In the early morning of the next day, the members of the Guanglin Middle School team gathered with the rest of the Haidong team, and then went to the Yanjing Gymnasium to participate in the opening ceremony of the National High School Sports Conference.

In previous years, various national competitions in the high school sector were only held occasionally, and there was no fixed model and standardized competition system arrangement. Until a few years ago, in order to prepare for the first Olympic Games held in Yanjing, it was necessary to hold large-scale events in the nature of exercises, and as an opportunity, the Ministry of Education, the Sports Commission and other departments cooperated to integrate various high school sports competitions, and organized the first National High School Sports Conference in 2006.

This initiative has been recognized by the vast majority of the public, and at the beginning of the competition, a number of potential sports stars have emerged in various sports, especially in football and basketball.

Because of the low popularity of Chinese football, many potential young people have not been explored, and the road to professionalism has been very bumpy, so the results have repeatedly disappointed, and there has been a serious shortage of young people.

The National High School Sports Conference has listed football as one of the six major sports, which has greatly improved the situation, and Chinese football can be said to have been activated by a new wave of momentum and entered a wave of astonishing upward momentum.

In particular, in the second national competition, a group of young players known as the 07 golden generation emerged, and they entered the Chinese professional football scene as a new force, which swept away the decline of Chinese football.

The national youth team, with these players as the main force, not only won the Asian Youth Championship, but also broke into the semi-finals in the World Youth Championships and achieved the best results in history. Their most impressive achievement was a hard-earned bronze medal at last year's London Olympics!

Even the Chinese national team has shown strong momentum with the addition of the golden generation, not only achieving good results in the semi-finals of the 2011 Asian Cup, but also successfully advancing to the 2014 World Cup finals in Brazil this year in the Asian preliminary round.

The players of the 07 Golden Generation are now in their 23s and have become the main force of major professional clubs in China, and the best have even joined the clubs of Europe's top leagues, and the world generally believes that they will bring Chinese football to new heights.

However, under this favorable situation, some people have begun to reflect on the declining popularity of the National High School Sports Conference in recent years. With the advent of the Golden Generation. Although there have been some outstanding players in the national tournaments in the following years, they have not lived up to the expectations when they moved to the professional stage.

Is the improvement of the current situation of Chinese football really short-lived, and there is no successor? Every summer, before the start of the National High School Games, commentators in the football world will start to discuss this topic, and everyone will invariably focus on the national competition of that year, hoping that after the golden generation, a large number of young players who can handle the heavy responsibilities can appear again to provide new blood and inject vitality into Chinese football.

After a lapse of six years, the curtain of the 8th National High School Student Sports Conference opened. Scouts from major clubs in the professional league have once again gathered in Yanjing to open their eyes to discover new stars.

The teams participating in the opening ceremony are from 32 competition regions, divided by provinces, Haidong City, as a municipality directly under the central government, the status is equal to other provinces, so a separate competition area is demarcated, and the participating teams are selected by the league system. Due to the large number of schools, most of the other competition areas still adopt the elimination system for selection.

The knockout rounds are highly fortuitous, and it is not easy to stand out year after year in this format. All of these teams are recognized as strong teams in national competitions.

Guanglin Middle School's first-round opponents, Zhenglin Middle School, are a team that has qualified in Tiannan Province for the fourth year in a row, and their record in the national competition is two first-round defeats and two second-round eliminations, and last year's group stage elimination was Liaodong Province's Liangang No. 3 Middle School. Recognized as a super powerhouse, it was also a later champion winner.

Therefore, Coach Zhang feels that Zhenglin Middle School has at least the strength of the semi-top eight, which should not be underestimated.

The opening ceremony of the sports conference is not particularly grand, after all, the budget is limited. Students from several high schools in Yenching were in charge of the warm-up performances, and the contestants of each team sat in the stands with the spectators.

At the end of the performance, the singers invited by the organizer of the competition will sing the theme song of the competition. A youthful and beautiful figure appeared in the center of the venue. There was a commotion in the stands.

"It's Chen Panpan who sings the theme song!" "Really?" "It's too far away to see clearly!"

The clear and beautiful singing voice sounded with the passionate melody, and the spectators confirmed that the singer in the audience was the high school star singer Chen Panpan.

In the stands, Wang Bai secretly thought: I didn't expect Panpan to come to Yanjing, but I didn't hear her talk about it before, probably because the agency worked hard to increase her exposure and warm up the album.

But he was actually wrong, Chen Panpan was originally just a substitute for the opening ceremony of this conference, but he didn't expect that Zhengjiao would not be able to come to the temporary illness and hospitalization, so she picked up a chance to show her face.

Although the opening ceremony of the National High School Students' Movement was not grand, it was also broadcast live on television across the country.

