180 soccer coaches from Qingdao, Shandong Province, China, started a training program hosted by a German Bayern Munich professional coach.
The project was signed after a Chinese and German government signed a football cooperation agreement in Berlin in November.
The event was held in the Sino-German Ecological Park in Qingdao, China, which is the only strategic cooperation between the Chinese government.
It is headed by Bayern Munich international project coach Sebastian Dremmler and his colleague Antonio Vatany, who plans to end on February 24th.
“Our responsibility here is to try to teach Chinese football teachers about Bayern Munich’s youth development philosophy and help them apply it,” Dremmer said.
Chinese coaches are divided into four groups, each with three days of basic training, including theoretical and practical training.
“Each Chinese coach will be checked after the training and the certificate will be awarded to those passing coaches, and the successful coach will have the opportunity to attend a higher level of training,” Dremmler said.
Qingdao Municipal Education Bureau official Sui Shiyu said that training is more advanced than most domestic training programs because Chinese coaches are given specific instructions rather than general guidance.
“Coaches will be graded according to their technical capabilities, divided into different groups according to their performance, and then the appropriate training.” Sui said.
In October, Sino-German Ecological Park and Bayern Munich signed an agreement in Berlin to establish the first Bayern Munich soccer school in China.
Under the terms of the agreement, the Bayern Munich-Bundesliga team for the past four seasons is currently in the first place – will send qualified coaches and trainers to China each year to help Chinese football coaches and young players develop.
“The program will help us build our own football training system and develop youth soccer,” Sui said.
China also cooperates with the German football club Borussia Dortmund to focus on the development of youth soccer. Earlier this month, a group of primary school students in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, went to Germany, and the club held a 12-day football exchange activities.
