Approaching a Mongolian school women's football team built for 35 years——
Prairie "roses" are in full bloom
On May 31, the women's football team of the Mongolian School in Hohhot conducts passing training.
China Youth Daily, China Youth Daily reporter Shi Jia / photo
The Hohhot Mongolian School Women's Football Team is a campus women's football team that has been established for 35 years. More than 80% of the team members are from remote farming and pastoral areas in Inner Mongolia.
After becoming attached to football, some of them became the first girls to play football in their hometown, and some of them later entered the national team... These "roses" of the grassland in full bloom kicked football into a wider field of life.
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Terigele, a post-90s girl born in the pastoral area of Inner Mongolia, grew up on the prairie with cattle and sheep as her companions.
"I was the first girl in town to play football," she told reporters. If she didn't get into the women's football team, "I might not be able to go to university, so I would just graze in my hometown."
Terigele is now the coach of the Hohhot Mongolian School Women's Football Team and a former player of the team.
This is a campus women's football team that has been established for 35 years. More than 80% of the players are from remote farming and pastoral areas in Inner Mongolia, just like Terigele.
After becoming attached to football, some of them became the first girls to play football in their hometown, and some of them later entered the national team... These "roses" of the grassland in full bloom kicked football into a wider field of life.
After winning the world championship trophy
The Hohhot Mongolian School Women's Football Team, established in 1987, is the first school women's football team in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
Walking into the school's school history hall, large and small trophies are spread a few meters long one by one, the most important of which is a trophy from Israel.
Over time, this trophy has lost its golden coat, but the glorious record it represents has never faded.
In 1993, 16 Mongolian girls, wearing rubber shoes and jerseys with the five-star red flag, went to Tel Aviv, Israel, to participate in the World Middle School Girls Football Championship.
It is such an inconspicuous Chinese women's football team that won the championship with five wins in five games, a clean sheet and a 40-goal margin.
Exciting news soon returned to the country.
As can be seen from the old photos at that time, the citizens of Hohhot spontaneously rushed to the streets, and the teachers and students of the school held flowers to welcome the triumph of the Mongolian school women's football team.
The news of winning the championship also spread to the remote pastoral areas of Inner Mongolia.
My hometown is Terigele, Balachirudesumu, Alukerqin Banner, Chifeng City. I found a newspaper clipping made by my mother. One page was posted with the news that the Mongolian school women's football team won the championship in 1993.
However, after the brilliance, the coach who led the women's football team to win the championship resigned due to illness. The women's football team faced a double shortage of reserve talents and excellent coaches, and was on the verge of disbanding.
Despite the difficulties, the teachers, students and coaches of the Mongolian School in Hohhot are reluctant to give up.
The current head coach of the women's football team, Ao Jun, was ordered to take up the burden.
If there is no equipment, he will do it himself; if there is no suitable venue, he will use a water pipe to water the playground and pick up stones; if there are no team members, he will travel more than 2,000 kilometers to the farming and pastoral areas to recruit students.
The first girl in my hometown to play football
Since the local students in Hohhot could not meet the recruitment needs of the women's football team, the school expanded the scope of enrollment to the entire region of Inner Mongolia.
In a sense, this has also opened up a vast world for many girls in remote farming and pastoral areas.
Every three years, Ao Jun spends two or three months recruiting students from all over Inner Mongolia.
He recalled that in 2003, it took him more than 40 hours by train to travel from Hohhot to Hailar District, Hulunbuir City, and nearly 10 hours by long-distance bus before arriving at the Moli Dawa Daur Autonomous Banner.
Although the road is long, he doesn't want to miss any good seedlings.
Every time he goes to a school, Ao Jun has to patiently answer the school teachers, parents and students, what kind of team is the Mongolian school women's football team?
What are the prospects for joining the women's football team?
How to deal with the team members' accommodation and how to ensure their safety?
Ao Jun remembered that his monthly salary was only 1,000 yuan, and the telephone bill was 800 yuan.
Terigele still has a fresh memory of the scene of the team selection.
At that time, she had a long queue on the playground, and after 3 rounds of tests, she and several girls passed the selection.
Some coaches told them that the Hohhot Mongolian school women's football team recruited, and if you are interested, you can discuss with your parents. You can try the school first in the summer vacation. "I decided to go at that time. I want to go to a big city." She said.
Ao Jun also had a deep impression on Terrigele, "I didn't expect a village school with more than 100 students in total, but there are several girls with good coordination and speed, who are good seedlings for playing football." Ao Jun remembered that Terigele ran after him out of the school gate, shouting, "Coach, I will definitely go!"
Excited, Terigele called his father and told him that he was going to Hohhot to play football.
But when they heard the news that their daughter wanted to play football, Terigele's parents thought it was "Arabian Nights" and worried that she had been deceived, so they immediately called the school teacher to ask.
The family was worried that no one would take care of their young daughter when she went to a foreign country, but Terigele was determined to go.
Later, Terigele learned from his father, "The school teacher told my dad at that time that this was a particularly good opportunity, don't let her grow up and blame you."
Terigele's father chipped in to buy two hard-seat tickets to Hohhot, and his mother found a blanket from home.
Carrying simple luggage, in July 2006, Terigele and her father took the train to Hohhot for more than ten hours. When she was sleepy, she leaned on her father and slept for a while.
At that time, Terigele didn't even know how to play football, let alone like it. She just wanted to go to a big city and take a train.
She couldn't have imagined that her own destiny would change because of this.
twist of fate
When she first arrived in Hohhot, the provincial capital, Terigele, a prairie girl, looked curiously at the building outside the window in a taxi and exclaimed, "This place is really big!" After arriving at the school, she excitedly took her father and took a picture at the gate Taking a group photo, I secretly made up my mind: I must stay here.
