Chapter 131: The Origin of Twelve-Minute Running
ps: A small change was made at the end of the previous article.
Ou Chuliang followed Yuan Weimin and sat down on a bench in the corridor.
"Xiao Ou, Xiao Xu told me that you can understand the true meaning of the Football Association's 12-point run, but I don't think you know how it came about!"
"I would like to hear the details." Ou Chuliang nodded. He was not very clear about these internal decisions of the Football Association.
"That's a long way to talk about it." Yuan Weimin took a deep breath and fell into memories.
Every football city has endless stories in the past 10 years, but Kunming is very simple, so simple that many people can summarize it in the four words "spring training" and "physical test".
On the outskirts of the southwest city of Kunming, next to the beautiful Dianchi Lake, a long dike ranging from east to west, ranging from about 4.5 kilometers to about 40 meters to 300 meters wide, is called Haitang.
In 1994, when Chinese football became professional, Haitang was selected as a national football training camp. Concentrated spring training is the most concentrated expression of the Chinese football planning system.
Haitang Spring Training can be said to be a unique landscape in Chinese football. Every winter and spring, 36 domestic A-level teams gather in the treasure land on the banks of Dianchi Lake to sweat for the autumn harvest.
In 1994, the Football Association used physical fitness tests as the qualification criteria for players to participate in the competition. Due to the issue of jobs, all teams have attached great importance to spring training and physical tests this year. The 12-minute running and 5x25-meter back-running became another symbol of Chinese football.
On March 17, 1994, the first physical test was held at Kunming Tuodong Stadium.
At 9 a.m., the Guangzhou Sun God team was the first to participate in the 12-minute running test. As a result, only 7 of the 19 people participated in the test and 11 people reached the passing line. The forward-looking Zhang Bing fell 2,900 meters and lost the qualification to participate in the league, becoming the first "victim" on the physical test altar.
On March 15, 1995, 18 old international players over 30, including Li Yong, Zhao Faqing and Tang Yaodong, jointly wrote to the Spring Training Office. On the grounds that they were old and were not suitable for the 12-minute run, they asked for care and exemption from the test, but they were not approved.
Such an overcorrect model is full of sorrow among the people.
Especially athletes, they don’t understand why they use this tough physical fitness standard as the basis for whether they can play football.
However, they did not know that the provision issued by the Football Association was the conclusions and suggestions obtained by Wang Junsheng after he came to the stage in the Hongshankou Conference in 1992.
"After the military student just took over Nian Weisi, he was facing a mess that no one dared to take on." Yuan Weimin recalled.
After the humble Wang Junsheng asked for advice everywhere, he finally received guidance from an old senior.
Continue the past and the future, and do everything yourself and think twice before doing it.
Especially in the reform of football, Wang Junsheng and Ma Kejian jointly held a discussion with seven professors from the Beijing Sports Academy in Haitang for a discussion.
The seven professors went to Haitang for a week and completed a survey on the men's football training during this period.
At the symposium, a small conference room that was somewhat simple was packed with seven professors and staff from the Football Association's Spring Training Office. Seven famous professors were engaged in research on sports training, sports physiology, sports medicine, sports management, etc. Three of them taught Wang Junsheng when he was studying.
"Today, the military students ruled, so that they would like to hear the professors' opinions. Please speak freely." Ma Kejian presided over the meeting.
The atmosphere in the conference room suddenly became solemn, and no one spoke.
"Today is not a test for students at the School of Physical Education, it is a discussion! I want to listen to the training situation of each team." Two minutes later, Wang Junsheng took the initiative to break the silence when he saw that no one was talking.
"Do you want to hear the truth or the lies?" asked a kinesiology professor.
"Of course it's the truth!" Wang Junsheng said loudly, "I just came to the Football Association and didn't know all aspects. I don't know why the symposium was so dull. I want to hear the real opinions from all aspects!"
"Okay, I'll start first." The kinesiology professor put the Hero pen in his hand on the pen cap and took off his glasses.
"I specialize in sports training. I have studied more than one football project, and I have seen many trainings for other sports. But this is my first time in Haitang today."
Speaking of this, the old professor's hands began to tremble due to excitement. The other professors in front of the table also shook their heads and sighed helplessly.
Just when Wang Junsheng and Ma Ke saw that they were not clear, the old professor of kinesiology suddenly said excitedly, his voice full of sorrow: "Comrade Junsheng, if you really want to hear my truth, my truth. Then I tell you, don't let them practice! Let them go home quickly and get out!"
"Are they training? They were playing at that time! No, tmd is not even playing! It's a mess! They are all wasting the country's money in vain!!!"
The old professor turned pale because of his excitement, "Can such training break out of Asia and go to the world? Isn't this tmd?"
The old professor finished speaking in one breath, and his heart kept rising and falling due to excitement. With the help of his colleagues, he drank a sip of warm water and then slowly recovered.
Ma Kejian didn't say anything, and he fell into deep thought.
