The Loess Plateau in spring
The children take off their winter coats
Run with the wind on the playground
Soccer balls flew under their feet
This is the most common scenery in Zhidan County in northern Shaanxi
Over here
Football has long become a "compulsory subject" for primary and secondary school students
Usually as long as you have time
Ding Changbao, chairman of the Zhidan County Football Association
will walk into the campus
Watch the dolls kick the ball
March 29 is the anniversary of the establishment of the Zhidan County Football Association
It is also "Zhidan Football Day"
Every time in the day
Memories will bring him back to March 29, 2014
That "Moment of Glory"
In March 2014, the players of the Zhidan County Youth Football Team played with the Wolfsburg Football Club Junior Players. Photo courtesy of the interviewee
Exactly ten years ago
Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Germany
The Zhidan County Youth Football Team led by Ding Changbao
With VfL Wolfsburg FC Junior
There was a great showdown
The young players in northern Shaanxi are actively running and dare to fight
It won the applause of the audience
The scene of that day
Those who witnessed it, including Ding Changbao, still remember it vividly
It is a public welfare project of non-governmental diplomacy of the China Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries
Part of the "Rainbow Bridge Project".
The young players of the Zhidan County Youth Football Team
I spent more than a week training, competing, and living in Germany
Learn about the advanced local training methods and football education concepts
This became the starting point for their dreams
Members of the Zhidan County Junior Football Team pose for a group photo in front of the Wolfsburg Football Club. Photo courtesy of the interviewee
Professional athlete, physical education teacher, club coach
……
Most of the members of the "Liuyang" that year
Now in a different position
Continue to chase the football dream
Wang Maomao, who graduated from Chongqing Normal University
He returned to Chengguan Primary School in Zhidan County as a physical education teacher
With your own experience
The infection is the same as when she was a child
Children who see football and have a light in their eyes
Zhou Xu, who was the goalkeeper back then
He is now in his junior year at Chang'an University
He said
It's still the former teammates who play together
The most important event when reuniting
Zhou Xu, who was wearing the No. 99 jersey, shot angrily in the game. Photo courtesy of the interviewee
football
It not only guides the life course of the "football player".
It also brings their self-confidence and self-improvement on the field into life
Liu Wenrui, who studied at Xi'an Institute of Physical Education, told reporters
Since his freshman year, he has basically stopped asking his family for living expenses
All rely on primary and secondary schools and clubs in Xi'an
Lead the team to train and earn your own expenses
Liu Wenrui (front row, first from right) and his teammates. Photo courtesy of the interviewee
Compared to the rotation of the children's "gears of fate".
Ding Changbao has also changed a lot in the past ten years
In 2003, he established a football association in Zhidan
He wants to build a "Centennial Club".
After arriving in Germany, he set a new ambition -
Football doesn't have to be a professional player
Rather, it is necessary to improve the overall quality of children with the help of football
Make football a part of their way of life
With the attention and support of the whole society
Ding Changbao and other Zhidan football people
只争朝夕
It not only helps the football team of all ages in Zhidan County
Won nearly 50 championships above the municipal level
It is also in promoting the integration of sports and education at the grassroots level
tells a wonderful story of Zhidan -
The football fields of schools in the county have been renovated one after another
25 primary and secondary schools already have 30 football fields of different sizes
Let students play with the ball happily, practice the ball nearby, and play the ball safely
Held the Zhidan County Youth Football League
"Spring Festival Cup", "Red Star Cup" and so on
Campus and social football events
It attracts 25 schools and 44 teams every year
More than 6,000 people are involved in football
A variety of football activities in Zhidan County.
Coordinate the naming of the Shaanxi women's football team
Shaanxi Women's Football Club Zhidan Football Team
Stimulate your child's endogenous motivation to participate in football
and accumulate experience in organizing competitions for the local area
Shaanxi Women's Football Club Zhidan Football Team competes in the Women's Super League.
Yan'an Zhidan Youth Football School was established
Former international player Wang Tao was invited to teach
He also served as the director of youth training of Zhidan Football
Among the members of that junior team ten years ago
There are quite a few people who will be on a regular basis
Meet and interact with local elementary and junior high school students
They all confessed
Zhidan now not only has more specialized venues and training methods
There is also a strong football atmosphere
and surging passion for sports
Relying on football
Locally expected
"One specialization and multiple abilities + noble character + self-reliance, self-confidence + self-development"
Educational goals
It's slowly becoming a reality
"We hope to do so in the next decade
Let the level of Zhidan youth training construction go to the forefront of the country
Through youth training, more talents have been cultivated for Chinese football
and held through youth football tournaments
Promote the high-quality development of county economy"
Bai Wanjie, director of the Zhidan County Education, Science and Technology Sports Bureau, said
Looking back 10 years ago, looking forward to 10 years from now
With the support of the state and the joint efforts of provinces and cities
Zhidan County has become a pilot of football youth training in the western region for the integration of sports and education
The road to building dreams of football is getting wider and wider
Zhidan football people are still the same
Take dreams as horses and keep walking
Content source: Xinhua News Agency