Recently, the Chinese Football Association (CFA) held a meeting on the preparation of the national brand, proposing to arrange military training for the national brand team during the winter training period, which lasted for nearly a week. The news caused an uproar, with some fans and media personalities criticizing the act.
Military training, we're all familiar with it, all high schools, go to college, and at the beginning of the school year they will schedule about half a month of military training, some of which will be done at school and some of which will be pulled to the barracks to eat and live with the soldiers.
So, do national soccer teams need military training? Different people have different opinions. For some professionals and fans, they think that the national soccer team has carried out so many military training, not only did not achieve any effect, but also wear out the players' sense of the ball and spirit, and the players do not even want to go to the national team. In their opinion, this is a unique "amateur behavior" in China and a wonderful behavior that does not respect the law of professional soccer development.
For most of the passersby, they support military training for the simple reason that the national soccer team always lacks the spirit, the conviction to win, and the fighting spirit. They believe that military training can improve this situation very well. Military training is like a group building, it can also sublimate the team building, players are more familiar with each other and have more team honor.
Also, does military training work, but military training is a regular part of our sports teams, not just Chinese soccer.
China Table Tennis Team Military Training
The "strongest team on the planet", the Chinese table tennis team, for example, undergoes military training almost every year, but people are still world champions. Not to mention, things like Chen Qi, a member of the national team, being sentenced to raise pigs on a farm, which at least hasn't happened in Chinese soccer, is just a joke in the table tennis world, and even the CCTV followed up on it, so you can see that it's no big deal.
Since the beginning of this year, the national track and field, shooting, archery, gymnastics and rowing programs have been conducting military training one after another to build up their will, strengthen their unity and enhance their fitness for winter training. Including the Chinese men's basketball team and even the Chinese women's soccer team have also conducted military training on several occasions.
Chinese men's basketball team military training
Can not say that other programs of military training valiant, style. Chinese men's soccer team went, is to say that not doing their job, messing around, a little pretentious.
If it is illegal for the national football training team to move players for military training during the league at the end of 2018, then this time it is to use the off-season for winter training and preparation, and only practiced for a week, the Chinese soccer circle is still so reactive. A bit of opposition to opposition?
In addition to military training, another thing raised at the meeting is the "physical reserves" have to say that the Chinese soccer world abhor. "yoyo physical test". When engaged in the "three from a large", always emphasize physical health, and even can not pass the physical examination is not registered, really too extreme.
However, after the physical fitness test was canceled, the Chinese men's soccer team received more professional guidance on the physical condition of the players to further improve the physical condition of the players, spend so much money to invite physical fitness coaches to work in the face of high-intensity matches, can you come up with high-intensity running?
How can our players take their time when players in other countries start with 10,000 meters in a game? How about the fact that the rhythm of the game is still "one stop, two looks"? Without strong body support, the technical movements will be distorted, this common sense should be there, right?
In this year's Chinese Super League, there are two main theme teams, one is Xie Hui coached Dalian people, the other is Xu Zhengyuan coached Chengdu Chengdu. One is high pressure, filling the China A configuration relegated six rounds early, the other is Korean mental toughness, last season or China fourth is now fourth in the Chinese Super League, these are based on the usual high quality training, high intensity running, such as Zhou Dingyang is the top five in the running list this season.
Therefore, respecting the laws of soccer is not a paper exercise. As members of the industry, we should work hard and formulate plans, instead of saying one, two, three, but without the subsequent four, five and six. After shouting about youth training for so many years, how many people have gone and done it? Has the standard of youth training improved and has the soccer population increased? It seems not.
Military training may not be good, but it's not too bad either, and there's no point in "demonizing" it by saying you have to do it, or not. Instead of worrying about whether this week's military training violated the rules or affected the level of play, we should explore ways to invite more people back to the field and make it more accessible.
After all, it's not because of these one or two military training sessions that Chinese youth don't play soccer and Chinese parents don't support their children playing soccer.
