This summer vacation, Sun Xiaoming, the old principal of Sanhe Primary School in Shizhutujia Autonomous County, Chongqing, said joyfully: "Of our 20 female dolls, 19 of them have been admitted to good universities this year because of their football expertise. How did this group of female dolls who walked out of the ravine achieve the counterattack of life and become the "golden phoenix" flying out of the mountain? On August 25, under the leadership of the Shizhu County Women's Federation, the reporter of China Women's Daily returned to Sanhe Primary School to revisit the group of left-behind girls who changed their lives through a small football.
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Form a soccer team to get the kids out
Shizhutujia Autonomous County is located in the alpine area southeast of Yudong, and Sanhe Primary School is an alpine immigrant primary school here. Due to the remoteness, difficult conditions, and lack of teachers, it is difficult for most children here to enter the big city by relying on cultural achievements, and many children drop out of school to work after graduating from junior high school or during high school. Sun Xiaoming, who was the principal of Sanhe Primary School at the time, believed that the children in the mountains had cultivated a hard-working spirit and a strong physique from an early age, and that allowing children to study in better schools might be a way out. Therefore, in 2013, Trois-Rivières Elementary School formed the first girls' soccer team and began to develop football specialty education, so that children who are good at soccer can also enter the city to study through their talents.
Since the fall of 2013, the school has purchased a soccer ball for each child, a weekly soccer lesson per class, and monthly class leagues for all ages. In order not to delay their studies, the girls always choose to train after school and on weekends; The conditions are difficult, the training ground is concrete, and falling is a scar; Flipping the ball, controlling the ball, familiar with the ball, practicing for hours at every turn... Some girls cried because of the pain, and some girls cried because they were tired, but after crying, they gritted their teeth and joined the team to continue practicing. The football team members sent away a batch and joined a batch, the school football atmosphere is getting stronger and stronger, the football spirit is getting higher and higher, and football has been integrated into the daily life of children.
In the past 10 years, this team of left-behind girls has won 26 championships and runners-up in competitions above the municipal level, 3 team members have been selected for the campus football national team, known as "sonorous roses in the mountains", and won the 2017 "Top Ten People Who Moved Chongqing" special award and "National Campus Football Excellent Characteristic School". Sanhe Primary School campus football has become a business card of the education system of Shizhu County and even Chongqing. This group of girls also passed the school selection in the main city through their own efforts, and gradually moved towards a wider world.
In 2020, Ma Qinglin, the first football player of Sanhe Primary School, was admitted to Shanghai Sports Institute with his football expertise. As a national first-class football player, she has now become a professional player of Shanghai Shenhua team, participating in the 2020 and 2021 Chinese Football Association Women's League A with the team, helping the team to finish 4th and 6th respectively. In 2020, she represented Shanghai University of Sport in the 2019-2020 National Youth Campus Football University Women's Super Championship League, helping the varsity team win the championship; In 2021, she represented Shanghai University of Sport in the National Youth Campus Football League (University Group) competition, and helped the school team win the championship... Ma Qinglin's "road to success" has made her an idol for many students at Trois-Rivières Primary School, and becoming a "football star" and winning a "champion" has become the goal of children's hearts.
In 2022 and 2023, 20 female soccer team members of Sanhe Primary School will take the college entrance examination, and 19 of them will be admitted to their ideal universities. Beijing Sport University, Shanghai Institute of Sport, Ningxia University, Northeast Normal University... Football has not only become a passion in the hearts of these girls, but also helped them to go further into the future.
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Struggle, Girl The road is at your feet
As soon as they arrived in Sanhe Town, Qin Furong, Liu Liping and Xiang Yuxin, former football girls from Sanhe School, greeted them, who were studying in the main city away from their parents all year round, and specially prepared fruits and mineral water to invite the Shizhu County Women's Federation and the reporter to sit down. This time, the Shizhu County Women's Federation also sent them warm gifts such as quilts to congratulate them on being admitted to their ideal university.
