The national football team that has hit the World Cup in the United States, Canada and Mexico is about to usher in a big test, and less than two months later, they will start a life-and-death battle with Thailand at home.
On April 12, the national sports single-recruitment men's football project examination kicked off, and a group of senior high school students also stepped into the important examination room of their lives.
Data map: Candidates participate in the special test of college football Image source: Visual China
Not long ago, the Ministry of Education released the "Record and Approval Results of a New Batch of Undergraduate Majors in Ordinary Colleges and Universities", and a total of 30 colleges and universities have opened football majors, which is the new major with the most colleges and universities.
In the past, some people always joked that if the national football team wants to break out of Asia again, it must first include football in the college entrance examination. Now that football is one of the university majors, can this save Chinese football, which urgently needs to break the dilemma?
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Yuan Hang (pseudonym) is a member of this year's sports single-recruitment exam army. According to the examination arrangement, the men's football examination will be held in batches at Tianjin University of Physical Education from April 12 to 30. At the end of last month, he also took the national unified examination for cultural classes.
As the first candidate after the new football major was opened in the university, Yuan Hang felt a little lucky. "I'm happy that I have more opportunities to go to university than before. ”
Liu Laibin, a teacher in charge of the single-recruitment training of Evergrande Football School, revealed that in recent years, campus football has been continuously carried out, and more and more students have participated in the football single-recruitment examination, and the single-enrollment admission rate of college football sports has dropped from 60% five years ago to about 20%.
According to statistics, after the new football major is established, nearly 500 admission places can be added this year, and it will be further increased next year.
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Zhang Lu, a campus football expert and famous football commentator, told the Sino-Singapore sports community that the capacity of domestic professional teams is limited, but so many children want to take football as a lifelong career, and now colleges and universities provide a way out.
"In addition, our domestic football players generally have low cultural literacy, and this move can also improve the quality of football practitioners. Zhang Lu said.
Liaoning Normal University, located in Dalian, the "football city", is one of the 30 universities that have newly opened football majors. In the view of Quan Haiying, dean of the school's physical education school, children who love football and have football specialties will have more outlets and broader development space in the future.
"Football as a popular project, is an important means of cultivating lifelong sports, primary and secondary schools, kindergartens have the demand for professional football talents, colleges and universities have the ability to train talents, so that it will be able to form a virtuous circle of early discovery, early training, and early success. Jeon Hae-young said.
The youth football coach leads the children in training. Photo by Liu Xin
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At present, football is a new undergraduate major, but the teaching of football in colleges and universities is not new.
Liu Laibin said that in the past, the majors in college football were mainly sports training and physical education, and these two majors will involve basketball, volleyball, track and field, small ball and other projects in addition to football.
In addition to the previous technical and tactical skills, physical fitness and other special projects, we will also increase the study of football culture, football status and development, football scientific training, football events, game analysis, team management, football referees, football industry, etc. Liu Laibin analyzed.
Data map: College football game. Image source: Osports All Sports Photo Agency
According to Quan Haiying, Liaoning Normal University established a school football team as early as 2017, which has trained and trained more than 300 football players and more than 200 football referees at level 2 and above.
"We have three professional directions: sports training, physical education, and social sports guidance and management, except for sports training, which is a single recruitment for sports, candidates need to have a second-level and above athlete grade certificate, and candidates in the other two directions are required to take the college entrance examination. There are two types of football teaching, namely "Football Theory and Practice" for sports training and "Football Theory and Practice" for physical education. Jeon Hae-young said.
Regarding the development direction of the football major, Quan Haiying said that he hopes to let professional people do professional things, adopt all-round professional separation, cultivate high-precision and specialized football professionals, and make certain contributions to the training of professional football sports teachers, excellent youth coaches and football industry talents.
Data map: Sino-US college women's football friendly match. Photo by Pan Xulin
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After the announcement of the new football major, the future direction of the major, employment prospects, and whether it can be admitted have become a common topic of concern for parents and students.
According to Quan Haiying, the admission rate of the School of Physical Education of Liaoning Normal University has been declining in the past three years. In 2022, there will be 244 candidates who apply for the school's football first choice, but only 15 will be admitted, and the acceptance rate will only be 6.15%.
"The employment situation is still good, and most students in the past worked as football coaches and teachers after graduation. Jeon Hae-young revealed.
According to the plan, in 2024, Liaoning Normal University will enroll 5 people in the football major, and it is planned to merge with the 13 people in the original sports training football major to train in football, a total of 18 people.
Liu Laibin said that in recent years, the student admission rate of Evergrande Football School has remained at about 50%, and the first batch of students in the school have graduated from university. "Most of the students join the football team as coaches, many of them are physical fitness coaches, and some go to grassroots football interest classes and so on. ”
"Although they didn't become professional athletes, they have been practicing since childhood, they have a football foundation, plus university studies, and they can continue to make some contributions in the industry after becoming coaches. Liu Laibin said.
In his view, the establishment of football majors in colleges and universities is to raise the football project to a higher level, and the future research will be more in-depth, more refined, more professional, more and more specialized, and the professional ability will be stronger and stronger.
Data map: College football game. Image source: Osports All Sports Photo Agency
However, Zhang Lu admitted frankly to the Sino-Singapore sports community that the establishment of football majors in universities has a role in promoting the development of Chinese football and can expand the football population to a certain extent, but it is far from enough.
"In the construction of the football system, college football is only a small part of it, we also need to solve the fundamental problem of the popularization of football in primary schools, clear what goals to guide children to play football, discover more children with football talent and potential, and put an end to utilitarian thinking. Zhang Lu said.
Source: China-Singapore Sports