Champion’s Heart

Like Spain, Germany is also a country that attaches great importance to youth training. But in fact, German football did not pay much attention to youth training before. Although they are a world-class football power, they have also faced a crisis of talent shortage in their country. England's victory in the 1996 European Championships seemed to make them forget about it. By the 1998 World Cup in France, the aging of the German chariot was already very obvious. Champions, they were assigned to the death group early, but they went home after the group stage. It was a humiliating performance in the competition.

It was precisely because of this disastrous defeat that the German Football Association finally realized that after ten years of glory, it was time for them to pay attention to the development of the German youth football training system, so they made up their minds and opened the great history of German football. reforms.

Gerhard, the chairman of the German Football Association at the time, believed that it was time for German football to be rebuilt. For this reason, the German Football Association launched the Expand Talent Promotion Plan. However, the football environment at that time did not allow it, and the stadium facilities could not meet the standards. Gerhard had to be patient. wait.

Unexpectedly, he did not wait long. In the 2002 World Cup, the German team, which was originally underestimated, reached the World Cup finals in one breath. Although they only won the runner-up in the end, the Germans still warmly welcomed their heroes at the airport. After all, before the World Cup, they were the only two world-class teams that were not expected to win the championship—the other was Brazil—and the enthusiasm for football across the country was instantly ignited, which made Gerhard realize that there was an opportunity for change. .

So shortly after the World Cup in Japan and South Korea, the German Football Association quickly organized personnel to implement this youth talent training program, and continued this program until today, and it will continue.

Since 2000, the German Football Association has rearranged about 390 football training bases across the country, gathering more than 22,000 talented male and female players aged 11 to 17. Play football under the guidance of several youth football coaches. These professional coaches start from the players when they were young and teach them some of the most basic modern football skills, techniques and tactics.

At the same time, the German Football Association strictly stipulates that each club in the Bundesliga and the second division must have its own youth training center. Including the German Football Association itself, plus 48 professional football clubs, a total of about 48 million euros will be spent on this project every year. , and the cost is increasing over time.

From the perspective of the German football youth training system, this is actually a typical nationwide system-it is impossible to realize such a huge youth training plan only by the strength of the club. Without the leadership of the German Football Association and the use of national power, this great reform will only become words on paper and will not be implemented.

For example, due to the uneven hardware conditions and coaching levels of various clubs, many football talents may be wiped out because they have not received good training. The German Football Association has made corresponding arrangements.

They distributed the 390 football training bases as evenly as possible in Germany to ensure that each training base can serve about 70 clubs. Find the most talented players in the shortest time, and at the same time ensure that the training of young players can also be systematic and efficient. According to the statistics of German football experts, out of 300,000 children, 10,000 will finally stand out through the training of available chlorine.

The training camp does not belong to any club, but to the German Football Association.

Another example is that in addition to training young players, the German Football Association also regularly trains youth football coaches, requiring coaches to teach one-on-one as much as possible. The Football Association arranges a special timetable for each coach, including training courses, videos, and training time at the base, and sets up an archive within the Football Association, using scientific methods to help each coach guide children more systematically. ball.

This is not something that can be done by the strength of the club alone.

From the reform of the German football youth training, we may be able to see the other side of Chinese football-blindly advocating professionalism, while completely denying the national system may be one of the reasons why Chinese football has declined over the years. The Chinese national team players that I can't forget were once the top in Asia, but they all came from the era of the nationwide system. They were all trained in the sports team, not some professional football clubs.

Over the years, the Chinese Football Association has only focused on national football teams, but has no idea about the entire Chinese youth football training system. This is the main factor leading to the decline in the level of Chinese football. Of course, this is also normal. In the official football association, political performance is the most important thing, and the performance of the national team is the fastest to see political performance. That's why the league was suspended for the Olympics, and the league was suspended for the World Cup. Things like relegation cancellations happen.

On the contrary, youth football is a long-term work that requires the continuous investment of several generations of football associations. There may be others who have won the fruits of victory.