"It was football that gave us hope as a family." Qin Furong said with tears in her eyes. Qin Furong's family is not financially wealthy, her grandfather is not in good health, and her parents work outside for many years, fully supporting her three siblings to go to school. In the conversation of the school teacher, the enlightened father realized that football can give his daughter a better future, and he often called Qin Furong to instruct: "You walked out of the mountain by playing football, now the study and living conditions are so good, you should study and play football at ease outside, don't think about anything, let's borrow money to go to school." ”
"Be sure to get into a good school and live up to the love of my parents and coaches." Qin Furong secretly made up her mind to study and practice more diligently from then on. Starlight lived up to the passers-by, and filial piety she was admitted to the national "double first-class" Donghua University because of her football expertise, and she also became the pride of the family. "After going to college, I want to learn my major well, play the ball well, and after I come out, I can be a coach and referee, so that my parents can live a good life." Qin Furong is full of expectations for the future life.
For Liu Liping, the most immediate benefits of football are her healthy body and self-confidence. She laughed and said: "You don't know, I was only physically (bad) before playing football, a cold can make me sick for a month, and they all describe me as skinny." And when I was a child, I was very introverted, and I had to muster up courage for half a day to say a word to others. Since joining the soccer team in the fifth grade, I have been working out early every day, and my body has become stronger with the naked eye, and I am not sick. My health is better, my personality is better, the team competition on the field has taught me to communicate with other sisters, and each success has enhanced my self-confidence and sense of responsibility, and it can be said that football has changed me as a person from the inside out. ”
In Xiang Yuxin's heart, football is a word for happiness. She talked about that time, there was no professional venue in a professional venue, and there was no professional coach in a professional coach, at first everyone was just playing and playing, but in 2015 they won home the championship of school football in the city, and everyone realized that playing football can really change fate, and it turns out that playing football can become a happy thing in life. Since then, they have trained even harder. Slowly, they fell in love with this movement of fighting for physical strength and wisdom, breakthrough and unity. With a passion, no matter the wind or rain, the friends will get together to play football, even if it is 20 or 30 yuan sneakers, they have played wonderful games and wonderful lives.
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That little black and white ball has become an important part of life
"Every moment is like forever. Because a selection was discovered, I started to know football from my alma mater, and football has been playing with me ever since. Fourth grade: A short-haired black baby who was ignorant that year and devoted himself to learning the basics. Fifth grade: Young and old, holding the title of captain and following the invincible Ran Sect. Sixth grade: Coach Wang, who is still childish, took up his post with a certificate and won the final championship of primary school... Senior One: Thick and thin, the cold Coach Wang finally gave his thumbs up. Second year of high school: Regrettably injured, tearfully became a little assistant to watch his family win the championship. Senior year: Start the countdown of memories, thoughts hit the most painful and bloody year for high school seniors, cheering is the most hanging sentence, and the click of the last picture attaches the most perfect end to the senior year! Nine years is like slow porridge stewed over a small fire, and I seem to enjoy it. Li Chunju, who was admitted to Northeast Normal University, summed up his nine years of association with football. In the past nine years, coaches have become parents, football has become partners, teammates have become comrades, she has experienced the bitterness of failure, but also tasted the sweetness of success, in her heart, playing football has become the most important part of her life.
Chen Xiangling, a national first-class athlete, is the champion of the women's group of the Chongqing School Football League Municipal Finals, the champion of the women's U13 group of the Chongqing City Football League, and the first place in the women's A group of the Football Association Cup. This stubborn stone pillar girl mentioned football, and her eyes flashed with dazzling light: "It is football that has taught me self-confidence and strength." ”
Get up at 6.30 a.m. to wash and eat; Early reading from 7.30, English from 8.30 to 10.30; 10.40—12.30 Mathematics; 14.00-16.00 Politics, language; 17.00—19.00 Training. This is Chen Xiangling's schedule that she repeats at home.
