Center

Chapter 76 The Fall of the Center

Yunjiatianyu’s 89-year-old echelon, which ended the group stage with three consecutive victories, is not the Yunjiatianyu echelon with the most brilliant record in this competition. The performance of Yunjiatianyu’s U-17 echelon in this competition has attracted everyone’s attention. Much shorter, but technically he was a well-deserved giant.

Scored five goals in three games, assisted four times, one-on-one dribble success rate as high as 70.00% five, scored five goals in thirteen shots, pass success rate was 60.00% three, among the five goals scored was a goal grab, two long-distance raids, a long shot outside the penalty area and a shot after a breakthrough in the penalty area.

Argentine Messi became the brightest star in this invitational tournament, and his limelight even overwhelmed everyone.

"Perhaps after many years, we discovered that this invitational tournament was only established for one thing, that is to let all fans across the country know Messi." In an interview, Yunjia Tianyu's boss Pei Wei said affirmatively: "He will set up a monument for this invitational tournament, so that all young Chinese players can work hard to become the next Messi."

And the Yunjiatianyu U-17 echelon team, just as everyone predicted, fought against gods and Buddhas all the way in the game, and won the final championship without any dispute with a wave of seven consecutive victories. Messi, who scored nine goals, won the two honors of top scorer and best player, turning this game into a performance by himself.

It is said that after the game, several clubs sent inquiries to Yunjiatianyu, wanting to know the worth of the boy under 15 years old, but all of them were rejected by Yunjiatianyu’s boss. Just kidding, this boy was recruited from Argentina by Yunjiatianyu’s boss Pei Wei. If it wasn’t for the fact that he was diagnosed with developmental hormone deficiency when he was 11 years old, and the Newell’s Old Boys Club where he belonged was unwilling to pay for him. The Boys' Club's teenage geniuses!
It is said that this time it was true. The boss of Yunjiatianyu slapped the table in the office and yelled: "A domestic club wants to buy Messi? Apart from Yunjiatianyu, there is no club in China that can let Messi develop his best ability! This kid is my secret weapon. I want to poach him now? Not to mention that no one can afford this money, even if I can afford it, I will not do it!"

Of course, Pei Wei has always denied that the words affecting the relationship between Yunjiatianyu and other clubs came from him, but those who are familiar with him know that in such a case, he is probably the only football club boss in China who can say it.

And in this invitational tournament, Yunjiatianyu Club became the biggest winner. Three teams out of the five echelons sent won the championship, and four reached the finals. This once again proved that Yunjiatianyu's reputation as the number one youth training team in the country is not for nothing.

However, for Yunjiatianyu's 89-year-old echelon, they failed to participate in the competition this time, because among the five echelons, they were the only ones that did not enter the finals.

They lost to Shanghai in the semi-finals. In this game, Ding Yu once again let Long Bisheng be the main attacking force, but Shanghai's tactics were very opposite. They did not find a way to contain Long Bisheng's height advantage. Create some opportunities, but after all, the success rate of playing this way is much lower. The 89-year-old echelon of Shanghai Chongming Island Football School successfully contained Yunjiatianyu's attack.

After there is no high-altitude ball to compete for, Long Bisheng has become a dispensable person on the court. Although his basic skills are very solid, his footwork is only average. He can protect the ball, but he always makes the team's offense stagnate.

When Yunjiatianyu's offense fell into stagnation and chaos, Shanghai seized this opportunity and used efficient and fast offense to score two consecutive games in the No.205 and No.301 minutes of the first half. After Ding Yu changed tactics in the second half and replaced Long Bisheng, the Shanghai team began to adopt a defensive tactic.

Faced with this result, Ding Yu could only sigh. The head coach of Chongming Island Football School was Xu Genbao, who had been at Yunjiatianyu Football School for a while and helped Shanghai win the only league championship since the beginning of the professional league.

Compared with Xu Genbao, Ding Yu still looked a little tender, not to mention he was in the light, while Xu Genbao was in the dark.

In the third- and fourth-place competition, Long Bisheng sat on the bench for 10 minutes. Yunjiatianyu beat Shandong 3-89 with Li Yajun's goals and won No.[-] in this invitational tournament. As the youngest team in this tournament, Yunjiatianyu's [-]-year-old team also had the worst performance.

This result made everyone feel ashamed and felt that they had lost the face of Yunjia Tianyu Football School. However, on the way home, Ding Yu was still smiling, as if he didn't take the loss of this game to heart at all.

Long Bisheng, who felt that he was the culprit of the loss, kept his head down in the car. Dai Guangming and the others didn't know how to comfort him. After all, Yunjia Tianyu did lose in the first half of the game against Shanghai, and he lost to Long Bisheng who was the attacking arrow.

What he learned in the past two years was seen through after just one more game. This kind of blow was huge for Long Bisheng. In the game against Meixian, he was so majestic that no one could control his jumping and heading.

This made him doubt his future again, doubting whether he has the ability to become a real professional player. He can perform very well in the face of high-altitude balls, but once the team's offense turns to the ground, his weaknesses are immediately exposed. Although he can hold the ball, he can't pass a deadly pass.

His depressed mood continued until he returned to school. Ding Yu saw all this, but he didn't say anything.

When Ding Yu replaced Long Bisheng from the field, he knew that the boy would be dealt a blow, but the extent of the blow was still unknown. He hoped that Long Bisheng could survive so that he could fully digest the experience brought by the failure.

The confusion that Long Bisheng encountered is actually the reason why column center forwards will gradually disappear in the current football world.

There was no shortage of such forwards in world football before, especially in English football. The biggest feature of this kind of forward is that it can simplify the team's tactics. Just hang him on the head.

It’s just that when such a striker encounters a defender whose height and ability to grab points are comparable to them, they will immediately disappear on the field, because this type of striker is often rough on their feet, and their top-heavy is their biggest characteristic.

Center forwards who are still active in the top leagues, except for their height, without exception, have relatively good foot skills. They can play for their teammates, sometimes they can break through by themselves, or they have excellent running ability, which can bring vitality to the team—just like Dortmund’s Czech center Jan Koller. Although he is the tallest center in Europe, his foot skills are not bad at all. Part of Mond.

After more than two years of training, Long Bisheng has gradually shown his ability in heading, but if he can't improve his foot skills, then his highest achievement may only be in a team in a low-level league.

Now it depends on whether he can survive this failure, learn from the pain and find out the reason for his poor performance and train it. If he can't survive, then there is no need to focus on him.

After all, he is only under 13 years old and still has a lot of plasticity. It is still unknown whether the potential in his body has been fully realized. As long as he can survive and continue to train hard, even if he really has no technical talent at his feet, he can still be a qualified column center forward.

This kind of center is at least very popular in England's lower leagues.

(End of this chapter)