We also won! Wuhan won the championship in the eyes of a Hubei Women s Football Youth Training Coach

Sports Weekly All-Media Reporter Yan Yiwei reported that at the moment of Wuhan Women's Football Championship, a group of U10 Hubei Xiaogan Women's Football Girls had just experienced two consecutive games failures. When Wang Shuang and the others' penalty shootout began, the team's head coach Huang Lanhong said to the somewhat depressed children, "I believe we will definitely win the penalty kick. As long as we win this championship today, we can go home happily." The "we" he mentioned is not only the Wuhan team where Wang Shuang is located, but also the grassroots team in front of him.

Huang Lanhong and the players and the parents were on a barbecue restaurant on the way back to Xiaogan from Wuhan. They were guarding the screen of their mobile phones and watched the Women's Football AFC final together.

At 7 o'clock that morning, Hubei Xiaogan Sun and Moon Star U10 Women's Football Team, led by Huang Lanhong, drove to Wuhan to play two games. The children's competition venue is very close to the final of the Women's Football Championship. Coach Huang Lanhong said that unfortunately he couldn't buy the tickets at all, otherwise he would have wanted to lead the players to watch the game on site. He said that he believed that the players he trained would one day stand on such a field of championship competition to win glory for the country. It is this dream that supports his youth training career in women's football.

When the Wuhan Women's Football Girls finally won the first Women's Football Championship in such a tenacious way, Huang Lanhong was also very inspired. In his eyes, this championship was also won by a grassroots coach like him. He said that it would be difficult for coaches like him who are engaged in youth training in the grassroots level of women's football team to persist if they do not expect their players to stand in the future to compete for the championship. "I have been waiting for my players to usher in this championship moment. Although I don't know when this moment will come, nor do I know what kind of game my players will usher in such a moment in the future. I believe it is worth working hard."

Just as Huang Lanhong regards the penalty shootout of Wuhan Women's Football Team as their own penalty shootout, these little girls under 10 years old really regard the penalty shootout of Wang Shuang and the others as the match of the Sun and Moon Star Team. Every time the Wuhan Women's Football Team scores a penalty, these Xiaogan women's football girls will cheer. When the Wuhan Women's Football Girl won the championship dramatically, these little girls could really return to Xiaogan happily as Coach Huang said.

The championship trophy won by Wuhan Women's Football Team may have planted a seed of championship in the hearts of these young players born in 2015 and 2016.

However, Huang Lanhong knew in her heart that it was not easy to truly bear fruit in the seeds of the champion. He told reporters that although this precious champion of Hubei Women's Football Team has given children more longing for future football. However, if there is no good youth training environment, the championship halo of Wuhan Chegujiang Women's Football Team will fade sooner or later. If we do not take advantage of the influence brought by this championship and actively promote women's football team, practitioners including grassroots football associations and coaches do not strike while the iron is hot, correct some wrong practices in women's football youth training and make the youth training environment better, "We will be sorry for this champion from Wuhan Chegujiang University." Huang Lanhong said that this championship is hard-won, but if the women's football youth training meets the status quo and is weak in succession, many people may have forgotten this championship in two years.

Huang Lanhong once held women's football youth training in Yancheng, Jiangsu Province for a long time. At that time, the Sun and Moon Star Football Club he founded not only trained a group of female football players such as Peng Shimeng, the former women's football team's national goalkeeper, but also became a hero in the development of local campus football. Five or six years ago, he returned to his hometown of Xiaogan, Hubei, and began to develop local elite women's football youth training from scratch. So far, his team has won the third place in the Provincial Games. Moreover, Sun, Moon and Star not only became one of the first youth training clubs in Hubei to establish a 15/16 echelon, but now it has begun to establish a 17/18 echelon, and is already quite famous in the Hubei Women's Football Youth Training Circle. However, there are more and more troubles coming, and players from Sun and Moon Star are constantly being poached by other teams or institutions. The 13/14-year-old teams who were originally planning to represent Xiaogan in the 2026 Provincial Games have disappeared because of the serious loss of players. Before going to Wuhan to play this time, many of the main players of this U10 team have been poached by other teams. Huang Lanhong is now continuing to pursue her dream of football with the rest of her children, and at the same time she has to defend her rights with difficulty and face some legal disputes that arise.

However, no matter how difficult it is, Huang Lanhong's football dream has not been shattered. He is very grateful to the championship won by Hubei Women's Football Team, which brought him a beautiful vision to the children who stayed and the parents. Although there are not many girls playing football now, he believes with his years of practice that the current national policy of developing women's football and the overall environment are very beneficial to the development of women's football youth training. As long as the grassroots youth training management departments can act in accordance with the rules, protect the women's football youth training environment, and improve the level of youth training, in the future, more parents will be willing to send their children to participate in women's football, and more women's football girls will continue to usher in their own championship moments.