Football: The immortal legend on the green field

It was not until March 20th that Shen Bin saw the updated final rosters of the Asian Youth Championship group stage teams on the AFC official website. What puzzled Shen Bin was that two of his former teammates, Zhu Han and Mai Yi from Liaoning Tianlun, were no longer on the list. Hu Zhijun from Yangcheng Rishen also disappeared from the final roster.

The sudden situation puzzled Shen Bin. The questions in his mind were like a cat's paw, and he was eager to know the reason for the change in the list.

I called Zhu Han the same day to ask the reason. According to Zhu Han, the AFC had no idea what was wrong. When the group stage was about to start in three days, the AFC Organizing Committee suddenly sent a notice to all participating teams. During the group stage of the AFC, the AFC would conduct bone age tests on all participating teams. This was the first time that the AFC cracked down on the widespread age fraud problem in football matches for young people of all ages across Asia.

People outside the industry don’t know much about this incident and are still able to remain calm, but people like Zhu Han who are involved in it know the shock and panic that this notice from the AFC has brought to the Chinese Football Association.

Among the 19 members of the U youth team, only four met the age requirement after passing the team test, including Hao Junmin of Yanjing Guards.

The Football Association had no choice but to pull in the U17 team that was training in Yanjing, and integrated four players who met the age requirements into the team, and re-submitted the final roster of the Chinese youth team to the AFC. What is incredible is that even two members of the U17 national team did not meet the U19 competition standards.

In this way, Gao Haiyang hurriedly led the team whose names he couldn't even remember to go to Sapporo, Japan, leaving only the U17 head coach Yin Tiesheng's coaching team in a mess at the Yanjing training base.

"What the hell is this? The U17 team will also participate in the Asian Youth Championship qualifiers in May. All the players I have have been taken away by Gao Haiyang. How can I lead the team to complete the tasks stipulated by the Football Association?"

Yin Tiesheng still has more than a month of buffer period. It is not difficult to recruit players of the right age again, and there is also time for some short pre-match training, but there is no time to play some high-quality warm-up matches.

On May 22, the Chinese National Youth Team, which was neither a general nor a soldier, finally caught the last train to the Asian Youth Championship at the last moment.

There are four teams in Group C of the Asian Youth Championship, including the Chinese National Youth Team, the host Japan team and two Southeast Asian teams, Vietnam and Myanmar.

In the first game, the National Youth Team defeated Myanmar 3-0. In the second game, the National Youth Team unexpectedly lost to Vietnam 0-1. When the news spread back to China, fans were furious, and Gao Haiyang became the scapegoat for the Football Association's mysterious operations.

An article in the Football News resonated with the goalkeepers, “The alarm bells are ringing, where is the way to regain our glory?

Winning and losing are common in football, but it is hard to accept that the national youth team, as the reserve force of the national football team, lost to the Vietnamese team in the Asian Youth Championship. This game not only exposed the shortcomings of the younger generation in terms of technology, tactics, physical fitness, etc., but also attracted widespread attention and criticism from the media and fans.

The Chinese national football team has always been regarded as one of the strong teams in Asian football, but after several national youth teams were defeated in the Korea-Japan World Cup, they have gradually lost their competitiveness in Asia, let alone going global.

In the second match of the Group C of the Asian Youth Championship qualifiers, the Chinese Youth Team lost to the bottom-ranked Vietnamese team in Asia. The performance of the Chinese Youth Team was even more surprising. The Vietnamese team started late in the field of football and has always been considered a gift-giving team. However, facing such an opponent, the Chinese Youth Team failed to perform at its expected level and lost the game.

The performance of the national youth team in the game lacked fighting spirit and team spirit. On the field, the players seemed to lack confidence and could not effectively organize effective offense and defense. At the same time, coach Gao Haiyang's tactical arrangements were also questionable. At the critical moment, the national football team failed to adjust its tactics in time, resulting in a passive situation in the game.

First of all, it was a mistake for the Football Association to arrange Gao Haiyang as the head coach of the national youth team. We cannot deny the contribution Gao Haiyang made to the national team when he was a player, but as a returnee coach, Gao was appointed as the head coach of the national team without any experience in the top league. Such an appointment is irresponsible, and the results of the game fully prove this point...

