[Campus football should be like this] 24 teams, from all over the country. In this "Centennial Famous School Cup", the children will meet friends with the ball, win and lose on the field, and be excellent off the field. It fully reflects the complementarity between football and learning, football and education. This is what school football should look like!

Reporter Liu Xiangyu reports "Come on, Dacao!" "Da Cao is amazing! In the stands of Licheng No. 2 Middle School, seven or eight parents from Nanjing shouted slogans. The "Da Cao" in their mouths is Cao Zhijia, the goalkeeper of the Xingzhi Branch of the High School Affiliated to Nanjing Normal University, who has just made a save and held the ball firmly.

said that it was Da Cao, but in this game, he was the youngest and the youngest. This time, in order to train the team, Xingzhi brought all the players of the younger age group to play the junior high school group competition. In the corner, the opponent's center forward stood in front of the goal, a full head higher than Da Cao. At this time, he had just turned twelve years old, and he was a little chubby man with dark skin. The reason why everyone calls him "Da Cao" is because he has a younger brother at home, who has just entered the third grade and is also practicing football, and that is "Xiao Cao".

Da Cao has not been a goalkeeper for a long time, only a few months of hard work, and it is said that he weighed almost 150 pounds before, and now he is almost 130. Because of his boldness, daring to save the ball and his "meat", he often served as the starting goalkeeper.

In the previous game, Xingzhi conceded a lot of goals, Da Cao was a little depressed, but everyone comforted him, and the young man quickly cheered up, returned to the court, and shouted a few times when he saved a ball.

It's no wonder that Da Cao lost. Xingzhi campus football has not been carried out for a long time, and most of the participating players are not special students, and the age group is relatively young. There were a few games where it was a big loss. "The score is not important, the important thing is that we improve every game, and being able to participate in the competition and communicate with the famous universities in the country is a rare thing in itself." Lu Zhumu, vice principal of Xingzhi School, who led the team to participate in the competition, said, "When these children are one year older, when they come to participate in the competition next year, it will definitely be different." Lu Xiao said with a smile that Xingzhi came to learn and enjoy football this time.

also enjoys football, as well as the High School Affiliated to Peking University. On the morning of the first game day, the players of Peking University watched the game between Licheng No. 2 Middle School and Hefei No. 1 Middle School on the sidelines, and timidly asked the coach, "How many other teams are special students?" Liu Shizhe, deputy director of the sports department who led the team to participate in the competition, said with a smile, "It is to let you play with the 'professional', and we must give our best performance." In fact, Peking University Affiliated played not badly, although it failed to win in the group stage, it was a one-goal difference, and one game even hit a penalty.

In the national competition, I only lost one game with the specialty students, and the process was not bad, which made the children attached to Peking University very happy even if they lost. Winning or losing is no longer important in this moment, and both sides are having fun in football.

The High School Affiliated to Peking University also took advantage of the stage of this Centennial Famous School Cup to communicate with students from famous schools across the country and meet friends with balls. They specially sent a large box of souvenirs attached to Peking University from Beijing, which were presented to other schools during the game, and were linked to students from Tiannan and Haibei through football, so that they could learn and chat about football together, which is what campus football should look like.

Nanning No. 1 Middle School in Guangxi took a 35-hour green train, spanning 2,000 kilometers, to Jinan to compete. They are the furthest of all the teams participating in this tournament. Parents are also happy to raise their own travel expenses in order for their children to play against teams from all over the country.

The joy of football is transmittal, and it can be transmitted from Tiannan to Haibei, and from father to son.

Li Shangzhang took a nine-hour high-speed train ride from Xiamen to Jinan. This is his first expedition to the north with the team, on the one hand, he has to cheer for Xiamen Jimei Middle School, and on the other hand, as the representative of the team's parent committee, he also has to be responsible for logistics to provide the best security services for the children.

Lao Li is obsessed with football, he has his own business, but he is often the shopkeeper, and spends more time on football. Sometimes I watch European football on TV, and more often I watch my son train and play football on the sidelines.

In this competition, Lao Li's eldest son Li Yongze played on behalf of Xiamen Jimei Middle School, Xiao Li wore No. 10 and was the team's striker. The youngest son, who is still in elementary school, also came with him this time, "He is also practicing, and now he is not as good as his brother, so this time I also took him to see my brother's game." Lao Li said that he would fully support the two children to play football, as long as they liked.

In order to participate in the Centennial School Cup, Xiamen Jimei Middle School has made great efforts, the Education Commission has supported the funds, and the parents have also raised their own funds, which is the first time they have competed outside Fujian Province since the establishment of the team.

The joy of campus football lies in the cooperation and friendship, the freedom and enthusiasm to participate, and the growth process of constantly challenging oneself, overcoming oneself in the face of setbacks, and surpassing oneself. On the green field of the campus, there is the purest football.

In order to cope with the hot weather in Jinan, Lin Dahai, the coach of Dalian Northeast Road, specially arranged two training sessions at two o'clock in the afternoon before the expedition, but after arriving in Jinan, he found that it was still not good, after all, 28 degrees in Dalian and 36 degrees in Jinan are still very different.

The hot weather made the Northeast children not very adaptable, and the substitute goalkeeper kept rubbing ice on his head during the game. "The weather conditions are equal, you are hot, the other party is also hot, everyone overcome it and play at the best level." Lin Dahai said to the children. After a game, the children's little faces were black and red.

In this competition, the Northeast Road sent a fourth-grade team, most of the time in the game to play small, coupled with the weather is not adaptable, the result of the Northeast Road group stage three losses, missed the group qualification, after the game the Northeast Road players wiped their tears, Lin Dahai touched a little head melon and said, "The big guy played well, wiped the tears, and won the next game." ”。

For these 10-year-olds, football is more of a game. Laughing when you win and crying when you lose, football here is not about winning or losing, but about the deepest memories of childhood.

"You can happily read books well, you can also play the ball happily, I hope that the Centennial School Cup can make children feel the real joy of playing football, and football is not only a competitive sport, but also a happy thing that can accompany a lifetime." Liu Xiaoxin, president of the football newspaper, said at the opening ceremony of the Centennial School Cup.

On the afternoon of July 19, in the last game of the group stage, Dalian Northeast Road played against Zhengzhou Zhengshang Road. Two of the most well-known football primary schools in China, the cradle of international football, more than a dozen children wear red and blue jerseys and run on the field. There may be new internationals in the future, and by then, they may recall the scorching summer in Jinan.

This is the meaning of the Centennial School Cup.