Wang Yu [Weibo], sports commentator of China People's Broadcasting Station, has reported on China football [Weibo football] for many years. Yesterday, he told me two short stories about football in China. These two stories tell the helplessness faced by the youth football in China, which gives me a more perceptual knowledge and a deeper understanding of the cultivation of football reserve talents in China.
Story 1
This is a story, a true story.
Huang Junyi, 18 years old, now plays for Shandong National Games team and will participate in the finals of Liaoning National Games with the team. Huang Junyi has a good skill at his feet and a first-class ability to coordinate the ball ... In front of him, a shining picture of a professional player has slowly unfolded.
However, after the National Games, Huang Junyi will ... become a freshman enrolled by Tongji University this year.
Huang Junyi's football career began at the age of five. He joined the Qingdao Football Association team and participated in the provincial games. After completing the task of the Provincial Games, Huang Junyi chose to become an ordinary simple high school student. And the academic performance has been stable in the top five of the class. After spending a semester as an ordinary high school student, Huang Junyi returned to the professional football circle and entered Qingdao Zhongneng [Weibo] echelon. The reason for his return is simple: "If I just study, I feel that I still have something to do and my energy is not used up. Both sides can still learn to play football. "
However, Huang Junyi's wish of "walking on both sides" failed to come true after all-after the examination, Huang Junyi was finally seconded to the Shandong National Games team and began training life for more than a year, without taking part in the whole senior three.
At this point in the story, I stopped to sigh: For children in China after entering high school, the two identities of player and student are totally incompatible. If you want to be a player, you have to train for a long time under the pressure of competition results; If you want to be a student, you must succumb to the baton of the college entrance examination and study all day. At this stage or in the foreseeable future, it is impossible to be like Europe or Japan without delay.
As for why player Huang Junyi wants to become a student again, there is another very important reason, which is the atmosphere in the professional football circle.
The so-called atmosphere includes two aspects. First, under the pressure of performance, the initial heart of happy football is hard to find. Before senior three, Huang Junyi had two identities. He studies hard before 4 pm and plays football happily after 4 pm. But after that, Huang Junyi only had one identity, the player. At the beginning of joining the team, he even went to the classroom by himself at night, took out high school papers from home and tried to continue his study. However, the training intensity of professional football and the performance pressure of the National Games were unprecedented in his previous football career, which diluted the happiness brought by football a lot. In this regard, I believe that not only Huang Junyi has a personal experience, but almost every professional player in China will have a profound personal experience.
On the other hand, the atmosphere is the atmosphere and relationship within the professional team. Ordinary children of seventeen or eighteen are still in a simple and innocent campus. Apart from studying, everyone is basically carefree, carefree and have a good relationship. But the situation of professional or professional players at the age of seventeen or eighteen is very different. The reality that ordinary children come into contact with only a few years or even ten years later, and the problems that they have to face, small players have long been forced to bear.
Huang Junyi also mentioned the reputation of China football today. "Into the name of the teammates came back and said, after you entered the national youth, don't go to Weibo. Are very embarrassed. " Playing football is not applauded, but insulted. Good student Huang Junyi has a hard time accepting this.
All in all, player Huang Junyi described his current environment as a "glamorous prison".
Huang Junyi's experience is very common, which can be said to be the only way for every player in China. A big country with a population of1300 million cannot do without Messi and Ronaldo. Only under the existing football youth training system, our Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are only trained as China international players at most; Or like Huang Junyi, he chose to quit after trying the road of football; Or, never touch football at all, and scholars, agriculture, industry and commerce have become their homes. ...
Story 2
There are 60 players to choose from-1998-year-old junior high school students' dilemma
Occasionally I will be stung by the bleak reality of football in China.
At 6: 30 pm on July 17, the last training of the national team in Xianghe has ended, the player coach has returned to the dormitory and the reporters have left. At the 1 venue on the north side of the base, there is still a team training in national team costumes. Take a closer look, it is the youth national team. In my impression, since the age groups of 1997 and 1998 have been strictly investigated, our youth team should be fairly strong.
Gather around, recognize the guidance of Zhang Haitao and Tang Xiaocheng, and know that this should be a newly established primary school this year. I'm going to play the Asian Junior Championship qualifier in September this year. Then I found the goalkeepers and coaches of the Olympic Games, National Youth and Guoan [Weibo] standing on the sidelines. Li was very easygoing and willing to take time to have a brief talk with me. This chat doesn't matter. Just now, the impression of "good strength" was completely subverted ... as follows:
1, the new 1998 age group, only about 60 people can be selected.
It's scary enough that 60 people choose the national team. It's not over yet. Specific to the goalkeeper position, there are only ... three people! Ok, I don't want to choose now. A spoonful of saucepan is served, and they are all here.
The 3 rd and 3 rd goalkeepers are injured twice now, both of which are broken. But the two children insisted on training with their friends. You can't fight if your finger is broken, but you should also fight if your nose is broken. Another healthy, track and field student since childhood, just changed to practice football ... 1 year.
Continue to observe the teams that are playing in the group match. The first feeling is that the voices of two coaches, Zhang Haitao and Tang Xiaocheng, are almost broken. Head coach Zhang Haitao, in particular, couldn't wait to stop twice a minute and explain to the players loudly, and his voice was hoarse. Tang Xiaocheng is fine. He was famous for his loud voice when he led the team in Luneng [Weibo] Football School. The "good" with the taste of Jiaodong has been floating on the court, but here, the frequency of "good" has dropped significantly.
Then take a closer look at the only goalkeeper left. You only need to watch it a few times to find that he has just practiced football. First of all, his service is poor. In a few minutes, he tried to pass the teammate's post to his partner at the front of the penalty area twice in a row. As a result, it was directly intercepted by the striker before the start, and the ball was passed out again, but the teammate was intercepted by the striker and directly formed a single knife. ...
I looked at the goalkeeper closest to me and briefly looked at the other players, and none of them could make people shine. They are all typical China players, with no characteristics, and they can't even pass the ball correctly.
This is our 1998-year-old national team, which is about to play in the Asian Games qualifiers. I wouldn't be surprised if they also lost 1: 5 in a game in September.