In short, the loss of the national youth team to Vietnam was a profound lesson. We hope that Gao Haiyang and the entire coaching team will learn from their mistakes and make reasonable arrangements in the last match against the Japanese national youth team, strive to defeat the Japanese national youth team, qualify smoothly from the U19 Asian Youth Championship Group C, and lead the national youth team to the finals in Kuala Lumpur in a few months. "

However, the reporter from the football newspaper was too confident. Two days later, even more explosive news came. In the last match between the U19 National Youth Team and the Japanese National Youth Team, they were slaughtered by the Japanese National Youth Team with goals. With one win and two losses in three games, they accumulated three points and ranked third in the group after Japan and Vietnam. They lost the qualification to participate in the Asian Youth Championship to be held in Kuala Lumpur in September.

Domestic media and fans have denounced the Football Association and Gao Haiyang, and some internal information has been dug up by the media. The most exciting issue for the media is the over-age issue. An article on Sina.com mentioned Shen Bin, who amazed the whole country last year, in a discussion on the over-age issue. The article suggested that since the appropriate age players need to be replaced in an emergency, why not recruit Shen Bin and Chen Tao from Ajax into the team.

Ajax's official website states that Chen Tao has just turned 18, so he is the right age to play for. And the super talented Shen Bin will not turn 16 until August. Why would they abandon such a person? What is the trick here?

We have a serious problem of falsifying ages. Could it be that Ajax also falsifies ages?

The Football Association could not withstand the pressure of public opinion and had to come out to explain, "Shen Bin has not recovered from his injury and is not suitable to participate in the game."

As for Chen Tao, after all, his influence is relatively small, and the Football Association did not even mention him.

However, a photo posted by a foreign student studying in the Netherlands on the Tianya Forum in China not only slapped the face of the Chinese Football Association, but also made Shen Bin a typical representative of the modern version of the story of Zhongyong.

"When I saw Shen Bin in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, I felt a little sad. A rising star who had been touted by the Chinese media for half a year and given hope by countless Chinese fans, standing on a wild court in a park like this was the biggest waste of his talent and a crime."

So naturally, the forum was filled with insults from fans who were disappointed with the current state of Chinese football. Some of the insults were quite polite, while others were so harsh that they were unbearable to the ears.

"I can understand these people's feelings. After all, Shen Bin was a genius that they had high hopes for.

I also remember what a "grand occasion" the media reported when Shen Bin joined the Ajax youth training camp.

This is the first time I've seen our media use so many tricks to praise a person...

At that time, I was as excited as other fans, thinking that there was hope for the future of Chinese football. We looked forward to seeing Shen Bin wearing the Ajax jersey and standing on the top European stadium in the future.

Although I am not an Ajax fan, if there is such a day, I am willing to fall in love with this European youth guard for Shen Bin. "

"The last time I heard about Shen Bin was half a year ago, when I read in a football newspaper that he had undergone three major operations at the Semetero Sports Medical Center in Madrid.

Then I heard that he was discharged from the hospital because he couldn't afford the expensive rehabilitation fees, and those who bragged about him didn't show up when he needed help the most.

From this we can see that those who cheer for Chinese football every day do not really care about Chinese football. They just regard football as a traffic code. Without Shen Bin, there is still the "Mao Ning being stabbed four times incident" and the "Jackie Chan and Miss Asia Wu Qili's Little Dragon Girl" incident.

They just treated Shen Bin like those actors and made him an object of hype.

No one knew where he went. Even the omnipotent media couldn't find him. It was as if he had disappeared in the vast crowd.

A once highly regarded genius has disappeared without a trace.

Until today, a photo of him on the baseball field was posted online.

It turned out that he was still alive. Judging from his smile, he seemed to be doing well.

That's right, you don't have to play football, but life must go on.

If I cannot become the star of hope that will change the future of Chinese football, or become the first Chinese star to gain a foothold in a wealthy club, it is not the end of the world. Changing my lifestyle, changing my identity, and living a good life is also a kind of happiness. ”

“Who cares what others say?

It's just that for me, the genius who once brought me joy and hope, he's dead."

A netizen: "The Fall of a Genius"