Reporter Nan Nan reports If you don't lead the team out to play, Coach Liu Haoyang can be seen on the court of Zhengzhou Zhengshang Road Primary School every morning. He is the football coach of Zhengshang Road Primary School, and according to the training plan of Zheng Shanglu Primary School, the players have to go out for morning exercises every morning. Due to the venue, the flexibility, agility, coordination, speed and endurance training of Zhengshang Road Primary School are all placed in the morning, and the training of agility ladders and other related items must be guaranteed at least 40 minutes of training time every morning.

Zhengzhou Zhengshang Road Primary School is a well-established school in campus football nationwide and plays a pivotal role in domestic campus football. Every year, many school coaches come to Zhengzhou to learn from Zhengshang Road Primary School. Liu Haoyang himself came from Zhengshang Road Primary School, and also had a period of professional football experience, he said: "Now there are more and more coach training courses, and advanced youth football training courses from abroad can also be found on video streaming platforms. ”

Zhengshang Road Primary School, a veteran campus football school, is exploring the way to achieve scientific training, and it is also the direction that various campus football characteristic schools across the country are groping. Qidong Experimental Primary School in Jiangsu Province, which was awarded the National Youth Campus Football Characteristic School in 2020, is a local campus football newcomer, and they are also exploring their own scientific training path.

Influenced by family factors, Sheng Xuanhao has been exposed to various football training since he was a child. The child who used to be trained has now grown into a coach with dozens of children in his hands. Compared with his own training when he was a child, Sheng Xuanhao admitted that the training design of campus football has become much more scientific.

"In the past, the traditional way of football training, no matter how old the child is, came up to practice the basic technical skills. This training method may be really good for polishing skills, after all, football is also a project to grind time, and the four repeated exercises of controlling passing and shooting can indeed allow children to have more solid technical basic skills. However, this sometimes ignores the areas that children need to develop the most at their age, such as coordination, flexibility, agility, etc. In fact, these are also part of the fundamentals. Eight or nine years old is the most sensitive period for children to coordination and agility. Sheng Xuanhao said.

Sheng Xuanhao believes that when he is eight or nine years old, if he does not have enough coordination and flexibility training time, when the child is older and needs a better combination of man and ball, the frequency of the child's feet will begin to fail, and the physical function may begin to slowly fail to meet the requirements.

From the perspective of the general trend of physical fitness, Sheng Xuanhao believes that the comprehensive physical fitness of children is now improved compared with before, but in terms of agility, balance and flexibility, there is actually a certain degree of decline. This may be due to the characteristics of different times: "The children of our era were wilder, and the children of today belong to the family and have a more boring personality. In fact, if we copy the old training method, in fact, many children's coordination is not exercised enough, which will lead to their limited effect on ball control and passing training, in order to enhance the effect, we can only repeat to correct the action, in fact, it also reduces the quality and efficiency of training. ”

In addition, Sheng Xuanhao also believes that the regular training of campus football should strengthen the cultivation of players' one-on-one ability. Liu Yin, head coach of Xi'an Tieyi Middle School, also agrees with this point of view, and in his training plan, he must arrange a one-on-one offensive and defensive special training every week.

Lin Dahai from Dalian Northeast Road Primary School said, "Our original training may have been lacking in flexibility, agility, coordination, and some strength training that is in line with the child's physical development, but we are now slowly adding these aspects of practice to the training session." In addition, there was no local training that simulated the competition scene before, but now the training is more scientific, more detailed, and more localized. Children at every age need different training points, for example, when it comes to the physical growth period, it is necessary to practice physical fitness, which is the law. We should refine the training according to the law of children's physical development, so that it can be regarded as scientific training. ”

Zhang Bin, head coach of Wuhan Hankou Furen Primary School, believes that in the period of laying the foundation for teenagers, children are constantly making mistakes on the court, and the results are grinded out by the coach little by little, and the coaches should have a sense of responsibility, patience and love, and help children build their confidence from an early age.

