Xinhua News Agency, Haikou, November 23 (Reporter Dai Chao Liu Shihao Liu Bo) the 2018 China Ping An Super League annual award ceremony ended in Haikou a few days ago, and all major awards of the Super League year were found to belong. The theme of “reform, development, progress and future” in this year’s award ceremony looked back at the achievements made by the reform and development of Chinese football and also summarized the Chinese Super League this season. The Chinese Super League in 2018 is more clear about the future of Chinese football: Achieving development in the reform and moving towards the future in the development.
Chinese sports have been moving forward together with the pace of China’s reform and opening up for 40 years. Turning the time back to 1994, Chinese football began its professional exploration and made progress in continuous trial and error. In 2004, on the basis of summarizing China’s ten-year professional football, China Football Association officially launched “Chinese Football Association Super League” in order to further improve the competition level and brand of China’s professional football “. It should be said that the Chinese Super League played a positive role in promoting the professionalism of Chinese football, but the reform of football at that time was still only the “housework” of the sports department and did not enter the deep water area.
In 2015, the General Office of the State Council issued the overall plan for the reform and development of Chinese football (hereinafter referred to as the plan). As a programmatic document of the reform and development of Chinese football, the plan points out the development direction and path for the future development of Chinese football. In the past three years, the Chinese Super League has achieved more fruitful results.
According to statistics, the number of people in spectators of the 2018 season reached 5.776 million, with an average of 24000 games, achieving a substantial increase. The average audience number of Guangzhou evergrandetaobao and Beijing Zhonghe Guoan games exceeded 40000. In 2018, the overseas copyright coverage of China Super League expanded to 96 countries and regions, with 0.43 billion domestic TV viewers.
2018 Super League season is a season of revolution. Faced with constant adjustments and changes, U23 players’ playing policy has gradually been neglected from much attention to being neglected. However, during the favorable policy period, a “Star of Hope” like Huang Zichang emerged “, this season helped Jiangsu Suning score 5 goals, win the Best Newcomer Award of the year, and was selected as the best team in the 2018 season Super League. Huang Zichang said frankly that he was encouraged and hoped that more and more young people would join the development of Chinese football.
In the 2018 season, the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) technology was fully introduced, which to some extent maintained the fairness of the league and avoided misjudgment. Zhang Lei, who won the best referee award, said that the video referee effectively reduced the pressure on referees to enforce the law on the spot. However, Huo Weiming, the best assistant referee, said that the appearance of video referee made the football match more fair and just and played a very good role in promoting the development of football.
The new changes this season are also reflected in the year-end awards. The first and most obvious thing is the localization of many major awards. Shanghai Shanggang Wu Lei broke the monopoly of ten years of foreign aid Golden Boots, refreshed the single season goal record of domestic players who had been covered for a long time, and was elected as the best player, shandong Luneng coach Li Xiaopeng, who grew up locally, defeated two foreign coaches Cannavaro and Schmidt and was elected as the best coach. Wu Lei smiled when he took over the best shooter trophy at the awards site. This year’s trophy finally changed, without the word “local”, “native, it has become” Golden “.
This year’s annual awards also added the outstanding Club Award of youth training to honor the clubs that have made outstanding achievements in youth training. Taking root in youth training is actually the best investment in the future of Chinese football.
With the launch of the new access standard, the construction of youth training system of Chinese professional football clubs also had new development in 2018, and the youth training echelon of all Chinese Super League clubs continued to grow, the national youth training center has welcomed version 2.0. The traditional football and youth training work in key areas have received more support from the Chinese Football Association and the Chinese Super League, the number of participating teams in Qingchao League increased from 87 in 2017 to 259 in 2018. Qingchao League is becoming a stage for the growth of Chinese young players and a blood bank for professional league matches at all levels.
In the training of young players at all levels, “open resources to the society” became the key word. In the training of national excellent players under the age of 13 this year, the Chinese Football Association opened the registration port to the Society for the first time. It creates opportunities for young players to enter the national team, while the open day for the parents of players allows parents to approach football, making them the boosters for the growth of excellent young players.
The transformation and development give birth to hope. Chinese football will be expected by everyone in the future. “The future of Chinese football is very bright”, Pierre Samsonov, deputy CEO of the French Football Association, believes that there are many similarities between Chinese and French football, but in fact, the field of Chinese football is wider than that of France. At present, more and more investment is being invested in Chinese football, and more and more people are participating in Chinese football. With such a vast market and so many excellent football players. He believes that Chinese football will usher in a great development in the next few years.