The "Chinese Football Association Player Self-Recommendation System" was officially launched on the official website of the Chinese Football Association yesterday. All players holding the People's Republic of China ID card can register and recommend themselves in the self-recommendation system. The process is divided into five steps: active registration of players, filling in self-recommendation information, initial screening and evaluation of business departments, selection and database entry, and dynamic tracking and re-evaluation.

The Chinese Football Association officially stated that this is an important measure for the Chinese Football Association to innovate the football talent selection mechanism, which can further smooth the football talent selection channels, broaden the football talent selection channels, "reduce talents without any restrictions", and effectively prevent and control the corruption of football material selection around the people, so as to better meet the development needs of my country's football talent.

After the announcement, this news quickly became a hot topic on social media. So, with the player self-recommendation system, how to evaluate and select athletes? What are the practical significance for the selection of Chinese football talents and the development of youth training?

The "Chinese Football Association Player Self-Recommendation System" was launched yesterday. After completing the basic registration, the system will ask the self-recommendator to fill in four categories, including basic information, football experience, comprehensive evaluation, skill display, and test data.

The football experience and comprehensive evaluation part include training camp experience, event experience, team head coach or club youth training director, etc., and the test data part also requires self-recommendators to provide specific test data such as 30-meter running, standing long jump, forward flexion, pull-ups, etc.

It can be seen that self-recommendators need to have considerable professional abilities in order to have the opportunity to pass preliminary screening.

The Chinese Football Association stated that the original intention of establishing a "player self-recommendation system" is to open up channels for football talent selection. Zhang Lin, founder of the Chaoyang Tongzhou United Football Club in Beijing, believes that the self-recommendation system can help more outstanding sports talents enter the public eye and be discovered by more professionals.

The introduction of this self-recommendation system can avoid the conflict between studies and football to the greatest extent. Those who temporarily leave football and choose to study may have another way in the future. They can return to the level of football by themselves, so as to maximize the lack of high-level players, including the grassroots leagues that the Chinese Football Association is now vigorously developing. Clubs like ours can also enter the official and professional competition system of Chinese football. In fact, they will enrich and broader people and will not be left out of the system, and discover more football talents to the greatest extent.

Mo Xiangyu, head of Shanxi Xiangyu Football Club, revealed to reporters that in the past, the club's material selection mainly relied on limited youth training echelons, campus football recommendations and introductions from insiders. This makes it difficult for many potential players to enter the club's vision due to regional, economic conditions or lack of recommendations, let alone participate in high-level competitions.

In the past football youth training, the information was not smooth, causing a series of obstacles. At the talent mining level, many young players with great potential were buried. Even if the youth training team located in remote areas of Shanxi has cultivated excellent players, due to the lack of an efficient information dissemination network, it is difficult for grassroots coaches to pass on local excellent seedlings to higher-level youth training institutions and event organizers.

Now, the self-recommendation system has broken these barriers. After the player registration and filling in the information, the relevant business departments will also organize expert teams to conduct regular centralized screening and evaluation of self-recommendation players and on-site selection. Excellent self-recommendation players who have selected will have the opportunity to enter different training camps and training teams, and at the same time, they will also have the opportunity to participate in various competitions organized by the Chinese Football Association.

Not only that, in recent years, the so-called "folk football experts" have often appeared on social media, and these grassroots talents can also enter the official level of evaluation and selection through self-recommendation systems.

Zhang Qing, founder of Sports Consulting Co., Ltd., believes that this "bottom-up" selection model may effectively break regional and hierarchical barriers and shorten the distance between private amateur players and their professional system.

In addition, the practice of regularly publicizing the list of "self-recommended players" on the official website has further enhanced the transparency of selection. The Chinese Football Association also emphasized that it will use discipline inspection and supervision and social supervisors to strengthen transparency and fairness in the entire selection process, and establish a mechanism for continuous tracking, training and diversified exports for players after "entering". Zhang Qing said that from the perspective of institutional design, this is not only a technological innovation, but also an active exploration of industry ecological governance.

With such a system, it gives grassroots or talent training units a chance. Regardless of the time it takes to take or the system construction cycle, the existence of this mechanism itself is an activation and supervision of the existing system.