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Chapter 68 What is Shameless

"Our grouping is good." Ding Yu said to Xia Liquan with a small note in his hand after he came out of the conference room of the Football Association's office building.

"Let me see...Guangdong, Tianjin, Henan, they are not bad. Your luck is much better than mine." Xia Liquan said bitterly.In addition to being the deputy head coach, he is also the head coach of the U-17 team.

"Dalian Oriental Football School, Shanghai Chongming Island Football School, Shandong Taishan Football School? Wahaha, Lao Xia, your luck is too bad. This is the standard group of death!" Ding Yu laughed gloatingly.

Although League A has only been in development for eight years, there have been several eras. The earliest was the era of Shanghai-based competition for hegemony. Dalian won the first professional league championship and was taken away by Shanghai the next year. Won the two highest honors in Asian football, the Asian Cup Winners' Cup and the Asian Club Cup, the limelight was the same for a while.

However, after Yunjiatianyu won the Asian Club Cup in 99, he was seriously injured by the sensational match-fixing incident. The meritorious coach Benitez left after the contract expired. The new coach Mourinho also failed to win the league championship in the first season due to various reasons. The championships of the past two years were won by Shandong and Liaoning, which received huge investments.

In the 2001 season, Yunjiatianyu's situation was good, but it was not as great as in those two seasons. Dalian, Shanghai, Shandong and Liaoning all had the strength to win the championship. They and Yunjiatianyu formed the first group of the league, followed by BJ, Sichuan, Chongqing and other traditional strong teams.

For the many football schools participating in this competition, their strength rankings are similar to those of the affiliated league teams, because if the first-team performance is excellent, it is easy to attract more students to enroll. For example, among the 24 football schools participating in the competition this time, there are five football schools from Liaoning.Others from Shandong and Shanghai each have two football schools, and the strength of these football schools is undoubtedly the strongest in this competition.

The opponents of Yunjiatianyu U-17 are actually from Dalian, Shanghai and Shandong respectively. This is a real group of death-who made this kind of competition not so formal, and there is no seed team.

In comparison, Ding Yu's luck in the draw is very good. Tianjin has been ups and downs in A-A and A-B. Although Henan Zhongyuan Club is known as a model of small and medium-sized club operations, their strength is still weak in the country.

However, as Ding Yu said, for Yunjiatianyu's echelons, participating in this kind of competition is more about accumulating experience and testing the strength of those key players, and the results are only second.

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"In the first battle, we centered on Dai Guangming!" On the night when the group was divided into groups, Ding Yu held a team meeting. In a small room, the students were densely packed. If you lie on yourself, you will definitely crush yourself to death.

When Ding Yu said this, all eyes were on Dai Guangming, but most people were convinced. Dai Guangming's position is the front midfielder, and his organizational ability is very strong. It is quite normal for an organization front midfielder to be the core.

"During the game, when we got possession of the ball, we gave the ball to Dai Guangming as soon as possible, and he was responsible for organizing the offense. Hu Gandang was responsible for protecting behind Dai Guangming-note, you focus on defense, and the offense is given to Dai Guangming. Other offensive players should also cooperate with him. Do you understand?" Ding Yu said seriously.

"Understood!" The players nodded in unison.

As young players playing official games for the first time, maybe they lack experience, maybe they will still be nervous, but there is one thing that is difficult for some professional players to compare, that is, they will absolutely obey the coach's arrangement!

Two days later, Yunjiatianyu U-12 age echelon ushered in their first opponent in this competition, Tianjin Binhai Football School.

Tianjin football is not very eye-catching in A-A, but they have always been very strong. Although they have had the bad luck of relegation, their club has a relatively deep foundation, and because Tianjin’s number one star Yu Genwei once played in Yunjia Tianyu on loan for a year, the relationship between the two clubs is not bad. Ding Yu, the coach of the 12th echelon team, also knew him. He was a classmate who used to stir food with him in a pot in Cologne, Germany. It’s just that Lei Guangpu returned to China a year later than him. He came to Tianjin as a youth coach on the recommendation of Yunjia Tianyu. Because he is from Tianjin himself, he is also willing to contribute to the development of youth football in his hometown.

"Old Lei, has your school cultivated any newcomers? If you cultivate them, please support me as an old classmate." That day at the competition venue—the playground of BJ University, Ding Yu went up to hook his shoulders as soon as he saw Lei Guangpu.

"Damn it, you Yunjiatianyu still want to poach our people? Who doesn't know that at least half of the good seedlings in the country are with you. Can we just give you the people we have cultivated with great difficulty? It's too much." Lei Guangpu said dissatisfied.

"Then tell me about the outstanding players in your team." Ding Yu said unmoved: "You know, my ideal is to be a first-level coach of the national team. Now it seems that the national team has no idea, and being a youth team is also good. Otherwise, why would I bring these half-children? Old classmate, please tell me some good youngsters you know in this age group. Maybe I will bring these boys to the Olympic Games in the 2012 Olympic Games."

Lei Guangpu looked more honest, seeing what Ding Yu said was so pitiful, so he nodded: "Our team really has a few good little guys now. Our captain Liu Chen, who wears No. [-], is very good at playing central defenders. Tough, relatively good defense, a little too many tricks...there are almost three of them, and they are the players we focus on training."

"Understood." Ding Yu said gratefully: "As expected of an old classmate, if you want to help, I will help. I will treat you to a glass of wine in the evening after the game."

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"Ding Yu, you bastard, I'm going to kill you!"

As soon as the game was over, Lei Guangpu rushed over with an angry face, pinched Ding Yu's neck and kept shaking: "You actually deceived my innocent feelings and deceived our team's situation, shameless! Shameless!"

Lei Guangpu's anger was justified. At the beginning of the game, the two sides played fairly normally. Yunjiatianyu launched a fierce attack under the organization of Dai Guangming, while Tianjin Binhai defended firmly under the leadership of captain Liu Chen.

The situation changed suddenly in the second half. Yunjiatianyu's three attacking midfielders Dai Guangming, Zhou Zhou and Zhang Yi took turns to attack from the right, causing the opponent's left back Shi Qiang to be in a hurry. Not to mention, Yunjiatianyu players, who had obviously been instructed by Ding Yu, always consciously lured Shi Qiang into fouls. As a result, Shi Qiang received two yellow cards in a row and was sent off in less than 10 minutes. However, they were all suppressed by Yunjiatianyu's defensive players on the wing, so he could only choose to cross. The poor quality cross was blocked by Wu Bufan and Li Jie one by one. Yunjiatianyu scored three goals in the second half and defeated Tianjin Binhai.

Seeing this result, Lei Guangpu didn't know that he had been fooled by Ding Yu, and that would be hell.

"Hey, Lao Lei, I'm helping you. After this game, I think the three of them should know where their mistakes are. Sometimes a defeat can give you more lessons and experience than a victory." Ding Yu said righteously.

"Damn it... you bastard, you treat me to a drink at night! I have to drink you so badly!" Lei Guangpu said helplessly.

PS: Well, there is another chapter tonight.

(End of this chapter)