※ 引述《JamesCaesar (首席百人隊長)》之銘言：
: http://chelsea.sina.com.cn/news/2007-10-04/23184140.html
: THE THURSDAY INTERVIEW: NEIL BATH
: Thu, 4th Oct 2007
: 最近，巴斯接受了《每日電訊報》的 Henry Winter 的重要採訪，引起了媒體對
: 青訓的興趣，在採訪中，他詳細的介紹了一些方法和他在切爾西的想法。採訪涉及了
: 俱樂部及其所有者正在對青訓系統進行的投資，他將此作為了其重要性的標誌。
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2007/09/01/sfnche101.xml
Signs of Chelsea's talent factory bearing fruit By Henry Winter
Last Updated: 1:09am BST 01/09/2007
Jose Mourinho's first XI beat Chelsea's youth team at Cobham this week but
the youngsters did have a decent excuse. Some of the Academy's finest sent
their apologies but were rather occupied elsewhere, starring for England
in the Under-17s World Cup. Blue is increasingly the colour in many
corners of young England dressing rooms.
During a week of frenzied headlines predicting everyone from Ronaldinho to
Jermain Defoe turning up to work under Mourinho at Cobham, Chelsea have
quietly been getting on with building for the future, nurturing players
from the cradle to the gravy-train of the Premier League.
Chelsea have cut some controversial corners, with some aggressive
recruiting of young players from other clubs, as Leeds United discovered.
Now that their youth set-up is properly up and running, a sense of real
pride suffuses their achievements in preparing players like Scott Sinclair
for first-team action.
The talent factory is busy: 17 current Academy players have represented
England at under-17s to under-21s, fulfilling the aim of Mourinho and
Roman Abramovich to develop more John Terrys. On Thursday, five Chelsea
players were called up by England Under-19s.
A visit to Cobham this week highlighted an ambition writ large in signs
dotted around the training complex. "By 2014 we will be recognised as the
world's No 1 football club," read one declaration. Another listed
Chelsea's values: "Style, Unity, Integrity, Leadership, Excellence, Pride".
Another spoke of the Academy's overriding goal: "Our target is to get one
established first-team player by 2010 and one a year after that."
Aspiration is in the air at Cobham. Training has finished for the day, yet
a lively tennis match is going on between Petr Cech and Carlo Cudicini.
Something else is in the air and it is the dust whipped up by the hard
hats constructing the colossal new Academy complex.
Mourinho's players slow their cars as a huge crane inches along the entry
road, edging towards an area where pilings are being driven deep into the
Surrey soil. The symbolism is inescapable. Having invested heavily in the
first team, Abramovich is hard at work on Chelsea's foundations.
"The support that the owner and [chief executive] Peter Kenyon gives us is
fantastic," says Neil Bath, the Academy manager. "We needed to improve. We
needed to have a facility that is second to none in Europe by 2008." Bath
and his staff examined youth facilities at Manchester United, Arsenal, PSV
Eindhoven and Rangers before launching their Cobham scheme.
Abramovich and Kenyon have enthusiastically bought into the understanding
that it takes time, as Bath shows by some research into the ages of
leading Champions League sides. "We looked at Arsenal, Barcelona, Bayern
Munich, Benfica, Chelsea, Inter Milan, Liverpool, Lyon, Manchester United,
Milan, PSV and Real Madrid and found that 10 per cent of their players
were 21 or under, 40 per cent were between 22 and 26, with 50 per cent 27
or older. We need to show patience for them to come into the first team.
"We look for bravery and skills, watching for a player who takes a neat
touch, gets down the line, with pace, takes a tackle and gets back up. If
a player is big-time slow, but his touch is good, we would not look at
them. If a player is raw quick but his touch is not good enough, we
wouldn't look at him either, but we would talk to UK Athletics and say
'You might want to take a look'."
In their pursuit of excellence, Chelsea players strive for the gold bib in
training. "Most clubs have the tradition of the worst trainer bib, and
players write [usually abusive] things on it," Bath adds. "But we thought
to have a gold bib for best trainer."
'Gold' attributes are detailed on a 'personal behaviour' card given to all
players. These are kept in wallets and regularly referred to. The card
depicts a graph with 'attitude' ('positive' or 'negative') on one side set
against 'energy' levels ('low' or 'high'). Gold is when 'positive attitude'
meets 'high energy levels', leading to what Chelsea call: 'Player!
Champions' showing qualities of 'We can do this. Walk the talk. Team
player. Makes decisions. Shares in successes as well as setbacks. Goes the
extra mile'.
A player with 'positive attitude' but 'low energy' is given a 'white'
coding by Chelsea, and the label 'Spectator' because he is 'comfortable,
goes through the motions, sits on the fence - a Mr Nice Guy'. Down the
scale lies 'negative attitude' and 'low energy' levels, leading to
'Victim, depressed' and a 'grey' colour coding. Chelsea list the 'Victim'
attributes as: 'Why change? This is pointless. It's not fair. Constantly
moaning. Blame culture'.
The worst combination for a player is 'negative attitude' and 'high energy'
level and described as 'Terrorist' by Chelsea. Coloured 'envious green',
this player is dubbed a: 'Cynic. Two-faced. Negative comments. Bully.
Sarcasm. Gossip/stirs. Big-time Charlie'.'
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