If you have a mouthful of Luzhou wine, you will score goals?

Luzhou Laojiao team "brings their own alcohol content"

Luzhou team members conduct physical training.

"Yibin team won Chang and Drink Wuliangye, Luzhou team won Chang and Drink Luzhou Laojiao - it depends on which team is addicted to alcohol!" As the "Sichuan Super League" started on September 20, the "mouth battle" about football has already begun.

Yibin and Luzhou, one wine is the same as the wine city. The two "Sichuan Super League" teams only played a friendly match, and netizens from both places "set up a wine party" in the comment area. Zigong netizens are not willing to be outdone: "When will our Zigong Salt Team come on stage? I won't be crazy about you!" Luzhou netizens immediately retorted: "Give your cold-eating rabbits to show you the food and drinks for Laojiao!"

Faced with netizens' jokes, the head coach of the Luzhou Laojiao team and Sichuan football legend "Wei Daxia" Wei Qun smiled and said: "'Chuan Chao' is also an opportunity to make the city 'live'."

Wearing a battle jersey and fighting for the city

After 5 pm on September 17, a teaching match was staged at Luzhou Hengchuang No. 3 Sports Park. Head coach Wei Qun and executive coach Xu Hui took the stage personally, running and fighting with the players. The shouts came one after another, and the entire training was both tense and efficient and not losing vitality.

At present, there are 50 players in the Luzhou Laojiao team, of which half of them are "post-00s". The youngest is 18 years old and the oldest is 44 years old.

"You can't use the competitive standards of professional teams to ask them, but let them know that wearing the Luzhou team's jersey is fighting for this city." Wei Qun said that he has personally experienced the glory and trough of Sichuan football from a player of the Quanxing team to the "Shuo Super League" coach, and he also cherishes the flames that are rekindled by folk football today.

Plateau training to hone the team's resilience

With the strength of Luzhou Laojiao team, Wei Qun was very frank: "In the southern Sichuan competition area, we can only be considered medium-level." He and the coaching team formulated a "stupid bird flies first". In early September, he took the team to Kunming, Yunnan to complete high-altitude adaptation training.

On September 16, the team that had just returned from the Kunming training camp held a friendly match. The players said that plateau training significantly improved their endurance and physical fitness.

The 40-year-old veteran Xiao Yanfei was once a stellar player in Quanxing, Sichuan and Loncin, Chongqing. Although he has not competed in the professional league, his love for football has always remained unabated. He admitted that although his physical fitness was not as good as that of young people, he could provide some help to the team with his experience. Through training and diet control, he lost about 11 kilograms during his time in Kunming.

"The growth and changes in mentality are also valuable gains from this training camp." Xu Hui introduced that during the training camp in Kunming, the team played three highly confrontational friendly matches, and he clearly saw the changes in the psychological state of the players. When facing strong opponents in the first game, the whole team was generally nervous; the opponents were stronger in the second game, but the players had gradually adapted; by the third game, the team as a whole was able to deal with fast-paced confrontations better.

No matter how strong the opponent is, the team must play spirit

"The team's minimum goal is to qualify in the group, but the more important thing is to try all your strength and play style." Wei Qun said that no matter how strong the opponent is, the team spirit of "unity and courage to fight" must not be lost.

The team name of "Luzhou Laojiao Team" may be a simple "Party A naming" to outsiders, but the players have their own interpretations. A team member smiled and said, "You have to pause between 'Luzhou' and 'Laojiao'. Look, this is our wine culture."

Around the war declaration, the players and netizens also frequently burst into jokes: "The wind over Luzhou brings the wine fragrance, and it is not negotiated to win the opponent." "A sip of Luzhou wine and goals will be there." "The wind on the court is rumored, and a single bowl is started after the game"...

Indeed, if you win the ball, you have to drink it, and if you lose, you don't lack reasons to drink it. After all, using wine as a medium and making friends with football may be the real lively place for "Shu River Super League".

West China Metropolis Daily-Cover News reporter Xu Qing's photography report