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In the recent East Asian Football Championship, the Chinese U15 men's football team defeated the South Korean U15 men's football team and the Japanese U15 men's football team to win the championship.
Recently, the "U15 Elite Team" composed of most of the original team of East Asian football champions went to Japan for training, and in addition to the names familiar to fans such as Zhang Hongfu and Bu Niaming, there was also a player named "Zheng Ziyi". It is reported that this player called "Zheng Ziyi" is the 15-year-old son of Zheng Zhi, a famous national football player.
Speaking of Zheng Ziyi, fans may not be very familiar with it, but when it comes to Zheng Ziyi's father Zheng Zhi, everyone knows his career well. Zheng Zhi debuted in Liaoning Football Youth Training, became famous in the Shenzhen team, and was an important contributor to the Shenzhen team winning the first year of the Chinese Super League.
Everyone knows what happened later, Zheng Zhi went abroad to study abroad, played for Charlton Athletic in the Premier League and Celtic in the Soviet Super League, and finally returned to China to join Guangzhou Evergrande, started his own legend, and was elected Asian Footballer in 2013.
After talking about Zheng Zhi, let's introduce Zheng Ziyi again. It was when Zheng Zhi stayed in Charlton Athletic in the Premier League (2008) that Zheng Zhi's second child was born (the first child was a daughter), and he was Zheng Ziyi. According to British law, Zheng Ziyi, who was born in the United Kingdom, can become a British citizen, but Zheng Zhi, as the captain of the national football team, finally gave up this idea.
Influenced by Zheng Zhi, Zheng Ziyi has been very interested in football since he was a child, not only often going in and out of various competitions as a "caddy", but also taking the initiative to practice the ball and joining the youth school, becoming a well-known young player in Guangzhou.
It is worth mentioning that the football school that Zheng Ziyi joined was not the Evergrande Youth Training where his father Zheng Zhi played, but the Guangzhou Evergrande rival in the same city - R&F Youth Academy. The main reason why Zheng Zhi asked Zheng Ziyi to join R&F Youth Training is that Evergrande Football School is far away from Guangzhou, and R&F Youth Training has cooperation with local schools in Guangzhou, so you can receive professional football training without being far away from your family.
Zheng Ziyi still has a certain football talent, can play multiple positions in the midfield, and once led the Guangzhou team to win the 2019 "Elite Cup" U11 group championship as the captain, and then won the "Jianlibao Cup" U12 championship on behalf of the Shenyang team.
In Chinese football, there are many examples of father and son being professional players, such as Gao Zhongxun and Gao Zhunyi, Xie Yuxin and Xie Weijun, Li Ming and Li Sirong, etc., their stories have become a good story among fans.
If all goes well, Zheng Ziyi will also become a professional player, but I don't know if he can achieve half of Zheng Zhi's achievements, after all, there are too few "Grand Slam" players like Zheng Zhi in China. If one day Zheng Ziyi can put on the jersey of the national football team and represent China in the World Cup, then it should be the proudest thing for Zheng Zhi.