This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Chinese men’s national team qualifying for the first World Cup qualifier. However, the current situation of Chinese football really makes it difficult to please Chinese fans at this historic moment, and it is even more difficult to arrange a variety of Activities to commemorate this historic moment. Normally, the warriors who made great contributions to men's football qualifying should now be the pillars of Chinese football. But the reality is more and more cruel, because 23 players who appeared on the World Cup stage that year, only a handful of 5 players can pick up the pointer in the first team! Their current situation really brings out the bleakness of Chinese football at the moment.
The 2002 World Cup is an epoch-making event for the football of the three East Asian countries of China, Japan and Korea. However, in the past 20 years, the coaching status of the 23 players from China, Japan, and South Korea representing their respective World Cups may have reflected the completely different development paths and paths of the three countries to a large extent. The gap between Chinese football and the neighboring countries of South Korea and Japan is not narrowing, but widening at an accelerating rate! The coaching team reflects this completely different trend and direction.
① The Football Association should choose the coach, not the player!
Affected by the epidemic, Chinese professional football is experiencing a second cold winter. However, there are two things that deserve most attention in the construction of the men’s national team: One is the 2003 U18 National Youth Selection and Training Camp organized in Kunming before the Spring Festival; the other is the U16 National Youth Team who just ended on March 17th. Coach selection. When the Chinese Football Association issued the U18 National Youth Selection and Training Camp notice, the coaching team paid more attention, and the concept of "nine national footballers" was hyped; and when the U16 country coaches were selected, the four local candidates were "former national footballers". Identity has become the focus of attention from the outside world. This is somewhat confusing: Is choosing a coach or a national team?
The author does not intend to belittle the coaches who participated in the selection training camp and the coaches who participated in the competition for young people. However, in the past ten years when "Golden Dollar Football" has dominated the development of Chinese football, the training of various talents has been almost completely abandoned In the poor football soil, a group of excellent local coaches suddenly appeared, which is probably tantamount to a fantasy. Under the damage of all "Golden Dollar Football" with "buy, buy and buy" as the main feature, Chinese football is not only a lack of players and lack of talents, but also coaches. There are only a handful of outstanding young local players. Under the dominance of capital, the club can attract all kinds of foreign coaches from all over the world at any time with a checkbook. Moreover, a few years ago, the Chinese Football Association hired various foreign teachers for China’s men’s and women’s national teams at all levels. Coaches from 11 different countries have successively occupied the position of coaches of national teams at all levels. The outside world jokingly called the Chinese national team as the "Allied Forces of Eight Nations". "In fact, this practice has further seriously affected and undermined the confidence and morale of Chinese local coaches.
It is precisely because the current Chinese Football Association leadership team has realized the seriousness of the problem, it has launched a plan to speed up the training of local young coaches, hoping to allow more retired international players to join the coaching team. . This is a plan of "predecessors planting trees and descendants to enjoy the shade" , and the author also understands the "good intentions" in it. However, letting the retired national football team directly serve as the head coach of the youth national team without experience is frankly suspected of "promoting growth" and is very risky. After all, as a youth national team, whether it is U18, U16 or U15, I am afraid that it is not a place for training people, but a place for employment.
not to mention any first-level national team,In the current environment, there are requirements for grades . The fundamental reason why Chinese football has become a target of ridicule and mockery and a "public spittoon" is the lack of results! As a player with a national background transforming into a coach and becoming an excellent coach, you need a stage for exercise and growth, but also a channel, but this "stage" is not a national youth team, nor is it a professional club first-line team. And firstly in the local grassroots youth teams, then the low-level first-team, and gradually transition to the professional first-team of the top league. After such a growth path and success, the future will be successful on the stage of the national team. Possible.
