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Party secretary of Chinese Football Association: Shift the focus of football work to youth football

Beijing, Beijing, March 23 (Reporter Bian Liqun) on the 23rd, the annual working conference of key cities of National Football Development was held at the national football training base (Xianghe). Du Zhaocai, deputy director of the State Sports General Administration and secretary of the Party Committee of the Chinese Football Association, said that the focus of football work should be shifted to youth football, and the mechanism of football talent training and further study should be unblocked.

Du zhaicai said, “to carry out the construction of key cities for national football development is to implement the requirements of the” overall plan for the reform and development of Chinese football “in the new era, accelerate the revitalization of football, the strategic project to promote the construction of sports power is a major measure to comprehensively deepen football reform and explore the development path of football with Chinese characteristics during the 14th Five-Year Plan period. Over the past year, the General Administration of Sports and the Chinese Football Association have selected 16 key cities for football development. The policy system of supporting the reform and development of football in key cities has initially taken shape, the integration of sports and education has been deepening, campus football has been developing continuously, the layout of youth training centers has been accelerated, and grass-roots innovations have been constantly emerging, the overall situation is good.”

Du Zhaocai emphasized that youth football is the cornerstone of the development and revitalization of Chinese football, and it is also a basic and strategic project to build a strong sports country. We should take youth training as the most important and basic work, make careful efforts, coordinate domestic and international resources, build domestic and international youth training centers, and deepen the integration of sports and education, establish and improve the “four-in-one” youth training system on campus, major, occupation and society, popularize it on the basis of campus football, and construct “District (county), city, province, region, the National” five-level elite talent training network has achieved the popularization of youth football and the promotion of mutual promotion. It has continued to work hard for a long time and laid a solid foundation for the long-term development of Chinese football.

Du zhaicai said that by 2025, the Chinese Football Association plans to build a national youth training college, and jointly build five district-level high-level football reserve talent bases and 50 men and women pure youth training centers with provinces and cities. Recently, the Chinese Football Association is preparing to build China’s first National Youth Training College and negotiating with UEFA a package of youth football cooperation plans including the joint construction of China-EU international youth training center. Relying on resources such as football associations, sports schools and campus football characteristic schools, we will coordinate and accelerate the layout and construction of five-level youth training centers of “District (county), city, province, region and country. At least one municipal youth training center and six district-level youth training centers will be built in each key city. Each district-level youth training center matches the football characteristic schools with the age groups of primary school, junior high school and senior high school according to the basic ratio of 6:3:1, so as to smooth the football talent training channel with the integration of sports and education. (Finished)

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