During the New Year's Day holiday just this past, Chen Qiaocui and Gao Yuxuan were busy decorating new houses, which were not expensive, 50% cheaper than ordinary commercial houses in Qiongzhong County - they were all football coaches in Qiongzhong, Hainan, and the first batch of disciples brought out by Xiao Shan, the head coach of the Qiongzhong women's football team, more than a decade ago. In recent years, the good results of the Qiongzhong women's football team have brought many honors to Hainan and Qiongzhong County, and the county government has given them the establishment of public institutions that can buy affordable housing.
Football and Xiaoshan changed the lives of Chen Qiaocui and Gao Yuxuan, and now they return to their hometown, hoping that more girls in the mountains can rewrite their fate because of football. Now, such a chance may be even greater: in the semi-final of the Women's League B on December 15 last year, the Qiongzhong women's football team won this year's women's league with a miraculous reversal, and this group of girls in the mountains will really stand on the professional league.
Grassroots - campus - career, Qiongzhong women's football team is coming step by step, although it is not easy, but it is practical and firm.
The miracle reversal occurred in the women's second division
"After so many years of hard work, God will not be so cruel to me, right?"
On the last weekend of 2021, at the Qiongzhong Women's Football Office in Haikou, head coach Xiao Shan recalled the journey of the first half a month ago and still had palpitations.
Qiongzhong Women's Football Team set up a club last year to participate in the Women's Second League, and the head coach is Hong Konger Chen Wanting.
Before leading the team to compete in women's B, Chen Wanting was the head coach of the Chinese women's U16 national team. Before that, she led the Oriental team to win the Hong Kong Men's Football League championship, so she won the title of best female coach of the AFC, creating a small miracle in the history of world football.
Chen Wanting brought the miracle to the Qiongzhong women's football team again.
In the women's B semi-final with Wuhan Sports Academy, when it was 90 minutes, Qiongzhong was still 0-2 behind. Because of the epidemic prevention and control, Xiao Shan could only stand outside the iron fence of the stadium to watch the game, saying that he was desperate at that time.
However, Chen Wanting and the players in the arena did not give up - "There is still a minute, we have another minute!" Chen Wanting kept shouting. Then a miracle happened, and everything was like a reward or gift for the last 15 years of struggle for Qiongzhong women's football team.
In the 91st minute, Zou Mengyao broke through to the penalty area with the ball on the right side, was put to the ground by the opposing defender, the referee signaled the penalty on the spot, Li Lin hit the penalty, and the Qiongzhong women's football team chased the score to 1-2.
In the 94th minute, the Qiongzhong women's football team once again relied on the desperate struggle to win another undisputed penalty opportunity, Wang Jingyi's volley caused the defender's handball foul, and Zhang Qian scored the equaliser penalty in the desperation of the opponent.
The ensuing penalty shoot-out seemed to be out of suspense, and the balance fell to the Qiongzhong women's football team, who eventually eliminated their opponents 4-3 to advance to the final, while also locking in qualification for next year's Women's League.
"Although I have been teaching football for more than a decade, today is really a moment I have never experienced in my life!" Chen Wanting commented on the miracle reversal after the game.
Super reversal, Qiongzhong women's football team successfully rushed to the nails
The county team came to the national coach
Recommended to Xiao Shan by Sun Wenli, vice president of the Chinese Football Association, Chen Wanting is an A-level coach of AFC, holds a bachelor's degree in geography and resource management from the University of Chinese, Hong Kong, a master's degree in sports medicine and health sciences, and is also a coaching mentor for the FA in Hong Kong, China. In the process of the competition for the Chinese women's national football team last year, Chen Wanting was once the most vocal among the people and the media, but no one expected that she would "yield" to a county team as the head coach of the national team.
