Live broadcast on December 14th In an interview with "Football News", Dai Wenkang, director of the Hong Kong Super League Oriental Club and Dai Weijun's father, recalled some difficult moments in his son's football growth path, and he said that whether a club will sign a young player can often be decided in two training sessions.
"Dai Weijun tried out more than a dozen clubs in the UK, the Netherlands and Portugal, and at that time, the two training games were decided to be 'life and death' to decide whether to stay. Play two or three training matches, stay if you feel good, try out for another six weeks, and if you qualify, you will get a contract. Sometimes it's not about whether we want to stay or not, but whether there is a club or team that wants us, if we play well, we will stay, and if we are bad, we will leave, which is very difficult. ”
Dai Wenkang believes that in the cruel competitive environment, Dai Weijun has gradually adapted to the high-paced confrontation abroad, and has developed a strong psychological ability to resist pressure. "His fastest improvement was during the period in League One, Eredivisie and Wolves, because there was a lot of pressure there, and if you didn't train well, you didn't have to play, and there, you could only speak with strength. Sometimes you will be scolded if you don't train well, and you will be scolded if you don't play well, and Xiao Dai came under that kind of pressure. League One is a tough one, but he played 12 games in his first year in League One at the age of 18. ”
The age of 16 to 18 was the most critical period for Dai Weijun's development, when he was playing in the senior team, in the professional league, not in the youth team, and it was important to be here. Dai Wenkang believes that youth players should start to move closer to the first team at the age of fifteen or sixteen, and those who have the ability to stay, so that the selected players can gain a foothold in the professional arena.
"The process of going from youth player to professional player is like a lawyer, from graduating from law, to obtaining a legal license, to going to a law firm to Xi, so that you can officially become a lawyer." The same is true for players, when they are fifteen or sixteen years old, they must go to the first team to 'Xi', and if they can keep up, they will stay, and if they think they can't do it, they will leave, and if they have the ability, they will start playing in the first team at the age of seventeen or eighteen. Dai Wenkang said, "If you just play against opponents of the same age group and don't go through the screening process, even if you get to the first team, it will be difficult to keep up." ”
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