2017 is a bumper year for Shanghai football, and behind these gains, there is a key word-"academy". It is precisely because more and more people are engaged in the work of Shencheng football youth training. Those youth training coaches who have been working at the grassroots level for a long time to cultivate and transport reserve talents have laid a solid foundation for all these honors. The eight grassroots "gardeners" who were awarded the 2017 Shanghai Youth Football Coaches' Best Coaches will share their thoughts with us.
· Interview Series · Issue 1: Yangpu District Youth Amateur Football School Director-Fang Lunyu
Age: 61 years old
Leading time: 30 years
Coach qualification:
AFC A-level/senior coach
Main contributions:
1988 He started as a coach of the Youth Amateur Sports School in Yangpu District, Shanghai. It has trained a large number of outstanding football players such as Sun Ji and Sun Xiang, and sent more than 30 football reserve talents to superior units. Among them, there are 2 Olympic team, 5 national team, 8 national youth team, 3 national youth team, Shanghai There were 30 National Games teams, 10 Shanghai Shenhua teams, 10 Shanghai Shenxin teams, and 3 Shanghai Genbao teams. They sent more than 50 attendees for high-level sports teams in colleges and universities.
Leading results:
2013-2017 Five Shanghai Youth Football Championships and Shanghai Youth Sports Decathlon Series Football Men's Group A champion.
The youth training experts who came out of the "hometown of football"
Wang Yun, Sun Ji, Sun Xiang, these now renowned football players, all walked out under Fang Lunyu's hands, and he himself was also from Yangpu District. Coming out of the land known as the "Hometown of Football". Many old Shanghainese may know that in the 1970s and 1980s, Yangpu District was an industrial area in Shanghai, and the atmosphere of football was also very strong. With the saying of "thousands of factories and thousands of teams," employee football was unprecedentedly prosperous. Fang Lunyu has worked in Shanghai Haifeng Farm’s Huaming Branch and the Second Steel Plant’s mobile workshop since 1975. He loves football during his work, and having two feet after get off work every day is one of the essential life for him. In 1988, he simply went to Shanghai Yangpu District Youth Amateur Sports School as a football coach. Unexpectedly, he had been working for 30 years. He has forged an indissoluble bond with Yangpu, football, and batches of children.
Fang Lunyu, this "academy expert" who came out of the field and workshop, gave people the first impression of being straightforward and exquisite. He has always adhered to a simple and persistent belief in himself and his work, that is, "be a good person and play well", "I brought a child to play football, so he must first learn to be a man, and he has not learned how to be a man. Don’t talk about other things.” Fang Lunyu always emphasized that football is not only a sports skill, but also an education course.
In the past ten years, under the background of the low overall level of Chinese football and the shortage of students and reserve talents, Yangpu, known as the “Hometown of Football”, has also faced unprecedented challenges: many parents are unwilling to let their children engage in professional football. In addition, the already inadequate source of students has been diverted from excellent youth training institutions such as Lucky Star and Genbao Football Base, making it even more difficult for local children in Shanghai to enroll in football. For this reason, Lao Fang also thought of a lot of ways, such as going to other places to recruit excellent seedlings, doing everything possible to find a good way out for the athletes and so on. "At that time, I went to other provinces and cities throughout the year, and then I found people back and worried again. You have to solve the problem of studying for others, so that the children can go to a good university." On the other hand, the basic football teaching is boring and low. , The effect is slow, and fewer and fewer people are willing to settle down and lay a solid foundation. Fang Lunyu is one of the few. Seeing that the students he has cultivated are worth tens of millions, he is very proud. In the face of all kinds of high-paying employment and generous treatment, is unmoved and kept his loneliness and patience. After being impoverished, he has devoted himself to the football teaching career for 30 years, leading Yangpu football to survive in the cracks, to seek development in the difficult situation, and to go against the current, to build Yangpu into the cradle of Shanghai football talents and keep the Yangpu football team in Shanghai. The leading position in the city's high-level competitions led the team to win the national youth competition championship in one fell swoop.
has also sent more than 30 football reserve talents to higher-level units, including 2 Olympic team, 5 national team, 8 national youth team, 3 national youth team, 30 Shanghai National Games team, 10 Shanghai Shenhua team Person-times, 10 person-times of Shanghai Shenxin team, for Shanghai Sports Institute, Donghua University, ShanghaiHigh-level sports teams from universities such as the University of Technology and Technology have sent more than 50 people.
Youth training talents are cut off and don’t push it to the big environment.
"Yangpu is definitely a land of football talents. Every National Games of our Yangpu team accounts for more than half of the registrations, let alone those who play. "However, since Wang Yun, Qiu Shengjiong and other Yangpu players have stepped onto the professional football arena in recent years, there have been few well-known Yangpu offspring. "I am also reflecting on why there are fewer talents from Yangpu now than before, not as good as before." Fang Lunyu believes that it is true that now because of the greater pressure on Shanghai families from studying, many children play football under him. He chose to give up football when he played in junior high school, which made him very sad.
But regardless of the environmental factors, he still hopes to start with himself and find room for improvement. According to Fang Lunyu, with the support of the leaders of the Yangpu District Sports Bureau and the Education Bureau, Yangpu Football School first focused on the deployment of elite football bases. At present, 11 kindergartens have become schools, and the football school has specially sent coaches for kindergartens. Of children who carry out football interest courses. If on average, each kindergarten can have 4 to 5 potential children, then every year during the school season, one age group can have about 50 potential football seedlings. "From this basis, we choose the best training. Compared with the previous situation where the eyebrows and beards were grabbed, the efficiency is much higher."
On the other hand, Fang Lunyu lobbied many players with professional experience in order to find excellent coaches to root in the grassroots. He came to the football academy to teach, and many of his disciples also came to help. With Lin Zhihua, Li Longhai and other outstanding coaches, he was full of confidence in reviving Yangpu football. "The coach is the most important thing. It is not about teaching children to play football. Their own behavior and teaching their children are also important factors that can convince parents to let their children stay and play football." selects suitable coaches for the football school, Fang Lunyu checks The most important thing is the character of the coach. "When you are a coach, you have a bad habit. Can parents rest assured to hand over their children to you?"
"It is not easy to manage well"
Fang Lunyu is the second time he has won the best youth football The title of Coach Jia, but different from when he was evaluated in 2015, Fang Lunyu, who was born in 1957, has officially retired at the end of 2017. It stands to reason that the Lao Fang, who has worked hard for half a year, finally has time to sit with his family and enjoy his free time. As a student of Yangpu Football, he chose to accept the invitation of the Youth Amateur Football School of Yangpu District to serve as the director of the football school. In his sixtieth year, he continued to cultivate youth football reserve talents for Shanghai.
"I didn't get used to it at the beginning. When I led the team, I used to wait for the children to finish school in the afternoon and start training on the stadium until the end of the night." After the transformation, he now rushes to the football school around 8 o'clock every day. Start the day's work. "Guide Fang, is it decided to go out and play games this month?" In the middle of the conversation, a coach from Yangpu Football School walked in and asked Fang Lunyu some work problems. Taking the position of director, Lao Fang feels that there is a big difference from when he was just a football coach before. "When I was a coach, it was very simple. Every day I thought about how to train the players well, how to produce talents, how I won the game. There are a lot more things to take care of now, and I can also appreciate the difficulty of previous leadership." The original version of
was published on the A14 page of the Oriental Sports Daily on March 5↓↓↓
