The teacher who led the children to play football is named A Liangzila. He is from Liangshan Prefecture, Sichuan Province. He is 38 years old this year. In 2016, Aliangzila formed the first campus women’s football team in Butuo County, Liangshan Prefecture. In the mountains at an altitude of 3,000 meters, there was no football field or sports shoes. They overcame the scorching heat and cold, trained hard, and finally made it out of the mountains through football. Let's go into the mountains together to see the stories of Liangshan girls chasing their dreams with football.
Pursuing the original intention
Forming the first women’s football team in Butuo County
In 2007, A Liangzila, who had just graduated from the Physical Education Department of Xichang University, returned to Butuo County, Liangshan Prefecture, where she served as a physical education teacher, opening up the rural physical education industry. Explore practice. A Liangzila, who was born and raised in the countryside, found that compared with children in the city, children in mountainous areas lag behind in cultural achievements, but their sports talent is obvious.
Developing football in school is not as easy as A Liangzila imagined. Butuo County is two to three thousand meters above sea level, and the climate is very cold in autumn and winter. The conditions at that time were also very difficult. The school did not have a football field, so Aliangzila could only take the children to train on the uneven concrete floor. The children also don’t have professional football shoes, so they can only use rubber shoes that cost 20 yuan a pair. In 2016, Aliangzila became the principal of Wadu Township Primary School in Butuo County. After raising a certain amount of funds, he established the first women's team in Butuo County. As for the reason why she chose the women's football team, A Liangzila had her own considerations.
football coach Ah Liangzi La : The first one is our Yi girls, who are usually shy, a little introverted and lack self-confidence, so I want to use sports to cultivate their positive and optimistic spirit. , allowing them to build self-confidence and self-confidence through football. There is also a professional advantage to developing women's football. Women's football is easy to produce results, because only when you produce results will everyone know about you and you can attract attention, so our results will be better. Combining these reasons, I started developing women's football in the school.
After gaining support from some parents, Alianzila began to focus on women’s football training, which became in 1987.
Starting in 2019, there have been four batches, with a total of more than 80 team members going to Chengdu, Mianyang, Luzhou, Xichang and other places to receive high-quality education and professional training through football. There are also more than ten people who have won the national first-level and second-level athletes, and even students have been selected for the national training camp. The continuous accumulation of achievements has also allowed Aliangzila’s “Butuo Women’s Football Team” to gain more recognition.
"Football + Culture"
The integration of sports and education pursues all-round development
In 2023, Alangzila, who had worked in Butuo County, Liangshan Prefecture for 16 years, came to Puge County and began to work in the "Puge County Luoji Mountain Railway Corps Hope" School” to continue working as a football coach.
A Liangzila specially formed a women's football team here, and started "football + culture" walking on two legs with the school teachers, allowing the children to play well through the "integration of sports and education" model. At the same time, I also learned cultural classes well.
Early in the morning on October 16, 18 female football players from Luojishan Railway Hope School started football training on the football field. The oldest of these children is 10 years old and the youngest is only 8 years old. Every day before the first cultural class, they will conduct basic football training under the leadership of A Liangzila. Although the training time is not long, every child knows clearly why he plays football.
In 2017, the Luojishan Railway Soldiers Hope School in Puge County successfully applied to become the "Football Characteristic School" . In order to allow children to focus more on football training at school, the school has made exclusive arrangements in terms of curriculum and teachers. Currently, the school has 5 physical education classes every week, including one professional football class.Every day, there are special football exercises during the school recess exercises.
Under the model of collaborative training of sports and culture, many children have fallen in love with playing football while achieving excellent results in cultural classes. In the process, they have become more and more clear about their future direction and dreams.
"Shimmer" Dream Building Seeing the Big World
A girl from Liangshan who is less than ten years old chose football because of her love, and even set future goals at such a young age. This is a responsibility and even more pressure for A Liangzila who brought them on the road of "football". Over the years, he has taken the children of the women's football team to participate in municipal and state competitions. As long as there is an opportunity to "see the big scene", he will not miss it. He said he hopes children can go to a higher platform and see a bigger world.
