China News Service, Jiangxi Xinyu, March 9th: The women's football team in Jiangxi rural primary schools: Let children have a broader future
Author Li Yunhan Chen Yuxia Gong Meiling
In Fengyang Primary School, Fenyi County, Xinyu, Jiangxi Province, every morning at 6:50, the school playground sounds "bang" and "bang". This is the football training that the principal, Yuan Haigui, leads the students every day.
Fengyang Town is known as the "North Gate" of Fenyi County. In this rural primary school, which is only 7 kilometers away from the county, there are 452 students, nearly one-third of them are left-behind children.
Since 2017, more than 200 students have participated in football training at the school, accounting for nearly half of the total number of students.
Under the leadership of Yuan Haigui, Fengyang Primary School has successively established three football teams, including men's, women's and special students. Among them, the women's football team is the first in Fenyi County, and it is currently the only campus women's football team. City team women's football players.
The picture shows the girls' football team of Fengyang Primary School in training.
Photo by Gong Meiling
Yuan Haigui, the principal of Fengyang Primary School, is 53 years old this year. He is an ideological and political teacher who has been rooted in rural grassroots education for nearly 30 years.
In an extracurricular activity a few years ago, he accidentally discovered that students had a strong interest in football. In order to enrich the children's extracurricular life and improve their physical fitness, Yuan Haigui was determined to strengthen physical education and promote campus football.
Without teachers and equipment, it is easier said than done to set up a football team in a township primary school that belongs to the football "desert"?
To this end, Yuan Haigui obtained the D-level coaching certificate of the Chinese Football Association at the age of 50, and became the only football coach in the school.
The picture shows the girls' football team of Fengyang Primary School in training.
Photo by Gong Meiling
The whistle of training, the cheers of students, the cheers... With football, the originally quiet campus began to boil.
Since 2017, more than 200 students have participated in football training in Fengyang Primary School, half of which are boys and girls.
Taking into account the echelon construction, Yuan Haigui offered one football lesson a week in the second and third grades respectively.
In addition, every day from 6:50 to 7:50 in the morning and from 5:00 to 6:00 in the afternoon, it is Yuan Haigui's free football practice time.
In May 2019, as the champion of the Fenyi County campus football team, the Fengyang Primary School campus football team participated in the city's campus football competition.
"When I participated in the competition, I found out that there was a school women's football competition. Why didn't we set up a women's football team?" Yuan Haigui said. After the competition, Fengyang Primary School established a women's football team, which is also the first in Fenyi County. It is also the only women's football team on campus.
Yuan Haigui, the principal, taught while learning, and at the age of 50, he obtained the D-level coaching certificate of the Chinese Football Association.
Photo by Chen Yuxia
"Girls like football as much as boys, and girls are generally more diligent and punctual." Yuan Haigui was deeply touched during several years of training.
Women's football winger Hu Dongqin is 12 years old this year. Her parents are migrant workers in Guangdong. She lives in Xilang Village, which is seven kilometers away from the school. In order to catch up with the football training at 6:50 in the morning, she gets up at 6:00 every day to catch the school bus.
The picture shows the girls' football team of Fengyang Primary School in training.
Photo by Chen Yuxia
Hu Xiaoling is 12 years old and is the goalkeeper of the team.
In the beginning, Hu Xiaoling was weak in her hands. Yuan Haigui asked her to hit the wall a hundred times a day to increase her hand strength. With the effect of training, Hu Xiaoling took the initiative to increase her strength to hit the wall two hundred times a day.
And the walls of their lives are slowly being broken down.
When he first started training, what Yuan Haigui saw from the girls were all similar personalities: insecure, sensitive, impatient, most of the speech was with their heads down, and they held their mobile phones all day... After getting into football, they became more confident, Cheerful, more self-disciplined and punctual, understand the rules.
Yuan Haigui, the principal, taught while learning, and at the age of 50, he obtained the D-level coaching certificate of the Chinese Football Association.
Photo by Chen Yuxia
Yuan Haigui is often asked a question: What is the use of girls playing football?
"Training is not just for competition, it can help rural education find more possibilities and make children's future brighter," Yuan Haigui said.
In 2019, 2020 and 2021, the women's football team of Fengyang Primary School represented Fenyi County in the province's 100-county youth futsal games for three consecutive years.
In 2021, it will enter the top 32 in the province's 100 county youth football games.
What makes him even more proud is that in 2021, three female football players from the school will be admitted to the High School Affiliated to Xinyu Beijing Normal University, which is entrusted by the Xinyu Football Association for training. Women's football specialty students admitted by the Municipal Football Association.
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