According to PAP IB retards, soccer are for retards and Tiongs are playing catch up

JurgenKlopp · Dec 4, 2015

English Premier League coaches to help kick-off China’s plans to boost youngsters’ soccer standards

Shanghai is setting up elite training camps from children and citywide soccer leagues with 280 teams selected from elementary and secondary schools, colleges and universities.

PUBLISHED : Monday, 30 November, 2015, 3:02pm
UPDATED : Monday, 30 November, 2015, 3:18pm

Keira Lu Huang
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Plans to revamp soccer in China may see Shanghai employing English Premier League coaches at elite training camps for the promising youngsters, and soccer leagues featuring 280 teams from schools, colleges and universities. Photo: Xinhua

Shanghai’s most promising young soccer players may soon receive training from English Premier League coaches from clubs including Manchester City, Liverpool, and Tottenham Hotspur as part of a new initiative to boost standards in the sport.

A number of coaches from leading English clubs have shown interest in helping to train players, and will be offered “reasonable salary requirements”, the Shanghai news portal Thepaper.cn reported.

Some Premier League coaches, including Liverpool’s Darren Bowman, attended last Friday’s graduation ceremony of the mainland’s first class of business administration students, who took a soccer capital management course at Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s business school.

China's President Xi Jinping is a keen soccer fan and wants to boost the standard of the sport in his nation. Photo: Reuters

The call by President Xi Jinping - a keen soccer fan - for China to boost soccer training among teenagers has led Shanghai to set up citywide soccer leagues involving 280 teams from elementary and secondary schools, colleges and universities.

Regular matches will be played during normal school terms, while summer competitions and international invitational matches will also take place.

The coaching plans will see each district in the city required to set up four 25-member “elite training camps” for the most promising young footballers aged under 11, under 13, under 15 and under 17.

Each camp include a technical director, chief coach, assistant coach and a goalkeeping coach, which will include foreign coaches.

A large amount of money is being spent on the soccer initiative, Thepaper.cn said.

Shanghai’s education bureau said a special fund had been set up to finance the training camps and district governments were being asked to contribute similar amounts asthe municipal government.

Matthew Forbes, Britain’s Deputy Consul General in Shanghai, told the news website that coaches were keen to go to work in China because “they are positive about the future of Chinese soccer”.

JurgenKlopp · Feb 2, 2016

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China to pick national soccer coach from 18 countries

By Li Ruohan Source:Global Times Published: 2016-2-1 1:08:02

Reform to build nation’s soft power via the world’s most popular sport

China will choose its new national soccer coach from 45 candidates from 18 countries to boost the nation's unprecedented reform of the game, an effort to build soft power via the world's most popular sport.

Former Chinese national coach Gao Hongbo and foreign coaches of national teams and international clubs have applied since the offer was announced on January 8, the Xinhua News Agency reported Saturday.

Among the high-profile applicants are Brazil legend Zico, Italian coach Cesare Prandelli, and former Inter Milan coach Walter Mazzarri.

"Foreign coaches are more competitive and tend to outperform their Chinese counterparts in tactics and directing skills," Ma Dexing, deputy editor of Changsha-based magazine Titan Sports, told the Global Times.

China needs a prestigious coach with convincing accomplishments so he can fully implement his ideas and tactics without unnecessary mistrust from the Chinese Football Association (CFA), Ma said.

The name of the new coach is likely to be announced as early as March 24 when China is to play the first of two remaining matches in the 2018 World Cup qualifiers, according to Xinhua.

The constantly underachieving national team sacked former national coach, Frenchman Alain Perrin, on January 8 after a disappointing run of results - including a 1-0 defeat to Qatar - leaving its World Cup qualifying campaign hanging by a thread.

Better systems

"On the one hand, foreign coaches may take longer to adjust to China's training and management system. On the other, we also need a better system to evaluate coaches, instead of just firing them after defeats," Beijing-based sports commentator Wang Dazhao told the Global Times.

Sending domestic coaches and players overseas to learn from international soccer clubs would be a more sustainable move, as they can integrate world-leading ideas and tactics with the system in China, Wang added.

The nation saw its latest defeat in soccer on January 15 when it lost 1-3 against the Syria under-23 team at the AFC U-23 Championship in Doha, Qatar, renewing criticism as to why the world's second-largest economy cannot win over a conflict-stricken country.

China unveiled ambitious plans in March 2015 to create 50,000 soccer schools by 2025, according to a Ministry of Education circular. The plan calls for a substantial increase in the number of young people playing soccer, with the number of "special soccer schools" raised to 20,000 after five years.

