Nov 30, More than 1,400 matches, more than 5,300 goals and 9,589 players are the data related to the first China Youth Football League. On the occasion of the end of the China Youth Football League, Soccer News interviewed the vice president of the CFA . Gao Hongbo, deputy director of China Youth League Office, talked about the first China Youth League.
--Professional club ladders in the top four teams in each division . School soccer teams. Sports school teams. Social youth training club teams, etc., all kinds of teams gathered in the top four, how to evaluate this phenomenon of different nature of the teams competing on the same stage?
School soccer can be played in the final stage of the CYC. Teams from social youth training clubs and sports schools come in, which is the best interpretation of the purpose of our tournament. The first China Youth Football League advocates full openness, breaking down barriers to physical education, full integration, integration of physical education, and a professional soccer system . Social youth training organizations . Sports school teams, including campus soccer teams, have the opportunity to participate in the middle-aged and youth competitions. They can gather in the top four, fully demonstrating the development of our grassroots youth soccer, which we may not have noticed before, but now we are focusing on it through the platform of the mid-youth competition. It could also be argued that this fully showcases the four most extensive disciplines in the competition program . The most comprehensive, the highest level and the most influential.
-- It is generally believed that 05.07.2009 and other ages became stronger. In addition, the national youth team and the national youth team had missed the final of the Asian Cup, but this year, 03 national youth team and 06 national youth team both reached the final. Does this indicate that China's youth soccer has begun to enter a stage of rapid development?
In the past 10 or 12 years, the performance of Chinese soccer youth training has not been satisfactory. This time, it is normal for the 2003 national youth team and the 2006 national youth team to be promoted. After all, our professional league has been going on for 30 years and our youth training system is changing. Although there were problems during this period, it was also developing in general. Therefore, the entry of national teams at all levels into the final rounds of Asian tournaments should not be our standard. What we strive for is their performance in the final rounds of Asian tournaments and whether they end up in the final rounds of world tournaments.
Personally, I think the revitalization of the national team certainly requires a professional system, but the revitalization of Chinese soccer requires a more youth training system. Only when the youth training system can be based on the international stage will the national team be more likely to enter the World Cup.
-- What are the next breakthroughs and initiatives in China's youth leagues?
In the U19 division, we warmly welcome college teams to the tournament. In this year's CYC, although we have nearly 60 professional clubs, U19, only 26 teams have registered, which is too few. From another point of view, my personal idea is that there should be two channels between professional and campus players should play up to a certain age. If the pro channel is very difficult, they still have the opportunity to learn. On the contrary, campus players feel that their career can still be developed, so they can continue to go through the professional channel. The head coach of the U women's soccer team like us, Wang Anzhi, joined the professional league after graduating from college. Therefore, I also hope that both avenues are completely open so that parents can be assured that their children can study and play soccer at the same time.
--There are a large number of registered teams in the U17 division this year, with the top 24 teams from Henan Experimental High School A. . Chongqing Liangjiang Middle School . Guangdong Experimental High School . Shenzhen Football Association Second Foreign Language . Fujian Men's Football Team . Guangxi Foreign Language Institute Affiliated Experimental School . Shandong Binzhou Experimental High School . Qingdao Chengyang No.1 Middle School, Renmin University of China Affiliated High School Top 16 Middle Schools. Shijiazhuang No.2 Experimental School. Tsinghua University Affiliated High School is the experimental school attached to the North Physical Education University of Qinhuangdao Harbor District. Is this a benchmark for the U19 university teams?
On the U17 side, many campus soccer teams made it into the top 24, and Tsinghua High School made it into the top 4, demonstrating the strength of campus soccer, which will attract more campus soccer to participate in youth and middle school competitions. However, in terms of the number of teams, 200 teams is not much. I still hope that more teams will participate, and the same goes for the U19-year-old high school teams. A bigger base, a wider selection of good players, and more really good players.
--International exchanges are also a trend in the development of youth soccer in China, what are CFA's plans at this level?
In this regard, we are taking two steps. The first step is domestic high-quality tournaments, such as the Panda Cup . Weifang Cup . The CFA actively advocates and participates in many international youth invitational tournaments, such as the Origin Cup and the Zhonghe Guoan Cup, and organizes some national teams or excellent training camp teams to participate in the tournaments.
Secondly, President Chen Xuyuan also put forward the hope that next year to form some young teams, send them abroad, exercise and exchange activities, more international exchanges and more international activities, so as to maximize the promotion of the development of China's youth soccer.
