In the late afternoon of July 29th, the capital's green field was the setting for an important meeting for Beijing Guoan. In the press conference room at the Fengtai Sports Center, the club unveiled its youth training efforts in a high-profile event and announced a major decision - a contract extension agreement with the foreign youth team that extends through 2024.
Here's what the official announcement said:
On July 29, Beijing Guoan's youth training work session opened in grand style. The meeting began with club officials announcing a long-term commitment to the youth training foreign team. Director of Youth Training Ladru, Director of Operations Fan Lide, Head of Phase II Raphael, and Head of Sports Performance Luke will all have their contracts renewed until 2024.
At the youth training work conference, general manager Li Ming reviewed the fruitful results achieved by Beijing Guoan youth training since 2018 with the foreign team. During the four years, Guoan Youth Training has completed the construction of the organizational structure and system, established a perfect youth training ladder system, and now has formed a unified technical and tactical philosophy, workflow and planning. Based on these unified concepts, the youth training team has compiled as many as seven youth training syllabi, including the Guoan Youth Training Guidebook, Organizational Procedure Manual, Technical Training Manual, and so on.
Looking ahead, Guoan Youth Training will be committed to optimizing its structure and processes, supporting the development of amateur clubs and campus soccer in Beijing soccer, expanding the age group and influence of the Zhonghe Guoan Cup tournaments, and actively participating in the integration of sports and education to provide players with high-quality education and soccer training, and to cultivate more comprehensive and better talents.
Immediately after that, the coaching teams of Guoan U21 and U13 teams showed the training methods and contents for different age groups, and also showed the inheritance and consistency of Guoan's youth training philosophy in different teams.
In the concluding stage of the youth training workshop, General Manager Li Ming issued an initiative to the city that Beijing Guoan Football Club would like to work with the Beijing Football Association as well as youth training clubs and schools concerned about soccer in the city to create a unified youth training concept, and to share the results of the four years of work of Guoan's youth training - the content of the youth training syllabus - with its partners. -sharing the results of the four years of work of Guoan Youth Training -the content of the Youth Training Syllabus- to the partners, and welcome more youth training organizations to join the partners of Guoan. As the only top league professional soccer club in Beijing, it is Guoan's responsibility and mission to promote the development of soccer in Beijing and cultivate soccer talents.
