Original title: The father of Japanese football: "I thought that the first Asian world cup champion would be China"
Saburo Kawabuchi, who is well-known in Japanese football and known as the father of Japanese football, was interviewed by the media a few days ago.
The assessment of Chinese football is: too short-sighted.
Once boldly predicted
When China and Japan started their own professional soccer leagues decades ago, I did say that China was likely to become the first country in Asia to win the World Cup because it had a large population base, Mr. Kawabuchi said.
Evaluate again
But after all these years, I see the scene of Chinese football, and I take back what I said before, the current pattern of Chinese football is very small, and the planning is very short-sighted
。 But this does not affect the emergence of some talents, there are still some young and extremely talented children who show good skills. However, because of the unscientific system and training, once the overall game is played, it cannot be well coordinated, and the desire to win or lose is relatively weak.
If they can have the consciousness to dare to carry honor and difficulties on their shoulders like their predecessors, and move forward through difficulties, then Chinese football will definitely have a place in Asia.
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Personal advice
The promotion of football must start from the grassroots, and the first thing to do is to develop a scientific framework so that children across the country can participate and feel the joy of football.
Then with county, city, province and national echelons, they cultivate their league concept from an early age and cultivate their sense of honor in the atmosphere of football.
Children cultivate a sense of honor together in a collective form from an early age, which is more conducive to promoting teamwork ability and cooperation, and by bringing together dozens of players who play well in a short period of time to train and arrange tactics, they are really technically ahead on the field, but they may not be able to play the former, because they lack a sense of community.
Study abroad
Keeping children in the ocean may be a good option in the short term, and China has been doing this, not only to send young talent to Europe and South America to exercise, as far as I know, but even to set up football schools in Europe.
This approach is not completely unworkable, but it can only be said that it treats the symptoms but not the root cause, because Japan tried this in the 60s of the last century, but the results can only be short-lived.
System recommendations
Saburo Kawabuchi said, from my personal point of view, I have three suggestions.
Popularize football, start to promote it from the bottom, let more people participate in the group of football, and start to cultivate hobbies and honor from an early age. Only in this way can we talk about youth training. This is destined to be a long and difficult road, but it is the most effective one, Chinese football is not short of money, because European big coaches such as Lippi and Camacho have come to coach, but in fact, they all take money to do things, and they can't change the fundamentals. (If it doesn't change from the model and system, it won't be long before Chinese football will be the same.) ）
Cultivate an excellent coaching system, which is more important than the above suggestion, a good coach can lead young players on the right track in the most correct way, and at the same time, it can also cast a wide net to find excellent seedlings in China, the Chinese base is so large, there is no reason not to find 23 people, not enough to make up the 23-man roster, the 11 regular players should not be a problem. At the same time, these coaches must also continue to train and learn to accumulate their professional knowledge, and then teach to these children.
Do a good job in their own professional league, the professional degree of the professional league, determine whether the children cultivated can test their abilities through competition in a good environment, correct their shortcomings, and professional clubs can bring children to the road of professionalism in a more professional way, and finally realize the training system from childhood to adulthood, and compete for the national team to win glory for the country.