Xinhua News Agency, Chengdu, February 8 (Reporter Xie Ling) Came off the bench, first made a penalty, and then scored a header to equalize the key score, "post-00" Zhang Linyan performed amazingly in the final of the 2022 Women's Asian Cup. At that moment, in her hometown of Jiangyou City, Mianyang City, Sichuan Province, the whole family sitting around and watching the game boiled over!
On February 6, Chinese players celebrated after the final of the 2022 Women's Asian Cup. Xinhua News Agency (Photo by Javed Dahl)
This sassy girl who dared to shine her sword at a critical moment was a left-behind child in the Board Room in the Wenchuan earthquake-stricken area 13 years ago. What made her break through the cocoon and grow into a butterfly and grow into what she dreamed of?
Behind her is a county women's football group - for more than ten years, Jiangyou City, Sichuan Province, has trained more than 80 first-class athletes, including 2 active women's football national team members, 1 international athlete, 3 national athletes...
And more than a dozen football teachers with meager allowances, some white-haired, some main business is mathematics, some gave up the coastal high salary... They insist on free training, selecting, cultivating and transporting children to a higher competitive platform to support the girls' football dreams.
After the earthquake she joined the Jiangyou women's football team
On the afternoon of the 7th, the reporter knocked on a residential house in Mianyang Jiangyou, Sichuan, the Zhang family was happily celebrating at home, and Zhang Linyan set up a table of medals and awards from childhood to adulthood. Father Zhang Shouwu's eyes were red: "I'm so excited that I didn't fall asleep last night." ”
On February 7, Zhang Linyan's family showed the honors that Zhang Linyan had won in her growth. Xinhua News Agency reporter Xie Ling photographed
Zhang Shouwu can't play football, he has been cooking since elementary school, and his best dishes are pickled pepper fresh rabbit and dry pot fat sausage chicken. Relying on the chef's skills, he and his wife have been working in Guangdong, Fujian and other places, and his daughter Zhang Linyan and grandmother stayed in their hometown of Jiangyou.
On May 12, 2008, Zhang Linyan, who had just entered the first grade of primary school, was cleaning on duty, and the Wenchuan earthquake struck...
Zhang Shouwu and his wife returned home on May 19, and they found Xiao Linyan and Grandma in the disaster relief tent. Xiao Linyan is particularly sensible, Zhang Shouwu went to volunteer for disaster relief, and Xiao Linyan followed behind him.
With the help of the whole country, the Jiangyou people quickly stood up from the rubble. Jiangyou No. 1 Middle School took the lead in continuing to grasp the women's football team and became an important part of spiritual reconstruction. In 2009, Coach Wen Rong, who was in charge, came to the Garden Primary School built by the board house to prepare to select a batch of seedlings.
"You see this, a doll a few years older than her can't beat her." Zhang Linyan was pushed in front of Wen Rong, who was thin and small at the time, only about 1 meter 3, and her big eyes were full of cleverness.
"Try?" The conditions are limited, and it is tested in the open space in front of the board house. Zhang Linyan's standing long jump and 30-meter running results are far beyond the average child, Wen Rong waved his hand: "Come on children, play football!" ”
Coach Wen Rong (first from right) watching Zhang Linyan (first from left) training as a child. (Data map, courtesy of Jiangyou Women's Football Youth Training Team)
Among the more than 40 girls recruited after the earthquake, Zhang Linyan was the youngest. They train for free on Saturdays and Sundays. Everything is self-made, lack of coaches, lack of facilities, lack of venues... The only thing that is not lacking is love and attention, Jiangyou No. 1 Middle School led more than 40 schools in the county to grit their teeth and persevere, supporting their original dreams.
The history of the struggle of jiangyou women's football team
When Jiangyou Women's Football Team was re-established in 2006, there were only two coaches, Wen Rong and Liu Haitao, and four children. After the earthquake in 2008, the city could not find a standard football field, most of the schools were built board rooms, women's football can only use the narrow field to carry out after-school training, they used the most primitive way to interpret the essence of football - participation, happiness, no utilitarian.
