Nelson Mandela, the world-famous miracle maker, once said: "Sport creates hope in desperate circumstances, and sports change the world." Today, on the islands in the south of China's territory, a group of Li girls growing up in the mountains confirm this famous saying.
Football is a giant hand that turns the compass of fate, without it turning clouds and rain, Wang Jingyi, Wang Huimin, Wang Minhui, Chen Qiaocui and Gao Yuxuan may be like many ordinary Li girls, married at the age of 16 or 7, and soon became the mother of several children.
I met them in the winter of ten years ago, visited them several times, and witnessed them enter the university gates, win the National Collegiate League trophy, and complete their undergraduate studies. They have grown from young and ignorant girls to "child kings" on the court, or from school football to the national youth team, from women's B to women's A, and they have become the football seeders on this isolated island.
The countryside surrounds the city
Everything originated when a northern Man named Xiao Shan embarked on a journey to "encircle the city from the countryside". From the Shanxi Sports School to the Shanxi Provincial Sports Team, Xiao Shan, a footballer from The Class, has always regretted not being able to seize the dream start of the professional league in the later stages of his career. More than 40 years ago, 14-year-old Xiao Shan was selected for Xu Genbao's junior team in Shanxi, and Gao Hongbo was his teammate. At that time, Xiao Shan was still called Gu Shan, and his size was twice as big as Gao Hongbo's, and with a gentle impact, the thin Gao Hongbo fell to the ground.
Gu Shan, who played the main striker in the Shanxi Provincial Youth Team, was described by his hometown as "kicking football and spicy". At the end of the 1980s, Gu Shan joined the Suzhou Iron and Steel Group team and went to the Sports Training Department of Shanghai University of Sport to study undergraduate courses.
Liu Zhigang, a coach at the Shanghai Sports Academy, was both Gu Shan's teammate and his coach more than a decade ago. In his impression, "smart mind, good physical fitness", "as soon as you play to play hard", Taniyama is not ostentatious in school, study seriously, especially after the third year, the first two years will impulsively fight on the court, and gradually become stable and silent. Xiao Shan, who receives a salary of more than 1,000 yuan per month in the SuGang team, is a rich man in the class, and often takes poor classmates from his family to the restaurant.
The fourth left in the front row is Xiao Shan
Gu Shan, who graduated in 1992, began to wander after the dissolution of the team of Sugang Group, the coal sports team, the team in Shenzhen, the Hunan Shenniu Football School... Later, he simply left the football circle completely, returned to his hometown in Taiyuan to open a restaurant, and worked with the coal boss. Xiao Shan is reluctant to look back on his illustrious football career, summing up that history as "drinking, fighting, playing with girls, not doing the right thing." Similarly, he is disgusted with the business life of a drunken fan, which may be one of the reasons why he chose to come to Qiongzhong and return to the stadium.
Of course, the more realistic reason is that since you are back on the pitch, you have to get ahead. Compared with men's football, women's football will undoubtedly bring him closer to his dream. Xiao Shan's ideal and the idea of sports poverty alleviation in Qiongzhong Li and Miao Autonomous County hit the same page. In the summer of 2006, Gu Shan, who was not confused for forty years and changed his name to XiaoShan, walked in the county town of Qiongzhong, which had only one traffic light and one cement road, and his heart was cold.
In the isolated island town, facing a group of mountain children who think that football is "volleyball with their feet", with 60,000 or 70,000 yuan of funds, eating 5 yuan a day of food, Xiao Shan plays a variety of roles - coach, team leader, father, brother, chef, bodyguard. Xiao Shan, who had just arrived, once fought with the Qiongzhong people who regarded him as a provocation from the outside world, lost more than 3,000 yuan for this, and also violently beat up the little hooligans who harassed the team members' dormitories and training. At the most difficult moment, Xiao Shan, who had thought of walking away, was frozen in the eyes of the children's simple hope.
Every weekend, Xiao Shan takes a two-hour long-distance bus to Haikou to take a breath of the big city air and eat a bowl of noodles. The bowl of noodles allowed him to find his wife. In Haikou, Xiao Shan met his former lover, Wu Xiaoli, whose family was practicing high jumping in Hainan. Two months later, qiongzhong women's football team had an assistant coach, team doctor and logistics management and confidant sister, And Xiao Shan no longer had to go to the vegetable market because of five points, one dime and hawkers.
regression
In the autumn of 2012, as the first batch of Xiao Shan's disciples entered the university from the football field, the Qiongzhong women's football team was designated as a public institution, and the county government decided to allocate a budget of 800,000 yuan per year, and the current team manager 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 it also heralds a foot into the university door.
