Reporter Wang Wei reported that on the evening of January 29, Shen Xiangfu, the official of the Shenzhen Football Club, was appointed as the youth training director of the Shenzhen Kaisa echelon, and shen guidance who had cultivated the "super platinum generation" of Chinese football in the age of 81 and 82 was once again returned to the team of cultivating youth reserve talents.
After signing the contract with Shenzu, Shen Xiangfu called his eldest brother Rong Zhixing for the first time and told him that I had come to Shenzhen. Rong Zhixing asked Shen Xiangfu to meet, they had a good relationship, they were roommates of the national team at that time.
At noon on January 30, Shen Xiangfu accepted an exclusive interview with this reporter at the Deep Foot Club, for youth training, Shen Xiangfu has his own deep understanding, in the interview he repeatedly stressed that a stable and perfect high-level coaching team and high-level training is the top priority of youth training, "Without high-quality and high-level training, good seedlings will also be mediocre!" ”
◆ "Football": Director Shen, hello, what are your feelings about coming to Shenzhen to work in the football youth training field of the club?
Shen Xiangfu: When I came to Shenzhen this time, I would like to first thank the leaders of Kaisa Group and the leaders of the club for their trust in me.
◆ You have cultivated and built the Super Platinum Generation of Chinese Football, and have been working in the national team for a long time, and you are very familiar with the Chinese football youth training system, what are the reasons that attracted you to join Shenzu as the youth training director?
I have accumulated a lot of coaching experience in coaching football for more than thirty years, and I can still practice it. The cultivation of Chinese youth is a very important work, if we want to improve Chinese football, youth training is very important, so in the past six months I have been understanding and familiar with it, and at the same time have the intention to cultivate more excellent players. I have also communicated with several places, why I chose shenzhen club, mainly Ding Zong worked with me, he understands me, trusts me, and respects me, we communicate very well, at the same time he told me that Shenzhen club attaches importance to the cultivation of youth training, just I also have this idea, after the exchange, I think the stability of the deep foot club made me see a good environment and foundation for youth training, so I finally chose to come to the deep foot club.
◆ The deep foot youth training echelon recently conducted intensive training in Sanshui, Qingyuan, Guangdong and Wuzhou, Guangxi, have you met with them?
I went to Wuzhou to watch two games of The Kaisa Elite team led by Chen Tao, went to Sanshui to meet with U17 and U19 coaches and team members, and the other teams have not yet communicated with them because of time constraints. Next, it takes some time to conduct a field investigation of the club's youth training, familiarize yourself with the youth training situation and system of the club and the Shenzhen area, and then decide how to build the club's youth training system in the next step according to the requirements of the club leaders, according to the needs of the club's youth training development and the road suitable for the development of the club's youth training.
◆Have you seen any good seedlings in Kaisa's echelon?
I went to see three teams, elite team and U19, U17, I saw that some children are quite dexterous, and the IQ is also quite high, if you train according to high quality, and then according to the training method of competitive sports, it may break out in a certain time, because the plasticity of this age group is still very strong. I think we have to do the best, the future club does not rely on buying people, we have to rely on our own blood, we export good players, and we have to send talents to the national team, there is such a high goal, in order to cultivate excellent talents, from the leaders of Kaisa Group, the leaders of the club, now attach great importance to youth training, which is also the key factor that attracts me.
◆ Shen Dao has a relationship with Guangdong, served as the head coach of the Guangzhou team more than ten years ago, and has led the team to Shenzhen for many times. How do you feel when you come to Shenzhen again?
Shenzhen has been at the forefront of reform and opening up, is an open city, yesterday and friends at dinner chatted, they said that come to Shenzhen to work is Shenzhen people, indeed, Shenzhen is an inclusive city, open city, here can learn a lot of advanced things. I coached in Guangzhou, and I don't think there's much difference between Shenzhen and Guangzhou, it's very similar. Shenzhen has my big brother Rong Zhixing during the national team period, and having him makes me feel very happy to come to Shenzhen. I remember that when we formed the national team in 1977, there were only three old players, one was Rong Zhixing, chi Shangbin and Xiang Hengqing, the others were young players, and Li Fusheng, who was slightly older than me, the youngest was me and Huang Xiangdong.
I live in a room with Big Brother Rong Zhixing, so many years of deep feelings, he is very good to me, he set a very good example for me, whether it is a person, on the field in all aspects has always been a model for me to learn. After I signed a contract with the club yesterday (January 29), I called Big Brother as soon as possible and told Him that I had come to Shenzhen and that he thought I was in Beijing. I have been teaching in Guangzhou for three years, and Rong Zhixing's elder brother often visits me in Guangzhou and has always cared about me.