Cross the previous experience and go directly to the Guozihao team, even if it is just a youth team, I am afraid that it may step into the abyss of immortality at any time. One of the simplest and most realistic example is this season's Juventus coach Pirlo . Pirlo, as a player, can be called a "master" , after getting a professional coaching certificate in transition, under normal circumstances, he should be coaching in Juventus' reserve team this season, but he was suddenly promoted to the coach of the first team. Position, Now Juventus team's results and performance are enough to explain everything. Can Pirlo be a good coach? It's impossible to draw conclusions now, but Juventus has a poor record this season, and the "get out of class off" one after another has affected Pirlo's self-confidence as a teacher.
In contrast, Zidane has encountered crises in Real Madrid many times, but before coaching the first team, he first coached in the U19 youth team of Real Madrid, and then served as Ancelotti’s assistant. Righting him to sit in the coach of Real Madrid, such an experience has allowed him to save him many times. Even a world-class star like Raul, a representative of Real Madrid, is now the first to live in the Real Madrid U19 youth team.why? Because this is an inevitable experience for a coach to grow up.
As the coach of the Chinese national team, even the youth team will encounter "torture" from the outside at any time, especially in the current environment where performance is the basis and standard for judgment. Therefore, when the Football Association selects coaches or organizes competitions, they choose coaches rather than internationals! The status of a “former international” can only mean that as a player, he has more knowledge and more knowledge than other ordinary players, and has the potential to become an excellent coach than other ordinary players. However, players who are not international footballers will be sure after retiring. Will be an excellent coach.
From the perspective of the Chinese Football Association, we hope to create more opportunities and provide better conditions for the retired national team. For example, most people need to start from the most basic level D, but the national team can make an exception to start from the B level to shorten their time. , Transform into an excellent coach as soon as possible. This kind of vision and thinking is not only correct, and should even be strongly promoted, but the growth steps and paths during the period may not be surpassed. Moreover, the national brand teams at all levels are places for "employing people", not for training people, let alone "experimental fields." What's more, the current Chinese men's football needs national teams at all levels to make breakthroughs and achieve some results in order to gradually reverse the outside world's perception of Chinese football. Therefore, the Chinese football coach selection cannot be lost by the "former international" status that the outside world is hyped up.
② Trained by coaches, a generation that has been abandoned!
As mentioned earlier, the 2002 World Cup was a watershed in the football of China, Japan and Korea. When the Chinese Football Association decided to focus on cultivating those retired nationals, especially those who played in the 2002 World Cup, it just illustrates one point. In the past 20 years, the biggest mistake in all aspects of Chinese football has been the neglect of "talents." The training of not only players, but also coaches and managers.
The author once witnessed such a scene. At the end of last year, all members of the National Team Management Department of the Football Association met in Haikou.During the period, I went to the training venue to watch the training of the U20 National Youth Team in the 01 age group and the U22 National Football Team in the 99 age group. Next to Chairman Chen Xuyuan, there are Li Tie who is the head coach of the national team, Yang Chen who is the leader of the U22 national team, and Shao Jiayi who is the leader of the U17 national team in the 2004 age group. These three are all players of the 02 World Cup Chinese team. Over the years, the leaders of the Chinese Football Association have never seen so many World Cup international players who can exchange professional football issues at any time. This is of course a blessing for Chinese football, and it also shows that the current Football Association leaders value and cherish talents.
Think about it carefully, among the 23 02 World Cup internationals, how many are currently coaching in the first team of Chinese football? The answer is five people! In addition to Li Tie as the head coach of the national team, Ou Chuliang serves as the goalkeeper coach of the national team; in the Chinese Super League, only Wuhan team Li Xiaopeng is the coach; in the Chinese First League, only Kunshan team's Gao Yao and North Sports Su Maozhen of the brigade is the coach of . In addition, they are mostly engaged in management work, or work in football clubs, or politics in local football associations, and have nothing to do with coaches. Individuals like Qi Hong are teaching children to play football, and others are also engaged in youth training, but are not personally responsible for teaching children to play football. Of course, there are more people like An Qi and Wu Chengying who are already far away from football.
