Interview with Andreas Zagklis: to keep popularization of basketball with all-round strategy
08 Jul 2024 16:14
Soccer’s top governing body in China has vowed to expand the school soccer system and introduce more foreign coaching expertise, according to China daily.
The Chinese Football Association (CFA) announced last Sunday that a total of 120 foreign youth coaches will work in China to instruct student players and train local teachers, with financial support from the government.
The move comes as high-profile foreign players are making headlines by joining Chinese league clubs for high transfer fees.
As part of the national soccer reform plan announced in March last year, the CFA will continue to co-operate with the Ministry of Education through 2016 to improve soccer education using foreign coaches. The association and the ministry agreed at a meeting on Sunday to review the plan after a year.
China has hired another 146 foreign trainers to work in 29 provinces and autonomous regions. They will support local training staff members said Wang Dengfeng, vice-president of the CFA and director of the Education Ministry’s Physical Education, Health and Art Department.
Inspired by President Xi Jinping’s desire to see China qualify, host and eventually win the FIFA World Cup, the country's educational authority has expanded a four-tier school league system, which operates from primary schools to colleges, to 16,186 schools at all levels, with mandatory weekly soccer courses.
The system is expected to include up to 50,000 schools specialising in soccer by 2025, according to the reform plan.
Source: China Daily
Proofread by John Devlin.
Interview with Andreas Zagklis: to keep popularization of basketball with all-round strategy
08 Jul 2024 16:14
Expert insight | New changes on UEFA EUROs: growing maturity of Hisense and other Chinese brands
22 Jul 2024 19:18
Related coverage
Sports celebrity to train 10,000 football teachers in China
30 Jun 2015
Former national players spearhead football promotion
21 May 2015
China's policy makers drive campus football
13 Aug 2015
Yili and Real Madrid organize youth football training event in Beijing
14 Jun 2018
AC Milan announced collaboration with China campus football
29 May 2015
More from Yutang Sports
Expert insight | New changes on UEFA EUROs: growing maturity of Hisense and other Chinese brands
22 Jul 2024
SPORTACCORD confirms Istanbul as Host City for 2025 Convention
13 Mar 2025
Interview with Andreas Zagklis: to keep popularization of basketball with all-round strategy
08 Jul 2024
The United States Tops Skema Publika's First Annual Sport and Soft Power Ranking
27 Mar 2025
Hisense Named Official Partner of FIFA Club World Cup 2025
01 Nov 2024
Yutang Sports
loading...