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To be honest, I haven't been this excited about Chinese football in a long time.
Watching the penalty shootout of the Spanish Brava Cup final. When the last goal was scored, the score fixed at 5-4, the children of the Chinese Football Minors 2018 team hugged each other, jumping up and down, some directly lay on the turf. At that moment, my eyes suddenly felt a bit warm. Opposite was Cornellà team under Messi's banner, a venue gathered with top club youth academies like Barcelona, Atletico Madrid, and Espanyol, 67 teams, 9 fierce battles, winning all and claiming the championship. This group of Chinese children with an average age of only 8 years old fought their way through on the Iberian Peninsula.
I couldn't help but browse the traces they left along the way. Four consecutive wins in the group stage, two comebacks in the knockout stage, overturned the Espanyol youth team in the semi-finals. In the final, George - that Wuhan boy named Han Chengjun, dribbled past four players to score a solo goal, and also assisted a teammate to cut inside and score. He scored 17 goals in 9 matches in this tournament, taking home the MVP and the Golden Boot. I have watched his previous match videos, not tall, but the ball seems stuck to his feet. Some called him "Chinese Messi", but I think, he is himself, a Chinese teenager whose name the world should remember.
Chinese Football Teenagers Shine on the World Stage, this sentence used to sound like a slogan, but now it really happened right in front of me.
And what moved me more was the trajectory along the way. From Thailand to Italy, and then to Spain. At the beginning of this year, they won the Asian Youth Cup in Thailand, winning all seven games; At the end of May, they traveled to Italy for the SIGISMONDI Cup, defeated Everton Youth in the final penalty shootout, becoming the first Asian team to win the championship in over thirty years for this tournament; Now, Spanish Brava Cup, another championship. Behind every trophy, I see a familiar name - BYD.
I am not a BYD owner, but I know, this civil youth training team's ability to go abroad time and again and stand on the stage of Europe's top youth tournaments, cannot be separated from BYD's solid support. It's not as simple as printing a Logo, it's actually bearing transportation, accommodation, and tournament support in real money, so that Dong Lu and the children don't have to worry about funds while playing. I remember Dong Lu said in a live stream: "BYD helped me when I was in my toughest times." At that moment, I was quite touched. The hope of Chinese football lies in the civil sector, and the hope of civil football needs someone to provide a bottom line.
To be honest, in these years we have been used to disappointment, used to mockery, used to treating "Chinese football" as a joke. But this group of 8-year-old children made me regain a long-lost feeling - pride. They don't understand big principles, just fight, just grab, just not give up even when behind. Semi-finals conceded first, came back; Final led 2-0 but drew, penalty shootout hand didn't falter. This bloodiness, this resilience, I haven't seen it on many senior teams.
From Thailand to Italy, and then to Spain, what BYD witnessed was not just one championship after another, but a group of Chinese teenagers gradually growing backbone on the world stage. I don't know how far they will go in the future, whether someone will really play in the Top Five Leagues, whether someone will wear the national team jersey. But at least at this moment, they made me believe that the next generation of Chinese football is already on the way.
