According to the official news of the Chinese Football Association (CFA), after a series of selection processes, including registration, qualification examination, competitive interviews and expert committee discussions, as well as the deliberation of the Presidential Office of the CFA, former international footballer Yang Chen stood out at the age of 47 to become the head coach of the Chinese U16 national team. According to reporters, Yang Chen's rivals for the job include his former teammate Wei Xin, an international footballer during Milu's time, Zhang Xiaorui, an international footballer during Qi Wusheng's time, and Nikovic, a coach from Sevilla.
File photo: In June 2018, Yang Chen participated in the Chinese soccer "old man match". Visual China for photo
Yang Chen, Wei Xin, Zhang Xiurui together to participate in the U series of national coaching competition, which not only highlights the importance of the CFA on the training of local coaches of the middle generation, but also become the key to the Association to solve the problem of talent. 2020 end, the CFA released the Chinese Football Association youth training program, the Association's vice-chairman Gao Hongbo personally went to all parts of the preaching, which is "the various age groups of national One of the highlights of the presentation was the "unified technical and tactical style for all age groups of national teams".
In fact, the concept of "U series of national teams unified style" has been put forward as early as 15 years ago. At that time, there were only four teams, namely the national football team, the national Olympic team, the national youth team and the national youth team, and the head coaches of the four teams came from different countries, and their tactical styles were different, which led to the national football team often facing the difficulty of having no tactics available.
Now that the CFA has called for the establishment of "national teams of various age groups" to achieve a better linkage, the number of U-series national teams has increased dramatically, providing a stage for many aspiring local coaches to showcase their talents. Starting from the selection of Li Tie, the head coach of the national football team, the middle-generation local coaches began to work out in the U-series national teams. This time, Yang Chen became the head coach of China's U16 national team, and has undoubtedly become a focal point of observation - despite the cancellation of this year's Asian Youth and Asian Junior Championships for some reason, the U16 national team is still focusing on the future, and their goal is to take part in the 2023 Asian Cup for the same age group.
