There are more physical exercises, and there are fewer “small fat Pier” and “small glasses. Proper physical exercise can not only strengthen the body, but also shape the tenacious fighting spirit, unity and cooperation consciousness and sound personality of children and teenagers. Recently, Yi Jianlian, a men’s basketball Chinese player, said in an exclusive interview with Xinhua news agency: “Young people are strong, then the country is strong. You will encounter failures in competitive sports, so you must learn how to get up again. Sports will give teenagers a healthy and positive attitude.”
When it comes to the cultivation of youth basketball, Yi Jianlian, who spoke little in daily life, opened the chatterbox. “Through sports, it can bring some experiences that teenagers can have outside schools. How to compete, how to strive for victory through hard work and efforts.” For Yi Jianlian, “cultivating teenagers is a responsibility and a thing he wants to do in his heart.”
In the Nike High School Basketball League of China in the 2022-2023 season, which ended in May, Hupu middle school team won the men’s championship at 74:73 after overtime. Wu Houran from Hupu Middle School and Zhang Boya from Yali Middle School won the FMVP (the most valuable player award in the finals) of the men’s and women’s groups. Yi Jianlian awarded them the “Yi Jianlian Cup” symbolizing the honor of FMVP “.
This thrilling high school basketball game left a deep impression on Yi Jianlian. “The atmosphere of the scene, the body movements of the players, the cheers of the bench players, and the full devotion of the coach…… An inconspicuous team defeated a strong opponent, which may be the charm of sports.” Yi Jianlian said.
At the award ceremony, Yi Jianlian saw that Zhang Haobo, an injured player from Huopu Middle School, was carried to the podium to receive the award together. He was very emotional: “Both players have put together 200% strength, this pure fighting spirit, it is worth learning and feeling.”
According to the “14th Five-Year Plan” of Chinese basketball, the Chinese Basketball Association will continue to promote the integration of sports and education, and comprehensively improve the competitive level of current competitions among college students, high school students and junior high school students, innovate the certification system of youth competition level and youth basketball level level, and use the point system as a lever to develop the youth competition system.
In 2011, Yi Jianlian launched a public welfare basketball training camp in the fire camp, which will be held once a year. Through the national audition, high-level young players will be selected to participate in a six-day fully closed training camp, and invite domestic and foreign basketball youth coach to participate in the teaching. Since its establishment, more than 50,000 people have participated in relevant basketball professional training.
“The country advocates the integration of sports and education, and many children also like playing basketball after school.” Yi Jianlian hopes to give some help to teenagers who love basketball by running training camps, competitions and other youth basketball sports.
“I hope to do a wider job of cultivating youth basketball in the future. Now more and more college students have entered professional league matches or even the national team. I hope this phenomenon can be more and more, as long as they have this dream, with this goal, I believe they can do it.” Yi Jianlian said.
Through hard training, Yi Jianlian maintains the best physical condition at all times. It is also because of this self-discipline and hard work that Yi Jianlian’s career has been 21 years, which is called “evergreen tree”.
He believes that love can last for a long time. “As a professional athlete, I think it is a pure dream and a goal to have the opportunity to represent China in the World competition and strive to win some honors for the country, A direction of efforts.”
In competitive sports, failure is a compulsory course for every athlete. In his long career, Yi Jianlian won numerous honors, while injuries and failures were always accompanied, but he never escaped. “Every injury is actually an opportunity to make yourself stronger.” Yi Jianlian said, “injuries and failures are hard to avoid. We can only strengthen our body and will and keep a positive attitude to face them.”
Basketball has made the current Yi Jianlian, and he also hopes to take youth basketball training as lifework. “I think this is an endless thing, but it is a thing worth doing all the time. I hope I can do basketball better, do more for the future of Chinese basketball.” Yi Jianlian said.
(WEN/Xinhua News Agency reporter Xu DONGWON, Yang Kai)