The 23 people who competed in the 02 World Cup can be said to be the elite of the Chinese football elite at that time, but only 5 people were teaching in the first team. Such a ratio is really pitiful. The author has had a deep chat with many international football players. When talking about why I didn’t choose to teach,I got this answer: "Strong8strong as a coach? Forget it. The current club owners like to spend money to find foreign teachers, it is impossible to give a Chinese coach a chance. If you choose to be a coach, how can you have the opportunity to work? Don't say it. The first team, even the youth team, the boss wants to find a foreign teacher. Therefore, as a coach, you can't see the future at all, and of course you won't go to class to get a coaching certificate. It's better to do something else in the club. "
This view is actually very representative, especially in the "Golden Dollar Football" era in the past 10 years, the boss spent so much money, especially so many big-name foreign aids. It is simply impossible for local Chinese coaches to coach. In addition, and the domestic “depreciation of local coaches” over the years have become a kind of inertia. This general environment and atmosphere have made it impossible for the bosses to hand over the team to the local Chinese coach . Of course, the local Chinese coaches themselves have some shortcomings and shortcomings, which are also a very important reason for being belittled by the outside world.
Therefore, whether in the past or this year's Chinese Super League and Chinese Premier League, the bosses of China, even if they are looking for a Korean coach, are not willing to give a Chinese coach a chance. In the A era, Cui Yinze led Yanbian team to create the "Korean Wave". At one time, five or six South Korean coaches faced off in the same field in China. The "Korean Wave" in the Super League has never been broken. Coupled with other foreign teachers, over time, the local Chinese coaches will also appear "green and yellow". When Chinese football is now hit by the epidemic and the club’s parent companies are in financial difficulties, they can no longer "burn money" on foreign teachers as they did in the past, some teams only think of domestic coaches. But since in the past 10 years or even longer, no one has thought of cultivating local coaches, so where do you look for good local coaches?
Opportunities are reserved for those who are prepared. When opportunities arise, how many people are prepared? So, can the "local handsome" usher in spring?
③South Korea’s 02 World Cup international makes waves again
The Chinese Football Association prioritizes the nationals, especially those who have competed in the 02 World Cup, as a key training target for the first time in 20 years. When paying close attention to the coaching team,A phenomenon that is also worthy of attention has appeared in neighboring South Korea this year, that is, the 2002 World Cup international group "getting together" fully reproduced the Korean football and appeared in the K league . Hong Myung-po regained control of the coach for the first time and led the Ulsan Hyundai team for the first time. Span5span Park Ji-sung became the consultant of Jeonbuk Hyundai Club. Lee Young-pyo became the CEO of Gangwon FC Club. The three core players of the 2002 World Cup South Korea team appeared in full. In the K1 league, the Korean media called it "a landmark event to revive the K League 20 years later."
In the eyes of Korean footballers, the root of a country’s football lies in the league. So far several representative figures of Asian teams’ best results in the World Cup can enter professional clubs at the same time. Of course, this is a piece of Korean football Something exciting for it up and down. Just as Park Ji-sung said at the press conference held by Jeonbuk Hyundai Club, "We are fighting together in a special period. We must think of using the love and honor of the fans that those players enjoyed in some way. To give back to our fans. Now, we are all in different positions, so I don’t know if you can call a fight between our teammates. But if this can promote more interest and attention in the K-League, Then, I am willing to fight for it!"
is not only the three representative figures mentioned above. In this year’s Korean professional league, in addition to Hong Myung-po , former midfielder Kim Nam-il is in Seongnam FC The team served as the head coach; the goalkeeper Li Yunjae, who had traveled to China before, returned to Jeonbuk Hyundai as the goalkeeper coach at the beginning of this year. In the K2 league, Lee Min-sung, who was previously an assistant coach of the U23 National Olympic team in South Korea and followed Lee Jang-soo to China, picked up the coach of the Daejeon Citizens’ team; forward Xue Qi-hyun served as the head coach of the Kyungnam FC team and played The season led the team to almost complete the task of returning to the K1 ranks, but fell short in the play-offs. The former midfielder Kim Tae Young became the head coach of the K3 League Cheonan team. Yin Jinghuan has been teaching in the Japanese professional league for many years.He also led his team to play in the AFC Champions League and played against the Chinese Super League. Now he is the head coach of J2's Chiba team. As for the people familiar to Chinese fans such as Span5span Cui Longzhu and Huang Shanhong, they have already made some achievements in the coaching position, although they are on standby this year.
