Reporter Nan Nan reported "I am just an ordinary physical education teacher." No matter who she talks to, Feng Lihua always keeps this sentence on her lips. In the early 1970s, Feng Lihua was born in an ordinary family in Hankou, Wuhan City. At that time, Wuhan was far less prosperous than it is now. Hankou, Hanyang and Wuchang were almost all of Wuhan. Similar to most children of her generation, Feng Lihua has several brothers and sisters. She is the second oldest, with an older sister above her, a younger sister and a younger brother below her.
Before the age of ten, Feng Lihua was just an ordinary girl. She would play whatever other girls played. Except for the inherent "dominance" of Wuhan girls, she didn't have much difference.
When Feng Lihua was ten years old, her younger brother fell ill. The sensible Feng Lihua took her brother to the hospital for treatment and injection. There is a cultural station near the hospital where my brother received the injection, and there is a young teacher named Bao Junguo at the station. Bao Junguo gathered some children from Hankou Hui Primary School where Feng Lihua studied and some nearby schools, and taught them to play football on the side of the road. After Feng Lihua took her brother to get the injection, she sat on the roadside and watched these children play football. Her younger brother needed injections for three days, so Feng Lihua watched him for three days.
On the third day, Bao Junguo asked Feng Lihua to come over and play with the children. She joined without thinking. This is Feng Lihua's first contact with football in her life, and it's not even considered playing football.
After the summer vacation that year, Feng Lihua met Bao Junguo again at the Hui Primary School. Teacher Bao opened a football interest training class in the school in his own name, which is held every day. Feng Lihua recalled: "At that time, there were no training subsidies, and Teacher Bao did not charge any fees for the children. In fact, he was not a very professional coach. He just liked football and led us to practice." This time, Feng Lihua took the initiative to join Training class.
Not long after practicing, Bao Junguo took the children to play the "Mayor's Cup". This was the first time the children went out to play an official game, and they met Zhanzhan Primary School, a traditional football powerhouse in Wuhan. Feng Lihua couldn't even remember the score, she only remembered being beaten badly. They came back the next year with slightly better results. In fifth grade, Feng Lihua's last year in elementary school, they finally won. "We ended Zhanzhanguan Primary School's dream of winning three consecutive 'Mayor's Cups'." To this day, Feng Lihua is still very proud.
In 1985, Feng Lihua graduated from primary school. That summer vacation, Wuhan Sports School organized the selection of players for the women's football team. At the same time, Hubei Sports School was also selecting players. Feng Lihua finally chose to participate in the selection of the provincial sports school. She still remembers that the training camp was very lively. There were more than thirty girls in total, many of whom were her opponents in the Mayor's Cup. After numerous tests and assessments, fifteen people were left at the Provincial Sports School, and Feng Lihua was one of them.
At the Hubei Provincial Sports School, Feng Lihua received six years of football training. There, the training was more professional, and Feng Lihua made great progress. She once thought that after graduating from the provincial sports school, she would become a female football player and wear the jersey of the Hubei team to fight for her hometown. However, reality is always full of variables. In 1991, due to policy changes, the Hubei Provincial Sports School needed to choose to retain one of the women's football and another collective event. Eventually, Feng Lihua's team disappeared.
Destiny likes to "joke" with people. After graduating from sports school, Feng Lihua became a physical education teacher at Zhanzhanguan Primary School. She would not have thought that Exhibition Hall Primary School, which she had ended three consecutive "Mayor's Cup" championships with her own hands, would actually become her employer. And this stay lasted for thirty-three years (Zhanguang Primary School merged with Hankou Furen Primary School in 2012).
When Feng Lihua first entered the campus in 1991, there was no professional football league in China. 2024 will be her 33rd year of teaching football on campus. Among her students, some played in the Chinese Super League, while others studied abroad.
Over the past thirty-three years, Feng Lihua has figured out a set of ideas to encourage team members to study hard. Feng Lihua said: "To put it simply, as a coach, when my players are of the same level, and those who can get high scores in the class exam, I will give priority to them to start in the game." Feng Lihua's reason is: "Football is a Children who can kick the ball smoothly in complex sports will definitely not have rigid thinking. What we need to do is to understand these children more deeply, teach them in accordance with their aptitude, and help these children calm down and study hard.” Domineering, a male coach who has played against him once said that when he played against Teacher Feng’s team, his own voice could not be heard on the court, all was Teacher Feng’s shouts. But as a woman, Feng Lihua also has a gentle side, which is her advantage.
