CFG Recruiting Coaches For China

Matty said:
I wonder if this will be in conjunction with CFG getting themselves a presence in the Chinese League? Adding another team to the fold, alongside Melbourne, New York and Yokohama? The Chinese league seems to have some money in it currently.
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There's also a huge, huge football market over there for the PL and perhaps not quite as cynical about support when it comes to other places in the world.

Not sure how ownership works in their league but imagine a tie up would be doable.
 
Damocles said:
There's also a huge, huge football market over there for the PL and perhaps not quite as cynical about support when it comes to other places in the world.

Not sure how ownership works in their league but imagine a tie up would be doable.
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It would look like something that, at the very least, will have been discussed behind the scenes. Over 1 billion people to try and target for City, even if you only manage to affect 0.01% of them that's still 10 million people.
 
Should post this advert in the post-match threads, there'senough young lads on there who talk like they have been coaching football for over 20 years... reality is they just completed 20 seasons on footy manager
 
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well?
 
Great idea, imagine if we managed to be the ones to find and train the second Chinese superstar (after Sun Jihai obvs), we'd have about 500million new fans.
 
They only want a UEFA B license, and it's a fixed-term contract. I'm not sure if they would want people with no professional coaching experience training up serious footballers. It might be related to the academy element of a professional club that doesn't already have one, but tbh this reminds me more of the City Soccer Schools in the UAE. They hired about 5-6 (IIRC) British coaches there and employed them for a year or two while they taught Emiratis to coach kids. Much as I really want to see CFG grow bigger, I personally don't think this is related to the acquisition of a Chinese club. Would love to be wrong, though.
 
Hah, I feel (sort of) vindicated now. Watching one of City's matches in Australia this year, we were talking about the long trips in pre-season and I said "Bet they go to China next year"

:)
 
Maybe slightly off topic. To be honest i don't get it, why don't we exploring any opportunity at INDIA yet? It's market is much bigger than China and it has huge potential.
 
mashiur09 said:
Maybe slightly off topic. To be honest i don't get it, why don't we exploring any opportunity at INDIA yet? It's market is much bigger than China and it has huge potential.
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Probably because football in India is a pretty rubbish state right now. The main league for a long time was the I-League, which was largely a joke of a league, with very low attendance, awful financing and no exposure, in its own country let alone the world. In 2013 some businessmen created the Indian Super League, taking inspiration from the model of the IPL (cricket), which does get better ratings, but it's really not a fit representation of Indian football - there are only 8 teams so 14 games per season, it runs for about 3 months and the teams are just full of almost-retired former greats. The big players of the ISL are the likes of Anelka, Elano, Roberto Carlos (who was retired for three whole years before joining up), Adrian Mutu. Even the managers are just signed for their reputations as players - Zico, Materazzi, David Platt.

One of the teams when the league was first created did actually ask City to buy a stake and offered naming rights for the team itself, but CFG flat turned them down. I don't think India is in the right state right now for CFG to be able to make any progress. CFG likes leagues where it their own success can be equally important for their club as for the league. In India, they could win every game going but no-one would ever notice.
 
Falastur said:
They only want a UEFA B license, and it's a fixed-term contract. I'm not sure if they would want people with no professional coaching experience training up serious footballers. It might be related to the academy element of a professional club that doesn't already have one, but tbh this reminds me more of the City Soccer Schools in the UAE. They hired about 5-6 (IIRC) British coaches there and employed them for a year or two while they taught Emiratis to coach kids. Much as I really want to see CFG grow bigger, I personally don't think this is related to the acquisition of a Chinese club. Would love to be wrong, though.
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Wouldn't really make sense as a Soccer School unless they already had Academy Managers and the more senior staff in place. I mean, UEFA B isn't as low down as people are presenting it - it's the third highest practical coaching certificate (And UEFA Pro and A licences are stupid expensive) and it isn't designed for coaching kids.

If they want UEFA B or above then they're coaching older teenagers at the least - the experience part of it requires a club on the national pyramid above county level just to get the course. Many professional coaches only hold a B as experience is still valued much heavier than education and it's one of those "good enough" qualifications. Seem to recall quite a few managers havig to go and get the A and/or Pro Licence after being appointed
 
Falastur said:
Probably because football in India is a pretty rubbish state right now. The main league for a long time was the I-League, which was largely a joke of a league, with very low attendance, awful financing and no exposure, in its own country let alone the world. In 2013 some businessmen created the Indian Super League, taking inspiration from the model of the IPL (cricket), which does get better ratings, but it's really not a fit representation of Indian football - there are only 8 teams so 14 games per season, it runs for about 3 months and the teams are just full of almost-retired former greats. The big players of the ISL are the likes of Anelka, Elano, Roberto Carlos (who was retired for three whole years before joining up), Adrian Mutu. Even the managers are just signed for their reputations as players - Zico, Materazzi, David Platt.

One of the teams when the league was first created did actually ask City to buy a stake and offered naming rights for the team itself, but CFG flat turned them down. I don't think India is in the right state right now for CFG to be able to make any progress. CFG likes leagues where it their own success can be equally important for their club as for the league. In India, they could win every game going but no-one would ever notice.
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Seems you know details about Indian football. Are you from India....?
 
mashiur09 said:
Seems you know details about Indian football. Are you from India....?
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No, I'm British. I just read up on anything that takes my fancy. When I saw that City were linked to an ISL team two years ago, I did my research. I'm currently tracking Girona FC on social media because of the possibility of them linking up with us, and I'm starting to learn about Liga Adelante as a result. Otherwise, I just get involved in all kinds of stuff just for kicks anyway.

I spent several months at one point updating scores and league tables on Wikipedia for the Montenegrin First League, just because why not? I could probably name most of the top Montenegrin sides because of it and which teams won the league in the late 2000s, and that was from almost a decade ago.

I just like to keep informed about anything and everything. It's probably one of the reasons I find CFG so fascinating. Diversity is interesting.

Damocles said:
Wouldn't really make sense as a Soccer School unless they already had Academy Managers and the more senior staff in place. I mean, UEFA B isn't as low down as people are presenting it - it's the third highest practical coaching certificate (And UEFA Pro and A licences are stupid expensive) and it isn't designed for coaching kids.

If they want UEFA B or above then they're coaching older teenagers at the least - the experience part of it requires a club on the national pyramid above county level just to get the course. Many professional coaches only hold a B as experience is still valued much heavier than education and it's one of those "good enough" qualifications. Seem to recall quite a few managers havig to go and get the A and/or Pro Licence after being appointed
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Perhaps. Putting out twitter adverts via the Lancashire FA seems a bit unlikely if City genuinely want to create a top-level academy/coaching set-up to me, though. I think they would be head-hunting if this were related to an actual club.

Not to mention that I think they would prefer to seal the deal with the club takeover before taking these steps. You don't start hiring staff to work at a company you haven't acquired yet - if the takeover falls through, you look pretty stupid.
 
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