◆ "Football": Next, the entire deep-footed echelon construction system, what is your idea? What are you going to do?
Shen Xiangfu: Through a period of understanding of the grassroots youth training of Chinese football, I think it is very important to first establish a stable and perfect team of high-level coaches, which is very important, because now there are more and more children playing football, and high-quality training is extremely important for them. If the quality of training is not good, it will delay the good seedlings, so a sound and high-level coaching team is very important. The second is the high level of training, these high-level players, talented players to promote to excellent players and elite players, high-quality training is indispensable, is a very important part, this period of time I have walked a lot of places to carefully understand, now playing more and more children, but high-quality training is indeed to strengthen, whether it is campus football or good, sports and education combination, or clubs, are the same, the quality of youth training system coaching on the development of young players, I think that's the top priority, it's very important, and that's my understanding.
◆ Deep Foot hired Chen Tao as the head coach of Kaisa Elite Team this year, and also cooperated with Cuiyuan Middle School in Luohu District, Shenzhen to build an echelon team that combines sports and education, and Deep Foot is exploring two different ways of youth training teams, what do you think about this?
I think the club, the Shenzhen Football Association, the Shenzhen Municipal Education Bureau trinity can be well integrated, this is a very important thing, bring the greatest advantage to the youth training, so the strength of these three parties is very important, everyone can form a joint force, so that the cultivation of young people will have greater development, the trinity is very important, because we are all cultivating people for Chinese football, cultivating people for the country, and integrating the strength together, which is the best way and method for the country to cultivate football talents, if they are scattered, the strength will be dispersed , so how to integrate together is the key key.
◆ What knowledge and experience can you share in the field of youth training over the years?
In the past, I led the 81 and 82 age group members from the national youth to the national Olympic Games for nearly 5 years, through the changes of the times, we learned a lot of things, learned the concept of modern football. Over the years, Chinese football coaches, whether adult teams or youth teams are learning, I myself have a profound experience, must be combined with the actual characteristics of Chinese players, because we eventually have to go our own way, the formation of our own style, the concept of advanced football is what we must accept and learn, how to integrate this aspect is very critical.
Advanced football concept and our Chinese football has always been characteristics of the style must be combined, so that the characteristics of Chinese players can be brought into play, this is also the process of my continuous learning, to practice summary, now I am at this age, engaged in coaching for so many years, accumulated their own clear views and cognition, I want to communicate with our coaches through the Shenzhen club youth training system, let them understand the combination of these two, because our young Chinese coaches are indeed very serious about learning advanced football concepts, But how to integrate Chinese football styles into one piece needs to be practiced, and sometimes the detours taken will be longer if they are completely copied.
Over the years, I have gained some experience and accumulated some experience, so I want to improve the teaching level of our youth coaches and improve the quality of their teaching. For so many years I have led the national brand of youth teams to often participate in international competitions, I know the characteristics of advanced football and our Chinese players best, this combination of experience is very profound, indeed accumulated a set of their own ideas, but also in the practice to summarize, I want to teach these to them.
◆ "Football": Over the years, China has invested a lot of money and strength in the youth training stage, but there are fewer and fewer skilled players, some opinions believe that this is related to the rapid development of professional leagues and the breaking of the three-level training system (amateur sports schools), in the current situation, what ways and methods can be used to cultivate technical players like Rong Zhixing, Gu Guangming, Zhao Dayu?
Shen Xiangfu: Yes, at that time, the amateur sports school team members had more time to train, competitive sports in any project, if you form a solid basic skill in technology, it is inseparable from three aspects, one is time, the team members have the accumulation of time to have the number of times to contact the ball, and at the same time use their brains. This is the process of growth, especially in the solid basic skills there is no shortcut to go, but now because of the combination of sports and education, relative to the school still have to study for half a day, in the afternoon there are about two hours of this training, indeed the number of training hours is less. Of course, the understanding ability of the players will be stronger by learning, but it is not enough to just understand this. Because you think very well, speak well, but also need you to practice your basic skills, there is no thousand hammers, to hone your own touch times is not enough, you must combine at the same time.
The most crucial thing I have to say is the quality of teaching mentioned earlier.
High-level training, high-quality training, can also be achieved in two hours. The key is how the level of training is, plus now the child is also smart, strong understanding ability, take the basic skills of football, there are times to touch the ball, and at the same time have a good mind to use their brains, so it will improve quickly, master quickly, so I think it is different from the past, but it can be made up.
