Longtan Street, Dongcheng District, not only has a community team, but also Beijing's first street-level football association, Longtan Street Football Association, last year residents had their own door competition, Longtan Street "Longtan Community Cup" eight-a-side football match. "Salute to the Ordinary Fitness Guide" aired the second episode of "The Team at the Doorstep, the Ball Game at the Doorstep"
Every Saturday, the Longtan Street Football Team gathers at the Temple of Heaven Sports Center Stadium to practice footwork or play a friendly football match. Qiu Yan, vice president and vice chairman of the Longtan Street Football Association in Dongcheng District, Beijing, said: "Our team was first formed in 2020, and the team members come from different industries, mainly grassroots residents. ”
Although it is a community team, the team trains unequivocally, and the team's coach and player, Liu Ziyuan, said: "We usually have weekend activities every time, which is to train with competitions. Before the game, we will organize everyone to warm up together, and after the game, we will also summarize and see some deficiencies in the game, and we will communicate. We are also from all walks of life, and we will communicate with each other, and in the end, we will achieve a goal of how to unite this cohesion and play good football. At first, when you don't know each other, it may be where you want to play, and then after a period of running-in, everyone has a fixed position. When we don't usually have any competitions now, our activities every weekend are to participate in the activities with the mentality of exercising and national fitness. If there are games, we will mobilize, we will prepare for the games, and we will prepare for these games. For a team like ours from all walks of life, because of the limited time, we will train some simple skills and tactics every weekend, that is, set-pieces, corners, free kicks, and we will make some plans. ”
In 2021, the first Community Cup Eight-a-side Football Match in Beijing, a national fitness football event, was held, and the Longtan Street Team won the runner-up in the Dongcheng District Trials. In the second Community Cup, the Longtan Street Youth Team won the third place in the youth group, and this series of achievements made the team feel the unique charm brought by the competitive competition. Qiu Yan said that this experience has made everyone more cohesive: "At that time, we were really nervous when we participated in the competition for the first time, because we really had never participated in this kind of competition, and there were winners and losers as soon as we came up, and the first time we participated in the competition, it was a knockout system." At that time, our team participated in the youth group, and they were all relatively young players, so everyone still played very seriously and hard, so we won a runner-up in Dongcheng District for the first time, and I think the results are still very good. Then we participated in the Beijing Eight-side Community Cup in '22, and at that time we achieved a good result, which was the third place in the Beijing Youth Group. After participating in these two competitions, our team is fixed on the weekend, and everyone will have training. ”
Based on the love of community residents for football, and in order to better extend football to community development and build a grassroots football cultivation system, the Longtan Street Football Association of Dongcheng District, Beijing came into being. As the first street-level football association in Beijing, the Longtan Street Football Association in Dongcheng District, Beijing, which was established on a pilot basis, is supervised and socialized by the government to explore a new path for the development of grassroots football. Wang Chenyu, Secretary-General of the Longtan Street Football Association, introduced: "In 2021, Beijing held the first eight-a-side community cup football match, and at that time, our street organized two teams, one was the youth group and the other was the middle-aged group. After that game, the General Administration of Sports of the People's Republic of China and the Sports Bureau of Dongcheng District took the lead in setting up such a street-level football association on a pilot basis, which is also the first in Beijing so far. Another difference between our association is that the government is only responsible for supervision, and it is operated by socialization, and the team performance at that time was also relatively good and more loved, so it was to see if they had the ability to operate, and this association was established in this way. ”
With the efforts of the Longtan Street Football Association, in 2023, residents will have a game at their doorstep - the Longtan Street "Longtan Community Cup" eight-a-side football match. Among the players are community people, people's teachers, public security police, emergency personnel, medical workers, social workers, employees of government agencies and institutions, etc., and the "Longtan Community Cup" has launched a total of 20 fierce competitions. As the first grassroots football event hosted by the street in Beijing and undertaken by the street football association for the majority of football lovers, the "Longtan Community Cup" has become Longtan Street's own "village super". Wang Chenyu said: "First, our Dongcheng District has created a national sports model area. Second, we are consolidating this main line, so we are thinking about how to give full play to our abilities, and we will entrust our Football Association to do the undertaking. Because I usually talk about playing football a lot, in fact, many teams, including our community residents, want to practice on weekends. We still want to build a 15-minute fitness circle, we have our own community football system on the street and on our doorstep, and many residents come to participate in our games. ”
With the successful experience in 2023, the "Longtan Community Cup" in 2024 will also be expanded to meet the willingness of the public to participate in the street.
From a team on your doorstep to a ball game on your doorstep. The football culture atmosphere of Longtan community is becoming stronger and stronger, and it has also established a link of grassroots football culture and sports, and built a social football event platform for community residents to meet friends, learn from each other, communicate with each other, and participate extensively. Relying on the Longtan Street Football Association, grassroots football is also entering the youth and entering the campus. As a player and coach of the Longtan Community Football Team, Liu Ziyuan leads the children in football training every week. Wang Chenyu introduced: "At the beginning of last year, we also entrusted the Longtan Football Association to set up a youth football team for us, and last year we cultivated three small teams in three communities, and this year we will continue this form to let youth sports grow and develop." ”
Returning to football itself, weekly football training matches have become an essential part of the lives of members of a community team like Liu Ziyuan: "Because we work from Monday to Friday, we look forward to playing football on Saturday every week. To put it simply, it's two hours of exercise on the field, but these two hours are fully engaged. We also want to continue this competition and get more people involved. ”
As an important part of people's lives, the community has brought the competition into the lives of the masses and in their hearts, attracting more residents to participate, making sports and fitness a common practice in the community, truly reflecting the participation of everyone in national fitness and benefiting the whole people.