President Xi Jinping has reportedly attached great importance to soccer development and his overseas visits often involve soccer-related activities. Xi was presented with a jersey by David Beckham during a visit to the US in 2012 before he became Chinese leader. Xi also kicked a football at Croke Park in Dublin, the home of Gaelic football, during a visit to Ireland in February 2012, Xinhua reported.

There has been an increase in soccer-related programs and more live broadcasts of matches online and on TV. A reality show about young soccer players will be shown on China Education Television in June.

Pivotal sport

"Revitalizing soccer is a must to build China into a sports powerhouse as part of the Chinese dream. It is also what the people desire," said a statement issued last year by China's leading group of central reform, chaired by Xi.

No other sport has such global popularity, and a sport that has such a long history in China is also a significant battlefield for the country to build soft power globally, Luo Le, a Beijing-based sports commentator, told the Global Times.

"There is a sense of belonging and self-recognition gained from playing soccer. It's also a brand that China can introduce to the world without a language barrier or political disturbance," Luo said.

Steven Dong, a professor at the Communication University of China's Academy of Media and Public Affairs, told the Global Times that the efforts to develop soccer are a significant and practical move to build a better image of China on the world stage.

Luo added that top soccer clubs and club players could be a trump card for China when the national men's team needs more time to develop.

There have been some thrilling achievements, including Chinese soccer club Guangzhou Evergrande winning the Asian Champions League in 2013 and 2015.

congo9 · Feb 2, 2016

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I am afraid that their leagues will be plague by corruption. It had been, has been and I hope the future of the sport is good in China.

Powerage · Feb 2, 2016

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congo9 said:
I am afraid that their leagues will be plague by corruption. It had been, has been and I hope the future of the sport is good in China.

You are afraid but i am SURE :biggrin:

Tiongs are the most corrupted in every aspect.

eatshitndie · Feb 3, 2016

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it's true. soccer are for retards. :biggrin:

JurgenKlopp · Feb 9, 2016

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China will break $100m transfer fee - Cahill

8 February 2016

Shanghai Shenhua forward Tim Cahill believes clubs in the Chinese Super League will continue to break transfer records in 2016.

The record for most expensive transfer fee in Chinese football has been broken four times in this window alone, with a number of stars being poached from Europe.

Shanghai SIPG were the first to break the previous record with the €18million signing of Elkeson from Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao last month, before Jiangsu Suning (€28m for Ramires), Evergrande (€42m for Jackson Martinez) and Suning (€50m for Alex Teixeira) eclipsed the record fee each time.

Gervinho and Fredy Guarin also made moves to the CSL in January, joining the likes of Paulinho, Demba Ba, Stephane Mbia and Asamoah Gyan who played there last season.

And Cahill, who could be joined by Paris Saint-Germain forward Ezequiel Lavezzi at Shenhua, said the transfer fees will continue to rise.

"When I first went to China I knew the vision, I knew what was behind it and I knew what they wanted to do. To see where it's come to now and where we're at, it's pretty crazy," the Australia international told Fox Sports.

"They've got the power and when they want something, they get it and when they don't want something they get rid of it. It's pretty much like a revolving door, you see a lot of players coming in and a lot of players going.

"It's crazy to see but this is only going to get worse. This is going to be massive, soon they'll break the $100million mark easily."

The 36-year-old said the decision by players to go to China was purely about money, and has warned them about the living conditions in the country.

"The choices that players are making are not about football like it was in my day, they're purely about personal gains and it depends what you want as an individual," Cahill said.

"Is it going to help players? No. Is it going to be big for the country? Yes.

"Players have got different ideas and you have to be able to live in China as well. I live in Shanghai, it's a big city. Some of the other areas it's a bit tough and we'll see how long they last."

chootchiew · Feb 9, 2016

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eatshitndie said:
it's true. soccer are for retards.

fully agreed. wrestling also for retards :biggrin:

JurgenKlopp · Feb 16, 2016

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China's millions lure skillful South American footballers

AFP
February 16, 2016, 3:27 am

Montevideo (AFP) - They may lack Barcelona or Chelsea's glamour, but Chinese football clubs are luring skillful South Americans with irresistible multimillion-dollar checks in their quest to make China a world soccer power.

While Argentina's Lionel Messi or Brazil's Neymar bathe in glory as well as cash at Barcelona, a lower-profile Latin legion is hearing the call of the east, where big-money transfers offer precious economic security for players from poor families.

"As professionals we have to see it as a work opportunity. We have short careers. We have to think of the economic stability of our families," said Colombian midfielder Mauricio Molina, who played for six years in South Korea.

