Why Germany?

Zhang Zhetian was banned for bombarding the U23 policy under the new policy, and finally permanently withdrew from the national team and transferred to the country, this harmful policy has not yet ended, and the recent news about the U20 national youth team participating in the German Southwest Regional League (fourth division) next season has once again aroused public attention.

It seems that in order to promote the younger path of Chinese football, the Chinese Football Association's recent series of actions can be described as "well-intentioned", but unfortunately these policies have never been supported and recognized by the majority of fans since they were announced, in addition to being "forced" to leave China because of Zhang Zhetian, there are also brief comments on the U20 national youth team.

This brief comment appeared on the "Head" website: "A long time ago, when I learned from Brazil, Harbao organized a group to go to Brazil, Samba didn't learn, and several of Harba's group members in Europe were not as good as those who didn't want them in China." After that, I saw the Dutch, learned the Netherlands, saw the Italian, learned Italy, saw Spain dominate the world, went to Spain, and finally saw Germany, and went to learn Germany. When Germany will not work, which country will you take the U20 to harm? ”

After reaching a cooperation and discussing the details, the director of the cane powder road asked about the brief comment, and Zhang Zhetian said without hesitation: "It will never be a big thing to go to Qin and Chu." ”

On the last day of June, the German Under-21 national team won the Under-21 European Championship with a 1-0 victory over Spain's Under-21 national team, and it is important to know that this team is not the best level of German football at this age, because the German national team (equivalent to the German second team) also managed to reach the final of the Confederations Cup in Russia with a proud record - at the same time, on different stages, German football showed off its abundance of young talent to the world. The new power of youth and the infinite hope of the future!

As the new world champion, the German Football Association has never issued a similar "U23 policy" for the league, let alone created hard opportunities for young players through administrative intervention, but this has not affected the almost blowout of young talents in German football in the past ten years, and has become a generational force for European football and even world football.

Zhang Zhetian is right, when we are exploring the football cooperation between China and Germany today, should we first understand the most important thing to learn from - without the U23 policy, why German football is still a paradise for young people?

Although German football plays an important role in the history of world football, it has still experienced too many ups and downs in the long course of history.

After being eliminated in the quarter-finals of the 1998 World Cup by the "dark horse" Croatia, German football has entered a dark period with the departure of Jürgen Klinsmann and other players of the golden generation.

In Euro 2000 and Euro 2004, when the Germans were eliminated in the group stage twice in a row, the Germans finally realized that their football needed to be reborn!

After learning from the painful experience, the Germans began to travel to every corner of the world in search of the best way and method to develop youth football.

This was followed by a sweeping overhaul that took German football by storm, with the primary focus on strengthening the youth football training system, with the first target being football clubs.

According to the reform measures, the German Football Union will do a good job in the construction of youth training as a mandatory requirement for the qualification of each club - each Bundesliga and Bundesb-B clubs must have a youth academy (youth training system) that meets professional standards, and the construction of youth training facilities must also meet the relevant standards, for example, each Bundesliga youth team must have 3 professional venues (2 in Germany B) and 3 professional coaches (2 in Germany B).

In addition, the German Football Federation has set very strict and specific standards for many details related to youth training, such as goalkeeper coaching, team medical conditions and nutritional counselling.

For each club, there is no possibility of any "bargaining" with these rigid requirements. It only takes one negative vote to make a club completely "OUT" in German football.

There is no doubt that such a strict and concrete policy has established a strong guarantee for the reform of German football at the basic level.

And, of course, there is the impact of German football's "50+1" policy.

For domestic fans who are accustomed to the Premier League and the "Golden Yuan Football", most of them may scoff at this policy, but few fans really understand the positive role played by the "50+1" policy in German football, let alone why the "50+1" policy is now deeply rooted in German football.

"50+1" policy: It stipulates that decision-making power (or voting rights) can only be owned by the club, and private individuals or corporations cannot really control the club even if they have more than 50% ownership.

Under this policy, the supreme power of German clubs belongs to the fans (members), and their development and decision-making are not subject to the personal preferences of the capital behind them (owners or enterprises), but can be truly rooted in the local area and rooted in the grassroots.

Therefore, in order to serve the local fans, the development of community football, especially youth football, has become an indispensable responsibility of all teams - after all, fans are always keen to see local children grow up in the development of the club, until one day they step onto the league battlefield in the team jersey.

In contrast, who believes that clubs that keep changing owners and cities that are constantly changing owners, or those clubs whose owners only care about their immediate results, can calm down and develop youth training?

It has to be said that the reform measures in German football are strict and even harsh, but the clubs still abide by and implement them without hesitation.

Even with the huge economic blow caused by the collapse of the Kirsch Group at the beginning of this century, clubs would rather tighten their belts in the transfer market than continue to invest in youth development.

Because everyone understands that the future of German football is at stake and the future of the clubs.

As a result, German football has increased its investment in youth training on the basis of the initial 48 million euros per year.

According to statistics, in the past ten years, the German Football Association and clubs have spent an average of more than 96 million euros per year on the development of youth training! (And how many billion euros did the Chinese financiers spend on foreign aid?) Why can't all this money be spent on youth training? If you add in social and personal investment and various soft investments, this figure is probably more than that: with increasing capital investment, more than 52 outstanding youth training centers and 366 regional youth coaching bases have been established in almost every corner of the country.