Wansongyuan Road Primary School in Jianghan District, Wuhan City has a history of more than 60 years, and has an almost equal history of campus football.
The school is currently the only Asian Football Vision School in the country that is authorized by the AFC for both men's and women's football. A number of outstanding professional football players have emerged, and more and more children can enter the football of Wansongyuan Road Primary School. Team proud.
Xiong Liping, the principal of Wansongyuan Road Primary School, said: "The children who are to be cultivated in campus football are children with all-round development and high comprehensive quality. Even if the children do not embark on a career path in the future, I hope football can bring benefits to the children's future life. "
Grasp the popularization with one hand, and promote the improvement with the other
Bumping the ball on the back of the foot, dribbling the ball in front of the ball, striding to block the fight... On an ordinary evening, on the football field of Wansongyuan Road Primary School, Shu Xiwen, a girl in class 6 (3) wearing a red training suit, was conducting regular training with her teammates.
Not only in normal times, but even during the winter and summer vacations, young athletes like Shu Xiwen in the school did not stop training.
In Wansongyuan Road Primary School, football education is divided into two levels: promoting popularization and promoting improvement.
"Grasp the popularization" is to let all students learn to play football, cultivate interest and exercise physical fitness.
There must be one football class in the five physical education classes every week. The "group teaching method" advocated internationally is used to divide the playground into four parts, coordinating games, competitions, functional and skill training and rotation.
"Promoting improvement" is to establish a complete talent training system, and use the league system to complete the selection and training work from class teams, grade teams to school teams.
More than 200 students from the school team can also be selected into the national team through the platform of the National Campus Football Summer and Winter Camps of the Ministry of Education and embark on a career path.
Xiong Liping said that popularization is the main body of campus football.
"Walking on two legs, the children don't just want to play football, they also need to do well in their studies."
Expand the teaching staff and make children fall in love with football
The lack of teachers is one of the reasons why many schools have difficulty in developing football on campus.
In order to ensure sufficient teachers to carry out universal football education, Wansongyuan Road Primary School has carried out various explorations.
Xiong Liping said that the school not only has 7 C-level and above coaches including AFC lecturer and professional coach Deng Shijun, but also trained a Wuhan City E-level coach composed of middle-level administrators, teachers of various subjects and parents of students. staff team.
At the same time, the school cooperates with Wuhan Sports Institute. Since 2018, Wuhan Sports Institute has sent more than 100 students to the school to serve as intern teachers of football lessons.
In order to make more children fall in love with football, and at the same time consolidate and test the usual training results, the school holds the "Wanchao Football League" every semester, and uses the weekend to play a game every week, from the 5-a-side duel in the lower grades to the senior grades. The 8-a-side confrontation was exciting.
"It's not hard, it's not tiring," said Nie Chuanbo, a fourth-grade football player.
Shu Xiwen has been screened at various levels and was successfully selected into the national team of the national youth campus football and primary school mixed group last year.
For the future, her goal is clear: "I like football, and playing football makes me happy. I will enter the sports school in the second half of the year. I want to play professionally and enter the national team."
Let students grow up lively and flexibly
In the development of campus football, the contradiction between reading and training cannot be ignored.
At present, students are under great academic pressure. As the main place for the development of campus football, the school also undertakes the main task of cultural education.
At one time, the football model of Wansongyuan Road Primary School only focused on cultivating elite football talents, with the goal of cultivating a small number of children into professional players.
However, it backfired. Around 2007, only 30 people in the school participated in football improvement training.
In 2008, Wansongyuan Road Primary School took the lead in implementing the "Exploration of Promoting the Quality of School Education and Teaching through Football Characteristics", and conducted an in-depth study of the educational effect of football with the model of "Football Pilot Class".
Each pilot class has 2 to 3 football lessons per week.
After 3 years of trying, the results are gratifying: not only are the children still excellent in academic performance, but also physical fitness and behavior habits have made great progress.
School leaders, teachers, and parents realize that there is no contradiction between academics and football, and that education should be based on the all-round development of students, so that students can grow up lively and flexibly.
Xiong Liping said: "Our school's school philosophy is 'green lights up life', that is, to pay attention to students' body and mind, so that individuals can show a state of vitality; to advocate experience and participation, so that life can be released; to focus on sustainable development, let agility accompany children lifetime."
Source: "Ban Yue Tan" 2022 Issue No. 9 Original title: "Xiong Liping: Let Children Be Smarter Because of Football"
Ban Yue Tan Reporter: Liao Jun and Chen Xiao