Football competition becomes a "booster" for youth growth

In the first Chinese Youth Football League recently held, players from the U15 group of Fengmingshan Middle School in Chongqing City worked hard to break into the top eight and finally achieved the sixth place. Like Fengmingshan Middle School in Chongqing, for a long time, football teenagers from ordinary primary and secondary schools and ordinary universities, sports schools, and vocational club youth training echelons, and social youth training institutions across the country have compared to trial skills, trial skills, and Consulting tactics and communicating feelings, found inadequate and problems in the competition, and also gained strong physique and comprehensive growth. Football has become a "booster" for the healthy growth of young people.

Fusion of physical education to promote the healthy development of young people

The competition is the endogenous motivation for young people to participate in physical exercise. Only by establishing a comprehensive youth sports competition system can reserve talents continue to emerge. In 2020, the "Opinions on Deepening the integration of physical education and promoting the healthy development of young people" (hereinafter referred to as "Opinions"), jointly issued by the State General Administration of Sports and the Ministry of Education, pointed out that it is necessary to establish a healthy educational concept and promote the cultural learning and physical exercise of young people and exercise. Coordinate development, strengthen school sports, improve the youth sports competition system, and help students enjoy fun, enhance physical fitness, improve personality, and refine their will in physical exercise.

"Opinions" put forward reform requirements for the integration of youth sports events- "Compulsory education, high school and university stage student sports events are jointly organized by education and sports departments to formulate event plans and unified registration qualifications. Cooperate with the Student Sports Association of the Ministry of Education. " The fourth -level youth sports competition system of municipal, provincial, and countries) uses spare time to organize school competitions, organize inter -school competitions on weekends, and organize cross -regional and national competitions during holidays. "

In this context, with the approval of the State Council, the Ministry of Education, the General Administration of Sports, and the Chinese Football Association jointly launched the first Chinese Youth Football League. "The Chinese Youth Football League is facing all the teenagers. Without the restrictions of the competition, all the young people are competing fairly and freely in the same way. Enjoy fun, enhance physical fitness, improve personality, and refine will during exercise. "Jia Ning, director of the Youth Training Office of the Youth Sports Department of the State General Administration of Sports.

Break the barriers and let more outstanding reserve talents emerge

The Chinese Youth Football League is a top -covered young adolescent football event in my country with a wide range of coverage, high competitive levels, large number of participants, and high social influence. The competition takes the healthy development of youth players as the overall goal, adheres to the equal emphasis on cultural education and professional training, and cultivates the socialist builders and successors of the comprehensive development of morality, intellectual, physical and labor.

The biggest feature of the event is that it is aimed at all teenagers. There are no players and teams to participate in the competition. The sports school team, school team, professional club youth training echelon, social youth training institutions can participate, breaking the barriers to the past. The competition is divided into four ages of primary school, junior high school, high school, and university. A total of 18 participating groups have been set up and a reward mechanism is established to select outstanding talents through competitions. Some participants come from the old revolutionary areas, ethnic minority areas, and some from traditional sports provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities). Affected by the epidemic, many participants participated in the national competition for the first time, and most campus football teams were also confronting their professional teams for the first time.

"We put ordinary schools, physical schools, and club youth training teams and social institutional youth training teams on a competition platform to make all children in young football get the same game opportunities, so that more outstanding reserve talents and reserve talents and Good Miaozi emerged through the event. "Qiao Qihu, executive secretary of the Chinese Youth Football League Office, said in an interview with reporters.

In order to strengthen the purpose of integrating the competition, relevant departments have set different goals for the event: selecting outstanding talents through competitions, establishing an elite player database, laying a solid foundation for the establishment of national teams in all ages; Talents and transport outstanding talents for national teams are the goal of running the competition. They are combined to promote training and practice to achieve simultaneous improvement of training and competition; for all teenagers, adhere to cultural education and professional training Socialist builders and successors.

In order to attract more young people to participate in the competition, in addition to the U15 group conventional 80 minutes and U13 conventional 70 minutes, many competitions have set up the third quarter of the game. Many bench players played on the scene, and this link was praised by all parties. In addition, the Office of the Chinese Youth Football League also introduced wearable equipment, video analysis, and data collection in this event. This not only allows the Chinese Youth Football League to target the international advanced level, find deficiencies and gaps, but also for elite players’s Selected and future national team building provides a data foundation. The official client of the event "Green China" updates all the competition information in real time, so that fans are convenient for fans to pay attention to the process and development of the event at any time.

Statistics show that as of the end of the first stage, the men's U15 and U13 groups alone, the number of viewers of each platform exceeded 18 million.

Open vision, grow and grow in competition and exchanges

The league is not only the stage of the contestants competition, but also the stage for communication and growth. Huang Long, the leader of the sports team of Fengmingshan Middle School in Chongqing City: "We have cultivated on campus football for many years and laid a good foundation. This competition is a test of years of hard work. Sixth place, this has strengthened our conviction for a long time and comprehensive development. "Liu Yuhan, a student of the school in the third grade of the school, deeply appreciated the strength of teamwork in the competition:" From Tangshan to Changchun, we step by step, teamwork is getting more and more teamwork, and team cooperation is getting more and more. The more tacit understanding. As a campus team, it is not only necessary to kill the siege in the professional and professional echelon, but also the strong support of the school and the payment of parents. And the people who silently support us behind. "

The competition with other teams in the same age provides opportunities to learn from each other. For the first time in Shandong Binzhou Experimental Middle School, the Sports School and Club team played together. The group stage was divided into the same group as the football team of Shandong Luneng Taishan School and Shanxi Shuozhou Sports School. Xu Haitao, head coach of the football team of Binzhou Experimental Middle School, believes that good football players are not only practiced, but also competed: "Fighting with the strong team, you can see your own shortcomings, increase the experience of the game, to players and coaches For example, it is a rare growth experience. "

"We have not tuned for a long time, only 5 years. From the beginning, there are only 14 players. Now there are three echelons: U14, U16, and U18. The women's football team has developed better and better. There is still a certain gap in strength. This time, participating in the competition came with the attitude of learning. "Wei Yuejuan, the leader of the Lingwu City Sports School of the Hui Hui Autonomous Region in Ningxia, said that her women's football team has won many championships in Ningxia in recent years, but There are few opportunities to compete with other provinces, they cherish the opportunity for this exchange.

Huang Weiwei, a member of Hainan Qiongzhong Women's Football Team, is to enter the Chinese national team. She said: "Through the competition, I realized my shortcomings, but for my dreams, I would always stick to it."

The teenager is strong in China. Young people are young and stubbornly struggling to continue to work hard to chase their dreams. The future of Chinese football will also change because of their efforts. (Reporter Li Xiaowei)

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