Sino-UK Football Education and Cultural Seminar opens in Shanghai

The Sino-UK Football Education and Cultural Strategy Seminar opening ceremony in Shanghai The Sino-UK Football Education Cultural Strategy Seminar opens in Shanghai, Xinhua News Agency, Shanghai, 15th July (Reporter Mr Xu Dongyuan Zhu Hong) 15th, the Sino-UK Football Education Cultural Strategy Seminar and English School Football teaching Programme training class was held in Shanghai Tongji University. A total of 82 participants from all over the country, including junior and high school students, college students, graduate students, elementary and middle school teachers, university teachers, and club coaches, were divided into three classes for a week of professional football training.

Mr Lei Xinghui, vice president of Tongji University, said that Tongji University and Dr Sun Yi Xian's Youth Foundation are jointly committed to the development of Chinese football education and culture, assisting the construction of football culture undertakings across the Taiwan Straits, Hong Kong and Macau, for the implementation of the "Belt and Road" initiative and for the development of global football education Cultural exchanges and cooperation provide a path for sustainable development. "Absorbing all the advanced football concepts at home and abroad from all aspects is of great benefit to guiding our football development." Mr Zhu Guanghu, chairman of the Shanghai Football Association, said that the core goal of campus football is to foster morality, and Chinese football reform is a long-term system. Engineering must follow the laws of football.

"A major problem in the development of campus football at present is the lack of high-level middle school teachers to help coaches. This requires continuous learning from the training experience of football powers, combined with the actual foundation of my country's grassroots education, comprehensive use of grade training, international curriculum and subject education. Enhance the guidance level of school football teachers." Mr Zhu Guanghu said.

"We have joined hands with Tongji University to jointly develop a modern football subject curriculum and coaching curriculum system with the Shanghai Football Association, and work hard to develop a set of modern football teaching materials with independent intellectual property rights suitable for China's national conditions." said Zheng Shaoqiang, chairman of the Sun Yat-sen Youth Foundation.

"At present, 252 primary and secondary schools in Shanghai have become national youth campus football schools. In recent years, the population of Shanghai school football has increased year by year, and the number of registered student athletes has increased from more than 4,000 to more than 30,000." Shanghai Municipal Education Commission Mr Chen Hua said, director of the Department of Health and Arts.

In January 2017, Tongji University established the International Football College and reached and signed a 10-year strategic cooperation agreement with the Dr Sun Yi Xian's Youth Foundation. According to the agreement, the two parties will jointly host and implement the first plan of the second phase of the Sino-UK School football project to hold rotating training courses in the next 5 years, and train more than 15,000 standard football teachers through teaching English football teaching courses. And on this basis, we will strive to train more than 300 elite football lecturers who can be recognized by the FA, UEFA or equivalent institutions, and contribute to the integration of Chinese football education with international standards.

Sino-UK Football Education and Cultural Seminar Opens in Shanghai