While the Chinese league is suspended and all national-level teams are competing, there is another event that is also in full swing, and that is the National Youth Football League, which has started trial operation this season.
With the strong support of local governments, not only the Chinese Football Association has provided funds and personnel for the six regions of East China, North China, South China, Central China, Northeast China, and West China, but the provinces where these regions are located have also allocated corresponding resources.
The first stage of the National Youth League is the weekend league.
Under the planning of the Chinese Football Association, each district is divided into many communities, and the high-speed trains and high-speed rail lines that the country is now vigorously developing have become the best transportation carriers, allowing young players to reach the competition venue within one to two hours.
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It’s not just the football associations at all levels who pay attention to the weekend leagues. Nowadays, people with insight in domestic football will basically turn their attention to it, including media people such as Dong Lu and Huang Jianxiang who have been paying attention to domestic youth football. They not only watch, but also touch
They often donate generously to teams that have certain performances but poor training and competition conditions.
For example, Huang Jianxiang saw a team whose young players played very well, but heard that they usually ate ordinary food. He also specially transferred 5,000 yuan to the team so that the team could buy more beef for the young players.
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As for Dong Lu, he directly sponsored a team and spent a lot of money.
In addition to individuals like Dong Lu and Huang Jianxiang, many domestic clubs also send people to track them. Their goal is very clear - to discover young players with potential through long-term tracking.
Among them, Longteng Club has done the most in-depth.
Now Longteng Football, a subsidiary of Longteng Club, has spread very widely. Except for the base camp of Hubei Province, it has spread to every region and even some counties with a relatively good foundation. Several provinces around Hubei Province already had it two or three years ago.
There are many branch schools, plus several provinces that have signed youth football training bases with Longteng Club under the sponsorship of Longteng Group, which allows Longteng Club to legitimately participate in the youth league as a participant.
This process is not about how many championships the Longteng team can win, but more about allowing multiple teams that cooperate with the Longteng Football School to play more games while strengthening ties with other teams.
For example, when the Longteng Football School team in Jianggan Province participated in the competition this time, they noticed a small football school in Ji'an City, Jianggan Province. Although their scale was not large, the two coaches who led the team were directors.
of composure.
Judging from the equipment of this football school, it is a bit shabby. The sneakers of the young players are obviously old. When other teams drink water during games, they usually throw away their water bottles after taking a few sips, but they drink a lot.
Mouth, and then put it in place. Other teams use various functional drinks to rehydrate, while theirs is the most common mineral water.
After the game, the staff of Longteng Football School investigated the team and found that they came from a county in an old revolutionary area. The economy there was indeed underdeveloped, but there were many young people who liked football.
The two head coaches previously worked for clubs in coastal areas. When they returned to their hometown by chance, they saw their first football coach, a 60-year-old man, struggling to lead these young fellow villagers to practice football.
This team that no one cares about has no money, no professional facilities and personnel, and not enough connections to help. The old man is completely relying on his enthusiasm to raise these children, and can only use his meager pension.
money to subsidize.
Seeing this situation, the two coaches were moved. They work in clubs in coastal areas. Thanks to the popularity of football in recent years, their salaries are indeed good, but this pure love for football has not existed for a long time.
Didn't feel it anymore.
The two of them decisively quit their jobs on the coast and returned to their hometowns resolutely, returning to the starting point of their love for football.
Relying on the connections they had accumulated over the past few years while working outside, they bought back a lot of second-hand training equipment, brought back a lot of information, and used the accumulated funds to get a stable training venue for the young players.
But there will always be a time when the connections are exhausted, and there is a time when the money is used up. The reason why this team still exists now is simply because they are still gritting their teeth and persisting.
After learning about these situations, the staff reported the situation all the way to the headquarters of Longteng Football School.
At this time, Zhang Sheng had just used the 200 points gained during this period of competition to summon two coaches. Judging from the information displayed in the summoning information, it was these two coaches.