"In elementary school, the difference in physical conditions is sometimes more obvious, which is beyond the child's own ability. Children will not have so strong self-confidence in their hearts and be timid, which is a normal thing at this age. We coaches are trying to let them experience more of this, so that they can find confidence under the pressure of this confrontation. "With the advancement of scientific training methods, the psychological construction of children is equally important in the concept of high-level campus football coaches.

More detailed training is reflected in the allocation of coaches, such as the establishment of full-time goalkeeper coaches. Goalkeeper coaches and head coaches belong to completely different types of work, and for campus football, the difference between the head coach may be the level of the level, but in the question of goalkeeper coaching, it is a matter of having or not having it.

Hengyang No. 8 Middle School, which reached the final in the high school group of this year's Centennial Famous School Cup, is one of the few teams with a full-time goalkeeper coach in this Cup. Goalkeeper coach Wang Xi once played in the echelon of Hunan professional teams, and then left professional football early due to an injury due to a comminuted ankle fracture and switched to youth football training. At present, Wang Xi is hired by the Hengyang Football Association to be responsible for the training of campus football goalkeepers in the entire Hengyang area.

Different from Hengyang No. 8 Middle School, Northeast Road Primary School has set up its own goalkeeper training system in the school early. Principal Dong Jianhui proposed in his speech at the Principals' Forum of the Centennial Famous School Elite Exchange Tournament that Northeast Road Primary School has achieved "6+1+1" in echelon construction, that is, six age group echelons, a goalkeeper team, and a women's football team. The first "1" represents their goalkeeper training system. In the goalkeeper team of Northeast Road Primary School, all the goalkeepers of the seven echelons are trained by full-time goalkeeper coaches to ensure that the school has personnel reserves in the goalkeeper position. In this year's Centennial School Cup, Northeast Road Primary School even has the capital to replace the goalkeeper before the penalty shootout, which is enough to prove that the school has made full preparations in the weakest position of campus football.

In addition, Shanghai Jiading Xuhang Middle School in the junior high school group, due to the opening of the channel with the Chinese team Shanghai Jiading Huilong, the entire youth echelon coaching staff of Jiading Huilong settled in the school to be responsible for training, as a necessary position for the professional echelon, goalkeeper coaches are naturally indispensable.

As more coaches with professional football experience enter the campus, the quality and intensity of campus football training are also improving year by year, but these coaches with high-level training experience and ability still encounter varying degrees of confusion.

"When I was a child, Liu Zhongyun guided the team to winter training, and we took the fifth-class cabin of the kind of ro-seat steamer. The fifth-class cabin is the whole cabin with only a glass mouth on the top that has been submerged by water, and the conditions at that time were too bitter. Today's children are in much better condition. Lin Dahai said.

The significantly improved living conditions have brought material security to children, but it has also reduced their ability to cope with stress to a certain extent. Maybe Lin Dahai, Sheng Xuanhao and Liu Haoyang, and even Zhang Bin, a famous player in the A era, have experienced those simple and rough training methods at their respective ages. But it is undeniable that Chinese football in that era still had at least one battle in Asia.

Liu Haoyang from Zhengshang Road Primary School said: "The previous 'three from one big' and the 'law of 10,000 times' actually have a certain truth in itself, and we should not completely overturn the past training methods, but should look for training methods that are more in line with the characteristics of our children." ”

At the opening ceremony of the Centennial School Cup, Liu Xiaoxin, president of the "Football" newspaper, mentioned in his speech: "What we have to do to hold the Centennial School Cup is to try to make these children happy to study and play football happily at the same time. In the 2005 Toulon Cup, Chen Tao's flower foot pass was met with an angry roar from the coach's seat. 20 years have passed, and the children of Dalian Northeast Road Primary School have the courage to play fancy passes when they are 0-2 behind. Times have long been different.

The Centennial School Cup should let children feel the joy of football. On the basis of happiness, encourage them to find breakthroughs in personal ability or competition, and find their own self-confidence, self-discipline and self-improvement in happiness. Perhaps, more scientific training also requires children to improve themselves more self-discipline to match and adapt.