Reporter Lumi reported that speaking of Palhati Azmat, there will definitely be this name in the celebrity register of Xinjiang football. He was one of the first Xinjiang players to go abroad to stay in the Foreign League (Kazakhstan League), and the first Xinjiang player to win the Chinese Professional Football League Championship Trophy. Retired for more than 20 years, he has recently aroused heated discussion because the Xinjiang U20 National Games team led by him won the runner-up.
Rooted in Xinjiang youth training for more than 20 years, Palhati has witnessed too much about the development of football in Xinjiang. In recent years, Xinjiang players have gone to the mainland, to high-level professional teams, and there have also emerged international players like Mai Tijiang, it can be said that Xinjiang players have now become a necessary talent reserve for professional teams.
In Palhati's view, players must choose the path that suits them, just as they should concentrate on laying the basic skills of players as coaches, and players should improve their self-awareness when making important career decisions. He also hopes that the players in Xinjiang can fly higher and higher on the road of professional teams in the future and become an important piece of China's football map.
◆ "Football": After the National Games, Xinjiang Snowy Tiancheng Football Club went to Ningxia to participate in the Chinese Champions League, and also said that it wanted to impact the Chinese Second Division, how is the situation now?
Palhati: I have been preparing for the National Games before, I also mentioned that later our own children only have 9 people left, of course, some do not have the ability to play the domestic league, we only have to put some children in the 2004, 2005 age group and our remaining children to form a team, play the full games directly to Ningxia to play the championship, but these children are too small, and then the previous energy is also put on the National Games, physical state and mental state have a downward trend, so the situation of playing the championship is not very good, There is also little hope of impacting B this year.
◆ Xinjiang's professional football has not reached the top of the profession, what kind of existence is the current snowy Tiancheng?
I think different clubs have different ways of survival, we xinjiang snow Tiancheng also has its own goals, its existence is to have potential, this is a platform for us to cultivate our own Xinjiang players, on this platform, from the youth training model to participate in the domestic youth league, and then to the championship and finally develop in the direction of career, this is a very long process. At present, our financial resources do not allow for large investment, so we can only take it step by step.
I've always longed for clubs like Eindhoven and Ajax, who are talent-making machines, have their own talent system, and can guarantee results. This is the model I ultimately want to build. What I am more optimistic about is that the rich have the difficulties of the rich, the poor also have the pleasures of the poor, and different models have different ways of survival, depending on how they plan.
◆ Now there are a lot of Xinjiang players to go to a very high platform, almost all over the country's professional football teams, can not retain people, professional teams are difficult to go to the top of the profession, is it because the local investment is not enough?
The development of sports in Xinjiang is very good, but there are differences between different projects. For example, in football, we can't compare with basketball, because the Xinjiang men's basketball team is already a giant club in China, and their reinforcement investment is high standard and high standard, but if such a situation is put on football, I think there are already examples before, I don't want football to bubble, only do it steadily, the players' wings are hard, and they will naturally go to the ideal club.
The current treatment and training model, when applied to a high platform, sometimes do not want to take the initiative and can not be, but in fact, in the end, they have not achieved a full range of matching. The 1999 age group I brought before was already a very good team, they won the Youth Games championship, the league championship championship and the third place in the National Games, but in the end that team did not save - at that time we cooperated with the Snow Leopard Club, and also cooperated with other clubs across the country, many children went out for free, went out and changed to other training models, trained for another year or two, and finally resold, and when our cooperation stopped, their so-called hematopoietic function declined. The back is also getting harder and harder.
◆ Is the choice of players when going out also important?
Of course, in fact, good culture, high platform everyone needs, but you have to see who is really high platform, or whether you can really get knowledge there. Some kids go out to go out, but the places they go to aren't necessarily good, and some people let the players go out for their own benefit. We have met some children, others dig up and leave, go for two years and find that they can't play anymore, and then send them back, the parents of the players look for us, the players also look for us, we are also very embarrassed, but this situation can not be avoided. We also found in this process that many places to do youth training is actually very chaotic, not in the training of people, in fact, after earning this money, it is finished, but what about the future of children? None of this is what they think.
◆ Xinjiang players have always been very popular with major clubs across the country, and they are becoming more and more popular, in your eyes, what is the biggest feature of Xinjiang players?
Xinjiang players do have distinct characteristics, they are full of passion, have physical advantages, and are very involved in the game, and so on. But I still want to say that the players must lay their own foundation before going out, otherwise they will encounter a lot of difficulties. Now our development in Xinjiang is also very fast, and we are doing a good job in educational and cultural inclusion, and I believe that after Xinjiang players go to the mainland to play football, they will integrate very quickly.
