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    Young student athletes compete during the Shijingshan District Primary and Secondary School Football League in Beijing on May 28, 2026. Photo: Li Hao/GTOn youth soccer pitches across China this World Cup summer, one match often seemed to give way immediately to the next. Coaches shifted cones, parents raised phones behind the fence, and children in numbered bibs warmed up along the touchline while the previous teams were still packing away their gear.
It was a busy school break. The national finals of the 2025-26 youth campus soccer league, rounds of the fifth China Youth Football League, city and provincial campus competitions, private club cups and overseas invitationals filled the calendar. Some children played close to home; others spent part of their summer travelling with teammates from one tournament to another.
The sixth 2034 Cup was among the most visible. Its 39 regional qualifiers drew 882 teams and 12,604 players, with 128 teams reaching the finals in Suzhou, East China's Jiangsu Province. Teams from other countries also took part, adding an international element to a tournament aimed at primary-school players, according to the Xinhua News Agency.
Does this crowded calendar by itself signal a turnaround for Chinese soccer? China's men last reached the World Cup in 2002. But the summer offered a view of a playing base being built from below and raised a harder question: Can the enthusiasm survive the return to school, unequal access to training and the growing costs borne by families?
From the first touch
In China's youth soccer system, coach Zhao Xinxin works at its broadest and most fundamental level - introducing young children to the game.
He coaches an introductory group of about 15 three-year-olds, three interest classes of 15 to 20 children aged five to 10, and four advanced groups of roughly 10 players aged five to 14. He has worked with more than 100 children over the years.
Starting younger is one of the clearest changes Zhao has observed in recent years. Soccer is appearing not only in schools and social clubs but also in some kindergartens. Most parents initially want an after-school activity that gets their kid moving. 
Only when a player begins to stand out do questions about more advanced training and a possible route forward arise.
That route now has several layers. A child in a commercial club can move from introductory and interest classes to advanced teams. A school player may be selected for district and city teams, then enter national campus competitions; professional academies, sports schools and social clubs provide other pathways. 
China began promoting campus soccer on a national scale in 2015, when six government departments issued guidelines calling for soccer to be incorporated into school education through designated soccer schools, regular competitions, teacher training and improved facilities, according to the Ministry of Education.
The program has continued to expand while shifting its focus from increasing participation to improving the quality of teaching, training and competition. In 2025, another 4,928 schools were recognized as national youth campus soccer schools, according to the ministry.
The result is more soccer on the calendar. Zhao told the Global Times that youth matches take place somewhere in Beijing almost every week, especially during school holidays. His club's advanced teams play weekend fixtures with referees and standings, as well as regional competitions and finals.
Tournaments such as the 2034 Cup give this broad base a visible target. Soccer commentator and youth-project organizer Dong Lu launched the event in 2021 after repeatedly seeing Chinese social media celebrate Japan's high-school soccer tournament. Its name looks toward the 2034 World Cup, when the first group of participants will be about 25. 
Earlier this summer, a team selected through Dong's youth soccer project offered another source of encouragement. The Chinese Football Boy U12 team won all seven matches at the Sigismondi International Youth Cup in Italy, becoming the first Asian team to claim the championship.
Yet Dong cautioned against reading too much into a single championship. Strong players, he said, must emerge from a much broader soccer culture. "Players come from the people around us, from the soil and culture in which they grow," he told the Global Times. 
Who can keep playing?
    A coach walks his young players to the pitch for a soccer tournament in Beijing. Photo: Li Hao/GTYet the larger test begins after the tournament. Dong acknowledged that most 2034 Cup participants will not become professional players. For many, reaching the finals in Suzhou may serve as a "soccer graduation ceremony" at the end of primary school. The question is whether graduation from primary school must also mean graduation from soccer.
For Zhao, the first major break comes at 12. Children may train throughout primary school, then stop after entering middle school as homework, examinations and family expectations take over - a pattern he calls "retiring at 12."
Campus soccer should be the main way to keep the player pool broad, he said, because school is where nearly every child spends most of the day. More schools now provide soccer classes and in-class competitions, but implementation varies. 
Zhao recalled a class tournament in which a child was injured. After a parent complained, the remaining matches were cancelled. Safety concerns are understandable, he said, but cancelling competition altogether removes opportunities from every child.
For families, this is also the stage when soccer stops being a simple extracurricular activity. If a child has shown unusual ability, parents must decide whether to seek stronger teams, change schools, accept more travel and training, or keep soccer only as an interest. The decision depends not only on talent and the child's wishes, but also on educational expectations and how much time and money the household can commit.
The contrast with Europe lies partly in continuity. Zhao cited his nephew in Hungary, who trained at a Barcelona-affiliated academy between the ages of six and eight before being selected by a local club at nine. 
Once children join organized training there, he said, they are registered at relatively low cost, and their movement between clubs is recorded in the soccer association's system - closer to transferring schools than simply leaving one commercial course for another.
Dong made a broader comparison. Japan's national team increasingly draws on players who have further developed further in European leagues, while China still relies mainly on its domestic league to prepare future internationals. 
In his view, the two systems operate like production lines with different competitive standards. Young Chinese players therefore need more high-level matches, whether foreign teams come to China, Chinese teams travel abroad or selected players enter overseas leagues.
But overseas training cannot substitute for a domestic system, nor is it open to every family. Zhao said it requires ability, physical readiness, money and the capacity to adapt to a different language, diet and daily life. Some parents send a child abroad; others move with them, reorganizing work and family life around soccer without knowing whether the child will ever turn professional.
For now, the most telling test may come not in 2034, but this coming September, when a child enters a new grade and decides whether there is still time in the week for soccer.
。    Sophie 编译 新总理通常在上任后都会经历一段“蜜月期”，但新任总理Christopher Luxon似乎在选后没有声望提升，他的支持率一直保持稳定。         在最新的1News Verian民意调查中，他的新对手、工党党魁Chris Hipkins的首选总理支持率下降了10个百分点，而Luxon的支持率仍保持在25%，与大选前相比没有任何增长。

