Red Rebels

8. A nationwide system for youth training

"We used to think that the domestic football hardware was already very good, but after visiting the Red Rebel Stadium, we suddenly discovered that the gap between us and the top teams in Europe is really not even a little bit."

After touring the Red Rebel Stadium, Wang Lin sighed with regret in the conference room.

Even the hardware that the country is most proud of is lagging so far behind, let alone the gap in software.

Maybe it was a psychological feeling, but for some reason, from the moment they stepped into the Red Rebel Stadium, their hearts were full of excitement and could not calm down for a long time, as if they were infected by the atmosphere here.

"Hardware is useless. La Masia's hardware is very bad, but they have trained many outstanding players. Similarly, there are several other training camps whose hardware is not good. What really determines talents is software. , it also depends on the atmosphere and environment. Only in the soil with heroic nutrients can heroes be cultivated."

Although Xiao Yu said it with a smile, Wang Lin and others listened with serious faces. They all knew what the meaning behind Xiao Yu's words was, and they all knew that this was the so-called youth training of the Red Rebels. one of the foundations.

"To be honest with Mr. Xiao Yu, this time we come to Manchester. In addition to inspecting the world-class stadium and training base facilities of the Red Rebels, we also hope to have a detailed discussion with Mr. Xiao Yu on domestic football matters. ." Wang Lin took the initiative and said.

Xiao Yu smiled, shook his head and said: "I have always been committed to the Red Rebels. After this season, I will also retire from the Red Rebels. I hope to live a more comfortable life. As for domestic football, It’s enough to have you all, isn’t it?”

Wang Lin immediately waved his hand, "Mr. Xiao Yu, please don't say that. We all know that you founded the Red Rebels. You have a unique understanding of football. I believe you have also seen the current decline of domestic football. , we are all fans, and we all hope to contribute to football, but we are struggling to find a way."

Wang Lin had heard about Xiao Yu's reluctance to invest in domestic football, but he also knew that the success or failure of this plan depended on whether Xiao Yu was willing to take the lead. If he stood up, and some of them With the domestic relationship network and the central government’s current ideas on reforming football, the plan will definitely be implemented.

"Player training, coach training, youth training system, our Red Rebels can provide full support in these aspects. If you have any needs, you can contact the club. I can guarantee this, we will give us the help we can." Xiao Yu said seriously road.

He is not a reckless person either.

Although he also wants to do something for domestic football, at least he must see that there is hope. If he continues to mess around like before, then he would rather ignore it and continue to let it fend for itself.

Wang Lin was stunned. He had to admire Xiao Yu's generosity and solved many of his problems at once.

In his original plan, some players should be selected and sent abroad for training every year. The first choice is naturally those clubs with excellent youth training, especially the Red Rebels, which are out of reach; coaches are also a drawback of domestic football. , he also hopes to have a coaching training mechanism; as for the youth training system, it is the future of football development.

Xiao Yu solved the biggest difficulty of Wang Lin and others with just one sentence, which undoubtedly showed his determination to support the reform. However, when Wang Lin was about to thank Xiao Yu, he raised his head and saw Xiao Yu staring at him. The look in his eyes suddenly made his heart skip a beat.

To be able to do his job in business, it is inevitable to observe people's emotions, and from Xiao Yu's eyes, he realized more and deeper content.

"Mr. Xiao Yu, let me tell you something heartbreaking. Do you really think this can save domestic football?" Wang Lin asked.

Xiao Yu had a good impression of Wang Lin. He was also considered a football tycoon. He led the Dalian team to achieve impressive results and became the dominant player in the domestic league. However, he later saw various problems and contradictions and became disheartened. Leaving football.

This time he is determined to make a comeback. No one can say whether there are any other benefits, but one thing is for sure, he should bring something positive to domestic football.

"No" Xiao Yu smiled and shook his head without even thinking.

Everyone present was stunned and shocked. This was a plan they had thought about for a long time, but Xiao Yu immediately refuted it.

"Why not?" A young man asked loudly, looking a little unconvinced.

Xiao Yu didn't care either. He was already past the age where he would get angry when someone said something bad to him. Now he is more restrained.

"The so-called player training, I guess, is nothing more than conducting domestic auditions, selecting some promising stars every year, and sending them to foreign football clubs for training. But I ask the other way around, why did the trip to Brazil fail?"

Everyone was immediately speechless.

"Perhaps, you will say that just because Brazil failed back then does not mean it will fail now. The Brazilian youth training was disorderly and had no system at all, so it failed. But now, you have to send players to England, Spain, etc. If the country accepts training, it will be systematic and more likely to succeed."

After everyone heard this, they all remained silent, apparently Xiao Yu had guessed what was on his mind.

