Expand the “one-stop” admission path for universities, middle schools, and small schools, and outstanding students have great hope for undergraduate studies.
Determine the “three major directions” for talent training to help accelerate the construction of a national key city for football development
Recently, Hangzhou held a conference around football – a mobilization and deployment meeting for the construction of a national key city for football development. The signal sent out by the meeting was very clear: the whole city should work together to build a national key city for football development; at the meeting site, the “Hangzhou Football Academy” was officially unveiled.
Yesterday, the Physical Education College of Hangzhou Normal University officially launched the “Hangzhou Football Academy”. How to build a college? What will it be built like? Hangzhou Normal University held a work promotion meeting simultaneously, and the future development blueprint was clearly visible.
The first batch of recruiting about 25 people will solve the phenomenon of “retiring at the age of 12” and try to explore the sports school-general undergraduate “3+4” comprehensive training model
This is the consensus in the industry that football should start from childhood. However, there is a phenomenon of “retiring at the age of 12” in China’s football youth training: in the early stages of primary school, many parents are willing to send their children to play football; after entering junior high school, as the academic burden and pressure for further studies increase, parents often consider the future of their children. It will make children give up training and concentrate on studying, and many outstanding football talents will fade out of the green field as a result.
“Why is there a phenomenon of ‘retiring at the age of 12’? The fundamental reason is that there is a problem with the ‘export’ of football talent training. Many parents dare not bet on football tomorrow.” Guo Dongfeng, Secretary of the Party Committee of Hangzhou Normal University, said, “A student from Hangzhou Football Academy The first task is to open up the growth channels for football talents and allow outstanding football talents to have the opportunity to enjoy high-quality undergraduate education.”
In 2025, Hangzhou Football Academy officially starts enrollment and will recruit about 25 football-specific talents, including 2-3 national outstanding athletes recommended for admission, 18 sports training majors (national), and 5 provincial sports special admissions.
Football talent needs to be developed consistently. In the future, Hangzhou Football Academy will explore the sports school-general undergraduate “3+4” integrated training model, promote joint talent training with Greentown Football School and Zhejiang Sports Vocational and Technical College, and accelerate the establishment of mutual connections between kindergartens, primary schools, junior high schools, high schools and universities. The “one-stop” education path will smooth the transition from campus football to professional football, promote the “professional integration” development of youth training athletes to college athletes, and allow football talents to fully flow.
Hangzhou Football Academy has just been established, and parents are very concerned about its teachers. This aspect has received strong support from the Hangzhou Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government. On the same day, the Hangzhou Municipal Party Committee Organization Office clearly included the Hangzhou Football Academy into the teaching institution of Hangzhou Normal University for registration, and assigned dedicated personnel to the academy to take charge of daily work. In addition, Hangzhou Normal University will also arrange establishments specifically for the recruitment of teachers for Hangzhou Football Academy, and set up special posts for professional football teachers (mentors) to flexibly recruit famous experts, coaches, athletes and other teachers in the field of football at home and abroad to provide teaching and training services. , provide guarantee for scientific research work.
Cultivate excellent football teachers, cultivate applied talents needed by the industry, and strive to build a high-level football academy in ten years
Cultivating high-level football players is only the first step. Football is a huge industrial chain. To achieve deeper development, Hangzhou Football Academy will also make efforts in the other two directions.
“If physical education teachers in primary and secondary schools have a deep theoretical and practical foundation in football, the phenomenon of ‘famous teachers giving rise to brilliant apprentices’ will emerge more often.” Zhou Wu, president of Hangzhou Football Academy, said that the academy will give full play to Hangzhou Normal University’s “Normal + “Sports” advantage, using the pilot colleges and universities approved by the Ministry of Education for targeted enrollment of primary and secondary physical education (football) as a new platform to provide a group of outstanding football teachers with high professional level, sufficient practical experience and strong scientific research capabilities for primary and secondary football education.
In the planning of Hangzhou Football Academy, it is planned that by 2035, it will have a “bachelor, master, and doctoral” training system for football talents. Football talents also need to be trained with Ph.D.s? “In the creation of the football talent system, not only high-level athletes are needed, but also high-quality coaches and managers. We need to cultivate more application-oriented talents needed by the football industry.” Zhou Wu said.
At present, there is a big gap in the development of Chinese football compared with other developed football countries. Strengthening exchanges and learning from experience is a fast lane to promote the development of national football. At the promotion meeting that day, Hangzhou Football Academy and the Samaranch Sports Development Foundation signed a cooperation agreement. The two parties will jointly promote the popularization and promotion of Chinese youth football, as well as serve the construction of Hangzhou football city, teacher training, and football talent training. cooperate.
In addition, Hangzhou Football Academy will also improve its international level, actively leverage the advantages of platforms such as the Samaranch Sports Development Foundation and the Caribbean Research Center of Hangzhou Normal University, and explore the establishment of exchange mechanisms with universities and clubs in developed football countries such as Argentina and Spain. Actively integrate into the city’s “Youth Football Talent Overseas Training Plan”, strengthen cooperation in teacher introduction, talent training, event exchanges, cultural dissemination, etc., and provide teachers and students with a higher-level learning and training platform.
“Hangzhou Normal University will strive to spend about ten years to build a high-level football academy with great influence in the industry, and provide high-quality talent support and discipline support for the construction of a football city with Hangzhou characteristics.” Guo Dongfeng said.
Source: Hangzhou Daily Author: Expand the “one-stop” education path for universities, middle schools and small schools. Outstanding students have great hope of getting undergraduate degrees. Hangzhou Football Academy will start enrollment next year and determine the “three major directions” of talent training to help accelerate the construction of a national key city for football development. Editor: Li Jiameng