二 |          Advertise with us          他的民调结果也明显低于近几十年来其他初任总理41%-51%的支持率。         一位政治学家表示，这一结果对于新总理来说是不寻常的，可能预示着联合政府将面临艰难险阻。         维多利亚大学高级讲师、政治学家Lara Greaves表示，这种情况“非常奇怪”，并补充说，这种开放式的“首选总理”问题已经非常有利于现任总理了。         “我们通常可能看到蜜月期效应，但现在并没有。

三 | 确实有人们所说的蜜月期效应——人们会喜欢他们，并给他们一个机会。

四 | 我们政治的一部分就是给人们一个公平的机会。

五 | ”                    Peters和Seymour的影响          她说Winston Peters和David Seymour自大选以来一直占据着媒体的聚光灯，同时，政府还面临着大量的负面新闻报道。         从历史上看，MMP时代的所有总理和政府在宣誓就职后一般会看到支持率飙升。在本周的民调中，国家党的支持率仅增长1%，行动党下降1%，优先党与去年10月相比保持稳定。         回到2000年，Helen Clark上任后民调的支持率上升了13个百分点，而前总理Jenny Shipley则继续担任反对党党魁。工党在执政的头几个月里，支持率也增长了11%。         9年后，在Clark的失败之后，继任者John Key在2008年2月大选后的支持率从40%上升到51%。         Key的国家党的支持率也大幅上升，在2009年2月的1News民调中，从大选时的45%上升到57%。         2017年Jacinda Ardern领导的联合政府宣誓就职，到第二年2月，她的首选总理支持率也上升了10个百分点——尽管工党在支持率上升方面幅度小于Clark和Key。         Curia和Talbot Mills在今年2月进行的其他民意调查显示，Luxon的支持率在以领导人为基础的衡量标准中最多只有小幅上升。这两家调查公司都对主要政党进行调查。         Greaves说，Luxon作为领导人的形象较弱，这与在他之前最杰出的两位总理Key和Ardern截然不同。         “这与一些很有趣的事情相符——当我们看到像Vote Compass这样的数据时——我们发现Luxon在大选前的受欢迎程度上一直有些吃力。”          “当我将他与前几任总理进行比较，以及他们在大选民调中的受欢迎程度相比较时，他仍然远远落后。总的来说，他似乎在讨人喜欢方面有点问题。”          一些人将Key和Luxon相提并论，因为他们都来自商界，在担任最高职位之前都有短暂的国会议员生涯。但Greaves说：“这对Luxon来说是一个艰难的比较，他没有达到那种受欢迎或首选总理高支持率的水平，但我的意思是，还有一个更广泛的问题，那就是这是否真的那么重要。

六 | ”          她指出，新联合政府内部的动态影响了选民对Luxon的看法，有“两位非常强势、个性很强的副总理”。         对总理来说，这可能不全是坏消息。“如果这个政府不受欢迎，选民很可能会把它归咎于Winston Peters和David Seymour，而国家党在长期内实际上可能会得到更多的支持。”                    Hipkins支持率下降          与此同时，Hipkins在民调中的支持率下降了10个百分点，前总理在选后声望下降似乎是相对普遍的现象。         在他之前，身处失败者位置的前总理，如Jenny Shipley、Clark和Bill English，都没有在卸任总理后再次参加大选。他此前曾表示将继续担任党魁直至下一次大选。         在周一接受1News采访时，这位工党党魁表示，这一结果与他“实地”经历的情况不相符，而且民调会有波动。Hipkins表示，辞去党魁职务“绝对不是我在考虑的事情”。

七 |          相关阅读：          国家党支持率领先优势扩大，新政府获认可，但仍存在关键问题          最新民调：行动党及其党魁支持率飙升          毛利事务撕裂新政府，国庆日怀唐伊成战场          2024首次民调出炉！国家党大获全胜，Chris Hipkins支持率跌至历史最低          最新民调：Luxon支持率下滑，优先党和毛利党成最大赢家          大选日临近！过去18个月，各党的支持率发生了怎样的变化？          大选前最后的民调出炉，没有谁能“稳赢”！历史是否将再次上演？          最新民调：工党支持率上升，“造王者”还是优先党          国家党警告称或需“二次选举” 可能性到底有多大？          政治学家解读：联合执政面临哪些风险？合作关系破裂怎么办？          新民调：优先党支持率继续上升！国家党+行动党席位减少          “造王者”依然是Peters！两大党支持率与上周持平，行动党跌了......          注：本文为编译/原创，欢迎转发分享；但严禁复制等未经授权的非法使用。违反上述声明者，本网将追究其相关法律责任。

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