Chapter 3: Diligent study and hard practice, fame, and master-apprentice division
Constrained by the limitations of space and funds, Zhou Wen wanted to build the city sports school into a vocational sports school, but this was not something he could complete alone, nor was it his wishful thinking.
In Li Yutian's city, the city sports school is still an amateur sports school, and the dolls who come here study in the school and come to the sports school for training after school. However, the results of training at the municipal sports school and the results of participating in competitions can be used as a selection file for entering a professional sports school in the future.
Under Zhou Wen, Li Yutian studied in school every day, and after school, he walked to the city sports school to participate in track and field training in sprinting and long jump.
Zhou Wen also devoted all his efforts to Li Yutian, a disciple, and formulated a strict training plan for him.
"Thirty push-ups done, thirty frog jumps. After that, three laps of the 400-meter variable speed run! ”
"Coach, I'm tired."
"In my training plan, there are no tired words! Go on! "Zhou Wen's strictness is not just talking.
Since ancient times, strict teachers have produced high apprentices, and of course, there have been heroes since ancient times. Li Yutian is very talented, and the football initiation before the age of three has laid a solid foundation for his physical fitness. In the city sports school, Li Yutian has made rapid progress in sports under the guidance of famous teachers. At the biennial city primary and secondary school games, Li Yutian won the championship of 100 meters and long jump in one fell swoop.
Li Yuelong looked at the medal his son won and was very happy. If dolls can develop in the field of sports, they will also be a way to make a living in the future. But that's just Li Yuelong's idea.
As Li Yutian grew older, he went from not knowing what football was, to having a deep love and yearning for football in his heart and in the dark. After all, in sports schools, there are also children who play football in fierce competitions on the playground.
Many times, Li Yutian looked at the children who played football in the gymnasium and had his own thoughts: When can I also play like them?
"Dad, I want to play." , Li Yutian kicked the football given to him by his uncle, and said to Li Yuelong, who was reading a book next to him, while playing.
"You can train your current 100 meters well."
"Dad, but I still like to play football."
"Football in our city can't develop, there are no venues, and there are not so many players to play football." Li Yuelong analyzed it for Li Yutian.
It is true that football needs a field and needs good basic training, but the current environment seems to be where no one and no school or any organization pays attention to football. Besides, my son is about to enter junior high school, and the next step is to get into a good middle school, and football doesn't seem to be able to achieve this. But he couldn't tell his son, and he didn't understand it.
In fact, Li Yuelong was also a little confused: his son had received football enlightenment training since he was a child, and he should have found a football mentor to train him, but by mistake, his son embarked on the road of track and field. Nowadays, all schools focus on the promotion rate, and students have to endorse and write homework, which takes up a lot of time. My son also participates in the training of the city sports school, how can he have so much spare time to play football.
"After a hundred years of sleep, the Chinese people have gradually woken up ,........"
Li Yuelong and Qi Ling were frugal and bought a TV for their son, which was black and white, and it was already a valuable household appliance in an ordinary family. Li Yutian and his younger brother Li Bin often sit in front of the TV and watch the TV series "Huo Yuanjia". The song was a popular song on the streets at the time.
On this day, Li Yutian and his younger brother sat in front of the TV and prepared to watch cartoons. The news report was covering the 1986 World Cup, and a small man in a blue and white striped shirt was seen circled in the middle of the pitch, and one turned around, shook off the blocked opponent, and ran towards the opponent's goal with the ball. Along the way, he swayed left and right, rushed to the goal at high speed, and at the moment when the opponent came up to tackle, the football was hit into the bottom of the net, and the whole court was boiling.
Li Yutian jumped up excitedly, and his younger brother shouted stupidly after his brother. Li Yuelong was repairing his bicycle outside the house, when he heard the two brothers shouting, thinking that something was happening, he rushed in to see that it was the two sons shouting at the TV.
"What are you two yelling about!?"
"Dad, Dad, the little man who was wearing the No. 10 jersey just now is really amazing, one flashed so many people with the ball, and finally kicked the ball in!" Li Yutian said excitedly.
Li Yuelong looked at the TV screen, because it was only a news report of more than ten seconds, and the shot of the little man shooting with the ball had long been changed to other news. "Where?" Li Yuelong asked with a confused expression.
"It's just the football game that just aired."
Li Yuelong smiled and said, "You two take a good look at the rest, it's just a game." "He didn't know it was a World Cup match. However, he wondered what kind of competition it was.
