Shenzhen Xinjiang joins hands to build a campus football dream: Luohu District and Urumqi Economic and Technological Development Zone have built a communication platform for football teenagers

Reporter Wang Wei reports Last weekend, the strategic cooperation and public welfare donation ceremony between Shenzhen Luohu District Football Association and Urumqi Economic and Technological Development Zone Football Association was held in Meiyuan Experimental School, Luohu District, Shenzhen. It is understood that the two sides will carry out in-depth cooperation in the fields of youth football echelon construction, campus football development, brand event building, football public welfare promotion, and integration of culture, sports and tourism, so as to jointly promote the coordinated development of football in the two places and inject new momentum into the coordinated development of football in the two places. Ying Jun, Director of the Football Training Center of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Zhou Sui'an, Vice Chairman of the Guangdong Football Association, Le Yongwen, Deputy Secretary-General of the Guangdong Football Association, Miao Xinguo, Vice Chairman of the Shenzhen Football Association, Song Liqing, Deputy Director of the Luohu District Culture, Radio, Television, Tourism and Sports Bureau, Guo Hankun, Chief of the Morality, Sports, Art and Health Section of the Luohu District Education Bureau, Gao Kai and Li Lingjun, Sports Specialists of the Luohu District Education Bureau, attended the event.

In recent years, with the core strategy of "integration of sports and education", Luohu District of Shenzhen has built a three-dimensional football development system covering youth training, event brand building, and venue and facility upgrades, promoting the sustainable and healthy development of youth football, and has become a benchmark area for the high-quality development of football in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. By the end of 2024, there will be 29 national and 20 provincial schools (kindergartens) with campus football characteristics, and the campus football promotion coverage rate will reach 64%. The Education Bureau of Luohu District of Shenzhen and the Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television, Tourism and Sports of Luohu District attach great importance to campus football, and create a campus football development mechanism jointly led by the "Education Bureau + Culture and Sports Bureau", establish a four-echelon training system of "kindergarten-primary school-junior high school-high school", and form a dual-track promotion channel of "campus to career", and a group of players have been selected for the Chinese middle school student selection team or entered the Chinese U series national team.

Zhao Qiang, president of the Football Association of Urumqi Economic and Technological Development Zone, said that the cooperation will promote the development of youth football and campus football in Shenzhen and Xinjiang, in addition to jointly building U10, U11, U12 and other multi-level youth training echelons, and establishing a mutual visit and exchange mechanism for coaches, the two sides will also create a "Luowu Cup" youth football league to achieve two-way annual events, and regularly participate in high-level youth events at home and abroad, or establish a friendly match mechanism with foreign youth training teams. In terms of youth training support and talent co-education, we will jointly launch the long-term plan of "Silk Road Football Charity Tour" to achieve technical experience sharing and talent training through the selection of players for centralized training, competitions and cultural exchanges.

Ying Jun, director of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Football Training Center, said: "Guangdong and Shenzhen have been aiding Xinjiang for a long time, vigorously supporting Xinjiang's sports undertakings and helping Xinjiang's football development. In Kashgar, Shenzhen has helped build the Shenzhen-Kazakh Youth Football Training Center, and Guangdong has helped build a basketball park, which has greatly improved the training conditions and training environment. For example, Bai Helamu, a football player who plays for Shenzhen Xinpengcheng Football Club, went to the national team from here, and Du Feng, who came to Guangdong Hongyuan Basketball Club since he was a child, went from the club to the national team player and the head coach of the national team. Shenzhen Luohu District Football Association and Urumqi Economic Development Zone Football Association strengthen horizontal cooperation between the grassroots, explore the establishment of a diversified cooperation and development path, with young people as the main body, with exchanges and integration to enhance unity for the purpose, and mutual learning and common improvement as the goal, so that we can feel the deep friendship that spans thousands of miles. This friendship will surely inspire us to continue to move forward on the road of football development! ”

Zhou Sui'an, vice chairman of the Guangdong Football Association, said that the cooperation between the Shenzhen Luohu District Football Association and the Urumqi Economic and Technological Development Zone Football Association is an innovative practice to implement the country's east-west cooperation deployment, which will effectively promote the cross-regional flow of football resources. It is conducive to the exchange between football teenagers in Xinjiang and Guangdong, and also promotes the exchange and interaction of campus football between the two places.

