China News Service, Nanning, January 26 (Reporter Zhang Guangquan) “Guangxi will further deepen its cooperation with high-level football regions such as Europe and the United States, so that the elite echelon of teenagers can” go out ‘, learn advanced foreign training methods and management concepts, and strengthen communication and cooperation with teenagers in Europe and America.” Xie Qiang, deputy director of Guangxi Sports Bureau, said in an interview with reporters on the 26th.
In 2017, Guangxi signed a strategic cooperation framework for talent training with the Royal Football Association of Spain and the football club of the Netherlands in The Hague, introduced a mature European youth training system and built a youth football training center in Guangxi. Up to now, a youth training team of nearly 90 people has been formed.
Xie Qiang said that the West Dutch youth football training center has attracted many young players to participate in tests and youth training, after selection, the “elite echelon of youth football in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region”, “advanced European football concepts and systematic youth training methods, with excellent trainees as the backbone, has been initially established, the basic football skills and tactical literacy of the players have been greatly improved, and the results of foreign competitions are in the forefront of the region.”
On January 25, the Chinese team lost to Iran at 0:3 in the 2019 Asian Cup, ending the Asian Cup. In this competition, the average age of the Chinese team is 30 years old, which is not only the highest average age of all 24 teams, but also creates a new record for the “oldest” team in the history of the Asian Cup. External comments pointed out that the crux of the lack of fresh blood caused by poor grass-roots youth training was about to emerge completely after the leaders of the 2005 World Youth competition retreated to the second line.
Guangxi Education Department recently issued a medium-and long-term development plan for youth campus football work, proposing that in the next few years, Guangxi will actively promote the development of campus football, and new schools must have football field construction projects, plus-sized the proportion of football item in the teaching content of physical education. At the same time, strengthen the construction of football teachers and take effective measures to equip football teachers for campus football characteristic schools.
Xie Qiang pointed out that in the next step, Guangxi will further strengthen exchanges and cooperation with the youth football field in Europe and America, improve the level of Guangxi youth football, and build a high-end brand for Guangxi youth football training, leading and driving the development of Guangxi youth football and campus football, providing platforms and opportunities for more outstanding youth players to embark on the road of professionalization. (Finished)