"In sports training, 'motivational setting' is very emphasized. Take gymnasts for example. They emphasize difficulty, height and novelty. Therefore, when gymnastics coaches train athletes, they strictly require movement standardization and accuracy. Through repeated, hundreds of times of training, the cerebral cortex is repeatedly stimulated, and finally the motivational setting is formed, so that high scores can be obtained in the competition."
“So is the case in some ways!”
"According to our observations over the past few days, all the players are very unserious in their daily training, let alone hard work! Even the kicking style is inconsistent and inaccurate. It would be nice to have one of the ten shots hit the ball in the frame!"
"And they all pass the ball with their ankle hooks, and the ball is soft and tilted, but they often smile after kicking."
"In addition, football is a very confrontational sport, but they all play fake things and don't really fight head-on. Even if someone plays football seriously and accidentally touches his companion, the other party either scolds or beats him, and doesn't take it seriously at all!"
After another professor finished speaking, the other professors nodded frequently.
"I saw two incidents!"
"I saw it together too!"
Seeing that Wang Junsheng and Ma Kejian were not talking, a professor added: "Ring around circles is a good training method. People outside quickly pass and respond, and people inside quickly grab, block and intercept."
"But how did they kick? They were casual, laugh, and fight"
"Oh! What do you think is this? This is also called training? No wonder Chinese football can never leave Asia, just use such training?"
"There is another issue, which is the issue of discipline." A sports management professor also opened his mouth, "The coach not only needs to tell the players how to play football, but also needs to have his own authority. With strong authority, students are obedient, and their teaching ability will naturally improve."
"What about now? The coach is not authoritative, the training quality is too low, and the attitude, timeliness and intensity of the players during training are seriously unqualified. Not to mention that the gap between now and other countries in the world is big, even if we are in the 1960s and 1970s, the training is not good! If the Football Association wants specific data, we will sort it out and hand it over to the Football Association in two days."
Wang Junsheng was about to nod and agreed, but another professor of sports psychology continued.
"Also, not only men's football players are involved in training at this base, but also women's softball."
"But compare them! The same food and the same conditions. The women's team hinted at the training. Four training sessions a day, and they were sweating profusely every time. Especially after dinner, I often saw the female team members working overtime under the street lights, on the road, and on the training ground. Don't worry about the unscientific subjects, but they really worked hard! Is it reasonable to not win good results for such hard training?"
"But what about the men's football team? These athletes have no self-consciousness at all. They don't sleep at night and don't get up in the morning. This week, we hardly saw a football team having sex at the same time, let alone morning exercises!"
"They only get up at three o'clock in the afternoon after training. After three o'clock, they will come to the court one by one, and their equipment will not be neatly worn."
"I also heard that a team leader even opened the bottle of ginseng essence on their bedside in order to get them up on time in the morning and coax them to get them up."
"I don't understand why the coach can't control them? Who supports them? The women's ladies are so hardworking, why are the men's so lazy?"
"Vice Chairman of the Military Student, what we are talking about today is all about problems. I hope you and Ma Kejian don't mind at the same time. These are all things we have seen with our own eyes and are the truth, and they are for your reference only."
"As for the reasons for this phenomenon, we didn't look for it, because that's your business. But I think it's up to you, relying on the current atmosphere, such training intensity, and such competitive level, I think our football strength will not only not improve, but will even continue to decline."
After several professors finished speaking in turn, everyone turned their attention to Wang Junsheng, after all, he was the manager of this room.
The professor just said that Wang Junsheng kept taking notes.
Before being the chairman of the Football Association, he had been studying at the Beijing Sports Academy for ten years. He did not expect that ten years after he left the football field, his domestic training level would drop to such a level.
These football teams almost represent the national football level, and international players are also selected from these football teams.
Now that the adult team is like this, what about the youth team?
If the youth team cannot do well in training, wouldn’t Chinese football be even weaker in ten years?
Japanese and Koreans have long begun to focus on youth training. If China continues like this, they will not be far away from them in ten years?
So what do we do?
Wang Junsheng wrote a sentence in his notebook at the end: We must improve discipline and training!
After that, Wang Junsheng convened some front-line personnel working in sports, such as team logistics personnel, assistant coaches and physical education teachers, and invited AFC Secretary-General Verapan to lead an inspection team to China for investigation and research.
With the final decision, the twelve-minute run and 5x25-fold return run came into being.
Although its appearance has ruined many people's jobs, it has also made some old international players feel that "they have burned their bridges and the lack of protection in their later years", and even caused a series of people to scold them.
However, under this militarization and "concentration camp"-like management, the athletes' physical fitness and attitude towards football have gradually improved to above the passing line.
In the past two years, at least the physical confrontation of the national team members has been very popular in Asia.
"So, you still want to cancel the spring training, right?" After Yuan Weimin said that, he stared at Ou Chuliang's eyes tightly and waited for his answer.
After a while, Ou Chuliang sighed: "Uncle Yuan, I don't want to cancel the spring training. I feel that the twelve-minute run has completed its historical mission. We now need an updated and more scientific method to replace it!"
Chapter completed!