球娃家长的反思：中国足球认知偏差，改变认知：让足球成为生活方式

中国足球，特别是北京足球发展中存在的问题展开论述，阐述了认知是中国足球的硬伤这一观点，并提出从青少年足球角度出发，改变家长认知，让足球成为一种生活方式的理念。

In the past few years, like many Chinese football fans, I was also confused about why Chinese football was not making progress. Similarly, I didn't understand why fewer and fewer children were playing football in Beijing.In recent years, as my child started learning football, I gradually began to understand where the problems in Chinese football lie. I also started to figure out the reasons for the decline of football in Beijing.The lack of correct understanding is the real problem in Chinese football. Chinese football is fond of wasting time on pointless arguments every day. Although such arguments may, to some extent, enhance the arguers' understanding of football, under the effect of the information cocoons, more and more people have a narrower and more polarized view of football.Therefore, for a long time to come, Beijing Home Ground (ID: bjzhuchang) will focus on youth football in its tweets and share some thoughts as a football - loving child's parent over the years. We name this column "A Football - Loving Child at Home".The development of football in a country, a region or a team starts from the youth. The foundation of youth football development is actually the result of all parties. In this system, families, coaches and school education all play their respective roles.Many youth training coaches, including some big names in youth training work such as Dong Lu, Sun Jihai and Xu Liang, have pointed their fingers at the parents of football - loving children more than once, believing that these parents are an important reason for hindering the development of Chinese football.Of course, this view is completely unacceptable. Because without these parents, there would be no children playing football. It is precisely because of these parents who send their children to play football and also care about their children's football skills growth that Chinese football has a basis for development.However, the parents of Chinese football - loving children do have a lot of problems. I am no exception. In the two years since my child started playing football, my own words and deeds have made my child take a lot of detours. Now, I can completely calmly look at a child's growth on the football path.So, I say that the understanding of football is very important.Not long ago, I got a PDF version of the FIFA Youth Football Training Guide from a friend. After reading it all, I indeed found that our overall understanding of football has a large deviation. I also learned a lot from it myself. So, I hope to help the parents of football - loving children in Beijing re - evaluate their football - playing children, coaches and clubs by sharing the content of this guide.Starting from today, Beijing Home Ground (ID: bjzhuchang) will successively push the content of this guide. Today is the first article, which is a selection and analysis of the preface.This can explain a problem faced by many parents of football - loving children: Why should my child play football?At the beginning of this manual, it introduces the important role of youth football training in a country's football level. Among them, a chart is listed, which deeply shows where the gap between Chinese football and world football lies. (As shown in the figure below).Italian famous defender TorricelliHe joined the giant Juventus directly from the amateur team Caratese.In the 6 - 12 - year - old stage, the total number of children in regional youth football clubs is much larger than that in football schools. Judging from the overlapping area of the two pyramids, according to age calculation, at the ages of 10, 13 and 15, there will be a lot of amateur players (regional youth football) children entering the field of professional football (football schools). Moreover, the proportion of children entering professional football (football schools) at the ages of 15 and 13 is actually similar to that of children who have been training in the professional football (football schools) echelon from the beginning, and the heights of their achievements are also similar.In comparison, where is the lack in Chinese football? In fact, it is the left - hand blue triangle in these two triangles, and the whole triangle is missing. What currently exists in Chinese football is the right - hand triangle, and it is the part in the right - hand triangle that does not overlap with the left - hand triangle at all, that is, the light - red part.From this, we can see that in the end of Chinese youth football training, at least half of the football talents are actually lost.Once a football - playing child cannot be selected into the professional football (football schools) system at the age of 10 or 12, he will basically say goodbye to this circle. Because in China, amateur football (regional youth football) and professional football (football schools) basically have no intersection after the age of 12. Moreover, the weakness of Chinese amateur football also makes the left - hand blue pyramid very small, completely out of proportion to the right - hand red pyramid.So, the professional and amateur pyramids of Chinese football, including the development of Beijing regional youth football, should be like this (as shown in the figure below).At present, the Beijing Youth League has such a sign. Open Xiaohongshu, Douyin and other social media to search, and you will find that many teams participating in the Beijing Youth League are openly recruiting players and conducting selections at the same time. The players in the teams participating in this official competition are not the players they usually train, but are recruited and selected from other clubs.The most important problem here is how parents and coaches view football, or how they view sports.In China, parents regard sports as a major or a profession, while in foreign countries, sports are more regarded as a lifestyle.It is this difference in understanding that makes the amateur part in Chinese sports projects very weak, and relevant departments basically let the development of amateur sports go unchecked."I let my child play football. Why does he have to go professional? Can't he play amateur games in the future?" This was the idea of a parent of a football - playing child beside my child not long ago.Yes, sports should be a lifestyle.In recent years, the detection rate of adolescent depression has been increasing. According to authoritative statistics, the prevalence rate of adolescent depression is as high as 24%. And the vast majority of these cases occur between the ages of 11 and 18. Perhaps it is a coincidence that the age at which Chinese children retire from the football field exactly coincides with the age at which depression begins to enter a high - incidence period.In fact, as parents, we will all find that today's children have very narrow social circles. Many of them have no siblings, not even cousins. Their classmates rush to various cram schools as soon as school is over, and the children in their communities are also nowhere to be seen. There are fewer and fewer peers with whom they can have effective social interactions.The football team may be the last stronghold for them to socialize with their peers.So, when our children have studied at school for a week or worked at work for a week, and then come to the stadium to play a game with their partners on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon, isn't this a very good thing?However, from football managers such as the Chinese Football Association and Beijing football, to football practitioners such as clubs and coaches, and finally to parents, no one wants to do a good job in amateur football. They all set their sights on professional football, professional athletes, and then on results, benefits, points, gold medals and goals.Several Japanese coaches I know have told me the same sentence: There are so many people in China that it seems that China is not worried about the lack of football talents, so China begins to waste a large number of football talents. Japan is a small country with a small population, so more children must be allowed to play football and more children must have a long enough football - playing time span so that Japan can select enough football talents.The amateur team Caratese mentioned above has a history of 117 years.It has never entered the professional league.But it does not prevent it from having a large number of die - hard club supporters.So, the understanding of each of our parents of football - loving children should be changed. The child plays football not to make him a professional player, such as entering the Guoan echelon, because that is very rare. But playing football can make the child realize that football is a lifestyle, a very meaningful way of leisure and exercise after study and work, and may also be a professional path for the child to gain a foothold in society in the future.With this idea, more and more children in Beijing will play football.

文章指出认知是中国足球的硬伤，中国足球在发展过程中过于关注职业足球，而忽视了业余足球的发展。球娃家长也存在认知偏差，没有将足球视为一种生活方式。通过国际足联青少年足球训练指导手册中的内容分析，阐述了中国青少年足球人才流失等问题，并呼吁改变球娃家长的认知，让足球回归生活方式，以促进北京乃至中国足球的发展。