Reporter Lu Mi reported that Wang Yunlong, 57, was once a striker of the Chongqing "Youth City Sports School" football team, and since 1985, he has been working as a football coach. For most of his life, he has been dealing with teenagers and helping many primary and secondary schools expand their footprints in school football. Currently, he is the head coach of Tianba Middle School, in charge of the boys' and women's football teams in the kindergarten, primary school and secondary school department, and is responsible for setting technical training standards. In the words of principal Wang Yong, the reason why the development of football in Tianba Middle School can be so rapid and has not gone through any detours depends on the selection of the right coach. Wang Yunlong's decades of experience and practical experience helped Tianba Middle School quickly establish its initial framework.
For a zero-based school like Tianba Middle School, how to expand the population base of football is the most difficult and important link. Wang Yunlong still remembers that when he first began to develop campus football, the whole school was mobilized. As the vice principal in charge, Wang Haiquan personally popularized the school's campus football teachers and policies to students and parents in the team's recruitment publicity, and also assured parents that they would not let their children delay their studies because of playing football. Wang Haiquan patted his chest and told the parents that when the children went out to participate in the competition, there would be special teachers to make up lessons. The second step of the work is the coaching team, headed by Wang Yunlong, who sinks to each child's family to do ideological work.
To expand the football population, the most basic thing is to find children who love football, both men and women, regardless of technology. Since the school's focus is on women's football, it is necessary for the coaching staff to invest more energy in the recruitment process. Wang Yunlong said: "This is a very long process, and it is also very difficult. I want the children to go from liking to falling in love with football, even if the parents don't agree, but as long as the children can stick to the end, everything will change. ”
The school wants to develop women's football, but many parents are opposed to their daughters playing football. In order to do ideological work, Wang Yunlong called parents one by one, hoping that parents could let their children receive long-term training and play class leagues. When he encountered parents who did not answer the phone, he and Coach Liu Hongjun went to the door to communicate. This has happened many times, and for coaches, precipitating patience in the midst of suffering is an essential skill. Principal Wang Yong is also a fan of the high rank and understands the laws of football development, so he never asks the ball to produce results in a certain period of time. Tianba's football development started late, and everyone can't be impatient, and they don't have the capital to be impatient. You can only take the road step by step.
Why do you have to go to the door to persuade parents to let their children play football? Wang Yunlong said: "Because the number of people in the beginning was not much, it was even more rare to meet talented people. Because of this, we must cherish those children even more. ”
In Wang Yunlong's memory, there is a girl with very good ability, quality and fighting spirit are also great, all coaches have a high evaluation of her, but parents do not support her to play football, and want to send their children to Latin dance. The child could not help but give up, and missed the two long stages of training in the summer and winter vacations in a row. In order to be able to keep the girl, Wang Yunlong and Wang Haiquan went to do work for the children and parents respectively, and after a long time, the girls' parents dispelled their doubts. After the child returned to the team, he represented the school and Jiulongpo District in last year's Chongqing municipal competition, and has always been the main force, which also makes Tianba's campus football participants full of pride.
When Wang Yunlong first arrived at the school to teach, the echelons of primary schools and kindergartens had not yet been established, and the primary school department had just been established, with the highest being only the third grade, and the classes in the upper grades had not yet been established. In such a barren area, Wang Yunlong selected the first batch of players from primary schools. Soon, the junior high school also established a team. With the prototype in place, a more systematic cultivation model can be carried out in the future.
Now, because the school has started to lay a good foundation for football from kindergarten, the screening of the school team has become a matter of convenience. Wang Yunlong is very busy every day, almost every coach's lesson plan has to be reviewed by him, and he himself is also responsible for the teaching of kindergarten, primary school and junior high school. Of course, for the cultivation and promotion of young coaches, it is also an important part of his work. Therefore, why Tianba Middle School will achieve the rapid rise of campus football in a short period of time is fundamentally inseparable from the cultivation of all participants, including Wang Yunlong.
Wang Yunlong clearly remembers the scene when he first took the tianba middle school women's football team to participate in the competition outside the school. Because the school only started hosting class leagues in 2019, most of the time the children competed in the school. But soon, only playing in school can no longer meet the growth rate of these children. A year after the establishment of the team, Wang Yunlong led the team out of school for the first time to participate in the District's Lunar New Year Cup.
That time it was the U9 girls' team from Tianba Middle School. The children of other schools who participated in that competition had received at least three years of football training, but Tianba's children had only practiced for one year, and from the perspective of strength, the gap between Tianba and other schools was obvious. However, unexpectedly, the Tianba U9 women's football team actually reached the final all the way to the final, and tied with the opponent in the regular time of the final, and finally lost the penalty and was relegated to the second place. After the defeat, the girls all cried, and even Wang Yunlong, the head coach who had experienced hundreds of battles, could not help but wipe his tears on the sidelines.
Wang Yunlong said that the tears at that time contained too much. Although this is the first time that the girls have experienced the regular competition outside the school, they are not afraid of the stage and play the content of their usual training to the fullest. Wang Yunlong's tears are touched by these children, and the outstanding performance of these children is also an affirmation of his long-term work achievements.
He felt that although these girls came from the periphery of the city, in terms of will quality, they were no less than the children of the central city, and their desire and dedication to victory were touching. In the process of decades of youth football coaching, Wang Yunlong knows that the basic support behind a good coach is the achievements of the team, but the medals are cold after all, and what has made him crazy and excited so far is the change in the value of life brought by the sport of football to him and these children.
There are many left-behind children in Tianba Middle School, and the age group of junior high school also coincides with the rebellious period of children, and their desire for family warmth is also magnified. In many families, the experience and energy of parents cannot meet the needs of their children, which is not conducive to the physical and mental health of children, and various problems may occur.
Coach Liu Hongjun, 28 years old this year, went to the school to teach for two years, mainly responsible for the women's football team in the junior high school, and the girls affectionately called him "sixth brother". In two years, he went from a fresh graduate to the head of the physical education teaching and research team of Tianba Middle School. In the eyes of the team members, Liu Hongjun is a "two-faced person", on the one hand, he is strict in training, and on the other hand, he gives the children the greatest degree of care in life.
Liu Hongjun has experienced such a thing: there is a girl who is not very good-tempered, overweight, always loves to swear, and often bumps into parents and teachers. After entering the school team, the girl did not restrain herself, and was suspended for a week for talking against the coach. Liu Hongjun said: "During the suspension, we have been observing her. It can be seen that she really likes football and wants to change herself through football. Although she usually has a bad temper, it can be seen that her maintenance of the team and the care of her teammates are her shining points. ”
After returning to the training ground, the girl used better performances to make up for her previous mistakes. Later, the weight was lost and the physical fitness was better. Moreover, she has learned to communicate with the people around her with a gentle attitude.
That's the beauty of football, and it can bring much more than the sport itself. Some of these children, although they lack sufficient love from their parents, may also be frustrated in their cultural classes. But through football training and competition, they have found a new kind of sustenance, and such hobbies can help them relieve stress. And this team sport allows them to work hard with their teammates and live together, maximizing the physical and mental health of the children.
Whether it is Wang Yunlong, who has decades of coaching experience, or Liu Hongjun, who has just entered the industry for two years, they have built a campus football project in Tianba Middle School, and they are still under construction, and they have helped many children find their life goals and self-worth. In fact, these children bring them the same thing.