Chapter 9 Chapter 8 Hard work in Anshan

The hometown of track and field, endowed by nature, is a big stage for life performances. During the "Cultural Revolution", the short training class perfected Ma Junren.Being discriminated against is the driving force. People fight for breath and want to go back to the city every step of the way.The Anshan Sports Committee has made great contributions and helped the old horse at critical times. The mentality of the old horse is difficult to balance for a long time.How did you go to the provincial team? If the mountains of Taziling in Liaoyang are the root of Ma Junren's growth, then Anshan sports arena is the stage for Ma Junren to make his debut.Liaoyang Taziling and Anshan are connected together, and both belong to Lao Ma's base area.If you go from Liaoyang to the metropolis Shenyang, Anshan is a must pass, which is very meaningful.The people in Taziling, Liaoyang are filthy. As soon as you arrive in Anshan, you will see people coming and going. They are very western style. Young men and women are very particular about their attire. People always think: When did people in Steel City fall in love with track and field?

Anshan is a famous place in China. The "Anshan Iron and Steel Constitution" in the 1950s seemed to have far-reaching influence than the later "industry learning from Daqing".In my impression, Anshan is Anshan Iron and Steel, and Anshan Iron and Steel is Anshan.In fact, apart from the famous steel city in Anshan, there are two well-known good places worth visiting: one is the Qianshan Scenic Area, where jade is produced; the other is Tanggangzi Hot Spring, where Puyi and Zhang Zuolin used to take a bath.Another well-known thing is the development of sports, especially track and field, which is the most influential. It is listed as the "hometown of track and field" with Dalian.Right now, time is running out for the interview with Ma Jiajun, so I have to skip the famous places and focus on sports.

Anshan is an old model city for grassroots sports work in the country.When I went there, Wang Xuan, the young director of the Group Department of the State Sports Commission, was there to guide the work. He introduced the situation to me and said: Ma Jiajun’s growth cannot be separated from the foundation of Anshan. A local sports team can achieve such high results in the end. The first is the deep foundation.Traveling all over the country, it seems that the popularity of track and field is not more prominent than Anshan. Anshan Junior participated in the World Middle School Athletics Competition on behalf of middle school students across the country. He went there 5 times in total and won the championship 5 times.That year, a national track and field meeting was held in Anshan. The audience was the most enthusiastic and everyone was very professional. Tickets for track and field competitions became a problem. They could not be allocated, and there were actually black market tickets. This kind of grand occasion can only be seen in Anshan.I suggest you go to the stadium early tomorrow morning. There are track and field teams in various industries and units, mainly in track events. You can see coaches holding stopwatches everywhere. They are very professional—of course most of them are amateurs.To say that Dalian football is good is also inseparable from high-quality fans.There are so many track and field fans in Anshan, everyone can speak a few professional words, and everyone looks like a middle-distance running coach.There are comprehensive sports schools in every city in the country. In addition to the well-run sports school, Anshan also has a special track and field school!I said that these are new things I have heard for the first time.Wang Xuan said, in the past we did not publicize enough.Ma Junren's growth cannot be separated from Anshan, the big track and field stage, just like the growth of Ali, Pele, Maradona, and Tyson cannot be separated from his community and his street. Lewis was born in a sports family.It's called atmosphere.

Later, I interviewed many people in the Anshan track and field field, and everyone really didn't think there was anything strange about Lao Ma's success. Lao Ma was nothing more than a step ahead. What Wang Xuan said was true.Every morning, Anshan Stadium is full of people coming and going, and track and field sports are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, regardless of age. I am amazed.Ma Shihui, the young headmaster of the track and field school, told me proudly that among these people, there are many track and field fans who have been there for decades.I said that you are very honorable to be a track and field principal in Anshan. Shi Hui smiled and said: I am also a celebrity in Anshan. Jia Zhongliang, director of our sports committee, and Fu Guangxian, director of the sports department of Anshan education committee, are all big celebrities and famous coaches. Wang Yuanxiao participated in the CPPCC to participate in the discussion of state affairs, of course Ma Junren has more style, Anshan!

