Chapter 7 Chinese Media: Shock and Confusion

In the 70th minute of the game, Zhou Tiancheng's highlight performance in this half was finally reflected in more intuitive data. During the midfield advance, he picked a pass to assist the German national team striker Kevin Kuranyi, and the latter was successfully turned offside. , A single-handed push shot broke the goal.

Zhou Tiancheng was not satisfied with his first assist. Two shots hit the post in the second half and it would be truly perfect to add a goal to the debut.

Regarding himself, Zhou Tiancheng is a bit demanding like a perfectionist, which is also related to his background as an amateur player. Every time he reached a higher platform, he was always worried that he would not be perfect enough to gain 100% trust from the head coach.

In fact, it does not exist.

Slomka and assistant coach Biskens have the same idea. The first round of the German Cup is an ideal testing ground to determine whether Zhou Tiancheng can really become the starting midfielder of the new season.

After a week of training in Nice, the whole team returned to Germany to make final preparations for the new season.

Two days before the first round of the German Cup, Schalke 04 officially announced the first-team registration list for the new season. The entire list has a total of 28 players, but it is rare that five goalkeepers are included in it!

Generally speaking, for a squad of more than 20 players, three goalkeepers are standard. The special case of reporting five goalkeepers like this can only appear under the policy environment of the Bundesliga.

In terms of player registration, the Bundesliga can be said to be the most lenient league among mainstream European leagues. The Premier League has a labor certification threshold. Serie A stipulates that only two non-EU players can be introduced from abroad each season, and the original non-EU players must leave the team. La Liga stipulates that the squad must not exceed 25 people, and there can only be a maximum of three non-EU players players. The Bundesliga is completely open without any restrictions. Each team can register 15-99 players. It can be understood that there is no upper limit, and there is no limit to the registration and number of foreign players.

But what is interesting is that the unrestricted influx of foreign aid not only enhances the viewing experience of the Bundesliga, but also does not hinder the growth of local players in Germany. The Bundesliga is the league with the highest degree of localization among the five major leagues. This is actually due to clubs at all levels. Consensus on youth training. Examples of entering the first team like Zhou Tiancheng actually happen every season in every Bundesliga club, but Schalke is more well-known because of its outstanding youth training results.

Strategy determines achievement.

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Meanwhile, thousands of kilometers away, China. The focus of the whole people's attention is on the Olympic Games, which opened a few days ago. CCTV launched four channels. The good news of the Olympic athletes competing for gold and silver is broadcast 24 hours a day.

However, even with the high enthusiasm for the Olympics, CCTV's "World Football" program, which is regularly broadcast every Monday night, has not been affected.

As a football special program that has been on the air for eight years, "World Football" is deeply loved by fans all over China. This program mainly focuses on world football. It not only has the most professional football news summary and various interesting football chats , and there are also the most sensational nostalgia and comments on the past stars, such as Cantona, Roberto Baggio and other superstars, "World Football" has made wonderful and sensational career summaries for them. Easy to evoke the deepest feelings in my heart.

So much so that in the Chinese fan circle, there are two classic comments on CCTV's "World Football". One is: watching "World Football", young people learn history, and old fans recall their feelings.

There is another sentence that is more familiar to fans all over China: the country that plays the worst football has made the best football program in the world!

Before the start of the five major leagues in each season, Duan Xuan, the host of "World Football", is the busiest time. Xia Chuang is the time when all the clubs in the five major leagues come in and out. The team changes a lot. He must always follow up and focus on the key points The team's player changes, and at the same time present the most professional analysis to the fans in the program's season preview, this is by no means a small project.

And relatively speaking,

The Bundesliga is relatively simple, and every season has a similar theme: which teams can challenge Bayern's hegemony.

Since Schalke won the runner-up and third place in the first two seasons of 2004, Duan Xuan naturally listed Schalke as one of the championship teams to focus on, and asked the following program staff to give him a copy of the new season in advance Schalke's first team roster.

The staff below were very efficient and quickly sent the list to him: "Brother Duan, here are the materials you want."

Duan Xuan took the printed Schalke first-team roster and quickly browsed. Most of the names were familiar to him, and they were all old faces from last season. However, when he saw the name of player No. 12, which was Zhou Tiancheng, his eyes suddenly stopped, and he pulled two points closer, the expression on his face changed to the direction of surprise.

Zhou Tiancheng's name was unfamiliar to him, but the display of nationality made his heart skip a beat.

China? !

Duan Xuan mobilized his memory, trying to recall whether he had a little impression, but the final result was that he didn't remember that he had heard of this name. Duan Xuan's first feeling was if he had made a mistake. You must know that players who are capable of breaking into the Bundesliga are not unknown in China. For example, Dong Fangzhuo, who was appointed by Ferguson to join Manchester United a few years ago, was hailed as Hao Haidong's successor very early on. The young midfielder Chen Tao, who was selected as the best team in the World Youth Championship in the Netherlands, is called a future world-class midfielder by the Chinese media. In contrast, the name Zhou Tiancheng is very unfamiliar, and even Duan Xuan, an expert-level expert who has a deep understanding of domestic and international football, has no impression at all.

Duan Xuan called the staff who sent the information just now and asked: "Xiao Dong, did you download the wrong information? Why does Schalke 04 have a Chinese player that I don't even know about?"

"Brother Duan, I downloaded it directly from Schalke's Chinese official website, so there should be no problem! But when I got the file just now, I glanced at it. To be honest, I was also confused."

Duan Xuan thought for a while, and took advantage of the break time to go to a cafe near the CCTV headquarters building, use his laptop and add firewall software, and directly browse the German official website of Schalke 04 to find out. Duan Xuan has been running around reporting among these football developed countries all the year round, and even went to the front to participate in the World Cup commentary the year before last. Duan Xuan has no problem with his German.

After comparing it himself, he was sure that all the information on Zhou Tiancheng was exactly the same as in the data, and Duan Xuan carefully read the official statement on Schalke's official website about new first-team players, and knew that he was a U19 player who was promoted to the first-team.

Duan Xuan has rich experience, and after a little thought, he figured out the reason: "Couldn't he have been growing up in the German football environment until now?"

Only this can explain why Duan Xuan has no impression of him in China.

Duan Xuan couldn't help being secretly excited. At the same time, he glanced at Zhou Tiancheng's date of birth and secretly sighed: "Nineteen years old, so young!"

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