A Study On Some Problems With The Training Of Football Reserve Talents In China, Japan And ROK

Football is the most popular and influential sport in the world. The extent to which it is popularized, in some respects, can manifest the development of the material civilization and spiritual civilization in a region or a country. Japan and Republic of Korea(ROK) are similar to China geographically, culturally, historically and ethnically as neighbors, but they are completely different as far as football is concerned. We must realize that football should be developed in a sustainable way and that only by training the adolescent talents can football be truly played. So far, the footballers in Japan and ROK have topped Asian games, and even performed quite well in the world arena. All this has resulted from the fact that great importance has been attached to the training of adolescent players in those two countries. And in this article, I have thoroughly studied the training of talented young players in the three countries, and drawn some conclusions as follows:1.Great emphasis put on teenager and adolescent football is an important guarantee for the success in football in Japan and Korea.2.In China, the misconceptions of coaching theories have caused the reserve players to lag behind; the training strategies have ignored the fostering of their humanity quality, which has hindered their creativity and all-round development, and thus rendering them unable to achieve the sustainable goals.3.Standardized and highly-functional training theories haven't formed yet in China. The training guideline---Basic Skills Are Everything---has stopped the young players from performing creatively and flexibly.Their skills are divorced from the on-the-field requirements.4.In our country, the over-emphasis of scores has resulted in the players' turning-professionals at an earlier age, which has prevented them reaching higher levels.5.Lack of experience in training the reserve players and one-method pattern of spotting and training talents have directly hindered and severely influenced the quality and scale of the reserve players in our country.6.The over-charging problem is commonplace in our football schools and amateur clubs.7.Classroom education of the players has been ignored. The result:the adolescent players are characterized by poor literacy. The education-intensive training pattern in Japan and ROK deserves our serious reflection.8.Though the establishment of multi-level competition, administration and guidance has promoted the over-all management of the Football Association in China, and involved the football schools in a more positive way, the training of their players is still in the charge of educational departments. So the National Football Association can't very well guarantee their performance:the sport may have gained nation-wide popularity, but the on-the-field performance is yet to be improved.9.Unlike in Japan and ROK, a steady and integral system of training and competing of the adolescent players hasn't been set up through all these years. Instead, nearly every aspect in training is dealt with in an arbitrary manner. Therefore, there is still a great gap between China and the football superpowers, be it the number of reserve teams, or systematic training, or the number of annual matches.