The Shanghai Tomorrow Star Champions League is in full swing in Shanghai. The organizer has specially set up a coach forum. Chinese and foreign youth training coaches gathered together to start a brainstorm recently. As vice chairman of the Chinese Football Association, former he

Shanghai Tomorrow Star Champions League is in full swing in Shanghai. The organizer has specially set up a coach forum. Chinese and foreign youth training coaches gathered together to start a brainstorm recently. As the vice chairman of the Chinese Football Association , former head coach of the Chinese Football Association Gao Hongbo revealed that tracking data for many small players shows that slow speed, high body fat rate and lack of personalized training are the three major shortcomings exposed in domestic youth training at present.

Gao Hongbo is the eldest disciple of Xu Genbao . After Xu Genbao retired, he discovered Gao Hongbo's good seedling when he was a youth football coach in Beijing. Gao Hongbo was good at playing football with his brain and was good at seizing scoring opportunities in front of the goal. He was once the main striker of the national football team. After retiring, Gao Hongbo led Changchun Yatai team to win the Chinese Super League championship, and served as the head coach of the national football team to compete in intercontinental competitions for many years. Now he serves as the vice chairman of the Chinese Football Association and is in charge of the youth training section.

The Chinese Football Association has previously launched the "Chinese Football Association Youth Training Outline" and held a national elite youth player training camp for all ages to comprehensively grasp the talent reserves of all ages in China, build a talent training system for elite youth player, and maximize the exploration and cultivation of talents.

Gao Hongbo revealed that relevant departments of the Chinese Football Association will continue to follow up on the small players selected for the national elite youth player training camp. Even if these young players return to the club, they are still in the sight. The relevant departments have formed an information database for these young generals, established 12 modules through a digital platform, and collected their basic information, technical characteristics, physical fitness data, etc.

"Through more than two years of data collection, we found that Chinese youth players have exposed some problems." Gao Hongbo showed a data comparison chart through PPT, "When I was playing football, the concept that coach Xu, including the national team coach, instilled in us is that Chinese players have the advantages of speed and agility in Asia. However, judging from the data of youth players I tracked, from 10, 11 to 13 and 14, the gap in speed and ability of this group of players is getting bigger and bigger." Gao Hongbo believes that of course there are problems with inaccurate selection of materials, but he proposed: "Did the coach also consider whether there is any problem of inaccurate training in it, which leads to the loss of the advantages of Chinese players' speed and agility?"

Gao Hongbo also revealed that Chinese youth football players are generally too fat and have too high body fat. "In the past two years, when our national team and club coaches evaluate professional players, they have required the players' body fat rate to be controlled between 9% and 12%. "Gao Hongbo sighed that the body fat rate of Chinese teenagers is generally higher than 12%. "On the one hand, it may be related to the large amount of pork in the Chinese diet, resulting in a higher body fat rate of young players; on the other hand, youth training should also be optimized and regulated, and there is still a lot of room for improvement. Not long ago, the leaders of the General Administration came to the Chinese Football Association for research. I also said: In addition to letting players develop the habit of scientific diet, our coaches also need to solve the problem of scientific training." After the professional reform of football, many European clubs have opened training camps in China, and many European teams have also sold daily training courses for the Chinese youth coach market. Many Chinese youth football coaches are eager to learn and eager to learn, and they also apply these European training courses to Chinese young players intact.

Gao Hongbo believes that foreign model training is of course good, but it must be combined with the physical and mental characteristics of Chinese young players, especially the daily learning environment and weekly training time of Chinese and foreign young players, and cannot be copied directly.

"I remember, when I was a young player with Fan Zhiyi and , coach Xu kept us every day after training, and practiced heading and shooting." Gao Hongbo said that in addition to carrying out systematic course training, Chinese youth training coaches also need to learn from the experience advantages of personalized teaching in the past. "The physical fitness of Chinese people is not exactly the same as that of Europeans. We must highlight personalized training based on the characteristics of Chinese youth players and explore the technical characteristics of players."

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Source: Author: Chen Hua