Guangdong-Kashgar Youth Football Exchange: Let Kashgar children understand the vast motherland through football

Reporter Wang Wei reports "Guangdong, we're coming!" On December 23, more than 60 football teenagers and coaches from the Shenka Youth Football Training Base in Kashgar, Xinjiang, arrived in Panyu, Guangzhou across 5,000 kilometers to start a week-long learning and exchange activity. During their stay in Panyu, Guangzhou, the players will train at the Mushengyuan Football Stadium, communicate and compete with the Mushengyuan Youth Training Team and the campus football team of Dashi Middle School in Panyu District, and visit the second campus of Guangzhou Xingzhi School and Zhongyuan Middle School. During the study and exchange period, Panyu Mushengyuan Football Club also arranged a variety of activities such as football celebrity meetings, football into the campus, and campus football sharing meetings.

The Guangdong-Kazakh Youth Football Exchange Activity was hosted by the Guangdong Football Association, the Xinjiang Football Association, the Kashgar Municipal People's Government, and the Football Newspaper, and undertaken by the Kashgar Municipal Education Bureau, the Shenka Youth Football Training Base, and the Mushengyuan Football Club of Panyu District, Guangzhou.

On the morning of December 23, when the football teenagers of the Shenka Youth Football Training Base arrived at the Mushengyuan Football Club, Xie Changjing, chairman of the Guangdong Football Association, Liu Xiaoxin, president of "Football", Feng Qinghua, deputy director of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Cultural Communication Committee of Guangdong Province and president of the Panyu District Sports Federation, and Kuang Fuxiang, deputy secretary-general of the Guangdong Football Association, warmly stepped forward to shake hands with the children from Kashgar, welcomed the Kashgar football youth to Guangzhou to participate in the Guangdong-Kashgar youth football exchange activities, and took photos with the children.

It is understood that there are three teams from the Shenka Youth Football Training Base to Guangzhou to participate in the Guangdong-Kazakh Youth Football Exchange Activities, the team is composed of U13 and U14 teams, including two men's teams and one women's team, including 61 players and 7 coaches.

Chen Jianfei, head of the Kashgar Shenka Youth Football Training Base, said that the Guangdong-Kashgar Youth Football Exchange Activity aims to further improve the technical and tactical level of youth football in Kashgar, Xinjiang, and cultivate more outstanding football talents. "I hope that through this activity, we can have football technical exchanges with Guangdong football teenagers, increase the fun of Kashgar football teenagers, understand football, and love football. At the same time, it broadens the children's horizons and understands the vast territory of the motherland. Let the children of Kashgar know that there are many children across the country who like to play football as much as they do. After they returned to Kashgar, they shared the details and stories of football they saw and heard in Guangdong with their classmates and teammates, so that more children in Kashgar, Xinjiang could join the football team and make their own contributions to the development of Chinese football. ”

Chen Jianfei said, "This time, many Kashgar football teenagers have gone out of Xinjiang for the first time, and after coming to Guangzhou, the children are very excited and full of curiosity about Guangdong. ”

Chen Jianfei said: "In the future, we plan to carry out such exchanges every year, so that the children in Kashgar can go to see more, break the fixed thinking of learning to play football in one place for a long time, go out to learn and communicate more, apply what they have learned, learn from each other's strengths, and return to Kashgar where the children can learn and understand football more deeply." ”

Xie Changjing, chairman of the Guangdong Football Association, said: "Most of the players from the Shenka Youth Football Training Base are coming to Guangzhou for the first time, and the children have crossed the mountains and seas to Guangzhou, hoping that through a week of training and competition, everyone can understand Guangdong and fall in love with Guangdong. ”

Xie Changjing thanked the "Football" newspaper, Panyu District Education Bureau and Panyu District Mushengyuan Football Club for their strong support for the youth football exchange activities in Guangdong. "This year, we have increased the exchange and cooperation between Guangdong and Xinjiang football, Guangdong football and Xinjiang football have strong complementarity, through the exchange and cooperation of Guangdong football and Xinjiang football, not only to improve the level of football in the two places, but also to reserve more talents for Chinese football. This Guangdong-Kazakh youth football exchange activity is a concrete measure for us to strengthen cooperation. ”