After playing football for several years in a football youth training base in a city in northern China, 15-year-old Xu Qiang (pseudonym) felt more and more "panicked".
There are few friends who participate in youth training together. Is it true that the club has no money? When I buy foreign aid, all of them are sky-high, and I don't even blink my eyelids! He pouted helplessly.
In this regard, Guo Weiwei, member of the National Campus Football Expert Committee and director of the Henan Provincial Campus Football Expert Committee, deeply agreed: "According to the requirements of the Football Association, each football club must establish its own youth training base. But in fact, the youth echelon of many clubs is just pretending. The club would rather spend tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of yuan in transfer fees to buy 'foreign aid' than spend one-tenth of the money to cultivate a 'rising star'. This is an important reason why Chinese football is currently in deep trouble. ”
Why is this happening?
To put it bluntly, it's all short-term behavior! Guo Weiwei said, "Buying foreign aid can be immediately 'realized' - it can be 'effective' immediately on the field, and the star effect off the field has advertised the club - this is enough!" What about the academy? The return is slow, and when you become a star, it will be the year of the monkey! ”
Because of "unwillingness to wait", the scientific training system built by this system is completely out of shape in reality.
At present, the domestic youth training platform rarely carries out detailed and graded training for the age group, growth rules, and level differences of young players, and the training content is too casual! It is mainly based on running, not heavy on confrontation, and there is too little training that is holistic and in line with the laws of competitive football. Xu Zhan said frankly. He played for Hertha Berlin in the Bundesliga for almost a decade and is now the youth coach of a football club in Beijing.
In order to organize scientific training according to the laws of competition, high-level coaches are indispensable. "At present, it is rare to find high-level coaches in domestic youth training. Many coaches have deviations in their football concepts and low practical ability! Former international player Chu Liang was blunt.
So, why is it not high?
From the coach**, some of the reasons may be found.
The youth echelon coaches of foreign clubs are mainly from outstanding retired players, who have not only a practical foundation, but also have a systematic study, and must be screened by the club for a long time, and their personal conduct, professional ability, and even personality characteristics will be recognized before they take up their posts. There are few clubs in China that attach importance to echelon construction, when the echelon coach not only has a low income, but also is often owed wages, plus there is no ** degree, no sense of achievement, which one is willing to come? Coaching kids? Many outstanding retired players can't hide! Dong Yang, the echelon coach of Langfang City of Glory Football Club, said very bluntly.
Not only is there a lack of good coaches, but there is also a serious lack of high-level competition among young people, which is also one of the reasons.
In Italy, a young player can play 60 games a year; It's good for a Chinese kid to play 20 games. "The biggest surprise that Italian scout Andrea Innocenti came to China was that Chinese young players lacked the training to play at a high level.
At present, there is a lack of planning for youth events - there are few high-level events, and some are not very open, and they are completely played in small circles; The degree of standardization of the event is also not high, and there is a lack of strict division ...... age groups and competition groupsYifeng, a professor at the School of Physical Education of Jiangsu Normal University, said that the more depressed he became.
Systematic youth football training is a key link in the competitive football system, and the results of "intestinal obstruction" can be imagined! In 2023, the U17 national football team (formerly the Chinese national junior men's football team) will have 3 games, 1 draw and 2 losses in the group stage of the U17 Asian Cup, and will be eliminated from the bottom ......The "little ** generation", which was once pinned on by fans with infinite expectations, is so vulnerable in the international arena!
If the youth echelon cannot be built, the national team will become a source of water. If we don't pay attention to this issue, in another ten, twenty or even thirty years, there will still be no seedlings to choose from in Chinese football, and the national team will still lose repeatedly. Guo Weiwei's words sounded so sad.
In addition to the lack of football echelons, are there other reasons for the continued downturn of the national team?
In the next article, we will move on**.
(Author: Guangming ** Research Group Research Team Members: Reporter Chen Peng, Jin Xiaoyan, Fang Li, Zhang Zheng, Zhou Shixiang, Shang Wenchao, Jin Haotian).