Reporter Cai Zonglin reported that in the afternoon of Yangcheng after the autumn, there was less stuffiness and more coolness, which was a good time to play football. On the side of the football field of Guangzhou Tourism Business Vocational School, Teacher Yang Xiaojun, the head of the school football team, habitually walked to the side of the field to stop and watch. On the pitch, former Guangzhou star Mak Guangliang and his team are carefully guiding the players in training, and they are preparing for the Guangzhou High School Champions Cup and the Guangdong Provincial Governor's Cup Youth Campus Football League at the end of this year.
In the middle school football that was once close to a blank, they drew the most beautiful picture with hard work.
Usually, when it comes to the development of campus football, everyone thinks of the conventional system of "primary school, junior high school, high school, and college". Students are exposed to football from elementary school, and then they can't do without football all the way to school, until they grow up and enter college, which is the routine of campus football.
Because of this, most of the resources and attention of school football are invested in this conventional system, especially in the more developed cities of football in the country, there are always so many elementary schools, junior high schools and high schools that are well known to locals because of their excellent football performance. However, it should not be overlooked that the national rate of progression to ordinary high schools after passing the secondary school entrance examination is around 60% every year, in other words, nearly 40% of students are diverted to secondary vocational education schools after the secondary examination.
The educational needs of this considerable number of students are borne by various secondary vocational schools. Although a few of these secondary vocational schools with a strong sense of campus football development will develop football by holding intramural competitions. At the same time, they began to pay attention to the sports students of junior high schools early on, and began to recruit students in a targeted manner after the annual middle school examination, but overall, the development of campus football in secondary vocational schools can be said to be basically blank before 2015.
Because it is not taken seriously, the campus football of secondary vocational schools inevitably has a series of problems such as school non-development, five enthusiasm of students, lack of venues and football teachers, etc. For secondary vocational schools, the most fatal flaw is that the relatively mature school football routine system does not include them. Therefore, there is no established game in the scope of the middle vocational system to support the development of campus football, which is equivalent to the fish without water, and the school can only talk about development in the context of single-handedness. After all, football is a competitive sport.
In early 2016, a questionnaire survey of 20 secondary vocational schools in Guangzhou showed that the average participation rate of secondary vocational school students in football activities was only about 10%. Of the 20 schools, only 4 are able to have a team every grade. The number of schools with soccer teams in each class is 0. Of all the schools surveyed, 60 per cent did not organise any intramural football events, while nearly half did not participate in any inter-school soccer matches.
In the years when Guangzhou Evergrande rose and dominated, the football atmosphere in Guangzhou became more and more intense. From 1999 to 2014, the "Mayor's Cup" of Guangzhou Primary and Secondary School Football Tournament has been held for 15 sessions. However, in this most important competition, there has never been a secondary vocational school team. In 2014, the first "R&F Cup" Guangzhou Primary and Secondary School Football League set up a boys' and girls' competition in the middle vocational group, which allowed the secondary vocational school in Yangcheng to really have the opportunity to play. At the time, this was a national demonstration.
In March 2015, the "Overall Plan for the Reform and Development of Chinese Football" was officially announced, this document clarified the important position of sports represented by football in education, the development of campus football has been an unprecedented opportunity, and the campus football of the secondary vocational school has finally been paid attention to by the education department, and the resulting resource allocation has gradually entered the secondary vocational campus.
After the Guangzhou Primary and Secondary School Football League regularly set up the middle vocational group competition, the Guangdong Provincial "Governor's Cup" Youth Campus Football League also began to open to the middle vocational team in 2016, and the middle vocational group competition was established and operated so far. The same changes are taking place in other provinces. Shanghai resumed the secondary vocational football tournament in 2015, and the last official competition between secondary vocational schools in Shanghai before that dated back to 1998.
With the support of stable competitions, the campus football of the middle school finally burst out of the vitality they should have, and guangzhou tourism business vocational school (hereinafter referred to as Guangzhou tourism business) is one of the leaders. Founded in 1981, Guangzhou Travel & Business is one of the first batch of national secondary vocational education reform and development demonstration schools, national key secondary vocational schools, under the tourism and culture, cooking and health, business foreign languages, economic management, media and image design five professional departments, as the first school in Guangdong Province to establish a culinary profession, for the development of the catering industry in Guangdong Province to send a large number of culinary top management talents, known as "Cantonese chef Whampoa Military Academy".