Insufficient funds, Jiangyou women's football team raised in many ways; the winter training clothes of the team members, one session after the next; there is no goalkeeper coach, they looked around, found that He Fei, a physical education teacher at Houba Junior High School, 50 kilometers away from the county seat, served as a goalkeeper in college, so they asked He Fei to fly out of the mountain.
The fourth coach, invited He Gongliang, a rural math teacher.
He Gongliang graduated from the local teacher training class, which is designed for the training of rural teachers, and one teacher covers all categories of courses in the class. He has been teaching in the village primary school and township primary school in Chonghua Town, Jiangyou for more than 20 years. The school has no physical education teacher, and he is relied on to preside over sports matters.
In 2007, Wen Rong approached him and said that he wanted to choose women's football players, and He Gongliang began to train the women's football team. There is no football, Jiangyou No. 1 Middle School sent 10 footballs, and really practiced a batch of seedlings. Later, Wen Rong introduced the transfer of Lao He to The Taibai Primary School near the county seat, He Gongliang thought that he would continue to teach mathematics, and people said, "You are a football talent, change to teaching football."
In 2011, He Gongliang officially became the youth coach of Jiangyou Women's Football Team, he led the team to play the Sichuan Province "Bud Cup" competition, which suddenly caused a sensation in the province: there was a black skinny black skinny "little point" under his command, the whole team scored 56 goals, and she scored 48 alone!
This "small point" is Zhang Linyan. In 2012, 11-year-old Zhang Linyan was selected by Jiangyou Women's Football Team to send to Guangzhou Evergrande Real Madrid Football School, and the following year in the U14 Women's Asian Junior Championship East Asian Final, she scored four times and ranked second in the top scorer list!
A piece of jade is being carved. In the 2013 CCTV Football Night program, Zhang Linyan said her wish: I want to lead the Chinese football team beyond Sun Wen's era.
The Chinese women's football team deserves our dedication to her
Others don't know how much Zhang Linyan has suffered, her parents know, and Jiangyou Women's Football Knows.
In 2016, Zhang Linyan suffered serious injuries and even threatened her career. Mother Zhu Shayu rushed back to Chengdu from Gansu Migrant Land, hugged her daughter and fell in tears: "Is it okay not to play football?" Mom and Dad smash pots and sell iron to provide you with books. ”
Zhang Linyan shook her head: "No, football is indispensable to me, I must play." ”
After the operation, in order to recover as soon as possible, Zhang Linyan pestered the doctor to inquire about the method of rehabilitation, and worked hard to recover scientifically.
"Women's football has low attention, doesn't make much money, she likes more, this is her dream." Zhu Shayu said that in the hospital, she took a football with her, from jogging to trotting, and then found a football field in Chengdu to practice, and finally returned to the field.
In 2018, Zhang Linyan suffered another knee joint injury. During the rehabilitation process, Sun Wen knew that she liked Messi and sent a signed jersey of Messi, and Messi specially wrote her name "zhanglinyan" to cheer up the little girl.
On February 7, Zhang Linyan's father, Zhang Shouwu, showed Messi's signature jersey, and Messi specially wrote "zhanglinyan" as a sign of encouragement. Xinhua News Agency reporter Xie Ling photographed
She returned to Jiangyou and asked Coach He Fei to train her physical fitness and ball sense.
"She is particularly disciplined, she doesn't eat high-calorie food, she never touches carbonated drinks, she has to run every day to recover her muscles, and her mother rides a battery car with her." He Fei said, "She is tanned like other team members, which is the color of women's football players." ”
Zhang Linyan once again returned to the arena alive. After the asian cup final victory, the Jiangyou women's football coaches in front of the TV could no longer hold back, and He Fei secretly wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes.
"The Chinese women's football team is worth our efforts for them!" Watching the dolls improve and fight, I feel sweeter than anything. The 57-year-old coach Tan Faming said.