In 2019, the “Glimmer” educational assistance action launched by the Sichuan Provincial Government and the Chengdu Jinniu District Education Bureau came to Liangshan. The first batch of Butuo women's football team began to pass the selection and entered Chengdu No. 18 Middle School to receive professional football training, completed their first step out of the mountains.
Sun Jianwei is the head coach of the Chengdu No. 18 Middle School women's football team. In recent years, he has been responsible for the selection of the Liangshan Butuo women's football team for "Operation Glimmer" and the professional training after arriving in Chengdu. Thanks to the continuous efforts of him and the school, the Butuo women's football team quickly achieved good results.
In addition to participating in various large-scale football competitions at the municipal, provincial and even national levels and winning many championships, Chengdu No. 18 Middle School also conducts regular exchanges with campus football teams from Japan, Argentina and Malaysia.
Since 2019, there have been three batches, with a total of 40 Butuo women's football players coming to Chengdu No. 18 Middle School through the "Glimmer" operation. Among these players, 5 have entered the provincial and national youth training teams.
Hu Lin, principal of Chengdu No. 18 Middle School: In the next step, we also want to continue to carry out the "Glimmer" operation in depth, and strive to cultivate a group of outstanding reserve talents for Chinese football.
Chasing dreams on the green field and kicking out the big future
To get out of the mountains, you must first move away from the mountains in your mind. Faced with traditional concepts, A Liangzila rose to the challenge and won the support of parents and students with persistence. In spirit, he is a brave man, and in terms of methods, he is a wise man: children in mountainous areas are in good health and have achieved results in developing women's football. Alangzila keenly discovered the "comparative advantage" of establishing a women's football team. It was such a dream-builder with "both wisdom and courage" who lit a fire in the hearts of the Liangshan girl with a glimmer of light.
From Butuo County to Puge County, the path that Aliangzila has opened up for the children to integrate sports and education is also a path of hope full of infinite possibilities. What is even more exciting than the goals scored on the field are the changes in the children from the inside out: they talk about their feelings generously, boldly describe their imagination for tomorrow, and set goals in life grandly. Their vision is also our vision. The broader world they are embracing is also a better future for Chinese football.
The teacher who led the children to play football is named A Liangzila. He is from Liangshan Prefecture, Sichuan Province. He is 38 years old this year. In 2016, Aliangzila formed the first campus women’s football team in Butuo County, Liangshan Prefecture. In the mountains at an altitude of 3,000 meters, there was no football field or sports shoes. They overcame the scorching heat and cold, trained hard, and finally made it out of the mountains through football. Let's go into the mountains together to see the stories of Liangshan girls chasing their dreams with football.
Pursuing the original intention
Forming the first women’s football team in Butuo County
In 2007, A Liangzila, who had just graduated from the Physical Education Department of Xichang University, returned to Butuo County, Liangshan Prefecture, where she served as a physical education teacher, opening up the rural physical education industry. Explore practice. A Liangzila, who was born and raised in the countryside, found that compared with children in the city, children in mountainous areas lag behind in cultural achievements, but their sports talent is obvious.
Developing football in school is not as easy as A Liangzila imagined. Butuo County is two to three thousand meters above sea level, and the climate is very cold in autumn and winter. The conditions at that time were also very difficult. The school did not have a football field, so Aliangzila could only take the children to train on the uneven concrete floor. The children also don’t have professional football shoes, so they can only use rubber shoes that cost 20 yuan a pair. In 2016, Aliangzila became the principal of Wadu Township Primary School in Butuo County. After raising a certain amount of funds, he established the first women's team in Butuo County. As for the reason why she chose the women's football team, A Liangzila had her own considerations.
football coach Ah Liangzi La : The first one is our Yi girls, who are usually shy, a little introverted and lack self-confidence, so I want to use sports to cultivate their positive and optimistic spirit. , allowing them to build self-confidence and self-confidence through football. There is also a professional advantage to developing women's football. Women's football is easy to produce results, because only when you produce results will everyone know about you and you can attract attention, so our results will be better. Combining these reasons, I started developing women's football in the school.
After gaining support from some parents, Alianzila began to focus on women’s football training, which became in 1987.
