Reporter Jia Yanfeng reported on the relationship between campus football and professional football, Guo Xiaofeng's view is very direct: "Campus football and professional football are two fields, and most of the current campus football players do not have the strength to become a professional football echelon, and there is a big gap in training ideas. Therefore, although there is only one Chinese League A team in Shenyang at present, it has not caused an excessive impact on the development of campus football, and we have been developing in accordance with the established goals. ”
"Over the years, we have been resolutely implementing the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions on campus football work, with the goal of improving the quality of the people, carrying forward the spirit of patriotism and collectivism, taking the moral tree as the fundamental task, actively exploring and accumulating useful experience in the comprehensive deepening and development of campus football, so that the majority of young students can enjoy fun in participating in campus football, enhance their physique, improve their personality and temper their will." The construction of the system does not presuppose the existence of professional teams, but will fully respect the industry rules of football and require the assistance of more high-level expert coaches from professional fields. At this level, the Shenyang Football Association and the Liaoning Provincial Football Association have given sufficient help. ”
At the same time, Guo Xiaofeng believes that precisely because there is no top league team, the development of campus football in Shenyang is more urgent and urgent, once there are Chinese Super League teams settled in Shenyang in the future, the football culture and football atmosphere here, as well as the football talents from the grassroots, not only will not drag their feet, but also play a good role in "making the best use of their talents".
The development of campus football in Shenyang has always adhered to the guiding ideology of focusing on infrastructure construction, focusing on the big picture, starting from the small place, and doing things in a down-to-earth manner. Guo Xiaofeng said: "Over the past few years, with the strong support of the leaders of the Municipal Party Committee, the Municipal Government and the Municipal Education Bureau, the city has built more than 940 football venues of various types, reaching 1.14 per 10,000 people, which has exceeded the national standard of 0.8 blocks per 10,000 people, and the city's football population has reached more than 150,000 people." ”
The municipal government has increased its capital investment year by year, so that the city's primary and secondary school stadiums have achieved "plasticization", in addition to investing 34.7 million yuan, the city's 347 schools with football fields have been "brightened" - into all-weather playable lighting courts, and from September 2015, the compulsory education stage school football stadium has been opened to the majority of young students and citizens in two batches, which is convenient for young students and citizens to carry out football and fitness activities. In addition, on the basis of more than 30 cage football stadiums that have been built, Shenyang has invested more than 50 million yuan in special funds for sports lottery, and built 100 new cage football fields in the five district parks, streets, communities, banks of the Hun River, as well as townships and villages in various districts and counties (cities) and villages in the city, and opened them to the public free of charge; in 2016, 300 million yuan was invested to build the "Peace Cup" World Football Park with 40 international standard continuous football fields.
The football tournaments branded "Peace Cup" and "Mayor's Cup" are football brand events that Shenyang has vigorously built. In March 2020, the "Peace Cup" was rated as "National Sports Industry Demonstration Project" by the State General Administration of Sport.
Since its inception in 2015, the tournament has been held for six consecutive years, and the scale of the event has expanded year by year, from the initial 8 participating teams to more than 200 participating teams and more than 4,000 young players participating in the competition. The participating teams have covered four continents in the world, including nearly 20 countries such as the United States, Brazil, France, Japan, Malaysia, etc., 31 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions in China, and more than 60 cities. Leaders of the Ministry of Education and the State General Administration of Sport have participated in the opening ceremony of the event for many times, and a number of famous football stars and stars at home and abroad have participated in a series of activities, and CCTV has reported and paid attention to each competition. And these are all extensions of the development of campus football in Shenyang.
At present, 195 primary and secondary schools and 43 kindergartens in Shenyang have been recognized by the Ministry of Education as "National Campus Football Characteristic Schools", of which Heping District and Faku County have been identified as "National Campus Football Characteristic Counties (Districts)", and both have been selected as the National Campus Football Starry Training Camp. The Shenyang Municipal Bureau of Education has built a complete double-three-level league system around 195 characteristic schools, namely the school, district, municipal three-level league and the small, junior and high three-level league. In each characteristic school, there are also competitions in the class, competitions between grades, and a wide range of competition systems between schools.
In June this year, with the strong support of the Provincial Department of Education and through its own active efforts, the Shenyang Municipal Education Bureau was also approved by the Ministry of Education to organize and host the 2021 National Youth Campus Football Summer Camp Primary School Mixed Group and Primary School Boys Group B Competition. For Shenyang campus football, this is the first time in the world, although due to the epidemic, the Ministry of Education has suspended all such competitions this year, but it can win the qualification to host, but also proves that Shenyang's campus football has been highly recognized by the Ministry of Education and the Provincial Department of Education.
Although professional football and campus football are two "tracks", like professional football, the development of campus football cannot be carried out behind closed doors, and it also requires high-quality source living water. While building solid infrastructure and strengthening the brand influence of the event, Shenyang campus football also advocates finding "foreign aid" and encouraging social forces to participate in the training mechanism of campus football youth training, so as to promote professional footballers and third-party services to enter the campus. In this mode, Shenyang has invited the Dutch Ajax and German Cologne football teams to Shenyang to hold high-level football exchange activities through the way of "going out and inviting in". Although due to the prevention and control of the epidemic, the exchange activities in this regard have had to be reduced in the past two years, but after the epidemic, these exchanges will continue.
The football atmosphere in the Northeast has always been strong. Therefore, Shenyang City and the surrounding Dalian City and other sister cities have established a friendship city relationship of campus football, exchanged football concepts with each other, visited teams, trained together, and exchanged games, so that children who love football can sweat freely, release youth and unite friendship in running and competing. Campus football has its own blossoms. In April this year, two students from Shenyang City were selected as the best team of the 2020 National Youth Campus Football Summer Camp and were also selected for the 2020 Campus Football National Team. At the end of April, Shenyang No. 27 Middle School won the second place in the 2020 China Secondary School Girls' Futsal League, achieving a historic breakthrough; in June, Shenyang also organized the best team selection activity for the campus football summer camp, 250 team members from the city's campus football characteristic schools participated in the selection activity, and 51 people were selected as the best team of the Liaoning Youth Campus Football Summer Camp.
"Campus football work has a long way to go, football development can not be separated from education, the development of Chinese football can not only rely on the efforts of players on the field, professional leagues, national teams are the vanguard to improve the level of Chinese football, but campus football, is to these vanguard to transport supplies logistics troops, the role is equally important." Guo Xiaofeng said. Chinese football has been stagnant in recent years, for many reasons, the cultivation of talents is inseparable from the professional team, but also inseparable from the understanding and support of schools and parents. The growth of professional players cannot rely only on coaches and clubs, and the cooperation of schools, the way of thinking and guidance of parents may have an important impact on the way players think and solve problems on the field.
"Campus football, I dare not say how many professional players can be walked out, but it is certain that the parents of many professional players can be walked out, so that the hearts of these parents will be sprinkled with sunshine, and their next generation will also do a good job in inheritance." What we have to do now is to lay a solid foundation and wait for the flowers to blossom. Guo Xiaofeng is full of expectations for the future. The reporter also sincerely hopes that Shenyang's campus football can become increasingly prosperous and full of sunshine like the name of the city.