A few days later.
"I'm back." Qi Ling came back from work. "Yuelong, my brother has a letter here."
"What is written in Xiaoqiang's letter?"
"I haven't seen it yet. I'll read it to you now. Qi Ling said, opened the envelope, and read it word by word.
Qi Qiangxin said that these days are World Cup games, and if there are conditions, let Li Yutian watch the game. Qi Qiang also specifically named a person in the letter----- Maradona. To say that this is an Argentine star, the technique is very good. In order to make it easier to find this person's game, Qi Qiang said that this person's jersey number is 10. In the game the other day, one man dribbled past six defenders and scored the crucial winning goal.
Li Yuelong suddenly realized that his son was screaming in the house that day to see Maradona's goal.
Maradona's wonderful 1,000-mile solo ride in the World Cup has been echoing in Li Yutian's mind. In my young mind, I always wonder when I will be able to amaze the audience like Maradona?
In order to allow children with sports talent to complete their physical training well and not delay their studies, the Municipal Sports Commission and the middle schools have established mutual training channels: the Municipal Sports School under the Municipal Sports Commission selects some sports seedlings to study in various middle schools, and the middle schools find that the sports seedlings of the school can also directly sign up for training in the Municipal Sports School.
Dolls with athletic talent can even go to junior high school without exception and be exempted from the entrance exam. Of course, the vast majority are track and field events. Football is very rare, almost none. It is generally believed that there is no way out of playing football, and it can only be an after-dinner entertainment.
Time waits for no one. In the blink of an eye, Li Yutian was promoted to junior high school, and at the same time, his training in the amateur sports school continued.
Li Yutian was originally a child athlete at the city sports school, so after entering junior high school, he continued to train in track and field without school registration. However, Li Yutian was admitted to junior high school with his own cultural class results, and he did not use his sports results to recruit exceptionally. This is Li Yuelong's insistence on asking Li Yutian to do this, and to learn the cultural class well.
In Li Yuelong's view, the society has progressed, and it is difficult to move an inch without knowledge, and sports are placed in the second place, which is a remedial means, that is, in case of poor test results, they will use sports results to make up for it, and strive to go to a good middle school. This also means that Li Yuelong is not optimistic about football, nor does he think that football can get ahead.
In fact, Li Yuelong is not the only one who thinks like this, but also the parents of many children in the same period as Li Yutian, the doll's academic performance is the first priority, and others must give way to studying, and they would rather let the doll read until late at night, rather than spend a little time playing sports, let alone playing football.
It seems that there is not a bit of football vibe in the whole city.
Every time he came back from training in the track and field, Li Yutian was so tired that he didn't want to move. Lying on the bed, looking at the football given by his uncle hanging on the wall and in the net pocket, which has worn off a lot of skin, Li Yutian is often more than capable of strength.
Although there are still several rows of awards issued by the school such as outstanding students and outstanding young athletes on the wall, this is not attractive to Li Yutian. There are also those award certificates and medals that participated in the provincial and municipal games, Li Yutian always felt that this did not seem to be what he wanted, although when he received the award, he was very beautiful and praised by others.
The classmates around Li Yutian will talk a lot about it, such as pop songs, superstars, martial arts novels, and no one talks about football. There are even many students who start to fall in love, talking about how this female classmate is, and how that girl has a good figure.
Li Yutian is not interested in these, except for track and field training, when he comes home, he plays football, of course, he practices his big feet against the wall alone. An idea that made Li Yutian unable to calm down for a long time when he thought of it, took root in Li Yutian's heart little by little----- when can I go to participate in international competitions like that little man No. 10?" Gradually, this idea is changing little by little, when can I participate in the competition in the name of the national team, so that the sick man of East Asia will never return (although this "sick man of East Asia" has long been gone, this is just a kind of patriotic feelings born spontaneously by Li Yutian).
It's time to take the high school entrance exam, that is, the annual high school entrance examination is approaching. When choosing volunteers, many students in the class chose technical secondary schools and secondary professional and technical schools, because the technical secondary schools in that era could be assigned jobs, and only with jobs could they have jobs.
