Behind the bustling China football national team and club team, there is silent youth football. Many officials and coaches who are engaged in the training of young football talents predict that the days of losing football in China are yet to come! They said that it was not terrible for the China football team to lose, but only lost today; What is terrible is that, based on the painful situation that the foundation of youth football in China has been shrinking year after year, China football may lose tomorrow.
"Up to now, there is no youth football talent training program in China." Chen Hong, executive deputy general manager of chongqing lifan Football Club, said, "If we don't establish a new youth football talent training mechanism, China football will never have a way out!" It is certainly alarmist to say that China football is "dead" now, but it is not a pessimistic judgment that the future of China football will be more and more difficult.
In fact, the fundamental problem of football in China is that football is only "popular" at the level of the national team or the first team of the club. "Popular" means being noticed, huge investment, excitement and scenery. However, under the background that the second, third and even grass-roots football is getting worse and worse because of being ignored, the popularity of the first team is like a palace built on the beach, and no matter how much investment is made, it is hard to escape the bad luck of a low-level cycle.
Although the population base is large, the football population is scarce.
"Why can't eleven out of the 1.3 billion people choose to play football well?" Whenever the China football team is defeated, there are always fans who ask such questions. However, some officials and coaches who are engaged in youth football training say that this algorithm is wrong. We should ask, how many football players are there in China's population of 1.3 billion?
According to statistics from relevant parties, from 199 to 1995, the number of youth soccer players in China reached a record high of 65,. From 2 to 25, the number dropped to 18,, while there are only over 5, young football players registered with the China Football Association.
In contrast, the population of neighboring Japan is only one tenth of that of China, but there are more than 6, registered young amateur football players.
Around p>2, football schools sprang up like mushrooms after rain. Nowadays, the shortage of students has become the biggest problem faced by domestic football schools.
Ma Yuchang, who was the head coach of Chongqing Yuhai Football Club ten years ago, recalled: "At that time, it was planned to recruit 3 people for training in the summer vacation, and as a result, more than 5 people signed up in one day. However, by 25, the Chongqing Football Association recruited summer training classes and held three sessions, with more than 2 people in the first session and at least a dozen people in the first session. "
Going to the market completely, the training chain is broken
Four years ago, Shanghai COSCO Club and Putuo Football Association, which threatened to build a "century-old club", established a youth football training center. Four years later, COSCO Club has already changed hands, but what about this football training center? "Alas, these children are all' missing', and they are all wasted ..." The headmaster of Putuo District Football School, Li Li, mentioned this matter, full of regret.
under the original planned economy mode, the youth football training system is a linear training and selection system. Funded by the state, the establishment is determined, and the coaches choose it first, and it is carried out in a purely planned organizational form.
after it was introduced to the market, all these things were disrupted.
The property rights of many football clubs in China are unclear, and investors change frequently. They pay more attention to short-term advertising benefits and less attention to the long-term development of the clubs. The development of football industry is immature, the club's income and expenditure are unbalanced, and it is impossible to put funds into the construction of youth echelon. And some clubs would rather spend a lot of money to buy "sky-high" players than invest in echelon construction.
The quality of selection is limited, which leads to a vicious circle.
Many domestic football schools still use the mode of separating from ordinary schools and concentrating on training. Chen Hong believes that many football schools actually take in children whose parents can't control them, which is not a place to train talents at all.
"In the early days of football professionalization, some parents went to' fight' and spent money to let their children play football, hoping to cultivate a second Fan Zhiyi." Shen Lei said, "Now there are fewer and fewer such parents, especially in big cities. Few parents are willing to let their children play football."
"At present, the quality of football talents' selection is greatly reduced, and they can't study well, so they give up the road of college entrance examination and practice football. In this way, China football will fall into a vicious circle. " Yang Jianxin, deputy director of Shanghai Putuo District Sports Bureau, said.
Many officials and coaches in charge of youth football training said that "combining sports with education" is a good way from the current situation. Xiao Qinglin, director of Chongqing No.7 Middle School Sports and Art Department, stressed: "China youth football talents must not be people who can't read books before playing football!"
Cheating by hook or by crook, lacking honesty at the starting point
Xiao Qinglin has more than 3 years' experience in cultivating young football talents, and has heard and witnessed many "strange things": "The China Youth Team should be in the age of 1991, but it has an absolute main force, and now it is 212 years old." Shen Lei said: "Fake age has become a' cancer' in China's youth football match. It is very difficult to remove this' cancer'."
Li Li-rang said: "Nowadays, the youth football training and competition are very eager for quick success, because good results determine the coach's salary, title, bonus and position ..." Championship and the huge interests behind the championship lead to unscrupulous fraud, which makes the original innocence and simplicity of youth football infected with undue falsehood and filth.
Xuan Gang, director of the Youth Department of the Shanghai Football Association, said: "In fact, the China Football Association is deeply disgusted with the stubborn disease of counterfeiting age in youth football matches, but it can't think of any particularly effective management methods. Nowadays, the method of measuring bone age is widely used to' fake', but measuring bone age is a means of selecting materials, not a method of measuring age, and the error is great. "
The foundation of the pyramid is not firm, and the situation of women's football is the same.
China youth football is in an emergency! China youth women's football team is in jeopardy! These are some depressing figures obtained by reporters in the investigation: the number of female students in China football school has dropped from 15 at the most to 5; In Yangpu District, Shanghai, which has the reputation of "the hometown of football", Baiyangdian Football Stadium can only recruit a few young women football players every year. Qian Hui, the women's football coach of Putuo District Football School in Shanghai, said: "It is too difficult to mobilize a girl to play football now. In a vast country, there are only more than 2, women playing football, while there are millions in the United States. "
"Where is the next Sun Wen?" This is a question that is too heavy for people to answer, including Sun Wen himself. "In the 198 s, there were many domestic women's football players. Almost all provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions in the country had women's football teams, and there were echelons below." Sun Wen said. It was the good foundation of that era that China gained the "golden generation" of women's football.
After p>2, the women's football team in China, like the men's football team, has repeatedly disappointed Chinese people. The difference is that the men's football team makes the fans angry, while the women's football team leaves more sadness.
Lack of "spirit" is one of the reasons why China women's football team lost, but the most important reason is that the foundation of China women's football pyramid is not firm. The key for China women's football team to regain its glory lies in the careful sowing by the China Football Association. After all, it will take time for the "sonorous rose" to bloom again.