Luis Paulo Rosenberg, an economist and former vice-chairman of Brazilian club Corinthians, sees such players as "purely economic actors".

"As long as they are receiving those millions, it doesn't matter to them whether China has good or bad football," he said.

Unlike US teams who have scooped up European stars nearing retirement such as England's David Beckham and Steven Gerrard, Asian sides want top players with their best years ahead of them.

Clubs in China in particular are paying huge sums to get them, matching the level of major transfers in Europe -- but focusing on Latin America, where such riches are a distant dream.

Brazilian midfielder Ramires last month transferred from Chelsea to Jiangsu Suning in China for $31 million and scored on his debut.

His countryman Alex Teixeira, 26, has just joined him at the Chinese club, which outbid Liverpool to sign him from Shakhtar Donetsk for $56 million.

Colombian striker Jackson Martinez, 29, moved in early February from Atletico Madrid to Guangzhou Evergrande for around $46 million.

"They are taking South American players because we have different skills from Asian ones," Molina told AFP.

- Football cash 'bubble'? -

China's Super League has no fewer than 26 Brazilian players -- its biggest foreign contingent. Twelve more Brazilians play in China's second division, according to tracking website Transfermarkt.

Brazilian media have calculated that 134 Brazilian players played in China between 2003 and 2010.

"A Brazilian player does not start out on his footballing career aiming to play for the national side or sign for Barcelona," said Rosenberg.

"He starts out to solve the economic problems stemming from his humble background. Most of them have many relatives and friends to support and they look to maximize their returns."

The trend for buying up players has raised skepticism as well as excitement.

"China bursting onto the scene is harmful for Brazilian football because it is inflating the market without much guarantee of consistency," said Ary Rocco, a sports marketing expert at Sao Paulo University.

"We do not know how long this investment will last. It seems to be driven by a temporary bubble."

- Chinese 'sporting power' -

In the days when such transfers were still rare, Guangzhou Evergrande won its first top league title the year it signed Argentine midfielder Dario Conca in 2011.

In the current Chinese transfer window, Super League clubs have spent $314 million so far, according to Transfermarkt.

China lost all three of its matches in the only World Cup it played in, in 2002. It let in nine goals and scored none.

Now Chinese President Xi Jinping, a self-confessed football fan, has said his aim is for China to host and win a World Cup.

He wants to "turn China into a sporting power as part of the Chinese dream."

"In China they wanted to make football grow and they wondered why they weren't making progress," said Sergio Garcia, a coach who used to run a football youth training school for Chinese players in his native Argentina.

"The problem was that a youth player could not start at 16, because he had to study in school all day. Now they have decided to teach football in the primary and secondary schools," he said.

"But I think investing so much money is more for marketing than to make the sport grow."

JurgenKlopp · Mar 24, 2016

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RUMOURS: Ibrahimovic offered £59m Chinese Super League deal

By Harry Sherlock
Mar 23, 2016 17:50:00

The PSG striker has attracted interest from the Premier League but could be tempted to move to China, with a staggering salary package on offer for the Sweden international

PSG striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic is set to be offered a staggering salary package worth £59 million to move to the Chinese Super League, according to The Sun.

The Sweden international, who is set to leave the French giants at the end of the season, has attracted interest from the Premier League, with Manchester United, Arsenal and West Ham all keeping tabs on the 34-year-old.

However, the Chinese government is said to be prepared to help finance an eye-watering deal to lure Ibrahimovic to Asia, as they continue their attempts to sign star names, after acquiring the likes of Jackson Martinez and Ramires.

Heatseeker · Mar 24, 2016

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Indeed. Tiongs have become retards. :biggrin:

Jurgen · Mar 24, 2016

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OFFICIAL: Hebei China Fortune sign Lavezzi from PSG

By Robin Bairner
Feb 17, 2016 09:38:00

The attacker has moved to the Chinese Super League for a fee of around €4 million, following in the footsteps of Jackson Martinez, Ramires and Gervinho

Hebei China Fortune have announced that they have signed Ezequiel Lavezzi from Paris Saint-Germain.

The Argentine's contract in France was due to expire at the end of the season, and instead of winding it down before leaving on a Bosman deal, he has made a switch to the Chinese Super League valued around the €4 million mark, while the player is expected to earn a net salary of €10m per annum, plus a bonus up to €6m.

The new club, who won promotion to the elite level last season, announced the deal via their Weibo account.

"His arrival will make the team more offensively sharp. Look forward to his heroics, he's unstoppable!" the post promises.

