Heron formed a soccer team
He Long was a founding marshal of China and a great fighter. At the same time, He Long made great contributions to sports and broke the heart of Chinese sports. The He Long Sports Center is a stadium named after him, and the soccer match "He Long Cup" is also a soccer match named after him.
He Long attached great importance to sports. As early as during the War of Resistance against Japan, He Long formed a basketball team. While building a basketball team, I also want to build a soccer team. While the soldiers were resting, they could improve their physical fitness while having fun. However, as the war became tense, He Long was too busy fighting to put it into practice.
In 1949, after the country's situation had basically stabilized, He Long began to put plans for a soccer team on the agenda. After the founding of New China, He Long became the commander of the Southwest Military Region, and the soldiers began to train. With plenty of time, He Long began to form a soccer team.
Heron first selected some physically fit soldiers from among the soldiers, thus establishing a soccer team. The players were very enthusiastic and brought a lot of fun to the dull life of the soldiers. However, at that time, the team members did not understand the basic rules and just played soccer and grabbed the ball.
After the first team was built, Heron felt that it wasn't enough and began planning to form another team to improve everyone's skills. So with Heron's support, each school picked some students and formed another team. After the two teams were built, the competition was fierce and many people would come to watch the games.
As a result, soccer became popular in the Southwest and many schools began to form soccer teams. Although He Long formed a competitive soccer team, it was still much inferior to the world level. In 1950, a basketball team from the former Soviet Union played against China and lost outright. In 1952, China also sent a soccer team to play against Poland, which also resulted in a crushing defeat.
He Long, Chen Yi and Deng Xiaoping watch the game in Beijing He Long, Chen Yi and Deng Xiaoping watch the game in Beijing.
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He Long was also prepared to import talents from abroad to catch up with the world soccer team. By chance, He Long learned of a Hong Kong man named Li Huitang, known locally as the "King of Soccer". Li Huitang was not only a good soccer player, but also knew how to train players and understood the specifics of world soccer. He was overjoyed to hear this news and approached Lin Shaozhou.
Lin Shaozhou and Li Huitang were very familiar with each other, so he asked for his help in writing a letter to hire him as a coach at all costs, and the salary could be mentioned freely. However, China had just been founded at that time, and Li Huitang did not know the specific situation at that time. After much hesitation, Li Huitang refused Herong's warm invitation.
He believed that a good coach was equivalent to a good marshal. Although the plan to invite Li Huitang was ruined, he did not give up. He reminded his colleagues around him that whenever there was a good candidate, they would do whatever it took to invite them. in 1953, Tran Quy Giang found out in a match that Foo Fook Zhen was a good candidate who had performed well in many matches against foreign countries.
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At that time, Fuzhen already had a stable job and did not want to leave his hometown. However, He Long was eager for talent and made sure he was treated better, so Fu Zhen moved to Chongqing. Under his leadership, He Long's soccer team made great strides. Although the Southwest Military Region was abolished and the soccer team disbanded, many came to the national team.
After that, He Long became the director of the National Sports Committee. Under his presidency, although the performance of table tennis improved, the level of national soccer was still much worse. He thought that foreign soccer was very good, and it was futile to do badly in soccer after other sports went up. Therefore, he put a lot of efforts to improve the level of soccer in China.
He Long believed that as the level of Chinese soccer improved, we should go out to study abroad. However, at that time, China had a difficult diplomatic environment and only had contacts with socialist countries like the U.S.S.R. In 1954, after many investigations, we chose Hungary for our soccer team to go and study there.
Chairman Mao, He Long and others meet with soccer players.
In July 1955, He Long brought a delegation to Poland for the 10th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Learning that the Warsaw soccer team was of high level, He Long led the Chinese youth soccer team there. In the match, although the Chinese soccer team was slightly different, it was still a great improvement compared with before. He Long was very satisfied with this.
Through the efforts of He Long, who also hired coaches from the Soviet Union and Hungary, he greatly improved the standard of the Chinese soccer team.In 1956, the national soccer team became the shining star of world soccer when it won a match against India.In 1959, the Chinese soccer team beat Hungary several times to achieve victory.
Dismissed the soccer team in anger
However, Chinese soccer began to decline in the 1960's. In 1963, China won a huge victory at the first Nova Games and a huge welcome party was held. The atmosphere was so warm, but the members of the soccer team were not happy. The captain raised his glass to He Long and said, "We lost in the previous games, but we'll keep trying!"
Heron receives Pakistani soccer team
Afterwards, Heron self-criticized the profession. He said: "The athletes should not be blamed for this. I am the director. If you want to blame yourself for not doing well." In 1964, He Long held a meeting and said, "Why has the three major balls never improved? New China has been established for decades. If you can't do it, you won't die!"
In 1964, the Chinese soccer team played against Pakistan. The :4 score was a failure, and there was a lot of public opinion in the country at that time. Seeing that the team was so disgraceful to the country, He Long was so angry that he directly disbanded the team. At that time, national sports were equivalent to the army. Victory was honorable and defeat was a disgrace. After disbanding the team, He Long also urged the department to make the team good.
Of course, He Long did not relax Chinese soccer. For this reason, he made a lot of efforts. He believed that the rise of Chinese soccer should start from the children. Only in this way, there is hope for the future of national soccer. For this reason, he vigorously publicized the cartoon small soccer team and asked the relevant departments to issue a notice on the development of small soccer activities among young people.
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In April '64, He Long also organized a meeting of the relevant departments to discuss the reasons for the regression of the national soccer team and made some suggestions to improve it. At the same time, soccer activities were promoted throughout the country.
Under the close attention of He Long, the Chinese national soccer team finally made great progress.In 1965, He Long formed the national soccer team again.In 1966, the soccer team could be considered as a breath of fresh air for the country when it won the second place in the first Asian Emerging Forces Games.In 1966, the soccer team won the second place in the first Asian Emerging Forces Games, which could be considered as a breath of fresh air for the country.
