Sweat waters the "champion dream"

Reprinted from: Guizhou Daily

Running, passing, shooting, defense... On June 16, on the green field of the Guiyang Branch of Beijing Ritan Middle School, the school's women's football team was conducting daily training. The players use football to convey happiness, use sweat to express their enthusiasm, use persistence to interpret their love for football, use practical actions to show their style of women, and bloom their own light.

Temporary team formation: The start of "unexpected joy"

At the beginning of the establishment of the Guiyang Branch of Beijing Ritan Middle School, it adhered to the characteristic development path of "using sports to promote intelligence and strengthening the school with sports". Although there is a men's football team, the women's football team is still blank. In 2016, as the Yunyan District Campus Football Competition approached, the school decided to select students with good physical fitness from campus football classes and temporarily form a women's football team.

Then, the team members devoted a lot of spare time to training in less than a month. In the end, this temporary team won the first place in the women's group in the Yunyan District Campus Football Championship.

"At that time, I thought that the women's football team would be disbanded after the game." Tian Yanshun, head coach of Guiyang Women's Group A, said, "The children won the first place. It would be a pity if they were disbanded. Moreover, after the training, the players always took the initiative to ask 'Coach, can we continue to play football?'. The strong desire for football also deeply touched me." It was this unexpected good result and the eager expectations of the students that gave this temporary team the opportunity to retain and continue to develop.

"What is the use of girls playing football?" "Girls should study harder"... The team has been retained, but some parents still do not understand. To this end, the school leader and coach took the initiative to arrange campus-based and centralized classes for all football players, and accurately make up for the lessons based on the results to ensure that training does not delay learning and ensure nutritional food supply in the canteen. At the same time, explain to parents the advantages of playing football to improve physical fitness and helping to go to school, and ultimately gain understanding and support.

hard training: The growth of sweat

Football has extremely high requirements for physical fitness and skills, and for girls, every training is a huge challenge.

In order to improve the accuracy of passing and shooting, the players have to practice hundreds of times a day. The knees and ankles are often injured due to frequent training, but they never scream.

"I like football very much. When I first chose this school, I hoped to have the opportunity to play football well!" Speaking of the indissoluble bond with football, player Zhang Yifeng said that she was influenced by her father since she was a child, and football had long been integrated into her life. She was once introverted and shy, and completed her transformation through repeated running and confrontation. Nowadays, the green field not only gives her a strong body, but also makes her character more resolute and courageous. "Here, I not only realized my dream of playing football, but also gained a lot of touch and precious friendship." Zhang Yifeng said.

"Girls' physical fitness is indeed not as good as boys in their innate conditions, but in day-to-day training, my understanding of women's football has been constantly refreshed." Tian Yanshun said that in the training of female players, he will adopt a more tactful way to give them more tolerance, just like when evaluating their physical condition before the game, he does not compare women's football with men's football, but focuses on the growth of women's football itself. "When they cooperate tacitly and fight hard on the green field, It also has a unique charm of shocking and unique charm. "

The arena blooms: the glory forged by hard work

"I think the Japanese women's football team is really on the right track in 2019, which was the first time the women's football team won the provincial championship." Tian Yanshun said that before that, this team with dreams had been constantly "treating" on the stage of various events across the country. Although it had encountered the difficult situation of "nine out of ten kicks and nine out of ten losses", it never stopped.

Day arduous training and the unremitting efforts and efforts of batches of team members have finally produced fruitful results. From 2019 to 2022, the Japanese women's football team won the Women's Group B Championship of Guizhou Provincial "Football Association Cup" Youth Football Championship for four consecutive years; in 2023, the junior high school women's group champion of the 6th Campus Football Weekend League of Guiyang City, the Women's U15 Group Championship of the first "Sports School Cup" Football Competition in Guizhou Province, and the Women's U15 Group Finals of the 4th National "Sports School Cup" Football Competition; in 2024, the women's group championship of the Provincial Youth Campus Football Four League Junior High School Finals...

"I never hope that they can make a living by playing football, and I hope that football can become a springboard on their growth path." Talking about the future plans of the players, Tian Yanshun said that he hopes that they can enter high-quality colleges and universities through this sport, and continue to pursue love on a broader platform, so that this sincerity for football continues to shine.

Guiyang Daily Media Reporter Yang Xuemei