In addition to coaching the professional team, Cha Du-ri left the position of Korea national team assistant coach, and then picked up the coach of the Seoul U18 echelon, which is the high school team; Choi Dui-wook served as an assistant coach for the Korean national team. Assist the Portuguese Bento. Even Song Zhongguo , who played for China’s Tianjin TEDA team and stayed away from football after retiring, was invited to serve as an advisor to the K2 club Anyang club in early March, playing the same role as Park Ji-sung in Jeonbuk Hyundai.
According to statistics, among the 23 South Koreans in the 2002 World Cup semi-finals, except for goalkeeper Cui Yincheng and defender Cui Sung-yong, following and Cui Kangxi are currently serving as assistants for the Shanghai Shenhua team, only 3 are currently engaged in football coaching Irrelevant work, namely the original No. 2 Hyun Young-min, No. 13 Lee Eul-yong and No. 19 Ahn Jung-hwan are all the football commentators of the TV station. Among them, Lee Eul-young has served as a coach for a long time after retiring, but he switched to commentary last year because of his poor record; Hyun Young-min and Ahn Jung-hwan never taught.
Previously, Li Yongpiao and Li Tianxiu failed to teach after retiring and have been guest speakers of TV football. But starting this year, in addition to going to Gangwon Club as CEO, Lee Young-pyo was nominated as the vice chairman of the Korean Football Association in February, and Lee Tianxiu served as the chairman of the Social Responsibility Committee of the Korean Football Association. The main goalkeeper Kim Byung-ji of the 02 World Cup also serves as the vice chairman of the Korean Football Association, but with a different division of labor from Lee Young-pyo.
In addition, only former midfielder Liu Xiangtie had to leave football due to pancreatic cancer.Currently recuperating at home. But even so, when the Incheon United team was in crisis last year, they still hoped to "fight the fire." The club declined in view of his physical condition, but it is not difficult to see Liu Xiangtie's love for football and the Korean footballers’ belief that “football has nothing to do with life and death, but is higher than life and death”.
Compare with the current situation of China's 23 nationals in the 2002 World Cup, which is really embarrassing!
④The Japan 02 international team is still active in the professional arena.
Let’s take a look at the 23 players in the Japanese team that broke into the top 16 for the first time in history.
When Zhou Ting announced his retirement last year as a former international, it means that there are no “post-70s” active players in Chinese professional football. Zheng Zhi has become a Chinese professional football player. Altar’s "Big Brother" . However, the two Japanese who competed in the 2002 World Cup and were born in 1979 with Zhou Tingtong, Inamoto Junichi and Ono Shinji, are still racing in the Japanese professional field that started in February this year. Inamoto Junichi is in the SC of J2. Sagamihara played for the original team. After winning the second place in the J3 league with the team last year, he has just been promoted to the J2 league this year; and Shinji Ono has just returned to the J1 league this year and joined the Sapporo Gonzado team. Of course, is compared to the 54-year-old "evergreen tree" like Miura Zhiliang who is still racing in the Japanese professional league. Both of these two can only be regarded as "juniors" . In addition, goalkeeper Zeng Duanzhun, who was also born in 1979, just announced his retirement at the end of December last year. Although No. 10 Nakayama Masashi was appointed as the coach of Iwata Jubiluo in January this year, he has not officially announced his retirement. .
Excluding Naoki Matsuda, who died of a heart attack in March 2011, among the other 18 people, Hiroaki Morishima has become the chairman of the Osaka Sakura Club, and , who served as the image ambassador like Park Ji-sung, is also the image ambassador. span7span; there are people like Nishizawa becoming a professional broker,There are also South Korea’s Ahn Jung-hwan, Hyun Young-min, Morioka Ryuzo, Suzuki Takashi, Fukunishi Takashi, Nakata Koji, etc. as TV football guests. After retiring, other international players chose to teach more.
