Series Report on Excellent Cases of National Fitness Volunteer Service in 2023 ｜ Volunteer Service Activities of Peer Football Team of Beijing Balizhuang Football Association

　　Editor’s note:March 5 this year is the 61st anniversary of learning from Lei Feng. For more than 60 years, the activity of learning from Lei Feng has been carried out continuously and deeply throughout the country, and the spirit of Lei Feng nourishes the hearts of generations of Chinese children. Volunteer service of national fitness is a vivid embodiment of Lei Feng’s spirit in the field of national fitness. Since 2021, the Mass Sports Department of the State Sports General Administration has organized the collection of outstanding cases of national fitness volunteer service, and a number of national fitness volunteer service activities with stories, quality and temperature stand out. These excellent cases provide valuable experience and useful reference for all localities and units to develop national fitness volunteer service, and play a due role in building a higher level national fitness public service system.

　　In 2023, the excellent case series of national fitness volunteer service reports will share the national fitness volunteer service activities that highlight Lei Feng’s spirit. I hope more people will join the ranks of national fitness volunteer service and jointly contribute to creating a healthy, progressive and civilized social atmosphere.

　　In Balizhuang area of Beijing, there is a special football team. They not only make friends with the ball, but also convey warmth and strength with the ball. This is the peer football team of Beijing Balizhuang Football Association, a volunteer team composed of like-minded middle-aged people. They sweat on the pitch, transmit health and happiness with football, and also sow the seeds of friendship and mutual assistance in the community.

　　The peer football team of Beijing Balizhuang Football Association was established in 2015. It is composed of 37 community football fans and retired professional football players in Balizhuang area. In addition to daily team participation in various competitions, it focuses on creating the brand of "Volunteer Service Activities of Peer Football Team of Beijing Balizhuang Football Association", providing football training for young people and providing guidance for more people who are interested in participating in football training.

　　During the period of volunteer service, the peer football team of Beijing Balizhuang Football Association held many football knowledge lectures, youth football skills training, parent-child football activities in the community, and established the regional football museum … … It has created a good football environment for the community residents and school students in Balizhuang area, improved everyone’s interest in football and cultivated their living habits of participating in physical exercise.

　　From 2015 to 2023, with the gradual growth of the peer football team in Balizhuang, the team actively promoted football to the people in the community, not only organized team training three times a week, but also set their sights on the campus to provide football courses for children in fangcaodi international school free of charge; At the same time, children’s parent-child football activities were held in Zhongli Football Stadium in Ganluyuan. Through fun football projects such as football chariots and crab football, the enthusiasm of community children for football was fully mobilized, so that children could feel the charm of football in a happy atmosphere, which also laid a good foundation for the subsequent training of street football talents.

　　In the daily training and training, the football team of the same age found that the venue could not meet the needs of football fans in the area, so they proposed to the relevant departments and actively promoted the reconstruction and construction of the football field. After coordination with many departments, an abandoned venue in the jurisdiction was converted into a football field, which promoted the solution of the problem of insufficient football venues for community football fans.

　　The volunteer service activities of this football team have not only been warmly welcomed and highly praised by community residents, but also received extensive attention and recognition from all walks of life. Their good deeds not only convey health and happiness, but also make people feel the power of unity, friendship and mutual assistance. Their efforts have become a banner of national fitness volunteer service, and they have made positive contributions to building a harmonious community and promoting the high-quality development of national fitness.