The sky was a little gray.

In the track and field field of Nanxiu Sports School, the clear whistle sounded, and on the clean and tidy track, the crackling footsteps suddenly sounded.

"It's a little cold, run one more lap, and your body should be fully active and warm up."

Nie Fangping stood in the open space next to the runway, clapped his hands lightly, and shouted loudly to the dozen or so teenagers who began to warm up and trot.

Although there is little rain and snow in the winter of Nanxiu City, the humidity of the southern city is heavy, and after the temperature drops, the cold is almost seeping into the bones. For daily training, although there will be no frostbite, if you don't move your body, it is still easy to have muscle stiffness and strain.

"Coach Nie."

Just as the students of the sports school began to train, a man in a black jacket, thirty-five or sixteen years old, greeted Nie Fangping with a smile on his face in the track and field field.

"Xiao Zheng, why are you here?" Nie Fangping looked at the person who came, and a smile appeared on his round face.

"I haven't seen you old for some days, so I don't have time to come and visit!" Zheng Kaifeng stepped forward and greeted with a smile, and reached out to grab Nie Fangping's shoulder.

"Go, what a man." Nie Fangping slapped Zheng Kaifeng's hand away, and scolded with a smile, "I don't know about you, a leather monkey, you have always been on the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, if you don't have something, how will you remember me, a bad old man." ”

Zheng Kaifeng smiled hesitantly, withdrew his hand, and didn't feel embarrassed, "Then you have wronged me, what kind of person am I, it doesn't depend on your retirement, but also taking care of the sports school and the juvenile sports school, you are usually too busy." ”

"Come on, you don't come, you used to be an athlete under me, and you kid danced the most." Nie Fangping smiled and pointed at Zheng Kaifeng, "Tell me, what's the matter with coming this time?" You don't have winter training now, so if you want to come to the sports school to pick people, you won't rush to this time, right? ”

"I can't hide anything from you." Zheng Kaifeng had a hippie smile, rubbed his palms a little cold, and said, "In March, it is the provincial youth track and field championships, and the city is forming a team to participate, and I have to go around our sports school and professional sports school." ”

"Which groups are there?" Nie Fangping nodded and asked.

"There are two groups for competitive and secondary school students, and the competitive group is under 13 years old, 14 years old, 15-16 years old, and 17-18 years old. I'm not busy selecting contestants now, in previous years, we didn't necessarily have a good ranking in Nanxiu, but this time it's not good to count down. ”

Zheng Kaifeng said slowly, with a little helplessness in his tone, "The competitive group is better, after all, it is our city team, as well as the players from the sports school and the sports school, no matter how much you can get a ranking, the key is the middle school student group, which is really not competitive." ”

Nie Fangping agrees with what Zheng Kaifeng said, he has been up and down in the sports system of Nanxiu City for decades, and he has seen many things more thoroughly than Zheng Kaifeng.

Compared with other parts of Haixi Province, the economic development of Nanxiu City lags behind, and the overall sports atmosphere of the people is not strong. But in the middle school student group, there are fewer who can get their hands on it. In addition, there are some people who sign up for the relationship, and the overall situation is even more unsatisfactory.

"By the way, have you read the results announcement of the last city middle school sports meeting?" Nie Fangping pondered for a while, and suddenly asked.

He didn't talk about the selection of players in the competitive group, but mentioned the city middle school student sports meeting that ended last month.

"Not yet." Zheng Kaifeng shook his head and said, "I just want to finalize the teams in the competition group first, and then look back at the results of the sports meeting, whether there are suitable students." This time is a bit tight, and when I come back after the Spring Festival, it will only take a week or two at most to convene a training camp. ”

The middle school students of the Nanxiu City team of the Provincial Youth Athletics Championships must be middle school students from various schools, and the best reference results are naturally the last city middle school student games, but he just came back from the field and pressed this first.

"I think you can pay attention to the fact that there is a student in the men's sprint who is quite good, and he broke the record of the 400m and 200m in the high school group, and the 100m is also counted. That Zhao Youcheng Zhao Coach you know, right? He and I also ran a trip to the show for this student. ”

"Zhao Youcheng, Coach Zhao?" Zheng Kaifeng didn't pay much attention to the results that Nie Fangming said, but after hearing the name Zhao Youcheng, he was a little surprised, "That's a celebrity who went out of our sports school, he is in the avant-garde sports association, right?" Why, he has a look at the seedlings? ”

"Well, there's such a silly boy with a lot of talent." Nie Fangping remembered the last trip to Xiushui with Zhao Youcheng, and suddenly became a little angry, pouting and saying, "Coach Zhao wants to take him to the avant-garde sports association, but this kid doesn't agree, he just wants to stay in Xiushui to study." ”

"What does a student know!" Zheng Kaifeng was also a little amused when he heard it, "You didn't go to his house to talk?" The avant-garde sports association is still quite rare. ”

Zheng Kaifeng and they are all from the past, and they know that students at this age can't understand the importance of many things, and they generally mainly take the parental route, and most of the family members can agree to the students. As for saying that some students couldn't bear the hardship and left halfway, that's another story.

"It didn't work out." Nie Fangping shook his head, "Coach Zhao is going to the United States for further study after the Spring Festival, and this matter is also temporary, and Coach Zhao sees that the student's willingness is not strong, and he is afraid that he will not be able to survive if he really goes to the avant-garde sports association." ”

"That's just as well." Zheng Kaifeng nodded, like he sees a lot in professional teams, and selects athletes based on their results and talent and potential, but those who can produce results are not necessarily the ones with the best talents. There are many people who are not serious in training, who cannot endure hardships, who are psychologically fragile, who fish for three days and dry nets for two days, and who lack self-discipline and become addicted to the vice of smoking and drinking, no matter how talented they are, they will not be able to come out.

Self-disciplined qualities, strong drive-thrust, and competitive spirit are sometimes much more important than natural potential. Especially when you reach a certain age, you have a rebellious psychology in adolescence, and you don't have a strong personal will, most of them are still unknown to everyone.

And they speak from the perspective of their own sports people, I believe that if they change the teachers of the education system, they will naturally have a different opinion.

"But having said that, it should still be okay to go to the provincial youth track and field championships with you, and now you can count it as a sports student. Alas, I studied and trained, and I don't know if the conditions at that kid's home can hold up, it's really stupid to go home, and I really scrapped myself after training...... Alas, and Xiao Yan is also fooling around. ”

Nie Fangping has a general understanding of Ye Qin's family situation, although it is not comprehensive, but it is not superior. Poor and rich are not just talking, not to mention equipment training for practicing sports, nutrition alone is also a lot of money.

After seeing Ye Qin's performance from the city middle school sports meeting, although he was not as eager as Zhao Youcheng, he wanted to bring Ye Qin to the professional team at a glance, but he still felt a little pity in his heart.

"Hearing you say that, then I have to see what I can do, I can attract talents from a professional team like the avant-garde sports association, and I have to see what to say."

Zheng Kaifeng looked at the old man Nie Fangping, with a smile on his face, looking at the other party, although his mouth was unforgiving, the mentality of cherishing talents was still undoubtedly revealed.

I came this time to select a few outstanding members of the competitive group from the sports school, and Nie Fangping recommended a middle school student group to him.

He had dealt with Nie Fangping a lot, and he had been trained under him, so he knew Nie Fangping's character.

In the past few years, when I get older, whether it is with the leaders of the sports school or in the face of other peers, I like to show off my old qualifications. But that love and cherishing talent has always been there, which has been the case since Nie Fangping started to be a coach many years ago.