However, among the 22 internationals, only 6 of have obtained the professional (S-level) certificate. , and only Gamba Osaka, who is coached by Miyamoto Hengyasu J1 More often than not, they are just serving as assistant coaches or coaches for the club’s youth teams and football academies belonging to the club, that is, youth coaches. After all, Japan's professional coaching certificate is not so easy to get , which will be specifically mentioned later.
Japan's retired national football team is more about teaching young people to play football. Of course, they don't teach students to play football in the so-called campus football like in China, but teach children who are engaged in football in professional football academies. Even Chi Shangbin, who passed away not long ago, was also a young player who taught Japan during his stay in Japan. Inamoto Junichi is one of its students. In contrast, in China, most of the coaches who teach youth football have no professional football experience, and on campus, physical education teachers and even teachers from other disciplines appear as guest appearances.
Therefore, from the beginning stage of Chinese and Japanese football, the starting point is completely different, and it seems not difficult to imagine that the gap is getting bigger and bigger.
⑤The number of 9 Koreans who came to China to supervise China to teach
Let’s not mention the situation of Japan’s 02 World Cup internationals after they retired to teach South Korea 02 After the 23 World Cup internationals retired, so many people chose to teach, and when they reunited in the K-League in various ways this year, a closer look at the coaching experience of these retired South Korean internationals can also reveal the fact that the 23 players have been in succession. Nine people came to China to search for gold and "earned a lot of money."This number is even more than the number of people (5 people) who have been teaching after China's 02 World Cup internationals retired!
In addition to the aforementioned Cui Chengyong and Cui Yincheng who continue to coach with Cui Kangxi in the Shanghai Shenhua team, three such as Hong Mingfu, Cui Longzhu, Huang Shanhong (unsuccessful due to the dissolution of Yanbian) have been invited to China as coaches. Li Mincheng, Jinnanyi and others came to China as assistants, and even when the relevant parties organized the U25 national training team, they also specially invited Cui Zhenzhe and Li Yun to the two 02 World Cup internationals.
A noteworthy phenomenon is: Most of China's 2002 World Cup international footballers retired in the past 10 years. The past 10 years have been the "Golden Yuan Era" of Chinese football. Under the big environment and atmosphere dominated by capital, "It's better to build than to rent, and to rent than to buy." "Buy, buy, buy" dominates China's professional leagues. Therefore, even if it is from neighboring South Korea, it will not hesitate to invite the so-called "Big coaches" are unwilling to give Chinese local coaches a chance. The relevant management departments are also "helping the abuser" to some extent. Under the so-called "money has the final say" atmosphere, it has exacerbated the disconnection of local Chinese coaches.
When the "capital craze" faded, the feathered Chinese football reminiscent of local Chinese coaches, but without reserves and training, it is natural that excellent coaches cannot fall from the sky. Therefore, in the ten years of "capital football", Chinese football has not only failed to cultivate an outstanding football player, but also football coaches. Compared with Korean football, the contrast is even stronger.
When we have a long-standing "unexplainable, unclear" complex with our neighbors, Korean football, we may not have noticed such a reality. According to statistics, in the new season of the Korean Professional League (including K1 and K2 leagues) launched by at the end of February this year,The average age of the 22 coaches is 47.8 years , of which the average age of the 12 coaches in the K1 league is 48.1 years; the average age of the 10 coaches in the K2 league is 47.7 years. Compared to the 2020 season, the average age of the K1 league coach is 48.8 years old, and the average age of the K2 league coach remains unchanged; compared to the 2019 season, the average age of the K1 league coach is 50.2 years old, and the average age of the K2 league coach is 47.7 years old. This year, the Korean K League The average age of coaches is declining. Among them, the oldest coach in the K1 league is the Ulsan Hyundai head coach Hong Myung-po, who coached the K League for the first time this year. He was born in February 1969 and is 52 years old this year; and the oldest in the K2 league is Anyang coach Li Yuheng, in 1966 Born in February, 55 years old this year.
