The year 2023 will undoubtedly be happy for Sichuan soccer fans:Chengdu Rongcheng is firmly in the top half of the league, impacting the team's first-ever qualification for the AFC Champions League, and Lionel Messi is about to come to China again... Just yesterday, Sichuan Jiuniu beat Wuxi Wuhu 4-0 in the 27th round of the Central League, leading the third-placed team by 12 points with three rounds left in Nanjing City and advancing to the Chinese Super League three rounds ahead of schedule.
The seven-year-old Sichuan Jiuniu's aspirational Super League run means that for the first time in Sichuan's soccer history, it also ends with two Chinese Super League teams. Sichuan registered in the Sichuan Provincial Football Association prefix team for 17 consecutive years without the Super League history.
Text/Song Xinyu
Editor/Yinhang
We're all in the gutter, but there are still people who look to the stars. Even in the darkest places, there are always those who shine as bright as the stars, like the last light of a moonlit night.
--Wilde
Chengdu Rongcheng is definitely a special team in the 2023 season of Chinese soccer. As a second-year student, Chengdu Rongcheng achieved excellent results in the Chinese Super League for two consecutive years, and the light show with 10,000 people singing in chorus after the match at Phoenix Hill Stadium made Chengdu Rongcheng completely fire out of the circle. The scene of 10,000 people grabbing tickets, which were hard to buy, was reminiscent of Sichuan's once-renowned national reputation. Gold medal soccer market.
But for many old Sichuan fans, never a crown to a crown. Sichuan's famous team, so that once belonged to the yellow color of Quanxing and Sichuan, in the past a long time, can only become the background plate of the memory of countless fans who have witnessed her glory.
Without a river, there is no army.
For Sichuan fans, the dream season of 1994 was the beginning of Sichuan fans' dream. In the first professional league of Chinese soccer, Sichuan Quanxing set off a crazy. Yellow frenzy, the venue is full of adults is more so that Sichuan is more so that the name of the Sichuan gold medal ball market came into being, for a time, the sound of the majestic north and south of the Yangtze River resounded.
After a glorious 1994 All Saints team, they were mired in relegation the following season. When Zhai Biao scored the golden goal in the final round, a fan named Shen Lixin hid his face and wept in the stands of the Chengdu Sports Center. The picture has become one of the classic images kept on the CCTV soccer channel. The Battle of Chengdu has also become an eternal classic in the history of Chinese soccer.
According to the official data from the CFA that year, there were 11 home matches with a total audience of 442,000 people. Even in the history of Chinese soccer, this figure is one of the best, which was a miracle at that time.
From then on, Sichuan soccer had their best years until the farce of the five rats of the 2001 A b and the announcement of Quanxing's exit. In fact, the last three years of the Quanxing era were also the peak of Sichuan soccer. 1999, under the leadership of Tavares, Sichuan soccer was ranked first for seven consecutive weeks, and was one step away from the last throne, being ranked third.
However, with the entry of Shide system, the loss of Sichuan football characteristics of Sichuan soccer began 17 years of turmoil, on the downhill never look back. Someone summarized the Sichuan football of that year:People often say that the experience of Sichuan football in the past few years can be summarized in three words: starting from a high building, entertaining guests, and the collapse of the high building. I said, the building did not collapse, the building itself does not belong to you, nor should it belong to anyone. The robbery of Dalian people against us and the cowardice of Chuanzhong enterprises are destined to be robbery.
