Reporter Wang Shaoheng reported that "the training conditions of this group of team members are too good now! Zhong Chunlin said, "Before, Zhao Lihong and Zhang Qiuling kicked on the hill in the old campus, where there was such a good meadow." They fell and a piece of skin fell on their knees. ”
Engaged in football, Zhong Chunlin started in a middle school in Yingde City, and he still has his heart in mind for this "old owner", and from time to time he comes to see the training of the men's and women's teams. Many people know that Zhong Chunlin was Zhao Lihong's coach and a well-known campus football expert in Britain and Germany, but few people know what kind of road he has traveled.
In 1984, Zhong Chunlin, who was born in gymnastics, came to Yingde No. 1 Middle School to teach. Influenced by his students when he was in school, he liked football, and soon felt "lonely", counting him, there were only three physical education teachers in the city. In the city of that era, football was blank.
What makes Zhong Chunlin more uncomfortable than the "loneliness" on the hobby is the blankness of the venue. The old campus of the city's first middle school is not large, there is almost no place for football, and the places that can be used on the playground are all running tracks and basketball hoops. Football is a sport that is carried out under conditions that are somewhat harsh in itself. Zhong Chunlin is a person who loves to think, and he likes to think of ways. "If there are conditions, we must do it, but if there are no conditions, won't we do it?" Zhong Chunlin said.
Soon, Zhong Chunlin hit a vacant lot on the top of the school hill. Although it was not enough to support a standard venue, there was such a place, Zhong Chunlin was already satisfied. There is no shortage of wood in the mountain, do it yourself, and Zhong Chunlin makes two goals in proportion according to the size of the field. In this way, on such an irregular field, Ichiichi Junior High School held its first football tournament in 1985. It was at the top of this mountain, in this team, out of Zhao Lihong, Zhang Qiuling and other outstanding female football players. Later, some people said that Zhong Chunlin would pick a place and hold a tournament on the top of the mountain, indicating that the future of football in the city of No. 1 would be seen in Yingde City.
"The first tournament was also called the Super Bowl, and it was not until 1987 that the tournament was renamed the Revitalization Cup." Zhong Chunlin said, "When I left the school, there was only one requirement: the revitalization cup could not be broken. From 1985 to 2022, the principal of the city's first middle school changed many times, but the "revitalization cup" was never interrupted. The only year that was not held was because it coincided with the relocation of the site of the city's first middle school, and there were really no conditions for holding it. But the next year, the then principal "very consciously" held two "revitalization cups" to make up for the previous year.
City No. 1 Middle School is one of the second batch of secondary schools in Yingde City to be awarded the National Youth Campus Football Characteristic School. Before the declaration, Zhong Chunlin told the then principal that the two materials must be written well, "The first is your talent training, Zhao Lihong and Zhang Qiuling are all from you; the second is the Revitalization Cup, which has been engaged for more than thirty years, and campus football has only been a few years!" ”
To this day, in the honor room of the First Middle School in Yingde City, there is still a photo of the school's first women's football team, and Zhong Chunlin in the photo is still slightly green and has a fashionable hairstyle of the year. Yingde has a women's football base, which is known as the mother's home of The Chinese women's football team, but few people know that this mother's family, the first step on the road to starting a family, was taken from the small hill in the campus of the city's first middle school.
In the 2021 "Governor's Cup", the men's and women's teams of England and Germany entered the top four, the men's team ranked fourth, and the women's team won the runner-up. After the event, someone joked with Zhong Chunlin: "The fourth place is not very good." Zhong Chunlin replied with a smile: "There are a total of 21 prefecture-level cities in Guangdong, of which there are only 3 cities in the top four, and we account for one." And, apart from us, no city's men's and women's teams have made it to the final four. "In the world of football, in addition to strength, it also requires luck, and Zhong Chunlin knows this well." Champions are so easy to take. He said.
There are four teams in the "Governor's Cup" in front of the Yingde City No. 1, the top three teams in the men's group are won by three teams from Guangzhou, and the champion of the women's group is from wuhua County, the double host. "The guangzhou team has basically no opponents in the province. The economic conditions are too good to resist. Zhong Chunlin said. Qingyuan's economy has long been in the middle of the province, and it cannot be compared financially with the schools with strong economic strength in the Pearl River Delta region, but Yingde City is lucky, and there is a group of people who are willing to do practical things.
In 2015, the six ministries and commissions of the state issued the Implementation Opinions on Accelerating the Development of Youth Campus Football, and the development of campus football has become a top priority. Soon, the leaders of the relevant departments of Yingde City found Zhong Chunlin, who was the director of the Children's Palace at the time. The attitude of the city is also very direct, we all know that Zhong Chunlin used to engage in football, has been leading the team, but also a little famous, and now the city wants to develop campus football, want to hear Zhong Chunlin's ideas.