There is also a point of view is that the children themselves, the players themselves, this and the social environment has a relationship, now mobile phones and other electronic products are many, I in Shanghai Shenhua with the elite team to Spain for a year and a half, participated in their local regional league, Spain of the same age and even smaller than our children, including local school outings are gathered around to communicate, no mobile phone.
Mobile phones may learn a lot of information, but some of our children spend a lot of thought on mobile phones, I think, if you put this energy of playing games into the training on the football field, or into the thinking of football, the technical ability of the players can definitely be supplemented and improved.
So I said that the technical problems of the players are caused by the general environment, and there are also the reasons for the players themselves, because now life is getting better and better, they are exposed to too many things, they play too many things, how much is really invested in football? If all walks of life want to become excellent players and outstanding talents, it is impossible if they do not delve into investment, and there is no shortcut to practicing solid basic skills, not only football, but all walks of life.
◆ "Football": Just now you said that in the past few years, you have watched a lot of grass-roots youth training, how do you feel?
Shen Xiangfu: At present, campus football has done a good job in combining sports and education, morality, intellectual, physical fitness, beauty and education, but as a club coach, you can't think that the team is the team of campus football, not professional, not elite. I think the football youth training system is to be elite, to cultivate excellent talents. Therefore, the key is to look at the level of the coach, the coach's coaching ability, and the compactness and quality of the coach's training, which is the most critical. Now I am also thinking about how to improve, before I went to see some of the training of the youth team, some after I watched, I said it is best to let the children go back to rest, do not waste time, in that loose training, they can only develop bad habits, once bad habits are formed it is difficult to change.
If we take out half an hour a day, we are training in the right direction of very high quality, this is the positive number, the positive plus half an hour, the next hour, the next hour, constantly accumulate positive, if it is negative, the more you go down the bad habits, the more bad habits, because there is a saying that good habits are your best friends, bad habits are your biggest enemy. Of course, not only in football, but also in life, in learning, in all aspects, I think this sentence is universal. If a person develops good habits, all aspects benefit, and if they develop bad habits, they will hit walls everywhere.
In my understanding of football, once I see that there is no quality training on the pitch, I suggest that it is best to let them go back to rest and not practice, because practicing again will accumulate more and more bad problems.
I think that since practicing even for 10 minutes, we must also have high-quality training, and the accumulation of 10 minutes a day must be a process of cultivating in the direction of excellent players, so I just said so much, now no matter what level of team it is, whether it is an adult team, a Chinese Super League team or a youth training team, high-quality, high-level training is a very important and very critical step.
◆ Your concept is very in line with the reality of Chinese football youth training, what do you want to do next?
It can't be said that maybe campus football is always less than the number of hours of club training, there may be a gap, in fact, it is not, depending on the quality and level of your training. Since we learn the world's advanced football things, why don't we do these requirements, we see that the five major league games are strong in a fast pace, not loosely formed into a slow and leisurely habit, high-level football which gives you time and space to think. Players are required to be clear-headed and observe the technique of handling the ball, football is interesting here, difficult and difficult here, it is all-round.
I came here, the task is very heavy, first of all, I am not the first to catch the players, I first grasp the training of coaches, what is high-quality training? With this team, we can take the players with high quality, and there is a high quality requirement for the players, and the key is that the quality must be valued and emphasized. Without high-quality, high-level training, good seedlings will be mediocre.
From the experience of so many years, now I do experience more and more deeply, I think the responsibility of youth coaches is very large, like when I was in the national brand, when I was in the Chinese Super League, the grades were good, the class was good, and the class was off, which was very simple. But teenagers are not the same, to cultivate a group of children, is to cultivate a group of talents for the country, coaches will feel very pleased, but to delay, it is also to delay a group of children, so if a coach's understanding to get such a height, your cognition and sense of responsibility are definitely not the same. That's what I'm experiencing now.
Why I am now involved in youth training, because as a qualified coach, practice and theory should be combined, not only theory will not be practiced on the field, especially teaching teenagers, I think my body has about 5 years to go to the field to teach children, what is the right action, what is the right requirement. At that time, we were watching Pele cross the ball in the World Cup, those actions were watched football movies, TV to learn, if in the adolescent stage, the coach can not do the correct demonstration, the correct guidance, talk more is useless, do an action, the team members will understand. As long as you can move, you must teach by hand, in this case, the effect is not the same.
