Football giants

Chapter 471

"really?"

With the conversation just now, David Bernstein is now very convinced of Young Master Huan.

"Master Huan, please tell me!"

Looking at his excited appearance, Yang Huan knew it well.

In fact, this guy is also an official fan, and although the FA is not as oily as the Premier League, it is not bad.

More importantly, the status of football in the UK is very high. He occupies the position of chairman of the FA. At first glance, it seems that it is not very good, but in fact, the benefits in the dark are quite large.

"It's very simple, just draw a big cake!"

"Draw big cakes?" David Bernstein was stunned.

Prince William is also a little silly. What does this football player have to do with painting big pies?

Master Huan chuckled, "To put it simply, you should design a comprehensive football reform plan that involves all aspects, so that everyone can see the FA's determination to promote reform, including the reform of the FA's internal management system."

When David Bernstein heard this, his eyes lit up. That's right, who can't draw big cakes?
The slogan of reforming the FA's internal management system has been shouted for many years. Almost everyone feels that it is necessary, but it cannot be promoted due to some resistance.

But if I vigorously promote it during my term of office and put it into practice, won't it greatly meet everyone's expectations?
Besides, how would outsiders know about the reform of the internal management system?

But soon, he noticed the problem again.

"Master Huan, I have two questions."

Yang Huan nodded. It is normal to have problems. If there are no problems, what should be reformed?

"tell me the story."

"First of all, this comprehensive football reform plan is not easy to implement."

David Bernstein grimaced, "To tell you the truth, the government and the FA made up their minds to promote the reform of youth training, probably in 2000. For this reason, we even spent tens of millions of pounds in [-] to build the first-class St. George's youth training center."

It's fine if he doesn't say anything, but Yang Huan laughed when he mentioned St. George's Youth Training Center.

This cheating youth training center was originally regarded as the Clairefontaine of Britain, but it turned out that it took more than ten years to build, and the investment was getting higher and higher. Now it is more than 1 million pounds, and it is planned to be opened at an optional time after the Olympic Games.

England and Germany launched youth training reforms almost at the same time. Germany has cultivated a large number of talented rookies such as Ozil, Gotze, Thomas Muller and Toni Kroos. Your British youth training center is still in the womb. How cheating do you think?
Of course, a very important reason is that there is no money!

Hearing Master Huan's laughter, both David Bernstein and Prince William felt ashamed.

What can be done?Who made our family poor?

"In the past few years, we have visited many countries with excellent youth training, such as France, Germany, and Spain, but we have never been able to come up with a specific youth training reform plan."

"The main reason is that we have our special football environment!"

For this point, Yang Huan very much agrees.

Many England fans said that directly copying Germany and Spain is a rogue statement.

Is your football environment and social environment in England the same as in Germany and Spain?

Furthermore, the biggest feature of the Premier League is fast-paced and high-intensity. You use the youth training methods of Germany and Spain. Well, assuming that you have cultivated players with excellent skills, will the Premier League teams use it?

It's like Joe Cole, he's skilled, right?cow?Zidane who was known as England back then!
Can Chelsea use it?

The problem still lies in the overall environment of English football!

It is easy to learn, but difficult to apply!
Many people regard the FA and even the football professionals in England as fools, thinking that they are purely vegetarians, but they don't know that they also have their own helplessness.

Since the 90s and [-]s, the English team was banned from the European competition by UEFA, which directly caused the overall development of English football to lag behind the European continent for a long time.

This backwardness is not only reflected in tactics, but even directly reflected in youth training.

Nowadays, technology is generally emphasized. Who doesn't know that we should pay attention to technology?
But the problem is, if you want to pay attention to technology, you have to have a coach who pays attention to technology to teach children to play football, right?
All your youth training coaches in the past all emphasized body and fighting, but did not pay attention to technique. What should we do?
All dismissed?

At that time, who will come to the top?

Well, you said that you have to train a batch of new coaches quickly, who doesn't know?

But the problem is not so simple. The money for training is not the primary issue. The real primary issue is, you have to have a direction, right?

What do you want the style of football in your country to be like?
You must at least have a direction, so that everyone can clearly know what I want to learn.

Then design a system according to this direction. Otherwise, is it meaningful to practice skills at the age of eight or nine and follow the Spanish route, and practice grappling at the age of ten and follow the British route?
When Yang Huan heard this, he also felt the helplessness of the English football industry in his heart.

They seem to be standing at a crossroads. There are roads in the front, back, left, and right, but they don't know which way they want to go.

Relatively speaking, the club is much simpler, directly following the tactical philosophy of the first team.

As for the youth training talents, it doesn't matter, if not, I will directly recruit people from abroad, anyway, the Premier League teams are not short of money.

But can the FA extend this model to the whole country?

If you really do this, you will definitely be drowned by the saliva of fans all over the country!

"You know, Southampton attaches great importance to youth training."

David Bernstein nodded, which is worthy of recognition.

The Saints' youth training is already the best in England, and I am afraid that only Manchester United can compete with it.