From the perspective of the major set by the school, Guangzhou travel and business professional settings are mainly liberal arts, and the source of students is naturally mostly girls, "Before the "Governor's Cup" won the championship, the development of football in our school can only be said to be average, but our badminton, table tennis, athletics and basketball have developed well. Principal Wu Haohong said.
The campus sports of a secondary vocational school, which accounts for nearly 70% of the total number of female students, can be developed with great success, and Principal Wu Haohong is indispensable. Wu Haohong is a sports fan, he knows the importance of sports to educate people, so he has been vigorously supporting the development of the school's campus sports career.
In 2015, Guangzhou travel merchants participated in the "Governor's Cup" for the first time and brought back the Golden Twinkle Championship Trophy with an excellent record of seven battles and seven victories. For that experience, Wu Haohong was deeply impressed.
After the establishment of the Guangzhou Travel Business School Football Team in 2012, it participated in the first "R&F Cup" Guangzhou Primary and Secondary School Football League in 2014, and also got a ticket to represent Guangzhou in the 2015 "Governor's Cup". At that time, the high school group competition of the "Governor's Cup" was not divided into two groups, high school and middle school, or a big scuffle. Guangzhou Travel Merchants' opponents are 31 high school and secondary vocational teams in Guangdong Province, including many traditional football schools such as Guangzhou Zhenguang Middle School, Huashifu Middle School, Shenzhen Cuiyuan Middle School, Shajing Middle School and Meizhou Middle School and Xingning No. 1 Middle School from the "hometown of football". That year, their opponents also included Evergrande Football School, which represented Qingyuan and was still in the campus football system at the time.
The province is full of strong hands, and for the new army Guangzhou travel merchants, whether it is the overall strength and experience, they are at a disadvantage. At this time, only to clarify their own positioning, Hu Jia, a member of the team who was still a first-year student at the time, recalled: "We will be particularly united, and we will fight with all our strength in every game." ”
Barefoot people are not afraid to wear shoes. Guangzhou Travel Merchants met Evergrande Football School in the second round of their group stage. At that time, Evergrande Football School had been operating for several years, and the teams participating in the "Governor's Cup" had also undergone professional echelon-level material selection and training. Guangzhou travel merchants had long been prepared for their overall disadvantage, so they also formulated tactics for a steady counterattack.
They are lucky. In the opening 15 minutes, Guangzhou Travel merchants played a counterattack, and the evergrande football school defender who returned to the defense accidentally ate the "red dot package" in front of the goal for handball fouls. Guangzhou travel merchants seized the opportunity to open the record, and then they scored another goal to take a two-goal lead at half-time. After the professional selection of the players are strong, Evergrande Football School even if one less person, can also rely on strong strength to control the ball attack, and in the second half through the corner directly scored a goal to win back a goal, but in the end Guangzhou Travel Merchant still laughed to the end, maintained the 2-1 score until the end, won the three points worth thousands of gold.
Whenever I think of this game, the smile on the face of Yang Xiaojun, the teacher of Guangzhou Travel and Business, is always difficult to hide, perhaps at that time Yang Xiaojun will not feel that his children can win back the trophy, but at least they are no longer afraid of any opponent. Then Guangzhou travel merchants continued to pass the barrier and step by step into the stage of the final, and after each game, Yang Xiaojun could not immediately celebrate with his colleagues and team members, because he had to dial a cross-oceanic phone call and tell the results to Wu Haohong, the principal who was far away in Portugal to discuss cooperation matters.
Yang Xiaojun also clearly remembers that when he defeated Shenzhen Football School Shajing Middle School in the semi-finals 2-1, the game entered the final stage, and Yang Xiaojun, who was in the final, wanted to immediately call the principal to report the good news, but his colleagues stopped him: "Football is round, what result may happen, or wait for the end of the game."
And when the final whistle blew, Yang Xiaojun's phone immediately rang, and the principal Wu Haohong could not sit still, he eagerly wanted to know the result, "Why don't you call me?" What happened to the result of the game? "Headmaster, I wanted to play to you just now, but the football is round and I can only wait a little longer, but the good news is that we won." Yang Xiaojun's words made Wu Haohong, who was turning around in Singapore, let go of the big stone in his heart.
In the final, Guangzhou Travel Business played against Shenzhen Cuiyuan Middle School, which defeated Evergrande Football School in the semi-finals, and they were the 2014 National High School Boys' Campus Football Championship. Although some of the main players were absent, they scored a staggering 35 goals from their six games on the way to the promotion. Underpinning this horrific statistic is the strength of this team.