Chen Wanting herself did not expect to come to a place where "the city can't buy a cup of hot coffee that she loves to drink" as a head coach. But she has her own reasons: "The story of Qiongzhong women's football is very inspirational and touching, and as a female coach, I have not coached a women's football club, which can be regarded as filling the gap in my resume." “
"Self-discipline" is the theme of Chen Wanting's first team lesson in Qiongzhong, and she specially asked international Wu Haiyan to record a video of encouraging girls, telling them what kind of team members are professional athletes to finally reach the stage of the national team and the World Cup.
"After that meeting, I could feel the light in the eyes of all the girls." Chen Wanting pays attention to the self-consciousness of the team members and never confiscates the mobile phone. However, such as training late and other violations of team rules, both team members and coaches, must accept fines, ranging from 100 to 500 yuan, immediate mobile phone transfer cash, the accumulated fines into team fees, used to buy birthday cakes for team members, or training set-pieces, net football games rewards and so on.
Sisters Wang Jingyi and Wang Huimin have been fined for being late and forgetting to bring training equipment, and in order to share a room with their teammates, their sister who privately changed rooms and 3 other players were fined 2,000 yuan. Although the girls who are professional players have thousands of dollars a month's salary, mistakes like this disappear completely after a month.
The island was hot and humid in the summer, and the team's breakfast was scheduled at 5:30 a.m. and the training was from 7 to 9 o'clock, because the high-intensity training after 9 o'clock could easily make the children suffer from heat stroke. A rainstorm will always come as scheduled in the afternoon, and Chen Wanting will arrange indoor strength training during this time.
The girls spent a month to adapt to the high-intensity technical and tactical training, even the Sisters Wang Jingyi and Wang Huimin, who had trained with Chen Wanting in the U16 national team, felt that it was their most tired period of time, and what made them persist was still the original attribute of ShanLiwa who was particularly able to endure hardships.
For 100 days, the stubborn and tenacious Chen Wanting and a group of girls from poor and remote areas had a wonderful chemical reaction. Miracles happened, just as she led the Hong Kong Sun Pegasus men's football team 7 years ago, in the pouring rain, 10 to 11, scored in the last minute of stoppage time, and won the FA Cup.
The punch was successful, and the team members threw Chen Wanting high
The mountain girl knocked on the door of the university with a soccer ball
In Hainan, there used to be such a saying: one Qiong, two Bai and three Baoting refers to the three places of Qiongzhong, Baisha and Baoting that are poor areas of Hainan Island, and Qiongzhong ranks first.
In the summer of 2006, Xiao Shan, a former football professional player who was not confused in his 40s, gave up his unsuccessful business career in the sea, accepted the call of Enshi Gu Zhongsheng, and came to Qiongzhong to "sports poverty alleviation".
"For so many years, Chinese football has always failed, that is, there are too few people who are willing to suffer. Come here, let's do something with a dream. A sentence from the mentor touched Xiao Shan, which coincided with his deeply hidden thoughts: he wanted to return to the stadium again, and he must do something outstanding!"
15 years ago, in a well-known poor county to carry out women's football sports, the difficulty can be imagined: backward and isolated island town, in the face of a group of mountain children who think football is "volleyball with their feet", with 60,000 to 70,000 yuan of funds, eating 5 yuan a day of food, Xiao Shan alone plays a variety of roles - coach, leader, father, chef, bodyguard.
Xiao Shan, a newcomer, once fought with the locals who came to provoke him, lost more than 3,000 yuan for this, and he would also beat up the little hooligans who harassed the team members' dormitories and training. At the most difficult moment, Xiao Shan thought about walking away, but he was left by the children's simple hope.
At the beginning of its establishment, the Qiongzhong women's football team trained in the mud and was hard but also happy
In the autumn of 2012, as Xiao Shan's first disciples entered the university from the football field, the Qiongzhong women's football team was identified as a public institution, and the county government decided to allocate a budget of 800,000 yuan per year, and the manager of the team changed from the Education Bureau to the Cultural and Sports Bureau. Joining the Qiongzhong women's football team not only means that everything is free, but also heralds a foot into the university door - the story of football changing its destiny has quietly happened.
But at the time, this was not the most powerful attraction for mountain girls to play football, and more parents sent their daughters just because: school was free, food was free, clothing was free.
