The official website of the Chinese Football Association (CFA) has released heavy news that after a series of rigorous selection procedures, including registration, qualification review, competitive interviews, as well as in-depth discussion by the Expert Committee and thorough deliberation by the CFA Chairman's Office, the 47-year-old veteran international footballer Yang Chen has been formally appointed as the head coach of the U16 national Olympic team. It is reported that together with Yang Chen, his old teammate Wei Xin, an international footballer who played in the era of Milo, and Zhang Xiurui, a veteran of Qi Wusheng's era, as well as Nikovic, a coach from Seville, will also compete for the position.
Yang Chen, Wei Xin, Zhang Xiurui's bid to participate, highlighting the CFA's emphasis on the training of local coaches of the middle generation. 2020, the end of the year, the Football Association released the Chinese Football Association youth training program, vice chairman Gao Hongbo personally went to all parts of the preaching, which is "the age of the national team unified technical and tactical styles," is one of the focuses of the preaching.
In fact, "U series of national teams unified style" concept has been put forward as early as 15 years ago, when there were only four teams of national football, national Olympic Games, national youth, national youth, their respective head coaches from different countries, tactical styles are different, resulting in the national football team often face the embarrassment of the available without a good general. Now, the Football Association has put forward the policy of "setting up national teams for all age groups", and the number of U-series national teams has increased dramatically, so many local coaches have the opportunity to show their talents. Starting with the appointment of Li Tie, the head coach of the national football team, the middle-generation local coaches began to accumulate experience in the U series national teams, and Yang Chen's appointment as the head coach of the U16 national Olympic team undoubtedly provides strong evidence of this trend. With this year's Asian Youth and Asian Junior Championships canceled for some reason, the U16 National Olympic Team is setting its sights on the 2023 Asian Cup.
