Golden Greenery

Football events in England are very developed. In addition to the Super Champions, A, B, and 4 professional leagues, there are more formal 5th to 11th tiers below. The competition formats and regions vary according to the scale, but they are all under the jurisdiction and organization of the FA.

There are further down, but it has nothing to do with the FA. Counting up, England has at least 20 football leagues.

In terms of cup competitions, there are hundreds of them in England, and no experts should be able to figure them all out. The most famous cup competition is of course the FA Cup, the longest football competition in the world. It is also the number one existence in the same type of cup competition in the world.

In the early years, the FA Cup was even higher than the English top flight, even if there are still some old-fashioned **** and old low-level clubs who think so.

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 of other countries. From the competition system, it has established the inextinguishable status of England's first cup competition.

Next is the League Cup, which is organized by the English Professional League and is played by four 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, and the Premier League powerhouses are also paying more and more attention to it. The purpose of battling 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 allows England to have the fourth important honor in a single season. Elsewhere there is a triple crown at best, England can have a quadruple.

For most fans, the basic understanding of football in England is here. In fact, eating more meat is not greasy. In addition to the league, FA Cup, League Cup, and Community Shield, local fans in England also have an event that they are very concerned about - the English League Championship.

In order to counteract and neutralize the threat of the League Cup to the FA Cup, the FA established this trophy cup in 1984. At the beginning, it planned to adopt the same competition format as the League Cup, that is, the participation of four-level professional teams.

Sima Zhao's heart, of course, the professional alliance can't agree. As a result, after many wrangling negotiations, the existing competition system of the British Championship was formed.

The participating teams are composed of teams from the 3rd to 5th level, namely League One, League Two and FA United, and 18 other clubs and academy teams are invited to play together. The competition is divided into two areas, north and south. The first place in the area will be crowned champions at Wembley.

The focus here is on the eighteen academy teams. What is missing, what is called, so the English people flaunt their culture, which is reflected in the football circle. The club traditionally calls the youth training base an "academy".

Manchester United's is called the Carrington Academy, Liverpool's is called the Kirkby Academy, and Manchester City's is called the Etihad Academy.

Therefore, the championship is inviting youth teams from clubs with a wide range of fans in the Premier League or the Championship to participate in the competition, in order to increase the market and visibility of commercial operations and the status of the event.

Starting from this standard, most of the invited teams are naturally from the Premier League, and expensive players like 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 three standardized echelons of U23, U21 and U19, and then from U18 onwards, each age group has it, and even each age group from U12 down will not be limited to only one. branch.

Each age group has its own youth and youth leagues of different scales, and there are a lot of games anyway. From the U15 onwards, the organization of youth leagues is very formal. There are youth Premier Leagues at all levels, FA Youth Cups, and European Champions Leagues at all levels.

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

In the early days, 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, as well as the first-team substitutes who died all the year round, and the stars who needed to adjust the state of the game, such as recovering from a serious illness, or some people who were killed. The first team punishes those who are suspended.

The reserve teams also have their own leagues, that is, the first match before each Premier League match, also known as the reserve league.

However, the reserve league is very irregular. U21, U19, etc. have a serious promotion and relegation system. If they do not play well, they will be demoted from the U21 Premier League to the U21 Championship, and so on.

But there is no promotion or relegation in the reserve league. Whoever the first team faces today, the reserve team will play the opponent's reserve team ahead of time, which is very improvised.

In the past, Gu Xun's team-building model was very advanced, but as modern football develops more and more rapidly and training science becomes more and more advanced, the importance of the reserve team has diminished.

Under the blessing of advanced training science, players are now too early to become talented and useless. Whether a player can be formed at the age of 21 is basically determined. The U23 age group is gradually becoming tasteless and polarized. The U23 players of each club will either enter early. The first team, or has been abandoned.

The Bundesliga, La Liga, Serie A, and French Ligue 1 have all cancelled the U23 system, and the top echelons are their respective U21s.

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

But although the size of the reserve team has become smaller, it is still the nominal second team of the club and the leader of the youth academy of the Premier League club.

Taking Manchester City as an example, the Manchester City reserve team is actually a complex, and there is no concept of U23 players. The composition of the reserve team consists of those who did not enter the 18-man roster of the first team on the day of the game, as well as young elites who were recruited from the U21, and other scattered free agents to try out in the form of part-time workers.

Most other clubs in the Premier League do the same.

The English Championship invited the Manchester City academy team to participate, nominally, of course, to invite the reserve team as the vanguard, but Manchester City, like other Premier League clubs, just sent the U21 to play.

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

By convention, people's impression that the English Championship is a cup competition between League One and League Two and the Premier League U21.

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

The British Championship rules invite the Manchester City reserve team, which is the second team. In the same rules, players from the first team can be assigned to the reserve team at any time. Of course, Zhuo Yang can also. Therefore, Zhuo Yang and U21 formed the second team of Manchester City to participate in the British Championship, and there was no problem at all.

This season's British Championship kicked off in September last year. A total of 64 teams were first divided into a single round-robin competition of up to 16 groups. Manchester City U21 ranked second in Group D of the North and entered the round of 32.

It is already very good. For many consecutive seasons, Manchester City U21 has fallen 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 common.

Last month, in the 1/16 game, Manchester City U21 and League One powerhouse Barnsley fought hard for 90 minutes to draw 3:3. Qualified to enter the round of 16. Difficult, but created the best record for Manchester City U21 in this event.

It was because of the thrill that Zhuo Yang called him to have dinner with the first-team bosses a few days ago, and Peng Mingzhi, the main U21 central defender and Chinese Chunlei teenager, chatted about the game 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 you can participate in, why not play it yourself. It's the last season, the more champions the better, for Manchester City and Zhuo Yang.

Throwing the request to Guardiola, the old man complained of a toothache.

Lord Zhuo, you are a full-level boss going to Tu Xincun Village. It doesn't matter how bad it is to abuse vegetables, but Manchester City's four fronts are all IQ online this season. Can't you tell which is more important? Can't figure out how old you are?

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