I remembered that after returning from Liaoyang Mountain that day, a government office in Anshan City invited Ma Junren to a banquet. When we came out of the banquet together, the old Ma happily said to me: For a dinner like this, we promise two families every day in Anshan, and we will eat in turn for a month. But come here, don't eat back!It seems that this statement is not false. Various track and field competitions are held in Anshan every year. As long as the children are outstanding in track and field, they will have a job and a future. Immediately, some units will come to recruit them into the team. If they are more outstanding, the provincial team and Bayi team will take them away. Athletics and children's employment are inextricably linked.So, I joked with Director Jia and Principal Ma again: You are almost becoming half of the Personnel Bureau of Anshan City!Lao Jia said: I dare not say this, but it is a fact that sports can flourish only when sports are linked with the interests of the masses.

I suddenly realized that Ma Junren's step-by-step struggle and development in Anshan track and field is closely related to his own vital interests.The victory in the track and field is the realization and proof of the life value of a man in Anshan. The first people who worked with Ma Junren introduced Lao Ma to me, and they all couldn’t do without the clue of life struggle. They said: After Ma Junren returned to Anshan from the 3368 Public Security Force, the first thing he faced was the problem of his job. I stayed in the countryside for a while and became a family.At that time, during the "Cultural Revolution", there was a resumption of classes in the school to cause a revolution. The teachers in the past were generally punished. Those with this problem and that problem could not be reused. The number of teachers in each school was seriously insufficient.The Municipal Revolutionary Committee wanted to train a new generation of teachers. It selected some young intellectuals, demobilized soldiers, and social youths who performed well. They organized a teacher training class at the May Seventh Normal School in Anshan. The training is done quickly, and then assigned to teach in various schools, and the students will be considered to be working from then on.A coach who worked with Ma Junren in the short-term training class recalled: It was not easy to find a formal job at that time. Ma Junren and we were both lucky to come to the class to study.There are 40 people in the class, mainly to train physical education teachers.The time is from June to the end of 1970, and the allocation will be in January of the second year.When Lao Ma was demobilized, he belonged to where he came from. He had already returned to the suburban countryside to work as a farmer and was married, so he cherished this opportunity very much.After entering the class, he studied very hard. He rode a bicycle to school every day. When he got home, he had to feed pigs, pick up pig manure, and harvest crops. The family burden was relatively heavy.Each person in the short-term training class is given a stipend of 15 yuan per month. The others are not married, so they have enough to eat and drink. Lao Ma is very economical and careful.At that time, we had never been out of the house in our 20s, and we didn’t know anything about the outside world. Lao Ma served as a soldier in Chaoyang, which is equivalent to the current armed police. He also guarded prisoners and participated in martial arts training. Guang, we all call him Big Brother.The female classmates also liked to joke with him, and he was pretty good at talking at that time, talking about everything in a mysterious way.In professional courses, he is not outstanding in ball games and running and jumping, but there are two sports that are better: one is swimming, which he grew up in the Liaoyang River ditch; the other is grenade throwing, which has a solid foundation in army training , no one in the class could shoot him, and he hit 60 meters with one shot.He was very pompous when it came time to drop the bomb.But his cultural background is poor. I remember such a thing. In the district sports meeting, we practiced as track and field referees, stared at the finish line, and filled out the report card. , How many seconds is the result.He didn't get started at first, and his ability to write was not good. He only wrote "last place" on the report card, and didn't write anything else.The tutor did not roll the name at the summary meeting, so he used this example to ridicule the students, saying what is the last one?If two people run, it is the runner-up, three people run the third place, and 8 people run?How old is this last one?Did you take the ranking?Everyone just laughed.At that time, who would have thought that Ma Junren would later become the world's top track and field coach!But the old horse is very stubborn and never convinced, especially in his mouth.Because of the simple question of whether to turn the discus counterclockwise or clockwise after the discus is shot, the old horse was wrong, and he can fight with another person!