I'm going to train some young coaches, I'm going to show young coaches on the field, and if my body can't move, I'm going to retire completely. Now although I am up, I feel physically active, no problem, I still have a lot of feelings for youth training. I watched a lot of grassroots youth training, and after watching ten minutes of training, I knew that my standards had not been met, how to reach the standards of advanced football? I think the most important and core link I said today is the high-quality and high-level training of coaches, which is an important part of our future youth training development. I don't know what other people think, but my thirty years of coaching have taught me that this aspect is too critical.
◆ At present, there are many children participating in football training in China, and there are many outstanding players who are involved in youth training at all levels.
We now attach importance to the development of young coaches, which is very good, a lot of good players, even members of the national team are also involved in youth training. In terms of the cultivation of excellent coaches, it is necessary to carry out step-by-step training.
After I brought the team in 81 or 82, I realized the importance of the coaching process, and it is very difficult for a very famous player to lead the national junior team directly or directly to the national youth team, because serving as a coach requires step-by-step learning and teaching.
The coaches of the national youth and the national youth are particularly important, and if they are well brought, they will bring out a group of people, and if they delay, they will delay a group of people. At that time, I came down from Guoan to take guoshao, and after two or three months, I played the Asian Junior Tournament, there was no time, and you had to carry out training and achievements at the same time. If there is no qualifying for the Asian Junior Championship after three months, there will be no Asian Junior Final, and the World Championship will not exist. At that time, I brought 81 and 82 years, followed by Zhao Xuri with Crow Chen, these 4 age groups, two groups of people participated in the two World Youth Championships, these two groups of people in Chinese football for many years. Of course, there are also good seedlings at various stages.
For many years, we have not had a team to participate in the World Junior Championships and the World Youth Championships, there is no such exercise, how to compete with others in the Olympic Games, psychology and adaptability are not good, so we young, excellent coaches, we must let him exercise step by step in practice, first in the team as an assistant coach, step by step to improve. A good coach needs a growth process, which is a very important part.
I have been working as a coach for so many years, I have personally experienced, taking the 81 and 82 age groups to the World Youth Championships, I feel a sense of relief, if these seedlings are destroyed in my hands, what is the mood? If the coach of the youth sees the child growing day by day and cultivating it in the future, the sense of comfort is really different, so we must train coaches and train players in accordance with the laws of football.
◆ "Football": hard struggle is the spirit of the older generation of football people, the mentality of today's young people is easily affected by the fast-paced and impetuous emotions of today's society, and it is easy to shrink back, give up, and not cherish when encountering difficulties, do you think that in the youth training system, do you think it is necessary to put forward the spirit of hard training again?
Shen Xiangfu: If all walks of life want to achieve results or do better, they need the spirit of hardship, especially competitive sports. Chinese sports have such a slogan: three from one, from the difficult, strict, from the actual combat, large amount of exercise training. At that time, there was no scientific training, and if we proceeded from difficulty, strictness, and actual combat, large-scale exercise training combined with scientific training would be perfect.
I told my own experience, in 2017, the Chinese Football Association asked me to take the 2001 age group (U16) team to France to participate in an invitational tournament, when I was temporarily transferred, I took it out to compete for three days, when the team members' names were not yet called, and I did not know what they practiced. The game was all lost, and the European team was very difficult to pass the half, the most surprising thing to me was that there was a player who cramped in the 25th minute in the first half, I did not understand very much, it may be the lack of international competition experience caused by tension, but only played for 25 minutes on the cramps, I was a little bit ununderstood, and then nervous, cramps in the second half is normal, the second point is that the training is not passed.
When I came back, I told the leaders of the Football Association that this is the key age group of Chinese football, and if this is the situation, there is no hope. Later, the Football Association asked me to continue to lead this team, and I said well, since you let me take it, you have to give me a month and a half, I will take them to Kunming, and I will let them be reborn.
◆ Does it mean to improve physical fitness?
Now practicing physical fitness, others think that I can run 10,000 meters as soon as I practice. In the past, people saw that Real Madrid could compete as soon as they arrived in Kunming, and our Chinese team members must go to Kunming in advance for the process of aerobic, oxygen-mixed to anaerobic physical energy reserve. Real Madrid are professional players, and people go to sports and run on holidays to maintain aerobic training. My own personal experience, as long as there is an aerobic foundation, the strength of the team's starting force will not be injured, nor will it be insufficient.
In fact, those small players lack this, at that time, a 10,000-meter run was afraid, in fact, when I took the 81 age group they were already 18 years old, at that time I implemented less and more meals in the training of the 10,000-meter run, and the 10,000-meter run was divided into two segments, combined with the 20-minute passing and receiving technique in the middle. I ran for two or three days, turned on the cardiopulmonary function of the team members, adapted the muscles through running, and also exercised the quality of will, because people's inertia is too strong.