But in the past two years, Yang Huan has invested heavily in renovation, introduced a large number of talents, and promoted high-tech auxiliary systems. All these measures have brought great changes to Southampton.

The whole of England knows that there are a lot of talents in the Saints youth training camp, and there are many rookies.

"Griffa and Madoni are both old men who have been immersed in football for decades, and have always been engaged in youth training. Bielsa's tactical concepts have always been advanced. In addition, there are former FA technical director Harrison Reid, and England youth training expert Matt Crocker and others. As for me, I have brought them all here and talked about youth training several times."

The reason why Yang Huan talked with them was mainly for Chinese football, but he also talked about English football.

"The traditional advantages of England's youth training are body and passion, and the emphasis on player speed, running and confrontation is in line with the style of the English league."

David Bernstein couldn't help nodding. He himself has been engaged in football work for decades, so he knew very well whether Yang Huan was right or not.

"The characteristics of England are different from Brazil, Spain, Germany and France. They cannot be copied, but they can absorb the advantages of others and use them for themselves. I agree with Bielsa's words that Southampton's tactical style is the most suitable for English football!"

When he said these words, Yang Huan didn't show any boasting, instead he was very serious.

"Ferguson is a great coach, but he is a pragmatist. He doesn't have his own set of stable ideas. Wenger has ideas, but his flow of possession is not suitable for England. Mourinho's style is biased towards defense. This style of play is not pleasing in the UK. Therefore, even when Chelsea won two consecutive championships, the attendance rate on the court was frighteningly low."

"Benitez's style pursues balance, but it is too rational and lacks passion. The Miracle in Istanbul is not so much a masterpiece of Benitez. I would rather see it as an explosion of passion that has been dull in English football for a long time!"

"Yes, that's right!" When David Bernstein heard this, his whole body was ignited.

That feeling seemed to be that everything suddenly became clear!

Prince William couldn't help but nod his head. These words are indeed incisive and unique.

"Belsa's football style is very passionate, emphasizing running coverage, and giving the opponent high-intensity pressure and pressing at all times. The rhythm is very fast, which is very consistent with English football!"

Yang Huan didn't say a word, that is, Southampton's football is definitely one of the teams that attracts the most attention from local fans in the Premier League this season. The reason is very simple, Bielsa's football is always full of passion.

This is what England fans want to see most!
"But at the same time, Bielsa attaches great importance to technology, teamwork, and players' creativity and imagination. This represents the future development trend of football. That's why I say that the Saints' tactics are very suitable for England!"

David Bernstein nodded repeatedly after hearing this.

He couldn't figure out why Southampton was so popular before.

But what Yang Huan said now makes sense!
Isn't something at the heart of Southampton a traditional feature of English football?
It's just that the Saints have absorbed advanced football concepts to make their entire tactical system advanced and more in line with the development trend of modern football.

In this way, the youth training of English football should learn from Southampton.

Learning from the saints has a future!

"After solving the directional problem of England's youth training, the next two biggest problems must be solved."

"One is the lack of youth coaches in England!"

Yang Huan's words caused David Bernstein to frown again.

Prince William listened a little strangely, "How can there be a shortage? Isn't there a lot?"

Yang Huan shook his head with a smile and said, "My lord, the Duke of Cambridge, don't you know? There are 4000 coaches in Spain with UEFA B-level and A-level professional coaching certificates, and 5000 in Germany. Guess how many there are in the UK?"

Prince William finally understood Yang Huan's subtext, and hesitated a little, "At least there must be more than 1 people, right?"

In terms of population, England is more than Spain and less than Germany, but when it comes to professional football clubs, England throws them out a few streets casually, so the number of high-level professional coach certificate holders may be less, but it will not be too outrageous.

But who knows, Yang Huan laughed out loud.

Even David Bernstein is a bit embarrassed.

"It's not yet ten thousand?" Prince William was a little depressed.

"No!" Yang Huan nodded affirmatively.

"Eight thousand?"

"Too much!"

Prince William became angry, and spread out five fingers on his right hand, "It must be at least five thousand?"

Who knew, Master Huan was still laughing, "It's still too much!"

"Don't we have less than three thousand professional coaches in England?"

Yang Huan smiled and remained silent this time.

Prince William immediately looked at David Bernstein, and the poor chairman of the FA greeted him with a wry smile.

"Our coaches who have obtained the UEFA professional coaching certificate are only more than 700!"

Damn Xipi, it's not enough for a fraction of others!

No wonder the level of youth training is so low!
It turns out that there are too few professional coaches!
"Hey, that's not right. If there are really only more than 700 people, how many will be left after deducting the professional clubs?"

David Bernstein smiled helplessly, "Actually, even in professional clubs, there are still many youth training coaches who do not have professional coaching certificates at all. What's even more outrageous is that some head coaches of the Premier League first team don't even have coaching qualifications. The domestic media are not ashamed of this, but proud of it!"

This problem has always been the crux of English football!

(End of this chapter)