He didn't change his mind after typing.If people are discriminated against, it is also a kind of motivation. Lao Ma is still very good at business. In January 1970, the whole class was about to be assigned. Unfortunately, Lao Ma assigned him to the most remote mountain middle school in Anshan City, which was the No. 55 Middle School mentioned in his report later.I remember that at that time, he was the only one who was sent to the countryside, and everyone else was assigned well. Most of them were in factories and mines in cities and towns. We sympathized with him at that time.The old horse was very dissatisfied and in a bad mood.When he graduated, his classmates went their separate ways. When he said goodbye, he said a few words to me. I still have a deep impression on him.He said, don't look at their assignments better than me, let's wait and see, I, Ma Junren, will definitely defeat them in the future! Thinking about it more than 20 years later, adversity makes heroes, which made him say it!At that time, he went to the No. 55 Middle School, worked hard to build a sports team, opened a stadium on the mountain, and determined to fight in the Anshan competition.In less than two years, with zero breakthrough, his school won the first place in Anshan, which no one could have imagined, this school has never won a point in a sports meeting before.You see, Lao Ma’s team is the most irregular. The young players don’t have sportswear. The girls wear homemade pockets on their upper bodies and ordinary people’s underpants. In order to run fast, he asked the players not to wear shoes during the game. , dry in socks on a cinder track.People ridiculed his team members as the Barefoot Daxian, whose socks were worn out after running down, but the Barefoot Daxian was the champion!He has ideas, he acts according to his own ideas, and he is not afraid of being ridiculed by others. He just wants to make a name for himself in the track and field!If his grades are good, he is qualified to improve his own environment. Sure enough, he was transferred from No. 55 Middle School to No. 17 Middle School soon. No. 17 Middle School is the seat of the district government, which is a step ahead of the mountain middle school.Lao Ma devoted himself to closed training, and brought rice and vegetables from home to live at school. No middle school teacher had ever done this.Generally speaking, children practice one class after school in the afternoon, but the amount of exercise he does in the morning actually becomes two training classes, so his grades improve quickly.The pigs are not fed anymore, and they don't go home at night.Now his wife didn't understand. She was afraid that it would be bad for him to be with the female team members for a long time, so she went to the school to find him. He beat her up in public without being polite.The old horse trainers are single-minded and never allow anyone to interfere and make trouble, which is what other teachers can't do.After he arrived at the Seventeenth Middle School, the Seventeenth Middle School became the number one in the city, and a good middle school was willing to have him.He moved closer to the middle school in the city step by step.He is determined to bring his family back to the city through his hard work on the track and field!After the 17th middle school, he was transferred to the 29th middle school, and changed several middle schools. Wherever he went, he was the champion of the city and ranked first in the total score.The main reason is that he engaged in semi-professional training and did not pay attention to cultural courses.Other middle school teachers can't do it.As soon as he was free, he went to the stadium, watched the professional training of the sports school, and watched the whole class, thinking about how to improve and improve his skills and tactics.For a small problem, he often took the initiative to ask a professional coach for advice and took the trouble. He was really very modest at that time.After his family moved to the city, he was even more like this, and his goal was set higher. He must train players in ordinary middle schools to beat professional sports schools.He is irritable and has a bad temper. He often beat and scolded the team members in middle school.Just because of beating students, the Municipal Education Committee formally criticized Ma Junren in a circular throughout the city.Criticism is all criticism. The Board of Education also supported him in his career and asked him to take middle school students abroad to participate in international competitions. He won the championship in Spain for the first time when he went out, which shocked Anshan City.However, this shock was not high enough in the sports world. At that time, some people said that he was counterproductive, that he was an oil-extracting method, that he was fine as a child, but he was not good enough when he grew up, and he was finished when he entered a professional team.In addition, some people said that it is easy to compete with foreign children, but the overall level of competition is low, and it is not good to compare with adults.There are all kinds of things to say, but I don’t accept the old horse anyway. In 1982, his small team broke the adult record in Liaoning Province, and it shocked again.However, in the same year, he failed to lead his team to the Marathon of the Fifth National Games, and there were various opinions.However, if it is real gold, it is not afraid of fire. What really shocked the sports world in Anshan was the Fifth Provincial Games in 1986.At that time, Lao Ma won the opportunity for one of his team members to sign up for the competition. It was called Yang Xin. It was a surprise at the Provincial Games. The players in Anshan lost all the lines and lost badly. The total track and field score ranked 10th in the province , only Lao Ma's player Yang Xin won two gold medals in the Provincial Games, and he is still a middle school student!The results surpassed the city sports school and defeated the team members of professional coaches.It's not easy for a middle school student to win a gold medal in the majestic Liaoning Provincial Games!The other coaches didn't get a gold medal.Now you have to obey, you have to obey, and you have to obey if you don’t!The provincial sports meeting is the most important thing in various cities. The failure of Anshan in this provincial sports meeting suddenly promoted people's understanding of the old horse.Director Jia Zhongliang of the Sports Committee, several old directors, and Ma Shihui all tried their best to transfer Lao Ma formally. After eliminating all kinds of interference, Lao Ma finally came up.So he said that he was always under pressure in Anshan, and the old horse was indeed extremely difficult on the road to success. He was helped. Anshan's education and sports systems both supported him and helped him.Can you still come up if you press you? ——The context of what these people talked about is quite clear.