In 2008, Feng Lihua led the team to represent Wuhan City in South Korea to participate in the Adidas Champions Cup. "My identity is a coach, but all I do is nanny work." Feng Lihua said with a smile, "I am very domineering on the court, but when I leave the court, I am just an aunt." According to the arrangement of the organizing committee, there is only one coach. a room. As a result, at night, all the team members ran to Feng Lihua's house and insisted on sleeping next to her. If the bed is too big to sleep on, the bed will be made on the floor, and no one will want to leave. During that time, the children called Feng Lihua "Mother Feng," "I am very happy that my children are willing to talk to me."
Feng Lihua, who has won the trust of her children, sometimes needs to "compete" with her parents. Liu Shao Ziyang, who just switched from Bayern to the Austrian league this summer, is also Feng Lihua's student. Feng Lihua had a battle of wits with his mother in order to let Liu Shao Ziyang change his position.
Liu Shao Ziyang is from Wenzhou. The family attaches great importance to this boy and always protects him. In 2012, Feng Lihua led the team to participate in the annual competition in Wuhan City. Because it was an 11-a-side competition, more children signed up. At that time, Liu Shao Ziyang was still playing as a defender. Because he was too tall and had a high center of gravity, he could not move his feet as fast as other children, which was a disadvantage. During the game, Feng Lihua had no intention of letting him play, so Liu Shao Ziyang was playing with other children on the sidelines. Occasionally, Feng Lihua discovered that this child could reach the crossbar of the goal without even jumping. After the game, Feng Lihua asked fourth grader Liu Shao Ziyang to go back and discuss with his mother about becoming a goalkeeper instead.
Liu Shao Ziyang’s mother is here. The meaning is very simple. The goalkeepers are all beaten, and their children cannot go inside the door to be beaten. Liu Shao Ziyang was very sensible. He told Feng Lihua that he would practice secretly. Feng Lihua agreed, but she told Liu Shao Ziyang not to tell his mother when he returned home.
Feng Lihua and Liu Shao Ziyang began to secretly practice goalkeeping. Normal school training starts at 4 p.m., and after school at 3:40 every day, Feng Lihua and Liu Shao Ziyang practice their goalkeeping skills together. "Although I am not a professional goalkeeper, I still know a little bit about it. While protecting the child from injury, try to let him complete technical actions."
After a year of training, when he played in the "Wuhan Evening News Cup" the next year, Liu Shao Ziyang Played as the starting goalkeeper. Liu Shao Ziyang's mother asked why, and Feng Lihua made an excuse, saying that there was really no one left, so let him try. In this test, Liu Shao Ziyang conquered his mother with his performance.
As a grassroots female coach of campus football, Feng Lihua has pressure, but the hardship she endured in a sports school as a teenager gave her a stubbornness that refuses to admit defeat. “My biggest pressure is how to defeat others and prove myself."
Feng Lihua, who always wanted to defeat others, never expected that the most powerful opponent she faced in the first half of her life was "herself". In 2013, Feng Lihua was diagnosed with a pituitary tumor in her brain. On December 26 of that year, her first The first operation failed. When the hospital asked the family to sign the decision to continue or suspend the operation, Feng Lihua's hands were shaking and she couldn't even write her name.
Four days after the first operation was suspended, Feng Lihua underwent a very risky operation. With the efforts of medical staff, the operation was successful. Two months later, in order to eliminate the sequelae of the first operation, Feng Lihua underwent three major surgeries in less than three months. Wucai was discharged from the hospital and went home to recuperate. The hospital told her to have a head MRI every two years. After a period of rest, Feng Lihua returned to school and continued to lead her team members. She is always reminded to pay attention to her health. Sometimes her lover advises her not to lead the team. She always says, I just love this. "As soon as I play, I am in a state of excitement. Watching the children grow, I feel a special sense of accomplishment." "
In 2021, a routine MRI examination found that the pituitary tumor in Feng Lihua's brain showed signs of recurrence, and there were signs of developing into a worse situation. But Feng Lihua has been persevering, and the batch of children born in 2008 and 2009 under her command The results are good. This group of children has reached the finals in many competitions and even won the championship. Feng Lihua does not want to give up and let down the efforts of these children because of her illness. After her children graduated, Feng Lihua took a two-year break. Last August, she underwent a gamma knife operation to control the tumor. The doctor told her to avoid a second craniotomy as it was very risky. “The doctor scared me and said whether I could get off (from the operating table) was a problem. "Feng Lihua, who has experienced life and death, takes it very lightly.
"As long as my body allows, I will continue to take it. "Like her master Bao Junguo, Feng Lihua is selfless in her training, "I am an ordinary physical education teacher, and I am a teacher first, so I will devote myself to the children without any selfishness. ”
