Special correspondent Zhang Hanran reported that in 2020, Liaozu, which has a glorious history of decades, announced its dissolution, which was a major blow to Liaoning football. However, Liaoning football is not depressed, actively starting from youth training and women's football, hoping to lay a good foundation and look forward to the early realization of the revival of Liaoning football. Not long ago, the Liaoning Provincial Football Association proposed to vigorously develop women's football teams with good foundations, relatively small investment and relatively weak competition, hoping to take women's football as a breakthrough point and drive the comprehensive rejuvenation of Liaoning football.
The Provincial Football Association called for the vigorous development of women's football
After china's women's football team regained the Asian Cup after 16 years, women's football fever was set off everywhere. On February 8, the Liaoning Provincial Football Association issued a proposal to encourage the development of women's football projects and the formation of teams to make women's football a sports business card of Liaoning.
In this Asian Cup, excellent female football players such as Gao Chen, Zhu Yu and Wang Yanwen trained by Liaoning performed well, in addition, Wang Shanshan, MVP of this Asian Cup, played for Dalian women's football team for many seasons.
A person in charge of the Liaoning Provincial Football Association said that over the years, Liaoning has been actively developing women's football, emerging many outstanding women's football talents, competitive performance has always been in the forefront of the country, and women's football athletes have developed well. Under the revitalization situation of The "Three Balls" in Liaoning, the Provincial Party Committee, the Provincial Government, the Provincial Sports Bureau, and the Provincial Sports Development Center attach great importance to the revitalization of football and put forward the slogan of "football revitalization, women's football first". At present, with the construction of the provincial women's football professional team as the leader, the construction of women's football echelons at all levels, the new formation of 2007/08 and 20/10 two age groups of elite teams, hope and welcome the local football management departments and clubs to continue to support the construction of provincial teams, actively transport talents, accelerate and strive to take the lead in achieving women's football revitalization. It is hoped that through the coordination of all parties, a good environment will be created for the revitalization of women's football, and it is also hoped that through intensive cultivation of women's football talents, more excellent results will be created, and women's football will be built into a provincial, municipal and local sports business card, and greater contributions will be made to the revitalization of Liaoning football and the leapfrog development of Chinese football.
It is understood that the reason why Liaoning Province decided to take women's football as a breakthrough is mainly because the investment in women's football is relatively low, and the national competition is not as fierce as that of men's football. Moreover, the Liaoning Provincial Women's Football Team has been popularized well in recent years, and the Provincial Sports Bureau currently has four echelons, and the echelon construction is relatively perfect. With the background of Liaoning football, the rise of women's football will be relatively rapid in the future.
The revival of men's football is very difficult
Compared with women's football, the revival of Liaoning men's football is much more difficult. The original Liaozu has been disbanded, Dalian people were relegated to the Middle League last season, and the Liaoning Shenyang City Football Team, which took over the banner of Liaoning Foot, reduced its investment last season, and finally risked to retain the qualification of the Middle League.
Speaking of which, the main reason for the failure of the Liaoning men's football team is that the economic strength is not enough, at present, no enterprise in Liaoning is willing to invest heavily in football.
Taking liaoning Shenyang city team as an example, in the second half of last season, the team only had 14 players participating in the league, and even the 18-person registration list was not enough. In the new season, the team will undergo a major change of blood, all of them will use echelon players around 20 years old, on the one hand, to reduce expenses, on the other hand, to train young players.
Liaoning football to revive, the key is still youth training, Liaoning Football Association in the province to implement the "new Liao Tiger" plan, however, due to too much debt in previous years, Liaoning football youth training is not first-class in the country, and Beijing, Shanghai, Wuhan and other places are a cut. In addition to the echelon of Dalian people, Liaoning Shenyang City Football Club and Li Tie Football Club are the main forces.
In 2016, Li Tie founded Li Tie Football Club in Shenyang, which was rooted in football youth training. With the goal of "letting more children find the joy of playing football and cultivating more outstanding Liaoshen football players", the club strives to build the most professional football youth club in northeast China and even the whole country. After 6 years of development, the club has reached more than 500 students and has trained more than 50,000 players (including campus football). The club's youth training work relies on Li Tie No. 8 Football Park, where football players receive professional and comprehensive football training. At the beginning of 2018, the club used Japan's Komand Sports as a bridge, invited two Japanese coaches and more than 30 Chinese coaches to jointly coach, and upgraded in terms of team management, curriculum syllabus, course implementation, and event guidance.
A person in charge of the Liaoning Provincial Football Association said that cooperation with Li Tie Football Club is another specific measure for the Provincial Sports Bureau to implement the "Overall Plan for the Reform and Development of Chinese Football" and the "Implementation Opinions on the Integration of Sports and Education to Revitalize and Develop Liaoning's "Three Balls", and the Provincial Sports Bureau will cultivate a group of new football elite talents through in-depth cooperation with Li Tie Football Club.
Before the cooperation with Li Tie Football Club, the Liaoning Provincial Sports Bureau and Liaoning Shenyang City Club also cooperated, the club's 2007/08 age group echelon level is among the best in the country, and has repeatedly defeated the relevant age group of Evergrande Football School to win the national championship, but the oldest of these young players is only 15 years old, and it will take time to carry the banner of Liaoning football revival.