With the great anticipation of fans, the first Chinatown Youth Football Invitational Tournament was finally successfully held in Beijing.

Gao Han, Lin Guoping, Xiang Tianming, Armando Marcos, Carlos Cantalero and other senior executives of Chinatown attended the unveiling ceremony. All the clubs of participating teams also sent representatives to attend the scene. Barcelona even arranged a vice chairman to attend, while other clubs were basically dispatched to the technical director level.

According to the previous draw ceremony, Beijing Chinatown, as the host, was arranged in Group A. The opening match was against Barcelona youth team from Spain. The latter had just won the championship in the Spanish Youth League and had a very outstanding performance in the European arena. It is known as the strongest team in this cup.

Such a game undoubtedly makes people worry about the strength of Beijing Chinatown, for fear of being beaten by a strong opponent at home, resulting in the loss of face of the Chinese people.

However, Gao Han repeatedly emphasized the day before the competition and in his speech at the opening ceremony that youth competitions should not overemphasize results, but rather see his own shortcomings and weaknesses and learn from the other party's strengths.

What he emphasized most was communication and exercise. He believed that such high-level youth competitions were more valuable for the team to exercise.

Even in an exclusive interview with Lin Xia’s reporter team, he said that he had confidence in the team.

The opening game attracted more than 10,000 fans to watch the game at the Youth Training Center, and Beijing Chinatown also sent all its main players to play.

Although the average age is one year younger than Barcelona and Barcelona's youth training philosophy does not pay attention to physical fitness, during the game, Beijing Chinatown was still at a general disadvantage, and the opponent scored two consecutive goals not long after the game.

This made all the fans on the scene feel sad, feeling that the massacre they were worried about might happen.

But at this moment, Chinatown young player Wang Lei staged a continuous drama of dribbling in the middle of the midfield. After breaking through four opponents in one breath, he scored a low shot and scored, winning a goal for Chinatown.

This goal inspired all the fans of the audience.

But soon, the Barcelona youth team became more brave and scored another goal with the team cooperation, and firmly suppressed Chinatown on the field. The overall strength advantage can be fully seen from the performance on the field.

What left an impression on Gao Han was that several young players from Barcelona, ​​such as Danie Morey on the right, a typical Spanish side player, who was very fast, had a slim footsteps, and had continuous success in every move. Danie Ormo on the left, also had very strong personal abilities, and there were also outstanding young players such as Allena and Perez in the middle.

Gao Han has to admit that Barcelona is indeed full of talents in youth team training, and even Madrid's Chinatown is inferior. After all, Barcelona's heritage and status are there.

Not to mention the shorter-established Beijing Chinatown.

The first half ended with one-to-four. In the second half, Beijing Chinatown once counterattacked. Zhao Jun and Wang Lei scored two goals in a row, chasing the score to three-to-four, but Barcelona was even stronger and finally scored two goals in a row, beating Beijing Chinatown six-to-three.

After the game, all the boys in Chinatown looked at their opponents with tears in their eyes.

Over the past year, they have been almost invincible in China, sweeping all other peers, and even comparing with the youth teams two or three years older than them, they can beat their opponents, which makes each of them more or less proud and conceited.

But compared with the world's highest-level youth team, they have no advantage in the whole game.

"Will this blow be a little too big?" Lin Guoping felt a little embarrassed in the stands.

This is just a group of twelve or thirteen-year-olds. As for this?

But Gao Han didn't think so. "They won too much in China, and they were inevitably arrogant. Playing with high-level foreign teams just let them see where their shortcomings lie. I finally invited the youth team in Barcelona to teach these kids a lesson."

"The pressure in the professional league is very high, and the competition is fierce. If you can't even bear such a small setback, then they shouldn't expect to play in the professional league, nor do they deserve my expectations for them."

Lin Guoping and Xiang Tianming both looked at Gao Han in awe. When talking about football, Gao Han was not given any face to anyone, and his attitude was meticulous and he could not tolerate any discount.

"You can watch it. The remaining two teams in the group, Arsenal and Santos, are not easy to play, and it is not impossible to lose three consecutive games."

When Gao Han said this, a hint of pity flashed in his eyes, but he soon became firm.

Although this group of players was not cultivated by him every day, he also invested a lot of energy and resources. How could he bear it when he saw them crying by their opponents on the court?

But if not, can they grow? Can they recognize their shortcomings?

Could it be that if they locked them up in China and made them arrogant and thought they were invincible in the world, but they would find that they could not gain a foothold in European football in the future? This is a good thing?

Gao Han would rather they cry more now and endure more failures. As long as they can learn something and improve themselves through learning from the pain, such a competition will be valuable.

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Gao Han is only half correct in the estimate of Beijing Chinatown.

In the second game of the group, Beijing Chinatown lost again, losing 2-4 to Santos from Brazil.

