2023 "Industrial Bank Cup" Shanghai City Amateur League Football League and "China Sports Lottery" The 6th Shanghai Football Association Champions League recently hit the gold recently, and the Shanghai Kings played the role of the "dark horse" in the Shanghai amateur football circle, defeating the champion Crab Family Courtyard Team through a penalty shootout to win the Shanghai eight-a-side football tournament. Shanghai Pharmaceutical Collection team won the third place.
Shanghai is an important city of football in China, even in the field of amateur football, there are many strong private teams. The background of the Shanghai Kings is the King's youth training based in Songjiang, and it is not a super strong team with a lot of investment in the amateur football circle in Shanghai. What did this team, which is dominated by youth coaches, be crowned "king"?
Youth training is based on footing
Founded in 2008, Shanghai King Football Club is a professional youth football training institution, and in 2018, it was awarded the "Social Brand Youth Training Institution" of the Chinese Football Association and the title of "Shanghai Youth Football Training Base". Based in Songjiang, King's Youth Training aims to popularize the youth football population, train high-level football players for Songjiang campus, form teams to participate in various competitions, and contribute the professional strength of the club to the development of Songjiang football.
At the award ceremony, the strong bodies and strong bodies of two African "foreign aides" attracted attention. Liu Sheng, the leader of the Shanghai Kings team, said that they are also part-time coaches of the King's Youth Academy, "We are colleagues, usually teach children basic movements in the club, this time in the championship league, the coaches launched internal selection, and practiced together twice a week." Unlike many teams that rely on high appearance fees and bonuses to attract retired professional players, we pursue the pure happiness of football. Unity, friendship and happiness are the biggest gains for everyone to fight together. ”
After winning the championship, the Shanghai Kings became the big winners of individual awards. Zhao Libin was named the best coach of the tournament, Pan Haowei became the best goalkeeper of the tournament, and Li Ji won the most valuable best player trophy. One team member sighed: "Everyone is very happy, usually everyone is busy with training, this time together is not only to win the championship, but to fight side by side and work together, which greatly enhances the cohesion of the team." ”
Blueprint planning
Shen Hong, deputy general manager of Shanghai Kings Football Club, said frankly that the team's goal to reach the final four was set before the game, and the final victory was somewhat unexpected. He said: "This is the first municipal championship won by the Kings Senior Team, which brings experience and inspiration for the future more systematic planning and layout of the competition in Shanghai's highest level of amateur competition. ”
"The design of amateur football events in Shanghai is very systematic and scientific, and we finished fourth in the previous Shanghai Super League and Shanghai League A classification competition. Including the next Chen Yi Cup, the team will also strive for good results. In Shen Hong's view, this team, which has a strong youth imprint, is now ushering in a higher goal: "Now that the Shanghai Amateur League is firmly established, the future opportunity is suitable, and we strive to provide opportunities for the young players of the King's youth training to exercise and improve through platforms such as the Zhongguan League." In general, youth training needs to be subsidized, but we feed back Songjiang's football youth training through the holding of sports events. ”
With the continuous development of King's youth training, the club has also introduced more excellent youth coaches in the past two years. In addition to daily teaching, they also organized to compete in the city's competitions and worked hard to open up the sky in Shanghai's amateur football circle. "At present, the King's Youth Academy has completed the system echelon layout from 7 to 16 years old, and many players have been sent to join the professional club echelon, and some players have been selected for the selection training camp of campus football, the elite team training camp of the Municipal Football Association, and enter colleges and universities through single recruitment." Shen Hong said that this victory made him firm in his confidence, and through the continuous efforts of the youth coaches, he created a platform for the youth players to play football and improve in the future, "providing a way for children to rise".
Pyramid base
In fact, there are two major parts of Chinese football, professional football and amateur football, fans and netizens basically only pay attention to the professional football at the tip of the pyramid, ignoring the amateur football as the base of the pyramid. The number of football population, the popularity of football culture, compared with European and American football powers, Chinese football has shortcomings.
As an important football town in Shanghai, the Shanghai Football Association has always attached great importance to the cultivation of social football and amateur football while supporting the development of high-level professional clubs. The Shanghai Football Association has led the national trend, exploring the establishment of a three-level social football league platform for the Shanghai Super League, Shanghai League One and Shanghai Championship, and enriching the traditional amateur football format such as the Chen Yi Cup, Yanfeng Cup and Xinmin Evening News Cup, so as to make it more in line with the characteristics of the times and the needs of citizens.
Under the guidance of Shanghai Municipal Sports Bureau, Shanghai Sports Federation and Shanghai Social Sports Management Center (Shanghai Sports Competition Management Center), the Shanghai Football Association Champions League has been successfully held for six consecutive years, the participating teams are mainly from the winning teams of the 8-a-side competition of the football association in various districts of the city and the outstanding teams in the industry. Through guidance, professional tournament organizers have gradually matured, and under the promotion of sports departments and football associations in various districts, amateur football events in various districts such as Laofengxiang Cup, Hongkou Super Cup, Songjiang Telecom Cup, Chongming Yingzhou Cup, Qingchao, Yang Chao, Min Chao, Fengchao, Jiachao and other districts in Huangpu District have gradually formed a scale.
Winning individuals and teams:
Champion: King of Shanghai
Runner-up: Crab Family Compound
Third Runner-up: Shanghai Pharmaceutical Group Football Club
Best Referee: Xie Chenyao
Best Coach: Zhao Libin (King of Shanghai)
Best Goalkeeper: Pan Haowei (Shanghai King)
TOP SHOOTER: DENNYS (CRAB COMPOUND)
Best Player: Li Ji (Shanghai King)
Editor-in-chief: Chen Hua Text editor: Chen Hua Source: Shanghai Football Association
文内插图：上海市足协 Source: Author: Wei Bing