"My reply at the time was simple, basically without much thought, I said that the file was too thick and I didn't have that much time to read, but I felt that it was no problem for me to hand over this matter." For the sake of Anglo-German football, I want to support the campus. Zhong Chunlin quickly replied, and at the same time he also put forward his own requirements, "To do this thing, I need to form a team, not much, just two: first, football expertise should be strong; second, to talk about dedication." "Zhong Chunlin is a teacher, he has been a teacher in the city no. 1 middle school for more than ten years, and he has brought children in the Children's Palace for more than ten years, he knows that the school has limited funds, so he does not want anyone who cares about wages and subsidies."
In this way, Zhong Chunlin returned to the campus where he had left for 17 years. Soon, Liang Min, deputy director of the Original Wenwen Guangdong Tourism and Sports Bureau, Li Weixiang of the Sports Unit of the Yingde Municipal Bureau of Culture, Tourism and Sports, Luo Xinpeng, chairman of the Yingde Football Association, Fu Heng, secretary general, and Zhang Weifeng of the Yingde No. 8 Middle School were successively transferred to the Yingde City School Football Office. Seeing people is a science. Zhong Chunlin previously selected Zhao Lihong and Zhang Qiuling, and now he is selecting talents for the future of British-German football. In the past six years, thanks to the continuous efforts of this team, Anglo-German football has finally stood on the podium of the Governors Cup.
Unlike the famous football schools in economically developed cities that often cooperate with professional clubs and hire foreign teachers, the development of English and German campus football relies almost entirely on the efforts of local talents. Zhong Chunlin is very grateful for this, "Our school football office has no money, the conditions are very difficult, but we often discuss ideas together, and everyone's purpose is very unified, that is, to do things well." ”
"Former Dean Zhou Yi of the Football Academy of Guangzhou Institute of Physical Education always laughs at us, and your Yingde coaches are all local 'earth cannons'." Zhong Chunlin said, "We don't have a professional club here, we all cross the river by feeling the stones, look back more, summarize more, there will definitely be improvements, and the 'earth cannon' is not bad!" ”
Zhong Chunlin's office has a lot of treasures, and one of the words makes many people very envious, trying their best to "cheat" away. Zhong Chunlin smiled every time: "This is the dream of English-German football, and I want to stay here." In May 2016, the Fu family in Yingde City built an ancestral hall and invited fu Xilu, a former secretary of the central government organ and a member of the Chinese Calligraphy and Painting Association, which is famous throughout the country. Fu Xilu was very burly and wrote well. There was an endless stream of people asking him for words, but Fu Xilu only wrote four pictures a day, and when he was finished, he rolled up his sleeves and left, leaving the waiting people looking at each other.
One day, Fu Xilu met Zhong Chunlin and asked, "You are a bit familiar." The sharp eyes made Zhong Chunlin a little breathless, "Yesterday you finished writing four words, they also begged you to write, you scolded them, and there was me inside." Zhong Chunlin replied. From just a few words, Fu Xilu felt Zhong Chunlin's frankness. The two quickly became acquainted and talked about Zhong Chunlin's work. "I teach children to play football in the Children's Palace, and I am also a child king." Such Zhong Chunlin moved Fu Xilu's heart and decided to write him a letter.
"I want to write about football." Zhong Chunlin directly gave Fu Xilu a question. Fu Xilu looked down and thought about it, picked up the brush, and wrote down the three words "Football Dream". After writing it, Fu Xilu seemed to be a little dissatisfied, paced back and forth several times, picked up a pen and blacked out all the spaces in the middle of the dream word, "I blacked out the words to tell you that dreams are a mood, not reality." Looking back a hundred years later, people will remember that you did what made dreams come true, and you did your best to chase the dreams in your heart. ”
Fu Xilu writes to pick people, and his words are full of truth about how to behave in the world. During his time in England and Germany, he wrote a letter for a small businessman, only because when he finished eating and checking out, others shouted loudly, and only this person took his wallet to check out without a word. Fu Xilu wrote him "Fang Yuan", and Fu Xilu told him that Fang Yuan was both a rule and a copper coin. Only by keeping the square circle can we get the wealth of the square circle.
Although Zhong Chunlin has taught children to play football for more than 20 years, after the establishment of the Yingde City School Football Office, he still did not miss every opportunity to participate in training. In his opinion, every time he goes out, he can inspire himself and open up ideas. In 2016, when Zhong Chunlin attended a training in Guangdong Province, he heard such a story. A youth team of The Chinese Super League champion and a youth team of a Japanese club played a friendly match, and after the two teams left, the reporter found that the Japanese team lounge was clean and tidy, and thought that they had gone to the wrong place, while the Chinese team's locker room was a mess, full of garbage bags, water bottles and towels.
