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We are Awesome When We are Together
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By: Cheng Liu





In the summer of July 2018, my friends from the Growth Fund and I went to the Jianyan Village, Chuantong Town, Tongren City, Guizhou Province for the third time to check how Football Dream in School Plan was going. In the meantime, we went to see Feiyang Liu off who is the GUNIES Pioneer Teenager of the Growth Fund, and he was going to play at the World Cup at Russia.

The night in the mountain was super dark, and children wanted to play football with me after supper. The only football playground in Jianyan Village was at Feiyang Lius alma mater——Eastern Wind Elementary School. But there was no light, under this circumstance, the children found a few flashlights from somewhere to light the football, and I had my first Flashlight Football Night.

At that night, I seemed to see the small hope for Chinese footballs future in the light that was shining on the dark football playground. I was more convinced that the sparks of fire that was lighted by the Growth Fund would turn into stars and ignited the playground in the hearts of those who had a football dream.

December 31st, 2015, I ended my 16 years long professional football career, the truth is that at April 2014, I already stopped playing because my hamstring fractured. I am emulative since I was a kid, I wanted to find a different way to prove myself, so I transformed into an entrepreneur of an internet company from a professional football player, also because I was unwilling and trying to distract myself.

 

In the two years between start-up to formal retirement, I completely withdrew from football and did not go to Yuexiushan for once, but I was fighting and gaining as if I was still playing.

 

At 2016, I was admitted by Cheung Kong Graduate School of Businesss EMBA 27th semester, and joined this big family formally. When I was studying at Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, public welfare activities was an inevitable subject, and everyone in this school had to serve at a charity event for at least 48 hours, so No Charity, No Cheung Kong was embedded in my heart.

Because of this opportunity, and the inseparable dream and love for football in my heart, and with the help of Jiangxue Pan who is my senior alumni and the president of Adream.org, my classmate Hua Liu, Ruifang Liu, Haidong Fan and I founded Young Footballer Growth Fund which is also known as the Growth Fun.

We did not name the fund Growth Fund because my name which has a word that means growth in Chinese, we call it Growth Fund because we want the children who have a football dream will play football happily and thrive after receiving our spirit of sports and education which combined sports, education, and culture.




On August 30th, 2016, the Growth Fund was founded.

From October 2016, the three members of council from the Growth Fund and I visited four provinces, twelve counties and cities, and over 180 schools in 95 days.



In May 2017, we spoke to the world by holding the Special Growth Fund Forum of World Football Forum which is the highest level forum.



In June 2017, Growth Fund appeared on the NASDAQ Screen at New York and let the world saw the future of Chinese football.



In June 2018, we worked with Mengniu and made 15 Growth Funds childrens dream came true by letting them join the Chinese Teenage Team and show up at the playground of 2018 FIFI World Cup Russia.

 

At November 2018, Growth Fund and over a hundred football players from 12 League A star teams held school support activity on football at Enshi, Hubei Province.

 

 

On December 29th, 2018, I was hired by the 2022 Hangzhou Asia Games as the ambassador of the public dream. In the mean times, Hangzhou Asia Games organizing committee and Growth Fund will donate 2,022 special football schools among Asia.

 

On January 14th, 2019, I received the Public Welfare Figure of the Year Award at the 8th China Charity Festival, and the public is more approved of Growth Fund and me. 

 


With love for children, Growth Fund had gone to every place in China, and wherever we go, culture and language will not be a problem.

Because through football and football education, all the children are connected and because of football, our hearts are connected. The days we spend with children should be cherished forever.

 


In August 2018, I remember the three members of the council, our teams and I went to Tibet before the second anniversary of Growth Fund because 15 schools needed our support.

We set off from Beijing and went to Lhasa, Shigatse, and Ali region. We also went to Coqen Elementary School which is 4800 meters above sea level, and it is the school that is closest to the sky. We brought the football dream class of Growth Fund there and so that the Tibetan children could grow happily on the football playground.

Even though every single one of us was fighting with altitude sickness, but we insisted and breathed. We felt the beauty of Tibet and the Tibetan children right before the second anniversary of the Growth Fund, and this was a special blessing for me.

 

At the special school at Lhasa, there is a bunch of children that had different disabilities.

But they showed their longings for this beautiful world as much as they could, and I felt the energy that was produced by their ability, and this energy touched us and made us teary.

This was love, just like through charity and the power of giving, we sent love to the bottom of every childs heart and planted a seed which would root and sprout.

 

Actually, the reason why I founded Growth fun was simple and not fancy, the first reason was my love and feeling for football and my dream, the second reason was my child.

I do not know if a three-and-half-year-old will understand, but I often tell him that the public welfare business which I am doing will help you for a lifetime and I want him to know that his father is more than a football player, he is also a public-spirited person, and he helps tens of thousands of children develop and grow.

Giving children the best education is the faith that made me insisted on Growth Fund. I want to guide his growth through my work and let him know what kind of person his father is and let him think about what kind of person he could become.

That is the simplest and the most truthful reason why I do public welfare.

 


Growth Fund is two years old, and I hope that I will grow with the Growth Fund for the rest of my life. Because once we start, there is no turning back and countless children are waiting for us and our help.

I believe that Growth Fund will grow gradually with time passing by and we may be old when it is fully developed, but I think that more people will take the relay baton, and accompany Growth Fund and children who have a football dream for the rest of the way.

I do not know how long Growth Fund will go, but from the bottom of my heart, I hope it will keep going steadily with the help of public-spirited people, and keep being supportive and loving. Because love makes the world better and we are awesome when we are together.






I still remember the moment that touched me at the special school in Lhasa. I played football with a group of children who suffered visual impairment, and they tied a bell on the football so they could locate it base on the sound.

 

I covered my eyes and put myself in their shoes, but it was difficult for me to touch the football. Even though I could see nothing, but I could hear the bell rang in the dark, I know they were good at it, and they were happy. At that moment, I seemed to hear the ringing of Chinese footballs future was ringing. And I was more convinced that the sound of Growth Fund will shock the world and guide the children that have a football dream.


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