How can China become a soccer powerhouse in 10 years? Does this seem like a false proposition? However, former South Korea international Lee Tianxiu gave us an unexpected but reasonable answer: learn from the Talent Cultivation System of the Shaolin Temple to solve the problem of Chinese youth football. This idea is different, but it is by no means sensational.
As a former South Korean international, Lee Became a major member of the South Korean national team before the age of 22, and also participated in the 2002 World Cup with the team, after which he stayed in La Liga and officially retired in 2015.
Recently, the performance of China-Japan-South Korea in the recent round of 12 matches on the field has received great attention from Li Tianxiu. For the current problems in Chinese football, Li Tianxiu pointed out to the point: the "foundation" of Chinese football - youth training has gone wrong.
So the question is, China has invested so much before, it can be said that it is far more than Japan and South Korea, but why has it not been effective? He said: China's "foundation" is unstable, so it is absolutely impossible to invest only in the top league, and on the contrary, the normal development model is from the bottom up.
Indeed it is. In the case of Japanese football, for example, they develop development plans on a 10-year cycle and develop from the bottom up. Importantly, they will continue to do it, which is in sharp contrast to the rapid changes in Chinese football.
Therefore, for how to develop Chinese football in the future, Li Tianxiu clearly said: "Invite those (big-name) coaches to the youth training and start cultivating from the bottom, only in this way can China become a football power in 10 years." Because adolescents can correct them through education before they develop habits or problems, this will increase the likelihood of success. If you spend a lot of money on cultivation, it will increase by 100%. If you look at the Shaolin Temple, aren't they all cultivated from an early age? ”
Li Tianxiu's words are not unreasonable, not to mention the Shaolin Temple, just look at Qatar, which has developed rapidly in recent years. Before the 19-year Asian Cup, Qatar could be said to be a second-rate team in Asia, but through the continuous development of its Aspire youth training system and the spending of a lot of manpower and material resources to cultivate young players from an early age, it successfully promoted the development of Qatari football, and finally helped the Qatari national team become a strong team in Asian football and reach the top of the Asian Cup in the United Arab Emirates.