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Football competitions in England are very developed. In addition to the four-level professional leagues of Premier League A and B, there are also more formal levels five to eleven. The competition formats and regions are different depending on the scale, but they are all governed and organized by the Football Association.

There are others further down, but they have nothing to do with the Football Association. To put it into perspective, there are at least 20 levels of football leagues in England.

In terms of cup competitions, England has hundreds of them, and no expert should be able to figure them all out. The most famous cup is of course the FA Cup, the oldest football tournament in the world. It is also the number one cup of its type in the world and attracts much more attention than the La Liga Copa del Rey and the German, Italian and French Football Association Cup.

In the early years, the status of the FA Cup was even higher than that of England's top league. Even now, there are still some old-fashioned sentimental bitches and old low-level clubs who hold this view.

The FA Cup champion can compete with the Premier League champion for the Community Shield (Charity Shield) Cup, which is equivalent to the Super Cup level of other countries. The competition system has established the immortal status of England's first cup competition.

Next is the League Cup, which is a cup organized by the English Professional League and competed by four-level professional teams. In recent years, due to proper operation, business attention has been increasing day by day, and the League Cup champion can participate in the UEFA Cup next season. The Premier League teams are paying more and more attention to it. The weight of the League Cup has increased rapidly, basically reaching the level of professional leagues. The purpose of competing with the FA Cup.

The League Cup is also the most different place between English football and the other four major leagues. The League Cup gives England the fourth important honor in a single season. Other places have at best a Triple Crown, and England can have a Quadruple.

Most fans basically know about English football matches here. In fact, if you eat too much meat, you will never get tired of it. In addition to the league, FA Cup, League Cup, and Community Shield, local fans in England also have another event that they are very concerned about - the English League Championship.

In order to offset the threat posed by the League Cup and the League Cup to the FA Cup, the Football Association originally planned to adopt the same competition format as the League Cup in this championship cup, that is, four-level professional teams will participate.

Of course the professional league cannot agree to Sima Zhao's wishes. As a result, after many rounds of negotiations, the current format of the British Championship was formed.

The participating teams are composed of teams from levels 3 to 5, that is, English League One, English League Two and English African League. In addition, eighteen other club academy teams are invited to play together. The competition is divided into North and South districts to compete, and finally two teams The top spot in each district will be decided at Wembley.

The focus here is on the eighteen college teams. What is lacking is what is called, so the English flaunt culture, which is reflected in the football circle. Clubs traditionally call their youth training bases 'academies'.

Manchester United’s is called Carrington Youth Academy, Liverpool’s is called Kirkby Youth Academy, and Manchester City’s is called Etihad Youth Academy.

Therefore, the championship invites youth teams from clubs with widespread fan support in the Premier League or English Championship to participate in the competition, in order to increase the commercial operation market and visibility as well as the status of the event.

Based on this standard, most of the invited teams are naturally from the Premier League. Teams as rich as Manchester City are obviously invited every time.

So here we have to talk about the composition of the youth training echelon of Premier League clubs. In principle, under the first team of most clubs, there are U23, U21, U1 and then down to U18, there are every age group, and there will even be only one team for each age group from U12 down.

Each age group has its own youth and junior leagues of different sizes, and there are plenty of games anyway. From U15 upwards, the organization of youth leagues is very formal. There are youth Premier Leagues at all levels, FA Youth Cup, and European Champions League at all levels.

Among them, U23 is a very strange existence. In fact, U23 is the club's second team or reserve team.

In the early days, the reserve team of English clubs was a very advanced football system. The reserve team was mainly composed of outstanding U23 players, and also included permanent substitutes for the first team, as well as stars who needed to adjust their game status, such as recovering from serious illness, or some players who were injured. The first team punishes those who are suspended.

The reserve teams also have their own league, which is the back-up game before each Premier League game, also called the reserve league.

However, the reserve league is very irregular. They use the U21 and U1 competition system. If they do not play well, they will be demoted from the U21 Premier League to the U21 Championship, and so on.

However, there is no promotion or relegation in the reserve league. Whoever the first team faces today, the reserve team will have a game with the opponent's reserve team in advance. It feels very impromptu.

Gu Jun's team-building model was very advanced in the past, but as modern football develops more and more rapidly and training science becomes more and more cutting-edge, the importance of the reserve team has decreased.

With the blessing of advanced training science, players now become good and useless early. Whether a player can become a player by the age of 21 is basically determined. The U23 age group is gradually becoming useless and polarized. U23 players from various clubs have either entered early. If he joins the first team, he will be given up.

Bundesliga, La Liga, Serie A, and Ligue 1 have all canceled the U23 system, and the leaders of the echelons are their respective U21s.

The reserve team is still there, but many U23 players from Premier League clubs have moved to English League One or lower leagues to make a living.

Although the reserve team has become smaller in size, it is still the nominal second team of the club and is still the leader of the Premier League club's youth academy.

Taking Manchester City as an example, the Manchester City reserve team is actually a complex and does not have the concept of U23 players. The reserve team is composed of those who did not make the 18-man roster of the first team on the day of the game, as well as young elites drawn from the U21, and other scattered free agents who come for trial training in the form of part-time work.

The same is true for most other Premier League clubs.

The British Championship invites the Manchester City academy team to participate. In name, of course, it invites the reserve team as the vanguard, but Manchester City, like other Premier League clubs, only sends U21 to have fun.

Although U21 talents are gathered together, they face adult opponents after all, so Manchester City and the Premier League academy team have always been supporting roles in the British Championship. In recent years, the leading roles have been English League One and English League Two teams.

By convention, people have the impression that the English Championship is a cup competition participated by League One and League Two and the Premier League U21.

But conventions are not rules in black and white, and Zhuo Yang's "unreasonable request" is for Guardiola to approve him to join Manchester City U21 to participate in the English Championship.

According to the rules of the British Championship, Manchester City's reserve team, which is the second team, is invited. According to the same rules, first-team players can be transferred to the reserve team at any time, and Zhuo Yang can of course do the same. Therefore, there is no problem at all for Zhuoyang and U21 to form the second team of Manchester City to participate in the British Championship.

This season's British Championship last year had a total of 1 game. Manchester City U21 ranked second in Group D of the North Zone and entered the round of 32.

This is already very good. For many consecutive seasons, Manchester City U21 has failed in the group stage. After all, the opponents are all adult teams. Even if the Blue Moon Youth Army is at the bottom of the group, it is very unusual.

Last month, on 1/11, they had a tough battle with the English Premier League team Barnsley, and relied on a penalty kick to get through 5:3, which was the best record of Manchester City U21 in this competition.

Because of this thrilling experience, when Zhuo Yang called him to have dinner with the first-team leaders a few days ago, Peng Mingzhi, the U21 main center back and Chinese Spring Bud boy, chatted about the game with great interest.

Before this, Zhuo Yang had never heard of the British Championship.

After fully understanding it, Zhuo Yang became interested. Since there is a ‘loophole’ in the rules that allows you to participate, why not have a go yourself. It’s the last season, the more championships the better, this is true for both Manchester City and Zhuo Yang.

Throwing the request to Guardiola, the old man complained that he had a toothache.

Sir Zhuo, you are a max-level boss and you are going to massacre Novice Village. The bad taste of abusing food doesn't matter, but this season, Manchester City's four fronts are all above the IQ. Can't you tell which one is more important? Can't you tell how old you are?

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