Chapter 3701

England's football matches are very developed. Apart from the Super Championship A and B four professional leagues, there are more formal levels 5 to 11. The scale is different, and the participating forms and regions are different, but they are all under the jurisdiction and organization of the FA.

Further down, but it has nothing to do with the FA. On a closer count, there are at least 20 football leagues in England.

In terms of cup matches, there are more than 100 in England. No expert should be able to straighten out everything. Of course, the most famous cup is the FA Cup, the oldest football event in the world. It is also the number one existence in the same type of cup in the world, and its attention is much higher than that of La Liga King's cup and German Italian French Football Association Cup.

In the early years, the status of the FA Cup was even higher than that of the English top league. Even now, there are still some old-fashioned bitches and old low-level clubs.

The FA Cup champion can compete with the Premier League champion for the community shield (Charity shield) cup which is the same level as the Super Cup in other countries, which has established the invincible status of England's first cup in terms of competition system.

Next is the Carling Cup, which is organized by the professional league of England and competed by four professional teams. In recent years, due to the proper operation, the commercial attention has increased day by day, and the League Cup champion can participate in the UEFA Cup next season. The strong teams of the Premier League pay more and more attention to it. The weight of the League Cup has increased rapidly, which basically achieves the purpose of the professional league to compete with the FA Cup.

The Carling Cup is also the most different place between English football and the other four major leagues. The Carling Cup gives England the fourth prestigious honor in a single season. Other places can win three at best, and England can theoretically win four.

Most fans know about English football matches basically here. In fact, eating more meat is not greasy. In addition to the league, FA Cup, Carling Cup and community shield, there is another event that local English fans pay close attention to - the English league championship.

In order to counteract and neutralize the threat of the Carling Cup to the FA Cup, the FA established the championship cup in 1984. At the beginning, it planned to adopt the same competition form of the Carling Cup, that is, the four level professional team.

Sima Zhao's heart, the professional alliance certainly can't agree. Therefore, after many wrangling negotiations, the existing competition system of the British championship was formed.

The participating teams are composed of teams from level 3 to 5, that is, League A, League B and the League of England and Africa. In addition, up to 16 other clubs and college teams are invited to play together. The competition is divided into North and South districts. Finally, the champions are determined by the leaders of the two districts in Wembley.

The focus here is on 16 college teams. What is lacking is called what is lacking, so English people flaunt culture, which is reflected in the football circle. The club traditionally calls the youth training base 'College'.

Manchester United is called Carrington academy, Liverpool is called Kirkby academy and Manchester City is called Etihad Academy.

Therefore, the championship is to invite the youth teams of clubs with wide fan support in the Premier League or Champions League to participate, so as to improve the commercial operation market, popularity and competition status.

Based on this standard, most of the invited teams naturally come from the Premier League. It is obvious that Manchester City is invited every time.

Then here we will talk about the composition of the youth training echelon of Premier League clubs. In principle, under the first team of most clubs, there are three standardized echelons of U23, U21 and U19. Starting from U18, there are three echelons of each age group, and from U12 to U19, there will be only one.

Each age group has its own youth and youth leagues of different sizes. Anyway, there are many matches. From U15 up, the organization of Youth League is very formal, including youth Premier League, youth FA Cup, Europe and Champions League at all levels.

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

Earlier, the reserve team of the English club was a very advanced football system. The main body of the reserve team was composed of excellent U23 players, including the dead substitutes of the first team all year round, as well as the stars who needed to adjust the state of the game, such as those who recovered from a serious illness or those who were suspended by the first team.

Reserve teams also have their own league, which is the cushion game before each Premier League, also known as Reserve League.

However, the Reserve League is very informal. People's U21 and U19 have a serious promotion and promotion competition system. If they don't play well, they will be reduced from U21 Premier League to U21 championship, and so on.

But the reserve team league has not been upgraded or upgraded. Who the first team plays against today, the reserve team will play with the opponent's reserve team in advance, which is very impromptu.

In the past, this team building model was very advanced, but with the rapid development of modern football and the cutting-edge training science, the importance of reserves has decreased.

With the support of advanced training science, today's players become talents early and waste wood early. Whether a player can take shape at the age of 21 is basically determined. The U23 age group is gradually chicken ribs and polarized. The U23 players of various clubs have either entered the first team long ago or have been abandoned.

Bundesliga, La Liga, Serie A and La Liga have all cancelled the establishment of U23, and the echelon platoon leader is their U21.

The reserves are still there, but many U23 players in Premier League clubs have gone to League one or lower to make a living.

But although the reserve team is smaller, it is still the second team in the name of the club and the first team of the Youth Training College of the Premier League club.

Taking Manchester City as an example, the Manchester City Reserve team is actually a complex without the concept of U23 players. The composition of the reserve team is the people who did not enter the list of 18 people in the first team on the day of the game, as well as the youth elites transferred from U21, and other scattered free agents to try training in the form of short-term work.

The same is true for most other clubs in the Premier League.

The British Championship invites Manchester City academy to participate. Nominally, of course, it invites the reserve team as the vanguard, but Manchester City, like other Premier League clubs, just sends U21 to play.

Although U21 talents gather, they face adult opponents after all, so Manchester City and the Premier League college team have always been supporting roles in the English Championship. In recent years, the protagonists are League A and League B teams.

By convention, people have the impression that the English Championship is a cup match attended by League A, League B and the Premier League U21.

But convention is not a rule written in black and white, and Zhuoyang's "unreasonable request" is to let Guardiola approve him to join Manchester City U21 to participate in the England championship.

The rules of the British Championship invite the Manchester City Reserve team, that is, the second team, and the same rules, the first-team players can be transferred to the reserve team at any time, so can Zhuo Yang. Therefore, Zhuo Yang and U21 form the second team of Manchester City to participate in the British championship, and there is no problem at all.

This season's British Championship kicked off in September last year. A total of 64 teams were divided into a single cycle of up to 16 groups. Manchester City U21 ranked second in group D in the north and entered the top 32.

It has been very good. For several consecutive seasons, Manchester City U21 fell in the group stage. After all, the opponents are adult teams. Even if the blue moon youth army is at the bottom of the group, it is very common.

Last month, in the 1 / 16 match, Manchester City U21 fought hard with League One powerhouse Barnsley for 90 minutes, drew 3-3, and passed the risk 5-3 with penalty kick, which made it into the top 16. Difficult, but created the best record of Manchester City U21 in this event.

Just because of the thrill, when Zhuo Yang called to have dinner with the first-team leaders a few days ago, Peng Mingzhi, the main center guard of U21 and Chinese Spring Bud youth, talked about the game process with great interest.

Before that, Zhuo Yang had never heard of the British championship.

After fully understanding, Zhuo Yang became interested. Since there are "loopholes" in the rules that can be participated in, why don't you play it yourself. In the last season, the more champions, the better, for Manchester City and Zhuo Yang.

Throw the request to Guardiola, and old Guardiola screams with toothache.

Lord Zhuo, you are a man level leader. You are going to butcher novice village. It doesn't matter whether the food is abused or not, but the four fronts of Manchester City are online this season. Can't you tell which is lighter or heavier? Can't you tell your age?