Why is Chinese football not good for long, there are always a few new stars popping up. Then it was silent for several years and no one cared about it? It turned out to be the merits and demerits of Xu Genbao, the "godfather of youth training"!
As an old fairy in Shanghai football, Xu Genbao is known as "the first person in Chinese football youth training". The Chongming Island Football Academy he coached. In the past 30 years, it has cultivated a large number of Chinese national football players. One of the most famous is the batch of "8990" players in 2015. Stars such as Wu Lei, Zhang Linpeng, Yan Junling, Wang Shenchao and other stars are all taught by Xu.
However, a closer look reveals a puzzling question: why Xu Genbao is after a glorious one. Immediately fell into a nearly 10-year talent gap period, starting from the batch of "93-year-old" students in 2004 to the "9900" generation in 2013. Chongming Island Football Academy failed to cultivate a super player again for a whole period of time!
Xu Genbao himself helplessly explained: "It was caused by the general environment of Chinese football at that time. The '93-year-old' period coincided with the serious phenomenon of fake gambling in the mainland. The number of children playing football has plummeted, and the selection range has shrunk from 1 in 10,000 to 1 percent, and the quality has naturally plummeted.
Environmental impact: Coach Xu obviously underestimated the impact of the U23 policy introduced by the Chinese Super League in 2017 on the "93-year-old" players. As a result, they lost their playing opportunities at the best age of their careers. became a "victim", and development naturally stagnated.
Xu Genbao himself cannot be entirely blamed on the outside world. Ball critics pointed out that he successfully cultivated the "8990" group of talents. Immediately, the attention of the follow-up students was relaxed. "93 years old" is the first batch of coaches personally coached by Xu after "8990". But he was more focused on leading the Chinese League and Chinese Super League teams at that time, and he was indeed negligent in the cultivation of these children.
"The secret of Chongming Island's success lies in being able to raise a group of children from an early age to a large age. Only this kind of long-term persistence and high degree of tacit understanding. in order to truly unleash the talent to the extreme. An assistant coach who has worked with Xu Genbao many times said.
In the past, players like "8990" and Liaoning Zhang Yin's "Liao Xiaohu". It is precisely because of the stable environment of "kicking from small to big". It is the coaches and teammates who work together to thrive.
Since the batch of "93 years old", Xu Genbao has almost been in a state of laissez-faire. It wasn't until 2013 that the "9900" batch of students such as Zhu Chenjie, Jiang Shenglong and others enrolled in the school that he started to work in person again and achieved phased success.
This year's 80-year-old Director Xu is still working tirelessly in youth training. In addition to hand-in-hand teaching, he also single-handedly manages the recruitment of new students.
"Being able to cultivate so many reserve talents for the national football team, my old bones can be regarded as contributing to the football cause of the motherland. Xu Genbao has a deep body for this, and he also has high hopes for the future. He stressed that he will continue to devote himself to the cultivation of the batch of 0607 Ouyang Jiaxin and the newly recruited 1314 age group players in the future.
I look forward to injecting more fresh blood into Chinese football in the near future. After all, the growth of a new generation of talents is inseparable from perseverance, patience and perseverance. Xu Genbao has given the most powerful interpretation of this point with action.