The newly promoted Suwon FC coach Kim Do-kyun and Seongnam FC coach Kim Nam-il (one of the 02 World Cup fighters) are the youngest coaches in the K1 league. They were born in February and March, 1977. Yue; Gyeongnam FC coach Seol Ki-hyun and Chungnam Asan’s Park Dong-hyuk are both the youngest coaches in the K2 league. They were born in January and April 1979, respectively. But like Jin Nanyi has been playing in the K-League for seven seasons, he is considered "old rivers and lakes".
As we all know, the technical and tactical development of modern football is changing with each passing day. Especially in European football, there will be a major change in technical and tactical almost every two years. So, why does European football coaches show a "younger" trend as a whole? The root lies in the idea and guiding ideology that need to keep up with the development of modern football skills, tactics and play. Young people are more capable of learning and are more willing to learn than older coaches. some. [Of course, it is not to reject or deny the old coach. ] _P2p
Only from the coach’s age structure, to some extent, we can see certain characteristics and trends in the technical and tactical development of Korean football in recent years. When our country talks about "advanced football concepts abroad" and other "soup talks", in fact, is actually farther and farther from the development of modern football in terms of football skills and tactics .To some extent, coaches who have been eliminated in Korean football and can’t find a place, especially those old coaches who have reached the age, have instead become the "guests" of the Chinese professional club. Isn't this a kind of irony? ? Coaches invited from European football also have such a situation, one-sided pursuit of the so-called "big names."
Of course, it's not that Korean professional football coaches don't have other problems. Except for K2’s Busan Idol team which hired a foreign teacher, the other 21 teams are all local Korean coaches, with a single technical and tactical guiding ideology, single play and style, unlike the Japanese professional league, where local coaches dominate. There are also foreign teachers from different countries and regions, which truly form a diversification of skills and tactics, so as to better promote development. The Chinese professional league is almost dominated by foreign teachers, which is going to the other extreme. It won't be expanded here anymore.
⑥The Korean international is almost all college students!
When we acknowledged that the general environment of Chinese football did not create conditions for the growth of local coaches, Shandong Luneng Taishan Club vigorously supported Li Xiaopeng, Hao Wei and other clubs at the same time, We must also see one point, that is, the transformation of local Chinese players after retirement. I am afraid that they also need to reflect on themselves, and there are also natural defects, or "congenital deficiencies."
is also the 23 nationals who competed in the 2002 World Cup. 22 of South Korea have completed their college studies in the athlete era. Even if Park Ji-sung went to Japan to play in Myongji University one year after entering Myongji University, he later completed his studies again. , And also participated in other subjects during his stay in England. In comparison, No. 8 Cui Duixu had the lowest academic qualifications, only graduating from Fuping High School, but he also completed his studies after retiring. After graduating from Japan, Hidetoshi Nakata went to Harvard University to complete his MBA degree. So, what about the retired Chinese nationals?
so to speak,It’s not an accident that so many South Korea’s 02 World Cup internationals have been teaching after retiring. Including other Korean retired players who are currently coaching in the K-League, they all have relatively high cultural qualifications, so they can better become a coach. After all, being a coach and a player are two completely different concepts, and coaching The first is an educator, a "teacher". In contrast, although Chinese retired players have also entered the Institute of Physical Education for advanced studies, the overall cultural quality may not need to be said. Like , Yao Ming, Deng Yaping, etc., they can carry their schoolbags after retiring and feel at ease on campus life for several years. There are only a handful, or almost none. This has also largely caused the limitations of the quality of today's local Chinese football coaches.
From another point of view, when most of the generation of South Korea’s 02 World Cup internationals chose to teach, their growth process seems to further reflect the shortcomings of Chinese coaches. After most of South Korea’s national football players retired and obtained the coaching certificate, they first entered the low-level team, or the youth team, either the high school team or the university team, first served as assistant coach, then head coach, and then entered the professional team as assistant coach. Finally embarked on the position of head coach. This is what I mentioned earlier. Both Zidane and Pirlo played master-class midfield stars in the world, but the coaching Real Madrid is in sharp contrast with Juventus. One of the most important points is Pirlo's coaching career. The necessary experience is missing.
