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Children practice football in a youth football training camp in Hangzhou cheap air max pink , Zhejiang Province, in September. Photo: CFP
"You need to play more aggressive," Li Junwen, a 29-year-old primary school football teacher in Kunming, Yunnan Province, is busy coaching his 20 pupils during the winter holidays.


"My biggest dream is that my students can play in World Cup," Li said.


Many people blame academic pressure and lack of school soccer for China's terrible soccer team. All that may be about to change.


On January 27 cheap air max red , China's Ministry of Education (MOE), together with five other central government departments, established a "school football leading group" to ensure that football thrives in the country's schools, according to the Xinhua News Agency.


The leading group is tasked with encouraging campus football development through promulgating laws and policies, outlining annual plans, and reviewing rules and budgets for promoting the sport among the nation's students and youth.


Starting them young


Yuan Guiren, China's education minister cheap air max white , said on January 16 that football will be part of students' overall quality assessment, adding that schools will keep a record of students' football skills.


Football will also become a compulsory part of physical education classes, said Yuan.


The MOE also announced that it plans to select 20,000 primary and middle schools in which to promote football by 2017. It will also choose 30 counties to serve as trial areas for the development of school football.


Chosen schools must have dedicated football instructors, specialized classes, and have performed well in previous school football competitions. A nationwide selection process has already kicked off.


Beijing plans to select 200 schools for promoting football, with the first batch of candidate schools to be nominated before the end of February cheap air max black , a source close to the capital's school football development program from the Beijing Municipal Commission of Education told the Global Times.


"There will be more training for football instructors in those selected schools," he said, adding that more detailed plans will be issued in the coming academic semester.