"The contrast is too strong. We always talk about creating a football culture, but what is football culture? Zhong Chunlin said, "After that training came back, I began to reorganize our team." In 2017, Zhong Chunlin put forward the slogan of "fighting for image, fighting for honor" at the meeting of the Yingde City School Football Office, and the image is before the honor. Zhong Chunlin set a "square circle" for Anglo-German football: for Anglo-German team matches, whether elementary school students or high school students, the individual game luggage must be placed in a straight line in the prescribed area; after the game, the team is not allowed to leave any garbage in the area.
"For these children, from childhood to adulthood, discipline must be used to restrain them. Only by abiding by discipline in such small details will they develop their resolute implementation of tactics and discipline on the pitch and form an English and German football culture. Zhong Chunlin said, "For students, this is also quality education and ideological and moral construction." He believes that this image helps children grow up healthily and develop good moral character. Coaches ask students to do this, and parents will soon see changes in their children, forming a top-down unity of thought that makes discipline easy to implement and follow.
The Anglo-German image of campus football soon spread throughout the province. One year, the team played the provincial championship, and when they arrived at the arena, the arrangement of the Anglo-German team's luggage was in stark contrast to that of other teams. "There were two referees who came to take pictures." Zhong Chunlin said, "After the game, our players have to look back at whether there is any garbage, and if there is any, they must pick it up to ensure that the places used are clean and tidy." "In the Governors Cup final last year, I paid special attention to our women's team to see if they had put their bags in a mess, and they still put them in a straight line as always." Zhong Chunlin did not miss every opportunity to test the results. That's culture.
Every school above the provincial level in England and Germany has its own team emblem and flag. In Zhong Chunlin's concept, the events in Yingde City must have a ceremony to exchange flags. In external competitions, whether it is an official competition or an exchange match, the team must bring the flag to show the image of Britain and Germany. Zhong Chunlin's idea is very simple, he wants to let students know that this flag represents my team, represents Yingde, and let students have a sense of belonging and honor. In Zhong Chunlin's view, this is a very simple football culture construction, however, "many provincial teams do not have their own team emblems and flags." He said.
"Once our team went to Shaoguan to play an exchange game, and before leaving, the players reminded the coach to bring the team flag." Zhong Chunlin said. He thought very clearly, what is the campus football culture? It is not a casual engagement and a photo shoot, but the accumulation of details bit by bit.
On the afternoon of March 10, 2022, Zhong Chunlin was invited to Yinghong Qifei Kindergarten to participate in the listing ceremony of the National Football Characteristic Kindergarten here, which was the second consecutive day that he participated in the listing ceremony of the Special Kindergarten. In fact, anglo-German early childhood football was launched long before the Ministry of Education opened the national football special kindergarten. However, due to various reasons, Yingde missed the declaration of the first batch of characteristic gardens.
Sports people like to be more real, so Zhong Chunlin is very unconvinced. Therefore, he invited Zhou Yi, dean of the Football College of Guangzhou University of Physical Education, Xin Li, professor of Guangzhou Institute of Physical Education, and Liang Yongfeng, full-time officer of the Guangdong Youth Campus Football Expert Committee, to Yingde to investigate a kindergarten. As soon as the three provincial experts saw that the propaganda paper about children's football at the entrance of the kindergarten had become incomplete under the wind and rain, they said at the time: Anything can be carried out in a surprise attack, but this wind and rain experience cannot be faked. After receiving the support of experts in the province, Yingde began to vigorously declare special kindergartens. In just a few years, Yingde City has 24 national football specialty kindergartens.
Young children's football has its own peculiarities, due to the small age of children and the weakness of the lower limbs, it is impossible to directly replicate the popularity of the primary school stage. Zhong Chunlin, who likes to think, quickly found a solution. The Yingde City School Football Office organized the promotion of primary schools above the school to send teachers to sink to guide kindergarten teachers, first to teach teachers, teach teachers through small games, and then open classes by teachers, everyone observes, discusses, collides in thinking, and forms a kindergarten interest cultivation system. Only after the system is formed can these teachers teach on their own.
"According to the requirements of the school football office, our special park must have its own small football field, the size can be different, but it must be, the teacher will take the children to play in it." Zhong Chunlin said, "Preschool teachers actually do not understand any techniques and tactics, we do not recommend them to teach, teach, may prematurely stereotype the child's thinking." So our country's youth teams played well, not as soon as they reached adulthood. Young children's football should first cultivate their interests and lay a good foundation for football and culture. With these foundations, when children go to primary and secondary schools to contact technology and tactics, their growth will be very fast. ”
Good things can borrow from each other. Yingde's special kindergartens give an open class to the kindergartens in the precinct and surrounding counties once a year, and then everyone exchanges ideas together. "I told the directors and teachers of many special kindergartens that this sign is printed with the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, and you should think about how many kindergartens and schools in townships can hang such a sign." Therefore, we must cherish the opportunity and strive to do a good job in campus football. Now that you are the director of the kindergarten, you try to develop this well, and in the future, people will remember you and thank you, and don't think it's just a matter of evaluation. Zhong Chunlin said.
