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Yang Xu—The importance of high-level competitions to the growth of young players

10:11am, 26 July 2025【Football】

Yang Xu, a former international player who brought his children into the Japanese youth training system and also formed a Japanese-style youth training club, talked about the importance of high-level competitions to the growth of young people based on his own understanding of Japanese youth training.

1. The competition environment determines the training quality

2. Let the child play different positions from an early age

3. The ability should be presented through the competition.

The youth training in China has slow training and slow competitions, and there are no high-intensity confrontation and oppression competitions; many children in Japanese kindergartens have played 200-300 high-quality games before elementary school. After entering primary school, there are 100-200 high-quality games every year, including high-level cup games and uninterrupted leagues, and a large number of friendly matches on Saturday and Sunday. After a large number of high-quality games, the players have very strong real-time judgment and reaction abilities and very good physical fitness.

After taking a few steps, they will always have details, and the youth training competition system is a very important part of it.