She bluntly said that this year of repetition alone chose to review at home, which tested mentality and control. In terms of study, at the beginning, I was very confused, I didn't know where to start, there was no atmosphere, no one discussed when I encountered problems, I had to study by myself, until I made a study plan, according to the school routine, and slowly everything got on track. Later, because I was infected with the new crown, I couldn't train, and the state I finally found was gone, and I almost couldn't stick to it several times. But the confidence and tenacity that football brought her, she never gave up.
"After 365 days of hard work, I was finally admitted to Hunan Normal University this year. The light boat had passed the Ten Thousand Heavy Mountains, and this light still shone in, although it was a year late. I hope that the students who will take next year's exam will achieve excellent results and be admitted to their ideal university. In a letter to her junior, Chen Xiangling recalled the bits and pieces of football that have accompanied her over the years.
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From skepticism to support, Mom and Dad let you fly
"Congratulations to Zhang Jie, admitted to your favorite university!" When the reporter dialed Ma Peifang, the mother of Zhang Jie, who had just been admitted to Beijing Sport University this year, she had just put her daughter on a train to Beijing to start a new journey in life. Recalling that the female doll who hoped to study in the main city by playing football and being with her parents has now become a heroic athlete, Mother Zhang lamented that football changed the trajectory of her daughter's life.
"She is our daughter-in-law and has held it in the palm of her hand since she was a child. Her father and I both thought it was too hard to play football, afraid that she would get hurt and that she would delay her studies, and did not support her to play football at first, but she said that she was not afraid and could stand it. "The hearts of parents who love their children are the same, but with the persuasion of the teacher visiting the door again and again, and the insistence of her daughter, Ma Peifang and her husband "compromised" and decided to let their daughter give it a try.
In 2015, Zhang Jie and her teammates took home the championship, and the school in the main city of Chongqing extended an olive branch to them, and Ma Peifang and her husband really felt that playing football can change their destiny. But Zhang Jie was only 9 years old at that time, what should such a young girl do if she leaves her parents to study and live? Ma Peifang was not without apprehension, but after several years of training, she chose to trust her daughter and coach. Immersed in the joy of her daughter and teammates taking home the honor again and again, and after witnessing the enthusiasm of her daughter and teammates who insisted on shooting again and again even in heavy rain, Ma Peifang and her husband completely let go. What makes her proud is that her daughter has flown higher and farther from the mountains to the main city to the metropolis.
Now Ma Peifang is very grateful to the teachers and coaches of Three Rivers Primary School, who made a good seedling grow into a big tree. She said with a smile: "I am still doing work for others, saying that sports can really make dolls have a good future, even if they do not engage in sports in the future, but the character and quality cultivated can also change people's lives." ”
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Consistent Care Come on! Wind-chasing boy
"Ten years ago, in a rural primary school, a left-behind women's soccer team was formed from the fourth and fifth grade girls. But you have changed your lives with practical actions, and how many people you have touched in the course of ten years of struggle have inspired the latter. In the past ten years, with the strength given to you by society and people from all walks of life, you have never been alone. There are teammates and teachers and their company. You have gained a lot in ten years and achieved our common dream. Teacher's parents, I am happy and proud of you! There is no end to the journey of life, only endeavor. I firmly believe that you will use the sonorous rose spirit in the mountains to compose your more brilliant life. Sun Xiaoming wrote a message to the girls on WeChat, which is also the common hope of all people who accompany and care for their growth.
Ma Jianqiong, president of the Shizhu County Women's Federation, said that the county women's federation will actively match caring female entrepreneurs with these troubled female college students to help them complete their studies and realize their dreams. At the same time, the county women's and children's activity center is used to provide extracurricular football training for left-behind children during the holidays, and invites these sisters full of positive energy to return to their hometowns to start classes, so that the children can learn football knowledge and skills from it, but also learn their tenacity in difficult situations, and also help these female college students get social practice opportunities and get paid and grow through their own labor. After graduation, they will also be trained in employment and entrepreneurship to guide their lives.
In 2023
China Women's Daily
Source/China Women's Daily (ID: fnb198410) Author/China Women's Daily All Media Reporter Ren Ran / Le Ding Editor/Chen Xiaobing Review/Yifan Producer/Zhifei