Wen/Chen Wei In the Economic Development Zone of Hefei City, there are two primary schools related to "Xiyou", one is called "Xiyou Primary School" and the other is called "Xiyou Road Primary School". The "Xiyou Primary School" is the alma mater of sheng Xiyou, the "model of loving the people", the school was founded in 1949, the same age as the republic, and in 1972 it was named after the "model of loving the people" Sheng Xiyou martyr. Today, the campus football of this hero's alma mater is also famous in Hefei.
When it comes to Xiyou Primary School, we must first understand the "model of loving the people" Sheng Xiyou. Born in 1944 in Hefei, Anhui Province, Sheng Xiyou joined the Chinese People's Liberation Army in 1964 and the Communist Party of China in 1965. In 1969, heavy rain suddenly fell in Zhangqiu City, Shandong Province, and the flood water rushed down from the slopes on all sides and poured into the Ba Leak River Valley. Nine women from Xinglong Guanzhuang, Hushan Commune, Zhangqiu County (now Xinglong Guanzhuang, Guanzhuang Town, Zhangqiu City), crossed the river and were swept into the rapids by a sudden surge in the torrent.
At the critical moment, Sheng Xiyou and his comrades-in-arms quickly rushed to the river bank from a hillside more than 300 meters away to rescue 6 women. When Sheng Xiyou pushed Li Fenglan, a woman in distress, to the shore and prepared to save another person, he was swept under the barrage by the torrent and died heroically. On May 24, 1971, the Central Military Commission awarded Sheng Xiyou the title of "Model of Loving the People" and called on the whole army to learn from him. In 1972, the primary school that Sheng Xiyou had attended since he was a child was renamed Xiyou Primary School.
In November 2009, the implementation plan for the national youth campus football activities was officially announced, and Hefei was among the first cities to be laid out, and Xiyou Primary School became one of the pilot schools for campus football in Hefei. Xiyou Elementary School has two campuses, each with a standard 8-a-side football pitch, both equipped with lights. In addition, the school has a cage football field. The school's football field and football equipment are in place, providing a solid hardware guarantee for campus football teaching, training and competition.
At that time, Zhang Yun, then vice president of the school and current principal, realized the importance of professional football on campus. "In 2009 we became a featured pilot school, and for the first three years, we were in the exploratory stage. In 2012, we had a dedicated football teacher. At that time, I felt that if I wanted to achieve good results, I had to let my children lay a good foundation when they first started. In 2013, we began to popularize football in schools and began to form school teams and echelons. In 2015, we started developing women's football. ”
President Zhang Yun also revealed a detail that when campus football was just developing, because there was no professional football coach, it could only be used by physical education teachers to work part-time. Because her father likes to watch football, Principal Zhang also knows something about football, she feels that these teachers are not good enough to teach, "At that time, I thought, this is not going to work, when everyone is just starting out, I have to lay a good foundation, make some efforts, ask professional football coaches to come over, so that we will soon be promoted." ”
Ideas are quickly translated into action. In order to ensure the professionalism of campus football, President Zhang Yun proposed to the leaders that he hoped that through the "green channel" and other ways, professional football coaches could open up channels to enter the campus and try to solve the problem of football coaching. In this way, the worries of football coaches are solved, and their sense of belonging will be stronger.
Facts have proved that Principal Zhang Yun's decision is very correct, and now the two football coaches of the school have a staff, and their attitude towards teaching and their consideration for the players have made Principal Zhang Yun very moved.
"Our coach is really good. Once, because the players achieved good results, the two of them paid for a pair of soccer shoes for each team member. When I found out, I told them that you should pay for this expense as soon as possible. However, they insisted that they did not use it, saying that they were rewarding the team members and did not need to be reimbursed. I was really touched by the time, energy and attitude they put into the growth of their children and their attitude towards their growth. I also know that our parents and two coaches have also been very good at getting along. ”
In the years of Xiyou Primary School, Principal Zhang Yun has witnessed the development of school football, she adheres to the concept of "small football, big education", "This concept is not new, but I dare to say that our school is really implemented in practice, and really play the educational value behind football." ”
Every year, Xiyou Primary School has a football carnival, there are class football leagues, there are confrontations between grades, and there are competitions between teachers and staff. Of course, in addition to the competition, Xiyou Primary School also has a football culture festival, including 9 major projects such as football painting, football essay, football commentator, and football baby.
"We popularize football, and in addition to getting students involved in the sport, in other activities about football, we also encourage students to get involved, so that they can learn about football, get to know the stars of football, understand the culture of football. As we all know, football is different from other projects, it is a collective project, our students participate in football, their sense of teamwork and ability are strengthened and enhanced, they can experience team spirit, and they can cultivate their tenacious will quality. Of course, as the alma mater of martyrs, we also hope that students can uphold the spirit of heroism. Principal Zhang Yun said.