"In fact, when I was in college, I imagined that I would study sports training and return to the Qiongzhong women's football team, apply what I learned, cultivate national players, and complete the coach's wish." Chen Qiaocui (pictured below left) is the youngest of the first batch of Qiongzhong women's football students, with a gentle temperament and little Swen.
Chen Qiaocui, who became a coach, had long flowing hair and restored her true colors as a girl. Much whiter and prettier than when he used to play football, Chen Qiaocui, who was tanned and exposed a pair of "zebra legs", was often asked by his mother when he returned home whether he never washed his neck and knees.
Chen Qiaocui was young, but bold, and in his junior year, he pulled Gao Yuxuan, who was both a teammate and a classmate, to run a football training class in Haikou, write his own advertisements, go to the school to distribute flyers, and rent a venue. After some hard work, only a fat boy who needed to lose weight was summoned, and later developed to more than a dozen, from completely free to 50 yuan a class, and three people earned ten thousand yuan in a summer vacation.
Before graduating from the internship at Shenzhen No. 2 Senior High School, Chen Qiaocui originally planned to stay in Shenzhen, but before the interview, he received a call from the coach to lead the team to prepare for the U12 Gothenburg Cup, and Xiao Shan, who lacked an assistant, hoped that the disciple would rush back to help. The teachers at the Shenzhen school were surprised that Chen Qiaocui had easily given up the opportunity to enter the big city, and she returned to Qiongzhong without hesitation.
Chen Qiaocui and his former teammate Gao Yuxuan moved from the old dormitory to the teacher's building next to them, eating 45 yuan a day's food with their sisters, and the transportation for the two was still the motorcycle that Xiao Shan used many years ago. Coach Chen, who wore a baseball cap on the court, reprimanded the boys for shedding tears, and for those who did not obey orders, occasionally gently whipped the back of their hands with a whistle strap as punishment, "We are a veritable child king, when we joined the team, we were all 11 or 2 years old, these children were too young, fighting, noisy, constantly in condition, chattering and shouting. ”
From left to right (Gao Yuxuan, Xiao Shan, Wu Xiaoli, Chen Qiaocui)
In 2017, Chen Qiaocui and Gao Yuxuan passed the test of the overseas training course for campus football backbone coaches organized by the Chinese Football Association, and were sent to study at the University of Bournemouth in the United Kingdom for three months. That was the second time they had gone abroad. The trip to Spain at the end of 2014 has still been remembered by several veteran players of the Qiongzhong women's football team. The parents went to the police station one after another to issue various certificates, the French embassy in Shanghai was refused a visa, and the Spanish embassy in Beijing was renewed with a visa, until they flew from Haikou to Shanghai and took a flight to Madrid, Chen Qiaocui felt that they were not dreaming.
Camp Nou watched barca matches, and Chen Qiaocui stood and shouted Messi's name. At the end of the game, meeting with Iniesta, she and Gao Yuxuan raised their jerseys to give Xiao Bai an autograph, overwhelmed with excitement. Taking a photo with Xiao Bai, Gao Yuxuan was a little disappointed to find that the height of the original idol was similar to his own.
Visit the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium in Madrid, Real Madrid Club and Base, play against the local youth women's team, 7-7, and joan women's football team won 4-3. "So many kids play football, the hardware on the pitch is superb, there's only one coach on a field with 10 kids." Chen Qiaocui sighed with excitement, compared with the venue they had played for nearly a decade, this place was simply heaven.
In 2019, Chen Qiaocui and Gao Yuxuan received C-level coach certificates. The men's team led by Chen Qiaocui won the third place in the U12 men's group in the 2019 National Youth Football Championship Finals, and the runner-up in the U13 and U14 groups of the 2020 and 2021 Hainan Youth Football Championships. Gao Yuxuan's women's team has an outstanding record, winning the National Junior High School Football Association Cup junior high school group championship in the summer of 2020, and she herself won the title of best coach. Chen Qiaocui was elected as a member of the All-China Youth Federation in August 2020, a standing member of the 7th Hainan Provincial Youth Federation, and a member of the CPPCC Qiongzhong County Committee in 2021.
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