Although Li Yutian's sports results can be directly admitted to the regional sports school, he can be assigned a job after graduation. But Li Yuelong and Qi Ling are more concerned about Li Yutian's academic performance, and whether they can be admitted to the key high schools in the city is what they are most worried about. Because although Li Yuelong was born in a rough background, he later studied college courses and obtained legal qualifications, and he is a well-known cultural person in the factory. Qi Ling was originally an electrician, and later taught himself finance and accounting, which is also a college culture. Therefore, the two paid more attention to the child's knowledge level and were not in a hurry to let the child be employed soon, and Li Yutian's track and field career came to an end.
"Dad, what do you think I should fill in? Many students in the class fill in the technical secondary school, and it is said that they can be assigned jobs after graduating from the secondary school. Coach Zhou said that my track and field results are very good, and he hopes that I will continue to develop track and field. Li Yutian, who is almost 15 years old, does not talk to Li Yuelong like he used to call "Dad" in his childhood, just one word: "Dad", this is also the role of time and age, after all, he is a young man, no longer a child.
"You can choose to apply for the key high school in the city." Li Yuelong's way of speaking to his son has also changed, and it is no longer the tone of whispering and teasing children, like a conversation between two men.
"Then I can't continue to practice track and field when I get into high school. The coach will be disappointed. Li Yutian has won several provincial and municipal youth track and field championships in three years of junior high school. There are several championship medals in the house.
"Your dad and I used to want you to continue to develop in athletics, but then I discussed with your mom that it would be better to study culture."
"So my mom thinks the same thing as you?"
"Yes, your mother, like me, is admitted to high school."
Li Yutian is a filial son, and he doesn't want to disobey his parents' orders, but he can't give up Coach Zhou in his heart, for fear that Coach Zhou will be sad, after all, they have been together for three years, as the saying goes, one day is a teacher and a father for life, and the master and apprentice are deeply affectionate.
"Hey, where are you going?" Li Yuelong ran out when he saw that his son didn't reply, and hurriedly asked.
"Go to sports school." Li Yuelong heard his son say this, he knew his son very well, he was not very old, but he was a loyal and courageous man, he valued feelings and morality. My son is going to say goodbye to his master.
Li Yutian came to Zhou Wen's office with a gloomy expression. After entering the door, he just called "coach" and sat on the sofa and stopped talking. His heart turned upside down, not that he couldn't practice track and field anymore, but that he couldn't say a lot of words.
Zhou Wen looked at Li Yutian, who bowed his head and was silent, and understood seven or eight points in his heart. During this time, it was the time to fill in the high school entrance examination, and several disciples had already asked him how to fill in the vocational sports school. Seeing that Li Yutian didn't speak, he guessed that Li Yutian's parents probably wanted their very important disciple to apply for high school.
"Xiaotian, why are you so depressed today."
Li Yutian still didn't say anything, lowered his head and drank the water in the teacup, but in fact, there was no water in the teacup.
"Did your parents let you go to high school?"
"Hmm."
The atmosphere was somewhat dark. Zhou Wen paused for a few seconds, and the scenes with this disciple flashed in his mind.
"Xiaotian, I respect your parents' choice. Good men have ambitions in all directions. Although Zhou Wen was reluctant, Zhou Wen was very open-minded and everyone had their own ambitions. Seeing that the disciple was unhappy in his heart, he knew that he was difficult to speak, so he spoke out first.
"Coach, I'm ......." Looking at his teacher, when the words came to his lips, Li Yutian couldn't say anything, tears rolled in his eyes.
"The boy doesn't flick when he has tears. The sea is wide and the fish jumps, and the sky is high for the birds to fly. Don't cry, it's not like my apprentice. Zhou Wen comforted Li Yutian, but in fact, his heart was also very difficult to let go.
"Coach ,......。" Li Yutian was already in tears. "Poof", Li Yutian knelt on his knees and kowtowed to Zhou Wen three times.
Helping Li Yutian up, Zhou Wen said to him earnestly: "The coach understands you and understands your parents." Over the years, you have been developing in athletics, I know that you have loved playing football since you were a child, and you have been wronged in the past few years. If you can develop in football in the future, the coach is also very happy. As he spoke, Zhou Wen pointed at Li Yutian's head, "You have to kick the ball with your heart, not with your feet." ”
After tearfully bidding farewell to his teacher, Li Yutian filled in the city's key middle school---- Yunsheng Middle School.
This is exactly what it is: the feast will eventually disperse, but the world will be impermanent. If you want to know how Li Yutian took the high school entrance examination, I will break it down next time.