"It's like just bringing a graduation class and you have to welcome a new student!" The coach of the women's football team chose seedlings like this

The competition of the Women's Group C of the Provincial Games was in full swing. At the scene of the competition, the reporter saw a familiar figure -Li Zheng, a coach of the Hangzhou Women's Football Club, Zhejiang.

As the helmsman who led the Zhejiang women's football team to break through the history of the silver medal at the Shaanxi National Games, Li Zheng now coaches the Zhejiang Hangzhou Women's Football 09-11 echelon. In his own words, "It's like taking a high school graduation class. Facing the new year of high school. "

Li Zheng told reporters that as early as June, the club had organized two training to carry out selection of women's football teenagers at the age of 09-11. "The construction of echelons in the 09-11 echelon is mainly based on targeted selection. By testing the outstanding players from all districts, counties, and cities in the province to build the main framework of the team, to lay a solid foundation for the training and team in the next stage." Li Speaking.

However, Li Zheng also has his own concerns about the selection of this age: "Girls of this age group are basically sixth grade or junior first. In concealment, no one can be sure to what extent the player's future physical fitness can develop. Although we have some auxiliary measures to measure bone age and predict the future height of the small players, the individual differences and development The accidentality in the process is still inevitable, so it is really not easy to train an excellent football player from an early age. "

In recent years, Zhejiang Hangzhou Women's Club has achieved relatively good results in the youth training aspect, and has sent many outstanding athletes to national teams at all levels. As a coach who is rooted in youth, Li Zheng naturally also has his own goals: "The Zhejiang women's football players who are currently active in the national team are Wu Haiyan and Li Ying. One of the backbone of Chinese women's football team. "

Youth training is a work that requires several generations to continue and inherit, and it is also an important carrier to cultivate young people's healthy lifestyles and lifelong sports awareness. Today, Zhejiang Hangzhou Women's Football Club has become a new forces of the Chinese women's football team, leading the women's A standings in the women's A League, and the sixth place for the sixth place in the Women's Football Association Cup. As Li Zheng said, Zhejiang Hangzhou women's football team will continue to improve the youth training system to strive to cultivate players, send more outstanding players for national youth, national and young, and even national teams, and let them show Zhejiang's power on a higher stage.

(Newspaper reporter Zhao Kai Pan Xiaokun)

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