Xia Gang, President of Shenzhen Luohu District Football Association, said: "We hope to combine the youth training experience of the Greater Bay Area with the passion for football in Xinjiang through resource sharing, and cultivate more interdisciplinary talents for Chinese football. ”

Xu Bo, Secretary of the Party Branch and Principal of Meiyuan Experimental School in Luohu District, Shenzhen, introduced the new and beautiful campus of Meiyuan Experimental School, which attaches great importance to the concept of "building the foundation of sports, casting the soul of humanity, and leading the navigation of science and technology", and is also confident that the school will be built into a communication platform for football teenagers in Luohu District and Urumqi Economic and Technological Development Zone and even all over the country. "It is hoped that the children will develop morally, intellectually, physically, aesthetically and laboriously in an all-round way, and achieve their dreams through football and sports."

It is understood that in the future, Luohu District campus football will also take this cooperation as an opportunity to deeply integrate football education into the campus system. Establish a joint training mechanism for students with football specialties, select Xinjiang students to enter the football echelon training of Luohu Campus every year, and realize cross-regional sharing of high-quality coaching resources through the 'Famous Teacher Cloud Classroom'.

At the donation ceremony, Orange Lion Sports Lanchen Star Football Club donated a batch of JOMA brand professional football equipment, including game uniforms and training equipment, to the Urumqi Economic Development Zone Football Association, which will be used at the grassroots level of Xinjiang football, focusing on supporting the training of ethnic minority youth players. This donation is an important part of the long-term plan of the "Silk Road Football Charity Tour". Zhao Qiang, president of the Urumqi Economic Development Zone Football Association, said: "This batch of equipment is not only material support, but also a spiritual power to promote the development of youth football in Xinjiang. We will take this opportunity to let more children experience the charm of football and change their destiny through sports. Kang Chun, General Manager of the Business Division of JOMA Co., Ltd., said: "As an enterprise that has long been concerned about the development of youth sports, we hope to provide better training conditions for young ethnic minority players in Xinjiang by donating materials to help them pursue their football dreams, which is also an important manifestation of the company's social responsibility." ”

Zhao Xu, head of Orange Lion Sports Lanchen Star Football Club, said: "As the vice president unit of the Luohu District Football Association, under the guidance of the association, we have planned the first public welfare training course, and it is expected to launch the youth football summer camp in the two places in the summer. ”

It is worth mentioning that Hu Pan, a member of the Luohu District football team who participated in the football training, is very much looking forward to the opportunity to play with the football teenagers in Xinjiang, "I would like to go to Xinjiang to play with the children there, and I also welcome them to play in Luohu, Shenzhen." Hu Pan said.

In order to motivate and guide Hu Pan to play football, his father participated in the E-level football coach training course, and after holding the certificate, he not only taught Hu Pan to play football, but also served as the coach of his son's class football team, and was named the best coach by the school. "My dad's spirit of learning is also deeply infectious, motivating me to study hard and study hard, and I hope to have the opportunity to become a professional player in the future." Hu Pan said.

It is understood that Shenzhen Luohu District Football Association was established in 2015 and has long been committed to promoting the popularization of campus football and the development of social football, and has hosted a number of national competitions. In recent years, the Football Association of Urumqi Economic and Technological Development Zone has actively explored the "football + cultural tourism" model to create regional characteristic football IP. In the future, the two sides will deepen cooperation in the fields of event operation, coach training, and cultural exchanges, and jointly write a new chapter in the coordinated development of football in Xinjiang.