◆ "Football": In the cultivation of young players in Xinjiang, what type of path are you mostly taking now?
Palhati: Now we are training children in Xinjiang in cooperation with schools, and among them, we still attach great importance to the supplementation of culture and the development of local culture, and our Education Department also attaches great importance to this. So now the children's learning ability has been improving, although it is not to any extent, but it is much better than before. Then outside of class, we let them come over for football training, so it's all a double development.
Regarding the cultural class, I would like to say that especially in the nine-year compulsory education stage, we care very much, of course, in the process of dual development, we will also encounter some problems, and we have been working hard to communicate, improve and coordinate. With the strong support of the autonomous regional government, our cooperation with schools and the Department of Education has become more and more frequent and direct, so the children's cultural accomplishment has also been significantly improved.
◆ You were also the first Xinjiang player to win the domestic professional league championship, and then you were also the first to go out to stay in the West, and now in fact, the relevant departments are also vigorously promoting it to let more young players go out to stay in the West. If the players want to go out or have a chance now, what advice would you give?
First of all, I still want to make children more self-aware, it is difficult to go anywhere, because you go to any place not only football, but also life, there are all kinds of different ideas colliding and adapting to problems. If it is not enough just by virtue of your love and love of football, then the difficulties will always surround you and make you breathless.
In a team, there are thirty or forty children, each child is educated the same, our criteria for selecting materials are the same, why only part of the final can be kicked out, I think one is the talent problem, the other is self-awareness. The steps taken after self-awareness improvement are completely different from others forcing you to go out, and most of the time we now guide children to improve their self-awareness ability, and in the end, when it is his turn to make his own choices, he will feel that there is no difficulty at all.
◆ Whether you go to the mainland to play football or may go out to stay in the future, what kind of vision do you have for them?
I think that not everyone is suitable to go out now, and not everyone can go out, because first of all, we must reach a height of the present. After reaching it, we must have responsibility and responsibility, there are too many temptations in the flower world outside, and we as coaches cannot guide them for a lifetime, hoping that they themselves can do a good job in this regard.
◆ You were born in a football family, very early into the Xinjiang youth team to start a football career, including the road to stay in the West, compared with other Xinjiang players, your growth in this period of players is not relatively smooth and smooth?
I was probably the only player in the early 1970s, because at that time Xinjiang football also went out to play after 1993 and 1994, the highest point was in the professional first team, I also saw a lot of players who came back from playing, and then they did not engage in professional football, some went to school, some went to the Cultural and Sports Bureau. I went out to stay in Yangyang at that time, and then came back to play A, and I took a very resolute step myself, so the development was different from others, and I always felt that I was very lucky.
◆ Now that you have been rooted in Xinjiang youth training for so many years, what is you most proud of?
I am most proud of seeing more Xinjiang children start playing professional leagues, and they dare to go out and break in, unlike me alone. I can also see that if these children return to Xinjiang after finally retiring from the army, they are the people who can promote the development of football in Xinjiang. Only in this way can Xinjiang football occupy an important role in the future of Chinese football and play a decisive role. Our children grow up from national minorities to international football, and we can help our country's football shine in international competitions, which is what I most want to see.
◆ So you also hope that more current Xinjiang players can return to Xinjiang after retiring to strengthen the Xinjiang youth training system, right?
Yes, now there are more and more professional clubs willing to go deep into Xinjiang, and they must be introduced and sent out, including Sun Jihai's guidance now to help us, he has his own ideas and abilities to play into our development. This National Games can get the U20 runner-up, but also inseparable from his work, many things are his hands on it, including these children's winter training plan, physical fitness links, rehabilitation links, Sun Jihai guidance has provided a lot of resources to help us improve the supporting team. Including in the selection of materials, Sun Jihai guided us many times to go to the most remote areas to dig deeper, and he has almost all been to northern and southern Xinjiang, and he has not missed the characteristic areas.
◆ From your point of view, if Xinjiang's youth training wants to develop more vigorously and stably in the future, what is most needed at present?
In fact, our funds are also invested, but it may be far worse than the mainland. However, the funds may only be a part, the most needed is to expand the overall number of local coaches or the base of local football practitioners, for example, coaches, referees, physical rehabilitation, etc., these and football-related content matching, increase efforts to complete, this is the key. Then, we will actively carry out the competition and increase communication with the mainland.