As we all know, the Red Bull Group did not enter German football until 2009 by acquiring the regional league team SSV Markranstadt, but when RB Leipzig was still working hard in the fourth regional league, the Red Bull Group invested heavily in Leipzig to build a top youth training center with 8 standard football fields.

Not only that, Red Bull Group acquired the SSV Marc Lanstadt team at the same time, but also bought the echelon of all age groups, and hired former Stuttgart academy master Thomas Albeck, who has trained Mario Gomez, Sami Khedira and other internationals, as the team's youth director.

Up to now, the Red Bull Group has invested a total of 33 million euros in the development of the youth training system, and gradually created 14 high-quality echelons of different age groups from U8 to U23, many of which have become the main force of the German youth team of all ages.

Red Bull Group boss Dietrich Mateschitz has set a goal for the team to one day have more than half of Red Bull Leipzig's first-team squad come from their own academy!

I have to say that the same local tyrant team, unlike those investors (or speculators) who only know how to throw money at the transfer market, Red Bull Group interprets the true concept of developing football - and is this worth learning from those local tyrants who are "not bad at money"?

I don't think it's easy!

As the saying goes: the train runs fast because of the headband.

There is no doubt that how can a coach with a lack of technique and theory teach players with solid fundamentals?

In the face of the development of youth football, the rigorous Germans will certainly not ignore this simple truth.

Therefore, in the process of promoting the development of young players, the Germans give priority to the training of coaches!

That's why the most accessible form of soccer coaching was first introduced in Germany – they offered the lowest prices in Europe (340 pounds for UEFA B coaching courses compared to 750-2,450 pounds in the UK), which quickly gave Germans a squad of coaches to boast of in football.

According to UEFA's previous statistics, Germany has 28,400 coaches with B certificates (1,759 in the UK), 5,500 coaches with A certificates (895 in the UK) and 1,070 top certificate coaches (115 in the UK), and the vast majority of them are now mainly focused on youth training and unemployed, thus providing the most critical mentor base for the future pillars of German football.

On this basis, the German Football Association has not forgotten to strengthen the intensive training of coaches on a regular basis, and to achieve one-on-one direct teaching as much as possible.

According to the German Football Association's chief coach lecturer Erich, the German Football Association has arranged a special schedule for each coach, including training sessions, videos and training time at the base, and has set up an archive within the Football Association to help each coach guide the children to play football more systematically with scientific methods.

Not only that, when the development of youth football is in full swing, more and more professional players choose to devote themselves to youth training after retirement, so that children can even be taught by international coaches from an early age.

Today, whenever the public laments the lack of training of young football players in domestic football, how many people have paid attention to the cultivation and building of domestic youth coaches?

At least on this issue, German football has come to the forefront of the world, and there are many valuable practices to learn from.

In 2002, the German Football Association (DFB) launched the "Youth Player Expansion and Development Program", taking into account the lessons learned by Miroslav Klose (who was still playing in the fifth division of the amateur league at the age of 21).

The aim of the program is to develop high-quality football talents throughout Germany, "Even if a football genius of the century happens to come from a small village deep in the mountains, we will find him and train him from now on." ”

Today, with the implementation of the program, more and more children are fully involved in football in Germany, which in turn has led to the creation of a large German football system.

By the end of 2011, there were more than 6.3 million registered players in Germany. In other words, on average, 1 in 13 people in Germany is a registered player, which shows that the popularity of football in Germany is impressive.

Of the more than 6.3 million registered players, young players (about 1.8 million) account for a large proportion and provide a firm talent base for the youth training of German football.

In this regard, German football experts have proposed that out of 300,000 children who have been effectively trained, about 10,000 will stand out.

In this regard, the German football youth training system has begun to consciously focus on observing and following up the development of talented players, so as to tap and cultivate the most potential excellent players for German football.

In recent years, the German Football Association will screen 22,000 outstanding players (including female players) aged 11-17 in more than 300 training bases every year for key training, and arrange 1,200 professional coaches to provide them with one-on-one professional guidance, and these coaches will even specify a set of scientific training programs for each player, which is an important part of the "Youth Player Expansion and Development Plan".

Of course, late bloomers are not uncommon in football. In addition to developing key players, the DFB will never miss the development of any registered player.

As a result, the data system of German football has been in a state of high-paced filling in recent years.

In this data system, the basic information and even recent performance of each player (especially junior players) can be queried, which can not only effectively curb fraudulent behaviors such as changing the age and changing the file, but also provide a basic reference for scouts of each club.

Just as the city of Rome was not built overnight, the development of youth football requires patience and perseverance.

At the beginning of this century, German football began a bold change that was not broken or established, not only willing to invest heavily in the construction of youth training facilities, but also to grasp the coaching team as the basis for cultivating talents, and then walked in the forefront of the world in the excavation and training of players.

More importantly, in this series of reform projects, the Germans have always adhered to a rigorous style, firm belief and strict implementation for more than ten years, and finally reaped the fruits of today's fruits, and this may be the key to the success of utilitarian football, Jinyuan football, and the key to success that can never be experienced by pulling out seedlings to promote thinking.

"The biggest problem now is that the national conditions are different, Chinese parents only pay attention to academic performance, and the way out they arrange for their children is stable jobs." The road chief sighed.

"China is so big, it's not difficult to find 30 people who really like football, and it won't delay their studies and future paths." Zhang Zhetian said indifferently: "I know what you said very well, and I know even more that some parents who like football, they are not unwilling, but they can't find a real way out." Now, we are giving them a real path. ”

Although his tone was flat, Lu Taichang could still hear the confidence in it, and then looked at this genius boy who had only recently become a German-Chinese, and he remembered what Zhang Zhetian had said to him before.

"There is an idiom called the south orange and the north orange, and there is also a saying that the tree moves the dead and the person moves the living, and I am the best example!"