80 year old coach Xu Genbao has once again launched the "level training and monster fighting" mode, welcoming the opening of the Youth League football qualifiers. The Youth League has opened its doors to the Red Cross | preliminary matches | football

On June 14th, the first round of the preliminary round for the men's football team aged 17 to 18 in the first National Student Games was held. Coach Xu Genbao personally led the Shanghai Yangpu team to a 0-0 draw with Beijing Chaoyang team in the first game. According to the rules, the two teams entered the penalty shootout stage, and in the end, Shanghai Yangpu team won 4-2 and won 2 points.

After leading the team to a good start in a new round of journey, Xu Genbao and the coaching staff immediately entered the rhythm of preparing for the next round. On June 16th, Shanghai Yangpu team will challenge Tianjin Binhai New Area team. On this day, the Chinese national football team also played a warm-up match in Dalian. While Xu Genbao was busy teaching "baby soldiers", he also had preliminary plans to watch the performances of "Chongming Phase I disciples" such as Wu Lei and Yan Junling in the Chinese national football team on site.

Expedition, Death Group Sharp Sword

On the morning of June 12th, Genbao led his team from Pudong Airport to Dalian, the venue of the Youth Association's preliminary competition. The goal of this trip is to advance to the group stage. This preliminary round is divided into three groups for a total of eight days and will end on June 22nd. The top three teams from each group, along with the top four teams from the two best performing groups, will qualify for the final stage of the competition.

In the first round of the competition, Shanghai Yangpu team faced Beijing Chaoyang team, and the opponent insisted on a stable defense and counterattack style, not easily attacking. The establishment time of the Shanghai Yangpu District team is less than a month, and the offensive aspect is not very sharp. In the end, the 90 minute match ended with a score of 0-0, and according to the rules of the game, it directly entered a penalty shootout. The young guards led by Xu Genbao ultimately won 4-2.

Despite winning the first game and earning two points, the coaching staff did not have any complacency, after all, the opponents in the group stage were very strong. The opponents of the Shanghai Yangpu District team in the group stage are Beijing Chaoyang District team, Guangdong Shenzhen team, Tianjin Binhai New Area team, Zhejiang Wenzhou team, and Hubei Wuhan team, all of which are traditional youth training strong teams. In addition, several key players under Genbao represented the national youth team and were absent from the first Youth League football qualifiers. The overall strength of Shanghai Yangpu team did not have a significant advantage.

Difficulty, shortage of troops, short time for Major General

Despite a shortage of major generals, Xu Genbao always prioritized the needs of national teams. The U17 national youth team led by Yang Chen has had heavy training and competition tasks in the past two years. Many key players, such as Kuai Jiwen, who is highly valued by Genbao, as well as several outstanding players from Shenhua, will not be able to participate in the preliminary rounds of the Student Youth Association this time. Even the coaching staff prepared well, "If the national youth team performs well in the game, they may also be absent in the final stage of our Youth Association."

However, in the face of solving difficult problems, Genbao is also very familiar with the "rhythm of life". "How do grades come from? Ask for grades from management, ask for grades from training!" With a command, whether they are used to base players or newcomers, they all enter the "closed management mode", practicing twice a day, gradually increasing their skills. "The most important criterion for selecting these players is to compete! No matter how good your skills are, if you don't compete, you won't have a chance with us."

After more than 20 years of youth training practice, Genbao is very clear that the combination of offensive techniques and tactics requires a considerable amount of time. The top priority is to focus on overall defense, and to seize the benefits he has tasted from the Chinese Olympic team and the Shenhua team, such as "grabbing, forcing, and surrounding". "Our players do not have an advantage in age or physique, but we can make up for their shortcomings with attitude and style. Since this group of players started training, I have instilled in them the thinking of overall pressure and surrounding, and given them a special class on" grabbing, forcing, and surrounding "! After a week of grabbing, the effect has begun to show."

Before going to Dalian, Genbao Base held two consecutive "Shanghai Genbao Cup National Youth Football Invitational Tournaments", inviting players from Shandong Luneng Football School, Guangzhou Evergrande Football School, Hangzhou Greentown Base, as well as age appropriate strong teams from Jiangsu and Hubei to compete. The Shanghai 07 National Games team, led by Tao Jin and trained at Kangqiao Base, was also invited to practice together. By doing so, we hope to discover problems through competition as a substitute for training, and strengthen the team's adaptation as soon as possible.

Efficiency, Genbao works with lightning speed and efficiency

On May 11th of this year, on the occasion of Mr. Wei Si's 90th birthday, Xu Genbao revealed to the public that he will serve as the head coach of the Shanghai men's football team at the 2025 Greater Bay Area National Games, which also means that he will be appointed to lead the team to the first Youth League.

As soon as he returned from Beijing, Genbao immediately began to contact the team selection and formation, mainly based on the Haigang 2006 age team that had been training at the Chongming base, as well as players from the Haigang and Shenhua 2005 age groups, and a small amount of other youth training resources in Shanghai... At the same time, the formation of the team coaching team was also carried out in an orderly manner. At this point, the remoteness of Genbao base once again became a test, which made some capable and experienced young coaches give up.

In the end, Genbao selected Zou Zhongwei, a former manager from the Shenhua era, and Feng Liang from the base as the double managers. Zhao Mengkai, a young coach from the base, was appointed as the head of the executive coaching team, while Wu Ming, a famous player from the China COSCO team, and Bian Genxi, a senior goalkeeper coach, were appointed as assistant coaches. After determining the list of coaches, Xu Genbao personally sat on the stands and glanced at the selected candidates one by one. After full communication with the coaching staff, a preliminary list of nearly 50 people was selected.

Image: 80 year old Genbao is still demonstrating his skills to an 18-year-old general.

In addition, Genbao has personally developed two work plans, one of which is a three-year training plan from the same day until the end of the 2025 National Games, mainly reflecting work intensity and phased training and competition tasks. The other one is the schedule plan for the June Student Youth Association preliminaries, which details the specific training tasks for each time slot every day... After completing these, Genbao summarized the nine character goals of this National Games task: "Bravely win gold, produce talents, and have style.". Genbao works with lightning speed!