Golden Greenery

The city with the most football clubs in China is Fishing Port, and there are 11 teams in the Hong Kong Super League. If calculated on a per capita basis, Manchester, which also has 11 teams of all levels but only has a population of about half a million, is the highest in the world in this regard.

Putting aside the population and simply counting the number, London leads the world, with 42 football clubs and 22 stadiums, exceeding the total number of team stadiums in many countries.

Just like people always focus on other universities, fans are also accustomed to only looking at the London teams in the Premier League, Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham, West Ham, and Crystal Palace. Aren't they good?

Brentford Football Club, nicknamed the 'Bees', is just a small club outside London, but now they are making a living in the English Championship and are already the '211' among all 42 teams.

On the same day that Manchester City lost to Everton 0:1, in the 12th round of the 2019 season, Brentford lost 1:3 away to Newcastle coached by the famous coach Benitez. The team's main defensive midfielder and No. 8 Nick Lars Yennaris played the entire game.

Today, both Manchester City and Brentford have a day off. Yanneris made a special trip to Manchester from London and visited Zhuoyang according to the time scheduled in advance.

The 23-year-old Yennaris was born in London. He started playing football in the Arsenal youth training. He was the captain of Arsenal U18 and was also selected for the England U17~20 youth national team at all levels, making a total of 10 appearances.

In fact, Yennaris has known Zhuo Yang for a long time. In February 2011, they were brought together by his cheap nephew Alexander Xiao Song in London. Yennaris specially hosted a banquet to entertain Zhuoyang who came to play Champions League 1 with Barcelona and Arsenal (for details, see Chapter 5 Iberia · Chapter 260 · Arsenal Chinese Captain)

He entered the Arsenal youth training camp at the age of 8. In 2010, he won the U18 Youth Premier League championship with Arsenal U18 as captain. Once you enter a wealthy club, it is difficult to survive in a big club. Later, Yanneris played three games for the Arsenal first team, but none of them were in the Premier League.

In the winter window of January 2014, the 21-year-old Yennaris was sold by Arsenal to Brentford, who was still in the English League One at the time. When he left, he was reluctant to leave, but he had no choice but to do so.

When he first arrived at Brentford, Yennaris was only a rotation player, and was even rented out in the English Second Division (Level 4) for half a year during the period. It was not until the second half of last season that he firmly established himself as the team's main defensive midfielder. . In fact, Yanneris can play in all the midfield positions in the backcourt, but his height of 1.71cm and mediocre speed make the defensive midfielder the most suitable place for him.

Having been dependent on his mother since he was a child, Yannaris has become accustomed to facing difficulties in life. He is also a smart man who is good at taking advantage of opportunities. Getting into a relationship with Zhuo Yang more than five years ago was his plan for a rainy day.

Although the relationship with Zhuo Yang has not been close these years, the contact has not been broken, so the good relationship from five years ago has been maintained to this day. Doing all this because Yannaris is of Chinese descent.

After playing in English football for many years, 23 is not too old, but he is not too young either. Yennaris, who has not been selected for the England youth team since he was 21 years old, clearly understands that his dream of England international football is already very vague, and the main player in the English Championship and the substitute in the Premier League are likely to be his football ceiling.

Yanasli came to visit Zhuoyang with a very clear intention. He wanted to return to the nationality of his mother's country and join the Chinese national team. And he is very self-aware. There is nothing impressive about his status as the main player in the British Championship. Although Zhuo Yang's Chinese team is recruiting talents,

But everyone must put down their posture, because this is Zhuo Yang's team.

Yannasri went to Manchester City in person to express his feelings to Zhuoyang. At least his attitude was very correct.

--Categorize!

The Chinese team has indeed opened the door to naturalization, and captain Zhuo Yang is personally responsible for selecting players. It is not the interested parties who choose the Chinese team, but Zhuo Yang who chooses them.

This work started four or five years ago because there was a serious gap in domestic football talents. In extraordinary times, extraordinary means must be used to get through this stage as a last resort.

In the current national team, apart from Zhuo Yang, only San Zhang and Yi Yan, who studied abroad in Europe, are considered first-class players in Asia. The others are second-rate or even third-rate at best. The performance of the national team in the Asian Cup and World Cup preliminaries after losing Zhuo Yang shows that everything.

The six years from 2015 to 2021 were the most serious period of faults jointly deduced by Zhuo Yang and the Chinese football decision-makers, and facts have proved everyone correct. In order to survive the most difficult six years, especially the 2018 World Cup cycle, naturalization is a forced and expedient move.

It’s all water, no one can pretend to be pure! The whole world is naturalizing, and the French team has become a pure African team. What is there to win for the Chinese team?

But Zhuo Yang also knows very well that due to the restrictions on naturalization conditions and regional characteristics, the Chinese team should not even think about the world's top players and first-class football players. Not to mention that if there are no fish at this level, even if there is a Chinese team, they will not be able to recruit them.

The bottom line for naturalized players is to be top-notch in Asia, which is barely enough and is just a transitional period.

Take the Yannaris in front of you as an example. After Li Tie retires and Zheng Zhi grows old, the Chinese team is effectively without a back, and no one can play in Asia. In key matches, Sforza could only ask Zhang Chendong, who played as a full-back at Rayo Vallecano, to play as a defensive midfielder.

Although Yennaris is only a player at the British Championship level, his level is not inferior to that of the young Zheng Zhi, surpassing all domestic players at the same position by a long way, and he is only 23 years old and is very ideal.

More importantly, he is of Chinese descent, a little darker, but he has Chinese blood in his body, so it will be easier for him to accept it psychologically if he is naturalized.

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"Sir Zhuoyang, thank you for your help, thank you for your support."

"You're welcome, Nick. You are welcome to return to China. On behalf of the national team, I welcome you to join." Zhuo Yang said: "In addition, there is no such thing as title in China. You can just call me 'Captain' or 'Lao Zhuo' from now on."

"Okay, Captain Zhuo."

After the big policy decision on ‘naturalization’ was made a few years ago, it received support from the highest level. When players are naturalized, the first thing they face is the issue of naturalization. Relevant parties gave instructions to deal with special cases and gave the green light. At the same time, they gave the decision-making power of naturalization of football talents to Zhuo Yang.

The Chinese team is also very popular, and Zhuo Yang is responsible for guarding the door. Only the people he likes can get naturalization unimpeded. Before Yannaris, several foreign players playing in the Chinese Super League had obtained Chinese nationality in the first half of this year and became domestic players after receiving approval from Zhuo Yang. They are now just waiting to meet other naturalization conditions stipulated by FIFA.

After passing the Zhuoyang test, Niklas Yannaris, nicknamed "Nick", was successfully naturalized as a Chinese citizen two months later and registered his residence in Guangdong, his mother's hometown. As a result, Yannaris, a native Londoner, became the first Chinese player in the history of Brentford Club.

Yannaris' mother's surname is Li, and he took the Chinese name "Li Ke" based on his mother's surname and his own "Nick".

Three months later, Guangdong native Li Ke was selected for the national team and became the first naturalized player in the history of the Chinese national football team.

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