Recently, former international goalkeeper Au Chuliang posted an article about the current situation of China's youth training.
Au Chuliang said: the daily life of soccer people, permanent inseparable from the Chinese
national soccer team
The ball, the National Day break, by chance and two youth training coaches talked about, just talk about the national junior team Shanghai Invitational, said the national junior team is too bad, actually even the local team can not win, is certainly the problem of the coaching staff, and then also sent over a media outbursts. I read the past not think, in fact, the national junior team of these two coaches experience I am very clear, talent is not a problem, just my focus is why these two coaches will be so mindful of it?
This brings us to the question of the current domestic environment, what is the ultimate intent of youth training?
The first is to cultivate children's interest and passion, so that they can have a lifelong love of the sport; the second is to build up the correct values and outlook on life for the children; and the third is to lay a good foundation for the children to become working players in the future. In my opinion, this is the intention of youth training.
However, what I see now in evaluating youth training evaluating a child playing soccer is more about what the child has won and what the competition is, what the best player of the invitational tournament has been selected, and when evaluating the coach, it is not so much about how many players the coach has sent to the task force, but rather a discussion of what the coach has won in the regional competition and so on.
If someone asks: is it bad for children to achieve these results and honors? My answer is: yes, it is good for children's self-confidence to have these achievements, honors, aura, etc., but is it important? What do we really need? What we need is a kid who can show up at the age of sixteen and beyond and compete against other adult players and beat them;
It needs the spirit of this kid to keep challenging and pushing himself for his ultimate goal, not just to earn money; we need to develop a person who can play soccer, not a person who can play soccer.
Unfortunately at present I have contacted the bottom of the coaches without exception by the results of the pressure, even in the elementary school stage has begun, in this kind of environment how the coaches may still have the energy to give to the children more other aspects of education, he can only day and night thinking about how to painstakingly go to victory, so as to keep their jobs. Of course, there are very few iron rice bowl simply lie flat, what do you care what education is not education, I am comfortable on the line.
In this environment the children's enthusiasm for soccer is worn out, parents are also not involution, recently the country has been promoting the reduction of the burden, perhaps, soccer youth training should also reduce the burden, all-out to win is the essence of sports, but the results of youth competitions are only used to test the effectiveness of our practice in a way, and the results will change with age, the real need to mind the results of as long as the task force of coaches and The only ones who really need to care about the results are the coaches of the team and the athletes, that's all.
