Reporter Jia Yanfeng reported that after retiring, Du Zhenyu established The Zhenyu Football Club in Jilin Province, but his youth training is not only aimed at cultivating professional football talents: "The door of my Zhenyu Football Club is a wider range, not that I want to take the road of professional football to learn, but I am interested in football, even if I do not take the professional player route, I can also come." I started playing football at the age of four, so I put the age group to four years old, which is much lower than the professional football clubs in many parts of the country, and children in this age group are also very difficult to teach. ”
When it comes to how to improve the enthusiasm of football youth coaches, Du Zhenyu believes that the reward mechanism is very important: "Training compensation and joint mechanism compensation, both of which are actually for the development of youth training and players. The training and development of young players step by step, as long as it involves transfers, then which age group should be which age group, which compensation should be given to which compensation, European transfer fees are often tens of millions or even hundreds of millions, then all the youth coaches who have trained these players in these transfer processes will benefit from it, accumulating more, which not only encourages the enthusiasm of youth coaches, but also puts an end to a lot of unhealthy trends. ”
Recently, the discussion of the "relationship between naturalization and youth training" has been very popular, and Du Zhenyu also shared his views: "There is no need to deify naturalization, there is no need to demonize." As long as we understand that naturalization is only a means, not the ultimate goal, and ultimately we have to cultivate our own players and grasp this principle, I think it is enough. ”
Former Yatai foreign aid Claudine is also currently working at Du Zhenyu's youth club
◆ "Football": You were once a member of the national team, and you were once a fast horse on the side, what is your speed of 100 meters?
Du Zhenyu: I really haven't measured this, in fact, the speed of football players 100 meters is not the most important, you should look at the explosion and turnback of about 30 meters. My speed of about 30 meters should be around 2 seconds 7 to 3 seconds.
◆ Do you think there are still players who are close to your style of play?
In the past, our team was a bit like me, and now the players are very similar. In fact, I have always felt that Mao Jianqing is very good as a wing player.
◆ Have you ever seen the letter you sent after you chose to retire, did you write it yourself? How were you feeling at the time?
I wrote it myself, my wife helped me with some tidying up, and I must have been very upset at the time, but there was no way, no one could change the years. I just changed my position to prove myself, because I knew that I would definitely be inseparable from the football industry for the rest of my life, and the next thing was to complete my transformation.
◆ What kind of life plan did you make for yourself before retiring? What did you do after you retired?
I thought I would definitely be a coach, bring young players, help Changchun cultivate football talents, although I am not from here, but my career is given here, and I have put my home here, everything is familiar and loved by me. Then after retiring from the army, I established the "Jilin Zhenyu Football Club" and began to engage in youth training.
◆ Chinese football has very few talents in recent years, and the results of all the national brands are not good, what do you think is the reason?
Times are different, playing football is a chore, many families are a baby, and there are not many parents who are willing to give up. The fact that our national brand has not achieved good results is due to the fact that we have too few people to select and few competitions.
This is no way, now the child's learning is much heavier than our task at that time, on all kinds of cram schools can not be finished, can not do the homework, can really be willing to learn to play football is too few. Coupled with the poor results of Chinese football in recent years and the bad social image, many parents feel that there is no future, let alone let their children play. A vicious circle in which fewer and fewer people are taking place.
◆ Now the leaders of the Chinese Football Association are calling for youth training, so that more people can devote themselves to youth training, what is your original intention of choosing to devote yourself to youth training?
I love football, over the years I have also experienced ups and downs with the football circle, no matter whether the Football Association calls for it, I know that Chinese football is definitely short of people. I am now engaged in youth training may not be the same as you understand, in fact, I am now more like a kind of popularization, because I think the youth training problem of Chinese football is that you can't expect to train many people at once, but first of all, let more children and parents understand football, feel the charm of football, so that some people who are biased against football are willing to correct their prejudices and join in.
If football wants to develop, it must be like table tennis, it must have grassroots, and then amateur, semi-professional, professional, and so on. So the door of my Zhenyu Football Club is more extensive, not that those who want to take the road of professional football can learn, but they are interested in football, even if they do not take the professional player route. I started playing football at the age of four, so I put the age group to four years old, which is much lower than the professional football clubs in many parts of the country, and children in this age group are also very difficult to teach.
◆ What's the difference between training with a kid and playing football yourself? Which is harder?
