Song Kaixian Discussion: Stability and Openness, Six Measures at the Same Time

Reporter Chen Yong reports On December 17, at the "Re-taking the Long March Road - 2024 China Football Development Seminar" jointly sponsored by "Football" and Xi'an Sports Bureau, Song Kai, chairman of the Chinese Football Association, gave a special speech, he said that Chinese football can be good, but it needs to implement measures in many aspects, stability and non-tossing, openness and internationalization, which should be an important way for the development of Chinese football.

The day before the opening of the seminar, on the 16th, Premier Li Qiang of the State Council presided over an executive meeting of the State Council, which studied the work related to the revitalization and development of football, and pointed out that "the revitalization of football is the key work of building a sports power, and it is necessary to increase efforts to implement various policies and measures to promote football work to a new level." ”

In the keynote speech on the morning of the 17th, Xiao Qi, Deputy Mayor of Xi'an Municipal People's Government, Liu Xiaoxin, President of the Football Newspaper, Cheng Xu, head of the Youth Department of the Chinese Football Association (Football City Office), Ma Rui, Director of the Xi'an Sports Bureau, and Tian Weiguo, Executive Vice Chairman and Secretary-General of the Qingdao Football Association, gave special speeches respectively (on the morning of the 17th, please poke ▶ the Long March Road - China Football Development Seminar opened in Xi'an).

In the keynote speech in the afternoon, the reporter himself gave a keynote speech on "The Reality and Future of Chinese Football", interpreting the overall development, national teams, key cities, professional leagues, youth training system, campus football and east-west exchanges, and put forward relevant suggestions for future development.

Subsequently, Gu Jiqing, vice president of Shanghai Jiushi Group and chairman and general manager of Shanghai Shenhua Football Club, delivered a keynote speech on "Summary of the Thoughts of 31-year-old second-year students". He introduced the process of Shenhua Club's share reform and the overall situation of the club, focusing on the opportunities and challenges faced by Shenhua as a veteran professional football club in the process of building a world-famous sports city and a world-class international competition capital in Shanghai.

Gu Jiqing said that Jiushi Group will strictly abide by the "double regulations" - respect the law and abide by the rules, and will also work for the four key tasks of competition level, management efficiency, management ability and brand value.

"State-owned assets do not mean that they can spend lavishly, and our ability to regulate, restrain and tolerate faults is very limited, so management efficiency is a very important issue." Gu Jiqing said.

After that, Tang Xigang, CEO of City Football Group China and Chairman and General Manager of Shenzhen Xinpeng City Club, delivered a keynote speech on "Some Thoughts on the Construction of China's Football Pyramid System". He said: "The universal law for the development of football is to build a football pyramid system, which is composed of clubs and leagues, and what is most lacking in the current pyramid of Chinese football is grassroots community clubs. He used the beginnings of football careers from stars such as Kevin De Bruyne, Kylian Mbappe and Takumi Minamino to demonstrate the importance of grassroots community clubs.

Tang Xigang said that deepening the layout and supporting the establishment and development of grassroots football clubs is the breakthrough point for building the future Chinese football pyramid system; The gradual establishment of regional football leagues divided by geographical regions is a new direction to strengthen the waist of the football pyramid; Further promoting local amateur leagues at the provincial and municipal levels is the cornerstone of consolidating the foundation for the development of football.

ByteDance has been promoting football public welfare projects in recent years, and Li Ying, the project leader, gave a speech entitled "County Campus Football Sharing". Through the five stories of Wuguanyi Town Central Primary School in Liuba County, Liuba County Middle School, 17 Village Primary School in Charbagh Township, Bachu County, Kashgar Prefecture, Aktubek Town Central Primary School in Gongliu County, Yining City, and Qiaotou Town Central Primary School in Yingde City, Li Ying said: "We need to give children the opportunity to show their stage and be discovered, and we need to solve the problem of a way out for children with dreams." ”

In the keynote speech of the last session of the afternoon, Song Kai, chairman of the Chinese Football Association, gave a speech on "Some Thoughts on the Development of Chinese Football", and he emphasized before the speech that this is his thinking on the development of Chinese football in his personal capacity.

Regarding the development status of Chinese football in recent years, Song Kai said: "Everyone is not satisfied" is a common attitude, and he took the Aspire youth training in Qatar as an example to make relevant interpretations. Song Kai also pointed out that Chinese football is currently lacking at many levels, such as the lack of excellent technical traditions, the lack of youth training "basic disk" and the lack of stability of Chinese football itself.

However, Song Kai has always firmly believed that "Chinese football can develop well". In this regard, he also gave relevant suggestions at multiple levels.

The first is that technology is king. As the late Chinese football legend Mark Jian wrote in a book, in the mid-50s of the 20th century, "from a business point of view, Chinese football started with technology", "technology first", and the guiding ideology based on technology occupied a major position in the development of Chinese football. But this tradition was later lost.

The second is to grasp the training. On the basis of difficult, strict and actual combat training, the relevant requirements of "strong recovery" are put forward.

The third is to grasp youth football. The key is the training of coaches, to let good coaches grasp youth training, the current Chinese Football Association in the training of coaches, including the introduction of coaches is very big.

The fourth is to build a good competition system. System stability is the premise, competitiveness is the goal, and then improve in the competition.

The fifth is to promote the integration of sports and education, which is also the main mode of the current development of youth football in China.

Sixth, mobilize local enthusiasm. Through the corresponding event leverage, give full play to the enthusiasm of the local government, and then form a comprehensive linkage.

"Stability and non-tossing, openness and internationalization, this is the development idea of Chinese football," Song Kai believes that the only way for Chinese football to develop is to be "more united, harder, purer, more open, more courageous, and more down-to-earth." Among them, "more down-to-earth" is a new suggestion put forward by Song Kai.

In the evening, Song Kai, Cheng Xu and the representatives of the club's investors and general managers, as well as the heads of key football cities, held a round table, and the heated discussion lasted until 10 o'clock that night. Next week, this newspaper will bring a more comprehensive and systematic feature report.