10 years ago, Wang Jingyi from Maoxi Village in Hongmao Town came to this end, and Wang Huimin and Wang Minhui sisters who lived in the same town as her also came. They are now regulars of the women's national training team.
The girls, who live in a dilapidated dormitory building at Qiongzhong Middle School, whose roof is covered with moss from years of rain leaks, return from training, wash their jerseys and socks, and wash their hair with cold water. The only site in the school, from potholed land to gravel-strewn lawns, to later sparse, hard artificial turf, the runway was several centimeters higher than the grass, and whenever it rained, the girls' knees were sore.
Xiao Shan's judgment of the girls in the mountains at the beginning was accurate, they could bear hardships, good physical fitness, the team quickly played results, from 2015 to 2017, Qiongzhong women's football team won the Goldberg Cup U series championship for three consecutive years, playing famous.
Fly higher to see the bigger world
The increase in attention has also brought real help to the Qiongzhong women's football team. For example, Ant Group began to sponsor qiongzhong women's football team in 2017, from funds to resources to technical support. In the words of Xiao Shan's wife and team butler Wu Xiaoli: "Qiongzhong women's football team has eaten a hundred meals to today, such as the help of Alipay, in addition to the material level, there are many spiritual and spiritual things that make the girls more rewarding: competing with the Portuguese star Figo, interacting with Chinese female football players at zero distance, the girls not only kicked out the mountain, but also broadened their horizons, and then buried a higher goal in their hearts." “
Set a higher goal. “
Jin Xiandong, chairman of Ant Group, took a group photo with qiongzhong women's football players
"Once upon a time, these girls were like 'frogs at the bottom of the well', living a life of seeing the bottom at first sight, and at the age of 16 or 7, they might have to get married and have children. Now that they have more possibilities because of football, they see more people, the bigger world, and they think, can I fit in, can I survive? ”
Wu Xiaoli, who has accompanied the development of Qiongzhong women's football team all the way, said, "Everything we have done for so many years is for the future of these girls, so that they can have a better life. They learned football, and with this skill, they can play professionally in the future, they can enter the national team, they can go to college, or they can become coaches... They will have many more options than in the past. ”
Life and training have been guaranteed, Qiongzhong women's football team has also opened a "blowout" development from 2017, while maintaining a steady improvement in performance, the door of the national team has also opened the door to girls from Qiongzhong: up to now, Qiongzhong women's football team has trained 42 national first-level athletes and 73 national second-level athletes; more than 60 women's football players have been admitted to national key colleges and universities such as Hainan University and Southwest University; 3 have been selected for the national youth training team, and 6 have been selected for the U series national team. The two were selected for the U14 National Elite Training Camp... Qiongzhong women's football team has truly become one of the cradles of Chinese women's football youth training.
The Jones women's team has a standard 11-a-side stadium
Now, Qiongzhong women's football has become a business card in Qiongzhong, the county power poles are pasted with photos of women's football girls, "hard work", "tenacious", "courage to climb" is their label, and even the county's specialty Qiongzhong green orange has asked them to be a spokesperson and sent to all parts of the country.
Qiongzhong women's football team has become Qiongzhong's business card
Qiongzhong women's football training conditions have also been turned upside down, on December 24 last year, Qiongzhong women's football club officially listed the Chinese Football Association youth training base, in addition to the existing standard 11-person venue and an indoor field, the remaining 10 venues have also begun to build, Hainan Provincial Tourism and Cultural Affairs Department plans to allocate 30 million yuan for the base to purchase fitness and rehabilitation equipment, Ant Group also announced the next three years to continue to fund the plan.
Ant Group will continue to help Qiongzhong women's football team and help more girls in the mountains win the World Cup of their lives
15 years ago, Xiao Shan's dream of "doing something to get ahead on the football field" seems to be coming true, and this group of mountain girls who can achieve a super reversal on the court in the last 3 minutes must also be able to create more miracles in the arena of their lives.
(Li Xiang)