Lavezzi, a winger, had struggled to find regular game time under Laurent Blanc this season, and while he amassed 24 appearances for the French champions, he made only around 800 minutes of action.

A deal had been on the cards since the beginning of the month, and for this reason, Lavezzi has missed recent PSG games, including the Champions League victory over Chelsea on Tuesday.

The 30-year-old joins the likes of Jackson Martinez, Ramires and Gervinho in moving to a league that has dramatically stepped up its investment over the last couple of months.

The Chinese transfer window remains open until February 26.

JurgenKlopp · Mar 25, 2016

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Ha.. my twin brother is here!

JurgenKlopp · Mar 25, 2016

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Jurgen · Mar 27, 2016

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Chinese Football Academy Has World Cup Goals

Boasting thousands of pupils, the Evergrande school embodies Beijing's ambitions for sporting greatness on an international stage.

08:04 Thursday 24 March 2016

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Katie Stallard
Asia Correspondent

Dawn on a misty morning in southern China. Thousands of children stand in immaculate ranks on the football pitch in front of us, dressed in their bright red sports kit, singing the national anthem as the flag is raised.

Then, they raise one clenched fist to the side of their head and repeat solemn vows.

"Becoming a football star is our never-ending pursuit," they chant. "Developing Chinese football is our eternal goal."

These are the students of the Guangzhou Evergrande Academy - the biggest football school in the world.

Part Hogwarts, part footballing theme park, the children walk to classes through the "Square of the Stars", past huge bronze statues of Pele and Bobby Moore.

By the front gates there's a 15ft replica of the World Cup - no pressure.

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There are statues of Pele and Bobby Moore on the academy's 300-acre grounds

China's president says his personal dream is for the country to win the tournament, even though the nation is currently ranked 96th in the world - between footballing titans Guatemala and Oman.

But Chinese Super League clubs are laying out vast sums to buy top talent from around the world. They outspent the Premier League by £70m in the last transfer window.

And efforts are under way to try to revitalise the sport at the grassroots.

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A massive World Cup outside the entrance intends to inspire young players

President Xi Jinping has ordered the sport to be added to the national curriculum in schools, and as an option in the national university entrance exam this year.

At the elite academy, we're taken to meet some of the most promising students.

Wang Shijie, 12, has been singled out as a special talent.

The son of a factory worker, he's being tipped as a future star of the national side, likely good enough to play for a top European club.

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Wang Shijie has been tipped for greatness as a potential professional

"Hello everyone, he says, "My dream is to enter the national team, and take my brothers out to the world. And become a champion!"

He's not short of would-be team mates.

"My dream is to join the national team," Luo Junxi tells us. "And play for Bayern Munich in the future."

Shouts of Mandarin and Spanish come from the pitches. The children train with coaches sent out by the Real Madrid Foundation.

But what's missing in China is the culture of jumpers for goalposts - and that's a difficult thing to teach.

Their Spanish coach, Javier Moreiras, explained: "They need, what we call in Spain 'football of the streets'. In China no kids play on the streets, like they do in Spain, France, Italy and England."

Asked about China's prospects for World Cup glory, he was realistic.

"They must start with these kids. Maybe in 15, 20 years, maybe they have a chance to go to a World Cup, only to go to it.

"To win a World Cup, that's another world."

jw5 · Mar 27, 2016

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Jurgen said:
The attacker has moved to the Chinese Super League for a fee of around €4 million, following in the footsteps of Jackson Martinez, Ramires and Gervinho

Former Bayer Leverkusen player Renato Augusto has also moved to China. He is a current Brazil international who just scored in the recent world cup qualifier vs Uruguay. Looks like the ah tiongs are really serious about improving their league. :wink:

Jurgen · Mar 27, 2016

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jw5 said:
Former Bayer Leverkusen player Renato Augusto has also moved to China. He is a current Brazil international who just scored in the recent world cup qualifier vs Uruguay. Looks like the ah tiongs are really serious about improving their league.

oic okiez...............

Raider · Apr 1, 2016

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your nick reminds me of jua gen. lol :biggrin:

JurgenKlopp · Apr 13, 2016

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China sets out grand plan to become world’s soccer superpower by 2050

Authorities lay out targets – from increasing number of soccer players to topping Asia in the sport – in bid to reach the eventual goal of boasting one of the world’s best soccer teams in 30 years’ time

PUBLISHED : Monday, 11 April, 2016, 1:43pm
UPDATED : Tuesday, 12 April, 2016, 9:26am

Jun Mai

China has set out its grand plan to produce one of the world’s strongest soccer teams by 2050.

