Beijing Times, April 6, well-known soccer commentator Han Qiaosheng uploaded a video on the social platform, analyzing the status quo of China's soccer talent gap, and put forward unique insights into the construction of the overall structure of the soccer system. Han Qiaosheng said:
The talent gap is a disaster in any field. For China's soccer, it is even more of a disaster area that bears the brunt. From the creation of the A-League to its renaming as the Chinese Super League in 2003, the changes made during this period directly led to a serious gap in talent from 1990 to 2000. The most typical example is the joint enrollment of Guoan and other soccer schools in 2000. Hundreds of students were expected to enroll, but only 300 or so participated, of which only a hundred were actually able to play soccer.
Truth be told, if Xu Genbao hadn't created a formal youth training base in 2000, the gap would have been even longer. The much-talked-about 85th and 05th National Youth Football Teams, such as Fan Zhiyi, Gao Hongbo, Wu Lei, Zhang Linpeng, Yan Junling, etc., all came from the cultivation of Xu Genbao. The recent rise of 00-year-old international footballer Zhu Chenjie, is also Xu Genbao's favorite students.
However, purely mechanical training cannot produce outstanding soccer players, still less can it make gifted players become a generation of legends. Therefore, soccer education and training are indispensable. We can learn professional skills and tactics from outside, but the establishment of the overall structure of the soccer system, from amateur to professional, must be done by us personally.
