Sina Sports News Contributed by Hua'ao Star

The National Youth Campus Football Work Leading Group, led by the Ministry of Education and jointly established by six ministries and commissions, has entered the stage of deepening and upgrading since its official establishment on January 28, 2015. The attention of all parties to campus football has also continued to rise, so is the establishment of the National Youth Campus Football Work Leading Group to popularize football projects in the country? With questions, the reporter attended the national youth campus football work briefing on February 11. Wang Dengfeng, director of the campus football leading group office and director of the Department of Sports Health and Arts Education of the Ministry of Education, introduced the work and answered the reporter's questions one by one.

Wang Dengfeng introduced that the National Youth Campus Football Work Leading Group led by the Ministry of Education in 2015 will effectively strengthen the organization and management of campus football work; Select and support the construction of the first batch of 6000 campus football characteristic schools in about 10 pilot counties (districts) nationwide; Establish and improve the national four level campus football competition system, with primary school football matches reaching prefectures and cities, junior high school football matches reaching provinces, and senior high school football matches reaching provinces and universities nationwide; We will carry out in-depth training to improve the quality of the campus football team, including administrators, teachers, coaches, referees, and retired athletes; Organize and promote the reform of campus football teaching and training, and prepare the campus football teaching guide and training outline; Actively carry out international cooperation in campus football, hire high-level foreign football coaches to coach, and carry out international exchanges and competitions; Efforts should be made to improve the basic security level of campus football development, with the focus on the venue, funding, teachers and other issues; We should work together to strengthen the publicity of campus football activities and focus on promoting campus football work.

When talking about the transformation of campus football from "sports" to "education" and from sports department to education department, Wang Dengfeng pointed out that after the Ministry of Education took over campus football, on the basis of continuing the previous work, it should comprehensively promote football in universities, middle schools and primary schools, take football as a breakthrough, and deepen the reform of school sports, To truly enable students to master one or two sports skills, form the habit of lifelong physical exercise, promote the improvement of students' physical health level, promote the all-round development and healthy growth of students, at the same time, enhance the awareness of parents and schools, and attach importance to physical education.

Wang Dengfeng also talked about vigorously promoting the healthy development of campus football, not only to realize the dream of Chinese football taking off, but also to accumulate campus football culture, inherit sports spirit and campus spiritual culture.

Some experts pointed out that carrying out football as a confrontational collective project among young people is not only beneficial to the physical and intellectual development of young people, but also can help to cultivate such good qualities as collectivism, tenacity, solidarity, cooperation, and compliance with rules, and imperceptibly cultivate the team spirit and perseverance of students, These sports spiritual cultures are the indispensable soul of campus spiritual culture construction.

In this way, campus football is not "just football". (Zeng Li, a reporter from Hua'ao Star)