The singer of the theme song will definitely have a long close-up, and this rare opportunity can be obtained unexpectedly, which is really a very lucky thing, so Chen Panpan's agency sent her to Yanjing overnight after receiving an urgent notice yesterday.

On the eve of the release of his debut solo album, Chen Panpan was also pleasantly surprised to receive such a performance for the national TV audience, so he was very serious and hardworking, using the only little time to rehearse and try his best to play his best. So after she arrived in Yanjing yesterday, she didn't inform Wang Bai that she had come here too.

After the theme song ended, the contestants entered the arena one after another to the soundtrack of the sports march, and after a week around the stadium, they converged in the center of the arena. This was followed by a speech by the leader and the oath-taking ceremony of the player's representatives. At the end of this series of processes, the 8th National High School Student Sports Conference was officially opened!

After the opening ceremony, the last year's champion Lian Hong Kong No. 3 High School and his group stage opponents presented the opening match of the football event of this year's sports conference. With the exception of the first tournament with the host nation kicking off the opening match, the defending champions of each tournament since then have been held in the main venue, where they have presented the opening match and broadcast it live across the country.

Most of the group stages are played at the same time, so most teams only have local stations to broadcast the matches. The treatment of the defending champions is very different, with CCTV broadcasting their matches live from the group stage.

Wang Bai and others didn't have the leisure to watch the game, because their first game of the group stage was about to start at two o'clock in the afternoon. Coach Zhang is ready to lead the team to the arena in advance to adapt to the venue, and then prepare on the spot.

Sitting on the bus prepared for them by the staff of the team, the football team of Guanglin Middle School left the main stadium of the conference.

Before getting into the car, Lu Guanghe turned his head to look at the magnificent Yanjing Gymnasium, and suddenly sighed: "I don't know if Lu Dao has a chance to come here to compete." ”

Wang Bai patted him on the back with a smile and said, "Get in the car, it's just a matter of winning four games here, it's not that difficult." ”

If the teams from other groups are going to play at home, unless they reach the final, because after the group stage of football, it will be requisitioned as the main venue for athletics, even if the defending champions have to play in the quarterfinals and semi-finals in other venues.

Wang Bai said that winning four games is to win four consecutive rounds of knockouts, then you can break into the finals.

"It's as light as you say." Lu Guanghe muttered, in his opinion, with the strength of the Guanglin Middle School team, it is extremely difficult to break into the top eight, because the team's best result in history is only the top 16.

Coach Zhang Guangda was right behind them, listened to their words, and sighed lightly: "The skills of our school team are actually not bad, and it is often physical fitness that suffers in the national competition, and it can't outrun others." It's all the fault of the 60-minute format of our Haidong Spring League, so I ask you to strengthen your physical training after the league is over. ”

Every time the Guanglin Middle School team competes in the national competition, the collapse is often in the second half of the game, because after adapting to the 60-minute format in the spring league of the Haidong Division, the 90-minute game will obviously have abnormal performance.

In fact, this situation cannot be solved by physical exercise alone, and to a greater extent, it is a mental overdraft, and some players cannot maintain their energy concentration for a long time. Opponents from other divisions, on the other hand, made it all the way through the 90-minute format to fight their way up from the knockout round.

Their technical and tactical level may be similar to that of Guanglin Middle School, but the resilience and desire of their players are definitely higher than most of the players in Guanglin Middle School.

In their preliminaries, they couldn't afford to lose even a single game, otherwise they wouldn't have been able to make it to the national stage.

The peculiar competition system of the Haidong Division is officially formulated, but the participating teams do not have much say, and even if they are affected by this, they can only suffer the consequences and try to adjust themselves.

However, it is difficult to adjust the habit of playing for a long time in a short period of time. Even if Coach Zhang repeatedly asks the players to strengthen their physical fitness and concentration, after they go on the court, it will still affect the overall situation due to individual laxity or physical exhaustion.

After all, there are eleven people in a team, and he can't expect every player to play the whole game like Wang Bai without running to death, and still maintain a high degree of concentration.

After the bus sent the team to the competition venue, Coach Zhang showed the pass issued by the conference to the venue management, and then successfully led the team into the stadium for adaptive training.

The stadium can accommodate around 10,000 spectators, which is much smaller than the main stadium, but it is more than enough for the group stage. After all, there are still a few loyal fans who really come to Yanjing with the team to watch the game, and most of the spectators are some local football fans in Yanjing.

The pitch is small, but the quality of the pitch is excellent, and the turf is clearly professionally maintained, allowing the players to pass and receive the ball and run on it without any discomfort.

Wang Bai, who came to the national arena for the first time, couldn't help but sigh that the preparations of the organizing committee of the sports conference were in place, even if the popularity of this event was not as high as in previous years, but the preparations that should be made were still meticulous. (To be continued......)