On December 26, the ninth day of Super Group Game, 2014-2015 Chinese College Students Five-man Football League, along with USST Team drew 5-5 with Donghua University Team, our university football team won the championship of the Super Group game ahead of two rounds of matches and is qualified to represent Shanghai Division to participate into Chinese College Students Five-man Football Game.
The game opened grandly on December 16 in our university. In the first round matches, our university’s high-level football team defeated SIPE Team with the score 7-0, defeated USST Team with the score 5-1, beat Tongji University Team with the score 5-2 and defeated Donghua University Team with the score 6-3, and thus entered the second round of matches with complete victory records in the first round of matches; then in the second round of matches, our university team defeated SIPE Team with the score 11-4, defeated USST Team with the score 6-2 and successfully won the championship of the Super Group games ahead of two rounds of matches. In the ninth round of matches, our university team beat Tongji University 7-1 with a comprehensive victory.
This is the first time our university has held this Game after our team won the championship in Chinese College Students Five-man Football League (Shanghai Division) in 2013. In the course of game organization, the staffs of Physical Education Department, the President’s Office, Security Guard Department, Asset Department and related departments/divisions have provided great supports and done hard work.
In order to achieve a good result in the game, twenty sportsmen from our university’s high level football team received intensified training for more than 40 days during the hot summer days under the guidance of Group Leader Professor Xie Min and Coach Xue Zhiqiang. Under the scorching sun, they sweated over practicing the football skills and developing special tactics for the five-man football match. Even though the training venues were scarce during November and December, the two coaches made great efforts to seek training venues. They even led the team to conduct match exchanges twice so as to make a good preparation for the combat exercises. After a long-term training and running-in, the team developed a consistent tactical style and a good ethos of unity and mutual aid; the student athletes also formed a solid friendship among themselves. They became a high-level football team with the spirit of “unity, hard work and progressiveness” and evinced an extraordinary strength and fighting spirit during the matches.