The popularity of football has not only made children experience team spirit, but also enhance their self-confidence. "Our school attaches great importance to psychological counseling for students. I learned that there are a lot of students who lack confidence before playing football. In my observation, I found that many children feel different after playing football. They are confident, their sense of achievement and value is greatly satisfied, and their learning ability is also improved. ”
The development of campus football is inseparable from the support of parents. At Xiyou Primary School, it has become normal for children to learn to play football. Whenever the football team is selected, many children and parents who have not been selected are very upset, and some parents will even find the coach to ask if there is any chance of entering the team.
Entering the varsity team does not mean "safe" anymore. "Our coaches have always recognized the idea that students play football well, learning is not bad, on the contrary, learning well, football may not be able to play well. If a child's academic performance declines because of playing football, the coach will 'warn' them: if their learning continues to decline, they will be suspended. Out of their love of football, children do not dare to be sloppy in their learning. I don't think there is a conflict between learning and playing football, on the contrary, there is a mutually reinforcing relationship between the two, which is organically unified in the overall development of students. "Principal Zhang has his own point of view.
"In our team, whether it is the men's team or the women's team, many of the children's results are at the top of the class, not bragging, I have their academic transcripts in hand, I have always paid attention to their cultural lessons, and their cultural classes are really excellent." Football coach Li Tianyu said.
In hefei Economic Development Zone, whether it is men's or women's football, Xiyou Primary School is "difficult to find" opponents. In the just-concluded Jingkai District Primary School Campus Football League, Xiyou Primary School won two categories. It is worth mentioning that in this competition, there is also an interesting thing.
Because of the shortage of women's football teams in the Economic Development Zone, the women's football team of Xiyou Primary School can only play with the men's football team. Surprisingly, the men's and women's soccer teams at Xiyou Primary School finally reached the final, which caused "dissatisfaction" from other schools, who felt that girls were not suitable for the men's football competition. In the end, the Xiyou Primary School women's football team could only withdraw. However, in the end, the men's football team of Xiyou Primary School still won the last two categories.
In Hefei, Xiyou Primary School's results are also very good, the women's team won the 2015/16 Hefei Campus Football League Primary School Girls' Championship, in 2018 won the Hefei Campus Football Competition Women's A and B Group 2 runner-up, in 2019 won the Anhui Youth Football League Hefei Division Women's U12 Champion, Hefei Campus Football Competition Primary School Group A Third Place, in 2021 Won the Hefei City Campus Football Competition Women's Group B Third Place. The number of champions in the economic development zone to which the school belongs is too numerous to list.
In 2016, the school men's football team won the second place in the men's group A of the Hefei campus football competition, the first place in the men's group A of the Hefei campus football competition in 2017, the second place in the second place of the anhui provincial campus football characteristic school passing school competition, the second place in the men's group A of the Hefei campus football competition in 2018, the third place in the men's group A of the Hefei campus football competition in 2021, and the second place in the men's U10 group of the Anhui Youth Football League.
In 2018, Xiyou Primary School won the title of Hefei Outstanding Youth Campus Football Characteristic School, and President Zhang Yun won the honor of Outstanding Principal of Hefei Youth Campus Football. Today, Xiyou Primary School has become the only school in Hefei (only two in Anhui Province) to be declared a "National Youth School for School Football Work".
Of course, on the road to the development of campus football, President Zhang Yun also has his own confusion. First of all, she still feels that there is a shortage of good coaches. For some special reasons, the children of the current school interest class (first and second grade) are not the school's football teachers leading the lessons, but the third-party institutions entering the campus to teach the children. For the quality of teaching, President Zhang Yun also hopes to be higher. In addition, she regretted that children who learned to play football did not have more good schools to study after graduating from primary school. "We have a good quality of teaching in the economic development zone, and there are not many schools that are still football characteristic schools. I hope that there will be more such schools, so that children's access to school can also increase. ”
Principal Zhang Yun said: "Now some children are indeed a bit squeamish, but the children who learn to play football are different. Through football training and competition, they can experience the feeling of alternating between winning and losing, the joy of winning, and the sadness of losing. Football is the most test of children's willpower, no matter the wind or rain, children insist on training. I hope more and more children like this. Now many children are pipe upbringing, parents drive from home to school, after school to drive back, children lack of social cognition and even frustration experience, and football can just train children from a natural person to grow into a social person, through football, they can communicate with people, can experience the bittersweet and bittersweet in the training process, experience the success and failure of the game, which is a necessary process for their socialization. I still have that sentence, I hope that more and more children like this. ”