Not only for the principal and principal, Zhong Chunlin also demanded this from teachers and coaches. "Some principals say that the school has no professional teachers and it is not easy to do, and some coaches say that I am not studying football and can't do it." Every time I heard these prevarications, Zhong Chunlin was very angry, "I told them that I don't want to hear only the two words of professionalism, I want to hear the two words of dedication, which is very different." No matter how professional you are, you don't want to do it, and you can't achieve the effect; you are not professional, but you are willing to learn, want to improve, grow with the school, and students will thank you. ”
Zhong Chunlin, who has been a teacher for 16 years, always warns his peers that his major at that time was not football. Perhaps, after decades of deep cultivation of British and German football, many people have forgotten that Zhong Chunlin is a gymnastics student.
At the beginning of the establishment of the school football office, Zhong Chunlin stressed that one of the important criteria for his selection of people was dedication. "The school football office has no money, the special fund for campus football is only 300,000 yuan in total, there are so many schools, divided, each one is not much." Zhong Chunlin said. Zhao Lihong, a former beloved disciple, sometimes "laughed" at him: "The top schools in economically developed areas have more than one million dollars a year for the team. "Money is not enough, Zhong Chunlin is very clear, he is also aware of the three things most lacking in the development of campus football - money, teachers, venue." However, he also has his own attitude: "If the popularization of football must be a lot of money, then many places like ours in the country do not have to do it." ”
Money is not the advantage of the development of British and German campus football, but in Zhong Chunlin's view, money cannot become an obstacle to the popularization of campus football in Britain and Germany. In 2021, Yingde City raised 500,000 yuan of funds, and Shenzhen One Fund invested 500,000 yuan to carry out the project of campus football one fund football team in Yingde City. 1 million funds, 100 One Foundation football teams.
Numerically, there are only 7 provincial-level promotion schools and 14 national special schools in Britain and Germany, so most of the participating projects are not campus football special schools, and the only advantage of special schools is to have the conditions to build two teams. This is a comprehensive promotion plan to mobilize social forces for Anglo-German schools, and it is also the first in the country. At present, all 36 primary schools in Yingde have completed the goal of establishing 100 One Foundation football teams.
The funds were guaranteed, and Zhong Chunlin also had to build teachers for them. Luo Xinpeng, chairman of the Yingde Football Association, paid 300,000 yuan out of his own pocket and vigorously promoted the cooperation of the One Foundation football promotion project. He and Fu Heng, the secretary general of the Football Association, are mainly responsible for the technical support. Once the school needs teachers, it will be arranged by the school football office, and the football association will send coaches into the school for voluntary guidance.
At the beginning of any model, difficulties may be encountered, and the school football office quickly found problems. After the Football Association sent technical backbones to schools, the physical education teachers in some schools lost interest and did not participate in training. This is not an individual phenomenon, and many schools have this problem. Therefore, the school football office resolutely suspended the technical support of the football association and convened a meeting of school leaders. "You don't expect the coaches of the FA to come to campus football every day to do things, it's impossible. If you encounter difficulties and need help, you can apply to send someone to support, but the normalization of things, it is definitely the school to be responsible, the teacher to be responsible. This is the most basic principle. Zhong Chunlin stressed at the meeting.
The football culture of society is not only formed by people who play football, but also by many people who are not directly involved in it. The Campus Football Circle in England and Germany has such a story. In Wangbu Town, there is a teacher who was seconded to work in the county housing management bureau and used to lead a football team at the school. In 2016, when he was having breakfast in the county government canteen, he heard that Yingde was going to engage in campus football, and through exchanges, he found Zhong Chunlin and said: "If you are in charge, I will go back to school." "Sometimes, the power of love can also withstand rice noodles, oil and salt. Later, the teacher really returned to the school as a coach and has persisted until now.
Such people are not "alone" in England and Germany. Fu Heng, secretary general of the Football Association, is a representative of the younger generation of British and German football workers after the 90s. Fu Heng, who passed the civil service examination and went public security system, for the sake of British and German football, categorically gave up the "fragrant food" in the eyes of others and devoted himself to social football work. Luo Xinpeng, president of the Football Association, personally funded to support Anglo-German social football for ten years, was awarded the first Anglo-German City Campus Football Moving Figure in April this year.
"It's hard to play campus football, we have to be worthy of them, a certificate, a souvenir doesn't cost much, but we have to remember what these people have done for Anglo-German football." Zhong Chunlin said.