In fact, it is two or three days, the outside world thinks that as long as I train is 10,000 meters running, in fact, after two or three days of 10,000 meters running, I think the team members have an aerobic foundation, I will gradually combine the strength of the ball a little bit, to the intensity of the confrontation, and finally to the game, there is a process, a month and a half later, the players' bodies are elastic and not sink.
A month and a half later, I left Kunming with that team for shanghai for the Jinshan Cup International Invitational Tournament. At the end of July, Shanghai was very hot, we were forced to grab the whole field, there was no cramp, and the running was very strong, the execution was very strong, as long as the execution was strong, it would be effective, and the overall formation was also very good, and finally we got the runner-up. Later, after training in Jiangning for a month, he participated in the Zibo Cup and won the championship.
I think we must accumulate, and accumulation lies in emphasizing high-level training, high-quality training, and strict requirements. Because you are doing competitive sports, not playing, this kind of training is high-intensity, no physical fitness, no strength how to fight with people? Some people just took them to run aerobically, they said they would only run 10,000 meters, and then I told the team, if your coach said, you call your coach and compare the technique with me.
I play as a striker, I know the importance of technology, but now as a coach, I know better that there is no physical fitness as a prerequisite, how to guarantee technology? The football field is so big, playing football is not practicing acrobatics on the stage, practicing acrobatics for a long time, but also to physical fitness.
Before I took the national training team to Spain to train, the Spanish team is also running training. For example, in 1978, we went to Cologne, Germany, their team ran in the forest, their recovery training is to run, competitive sports have no aerobic foundation, no certain activities, come up and sprint, not only the brain blood supply is insufficient, muscles are easy to strain, and the heart can not stand.
With the aerobic foundation recovering quickly, recovering quickly, the chances of winning are greater. If the physical fitness cannot be slowed down in half a day, it is easy to lose, which is the law of movement. I've been learning from playing football all the way up to coaching, I don't understand? I'm technical, so I'll let them run away?
It's not just a football project, all walks of life have to learn and practice hard, and then talk about the scientific method. In the past, some people said that I would run 10,000 meters, but in fact, I arranged a week's 10,000-meter running for a month and a half of training, and it was over after laying a foundation, and they thought that I would run 10,000 meters from beginning to end, but it was not. I think football training should be hard practiced and skillfully practiced, and then scientific training, which is the most realistic.
◆ "Football": I have interviewed the players who participated in the football youth training before, and encountered such embarrassment: when asked which dynasty Liu Bei is a person, the team members can't answer, or even answer which dynasty Li Bai is from, which shows that the team members do not understand Chinese history and culture, I think including the question of how much they understand the history of Chinese civilization, which includes the level of carrying forward the spirit of patriotism and collectivism, and what is reflected on the court is the quality of the athletes' will. What weight do you think this education and learning should have in the growth of the players?
Shen Xiangfu: Now that the social environment and living standards have improved, the quality of will and the spirit of bearing hardships have declined. How we guide the children, how to educate the children, how to guide the team members is very important.
◆ Your disciples Du Wei, Zong Lei, Du Zhenyu, etc. have just entered the Chinese U18 national team selection training camp as coaches, and have gradually embarked on coaching positions.
It is a relief and a great emotion to bring out the results when taking them, they will say hello during the New Year's Festival, and sometimes when they encounter some confusion about the football field, they will also call me, and everyone is in a different situation. Like Dewey called me some time ago to exchange problems in coach training, it is very good to exercise through practice. At present, there are only a few young coaches such as Li Tie and Li Xiaopeng, and there are really not many coaches who can coach them, so the idea of Chinese football training them is very good.
They are also very self-motivated and very eager to work as coaching. They have a good level of football, if they become coaches, it is indeed a good selection, but they have to enrich the theoretical foundation, they practice a lot, the theoretical foundation is constantly improving, this aspect is still step by step, do not let them start too high, fall very badly, confidence is gone. Everything is a step forward step by step.
◆ What are your expectations for them?
Affirm their feelings for football, choose the direction of coaches, and hope that they will continue to summarize in practice. I have brought Qu Bo, Hu Zhaojun, Wang Xinxin, Xu Liang in the country, I taught them my coaching ideas without reservation, I said to them that you don't copy, you have to do better than me, you have to go beyond, because football is constantly updated, constantly changing, but I can combine my coaching ideas with practical thinking, as an experience, I hope they can have a good growth, of course, the Chinese Football Association also gave a good environment, I hope they grow step by step.