Deserves a bright future! Wuhan Three Towns U21 won the championship, adding weight to the club's share reform

Reporter Lu Mi reports On December 11, two incidents occurred in the three towns of Wuhan. One is that in the U21 league in the afternoon of the same day, Wuhan Three Towns won the championship; The second is that on the evening of the same day, the club announced that coach Ricardo would resign because of the expiration of the contract, and then the J League Bai Sun God officially announced that Ricardo was the coach of the team. In the three towns of Wuhan, which is in an eventful season, two things representing the future and the present are intertwined on the same day, which makes people feel a lot of emotion.

After the second round was determined one round in advance, in the final round of the U21 League, Wuhan Three Towns U21 defeated Henan 3-1 and lifted the championship trophy of this year's U21 League. At that moment, whether Jiang Kun as the head coach or a young player, all of them were in tears. Since the beginning of the year, the team has been formed to participate in the competition, and after the arduous schedule of six divisions, accompanied by personnel injuries and transfers, this group of young players from 02-06 has overcome many difficulties and helped the team win the championship with super willpower and resolute execution. At a critical juncture in the club's share reform, the championship is worth a lot of money, and the young people have shown with their practical actions that the three towns deserve a bright future.

The champions and runners-up of this season's U21 league will enter next year's China Second League, and this suspense has been revealed in the last round of the league. Wuhan Three Towns U21 defeated their opponents 1-0 in the match with Shanghai Shenhua, and Chengdu Rongcheng U21 and Zhejiang team shook hands 1-1, which also made Wuhan Three Towns overtake Chengdu in points to the top of the list, and the two teams joined hands to advance to the 2025 season of the Chinese Second League.

On the 11th, the suspense of this year's U21 league championship was revealed. Wuhan Three Towns U21 welcomed the challenge of Henan U21 in the last match of the fifth stage of the final. Perhaps motivated by the positive promotion of the second division, the Three Towns team played with ease and patience, controlling the tempo from the start of the game.

Within ten minutes of the first half, with Liu Yiheng's penalty kick and the opponent's own goal, the team took an early 2-0 lead. In the second half, Three Towns were awarded a penalty again, and Khaliti seized the opportunity to lay the foundation for victory. Although Henan relied on set-pieces to pull one back in the end, the three towns still won the game and won the championship trophy of this year's U21 League.

This season, after 22 games, Wuhan Three Towns U21 has achieved a record of 17 wins, 4 draws and 1 loss. won the championship, head coach Jiang Kun also won the best coach award in this season's U21 League, and the main striker Liu Yiheng won the Golden Boot Award with 19 goals, including him and three other Ruan Jingwei, Abdul Rahman and Xia Xiaoxi were selected as the best team of this year's U21 League.

Such a result can be described as a full return for this team. But back at the beginning of the year, when the team was formed in a hurry, people didn't have much hope that they would win the championship or even get a good standing. On the one hand, there are participating teams, some of which are known for their youth training, and some of which have very good club conditions. On the other hand, the Three Towns U21 at that time was in a relatively hurry, and the situation of the Three Towns Club was not optimistic.

Fortunately, after head coach Jiang Kun took over the team, he formulated very clear and practical tactics, and dealt with various emergencies calmly. He used a rigorous training plan to let these players really experience the hardships of the game in actual combat, insisting on three practices a day, and the players needed to get up early at six o'clock to prepare for the day's work. From Qingyuan to Haikou, after six competition areas and different competition conditions, they have also created a strong ability to adapt. Therefore, whether it is an injury or an injury during the operation of the whole season, or being transferred by the first team, U19 and U21 national brands, the team's results have been kept in a stable state.

The U21 championship is also the second championship trophy won by Wuhan Three Towns Club in three years. When the trophy was won, although the club's situation had changed drastically compared to 2022, for these young players, their vision of football was very pure. Among them, the players produced by Shangwen Youth Training are the backbone, some of them have experience in Spanish youth training, and some have rich experience in the Chinese Second League in Hainan Star.

In the 2025 season, the first team of Wuhan Three Towns will inevitably undergo important personnel changes. With the departure of head coach Ricardo Rodriguez, a successor is still being sought, and the team is also facing the possibility of a large number of main players leaving, in this context, these young players will also become an important component in the transformation, and will also assume the future of Wuhan Three Towns Club.

Of course, the premise of all this is that the club can enter the threshold of entry. Previously, the three towns were not included in the list of the first batch of clubs that have completed the settlement of debts announced by the Chinese Football Association, and the clubs still have many outstanding lawsuits in FIFA. In the case that the club's investors stop injecting capital, only relying on the local government to carry out equity reform of the club can save the club from fire and water.

At present, it is also a key node for the Three Towns Club to carry out share reform, and the arrival of the U21 championship trophy may increase the process of share reform. After all, next year this club will have two professional league teams, the so-called one wins, one loses, Wuhan football can not withstand the situation of just entering the peak, and the sharp turn will happen again.