Following Zhang Sheng's instructions, Longteng Football School contacted them as quickly as possible and brought over a large number of brand-new jerseys and shoes, as well as the country's leading high-tech training equipment.
After discussing with these two coaches, this small football school also put up the brand of Longteng Football School.
When the contract was signed, two men in their late 40s shed tears of excitement.
In addition to the improvement of hardware conditions, Longteng Football School sent something more valuable - a training manual.
As early as when they first entered the club, Longteng Football Club began to compile its own youth training guide manual. Heike Fogel, the youth training director of Longteng Football School, invested a lot of energy in starting this work that will benefit the present and the future.
work.
According to the original plan discussed by Heike Fogel and Zhang Sheng, the youth training manual of Longteng Football School was improved as it was written. After two years of painstaking design and practice, the official version has been trialled in Longteng Football School for more than a year.
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It can be said that Heike Fogel has not only traveled all over China in the past two years - all places with Longteng football schools, but also visited Europe and South America many times for inspection and research. According to the conditions of different regions, he has completed the work according to local conditions.
did this work.
From the club's finances, we can see the huge investment of Longteng Club - this work cost nearly three million yuan.
After the textbooks were compiled, the National School Football Office and the Chinese Football Association, the top organizations of China's youth football, made a special trip to communicate with the Longteng Club. The youth training materials they are compiling for Chinese football youths draw heavily on the resources of the Longteng Football School.
, and invited Heike Fogel to Longteng Football School to participate in this national-level project as an expert.
The textbooks that were originally supposed to be completed in 2017 have also been released ahead of schedule.
Now, at least within the scope of campus football, this textbook has been widely used. At the same time, this textbook is also used by many provincial and municipal football echelons and even some football clubs.
In fact, it is not just the Longteng Club that supports or even annexes these football schools. Many Chinese clubs have also begun to extend their reach beyond the cities where the teams are located, and this time the National Youth Football League has become a good carrier.
For example, Suning, which is preparing to focus on football, has successively established branches in Yancheng, Nantong and other places.
Of course, compared to the slow-resulting method of developing football schools, more clubs choose to poach people directly.
The one that was most poached was the Longteng Club, which had the most football schools. This was the same experience as the Luneng Football School in history.
Shandong Luneng Club has always been the best club in China in terms of youth training. The club was established early, and its Luneng Football School is also one of the earliest football schools in China established by a club. It later became an independent football school.
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Therefore, when the national youth training collapsed a few years ago, Luneng Football School, which had been investing continuously, cultivated a large number of capable players, including Wei Shihao, Tang Shi and other young players who later became brilliant.
There are more than 40 players who play the main role in the Chinese League One.
Players who can play in the Chinese Football League and the Chinese League One can be seen how valuable they are in the current Chinese football world where there is generally a lack of good players. Naturally, they have become big players to be poached.
The only difference between now and history is that in addition to Shandong Luneng Football School, many people are also focusing on the young players of Longteng Football School who are participating in the National Youth League.
After these years of development, Longteng Football School is getting more and more on the right track, and has long since got rid of the embarrassing situation of relying entirely on Zhang Sheng to recruit players and lead a group of mediocre players to play football.
There is a large and outstanding youth training team, high-investment training conditions, and very advanced youth training teaching concepts, coupled with good management levels. As the scale of Longteng Football School increases, although the Longteng Football School now calls
The proportion of players is getting smaller and smaller, but young players generally have a stronger foundation and higher technical and tactical awareness.
In this National Youth League, Longteng Football School and Shandong Luneng Football School played the best. Luneng’s strength lies in the outstanding performance of some players, while the most important thing about the Longteng team is that it is reflected in the overall team, and the players generally have a good foundation.
His skills are good, especially in terms of running positions. Unlike other domestic players who like to stand and play football, players are always running on the court as long as they are in the game.
