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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/GT

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.
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二 | 他的妻子Xiuxiu Hao站在他身边，对一项具有代表性的洗钱指控表示认罪。警方的国家打击有组织犯罪集团部门（National Organised Crime Group）于2020年开始调查刘某，当时新西兰毒品市场充斥着危险的“粉红色保时捷（Pink Porsche）”迷幻药片。调查截获了他和手下之间的通信，以及在St Johns仓库外的秘密监控，该仓库由刘某租用，并被改造成大规模生产MDMA和冰毒的秘密工厂。有人看到刘和其他人带着与制造冰毒有关的设备和材料，比如丙酮和烧碱，进进出出。

三 | 这处工厂一度拥有两台进口压片机，用于生产粉红色保时捷药片，原材料是从采购的粉末和晶体状的MDMA中获取的。

四 | “压片后，刘某就会将这些药片分成各种交易规模的数量/重量，每次至少1000片，并通过加密的应用程序安排贩卖……比如Wickr。”该案的事实概要指出。调查人员发现，在刘某于2020年10月被捕之前的几天里，他进行了多次对话，其中似乎公开讨论了大宗毒品交易。 “嗨，兄弟，我能来拿1000片粉色药片吗？”10月23日，一个人问刘某，然后把数量改成了“1200”。几天后，使用“popkakaka”这个用户名的刘某夸了一名疑似制毒者的“漂亮的药片”，并指示他：“也请看看有没有人想买我们的E药片，哈哈……我是说不好的那个……不过还是值6.6万啊，哈哈。” 在其他信息中，他讨论了以每公斤4.5万纽币到5万纽币的价格购买MDMA。他后来承认，他通常以每盎司5500纽币的价格出售冰毒。在长达数月的秘密调查结束时，警方对刘某的多处房产进行了突袭检查，在他位于St Heliers的房子里发现了一个背包，里面装有近1公斤冰毒、30克粉末状MDMA、一把口径9毫米的手枪和20.8万纽币现金。他们还发现了MDMA纯度检测工具和一个有粉红色染料痕迹的搅拌机。在他位于Kohimarama的家中，警方发现了14400粒粉红色保时捷药片，约1公斤粉末状MDMA和62公斤甲基-乙酰苯基乙酸甲酯——一种通常被称为MAPA的物质，可以制成冰毒。刘某昨天承认了制造冰毒、供应冰毒、持有冰毒以供应和进口冰毒的指控，这些罪行类似但是不同的罪行，每项罪名最高可判处无期徒刑。他亦承认持有MDMA以供应、供应MDMA及持有麻黄碱以供应，均可判处最高14年监禁，以及非法持有枪支弹药、持有用于制毒的物质及洗钱等指控。警方表示，他与妻子一起洗钱，包括购买两辆法拉利，以及试图购买一辆福特F150 Shelby Super Snake皮卡，但最终因他的逮捕被挫败了。警方发现了他第二次购买法拉利时的微信消息，刘某请求一个不知名的人帮助从此人的银行账户中支付买车费用，他给此人现金。 “我一周只交20个小时的税，”他在聊天时配上了一个笑脸表情，“我换车需要4.5万纽币。我存了太多的现金。

五 | 我有现金。但不能用。” 检方在法庭文件中解释说，这是指“刘某‘现金充裕’，但需要电子支付来使他的购买看起来合法”。他承认了所有的毒品指控，这些指控都附带了警方在突击搜查中收集到的毒品的具体重量。

六 | 而且，每一项指控还包括一些附加说明，即刘某在之前的活动中处理了“未知买卖数量”的毒品，而这些并没有被调查人员记录在案。当刘最终向警方承认他是幕后主使时，他被问及动机。 “他解释说他是为了赚钱。

七 | ”法庭文件上说。刘某合法的建筑公司Bullmark Construction Ltd上个月进入清算。法官June Jelas将他还押入狱，等待7月份的判决。相关阅读：走私香烟和贩毒，奥克兰一华人被判入狱华人男子遭抛尸案：冰毒集团头目因谋杀罪被判终身监禁奥克兰机场缉毒行动后续：行李搬运工等团伙成员身份曝光毒品走私案：警方搜查奥克兰20处房产，14人面临指控，机场员工涉嫌参与其中奥克兰大毒枭姓名公布！伙同机场员工走私冰毒，涉毒人员分布在这些地区又与帮派有关，警方捣毁制毒团伙，收缴现金枪支... 奥克兰男子“油漆”中藏16kg冰毒被捕时欲将手机冲下马桶华人巨额冰毒走私案破获逾百万纽币现金藏豪车一名男子被控进口冰毒和洗钱，数套房产、豪车、百万纽币被查获法庭判决：没收华人毒枭妻子位于奥克兰的房产、豪车、奢侈品注：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。

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