The ambitious goal includes interim targets of becoming one of Asia’s best teams in the sport by 2030 and boasting some 50 million soccer players by 2020.

The time frame given to make China a soccer superpower was announced in a document released on Monday by the National Development and Reform Commission, Chinese Football Association, Sports Bureau and Ministry of Education.

The document was released one day ahead of a meeting in Kuala Lumpur, where 12 nations will learn their opponents for the 2018 World Cup Russian Asian Qualifiers Final Round.

China had rarely touched on plans to boost its national soccer team until President Xi Jinping came to power in 2012.

Xi, who has been passionate about soccer since he was a child, has repeatedly called for improved soccer education among youngsters to raise playing standards in the nation’s most-watched sport.

While Xi was still vice-president in 2011, he expressed three wishes for China’s soccer future – for the country to qualify for another World Cup, to host a World Cup and to win a World Cup.

Last year, a directive on soccer reforms was passed in a leading group founded and chaired by Xi.

An ad-hoc leading group on soccer-related reform was set up shortly after to overhaul soccer regulators and the market, which have long been plagued by corruption and inefficiencies.

According to the document released on Monday, Beijing aimed to increase its soccer-playing population to 50 million by 2020, of which 30 million would be elementary and high school pupils.

By 2030, its men’s soccer team was expected to be in Asia’s top echelon and its women’s team also return to being among “one of the world’s strongest”, the document stated.

By 2050, China’s national soccer team should be among the world’s strongest, it said.

The national men’s soccer team has qualified for only one World Cup so far, in 2002. The women’s team took fourth place in the 1995 World Cup and eighth place last year.

China won itself a spot in the third qualifying round of the 2018 World Cup after a dramatic 2-0 victory over Qatar on March 29.

In the next five years, China will produce two to three first class football clubs, the document reads. Number of registered referees is expected to double in the next five years.

Every county should have two standard fields, and every new living residence compounds in cities with adequate resource should have at least one five-a-side court, it said.

China’s football reforms are on the right track but making a first class by 2050 could be difficult, said Liu Xiaoxin, chief editor of Soccer News said.

“China is already 5th or 6th place in Asia, being among the top Asian teams in 14 years is not that difficult, provided by the systematic improvements in youth training underway,” Liu said. “Making a world class team by 2050 is far more difficult, even Japan and Korea are by no means world class teams.”

“I look at them as wishes rather than hard indicators to meet, it’s really hard to make such concrete goals in football,” Liu said.

Jurgen · Apr 19, 2016

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Kick off: Chinese university launches soccer college in national goal for superpower status

Institution to focus on training coaches and referees for schools

PUBLISHED : Monday, 18 April, 2016, 12:23am
UPDATED : Monday, 18 April, 2016, 12:23am

Zhou Xin

Guangzhou Sport University has become the first on the mainland to launch a soccer college after the country unveiled plans to be a superpower in the sport by 2050.

The university kicked off the four-year programme for high school graduates on Sunday, Nanfang Daily reported.

Between 100 and 150 pupils will begin studying for a four-year course in September. The details of the curriculum has not yet been decided and was “under constant exploration and improvement”, Zhou Yi, the executive dean, was quoted as saying.

But Zhou said the college, with more than 20 faculty members, would also focus on training coaches and referees for schools.

It signed an agreement with a Guangzhou soccer club to share coaches and referees, and promote soccer among teenagers.
New school strategy to realise China’s dream of becoming global soccer superpower

The college’s formation is to “connect to the state soccer reform strategy” and to promote soccer training at campus, the dean was quoted by Nanfang Daily as saying.

A launching ceremony was held for college on Saturday, and according to a picture from the ceremony, it was held at an indoor auditorium attended by a group of middle-aged man, with a band of cheerleading girls holding red flowers in front of them.

A few days ago China just released a soccer-themed national plan.

In a mind-blogging manner, Beijing has sets an interim target of 50 million soccer players by 2020 to lay the foundations for China becoming one of Asia’s best teams by 2030 and one of the world’s best by 2050. It also said that 20 million children slated to be receiving soccer training in 2025, as well as 20,000 more school pitches by 2020 and 20,000 for cities.

The nation also wants to produce two to three first-class soccer clubs, and the number of registered referees is expected to double in the next five years.

President Xi Jinping, who has been passionate about soccer since he was a child, has repeatedly called for better soccer education among young people to raise playing standards in the nation’s most-watched sport.

red amoeba · Apr 19, 2016

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How come never publish the appendix of the document - about how to cooperate w the bookie syndicates ?

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