Since the start of the league, whenever the Longteng team has a game, there have been a lot of people coming to watch. It can be said that basically every wealthy team in China and the Chinese League One will send scouts to follow them.
Among them, several players summoned by Zhang Sheng at the end of last season and this season have received great attention. It can be said that they are the ones that stand out among the Longteng team, which has the highest overall level.
For these players, some Chinese clubs have given millions in cash to their players' families.
When it comes to poaching people, we can only say that China Fortune Land Development is the most aggressive.
As a rising star in China, they established a nine-level echelon in one go. However, the youth training of their predecessor, Hebei Zhongji Base, was in a mess, so much so that the team was filled with a large number of players who had been eliminated from Hubei Province, because they were simply not good enough.
No good players were produced.
To build a nine-level echelon under such circumstances, they don't have much else to do except poach people.
China Fortune Land Development's aggressive recruitment of talent in youth training gave rise to the nickname "Excavator of Youth Training".
Historically, they first set their sights on Liaoning, which has always been the most talented player in Chinese football, and poached the two coaches of Liaoning Hongyun U15 and the 12 young players under them at once.
In the end, Liaoning Hongyun filed a lawsuit with the Chinese Football Association, and China Fortune Land Development was forced to release him.
When one move failed, they tried another plan. Hubei Province, which had done well in youth training in recent years, was targeted.
Recruiting Yang Ji, Zheng Bin and other Jiangcheng youth training coaches is the first step, and then relying on the relationships of these coaches to recruit the entire Jiangcheng youth training echelon, from U12 to U18, no one is spared.
After poaching Jiangcheng, they began to cast a net across the country. They would go wherever there were outstanding players, including Gong Qiule and Chen Ao from Sichuan, Li Yiying from Guangdong, and even core players such as Tao Qianglong from Beijing Zhonghe Guoan.
Youth training players have also been poached by them. Those who dare to take action against Beijing Guoan really have the "confidence".
Thinking again of the "Thousand Talents Plan" of China Fortune Land Development Group, the group behind China Fortune Land Development - the Thousand Talents Poaching Plan - poaching government-level cadres, it can be said that the gene of poaching people has long been integrated into their company.
within culture.
Fortunately, Longteng Club has long been famous for cultivating young players, and Zhang Sheng is also willing to give young players a chance to compete. Several summoned players are valued by Zhang Sheng, and they don't want to leave casually. They are poaching people.
The attempt failed and only a few non-summoned players were poached.
In addition, the young players who were loaned out by Longteng Club this season performed equally well as their predecessors. This group of players, generally under the age of twenty, also received numerous temptations.
Some clubs offered five or six times their annual salary to attract them, but they basically rejected these purely monetary temptations as they already had football games.
Faced with the increasingly turbulent mergers and acquisitions of football schools and the poaching of youth football players, the Football Association has even been forced to consider how to regulate the transfer of young people.
It is said that the Chinese Football Association is already considering raising the transfer compensation standard for youth training players again. It plans to set the youth training players in China at 500,000/year, the Chinese Football Association in China at 250,000/year, and the Chinese League Two players or those aged 12-15 years old.
100,000/year.
And more clubs are beginning to follow the example of Longteng Club and loan out young players they think have potential to play in the Chinese League One and Chinese League Two instead of spending time in the reserve league.
This can also be regarded as the demonstration role of the Longteng team in prompting domestic clubs to change the way they train and use young players.
While regulating the transfer of young players, the Chinese Football Association has also begun to put the mandatory playing of U23 players on the agenda. However, given that several national echelons of Chinese football have performed well in recent years, although there are such voices,
It's not big, and the proposal proposed is not very radical - at least one U23 player must be included in the 18-man game roster and must play, otherwise the team's game registration number will be punitively reduced by two.
What Zhang Sheng doesn't know is that in real history, the Chinese Football Association's policy towards U23 players is extremely radical. In addition to the fact that U23 players must play, they also require that the number of players U23 players play is the same as the number of players played by foreign players in the game.