"But have you ever thought about how players can adapt when they leave their hometown and country at a young age and go to a strange country? Well, even if they adapt, can they withstand the cruel competition of foreign football?"

"The performance of our youth team is not bad at first, but why is it that when the players reach adulthood, their performance is a mess? Why don't the players perform well when they study abroad? You may not want to admit it, but I know very well that in a word, skills are not as good as others."

"Today's football is about football intelligence, not physical confrontation, let alone speed and physical fitness. Yes, these are important, but they are not the most important. However, the way we train players has always been to practice, and practice blindly. , training in the same way, this is a training method that destroys golf intelligence."

"Due to different training methods, in the U5-U9 age group, foreign youth training systems do not pay attention to physical fitness and physical confrontation, while domestic ones attach great importance to these two points. Therefore, in the game, as long as you are good at using physical fitness and physical confrontation , the results will not be too bad, after all, physical confrontation and reducing the gap in technology and golf intelligence."

"But once they reach the age of 9, players generally begin to receive professional physical training. When the physical gap between domestic players is not big, the huge technical gap is undoubtedly exposed. At this time, if you want to achieve results again, there is no doubt that It’s just nonsense, so we always say that once players are pressed, they tend to make mistakes and lose the ball because their skills are not up to par.”

Is Messi prone to conceding the ball? Is it easy for Kaka to lose the ball? Is Aguero prone to conceding the ball?

No one can refute Xiao Yu's words with evidence, because they know that it is true that skills are not as good as others.

"Everyone who makes mistakes must first find out where they went wrong before they can correct them. Otherwise, they will never get it right no matter how they correct it, and they will always make mistakes."

After Wang Lin heard what Xiao Yu said, he couldn't help but nodded sincerely, "Mr. Xiao Yu is right, so what do you think should be done if going out to train players is not enough?"

"Cultivation of a football atmosphere and the interest of young people in football, rather than blind practice. Only when they are interested in football, even if you don't care about them, they will work hard to train and strengthen their own skills. Strength, as long as we guide it in the right direction, we will get twice the result with half the effort.”

"Interested?" Another person raised doubts about Xiao Yu's words, "Mr. Xiao Yu, the biggest problem now is that no parents are willing to send their children to play football? We have fewer and fewer young players now, and we can't choose them at all. Produce good players”

Xiao Yu glanced at the man. He was probably the owner of a club, so he felt so helpless. He smiled and said, "I once asked someone to make a statistics. The number of registered people in the country from U to U9 is 500. People, this is the number of youth training in professional clubs, let’s not say whether it is more or less for now.”

Having said this, Xiao Yu smiled and said, "Think about it again, Germany has 4,500 people here, and England has more, but this is also because England has four levels of professional leagues, so Germany’s figures are more worth learning from.”

"There are about 60,000-80,000 football youths who are not within the registration scope. Japan has done a good job in youth training recently. The number in this regard is about 40,000. If it is compared with Germany, England, Spain and other outstanding youth training Compared with other countries, the gap is even greater, so we can draw a conclusion that the real gap still lies here.”

"But I can tell you another number, that is, take Germany as an example. The 4,500 youth training players in Germany play under the guidance of about 500 youth training coaches with professional coaching certificates. Each of them has Those who have received professional football training know very well how to train players at what age and how to teach them, and how much is this in China?"

Everyone was speechless because many of them were running football and they all knew that although there were 500 people registered in the youth training of professional clubs, there were actually many who were just cheating, and there were even many teams that continued to have youth training. There is no training, let alone a professional youth training coach.

"England's youth training reform has only taken place in a few years, but its implementation is very resolute. Every professional club must have sufficient youth training software and hardware facilities, including a youth training team for each age group. A professional youth training coach must be arranged at the training venue.”

"If you add up all the employees in the entire youth training system of the Red Rebels, it will be close to 00 people. A large part of them are arranged to serve as football teachers in nearby cooperative schools, and each of them has a professional coaching qualification. Certificates, and there are also some drivers, we are responsible for transporting players to training and school for free.”

"Perhaps, after hearing this, you will make an abacus and think it is not cost-effective, how much it will cost, but you only need to think about it, we spend about 0 million euros each season, but in the past few years, we have launched the Meiji West, Aguero, Rodwell, Thornton, Wilshere and other youth training players.”

"We have made statistics. After the youth training system is stable, we can recover about 5 million euros every season just from the youth training players sold. In addition, the youth training players have established themselves in the first team. We are in Very little is spent on youth training, and you can see the current situation."

"In addition, our youth training has always upheld the attitude of being responsible for the players. We attach great importance to chemical courses. Once a player's chemical performance declines, we will immediately suspend his competition and training qualifications until his chemical performance improves. Then we continued to train with the team, and we also hired tutors to help the players learn."

