[Scene] Xiaolong Team, come on! Red Army team, come on!
[Commentary] On the afternoon of May 14, a group of children are struggling to chase a rolling ball on a bare soccer field on the high mountain of 2,700 meters above sea level in Ajaluogu Township, Zhaoju County, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Men ’s and women ’s mixed football matches are taking place here. The Wuwu Primary School where these young players are located is also called "Yunduan Primary School" because it is surrounded by clouds all year round.
Qubi Shigu, who is directing the young players to attack and retreat on the court, is the principal of Wau Elementary School and the only public teacher in this school. In 2003, after graduating from Qubi University, he chose to return to his hometown of Zhaojue County to become a rural teacher. When recalling the scene when he first arrived at Wau Elementary School, the 40-year-old Yi man once stopped crying for an interview. Qubi Shigu said that on the first day of his arrival at Wawu Primary School, only four children came to report that the classroom was in a cowshed, and the blackboard was composed of several painted wooden boards. In addition to the difficult teaching conditions, what made him feel most helpless was the education concept of the parents of the students at that time.
[Same period] (Wu Wu Elementary School Principal Qu Bi Shigu) Parents said that we do n’t need teachers and let the children come to the school to go to the cattle and sheep. I heard this sentence at the time. In fact, I am also a child of the Yi nationality. A child who just graduated from university and a young man who just came out, I was very angry and turned and wanted to leave. I turned around and thought for a while, because as a young man of the Yi nationality, I feel that if I go, which one can come here, in fact, it is simply a process to prove myself.
【Commentary】 Wawu Primary School now has a new campus, and more than half of the 245 students in the school are playing football. In order to enrich the extracurricular life of the children in Dashan, Qubi Shigu, who loves football, guides children to practice football from the online self-study football training course. In 2017, with the help of charity organizations, the football stadium of Wawu Elementary School was built today, which opened the children's football dream.
[Same period] (Wu Wu Primary School Principal Qu Bi Shi Gu) And I found that their talents are very good. The children in the mountains, he is not only physically strong, but also very flexible, and his willpower is particularly strong. In addition to the study of knowledge and culture, Shancun Primary School is the main way for our children in the mountains to get out of the mountains. I think that our children in the mountains are in terms of arts and sports. Football, folk dance, folk music, etc. are also in the depths of our mountains. One of the other ways for children to get out of the mountains.
[Commentary] The "mini" football field of Wawu Elementary School is in poor conditions, dusty in sunny days, muddy in rainy days, and falling down to eat mud is commonplace, but children never stop running and playing football on it. The children's love of football made Qu Biguo look in the eyes, he could slowly feel the children's changes.
[Same period] (Wuwu Primary School principal Qu Bishigu) The main thing is to make the introverted children really cheerful by playing football, and make some weak-willed children really strong. I think "happy football" leads to school, so I think it is enough.
[Commentary] In this game, the sixth-year student Ji Niu Mu Niu with a hair band on his head was very aggressive, and his record of more than 300 consecutive ball jumps made him the captain of the school men ’s team. After starting to contact football in 2018, Ji Niu Mu Niu fell in love with this sport.
[Same period] (Wawu Primary School student Ji Niu Mu Niu) Because playing football can not only get out of the mountains, but also make our own healthier, and I also like football very much. My future dream is to become a world-class football player.
[Commentary] In 2017, Wuwu Elementary School established a football team. Qubi Shigu and the children walked out of the Daliangshan with their football dreams. They watched the Chinese Super League game on the spot, communicated with the professional youth training team, and participated in many official events. In the direction of our efforts, we have also accumulated a lot of valuable experience.
[Same period] (Wuwu Primary School Principal Qu Bishigu) The strength gap is very big, but our kind of unsatisfactory defeat, the last kind of school in the mountains, the spirit of the children of the mountains has been brought to the big cities , I think this is enough. Shows us a wonderful, different style of football youth.
Chen Xuanbin Lu Yang reports from Liangshan, Sichuan
Editor in charge: [Li Ji]