In the end, the hard-working Guangzhou travel merchant withstood the pressure and drew 1-1 with Shenzhen Cuiyuan in the regular time. In a brutal penalty shootout, goalkeeper Li Zijian saved the opponent's penalty and they finally stood on the highest podium of Guangdong campus football.
Before the game, no one was optimistic about Guangzhou Travel Merchants winning the championship, but football is round, and Guangzhou Travel Merchants created a fairy tale like KaisersLautern and Guangzhou Evergrande. This championship rolled into Wu Haohong's heart, "Secondary vocational campus football has to be engaged, and we will not be worse than any high school." After winning the championship, they got the signature football of the provincial and municipal leaders, which is currently placed in the exhibition cabinet on the first floor of the school's teaching building.
After 2015, the "Governor's Cup" was split into two groups, high school and middle school, and they could no longer meet the provincial high school strongmen in the provincial competition. After the group split, Guangzhou Travel Businessmen showed amazing dominance, from 2016 to last year, their record is three crowns and two Asia, in the province only campus football is also well carried out Dongguan Electronic Technology School, can compete with them, these five years of finals, are the confrontation of these two teams.
"The first time we participated, we won all seven games and defeated many strong teams to win the championship, which may be a coincidence." Principal Wu Honghao continued, "But after that, we can continue, and our success cannot be separated from the three keys. ”
"The first is to attach importance to the fact that the state attaches great importance to the reform and development of youth campus football, providing an external and policy environment for campus football to thrive." The second is the attention of the education, sports departments and society of local provinces and cities, especially the campus football of secondary vocational schools to get the opportunity to take the stage and participate in the official competition of campus football. Wu Honghao believes that the most critical thing in the development of campus football is the attention at all levels.
"With the support of the first two points, our secondary vocational school has the soil to form a strong campus football atmosphere, which can popularize football in secondary vocational schools, and when we get results in the Governor's Cup, students with football specialties and hobbies will take the initiative to apply for our school." Of course, we also have a dedicated and professional team of coaches. President Wu pointed out the key to the development of football in Guangzhou.
In 2017, Guangdong Junhui Football Club, former Guangzhou Helios Famous Hostel and provincial campus football instructor lecturer Mai Guangliang, officially began to cooperate with Guangzhou travel businessmen, becoming the team coach in the form of school purchase services, responsible for all the training and competition tasks of the team, and the head of school football, Mr. Yang Xiaojun, became the "political commissar" of the team.
Yang Xiaojun, who majored in football at guangzhou sports institute, is still strong in his calf muscles. He is well aware of the importance of professionals doing professional things, and he also advocates the entry of Mak Guangliang's team into the school. There is one thing that Mai Guangliang particularly impressed Yang Xiaojun. After a training session, Mai Guangliang took out the physical data of the players before and after training, "In my opinion as a teacher at school, this is his highlight."
The highlight of Mai Guangliang is not only this, in addition to bringing his professional football knowledge to Guangzhou TravelIng, as a former professional player, he can also provide more choices for his students in the future through the contacts accumulated over the years.
Compared with ordinary high schools, the enrollment door frame of secondary vocational schools is different, especially for many football students in junior high schools, when there was no institutional competition system in the past, after the cultural class did not meet the requirements and could not be promoted to high school, their football road often could not continue. But now, after the secondary school also has campus football, they can still shine and continue to retain the possibility of further football.
But even if the road to football does not work, secondary vocational education also brings a skill to these football teenagers, paving the way for the future to go out of society, in recent years, there have been members of the R&F echelon, because the family does not want them to continue to take the road of professional football, and chose to come to Guangzhou travel businessmen.
At present, Mai Guangliang and the school are also exploring and building a special class for sports to provide another way to the future for their students, and in daily life, Mai Guangliang is not just a football coach, it is so simple to leave after taking the training, including the daily life discipline and class learning performance of the football team members, he works closely with the school to link the bits and pieces of his daily life with football training.
At the end of this year, Mai Guangliang, who led the team for the fifth year, will take the team members of Guangzhou Travel Merchants to compete in the Guangzhou High School Champions Cup and governor's Cup, and Principal Wu Honghao also knows that there is no winning general in the world, and as the schools increase their development efforts, it is definitely more and more difficult for Guangzhou Travel Merchants to continue to achieve good results, "Although we do not have to be champions every time, we must always maintain the heart of winning the championship." ”