In Dingnan, Ganzhou, the new football city is gradually rising

Reporter Nan Nan reported from Wuhan Zhou Jiale, who was born in Dingnan County, is, in a sense, one of the witnesses of the whole process of the Dingnan (National) Youth Football Training Center from scratch.

The people of Dingnan call the training center the base. When Zhou Jiale was in the third grade, the coach of the base picked him from the campus football game to try out for the county team. A higher platform means more competition. Zhou Jiale, who is at the top of the school team, first substituted for the county team and trained with the second team.

The gap did not make Zhou Jiale depressed, but stimulated his fighting spirit. In the days when he sat on the bench, Zhou Jiale was observing, observing the strengths of other players and thinking about how he could improve his own level. Zhou Jiale's persistence and hard work allowed him to slowly get a place in the first team, and he gradually became the main defender in the team.

Zhou Jiale, who has become the main player from the bench and has become the core of the team step by step, is becoming more and more confident and showing his talent. Calm character, so that he can be qualified for multiple positions, the "Western Youth Cup", he served as a central defender, not only helped the team win the group stage, but also scored two goals, is one of the best and stable players in the Ganzhou team.

Zhou Jiale is a microcosm of countless children, he is sticking to his own football road, and moving forward step by step, and at the same time changing, it is the base, Dingnan, and Ganzhou. The base has been growing, the hills of the past are disappearing little by little, and more and more football fields are appearing. After the completion of the base, the local football atmosphere is also changing, and Zhou Jiale saw more and more buses on the road in Dingnan. With the landing of various football-related training courses and football events at all levels in Dingnan, this county with a population of only 220,000 has become a new football city in the minds of Ganzhou people.

Vigorously developing football is the goal of Ganzhou City. The "Western Youth Training Cup" is the last time the Ganzhou team will participate in the province this year, and Ganzhou City and Dingnan County attach great importance to it, and Lin Quan, deputy director of the Ganzhou Sports Bureau, will lead the team to participate in the competition. In addition to training the team and strengthening the coaching level, I also want to show the style of Ganzhou football to other teams in the pilot cities for the construction of the football youth training system for the integration of sports and education in the western region.

In the process of participating in the competition, the team did not relax the children's learning, and arranged for the students to study cultural classes every day. Li Jinwen, the captain of the team, brought a review book and put it on the desk in the room, and picked it up when he had time to read it. He once went to the elite team of Evergrande Football School for trial, and he did not relax his requirements for learning while playing football.

Ganzhou encourages children who play football to develop into higher-level professional clubs. At the same time, in order to promote the development of campus football, the relevant departments of Ganzhou City are promoting the city's key high schools to open up the channel for students with football specialties to go on to higher education, so as to provide more choices for children's future. In addition, under the promotion of departments at all levels in Ganzhou City, the Dingnan County Government will also cooperate with Gannan Normal University to establish a football academy in Dingnan to further provide guarantees for children who play football in the ascending channel.