After nearly two months of trial training, Terigele passed the screening and officially became a member of the women's football team.
The women's football team is free of room and board, and the school also provides the women's football team with uniforms, football shoes, and training equipment for free.
Terigele just caught up with the school's newly built plastic playground. The team members who grew up on the grassland said in amazement: "It turns out that the grass can still be 'fake', and the grass is still white." The first day of laying the football field , The women's football players played with their bare feet, for fear of damaging the artificial turf.
At the end of the new semester, Terigele went home from vacation. In order to reward her, her father rode a motorcycle for more than two hours and went to town to buy her a pair of sneakers costing more than 200 yuan.
For Terigele, who only wears 20 or 30 yuan shoes, these shoes are simply "luxury goods".
In 2009, Ao Jun took the women's football high school team to Wuhan City, Hubei Province to participate in the 10th Middle School Students Games.
It was the first time that most of the team members went out of Inner Mongolia to compete in other provinces.
Terigele recalled: "Everyone was very excited, playing around on the train, so excited that they couldn't sleep."
Because of competitions and training camps, these girls from farming and pastoral areas have more opportunities to go to all parts of the country, and sometimes go abroad to play football.
Ao Jun always tries his best to make time to take his children to visit places of interest and historic sites and taste local delicacies.
Later, Terigele's sister also took the initiative to take part in the test in Hohhot, and successfully entered the Mongolian school women's football team.
Terrigele said that a situation like hers is not unique, and many of the team members are sisters.
Football has given Terigele a lot of knowledge. Later, she was admitted to Inner Mongolia Agricultural University and worked as an assistant coach in Mongolian school. Her salary increased from 500 yuan to 2,000 yuan. I never asked my family for money again."
After graduation, Terrigele was officially hired as the coach of the women's football team.
Although extra training is usually required on weekends, winter and summer vacations, and sometimes in other places during the New Year's Eve, Terigele still enjoys it because she feels that she has "found a career that she loves in her life".
Return and inheritance
Tai Lingling also had a change of fate due to football.
In 1994, 10-year-old Tai Lingling became a member of the Mongolian school women's football team.
The years when she joined the team for training were the years when the Chinese women's football team was brilliant.
At the 1998 Bangkok Asian Games, the Chinese women's team won all five matches without conceding a goal and won the championship trophy for the third time.
The news that the Chinese women's football team won the championship encouraged the Mongolian school women's football team, and Tai Lingling also planted the seeds of her determination to join the national team.
She gets up at 5 am every day, an hour earlier than the rest of the team, and runs 20 extra laps.
Talented and extraordinarily diligent, Tai Lingling was later selected by the Tianjin Huisen Women's Football Team.
After entering the professional team, Tai Lingling saw the gap between herself and the professional players and began to train hard, "I feel that there is not enough time every day".
At the same time, from the Women's Super League, the National Games, to the National Championships, she grew up rapidly under the temper of various events, and went to Japan and other countries to train.
With her outstanding performance on the field, Tai Lingling, a striker, was selected into the national team training camp in 2005.
This girl came out of the farming and pastoral areas of Zhalaite Banner, Xing'an League, Inner Mongolia, and became a member of the Chinese women's football team.
In the Mongolian women's football team, such a legend has been continued.
Uri Lige and Uri Gumula were selected for the national yellow team in May 2019; Surimuni was selected for the national youth team.
There are also 32 players who have been transferred to women's football clubs and professional teams in various provinces and cities.
In 2014, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region became the country's first pilot province for football reform, and the Mongolian school in Hohhot also took the express train of reform and was identified as a campus football pilot school.
The school built a green playground, purchased professional equipment, established a team clinic, hired a team doctor, and purchased medical rehabilitation equipment.
Based on the school's 12-year consistent teaching model, three echelons of primary school, junior high school and high school are established, and each age group is divided into separate classes to cultivate a steady stream of reserve talents for the women's football team.
At the same time, the results of the Mongolian school women's football team are getting better and better: in 2017, it won the fourth place in the Pan Pacific Middle School Games; in 2018, it won the first place in the National Youth Football League (high school group) challenge and the second place in the championship. , Second place in the Super Championship.
After Tai Lingling retired due to injury, she accepted Ao Jun's invitation to return to her alma mater to become the school team coach. Tai Lingling said, "I agreed immediately because I have deep feelings for the Mongolian school and these Mongolian children."
In 2015, the China University Sports Association sent 240 physical education teachers nationwide to France for intensive training.
Three months of study in France made Tai Lingling feel the "long-lost happiness", she not only learned new knowledge, but also changed her teaching concept, "We should make children feel more happy when they play football, especially 13 The purpose of teaching is to cultivate children's interests before the age of 10."
The primary school team and the junior high school team focus on cultivating interest, which has also become the training concept of the Mongolian school women's football team.
According to Ao Jun, various mini-games will be added during the usual training. "First of all, let the children become interested in football, and then strengthen the skill training after entering the middle and high school stage."
Not long ago, a reporter from China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily saw on the playground of the Mongolian school in Hohhot that the sun was shining on the cheeks of the women's football players. They were training in the weather of nearly 30 degrees Celsius, and the sweat kept flowing down their necks. Another player has a plaster on his arm and is still practicing the ball.
The reporter randomly asked if Xu Ri, a women's football player, was tired from training. She smiled and said, "The training is not at all tiring. Instead, I am most looking forward to daily training. It is very comfortable to run and play on the playground."
China Youth Daily, China Youth Daily reporter Shi Jia Source: China Youth Daily