FOOTBALL IN CHINA ENTERS IN SCHOOLS AS MATTER OF STUDIES

China wants to become a power in football. So football is inserted between the teachings in schools and the performance of the students fall in the overall ratings of school performance. The decision was taken at a meeting of the Cabinet Council of China, where the government has handed over responsibility for promoting football among young people from the Chinese Football Association – covered by corruption scandals in recent years that have beheaded the leaders – to Ministry of Education, which will also send inspectors to monitor the progress of individual schools in the promotion of football among pupils. China, explained the Minister of Education, YuanGuiren, intends to increase the number of centers and youth football tip, by 2017, to have between twenty thousand elementary and middle schools that have entered into their football programs. The ultimate goal, writes today the English-language newspaper China Daily, is to “become a power sport.” The Chinese national, to the 99th place in the FIFA rankings, has to his credit a single participation in the finals of the World Championships in football, in 2002, when the World Championships were hosted by two other Asian countries, Japan and South Korea.
“The development of football in schools is a cornerstone in the realization of the dream of joining the elite Chinese football world in the most important sporting events,” said the Vice Premier Liu Yandong, during the meeting between the ministers of the government headed by Prime Minister , Li Keqiang. Chinese President, Xi Jinping, is a sports fan and football, and in the past, expressed on several occasions the desire for China to host the World Cup and see the Chinese national new present in a final phase of the Championships world football. The program insertion of football in schools is under consideration for some time by the government. Already in July, the Ministry of Education had prepared plans for entering the football between school activities, and from next year intends to kick off training for six thousand coaches.