Jia Zhongliang, director of the Municipal Sports Commission, also talked about the relevant situation with a pensive mood: Lao Ma is a genius, but he is not good at uniting with others, and his cultural quality is poor.When mobilizing the old horse to the Anshan Sports Committee, there were many opinions.Some talk about character, some talk about training, in short, the opposition has the upper hand.Some people said that Lao Ma was disobedient, and he might be troublesome after being transferred. In fact, to put it all together, the essence is that I am worried that my family will not be able to do the old horse, and I am afraid that the old horse will be higher than myself.That year the Provincial Games failed across the board, and Anshan Athletics won two gold medals for Ma Junren's team members. We held a special party group expansion meeting, and all relevant personnel attended. Ma Shihui gave a report on the overall planning of Anshan sports at the meeting.The plan also talked about strengthening track and field, and transferred Wang Yuanxiao and Ma Junren to the Sports Commission. Both of them were middle school teachers, which caused controversy again.I remember that the meeting lasted for three days. Several old directors and I firmly advocated mediation and criticized many people.With the reform and opening up, a black cat is a white cat. A cat that catches mice is a good cat. Practice is the only criterion for testing the truth.We must strengthen the strength of the coaches and try to make a comeback in a few years. This is just to transfer a sports coach to give full play to the skills of people, not to choose leaders.Later, Comrade Cui Dalin also said something similar. We are not judging models or outstanding party members. It is good for ordinary people to have skills.As a coach Ma Junren is successful, why not use it?If Ma Junren is not very obedient and difficult to manage, I think this person has his own opinions, and his strengths are daring to think and do things.For a long time, our personnel system has been cronyism. Wu Dalang opened his shop behind closed doors, and he just spoke honestly and obediently, regardless of whether the person is capable or not, and whether his career develops or not.Now that Ma Junren is transferred from middle school with a stronger personality, he is just an ordinary coach. Why is it so difficult?It's not normal!Judging from the present, Ma Junren's set of training methods is effective. His method of focusing on recovery is being accepted and applied by coaches across the country and will continue to develop. Isn't this a good thing?We should neither deify Ma Junren just because he made some achievements at the beginning, nor deny his strengths just because his team collapsed during this period.In my opinion, there are thousands of reasons for Ma Junren's success. The most prominent one is the laziness, mediocrity, and lack of persistent dedication of many of our coaches, which in turn contributed to and demonstrated Lao Ma's success!Of course, Ma Jiajun's setbacks and lessons later were extremely painful, and it is worth summarizing. I am also thinking about it. I can't explain it clearly in a few words at the moment. Let's study it together!

Jia Zhongliang is one of the thousands of grassroots cadres who love to read and think well. His words obviously have a deeper meaning.This kind of cadres are more concerned about the development of their careers, and our country is actually supported by these people. Principal Ma Shihui told me: Since this year, after Ma Jiajun's accident, Ma Junren has once again become a hot topic in Anshan sports circles.For this reason, our director Jia specially said at the cadres meeting of the sports committee that things about Lao Ma must be treated correctly, and no one is allowed to talk and scold. It is strange enough that Anshan people do not regard Ma Junren as the pride of Anshan sports.

