[Explanation] At 5 pm on October 21, the National South Lianjie Football Competition and Training Base settled in Lianjie, Weiyuan, Neijiang, Sichuan.
The competition training base also welcomed a group of special players. They are the first Yi women's football team in the country. They come from Liangshan Prefecture. They will start a new life where learning and professional football training go hand in hand, and they will move towards the green field. The first step.
It is reported that some areas such as Butuo County, Liangshan Prefecture, Sichuan are still relatively poor. Under the general trend of sports poverty alleviation, the idea of forming a women's football team dominated by the Yi nationality came into being.
Beginning in September 2020, the Sichuan Football Management Center and the Sichuan Football Association have sent a number of coaches to go to Butuo County, Yanyuan County, Yuexi County and other areas of Liangshan Prefecture to select seedlings from county, township, and village primary schools.
Among them, former Sichuan women's football player and coach Chen Hua served as the team's head coach.
[Concurrent] Chen Hua, Head Coach of Yi Women's Football Team
This Yi team is a women's football team dominated by ethnic minorities, so we are going to Xichang, Daliang Mountain to select mainly Butuo and Yi mainly girls. In view of this original intention, we then started a series of selections. jobs.
[Explanation] Chen Hua introduced that after going to Xichang, Yanyuan, Yuexi, Xide and other regions for selection and screening, the U9 team finally selected 28 players.
The selection this time is for 9-year-old children. Due to the closed environment, many people have never seen football. Therefore, the selection is mainly based on physical fitness and mental awareness.
[Concurrent] Chen Hua, Head Coach of Yi Women's Football Team
There is no uniform standard for our selection criteria, that is to say, I have considered several aspects. First, consider that the child will communicate with her first, and verbal communication may reflect whether the child’s thinking is flexible and mindful. process.
Second, we look at her physical condition, body shape and posture.
Third, we need to understand whether she has some sports abilities, such as running, such as bounce, such as agility, coordination, reaction and so on.
[Explanation] Chen Hua also said that the next step the team will screen based on scientific methods, such as bone age test, depends on whether the child's bone age is nine years old and how tall it will grow in the future.
In addition, the heart and lung function will be checked, especially the heart.
[Concurrent] Chen Hua, Head Coach of Yi Women's Football Team
Children of ethnic minorities, we know that she is more than 2,000 above the sub-plateau. What if she goes to our plain?
We need to use some medical tests to be more scientific.
[Explanation] There are many children in this group of small players that impressed Chen Hua.
[Concurrent] Chen Hua, Head Coach of Yi Women's Football Team
For example, in our elementary school in Yanjing (Yanyuan County), the "little boy" is actually a girl, but in fact she has very short hair and dark skin. When I went to see her, I was impressed that it was her, and then I asked her , I said, do you know football?
She said that I know that I like to play football anyway. I was surprised that I would give her a ball, but she actually knows nothing, but she likes it and likes to run. Minority children should have this characteristic. Well, she likes to run on the court.
[Explanation] Starting on October 22, the children will officially start a 20-day training camp.
In addition to professional training, children's learning will not fall behind.
[Concurrent] Chen Hua, Head Coach of Yi Women's Football Team
From the first grade to the sixth grade of primary school, education must be completed, and then we will arrange all her courses. We will go to class during the day, and we will pick up the children at 3 o’clock in the afternoon. We will start the professional training. Some of her simplest running, let them adapt to the field, take a look first, and then some running movements, postures, gymnastics, and slowly we will let her get in touch with some football. At the beginning, we let her take football as a hobby. Teach her how to do it at the beginning, because she has no basics at all.
We want to start from this point, let them play as if they were playing games at the beginning, and teach them some professional running, gymnastics, etiquette, management, especially the management on the court and the management in life. We want to do it at the same time.
[Explanation] When the reporter walked into the dormitory of the young team members, they saw that the children were sitting quietly in the living room after the training, doing their homework, and the bedding on the bed in the bedroom was still slightly messy.
Hibima from Butuo, you told reporters shyly that she was very excited to be selected for the football team without having any contact with football. Everything the team provided for her made her especially happy.
[Contemporary] Yi nationality women's football team member Ribi you made
I feel magnificent here, and I also hope that my home is here.
Then I felt very excited when I went to school because I was able to take classes.
I (also) hope to play football well by studying hard.
[Explanation] It is understood that the Sichuan Football Association will continue to send personnel to the impoverished areas represented by Butuo County in Liangshan Prefecture to unearth seedlings and supplement the team.
The short-term work is to build this U9 Yi women's football team and cultivate talents. The long-term goal is to win the National Games, win glory for Sichuan football, and provide talents for Chinese football. The longer-term goal is to promote football work and sports poverty alleviation. Deep integration of work, speed up the process of poverty alleviation in impoverished areas, and promote the popularization and improvement of football in impoverished areas.
Reporter He Xi reports from Sichuan Neijiang
Editor in charge: [Li Yuxin]