Football insiders often like to ask parents a sentence: When you criticize the national football team, are you willing to send your children to play football? But one issue that people in football never mention is cost! I believe that many children are very fond of football, and parents are willing to send them to play football than to play games at home. But if the fee is high, it's a different matter! At present, the domestic youth training fees, there is not much information to query, we dare not say whether it is expensive or cheap. However, judging from a charging standard announced by Evergrande Football School, the cost of youth training is indeed a roadblock for many parents to send their children to play football.
The charging standards on the picture below were released by Evergrande Football School. We can see that the 7-day training camp costs 4188 yuan. It's almost 600 bucks a day. For many parents, the cost of 600 yuan a day is low or high? This is a question that we leave to parents and people in football circles to evaluate.
There are many reasons for the poor performance of Chinese football, of which "youth training" is the most mentioned. For example, this time, there are players and professionals in the football circle who say that they hope that more parents can send their children to play football and increase the base of football participation. Sending a football player is no problem for parents. But if you ask him to spend close to 600 yuan a day to play football, I'm afraid it's a big problem. If you are not a parent in a first-tier city, I am afraid that I will not have an income of 600 a day.
In fact, the youth training fee is the most important problem that people in the football circle should discuss and propose solutions. The fees are too high, and parents are certainly not willing to pay for it. The fees are too low, the football circles are unprofitable, and there is not so much motivation to do youth training. How to resolve this contradiction may be an effective way to enhance the youth training of the national football team and expand the mass base of football.
For the national football youth training, there are actually two major problems at present. The first problem is a topic that people in football circles avoid talking about – charges! If this problem is not solved, many children will also be too expensive to kick. The Football Association has money to reward the national football team, can it come up with some expenses to subsidize youth training?
The second problem is the youth coach. There is a consensus in football circles: let professional people do professional things, so after many players retire, some go to clubs as coaches, which is completely fine. However, some people have gone to the national echelon to become youth trainers, and this problem is relatively large.
In the field of Chinese football, which player dares to say that he is very professional? Especially the attitude towards the game, the fighting spirit, the psychological quality and basic skills, I am afraid that most Chinese players lack it! If these players (pseudo-professionals) become youth coaches, can they develop better players than themselves?
Therefore, the selection of youth coaches must not let those players who have failed in the era of players do it, which will only mislead people and harm the future of national football. Asking some excellent youth coaches abroad will involve high costs, at this time, the FA subsidies will play a role.
Of course, this is a very complex issue. We also need more professionals in our football community to advise.