Like Hong Mingfu, who picked up the pointer again this year, he started his coaching journey with an assistant, then went to teach in the youth team, and gradually became the head coach of the national team after he scored (the London Olympic bronze medal). Moreover, after the London Olympics, the Korean Football Association originally wanted to directly push him to the position of head coach of the national team, but Hong Mingfu chose to decline, and the Anzhi team who went to Russia continued to serve as an assistant to the then coach Hiddink, . Because he knows that he still does not have the conditions to directly serve as the head coach of the national team. After that, he replaced Cui Kangxi in desperation and led the team to prepare for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. This time, he resigned from the post of Secretary General of the Korean Football Association and returned to the K-League.I just hope to return to a familiar post and find the joy of teaching. In China, I am afraid it is impossible to return to the sidelines after entering politics.
This is not only the case for South Korea. After Japan's 2002 World Cup internationals retired, if they choose to teach, they will first start with the most basic team, and then gradually embark on the front line. The most typical is the central defender Tsuneyasu Miyamoto. He started from the youth team of the Gamba Osaka club and then became the head coach of the U23 team. He commanded the team to play in the J3 league, then put out the fire and became the head coach of the first team. From 2017 The 10th place at the end of the year led the team to win the "Double Asia" in the league and cup matches last year, gradually showing the talent of becoming an excellent coach.
In contrast, local players in countries are generally reluctant to coach in the youth team first after retiring, but directly choose to teach in the professional first team, or even directly take over the position of head coach. On the one hand, the low salary of coaching youth teams is partly a fact; on the other hand, it has something to do with the manager’s "pull the seedlings". For example, at the end of last year, the Guangzhou team forced Zheng Zhi, who was still playing, to be the head coach. , Is a typical example, they are not even willing to let those who have just retired players sink their hearts and truly transform into a qualified "educator". As a result, after the Chinese players retired, they will inevitably experience a "breakthrough" at the beginning of their career as a professional coach . In the practical environment of Chinese football utilitarianism, once leading the team to perform poorly, the local coach will be labeled as "not good", and it will be difficult for them to stand up and become an excellent coach.
⑦China’s own coach training has too many shortcomings
When we are talking about why Chinese local coaches have not produced high-level coaches in recent years, in addition to the few mentioned above In addition to these reasons, a situation that cannot be ignored is that China Football Team is the highest department of industry management. Over the past few years, there have been too many problems and shortcomings in the training of coaches.
Retired players must first participate in a series of necessary trainings and obtain the corresponding coach level certificates when they transform into coaches. For example, to coach a three-level professional league team in China, according to the relevant regulations of the Football Association, they must have the highest level—professional coach Certificate. This was originally a good rule, but in the process of implementation, it became: can teach as long as it is registered as a professional class. This leaves too many "loopholes" and brings a series of Many coaches can give up learning in order to lead the team, and then start another class in the next year. After all, the salary of coaching the first team is considerable. As for foreign teachers, there are also a series of loopholes in management. Even if the original professional coach certificate can not be obtained, it can still be "mixed" in the Chinese professional football world. Anyway, "no one intervenes."
10 years ago, there were only a handful of professional-level coaches in Chinese football; today, 10 years later, there are nearly 160 professional-level coaches in Chinese football. less. According to the latest statistics on the official website of the Korean Football Association as of June 2020, South Korea currently has 173 professional-level coaches, barely more than 10 more than China, which is almost negligible. In February of this year, the Japanese Football Association approved the coach of Matsumoto Yamaya FC as an S-level coach (professional level), the latest coach to receive an S-level certificate and the 510th professional coach in Japanese football. .