Lao Jia said that our attitude towards Lao Ma should be: Adhere to seeking truth from facts, be neither far nor near, neither humble nor overbearing.He asked the cadres of the sports committee not to be superstitious about Ma Junren when he was brilliant, but to dare to surpass him. When he was in trouble and unlucky, they were not allowed to push him downhill, and they were not allowed to expose short stories at will. announced.In terms of life, Lao Ma still has a flat in Anshan and relatives. The Anshan Sports Committee has done its best to take care of Lao Ma.After the Seventh National Games, the Provincial Sports Committee bought Lao Ma a house in Anshan. We helped him build a small yard and a garage, installed a telephone for him, and paid him a bonus.Lao Ma, who was seconded to the Provincial Sports Institute in 1988, has always had the idea of ​​a safe retreat, so the house is very important, and the money is also important, which is understandable.Later, something happened to his team. We were very anxious and called everywhere.After his father passed away, Director Jia instructed to go to Liaoyang immediately to assist Lao Ma with the funeral. He sent a car when it was time to send a car, and asked me to bring some money as a social subsidy to visit him in Taziling, Liaoyang.Lao Ma is not short of money, and the purpose of giving him money is to give him warmth. He thinks that he is a rare talent, so he should cheer up as soon as possible and make contributions to the country's track and field cause.I took the money and found him in Taziling, but he didn’t want the money. He felt that the Anshan Sports Committee had specially sent money to see him at this time, which was very touching, emotional, and reflective.He was determined not to take the money, he said that I would take the money, and I would die before the sun went down!I had no choice but to run back. Director Jia was worried, so he turned around and went to the second trip in person to comfort him and encourage him.Unexpectedly, he drove back to Dalian the next day and got into another car accident... It's a pity that Lao Ma is used to being lonely, and he doesn't always trust people and things. Suspected that the Anshan people treated him badly, and even suspected that the rebellion in his team had something to do with the Anshan people's instigation. In fact, there was nothing wrong!Most people really love him.Lao Ma was transferred from middle school to work as a major. We have always admired his drive.At that time, mobilizing him was a crucial turning point in his life. The transition from amateur to professional was a step up.

