The overall result of staying in the ocean may gain one or two good players, but it is absolutely impossible to gain a good team.
Repeating what has failed in the past and launching a plan that has proven to be a waste of money is probably the dead end of Chinese football.
On March 8, there was such a news: "Auxerre, a french veteran team with a Chinese background, is promoting cooperation with the Chinese Football Association, hoping to form a youth team to stay abroad, in the name of Auxerre Club, to participate in the local youth league in France, and the Chinese Football Association, the French Football Association and the Auxerre Club are actively promoting." If an agreement can be reached, the U17 or U19 can participate in the Youth League of France. ”
We can now say with great certainty that if this programme comes true, it will plague another group of young people.
First of all, we need to know the current situation of the Auxerre club.
Auxerre used to be a veteran ligue 1 powerhouse, and their club history is tied to one name: Guy Roux. Guy Roux coached Auxerre from 1961 until 2005 (with two very brief interruptions in between), a reign of 43 years. It was he who brought Auxerre into Ligue 1, it was he who led the team to win the Ligue 1 and the French Cup, it was he who led the team to reach the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup, and it was he who personally built the framework of the Auxerre club, especially the youth training map, from which stars such as Cantona, West and Cisse came out.
But after the departure of Guy Rou, the gradual decline of Auxerre is also an irreversible fact. In recent years, Auxerre has brought in Therault, a well-known promotion expert in Ligue 2, to coach Himon, who is now in his third year of coaching. Despite continued investment and teaming up according to Ferão's wishes, the current upgrade situation of Auxerre is not optimistic, and it will not be easy to catch up with the top two Toulouse and Paris FC. And even if promoted to Ligue 1, today's Auxerre is definitely no longer the Auxerre of the Guy Roussé era, the Ligue 1 youth training map has long changed, and Auxerre himself cannot reproduce the scene of his own children fighting the world in the Gui Rou era.
Legendary Auxerre coach Guy Roux.
The second is the characteristics of the Ligue 1 youth training. Ligue 1 youth training pays attention to the body rather than technology, pays attention to individual ability and does not pay attention to overall awareness, this shortcoming has even been put on the desk of the French Football Association, and thus detonated the "racial discrimination door". But this is a reality that French football cannot change, because the French youth academy is the most transfer market-conscious youth training in the five major leagues, and it is important to highlight the individual ability of one or two players in the packaging team and then strive to sell for a good price. This packaging route is often fooled even for Ligue 1 clubs, such as the recent French football youth training giant Le Havre sold to Lyon in 2020 to striker Cardwell, the first half of the season in the Second Division burst red consecutive goals, Lyon spent 12 million euros to order, the second half of the season immediately into the "rest state", after joining Lyon continue to "rest", now even if the price of 10 million no one wants.
More importantly, the high elimination rate of youth training itself determines that youth training must be decentralized.
This is the natural law of football, each team will naturally form one or several core players, they will take the ball more in the game, their thinking affects their teammates more than teammates affect them, and the difficulty and probability of other players to take the lead is always greater. This is why even clubs like Roma and Atalanta that have excellent youth training, tradition, experience and material selection foundation, the second team coach often aims to "strive to send 1 or 2 people to the first team every year" when talking about work goals.
Another counter-evidence is that players like Cannavaro, Nesta, Grosso and other players often play in the youth team than in the professional team later. Cannavaro and Grosso are the forwards and Nesta is the defensive midfielder. It is even more common for strikers to play full-backs. This is another manifestation of the high elimination rate of football youth, there is no such thing as allowing a player to play well after practicing a position from small to large - and the overall Liuyang will definitely be solidified from the beginning of the team - it is precisely the need to undergo different environmental conversions and tests to cultivate high-level players.
If the number of football seedlings in a country itself is limited, even if it is engaged in large-scale foreign stays, it should also take a decentralized route, disperse players to different clubs that are good at youth training, and also cultivate their ability to live and learn independently. The overall result of staying in the ocean may gain one or two good players, but it is also destined to waste many others, and one thing is very certain, that is, it is impossible to gain a good team.
Wen | Wang Qinbo
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