The youth training leader in the football kingdom is also extraordinary. Santos also has many geniuses. Although his overall strength is not as good as Barcelona, ​​he can still beat Beijing Chinatown in a mess.

This group of youth teams that swept the invincible in China, and both world-class teams ended in a crushing defeat, which caused an uproar among the domestic media concerned about this event. Many media even publicly questioned Gao Han’s Chinatown Youth Training Center, believing that such a youth training model would not work in China at all.

There are even many so-called football industry insiders who publicly come forward to accuse Gao Han of his youth training philosophy, believing that his youth training philosophy is destroying this group of talented children.

But amid the doubts from the outside world, in the third game of the group, Beijing Chinatown finally showed off his energy against the Arsenal youth team. He was mediocre in the first two rounds of the game. Gao Ren, a young player one year younger, finally ushered in an explosion in this game.

Zhao Jun opened the way in front and Gao Ren was cruising around. After playing in the first half, two forward players scored three goals in a row, helping Chinatown to temporarily lead three-to-one.

After the second half of the game, Chinatown continued to push forward and continued to suppress the Arsenal youth team, and finally defeated the Arsenal youth team five-to-two, winning a valuable victory.

The last game was far beyond Gao Han's expectations. He did not expect that Beijing Chinatown would fight against the enemy in the last round and play the most exciting game of this invitational tournament.

Although Beijing Chinatown was still eliminated after defeating Arsenal, these three group matches also allowed them to see the level of the strongest youth team in Europe, especially Barcelona, ​​who almost completely control the game, making them unable to resist.

The Arsenal youth team was eliminated in three consecutive losses, which also reflects England's lack of youth training.

After winning the game with a back-to-back battle, domestic media adjusted their caliber and began to highly praise Beijing Chinatown, believing that the last game showed the strength of Beijing Chinatown, believing that this team has unlimited potential and will surely become the hope of Chinese football in the future.

But what is opposite to the media is that Gao Han posted a column on Lin Xia’s news website, pointing out the many mistakes the team made in the last game and the various shortcomings exposed in the three group matches. He believes that if Beijing Chinatown wants to catch up with the European powerhouse, it needs to work harder.

"Beating Arsenal youth team gave us hope, but through three games, we also exposed our shortcomings. Next, the team should summarize the experience and lessons learned in the game, which is more important than anything else."

Unlike Beijing Chinatown, Madrid Chinatown was in another group, with a three-game winning streak, proudly qualifying from the first place in the group. The strongest Inter Milan youth team, Manchester United and Bayern Munich youth teams fell at their feet. All Chinese fans also discovered through three group matches that Yang Xin, the number one star of this team, was actually a Chinese born and raised in Spain.

Three group matches and five goals made the left-footed player the most dazzling star in the invitational tournament.

Madrid Chinatown, which qualifies as the first in the group, also defeated Brazil's Santos 6-4 in the knockout round, and met with Barcelona, ​​who also defeated Inter Milan.

In the end, the two teams went through a fierce battle. Madrid Chinatown led by Yang Xin lost to Barcelona in the final in a regrettable way. The score was four to five. Yang Xin scored a hat trick, but Barcelona's overall strength was stronger.

Gao Han was not surprised by this result, because the Barcelona youth team does have such strength.

Although Chinatown is famous, its foundation is still insufficient. In the past few years, it has introduced many young talents, but it is not as good as a veteran giant like Barcelona. It is already quite good to be able to reach the finals.

The three-week invitational tournament also ended with the attention of domestic media and fans. In addition to a victory in Beijing Chinatown, fans are more thinking.

Recognizing your own shortcomings, you should think about how to catch up.

Even the invincible Beijing Chinatown in China is so embarrassed by the Barcelona youth team. What about other youth training teams?

In response to this, Gao Han wrote a sentence in the last column of the invitational tournament, encouraging all fans who love Chinese football.

The road is long and arduous, and I will search up and down.

The first Chinatown Youth Invitational Tournament was successfully held and attracted the attention of many domestic media and fans. It became a hot topic and made everyone in Chinatown very satisfied.

The day after the invitational tournament, Chinatown announced that the second Chinatown Youth Invitational Tournament will be held at the Chinatown Training Base in Madrid next year, and will also invite world-class youth teams to compete with two Chinatown youth teams.

That is, when Chinatown announced this plan, Lin Guoping and Xiang Tianming also led their team to Guangzhou to contact the municipal government and further negotiated on the establishment of Chinatown Youth Training Center in Guangzhou.

This time, Chinatown’s partners also include a well-known leading real estate company in China. The cooperation method is similar to that of Beijing Chinatown. Chinatown will also carry out all-round cooperation with professional teams owned by this real estate company in terms of club management, recruitment, coach training and youth training.
Chapter completed!