Young Football Player

In the second round of the Champions League group stage, Schalke 04 won Montpellier 3:2 at home.

In another game in the same group, Arsenal also defeated Olympiacos 3:1 at home.

In the current Group B where Schalke 04 is in, Arsenal and Schalke have won two consecutive victories and accumulated 6 points. Montpellier and Olympiacos have lost two consecutive games and have not yet scored points. It looks like a Schalke 04 and Arsenal hand in hand to qualify for the game.

However, in the next third and fourth rounds of the group, there will be two direct matches between Schalke and Arsenal.

Among the three Bundesliga teams in this round of the Champions League, Schalke 04 has become the only team that has successfully won.

Dortmund went to an away game to draw 1:1 with Manchester City. Although they failed to win, the result was acceptable.

But Bayern actually lost to Borisov 1:3 away in Belarus, which is a relatively big upset.

In Bayern's group, Borisov should be a standard belly. Bayern failed to score points against Borisov, which is indeed a bit inappropriate.

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After winning Montpellier at home, taking advantage of the high morale, Schalke 04 easily won Wolfsburg 3:0 at home in the seventh round of the Bundesliga on the following weekend matchday.

Although Wolfsburg was still the Bundesliga champion in the 08/09 season, after that, they have not been able to enter the European theater for three consecutive seasons. In the 10/11 season, they ranked 15th in the Bundesliga and almost suffered relegation. It was confirmed that the relegation was successful.

In the current Bundesliga standings, Wolfsburg is only ranked 17th, a standard relegation team.

Therefore, it is reasonable to take a relegation team lightly at home.

After the 7th round of the Bundesliga, it will be the national team match day in October, and Li Chenglong has returned to England again.

Li Chenglong has already discovered that Hodgson doesn't seem to like him very much, and all of them use him as a substitute.

You must know that Jackie Lee has performed well in both the Champions League and the Bundesliga. Compared with those English stars, he is less famous, but his overall performance is not worse than them.

I don't know if it's because Hodgson got vengeful because he was slapped by Old John.

But Li Chenglong is not worried, just substitute as a substitute, anyway, the really important match of the national team will have to wait until the 2014 World Cup, it is still early.

And this time on the national team match day, in England's 6-0 home victory over San Marino, Li Chenglong came off the bench and still completed his first goal for the adult national team.

In the 84th minute, Chamberlain made a cross from the right. Li Chenglong stopped his chest in the penalty area and padded his right foot, thus scoring a goal.

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During the national team match day, Italy's "Torino Sport" announced the 40-man shortlist for the 2012 European Golden Boy Award.

The European Golden Boy Award was founded by the "Turin Sports News" in 2003. It aims to select the most outstanding young player in Europe of the year, known as the Golden Globe Award for players under the age of 21.

Among the previous award-winning players, Rooney, Messi, Cesc Fabregas, Aguero and other winners eventually became top stars, but there are also parallel imports such as Anderson and Pato who are far from meeting expectations.

But in any case, for young players, this award is a very important recognition, and anyone who has the opportunity wants to win it.

This time the list of 40 candidates, Lee Chenglong was no doubt shortlisted.

In addition to Li Chenglong, his teammate Drax from Schalke 04 was also shortlisted, and in the Bundesliga, besides the two of them, Bayern's Alaba and Borussia's Xhaka were also successfully shortlisted.

In the list, Lee Chenglong also saw many familiar names.

Inter Milan's Coutinho, Atletico Madrid's Courtois and Koke, Ajax's Eriksen, Arsenal's Oxlade-Chamberlain, Liverpool's Sterling, Juve's Pogba, Basel's Sala Hey wait a minute.

As soon as this list came out, there were more discussions about the Golden Boy Award.

Schalke 04 coach Hub Stevens first came out to support Jackie Lee: "There is no doubt that Lee should be the final winner. He not only performed well in the Europa League last season, but since joining the Bundesliga, he Also showed a very high level, played very well in the Champions League and the Bundesliga."

Tenis, the team chairman, also stood up and stated: "Seven games in the Bundesliga, 4 goals and 4 assists, two matches in the Champions League, 2 goals and 1 assist, such statistics can not be awarded, then the Golden Boy Award will not continue to be held at all. significance."

From top to bottom, Schalke 04 hopes that Jackie Chan will win the award. First, there are very few players in the history of the Schalke team who can win such an important award. Second, last season's Golden Boy Award belongs to Dortmund Golden Boy Gotze's.

