International forum held in Putuoon promoting football on campus
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AS part of the 2016 China (Shanghai) International Junior Football Tournament, a forum was held at the No. 4 High School of East China Normal University in Putuo District on July 18.
Supported by the Ministry of Education, the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese and the Shanghai government and organized by the Shanghai Education Commission, Shanghai Sports Bureau, Shanghai Federation of Overseas Chinese and Putuo District government, the forum focused on creating a mechanism for the training of young footballers. Foreign participants shared their experiences at the forum.
Officials from the Ministry of Education, Putuo District government, Shanghai Education Commission, Shanghai Sports Bureau, Inner Mongolia Education Bureau, and the Shanghai Foundation for Returned Overseas Chinese joined coaches and representatives of 17 teams of the International Junior Football League in the discussion.
Zhou Minhao, deputy Party secretary and acting director of Putuo District, told the forum that Putuo has a football school that supplies talented young players to district, city and national teams. Its football development program now covers 45 local schools. He said football is a sport that can make life enjoyable and people healthy.
Wang Dengfeng, director of Sports, Health and Art Department of the Ministry of Education, said the goal of promoting football on campus is to make students strong in physique and good in personality, to stimulate the reform of sports education, and to cultivate a large number of young football players.
He said the country will have 50,000 schools with soccer as their main feature in 2025. Their students will have at least one soccer class each week.
He said the curriculum reform is the first step to achieve the goal. The second step is to introduce a system of competition between classes, schools and regions. The third step is to introduce a system of education to promote football on campus. China should learn from other countries’ experiences but blaze a new trail to realize its football dream.
Forum participants agreed that establishing the Junior Campus Football League can boost the overall level of school teams in China and create a big pool of talented young players for the national team.
The forum also witnessed the opening of a secretary office for the International Junior Football League Secretary and the signing between the teams of Shanghai Tongji University No. 1 High School and a Thai school for a “sister team” relationship.
Participants from the United States, Britain, South Korea, Australia as well as China exchanged views and ideas at the forum.
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