In the newly released U17 national junior training list, there are 29 players, including six from Jiangsu, four from Shandong and three from Henan.
In the major soccer talent exporting towns, Shanghai, Beijing, Dalian, Qingdao and Guangzhou contributed one player each; while Shenyang, Tianjin, Wuhan and Chongqing failed to have a player selected.
It's worth noting that one of the three 2007-born crossovers is of mixed Central African descent, and the other is the long-established Ouyang Jiaxin.
Our selection mechanism is in dire need of improvement, and many former internationals and soccer insiders have said that they can't find the right assignments, so why not head to the FA and take up a scouting position? Conduct nationwide auditions, especially at the grassroots level in traditional soccer cities, to weed out and select the best talent! Why not do the same and focus only on footy school and club prospects?
In fact, the scope of the audition should be expanded to include auditions throughout the country to identify more high-caliber talent, just like the requirements for companies recruiting graduates from 985 or 211 colleges and universities. This method of recruitment, although it may miss some talents, is the most cost-effective and less prone to mistakes.
For the U17 age group, the technical selection is basically set in stone, and if you look in the folk grassroots, it's hard to find the right players, and even if certain aspects stand out, such as speed, strength, and skill, the fundamentals are already set in stone, and it's hard to keep up with the level of work. If it was U11 it would still be possible, but U17 is already the threshold for the job.
Some family conditions are better in the prosperous areas, soccer thriving cities, to high school, parents will choose to let their children to study in college or go abroad, the soccer industry is so depressed, first-tier city parents and how will be willing to let their children risk it? Therefore, only the children who do not have a better way out at home will choose to gamble on the job of kicking a soccer ball, and even if they kick a job, the development prospects are not optimistic, only a very few lucky people can succeed.
Many people still don't realize that the so-called strong means that the city is strong in youth training, not that the people in the city are strong. Which of the clubs such as Barcelona, Real Madrid and Ajax do not tap young talents from all over the world for training? According to some people's thinking, do these clubs with good youth training only train local talents? Don't be so limited, okay?
Regarding the selection of the National Junior Team, I am not sure if there is a fee charged and dare not comment on it.
However, the interests of the local sports associations and the local football associations are factors that need to be taken into account in the selection process.
That's not even counting the personal interests, and when you add in the interference with personal interests, there are even more problems.
Here, I call on everyone: Chinese soccer to rise, we must abandon the keyboard warrior, pseudo-fans, all to the FA leadership, strengthen the youth training, I hope that our country can once again appear a Xu Genbao type of figure, to develop a similar to Li Tie such as the local coaches, as well as Wu Xi, such as sacrificing their lives to save the ball, Yu Dabao protective receiver and Zhang Xizhe protective back to the players. It is their sense of righteousness, unity and big-picture thinking in the face of foreign teams that has enabled the Chinese men's soccer team to achieve such excellent results in the World Qualification Tournament. Although this World Qualifier suffered a setback, the Chinese men's soccer team is still honored despite the defeat, and their spirit will be remembered for generations to come, they are the revolutionaries and pioneers of Chinese soccer.
Rumor has it that Chinese soccer has been transforming for decades and we have made significant progress, causing nations to come to China, foreign states to compete and exchange techniques with China. I hope that Chinese soccer can maintain the current momentum and reach another peak.