He promoted a whole set of training methods with high density, large amount of exercise, and low intensity, and he worked very hard. Athletes in the sports school used to have culture classes, but in order to improve their grades, he stopped taking culture classes. He trained three times a day, in the morning, in the morning, and in the afternoon.In the evening, I have to go to his house to eat eggs, and use folk methods for recovery. Foot washing and massage are the key points, and eating Chinese herbal medicine is another key point.He was the first to attach importance to recovery and explored a new path for Chinese track and field.Athletes are completely closed, and they can't do anything else. I say he has entered the consistent way.This kind of spirit is indeed unmatched by other coaches. We often commend him, encourage coaches to learn from him, and support his work... It is necessary to clarify the matter of his transfer here.His transfer to the province was also the result of our support. The public opinion was not accurate, and even said that Anshan did not support Lao Ma's work.It was January 1988. The background at that time was that Cui Dalin insisted on the reform of the coach appointment system in the Provincial Sports Commission. This point was accurate in publicity, but it was not because Bole fell in love with Maxima at a glance when he came to Anshan to transfer people. , came straight to Ma Junren.I remember that Ma Lin, vice president of the Provincial Sports Institute, and Sun Yusen of the track and field team came to Anshan, hoping that Anshan would support the work of the province, and proposed to secondment Song Tianzhi.Song Tianzhi was an excellent athlete of the Beijing team. At that time, he changed jobs and returned to Anshan. He broke the national record of 5,000 meters.As a result, when I talked with Song Tianzhi, he was unwilling to go to Shenyang, because he had already been assigned to the Anshan City Public Security Bureau, his job was good, and he didn't want to do sports anymore.In order to take into account the overall situation of the province, we proposed that Anshan support the Provincial Sports Commission, talents can be selected and transferred, and other coaches such as Ma Junren and others can also be recommended to you. As long as the reform of Liaoning's sports sector can take the first step, we support it.Ma Lin and Sun Yusen's opinion is that they can talk to Lao Ma, because the province urgently needs a good coach with excellent professional skills.In this way, I will talk to Lao Ma and support him to go to the province to do a big business.As a result, Lao Ma also hesitated and refused to go. I remember we had a long talk at his house all night. I talked about going to the province to further reflect my own value. At the beginning, the transfer to the city sports committee was a kind of affirmation. Now I am seconded to the province. It's more of an affirmation.Going to the province to lead a professional team, privately speaking, is also good for us in Anshan, and it can also solve the problem of a few more athletes entering the professional team.And Lao Ma also had a lot of considerations, including the players in his hands at the time and his future retreat, he hesitated again and again.In the end, we agreed to put forward several conditions to Sun Yusen and the others: first, we will not be formally transferred, and Lao Ma’s family will not move out, and we will try it alone, so that there is a way out, and we can work to the "Second Youth Association"; Assessing, we must try to ensure that the professional title can be assigned to the old horse. Whether you work in Anshan or in the province, you will be nothing if you don’t have a professional title in the future; There are 8 special establishments for Lao Ma, so that he can bring his Anshan team members to the province.Ma Lin and Sun Yusen did not reply at that time, but went back to Shenyang with conditions.Then they reported to Cui Dalin, they must have obtained Dalin's support, and Cui Dalin contributed a lot.After a period of time, he told us that three conditions are acceptable for Ma Junren to come to the provincial team, so that the matter is finally settled.Later, the old horse didn't say anything anymore, and left as soon as he said.Lao Ma took away 6 players, the most prominent being Li Ying. Director Jia and I took the old horse to Shenyang by car.All these processes are normal and start from the cause.After two years, Lao Ma went through the official transfer procedures, which was also normal, and there were no problems in the middle.The Anshan Sports Committee has contributed a lot to the old horse coming out of the mountain.However, the subsequent public opinion was too extreme. One kind of tendency said that Lao Ma had been suppressed in Anshan for a long time, and Cui Dalin found him and transferred him away; another kind of tendency said that we did everything possible to push Lao Ma away. Launched a group of world champions, all made up!Director Jia and I both strongly advocated his transfer at the beginning, just to use his special skills. If he is suppressed, why transfer him to the sports committee to suppress him?If it was to push him away, why bother to bring him here?It's not logical!The public opinion circles are used to taking it for granted and writing scribbles without conducting investigations, which is very detrimental to the relationship between Lao Ma and us later.Of course, we don’t rule out the fact that Lao Ma was not cautious enough when he spoke. For the sake of the effect of his speech, he often forgot the facts—oh, these things have passed, and it’s meaningless to say much. After all, Lao Ma walked out of Anshan and succeeded. Yes, we are happy from the bottom of our hearts.Now that something happened to him, we are all anxious for him, and want to do our best for him. Whether he needs Anshan people in the future is another matter, but we are all in the same mood.Anshan will always be his home, and the people of Anshan will always be his friends with Ma Junren. This cannot be changed... I am deeply moved.Doing work at the grassroots level, whether it is sports work or work in any department, is not simple. The appointment and evaluation of a sports coach can involve countless people and things in all aspects.Ma Junren grew up and became famous on the land of China, and his bones are more permeated with this kind of non-sports complex factors.It is not difficult for us to understand from the voice that when Lao Ma started his business in Anshan, although the key people helped him at critical moments, after all, the long-term tension in his relationship with his surroundings caused him to be unbalanced in his mentality.He may think that his path in life is the result of struggles with others. The "philosophy of struggle" has deeply affected the mind and body of Lao Ma and even a whole generation of people. In the depths of people's hearts, there is always the other side that is opposite to goodness.As a result, after Lao Ma went to work in the Provincial Sports Commission, he got into an inexplicable entanglement with Yan Fujun, the leader of the Liaoning Provincial Sports Commission, which caused both snipe and clam injuries, and even a Ma family army went downhill.Fight, fight, shall we continue to fight?