for a serious injury, and the other is old and not capable.

Under such circumstances, Tian Runtao stood up, scored 7 goals in 11 games, and also sent 3 assists.

Tian Runtao has strong ability in front of the goal and the ability to play the ball, which makes Tian Runtao very respected in the team.

Therefore, Tian Runtao's attention has increased a lot, especially Roda JC is very strong, and he is very hopeful to play in the Eredivisie next season, which means that Tian Runtao is very hopeful to play in the Eredivisie next season.

Although the Eredivisie does not have as much attention as the five major leagues, for the current Chinese fans, it is not bad to be able to stay in the Eredivisie.

Although few people really went to watch the Eredivisie match, there were still quite a few people who wanted to see news related to Tian Runtao.

And Zhao Wenchao, who plays in another country, is currently playing in the Portuguese League. Like Tian Runtao, Zhao Wenchao is now the main player of the team.

Because of the appearance of Zhao Wenchao, the Portimão people who originally wanted to introduce a central defender gave up signing a central defender.

But the Portimao people are not like Roda JC, and the Portimao people may not be promoted very much. That is to say, Zhao Wenchao will still play in the Portuguese League next season with a high probability, but Zhao Wenchao is already very satisfied.

Then there is Chi Ruofei of the same team. After Chi Ruofei's birthday, he can finally participate in the main match. Of course, Chi Ruofei has not played in the first team yet. Like Zhao Wenchao before, he also played from U19.

But because of his excellent performance, Chi Ruofei has been promoted to U23, and Chi Ruofei is getting closer and closer to the first team.

In the absence of the two core players, the reporters came to Xianghe one after another (the training camp was held in Xianghe this time), and they hoped to interview Li Long.

"Now there is a lot of discussion in the outside world, and everyone is puzzled that you did not recruit Chi Ruofei and Tian Runtao. Can you tell me why?" The reporter asked a question.

"I remember I said it in an interview during the Asian Youth Championship last year." Li Long replied.

"Whether it is the National Youth Team or the National Olympic Team, the responsibility is to send talents to the national team."

"Whether it is Chi Ruofei or Tian Runtao, their current abilities have already exceeded the scope of the National Youth Team. The intensity of the National Youth Team's competition has not improved them much."

"So unless it is an important event, such as the World Youth Championship, I will most likely not recruit them again."

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