football fight

Chapter 56 The current situation

With the end of the World Cup qualifiers, the Chinese team double-killed the North Korean team in two rounds, accumulating 12 points and still ranking third.In front of the Chinese team are the Iranian team and the Japanese team. They also won this round of the game, with 16 and 13 points respectively.

Among them, the record of the Iranian team is five wins and one draw, and the only draw comes from the confrontation with the Chinese team; the record of the Japanese team is 4 wins, one draw and one loss, the draw comes from the Chinese team, and the losing game is Iran Team masterpiece.

These three teams are relatively tightly entangled, and their hopes of advancing to the next round are relatively higher.

The three teams behind them are Saudi Arabia, North Korea and Iraq. Each team still has hope, and each team has the possibility of advancing to the next stage.

Although the performance of the Chinese team is not particularly amazing, they have achieved six unbeaten rounds and are closely following the leading group.Their achievements today are largely due to the impact of reforms in the past few years.

The one who promoted this major reform was Yang Zifang, the former Super League appearance record holder, the former captain of the Xicheng Iron Cavalry, and the iron-blooded midfielder.

Yang Zifang is the youngest elected chairman of the Football Association. He was only 2018 years old when he was elected to the Football Association in 41. It was only five years after he retired.

Many fans recognize his performance and achievements in the player era, but they are skeptical about his being elected as the chairman of the Football Association so quickly, and most people even question whether this is an insider operation.

But soon, Yang Zifang changed people's perception of him with the influence of his own series of reform policies.

He first restarted the same policy of the number of foreign aid and requirements as the AFC, but at the same time retained the policy of signing adjustment fees and player salary caps to prevent the team from excessively abusing financial resources to build the team unreasonably.

At the same time, he lifted the league's U23 policy, no longer mandatory requirements for the number of U23 players on the field, and changed it to a U23-U14 league policy for longer-term development considerations. All levels of echelons will also conduct a full season like the Super League every year. the match of.

为了防止年轻球员得不到高强度的比赛锻炼，足协也规定每个赛季各支球队必须保证3名U20-U23球员参加足超的完整比赛场次不得少于15场，以及6名U20-U23球员的预备队比赛完整场次不得少于25场，若出现伤病等特殊情况，则将计算U20-U23球员参加比赛的累积时间。

In addition, in order to ensure the normal and high-quality operation of the team's leagues at all levels, the Football Association also mandates that the team must strictly follow the national echelon standards to invest corresponding funds to meet the daily living, housing, physical therapy, rehabilitation, etc. of players at all levels. s arrangement.

Similarly, these policies also apply to the Football League, but compared to the football league's echelon system, the age group is from U23 to U16, but to complete the upgrade, it must be guaranteed to have a complete echelon from U23 to U14 next season.

The echelon of the Football League is relatively less, only the echelon from U23 to U18. Most of the teams who want to upgrade are restricted by this policy.

Therefore, the assistance policy given by the Football Association in this regard is the strategy of "entering football on campus", allowing the team to cooperate with local schools to develop football-loving students to join the team echelon, and at the same time increase the influence of football. , can effectively stimulate the football population to increase.

But it is absolutely not allowed to force students to play football, just to stimulate their curiosity through a few football lessons or inviting students to watch games.

The Football Association also stipulates that the team must ensure that the venue for each game must at least reach the level of the AFC competition, and the venue level of the U20 and above leagues must also reach the international A-level level.

The Football Association also encourages teams to build their own professional football stadiums to give players and spectators a better experience.

It can be seen that among these policies, what Yang Zifang values ​​most is the development of the youth training system and infrastructure.In his concept, it is useless to pull out the seedlings or fertilize vigorously without laying a solid foundation, and it may even have the opposite effect!
These policies have shown some practical effects in the past few years, and the best manifestation of the effect is the performance of the national team in the past one or two years.Although they haven't won every game, they have been undefeated in ten games.

As for the youth training and infrastructure matters involved in this policy, Gu Xin, the chairman of St. Friedom, has already started to do it when the club was founded, as if he had foreseen the future.

As a team that has only been established for more than ten years, he has to develop youth training before anyone else. His team relies on the cornerstone of youth training to stand in today's Super League.

In addition to the league system at all levels required by the Football Association and the system of cooperation with schools, he also vigorously cooperates with schools in remote areas.He spent a lot of money to build schools and playgrounds for them, and ensure that their meals were nutritious.

Gu Xin also does not mandate how many people play football in these schools, but arranges a professional football lesson for them every week and provides them with a lot of physical exercise equipment including football.

Naturally, some of these children are willing to play football. They have suffered a lot since they were young. They regard football as their favorite sport, and they cherish the opportunity to play football more than anyone else.

St. Friedom relied on such a huge youth training system to get to where it is today step by step. This is something they are proud of.

Now, Gu Xin and Pisa Jonas have decided to develop overseas youth training, allowing outstanding players to experience a different football environment overseas.

They first invested in several mid-tier European teams, and at the same time looked for cooperation opportunities among the giants.

In terms of infrastructure, from the Shuguang Training Center, which was nearly completed at the beginning of their establishment, to the Shuangliu Sports Center, which they rented but had undergone overall renovation, to the current Holy Freedom Arena, and so on, they are all of them. The foundation for better football.

Although Xu Wenli and Kong Pengyu, the two most outstanding players in the first team and reserve team, are not from the youth training of St. Friedom, more than half of the team as a whole are from the Shuguang Training Center.

After the national team match day, the team will continue the league journey, and all players selected for the national team have returned to the club.

Gu Xin, who is dying, knows that youth training is indeed for the future.But now there is still a question-how long can their team system based on youth training players be tenacious in this season's games?
The later the game, the more difficult it is to play. If this season is difficult, should they consider introducing more new players next season, or insist on promoting new players to give it a try? His daughter and head coach Chen Shixiong considered it.

Gu Jiaren was actually a little surprised by his father's worry, after all, his father used to do things neatly and simply, and didn't think too much about it.Perhaps because of his serious illness, Gu Xin's thoughts became a little confused, and he would often say some things that his family members couldn't understand.

Gu Jiaren also knew that she could no longer talk to her father like before, because her father had already done too much.

Gu Jiaren often went back to Chen Shixiong to chat about some team affairs. As for the matter of whether to focus on youth training or performance in the future, Chen Shixiong only said that he was watching while walking, and don't underestimate the youth training he supervised.

"But if it really doesn't work, just buy it as before." Chen Shixiong also said.

(End of this chapter)