Reporter Wang Shaoheng reports In 2021, a movie called "A Little Starlight" made Seven Star Primary School in Huadong Town, Huadu District, Guangzhou rush to the hot search list of campus sports. Teacher Lai, who can't skip rope, a group of children from the countryside, brought the attention of the outside world to Huadu with one world champion after another.

Perhaps it is precisely because of Huadu Skipping Rope, Huadu Skipping Rope and World Champion that many schools in Huadu District have set the development of campus sports in a single event similar to skipping rope. However, there is still a group of people who take root in Huadu District for the dream in their hearts and silently contribute their meager efforts to campus football.

Football takes time to polish

"Huadu is characterized by skipping rope, so sometimes everyone's understanding of football may not be the same, but the principals of some schools attach great importance to the development of campus football, so we can get off to a difficult start." Head of Huadu Junbo Youth Club

Deng Junjie said.

Huadu Junbo Youth Club was established in 2014. "My younger brother Deng Junluan and I both practiced football in the sports school when we were in the days of the sports team."

Deng Junjie said, "I played for Songri back then, and my younger brother was a player of the Sun God. After we retired, in response to the country's policy of vigorously developing campus football, we decided to set up our own youth club. ”

The first batch of children in Huadu Junbo started relatively late, starting in the fourth grade, but it only took two years for Junbo to win the championship in Huadu District and enter the top eight in the city competition. Guangzhou, where the development of the football region is uneven, is a big breakthrough for Huadu.

Although it took a short time for Junbo to achieve certain results, the Deng brothers believe that football needs more time to precipitate. "A lot of people like to play football, and they always think that football is a relatively simple sport that can be simply stacked by numbers like 1+1=2." "But in reality, football is a very complex sport. Football has multiple positions, each with different areas and responsibilities. Football is not a sport where people can produce results, nor is it a sport that can produce results in two or three years, collective sports require each player to integrate into the group, but also to understand the responsibilities of different positions and the requirements of the overall tactics, and then through training to show these requirements in the game. It takes a lot of time to accumulate and polish. ”

In the view of the Deng brothers, football is to grind time. At the most ruthless, Hanadi Junbo practiced 9 times a week. They practice at school from one to five, and go out to play games on Saturdays and Sundays, find their former brothers and sisters, and rely on their previous connections to play games.

Hanato Toshihiro has a high elimination rate, at the beginning, the team has more than 90 people, and in the end, only 14 people remain. In training and competitions at such a high intensity, those who can survive are elites. Three or four of them were selected for the Guangzhou team. In 2023, this first batch of children ushered in their own college entrance examinations, one of them was admitted to the Chinese Normal University, and two were admitted to the Guangti. The children themselves are very happy, and the parents are also very happy.

However, for Hua Du Junbo, the most serious challenge occurred during the pandemic. During that period, the club's training was not systematic and coaching resources were also lost. Many former top players, due to unsystematic training, children's interest in football began to slowly wane, and parents' enthusiasm was also dissipating. This made the Deng brothers quite heartbroken, they have experienced professional football, and they are unwilling to see promising children stay away from football.

It is hoped that the campus football league will be set up for relegation and relegation

After taking root in the youth training, Deng Junluan found a problem. "By playing against teams outside Guangdong, we have found that now, like some school teams in Hunan, their players' foot skills in handling the ball in the game confrontation are better than the children in Guangdong. It was unthinkable in our days. He said.

His brother Deng Junjie pointed out that modern football has to make certain trade-offs at the youth level: "Back then, we had a lot of players with characteristics, and now we are overemphasizing the integrity of the team. The advantage of this is that the circulation of the ball may be better, but the ability to fight alone is weakened. Nowadays, campus football is generally played in eight-a-side, and when we were children, we all played seven-a-side. Don't look at one person less, but there is more space on the court, which requires a lot of individual ability, and the ability to create opportunities through personal characteristics becomes more important. ”

"Today's children have a strong sense of teamwork, but the development of individual abilities is weak, and they are playing football mechanically. Therefore, when our children were U12, they played abroad and performed amazingly, but absorbing these things too early restricted their individual development to a certain extent. Deng Junjie said.

In addition, the Deng brothers believe that the current campus football youth training must clearly recognize the actual situation in China, and cannot copy foreign practices or one-sided understanding. "The belief that 3 hours a week is enough for foreign countries is wrong. Others leave school at half past two, and they can practice when they get home. To be honest, maybe they spend more time practicing a week than our Chinese children. Deng Junluan said.

"Today's children have better living conditions, but their desire to win or self-motivation in football has weakened." Deng Junluan also believes that practicing football mainly depends on the child's own subjective initiative, "In the past, we got up at 5 o'clock every day, and after running, we began to practice various skills, and each player also had private competitions, and everyone was very competitive." ”

When it comes to the biggest shortcoming of youth football training at present, the Deng brothers believe that there are too few games and even fewer high-quality games. In the past, at Huadu Sports School, the brothers had at least eight to ten exchange matches a month, but now they run their own youth club, and the requirement for coaches is to go out to play at least two games a month. There is a significant gap between the numbers.

"In fact, we have two ideas, one is to popularize the 11-a-side game as soon as possible within the school, and the other is to hold a multi-level campus football league at the municipal level, set up relegation and relegation, ensure the number of games between teams of the same level, and promote the common development of campus football in schools in the city." Deng Junjie said.