Sun Jihai's "Audition for the Future" plan has raised 3 million yuan, so that children who don't have mines can also play football
Live broadcast on January 07 Chinese football legend Sun Jihai announced on social media on January 4 that he launched the audition future football plan, with the goal of cultivating Chinese internationals who will enter the five major leagues based on the Premier League and launch crowdfunding. At present, the fundraising goal of 3 million yuan has been completed in just a few days! The number of donations is as high as 51,593!
Sun Jihai wrote:
Today, the public welfare project of the Future Football Program was officially launched. Chinese men's national brands at all levels have not broken out of Asia for 21 consecutive times, and have been absent from the world stage for 18 consecutive years. I hope to use the strength of the society, with ten years of determination and patience to complete a Chinese football elite youth training practice starting from the turning city of Zunyi. I believe that it is not a child who has a mine at home to play football, as long as the direction and road are right, the future of Chinese football, Messi may have, Sun Xingmin may have, but Sun Jihai must have —— to join the audition for the future football plan, and become a dream partner to cultivate Chinese internationals who enter the five major leagues based on the Premier League.
【Project Highlights】Sun Jihai and nearly 20 former international players formed a mentor group to go deep into the border areas to screen "good seedlings" and help children in underdeveloped areas realize their dreams; select and hire AFC professional-level and A-level coaches, integrate sports and education, and open an elite upward channel for "good seedlings"; offline guidance + 1 online live broadcast per month and personally lead the team in public welfare classes to provide empowerment support for thousands of coaches and young players across the country.
【Details】
Looking back at the past 20 years of football, Sun Jihai, who has played in the World Cup, played in the Premier League for 7 seasons, and was inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame, is very unwilling. He feels that many problems lie in youth training: children lack the opportunity to contact football, coaches are not professional enough, so that many "good seedlings" miss the golden period of enlightenment training, because of the lack of elite promotion channels, football has always been a "high-risk" choice. Many children and families, especially those in underdeveloped areas and families with difficulties, do not dare to choose professional football lanes due to the realities of education, the economy, and concerns about the future.
In addition, Sun Jihai knows that the road to discovering "good seedlings" and training them into talents is long, and the attention and investment of a year and a half are far from enough, and it is necessary to have the determination and patience to sharpen a sword for ten years. We have to accept the failures and confusion during the period, and we have to endure all kinds of doubts. Despite the difficulties, Sun Jihai was determined to do his best to make some changes. He wants to combine his nearly 30 years of experience to make a youth training system from selection to training, and accumulate strength for the future of Chinese football. He named the project "Audition for the Future Football Project".
The power of one person is very limited, Sun Jihai also hopes that more people will participate in this project as a "dream partner", and jointly complete the following things in the next one year: form a mentor group with nearly 20 former international players such as Ma Mingyu and Qu Bo, and go to Dalian, Xinjiang, Guizhou, Yanbian and other places to select materials, select the "good seedlings" in the hinterland of the border, and copy the "Zunyi model" explored in 2022 to other places.
Through the screening of children's training, competitions, food and accommodation are all free, sports and education integration, to solve the worries of parents, so that talented but more difficult families, underdeveloped areas, children without elite upward channel, may be transported into the elite system. Recruit core elite coaching staff, including 5 super-matched coaches, such as AFC professional and A-level coaches, so that the selected children can receive sufficient and high-quality resources. Through 2 public live classes per month, Sun Jihai will personally lead the training live broadcast from time to time, and share his experience and experience with coaches around the world without reservation to help everyone make progress together.
In the next one year, through 200 public welfare short videos/public welfare live broadcasts, we will continue to record the process of material selection, training, and competitions through Douyin. From July 20 to 28, 2024, 20 international players will gather at the Zunyi Cup to watch the children's football games, and witness and supervise the children's efforts and growth. As Sun Jihai said: "There must be hope for our football, as long as there is patience and determination." Messi may have, Sun Xingmin may have, Sun Jihai must have!" "Let us witness the growth of football teenagers, realize their football dreams, and realize their own football dreams."
