Chasing Light | Football Dream on Yellow Land

Like most counties on the Loess Plateau

Zhidan County, Shaanxi Province

Hidden in the narrow river valley between the two mountains

Because a man named Ding Changbao

Many teenagers

Life has made a dream about football

Different

Twenty years ago, Ding Changbao was just a blood -blooded fan

Seeing the Chinese men's football at the 2002 World Cup hate

He wants to build a football club in Zhidan

Promote Chinese football forward

However, at that time, the people who often played the ball in Zhidan County

Only 60

30 students, 30 adults

Ding Changbao took the adult team to participate in the province's competition

It can be imagined

His original dream

Crushed by the cold reality

In 2007, the confused Ding Changbao

Write to ask for advice from Family Zhang Road in Football

Zhang Lu told him

To eliminate all utilitarian thinking

Hob on grass -roots football

Let those children who want to play

Really enjoy football

Later, Zhidan County established the Football Association

Ding Changbao also opened

The road to popularize football on loess land

In order to get the "pass order" entering the campus

After cooperating with Zhidan County Education Bureau

Zhidan Football Association obtained permission

Can enter the campus to engage in football popularization

through hard work

In 2010, Zhidan was rated as

National Campus Football Activity Pilot County

The following year, local documents were introduced in the local area

Each year from the county fiscal funding of 100,000 yuan in funds

Determine the campus football office is located in the Football Association

Ding Changbao's office director

Year 2014

Zhidan County has increased funds to campus football every year to 3 million yuan

Determine that the school's football office is a public institution directly under the county education bureau

Under policy blessing and fiscal tilt

Zhidan's football career has gained accelerated development

Since 2015

Zhidan Youth Football Team has won

47 children's football champions at all levels

But the trophy and glory are for Ding Changbao

No longer the most important thing

His ideal is

Let everyone who wants to play can play freely

Given talented children can receive professional training for free

Now

More than 20 primary and secondary schools in Zhidan County have launched campus football

Count on the simple venue of kindergarten

There are 35 yuan in various types of football venues

There are more than 20,000 children in football class

The number of people who often participate in football also reached 6000

Football has become a veritable "first movement" of Zhidan

Relying on enthusiasm for football

And my hard training day after day

246 children who are associated with football

Have a different life path quietly

Fu Jie, born in 2001

Now is the player of the Zhongjia team Heilongjiang Bingcheng Team

And Platinum waves graduated from Zhidan County Security Middle School

He also served as a football coach at Qingdao Zhongneng Club

In November 2020, Fu Jie (first from left) was with his father

Aspect of women's football

The Zhidan Football Association not only sends a lot of talents to the Shaanxi team

And also with Hebei Football Featured School

Handan No. 1 Middle School has established cooperative relationships

In 2015, Handan No. 1 Middle School accepted from Zhidan

Jin Qiaoqiao waited for three girls

There are four children in Jin Qiaoqiao's house

Only she kicks the ball

Only she was admitted to college alone

On April 13, 2014, on the football field of Zhidan County Senior High School in Shaanxi Province, Wang Mao Mao (front left), the sixth grade student of Shadozi Elementary School, participated in the Chiyan Youth Campus Football League in Zhidan County. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Ding Haitao

Like Jin Qiaoqiao

Wang Mao Mao also changed his life trajectory because of football

With football specialty

She is currently studying at Chongqing Normal University

This summer, she helps the Football Association every day

Leading Zhidan U11 Women's Football Training

she says

"I hope to inherit Zhidan's football tradition

I also look forward to starting from grade third or fourth grade in the future

From a young age, a team of style is similar to Barcelona

Open your own coaching career "

Ding Changbao said, in a few years

Waiting for a group of players to grow up gradually

He may form a team

Start from the Champions League

Top first level and one level

Hundreds of Children in Zhidan County

Because football developed a different life route

And Ding Changbao's ideals for football development

It is also becoming a reality step by step

Reporter: Yao Youming, Zhao Yingbo

[Editor in charge: Shi Ge]

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