Starting in 2019, there have been four batches, with a total of more than 80 team members going to Chengdu, Mianyang, Luzhou, Xichang and other places to receive high-quality education and professional training through football. There are also more than ten people who have won the national first-level and second-level athletes, and even students have been selected for the national training camp. The continuous accumulation of achievements has also allowed Aliangzila’s “Butuo Women’s Football Team” to gain more recognition.
"Football + Culture"
The integration of sports and education pursues all-round development
In 2023, Alangzila, who had worked in Butuo County, Liangshan Prefecture for 16 years, came to Puge County and began to work in the "Puge County Luoji Mountain Railway Corps Hope" School” to continue working as a football coach.
A Liangzila specially formed a women's football team here, and started "football + culture" walking on two legs with the school teachers, allowing the children to play well through the "integration of sports and education" model. At the same time, I also learned cultural classes well.
Early in the morning on October 16, 18 female football players from Luojishan Railway Hope School started football training on the football field. The oldest of these children is 10 years old and the youngest is only 8 years old. Every day before the first cultural class, they will conduct basic football training under the leadership of A Liangzila. Although the training time is not long, every child knows clearly why he plays football.
In 2017, the Luojishan Railway Soldiers Hope School in Puge County successfully applied to become the "Football Characteristic School" . In order to allow children to focus more on football training at school, the school has made exclusive arrangements in terms of curriculum and teachers. Currently, the school has 5 physical education classes every week, including one professional football class.Every day, there are special football exercises during the school recess exercises.
Under the model of collaborative training of sports and culture, many children have fallen in love with playing football while achieving excellent results in cultural classes. In the process, they have become more and more clear about their future direction and dreams.
"Shimmer" Dream Building Seeing the Big World
A girl from Liangshan who is less than ten years old chose football because of her love, and even set future goals at such a young age. This is a responsibility and even more pressure for A Liangzila who brought them on the road of "football". Over the years, he has taken the children of the women's football team to participate in municipal and state competitions. As long as there is an opportunity to "see the big scene", he will not miss it. He said he hopes children can go to a higher platform and see a bigger world.
In 2019, the “Glimmer” educational assistance action launched by the Sichuan Provincial Government and the Chengdu Jinniu District Education Bureau came to Liangshan. The first batch of Butuo women's football team began to pass the selection and entered Chengdu No. 18 Middle School to receive professional football training, completed their first step out of the mountains.
Sun Jianwei is the head coach of the Chengdu No. 18 Middle School women's football team. In recent years, he has been responsible for the selection of the Liangshan Butuo women's football team for "Operation Glimmer" and the professional training after arriving in Chengdu. Thanks to the continuous efforts of him and the school, the Butuo women's football team quickly achieved good results.
In addition to participating in various large-scale football competitions at the municipal, provincial and even national levels and winning many championships, Chengdu No. 18 Middle School also conducts regular exchanges with campus football teams from Japan, Argentina and Malaysia.
Since 2019, there have been three batches, with a total of 40 Butuo women's football players coming to Chengdu No. 18 Middle School through the "Glimmer" operation. Among these players, 5 have entered the provincial and national youth training teams.
Hu Lin, principal of Chengdu No. 18 Middle School: In the next step, we also want to continue to carry out the "Glimmer" operation in depth, and strive to cultivate a group of outstanding reserve talents for Chinese football.
Chasing dreams on the green field and kicking out the big future
To get out of the mountains, you must first move away from the mountains in your mind. Faced with traditional concepts, A Liangzila rose to the challenge and won the support of parents and students with persistence. In spirit, he is a brave man, and in terms of methods, he is a wise man: children in mountainous areas are in good health and have achieved results in developing women's football. Alangzila keenly discovered the "comparative advantage" of establishing a women's football team. It was such a dream-builder with "both wisdom and courage" who lit a fire in the hearts of the Liangshan girl with a glimmer of light.
From Butuo County to Puge County, the path that Aliangzila has opened up for the children to integrate sports and education is also a path of hope full of infinite possibilities. What is even more exciting than the goals scored on the field are the changes in the children from the inside out: they talk about their feelings generously, boldly describe their imagination for tomorrow, and set goals in life grandly. Their vision is also our vision. The broader world they are embracing is also a better future for Chinese football.