By Oblivious Troll - 16 Aug 2015 11:03 AM
Quote:Football is now a compulsory part of the national curriculum in China. The “football reform plan,” starts with opening over 20,000 soccer-based schools and academies, with the ambition of producing more than 100,000 players by 2017. Along with starting children at a younger age, there will also be study abroad programs set up in places like Spain and the Netherlands for advanced students. In places like Beijing, football will be added to the mandatory high school entrance exam, and schools will be required to include the sport in its physical education classes.
http://the18.com/news/china-has-new-priority-and-priority-football
Tom Byer is involved in the implementation of this program. He discusses some of the challenges in implementing the Chinese School Football program in this podcasr: : http://www.beyondthepitch.net/podcasts/edition/index.cfm/one-world-sports/2015/08/12/
If this takes off it's going to make WC qualification via the AFC that much harder. But apart from that Byer offers ideas and strategies that should give the FFA and all football supporters a lot to think about.
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By greenlionii - 20 Aug 2015 2:18 PM
China announced its soccer reform and development plan,sets goal of hosting World Cup.
According to the plan, the Chinese Football Association will be a fully An independent legal, and The football management center, which is a governmental agency, will no longer exist
Regarding the C-League, based on the Currentlly CFA League Council and CSL management company, the New CSL Council and China League Council will be established, both will be separate legal entity, means the CFA will nolonger holds equity of the League, currenttly the CFA holds 36% of the stocks of the CSL company.
In regulations announced earlier, the League council had forbid club to relocate from their current province, and set up promotion/relegation between China League 2 and CAL, which is the 3rd level and the 4th level.
The Shares of football club will be open to Private shareholders and local government, currentlly it only opens to Government owned or private owned companies. encorages local governments invests football clubs with facilities and infrastructure, encorages clubs to use Neutral names instead of sponsor names.
The League will be expanded, in earlier plan announced by the CFA, The CSL will have 18 clubs in 2022, while China League 1 will expand to 20 clubs, China League 2 will expand to 24 clubs.
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