"Once they are interested, under the cultivation of professional youth training coaches, they will have the foundation to become talents. Even if they eventually cannot withstand the competition of the professional league and are eliminated, their academic performance ensures that they can continue After entering high school and leaving football, they can continue to go to school like everyone else without worrying about the future. Parents can be completely assured of this, so there will be a steady stream of parents sending their children into this program out of the desire to train their children's abilities. Come to the youth training system.”

The potential of teenagers is unlimited and their energy is strong. As long as their interest is discovered, they will do everything possible to study hard in order to play football, and then use their spare time to practice football. In this way, they not only ensure their studies, but also It also ensures your skills in football, and you can still exercise your body no matter how bad you are.

Since the cooperative schools of the Red Rebels are all nearby primary schools, there are many things worth learning from. The key is how to introduce the youth training system of the Red Rebels into the country and carry out all-round cooperation with the education system.

After hearing Xiao Yu's words, everyone present was in a state of enlightenment. They all originally knew that there were a large number of young football players abroad, but they didn't know why there were so many. Now after hearing Xiao Yu's words, they were immediately stunned. Understand, it turns out that everything is matched together.

"In addition to youth training, the club also has competitions between various age groups of the club. I think this is also very important, because only proper competition can put some pressure on the players and urge them to improve, and England's divisional youth training The league model can be used as a reference domestically.”

Xiao Yu then focused on introducing England's youth training model, especially the north-south division model. Since the country's land area is larger, Xiao Yu even suggested that the regions should be divided into provinces, and then create a set of nearby The principled youth training league system ensures that players adapt to the atmosphere and competition of the game from an early age.

Younger players play in small venues, the most common being 4-on-4. The venues are generally 5 meters wide and 0 meters long. Such venues are completely acceptable in parks and schools. If not, indoor football should be promoted. After all, Small venues are more suitable for the promotion of football, are more in line with the current national conditions, and can also hone skills.

Players in primary grades are mainly interested in cultivating their interests, so they almost all use various football games as training projects, plus some basic football skills training. It is not until they are 4 years old that they begin to properly add more football skills. There is a lot of systematic professional training, and generally by this time, talented players have begun to emerge.

At this age, players begin to enter the training centers of various districts and the youth training schools of clubs, receive unified professional training, and begin to be exposed to the threshold of professional football. At this time, games have begun to be played in large venues, which requires players’ abilities There has also been further refinement to select the most outstanding high-potential players.

The UK is also a country that is famous for its good reputation, and England’s youth training reform is also driven by clubs as the leading force, and England’s youth training system is also a national system to a certain extent, but They are a national system of youth training system.

Coupled with the strict requirements of the Football Association and the Premier League for professional clubs, England's youth training has been very resolute in its implementation over the years and has achieved very good results, including outstanding players such as Theo Walcott, Wilshere, and Rodwell. All talented players have grown up under this system.

To a certain extent, China can learn from England’s system and promote it domestically.

After Wang Lin and others listened to Xiao Yu's analysis, their blood boiled. They all witnessed England's rise in just a few years after the introduction of youth training. Although the rise of football depends on persistence, It relies on foresight, but actually it doesn't take long to see results.

The football reforms in England, Germany, Japan and other countries have not lasted long, but they have all achieved results. This has given Wang Lin and others a huge impetus for reform, and Xiao Yu’s youth training system has undoubtedly played a role to some extent. It showed them the way.

Of course, there are still many questions here, such as how to integrate football with schools?

The combination of the football department and the education department has a lot of slogans, but in fact it has never solved the problem. To put it bluntly, it is because of one thing, interests. The Football Association and the Ministry of Education are both administrative departments. Who can do things without interests? ?

At this point, English clubs provide professional youth training coaches, and also provide some fund sponsorship and compensation to schools. The government also provides funding support to these schools. However, in China, appropriate financial subsidies are not easy to say, but it can be obtained Does the education department support it? If the education department doesn’t say anything, will the school cooperate?

And this is just youth training, but the problems in domestic football are not just youth training, but also problems such as match-fixing in the league and corruption of management agencies. These are all critical, and they are not easy to solve.

Whenever Xiao Yu thinks of all this, he immediately sighs with helplessness. It's not that he has no heart, it's just that he has nowhere to use his power. After all, he is only one person.

But soon, Wang Lin's next words rekindled Xiao Yu's hope.

"This time the National People's Congress and the central government intend to reform football. They are preparing to de-administrate the Football Association, implement the separation of management and office, and let it take charge of national brands. Then they will learn from the Premier League model to form a league alliance to take charge of professional league matters."