England's football competitions are very developed. In addition to the fourth-level professional leagues in the Super League, there are relatively regular fifth to eleventh levels. The scales and formats and regions are different, but they are all under the jurisdiction and organization of the FA.
There is still some further down, but it has nothing to do with the FA. To count it, England has at least 20th level football leagues.
In terms of cup competitions, there are hundreds of them, and no expert can figure out everything. The most famous one in the cup is of course the FA Cup, the longest football event in the world. It is also ranked No. 1 in the same type of cup competition in the world.
The existence of 1 is much more concerned than the La Liga Cup and the German, Italian and French FA Cup.
In the early years, the FA Cup status was even higher than that of the top English leagues. Even now, there are still some old-fashioned bitches and old-fashioned low-level clubs that hold this view.
The FA Cup champion can compete with the Premier League champion for the Community Shield (Charity Shield) Cup that is equivalent to the Super Cup level of other countries, and it has established its immortal status as the first Cup in England in terms of the competition system.
Next is the League Cup, which is a cup organized by the English Professional League and the fourth-level professional teams participated in the competition. In recent years, due to proper operation, business attention has been increasing, and the League Cup champions can participate in the UEFA Cup next season and the Premier League
The powerful team also pays more and more attention to it. The League Cup has increased rapidly, basically achieving the goal of the professional league allowing it to compete with the FA Cup.
The League Cup is also the most different thing about English football and the other four major leagues. The League Cup has given England the honor of being the fourth in a single season. In other places, at best, the triple-champion champions, England can have four-champion champions.
Most fans know about England’s football events basically here. In fact, if you eat too much meat, you won’t get tired of it. In addition to the league, FA Cup, League Cup, and community shield, there is also a very important event for England’s local fans.
—England League Championship.
In order to offset the threat posed by the Zhonghe League Cup to the FA Cup, the FA established this Cup in 1984. At the beginning, it planned to adopt the same competition format as the League Cup, that is, the fourth-level professional team participated.
Of course, the Professional League could not agree to Sima Zhao's heart. Therefore, after many disputes and negotiations, the current competition system of the British Championship was formed.
The participating teams are composed of teams from Level 3 to 5, namely the English League One, English League Two and English League Non-League. In addition, 18 other club college teams are invited to play together. The game is divided into two districts in the north and south. Finally, two
The top spot in the district decided the championship at Wembley.
The focus here is the eighteen academy teams. Whatever is missing is called, so the English people boast about culture, which is reflected in the football circle. The club traditionally calls the youth training base the "academic".
Manchester United's name is Carrington Youth Training Academy, Liverpool's name is Cokeby Youth Training Academy, and Manchester City's name is Etihad Youth Training Academy.
Therefore, the championship is to invite youth teams from clubs that are widely supported by the Premier League or the English Championship to participate in the competition, thereby improving the commercial operation market, visibility and event status.
From this standard, most of the teams invited are naturally from the Premier League. Manchester City is so expensive, so obviously they are all invited every time.
Then we will talk about the composition of the youth training echelons of Premier League clubs. In principle, most clubs have three standardized echelons, u23, u21, and u19, and then from u18, each age group will
Yes, u12 will be less restricted to only one u12 or even each age group.
Each age group has its own youth and youth leagues of different sizes, and there are many games anyway. From U15 to the top, the organization of the Youth League is very formal, including the Youth Premier League, the Youth FA Cup, and Europe.
There are also Champions League levels.
Among them, u23 is a very strange existence. In fact, u23 is the second or reserve team of the club.
Earlier, the reserve team of the English club was a very advanced football system. The reserve team was composed of excellent U23 players, including first-team substitutes who died all year round, as well as stars who need to adjust their game status, such as recovering from a serious illness, or some people who were given a
The first team punishes those suspended.
There are also their own leagues between the reserve teams, which are the pre-season matches before the Premier League, also called the reserve team league.
However, the reserve league is very irregular. There are serious promotion and relegation competition systems for u21, u19, etc. If you don’t play well, you will be reduced from u21 Premier League to u21 Championship, and so on.
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But the reserve league has not been promoted or relegated. If the first team faces today, the reserve team will have a game with the opponent's reserve team in advance, which is very improvised.
In the past, this team building model was very advanced, but as modern football developed more and more rapidly and training science became more and more cutting-edge, the importance of the reserve team was reduced.
With the support of advanced training science, players are now getting old and losing their talents. Whether a player can take shape at the age of 21 is basically determined. The u23 age group is gradually becoming useless and polarized. U23 players from various clubs either entered early.
The first team either has been given up.
The Bundesliga, La Liga, Serie A and Ligue 1 have all abolished the u23 system, and the vanguard of the echelons are their respective u21.
The reserve team is still there, but many U23 players in Premier League clubs have flowed to the League One or lower-level leagues to make a living.
But although the reserve team has become smaller, it is still the club's nominal second team and the leader of the Premier League club's youth training academy.
Taking Manchester City as an example, Manchester City reserve team is actually a complex and does not have the concept of u23 players. The reserve team is composed of people who did not enter the first team's 18-man roster on the day of the game, as well as the young elites drawn from u21, and
Other scattered free agents try out in the form of short-term workers.
Most other Premier League clubs are like this.
The British Championship invited Manchester City Academy team to participate, of course, nominally, to invite the reserve team as the vanguard, but like other Premier League clubs, Manchester City just sent U21 to play.
Although U21 geniuses gather 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 are the English League One and English League Two teams.
Under the convention, people think that the English Championship is a cup competition participated by the League One, League Two and Premier League U21.
But the convention is not a black and white rule, and Zhuo Yang's "unreasonable request" is to ask Guardiola to approve him to join Manchester City's U21 in the England Championship.
The rules of the British Championship are invited to Manchester City's reserve team, that is, the second team, and the same rules are the first team players can be transferred to the reserve team at any time, so Zhuo Yang can do it too. Therefore, Zhuo Yang and U21 form Manchester City's second team to participate in the British Championship
, there is no problem at all.
The British Championship this season kicked off in September last year, with a total of 64 teams first split into a single-round match of up to 16 groups. Manchester City u21 ranked second in the North District Group D to enter the top 32.
It's already very good. In the past, many consecutive seasons, Manchester City's U21 fell in the group stage. After all, the opponents are all adult teams, and it's very common for the Blue Moon Youth Army to be at the bottom of the group.
Last month, in 1/16, Manchester City U21 tied with the League One powerhouse Barnsley in 90 minutes with a 3:3 draw. He passed the score with a penalty of 5:3 and barely entered the round of 16. It was difficult,
But it created the best record for Manchester City's u21 in this event.
It was precisely because of the thrilling moment that Zhuo Yang called him to have a group dinner with the first team boss a few days ago, the main central defender of U21, Peng Mingzhi, a Chinese spring bud boy, talked about the game process with great enthusiasm.
Before this, Zhuo Yang had never heard of the British Championship.
After fully understanding, Zhuo Yang became interested. Since there are "loopholes" that can be participated in in the rules, why not play it yourself? In the last season, the more champions, the better, and the same is true for Manchester City and Zhuo Yang.
When he threw the request to Guardiola, Lao Gua said she had to have a toothache.
Sir Zhuo, you are a full-level boss and you are going to the novice village. It doesn’t matter how bad the bad things are, but this season, Manchester City’s four fronts are all online. Can’t we tell which one is more important? How old is you
Chapter completed!