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More on backpage INSIDE 16.09.2016 fri th Anniversary 2 MACAU 澳聞 WWW.MACAUDAILYTIMES.COM.MO HINA has charted a hopeful plan to rise to the top of the XINHUA C AP PHOTO world’s most played and most popular sport – football, and the plan starts right here in the nei- ghboring Guangzhou. Back in 2014, property tycoon Xu Jiayin decided that this was the time to open doors to what is considered to be the world’s lea- ding football academy. His mind was set and he ensured that everyone was on the same page to move towards his goal. Xu’s ambition was to prepare and train an all-new generation of young footballers who would be able to make China the next Supporters cheer for China Players on a team from Yanbian, China football superpower. With an estimated cost of arou- in addition to players’ transfers, nd MOP1.5 billion, the Guang- China’s top clubs are also betting zhou Evergrande Football School their money on youth football. (GZEFS) is a kind of Harry Pot- Plans to make China Some say that on the line ter’s Hogwarts focused on a sim- is not just the “love for the ple concept: training to be the game.” Rowan Simons is part best of the best. a football superpower of the community that has li- The candidates are certainly ved and played football in Chi- not lacking – currently the foo- na for over 20 years, and is tball academy has around 2,800 now a presenter on Beijing TV, young Chinese players. The large underway in Guangzhou an author and the owner of the majority are boys, but girls are media and production com- not excluded and for the time pany - Club Football; he thinks being they number about 200 in grande’s Tianhe Stadium. The large amounts of money that a good part of the money the cohort of potential football The club, owned by Evergrande XINHUA invested into Chinese football coming in to China’s football talents. real estate group since 2010, was in the recent years are also a arena serves the purpose of As for the campus, it took only brought from the Guangzhou reminder that the plan is being “buying favors” with the presi- ten months and a significant Sports Bureau team and has taken very seriously. The Chi- dent Xi Jinping. amount of money for real estate become the Chinese National nese professional league has Following the publication of his company Evergrande (who also Super League winner five con- become increasingly more pro- book, “Bamboo Goalposts: One co-owns local club Guangzhou secutive times (2011 to 2015). fessional, with the signing by Man’s Quest to Teach the Peo- Evergrande Taobao Football At the main gates of the academy local teams of popular names ple’s Republic of China to Love Club) to transform the 67.5 hecta- lies a 12-meter tall replica of the in the world of football. Bra- Football,” Simons told CNN: “To res of formerly rural land in Qin- FIFA World Cup trophy as a re- zilian, Spanish, German and a Chinese billionaire, a few hun- gyuan, Guangdong province. The minder of the express wish of even Portuguese players and dred million dollars is a small new football school has a total of president Xi Jingping and the coaches are rushing in to su- price to pay,” he said, referring to 50 football pitches and a squad academy’s ultimate goal. pport both professional teams the way the game is being used to of Spanish coaches brought to Xi had previously stated that he and their training academies. “fulfill high officials’ wishes.” China through a partnership wanted to see China “qualify for, The country’s transfer record As for the young players, they with Spanish giant Real Madrid. host and win, the World Cup,” was broken four times in the Zhang Yuning heads the ball during the dream high – as one of the trai- The academy’s first aim was and at Qingyuan those words Russia 2018 World Cup Asian Qualifier space of a month during last off- nees at GZEFS also said to CNN to find new talent for the lo- are the short, mid and long-term match between China and Iran in season, and figures show that when questioned about his ex- cal club at Guangzhou Ever- goals. Shenyang Chinese Super League teams pectations as a football player. spent more over the so-called “I hope to make it into the natio- winter transfer window than nal football team and then make their English Premier League it into the Spanish clubs like It takes money to become a counterparts. Barcelona and Real Madrid,” he Brazilian midfielders Alex Tei- said, adding, “Or get into the na- ‘Chinese football star’ xeira and Ramires and the Co- tional team and fight for national lombian striker Jackson Marti- pride.” HOUGH there may be significant amoun- cher at the school told CNN. For Zhang and nez were just some of the names Spanish coach Sergio Zarco Tts of money pumped into the system, it other teachers common subjects should come highlighted by the press – howe- Diaz is one of the European coa- is unrealistic to think that the training pro- first. “Then we can train them to be a footballer ver they are not the only ones, as ches that embraced the challen- vided by the Guangzhou Evergrande Foo- and maybe eventually they can be a famous ge to move to China to teach tball School (GZEFS) will be inexpensive. football star.” football at GZEFS. About the GZEFS charges a tuition fee of RMB60,000/ As any school, the GZEFS has a principal; in The country’s Chinese youth he says, “technical year which creates a clear barrier, where ei- this case Liu Jiangnan is the man supervising transfer record standard is good but tactics need ther the young players are considered talented the school activities. to be worked on.” enough to apply for a scholarship or they will He is hopeful that China’s football status will was broken He is now on his fourth year need a guardian to cover the expense. rise in the next five years as, in his own words, working in China and in his opi- Although the school curriculum states that “China’s current ranking is incongruous with four times in nion, “standards have improved only one in each five classes is dedicated to China’s international standing as a world dramatically but they [Chinese football training, it is said that football is often power,” he told CNN. the space of a youth] have a long way to go,” he the topic in the common curriculum classes. “And of course, in about 20 or 30 years we month during mentioned, saying that “decision “When I first came here, I taught using key will set our sights on the top world rankings,” making process” is still a “big is- football terms,” Zhang Liya, an English tea- he added. last off-season sue” to be solved. 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