Reporter Lu Mi reported that from February 10 to 14, Huang Xiyang did a public welfare football activity in Chongqing, gathering children who like to play football and intend to play football in the whole city to the venue for training. Public welfare football is what Huang Xiyang has been thinking about and wanting to do for a long time, in order to spread his love for football for many years among teenagers. As a Chongqing native, but also as the mainstay of the Chongqing Chinese Super League team, Huang Xiyang's performance in the past two years has best shown the spirit of Chongqing football, and he hopes to help Chongqing football cheer up through his own efforts and let more Chongqing children grow the team of Chongqing football.
Public welfare, want to make football better
Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic is not expected to take a holiday until the beginning of March, but this is only a temporary time period, and the specific time has not yet been determined. When other Chinese Super League teams have taken leave to start training, the players of Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic either conduct their own restorative training, wait for the club's notice, or do some other football-related things themselves. Last week, Huang Xiyang started his first public welfare football journey, spending five days to gather children who love football in the city and teach them football for free.
Doing football public welfare is Huang Xiyang's idea all along, this time, taking advantage of this "long holiday", he set up a team and used a poster to gather children across the city to participate. This idea did not come out of nowhere, he had this idea a long time ago when he was still playing football in other places, when he thought of being able to go into the mountain village with football equipment, teach children to play football, and send them some hardware facilities for playing football, but because the time to return to Chongqing every year is limited, and because of the epidemic in the past two years, it has been shelved.
This time, Huang Xiyang spent a long time preparing for this public welfare activity. Many parents looked at it and it was organized by Huang Xiyang and came to visit it. Huang Xiyang rented an eight-a-side venue in Yubei District, originally planned to limit the number of training people to 50 people per day, but did not expect five days of activities, and the children who arrived every day were 70-90 people. Many children persevered every day from the first day of class to the fifth day.
The content of the training is specially formulated by Huang Xiyang according to the football training of young children, three days of football skills training, two days of physical fitness training, Huang Xiyang personally went to the field to teach those children who do not have any football foundation. The so-called physical fitness is to correct the children's exercise posture so that they can use the correct method to exercise effectively.
"I can feel that these kids are small and don't have a foundation in football, but they're actually very interested in the sport, especially in our soccer games and special skills and in some small games. After an hour and a half of training every day, the dolls felt that an hour and a half was too short and wanted to practice for a while. After five days of activities, Huang Xiyang had a deep feeling, "For me, doing this public welfare football may still stem from my love for this sport, my hope is that I dare not say let the whole country, but I hope to make my hometown football develop better and make Chongqing football inherit a little better." ”
As a professional player and a lover of the sport, Huang Xiyang is pleased to see that children are not uninterested in football, but need practitioners to popularize football more and let children have more opportunities to experience.
With the help of this activity, Huang Xiyang has the opportunity to communicate face-to-face with more parents, and more truly understands the true inner thoughts of parents sending their children to play football. "In the process of communication with some parents, I actually found that they do not know football very well, if the parents themselves are not fans, they basically do not know much about the sport of football, and they do not know what kind of help this sport can bring to the dolls, so I think this is also the reason why football has been difficult to receive a good popular effect in the stage of youth training." Therefore, Huang Xiyang will actively communicate with each parent and will patiently answer their doubts or questions.
"I think that after that, I will do this kind of football public welfare activity every year, let more dolls experience and participate in the sport of football, first let them understand and like, as long as they can participate in this activity, feel the joy of football, I think I have taken a relatively successful small step." For me, this is a very meaningful thing. ”
Popularity, the smallest but most critical link
Stepping into 2022, Huang Xiyang will turn 37 years old, in fact, when he just decided to return to the Chongqing team, he has been called a "veteran" by many people. In this regard, he explained his thoughts in only one sentence: "I am not coming back to retire." In fact, in the past two seasons, when Chongqing Club and Chongqing football encountered a major existential crisis and relegation life and death, Huang Xiyang used his actual performance to prove the weight of his words.
Huang Xiyang hopes to use his words and deeds to do what a professional player should do, and also to make some of the greatest contributions that can be brought by Chongqing football as a Chongqing player.
At this charity event, some parents are also fans, and they will ask some questions about professional players and professional football. In this process, Huang Xiyang said the most about some spiritual things. In Huang Xiyang's football career, he has encountered many setbacks, including the loss of the game and the cruel living conditions under the operation of the market, but what moved him was the spirit embodied by the team, "including the spirit of not giving up on the whole team before facing unprecedented difficulties last season as a player of Chongqing Liangjiang Athletics." ”
"Although there are only a few children who can play professional football, I think that through this sport, there is a spirit that can be passed on to children, that is, in the future learning and work, they may experience big or small setbacks, and I don't want them to give up because of a little setback." Football is a sport that attaches the most importance to the spirit of teamwork, and I hope that these children will participate in football today, and slowly cultivate the spirit of not being discouraged and not giving up in teamwork activities, so that their physical and mental health can be more healthy. ”
Regarding the current situation of Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic Club, although the situation is not very clear now, Huang Xiyang, like many players, has always been in a state of waiting for news, but when asked by parents, his first reaction is to maintain the image of the club and Chongqing football. "Because I don't want the negative effects of football to spread among parents, because football is a positive sport, I don't want such a young child to have negative emotions, which will affect the image of Chongqing football and even the image of Chinese professional football."
After the national team lost to Vietnam in the round of 12 and the group was hopeless, it triggered a condemnation of Chinese football, Huang Xiyang is also a member of the Chinese men's football team, but also a member of Chinese football, in fact, he will feel ashamed, but at the same time he also feels that the current Chinese football is already at its lowest ebb, if you do not implement the future of football to youth training, implement to every child, that is the real big problem, which is why he wants to set up his own youth club in Chongqing, This is also why he decided to carry out youth football public welfare activities from this year. In Huang Xiyang's view, these children who came to participate in football training, this innocent and cute face, is the future of Chinese football.
In fact, before the winter training of each team every year, Chongqing will welcome back many professional players who are playing outside, all because they are Chongqing players, they will have a small party every year, about a ball on the court to compete with each other, and then have a meal and chat about what they have seen in the past year. Last year, after The return of Luo Senwen, Cao Yongjing and other players, everyone took a photo on the stadium as a souvenir, Huang Xiyang saw this photo and issued a deep sigh, "If they can all play in Chongqing, we still have to worry about the problem of relegation." ”
The city of Chongqing is not short of excellent player output, but lacks enough conditions to keep them. At present, the stock reform of Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic has not yet landed, and the future is difficult to judge, which is the reality. Huang Xiyang, as a veteran, has carried the team's offensive banner in the past two years, and when he feels that his physical strength cannot be sustained several times in the intensive schedule, he relies on his will to hold on, because in his heart, this team cannot be scattered, and his biggest wish is to hope that his city can have a high-level professional team to stabilize, and then develop steadily, in order to provide a stable living environment for Chongqing players, leave them in their hometown, and truly play as Chongqing people in Chongqing.
This is a very ambitious wish, and it is not something that Huang Xiyang can decide as an ordinary professional player. In his opinion, it will take a long time to realize this wish, and he will not give up the effort to realize this wish because of the length of time and the smallness of his own strength. Huang Xiyang said: "I want to do my best to start from the smallest but most critical link, let more Chongqing children invest in football, let them love and like, so that the soil of our Chongqing football can slowly become fertile, and Chongqing football can be better inherited." ”