"Yangtze River Cup", praise!

At the press conference of the "Yangtze River Cup" Wuhan Workers' Football Tournament, the reporter saw two very familiar faces. For many fans in Wuhan, Hubei, the names of the two are also like Lei Guan Ear -Lin Qiang, former national foot and former Wuhan team coach Chen Fangping.

The employee football of the year created the national footbuilding Linqiang

In the past five years, Lin Qiang joined the Shanghai Shenhua Club as an echelon coach. Under his training, the Shenhua U22 team won a number of championships in youth events including Youth Chao and Champions Cup, and 5 of the teams were selected as the National Youth Team. After finishing the work of Shenhua, Lin Qiang currently returned to Wuhan. At the invitation of the Municipal Sports Bureau, he served as a technical consultant of the Wuhan team (Sports Cup).

Speaking of employee football, Lin Qiang has endless words, because he has a deep relationship with Wuhan employees football. Lin Qiang's father, Lin Xianqin, is the worker of the Wuhan Meat Factory. Wuhan Meat Factory was a hegemon of Wuhan Workers' Football Games. Because of the many times, the football in the dormitory area of ​​the meat federation factory has almost reached crazy. Lin Qiang was fascinated from a young age under the influence of this atmosphere. Before he was in elementary school, he had revealed the edge among the children. When he was in the third grade of elementary school at the Meat Federation Children's School, he participated in the provincial primary school competition on behalf of the school team, and won twice. It can be said that without the football of the meat joint factory, there will be no later national foot.

"Yes, when I was young, the staff of Wuhan was very popular and the level was very high." Lin Qiang recalled, "At that time, if the players could not enter the team at the age of 20, they would generally choose to work with the factory. In some large enterprises, there are many team members who retired from the second and third teams of the provinces and cities. The level of the company's team is not much worse than the professional team. I remember often playing games between the companies at that time. All of them go through the walls of the courtyard and enter the factory to see. "

Lin Qiang lamented that there are too many children now, not as much as before playing football as before. However, Wuhan's local youth training is still quite good in the country. He praised the Municipal Sports Bureau, the Municipal Federation of Trade Unions, and the Yangtze River Daily to restore the restarting staff's football games, saying: "This is a great thing, it is good for the popularization of football in the region. Employees and amateur football enthusiasts, but they can use their actual actions to pass their love for football to the people around them, especially children. This is a good way to popularize football. I believe that Wuhan's local football youth training must be Can benefit from it. "

Chen Fangping: It is my honor to participate in the "Yangtze River Cup"

Chen Fangping is a well -known "champion coach" in the region. In 2005, he led the team to win the Super League Cup. This is the highest level of the Men's professional football in Wuhan in Hubei. In recent years, Chen Fangping has been engaged in youth training in the region. Last year in Shaanxi, he led the Hubei U20 team to win the fourth place in the National Games. At the invitation of the Municipal Sports Bureau this year, he served as the head coach of the Wuhan team (Sports Cup) and was responsible for teaming and training.

"In order to prepare for the total cup of the body, we have conducted the first round of training in April. The players are mainly players who have not received professional contracts for the time being. On June 27, we started the second round of the second round. Training, joined the echelon players of the three town teams of Wuhan, and the team is still running in. "Chen Fangping said," This time we will sign up for the 'Yangtze River Cup' 11 people -based competition. Qualification of the Sports Cup. "

A total of 12 teams participated in the 11 -player competition of the "Yangtze River Cup" this year. National "Sports Cup" competition.

Speaking of Wuhan's employees football, Chen Fangping said: "It was really hot that year. Anyway, when I was young, the meat and public repairer were quite famous. We often run around and watch adults. It is a very good mass sports activity. Although it has been interrupted for a while, the Yangtze River Daily and other units have restored it again. This is really a blessing of all employees in Wuhan. The Yangtze River Cup 'will be more and more mature, affecting more people to participate. I have watched the employee's football competition growing up, and now I have to participate in myself and I have to participate in person. I am very honored. "(Changjiang Daily reporter Zhang Lin)

[Edit: Deng La Xiu]

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