It must be difficult to bring children. Because the players I brought were of a relatively low age, I couldn't come up and tell them very professional things, and I needed to pay more patience, cultivate their interests, and at the same time let parents see the progress, otherwise they wouldn't feel bored for a few days.
If you bring a little bigger children, like our 6-year-old children at that time, they can listen carefully to the coach's requirements, but now the children are spoiled because they are more self-core, so before starting formal football training, it takes a lot of time for their classroom discipline education and team awareness education, and we have to constantly adjust the education method, that is, we must make the children feel interesting and increase the attractiveness of the teaching content, otherwise there are too many activities that can attract children to learn and participate.
These challenges were not available in my youth football academy when I was a child.
◆ In the process of establishing such a popular football club, what practical difficulties need to be solved?
The most difficult thing is definitely the venue, in fact, the stable development of the football club must have its own exclusive venue and training place. I remember watching in South Korea, Park Ji-sung and Song Jong-kook, who run football schools after retiring, and Coach Che Fangen, who were all supported by the local government and the Football Association, allocated sports land to them and let them cultivate talents. This may be more difficult in China, so I also hope to start my career first, and then see if I can do it with the local cooperation.
◆ Some players will choose to enter the first team after retirement, or work in the management of professional clubs, so in your opinion, what is the best choice for players with rich professional experience like you after retirement?
After retiring, players must first study, try to take certificates, and then have the opportunity to go abroad to see how professional football and youth training are carried out. Our current situation is indeed to find ways to go up after retiring, but when I was learning the coaching certificate, the lecturer said, many foreign countries are down to the grassroots, going down, do you see Raul also go to lead the youth team?
But now we can actually provide professional players with few opportunities to be youth coaches, and our youth training mechanism is not in line with the market, many times are for others to make wedding dresses, so that everyone often loses interest and morale.
◆ What exactly are you referring to?
In fact, if you expect to take young players to make money and get a high salary, purely relying on salary, it is not very realistic, but I am not saying that you have to collect money from your children privately. I'm talking about the reward mechanism. FIFA provides for two compensations, training compensation and joint mechanism compensation, both of which are actually aimed at youth training and player development.
Foreign coaches, with a lot of children, are recorded, and then the training of young players develops step by step, as long as it involves transfers, then which age group should be which age, which compensation should be given to which compensation, European transfer fees are often tens of millions or even hundreds of millions, then all the youth coaches who have trained these players in these transfer processes will benefit from it, accumulating more, which not only encourages the enthusiasm of youth coaches, but also puts an end to a lot of unhealthy trends.
The coach really looks at the long term, and he will definitely leave the opportunity to the most developed players, because the players become famous, the coach's reputation and benefits will also be there, and more people will be attracted to train with him. But there are many loopholes in our country now, player training is almost over, agents are gone as soon as they hook up, betraying clubs and betraying coaches, the Football Association is now also strictly investigating this loophole, and there are also a lot of documents, so I believe that with the development of the times, our youth training has improved the system, the system will be better and better.
◆ From your own growth experience, what do you think are the most important factors to develop good players?
The coach is actually another parent of the player, must have the patience and responsibility to treat their children, and the football sport wants to become a talent in fact, the road is very tortuous and complicated, many players are actually not incompetent, but the mentality is not good, the personality change, and eventually lead to the inability to go on this road. Therefore, in the process of a player's growth, it is not only necessary to guide the player at the professional and technical level, but also to have good guidance in the mental growth of the player, especially in the academics.
I am very sorry that I did not read more when I was a child, if my English is good, I may have more communication with the outside world, so I am also in the process of continuous learning, as a coach, I feel more like I have to enrich myself. Only when you are good can you bring players a better demonstration, not only the skills, but also the pursuit of being a person. In this way, parents can rest assured that they will hand over their children to me.
◆ At present, Chinese football is constantly naturalizing players, and there is a lot of controversy, so what do you think about this matter?
I think that as far as the current situation is concerned, it is not bad to naturalize some players who play in China and have established deep feelings with Chinese fans, because Only when Chinese football enters the circle of the mainstream world of football and has more contact with the mainstream football circle, can others see us more, understand us, and then rush out first, so as to create more opportunities for our domestic players to be paid attention to, so that we have more players to be sent out, and then slowly, without naturalization, we can also produce more talents.
There is no need to deify or demonize naturalization. As long as we understand that naturalization is only a means, not the ultimate goal, and ultimately we have to cultivate our own players and grasp this principle, I think it is enough.