Although it is incomparable with Japan, the number of professional coaches in Chinese football is comparable to that of South Korea, but why has the number of coaches from South Korea to China coached in these years more than that of local Chinese coaches? The reason may be nothing more than one word: "Quality!" For a long time, Chinese football has always liked to substitute "quantity" for "quality" and "play digital games", and one-sided pursuit of quantity. There are many people in China, but no matter how many people there are, there can only be 11 people to 11 people on the football match. The simple number comparison is meaningless. Even if the number of professional coaches in China exceeds that of South Korea and even Japan, there is no guarantee of "quality".Nor does it necessarily guarantee that the level of Chinese football can surpass South Korea and Japan.
In this process, the first lies in the quality of the people who train professional coaches. Since 2011, the professional coaches training of the Chinese Football Association has been in charge of the German Stephen, . Of the nearly 160 professional coaches in China today, most of them are Stephen's students. In this year's Champions League quarter-finals, the coaches of the four teams are from Germany, which is enough to prove the quality of German football coach training. Before Stephen came to China, UEFA was responsible for the training of professional coaches. For example, Liverpool coach Klopp is one of Stephen's students . It should be said that Stephen's training is still quite standard, otherwise UEFA will not send him to Asia to give lectures, and eventually recommend it to the Chinese Football Association. However, with the repeated adjustments of the head of the technical department of the Chinese Football Association, Stephen was gradually rejected in the later period. The Football Association recruited other people who did not have the qualifications of professional coach training to take charge of the training of Chinese local professional coaches. Strong8strong was in Stephen. Those who fail the exam in the vocational class will be able to pass the exam smoothly if they change to another class. Is there any hidden "secret" in this? Perhaps those involved know best that what was originally a very serious matter has turned into a "deal" in the end. It is no wonder that Chinese football has not been able to produce excellent football coaches over the years.
In fact, it’s not just Stephen. Another German professional lecturer, Crete, also had a situation where 2/3 of the students in a vocational class failed the exam. Crete firmly refused to grant graduation. The result was . The strict requirement turned into a "crime", and was eventually "shoveled away" on the grounds of expiration of the contract .
But look at our neighbors,Take the 02 World Cup Japanese international Yasushi Zhongshan, which is familiar to Chinese fans, as an example. The No. 10 star in the World Cup that year has yet to officially announce his retirement. Earlier this year, he was invited to Iwata Jubiro as an assistant coach. He was studying for a coaching certificate while playing football, and he had completed his studies as an S-level (professional) coach as early as 2016. However, according to the regulations of the Japanese Football Association, at least one year of internship experience is required after the end of the study before the certificate can be officially obtained. Since Masashi Nakayama has been playing football and has no time to complete the internship, the Japanese Football Association has never issued an S-level certificate. At the beginning of the 2019 season, Nakayama Masashi had to play as a player in the first team of the J3 club Numazu Blue Blue and at the same time go to the club's U18 echelon as a coach. After the expiration of the one-season internship, the Japan Football Association decided at the board meeting on March 14, 2020 to award its S-level coach certificate, which also made Masashi Nakayama the first Japanese football player to obtain the S-level coach qualification. Certificate of active player.
It is particularly worth pointing out that Japan’s professional level (S-level) coaching certificate is not determined by the Technical Department of the Japan Football Association to issue or not, but the Japan Football Association holds a board meeting and all board members discuss and approve it. , The coach must submit the S-level course academic completion scores, leading practice certificates, including daily training training logs and other materials, all placed on the table for members of the board of directors to review, before finally making the distribution or not Decide . In other words, the professional-level coaching certificate is the highest level of coaching certificate. Obtaining such a certificate is equivalent to obtaining the highest honor. This kind of honor is not something that can be bought with money, but in Chinese football, it seems that "anything is possible."
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Affected by the epidemic and the impact of the economic situation, China’s professional football scene this year is gone, and clubs no longer have the money to "smash" the so-called big-name foreign teachers. . According to this, someone once shouted "The spring of Chinese coaches is here!" Indeed,As Chinese fans, we certainly hope that China's local coaches can rise and lead the team to achieve good results. Moreover, the Chinese Football Association has a long-term view and hopes to vigorously train young local coaches, which is also very worthy of recognition. So, can the local young coaches in China live up to the high expectations of all walks of life? Only time can give a clear answer.
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