The mortal enemy Dortmund took it once, and of course Schalke also wanted to take it once.

In fact, even if he can't win the award this year, he still has a chance next year, because he is only 19 years old this year, and his birthday is just a coincidence.

The selection criteria for the Golden Boy is to require players to be under 21 years old (excluding 21 years old), and it is calculated according to the general age calculation method in football.

The general method of calculating age in football is not to directly calculate age, but to see the year of birth.

In the summer of 2012 this year, a youth event was also held in Europe, the European U19 Football Championship. As the name suggests, it is a competition for young players under the age of 19.

The age standard for this year's competition is that players born after January 1, 1993 can participate.

For players born after January 1, 1993, their age will naturally not exceed 19 years old.

But some players born in the second half of 1992, for example, in November or December, they were also 19 years old in the summer of 2012, but they are no longer eligible for the competition.

Therefore, for the 2012 Golden Boy Awards, the age requirement is players born after January 1, 1992.

Li Chenglong was born on January 10, 1993. According to his age advantage, he will be able to participate in the Golden Boy Awards this year and next year.

If he was born more than ten days earlier, he would only be old enough to participate in this year's Golden Boy Awards. Even if he is still only 20 years old when the awards are presented next year, he would no longer meet the age criteria for selection.

So for Jackie Lee, if he can't get it this year, he still has a chance next year.

If you get it this year, you won't have a chance next year.

Although the selection of the Golden Boy Awards does not directly stipulate that they cannot be awarded repeatedly, they have always had a default rule in the selection of awards. Players who have already won the award will not win the award even if they continue to meet the conditions in the second year.

In this way, more young players can be encouraged.

As far as Li Chenglong is concerned, of course he hopes to win the award this year, and he needs to become famous as soon as possible.

The sooner he becomes famous, the better it will be for him to choose the Golden Globe Awards in the future.

So Li Chenglong should seize the opportunity to perform well and strive to win the Golden Boy Award this year.

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After returning from the national team match day, Li Chenglong found that the whole Gelsenkirchen was restless.

Because the upcoming 8th round of the Bundesliga will be another Ruhr Derby.

In Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia has always been an important base for German football, where players including Borussia Dortmund, Schalke 04, Bayer Leverkusen, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Cologne, Dusseldorf, Bochum and many other teams, almost all the second group teams of the Bundesliga are here.

Among the teams in North Rhine-Westphalia, they are further divided into the Ruhr Group and the Rhineland Group.

The Ruhr Group is naturally headed by Borussia Dortmund and Schalke 04.

The Ruhr area is a famous old industrial area in North Rhine-Westphalia, and it is also a dense urban agglomeration, where Dortmund, Gelsenkirchen, Bochum, Duisburg, Essen and many other cities are closely distributed.

And every city has its own team. The games between these teams can actually be called the Ruhr Derby, which is the Ruhr Derby in a broad sense.

However, among these teams in the Ruhr area, Borussia Dortmund and Schalke 04 are the two strongest teams, so the derby between them is the real Ruhr area derby, and every time it is extremely hot.

Needless to say, Dortmund, they are the most successful team in the Bundesliga besides Bayern, and they are also a symbol of the city of Dortmund.

Although the team name of Schalke 04 is only named after a district of Gelsenkirchen, just like Chelsea is to London, this does not prevent Schalke 04 from representing the city of Gelsenkirchen.

Since the establishment of the Bundesliga, Schalke 04 has never won the Bundesliga championship, but before the establishment of the Bundesliga, Schalke 04 was the most successful team in Germany.

Especially before World War II, Schalke 04 dominated German football at that time. They reached the final of the German Football Championship 9 times in 12 years and won 6 times. It is said that the head of state was a fan of Schalke 04 at that time.

However, since the establishment of the Bundesliga, Schalke 04 has been reduced to an ordinary German powerhouse team, and even encountered relegation in the middle.

On the big stage of the Bundesliga, you sing and I come on stage. First, Bayern fought against Borussia, and then Bayern fought against Hamburg. Bayern won both fights, so Bayern established itself as the top of the Bundesliga. Ke 04 can only be reduced to a spectator.

But no matter how they fall, the derby hatred between Schalke 04 and Dortmund has always been there.

Every derby in the Ruhr area will attract fans in the entire Ruhr area to go crazy.