Upstream journalist Zhao Yingji/Wenshi Foot Management Center courtesy of the map
Yesterday (27th) evening, the 14th National Games (hereinafter referred to as the 14th National Games) closed in Shaanxi, and there are many memorable moments in this National Games. For example, the 14th Games mass competition project beach football, the Team only 4 months of Chongqing Beach Women's Football, won the women's championship, which is also the first championship won by the Chongqing team in the National Games Mass Competition Football Project.
Beach soccer is an absolutely unpopular project in Chongqing, and there is not even a beach soccer field in the central city of Chongqing, how did this group of women's football girls achieve the championship? Today (28th) morning, the upstream news reporter interviewed the relevant people of this team, and they told an inspirational story about winning the championship.
Chongqing beach women's football family portrait
Women's football coaches and celebrities join forces to form a team
In the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, the reporter went to Brazil to interview, in Rio's famous Copacabana Beach, saw the popular beach football in Brazil: because the sand has a protective effect, so a group of barefoot football fans on the field are fiercely competing, often bumping people on their backs, and often seeing unconventional shooting actions such as upside down golden hooks... The warm football atmosphere has made many Chinese fans and journalists onlookers join the ranks of beach football.
However, in Chongqing, beach soccer is an absolutely unpopular project, first of all, there is no beach in Chongqing, and secondly, there is no artificial beach soccer field in the entire central urban area. Therefore, in May this year, when the Chongqing Football Sports Management Center (hereinafter referred to as the Municipal Football Management Center) received a notice about the beach football match of the 14th Games, the first question it faced was how to form a team.
This morning, Cheng Mo, the leader of the Chongqing beach women's football team, talked about the topic of forming a team, and admitted that it was not easy: "Originally there were very few female players involved in beach football in Chongqing, and we were a little hesitant after receiving the notice, after all, the hasty team was not good, and it was embarrassing to lose a big score at the National Games." ”
When the Municipal Football Management Center was in trouble, it was inspired by another good news: in 2016, Yunyang County built the largest artificial sea sand beach in the southwest region - Sunshine Beach in Binjiang Park, which has since become a beach football competition holy place, gathering a group of beach football fans for more than 5 years, and also held important events such as the National Beach Football Championship.
So with the support of the Chongqing Municipal Sports Bureau, the Municipal Football Management Center began to select women's football girls to form a team. In order to select the right personnel, the Municipal Football Management Center specially hired Cheng Jiawei, a teacher of the football special course of the School of Physical Education of Southwest University and the head coach of the women's football team of Southwest University, as the head coach, and Xu Yuan, the former captain of the Chinese women's national football team, as an assistant coach.
Cheng Jiawei and Xu Yuan took the initiative to take this responsibility and selected 12 women's football players with a certain football foundation. Because of the limited manpower, the oldest of the team members is already 38 years old, which makes Cheng Jiawei a little moved: "I really didn't expect that the 38-year-old Chen Lu was still willing to play in the National Games, I couldn't help but make a joke with Xu Yuan' 'We are both 85 years old, I didn't expect to bring 83 years of team members to participate', it was really a bit of pressure. ”
Chongqing Beach Women's Football Has Made History
Home field advantage intensifies training
After successfully completing the team, the Chongqing beach women's football team began training, and the training process made Cheng Jiawei sigh with emotion: "Before coaching the beach women's football team this time, I have never been in contact with beach football, so I am also teaching team members while learning, I found that playing football on the beach and playing on the grass are completely different, on the grass we pay attention to ground cooperation, but on the beach the ball either rolls, or hits the sand pile rolling, which means that whether it is individual skills or team cooperation to be pushed down and restarted. ”
After a period of exploration, Cheng Jiawei summed up a new set of tactical methods: "In the past, wearing shoes to play football pays attention to taking the air ball to the ground, and now barefoot kicking ball must take the ground ball to the air, using the air connection is the simplest and most direct; at the same time, he also requires the players to reduce the dribble, if there is indeed a good opportunity for a single breakthrough, then use the way of passing the ball!" ”
These new kicking concepts made the beach women's football players a little uncomfortable, captain Chen Cheng said: "Just started practicing these techniques and tactics, I feel that the kicking methods I learned before have been learned in vain, and now I am completely playing shuttlecock. ”
But as the players slowly adjusted to this rhythmic change, the girls not only learned how to play football on the beach, but also how to cooperate with a threatening attack.
While the beach women's football players actively trained and prepared for the game, the Municipal Sports Bureau also arranged for the Municipal Football Management Center to actively bid for the final stage of beach football at the 14th Games. These efforts were not in vain, and the Organizing Committee of the Fourteenth Games announced that the final stage of beach football would be held in Sunshine Beach, Yunyang County, which gave the girls the advantage of home battle.
In order to let the team members of the beach women's football team adapt to the sun and sand, the Municipal Football Management Center under the guidance of the Municipal Sports Bureau, specially arranged the pre-game intensive training, according to Cheng Mo revealed: "Our Foot Management Center set up a logistics support group, specifically inspected the venue, hotel and accommodation, organized pre-game intensive training in August this year, in order to facilitate the team to prepare, our hotel is very close to the sun and sandy beach, the team members can walk 10 minutes to reach." At the same time, we also hired a professional coach for beach soccer and conducted a week of intensive training to further improve the professional skills and tactics of beach soccer. ”
Beach soccer is physically confrontational
Minor injuries do not fall into the line of fire
Through planned training and preparation, the performance of Chongqing Beach Women's Football Team in the competition can be described as "standing out from the crowd", winning the championship with a total victory record: defeating Sichuan, Shanxi and Liaoning in the group stage 4-1, 9-1, 3-1 respectively, defeating Shaanxi 5-2 in the semi-finals, and finally winning the championship with a penalty shootout after the final and Sichuan team on September 19 were drawn 3-3.
From the score point of view, The road to the Chongqing beach women's football team to win the championship is very easy, but behind the excellent performance, but the selfless dedication of the beach women's football team members, Cheng Mo told reporters: "These girls really sacrificed a lot to win glory for Chongqing, not to mention that during the training period is the hottest time in Chongqing, many girls have been tanned and sunburned; some girls have trained for 3 months, but finally because of important work can not ask for leave, can only choose to quit with tears ..."
Cheng Jiawei said that the girls' fighting spirit surpassed the college students he had brought before: "This time to participate in the beach women's football team are all adults who have already worked, and they cherish the hard-won opportunities more than the college players." I remember once when I was taking the team members to the treatment, the doctor gave me feedback that the knees, meniscus, and shoulders of several team members were all injured, and they should have quit training according to the reason, but they kept gritting their teeth and insisting. When it's time for the game, before each game starts, I spend 40 minutes giving the players muscle patches, fixing them, and protecting injured patches. ”
As a former Chinese women's football international, Xu Yuan not only unreservedly taught her various skills to the team members, but also gave psychological massage to the players in each game, which received good results. Xu Yuan told reporters: "As an assistant coach, my responsibility is mainly to communicate with the players. I tell them the stories of my previous games, especially how to withstand the pressure when I am behind. And they did! We played Liaoning in the group stage, Shaanxi in the semi-finals and Sichuan in the final, all of which fell behind at the beginning, and the result was that we overtook the score in the end. ”
This time to help the team win the championship, Xu Yuan is also very happy: "When I was a player, I always had a regret, that is, I did not represent my hometown Chongqing team to play the National Games, this time I can lead the team to participate as a coach, I have been holding my breath, hoping to win glory for Chongqing, so this time I can win the championship with this group of girls, really fulfill my dream!" ”
The beach women's soccer team celebrates the victory