Song Shihao shot the goal at the moment.
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China News Service, Beijing, March 25. The reporter learned from the Evergrande Football School that the second Evergrande Cup U18 Champions League kicked off on the 24th in the Evergrande Football Correction. In the first round of the match, the Evergrande U18 team relied on Wang Shijie and Song Shihao’s goals. 2-0 victory over Zhejiang Professional Football Club and scored a good start.
This year's Evergrande Cup U18 Champions League will have Zhejiang Professional Football Club, Hubei Football Association and Shaanxi 03 National Games participating in the first stage. Follow-up teams will also include Shandong Taishan, Beijing Guoan and other giants of the Chinese Super League.
The league, which gathers high-level youth training teams, especially the Chinese Super League club echelon, was founded in 2020 and successfully filled the gap in domestic high-level competitions for this age group.
According to reports, the competition is divided into preliminaries and finals: Evergrande echelon and 3 well-known club echelons at home and abroad compete for the preliminaries championship, and 4 preliminaries compete for the final championship.
Last year, the Evergrande U18 echelon won two preliminaries, and the finals won the championship with 2 wins and 1 draw.
Wang Shijie dribbled the ball.
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One of the most difficult problems that plague China's youth training is the lack of high-level competitions, whether it is a local coach or a foreign teacher, this problem has been mentioned countless times.
Evergrande U18 team head coach Takahata Mian said after the game that we won the game, but many problems could not be found in training. This is also the value of high-level games.
The Evergrande Football School stated that it has established a total of 10 age groups from U9 to U18, including a four-level system of intramural leagues, regional competitions, national competitions and international competitions.
Players in the football academy will each have more than 50 opportunities for high-level games every year, and top players are constantly being forged.
In 2020, Evergrande Football School has more than 1,000 elite players and more than 100 best players over 15 years old. At the same time, a total of 436 people have been admitted to national teams at all levels, and more than 50 people have played in professional leagues.
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