Build a key football city: learn from foreign advanced experience and combine national conditions for its own use

The reporter reported coldly It is not uncommon for the former Soviet Union and Eastern European countries, as well as Australia, Vietnam, Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries and India to have similar and distinctive development models. At the same time, the experience of developed countries in European football and Japan in building national youth training centers has also been used for reference in the strategic top-level design of key cities for football development.

The former Soviet Union attached great importance to the development of football, and the famous clubs such as Dynamo Moscow, CSKA, Lokomotiv, Torpedo and Spartak almost all had strong support from relevant government departments and professional sports associations. The football system of the former Soviet Union was partly based on various industry associations, but in order to take into account the huge differences in economic and social development levels, the development of football basically followed the resource allocation strategy with central cities scattered throughout the country. Although the top league of the former Soviet Union was basically dominated by Moscow, the capital with a cliff-leading economy and human resources, at that time, there were also Ukrainian Dynamo Kyiv and Georgian Dynamo Tbilisi to break the monopoly and develop their own unique football styles relying on the superior resources of the central city.

Australia's previous football pyramid system was overly reliant on migrant communities of different ethnicities. From youth football to competition, the system revolves around clubs with distinct characteristics of immigrants. In 2004, when the Australian Football Association created the A League, the national top league, it was modeled after the admission system of the American professional league, breaking down ethnic community barriers. The founding of the eight clubs was based on the principle of "one city, one team", aiming to open the club to all residents in the city, forming a youth and professional league development system with the city as the core, although new clubs were created and joined the league in Melbourne and Sydney, but the principle of using the city as the basis for football development has not changed.

The Indian Premier League, launched in 2013, is the latest attempt by the Indian Football Federation to overhaul the football ecosystem. The development of football in India is also preferentially carried out in large cities and special economic zones with good economic foundation, dense population and long football tradition. Before the establishment of the Indian Super League, the main football resources were concentrated in coastal cities such as Mumbai, Kolkata, Goa, and Pune. Like Australia, India's super-establishment is also based on the distribution of cities and state-level administrative regions, which are based on key cities to drive the development of football in the whole state. Unlike us, Australia and India both have professional clubs as the core, radiating the entire city or first-level administrative district, establishing a pyramid system from youth training to professional teams.

One of the core elements of the strategic framework of China's key cities for football development is the regional and national youth training centers, drawing on the successful experiences of France, Italy, England and Japan. There are 16 national training centres in France, 14 in mainland France and 2 overseas, of which Clairefontaine is the highest national training centre. In 2003, Japan began to follow the example of France in establishing a national academy, with a national academy in Fukushima, and a youth academy in Sakai, Imabari and Kumamoto that was co-built with the city, and the Kansai area of Honshu Island, Shikoku Island and Kyushu Island respectively, also taking into account the balanced regional distribution.