But this is the objective law of football, just like the objective law of the Chinese teenagers losing to the La Masia Youth B team. This objective law does not depend on subjective will.

If you don't follow the rules, you will die miserably in the football world.

The Germans once died miserably, which made them realize the importance of discipline.

Therefore, the most important part of the reform plan proposed by Gerhard is to revise the scope of powers of the chairman of the Football Association, requiring Xiao Guicao to follow. It will fall short.

But until now, the Chinese Football Association has not really paid attention to the importance of youth football.

Otherwise, Superstar Successor, a TV program aimed at arousing more people's attention to youth football, would not have the embarrassing situation that the players called are all fringe figures of the youth teams of various clubs.

The Chinese fans on the Internet also made sense to laugh at this show. The title of the strongest in the country is really a boast of the show group.

By the time the teenagers arrived in Munich, the program Superstar Successor had already aired three episodes.

After all three games in Spain were broadcast, there was still a lot of criticism on the Internet, and the public opinion was not conducive to the program group and the team.

Some people have ironically called the core idea of ​​Heir to the Superstar challenging the European giants' youth training camp as the football version of the hunter and the bear, making jokes that these Chinese football teenagers are not out to challenge at all, but to find a lottery... …

These sound program groups naturally know that such public opinion puts them under a lot of pressure. For the program group, being scolded one after another is like a game that is doomed to fail one after another. They are lost.

And the sponsors of the show have already expressed their concerns to them.

Sponsors are the lifeblood of a show, and if they cut their sponsorship, the show is doomed.

So the opinion of the sponsor is very important. If the sponsor is upset, everyone will be upset.

Losing, ugly losing... If it goes on like this, the chief director Xu Tao doesn't know how long this reality show will last. He has done everything he can to downplay the impact of failure and emphasize the positive thing. But helplessly, the 0:12 defeat to the La Masia Youth B team left everyone with such a strong inherent impression that no matter how you guide it in the show, everyone only has the word fierce defeat in their eyes.

Among those scolding, there are real fans who are really angry with Chinese football. They are so heartbroken by Chinese football that they are a little nervous. As long as they hear the news of Chinese football losing, they will lose no matter how they lose. Yes, let's start scolding with preconceived ideas.

There are also some people who don't care about Chinese football at all. They just use this wind to vent their emotions and find an opportunity to show their negative energy. You have no quality, but if you criticize Chinese football, no matter how badly you criticize it, many people will applaud you. They regard Chinese football as a spittoon, they don't care about Chinese football, and they don't want Chinese football to be good, because if Chinese football is good, they won't have a spittoon to spit at.

Under such circumstances, the last thing everyone wanted to see happened.

Just two days before the match against the Bayern Munich youth team, the team's main central defender Huang Chao was injured in training, and it was not serious. hurt.

There are only 16 people in this Western Expedition. Except for the eleven who are the main players, there are only five substitutes. This is the same as the Premier League squad. The rule of only bringing five substitutes is very dissatisfied, because it will always make people feel unsafe. In case someone on the team is injured or some extreme circumstances arise, the substitutes may not be enough.

Now, Hao Dong encountered such a problem.

Because there are only sixteen people in the roster, it took him a lot of effort to choose what position to take as a substitute.

In the end, at the back position, he brought six people. Apart from the four main players, there were only two substitutes, one was a center back substitute and the other was a full back substitute.

There are six midfielders, four starters, and two substitutes—Zhou Yi and Guo Nu.

There are two forwards and no substitutes.

There are two goalkeepers, the main player Sun Pan, and the substitute goalkeeper Lai Cong.

Now that the main central defender Huang Chao is injured, the backup central defender Yang Fei will naturally step up, but if there is any accident on the back line, the strength of this force will be stretched.

The continuous disastrous defeats, coupled with injuries to teammates, before the start of the game against Bayern Munich, there was such a gloomy atmosphere in the team formed by the Chinese teenagers.

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