Genbao Football Base is located in the south of Chongming Dongping National Forest Park, initiated by the famous football coach Xu Genbao, with a total area of more than 70 mu. The base has three semi-standard football fields, an indoor football field imported from Germany and a football hotel covering an area of 7,000 square meters. With a total investment of about 30 million yuan, construction started in 2000 and was completed on May 30, 2006.
"The blue of football stars, the hope of going to the world" has high hopes for the base. After listening to coach Xu Genbao's report, Shanghai leaders also agreed with the construction of the base. Gong Xueping, deputy secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, put forward higher requirements for base construction in his inscription: "High-quality education, scientific training and militarized management."
At present, there are nearly 100 students in the base, and this team has players from Shanghai, Shandong, Hubei, Anhui and other places. The goal of the base is to select 8 people for the national youth team in 2007, 3 people for the national team in 20 10 and 8 people for the Olympic team in 20 12. To train young football players, we must first improve students' basic football skills and abilities.
The base specially hired former China Football Association President Nian Weiss as a senior consultant, and coach Xu Genbao himself served as the head coach. The base also specially hired a group of grass-roots coaches who have been engaged in youth football training for a long time, arranged the training amount of students scientifically and reasonably, and carried out training according to the needs of young people's physical and mental development.