On China's road to becoming a sports powerhouse, there is always one short program that can never be remedied, and that is Chinese soccer.
From the end of 2022 to this year, the Chinese Football Association (CFA) has set off wave after wave of anti-corruption, with one once-executive CFA executive after another falling from grace.
This football association internal anti-corruption war is still continuing. From these "big moves" this year, all the people who love soccer seem to see the Chinese soccer ushered in the "dawn" of the "eve".
In fact, Chinese soccer in the 1990s was far less in a quagmire than it is now.
At that time, there were many fierce players in the Chinese soccer team, playing wonderful soccer under their feet, which became the memories of countless fans cheering.
Li Bing, known to many fans as "Shan", is the national soccer player of those wonderful memories.
01 Spirited on the court, eclipsed off the court
When it comes to Li Bing, as a fan of the national soccer team, you will surely recall the moment when China's national soccer team was most likely to go global.
Li Bing's relationship with soccer began when he stepped into the Guizhou Provincial Sports School at the age of 11, after seven years of training.
He excelled in soccer and excelled in training at school and was successfully selected for the Guizhou Provincial Team.
After another year, he entered the National Youth Team and participated in the 1988 Asian Youth Tournament, and members of the team who participated with Li Bing that year included Wei Qun and Jiang Feng.
In the near future, many of the members of the Asian Youth Championship have become the founders of the "golden age" of the national soccer team.
In the 1998 Asian Youth Championships, China achieved great success in both the preliminaries and the final game.
Even Japan, which was equal to China at the time, the Chinese team managed to crush the final with an excellent 2-0 record, allowing Chinese soccer to steadily take its place among Asian countries.
After that year's Asian Youth Championships, only 20-year-old Ri Bing watched his seniors in the field of every wonderful pass, time and time again, enthusiastic cheers run.
Although his first time on the international stage did not contribute to the wonderful passes and shots, an idea gradually emerged in his mind: kicking out of Chinese soccer has become the focus of Asia and the world!
Looking at Li Bing's playing career, we realize that if China's national football team had maintained the impetus of Li Bing's generation, then Chinese soccer would not have been reduced to the field it is in today.
In 1992, Li Bing joined the Chinese Olympic team and participated in the Asian Cup, finishing third. Two years later, Li Bing and his teammates achieved an excellent second place finish at the Asian Games in Japan.
Perhaps some people will wonder why there are still so many fans of Chinese soccer, which is now at the bottom of Asia.
Maybe it's because many of them lived through the "glory days" of the 90s.
One day, the firm belief that Chinese soccer will return to the world stage has taken root in their hearts, and they are more eager than anyone else for Chinese soccer to "revitalize".
One of the best goals in Li Bing's CV was a beautiful "upside down hook" in the 1998 Dinas Cup.
The moment Ri Bing's one nimble flip and jump and the ball was shot on goal, instantly the whole stadium screamed and cheered surrounding Ri Bing who was also happy enough to run all over the field.
After years of training and playing, he scored one of the most glorious goals in this moment and one of the most memorable goals in the history of the National Football League.
But the appearance of that wonderful "upside-down hook" seems to have drained the luck of the professional track of Li Bing.
In 2002, he announced his official retirement and became the coach of Zhejiang Greentown before and after the game. Li Bing's rich experience in the game helped him a lot as a soccer coach.
Starting with the national team, Ri Bing has played soccer at almost every position under the tutelage of Wang Hongli and Schlapner, and has experience at every position on the field.
A "balanced and well-rounded" coach is very valuable to a team and beneficial to the development of the unique strengths of the team members.
However, Li Bing's experience did not surprise Chinese sports again. From 2006 to 2008, Li Bing led Chengdu Sheffield United to defeat Shanghai Seven Stars.
In the 2008 Chinese Super League, Chengdu Sheffield United led this soccer team belonging to Chengdu back to the top league in China.
However, from 2008 onwards, Sheffield United fell apart and he had no choice but to leave the Sheffield United team.
Since 2008, the performance of Chinese soccer has completely regressed. Whether in professional or Asian competitions, Chinese soccer has not done well.
This problem has built up too much in more than 20 years of Chinese soccer development, and it's not something that Li Bing alone can change.
He had hoped to take Chinese soccer around the world, which is a fool's errand for Chinese soccer these days.
His coaching career underwent many changes as the soccer environment deteriorated, and after his exit at Chengdu Sheffield United, Li Bing once again turned to coaching several teams.
But there was no long term coaching either, and the teams he led didn't play as eye-poppingly well as Sheffield United again in the domestic competition.
The workplace is disillusioned, but love is happy.
Former international player Li Bing is not only known for the brilliance he brought to Chinese soccer, but also for falling in love with pop diva Gan Ping. Li Bing and Gan Ping met on an advertising shoot.
Gan Ping began to learn swimming and gymnastics from a young age, but did not succeed in entering the sports team, so there has always been a kind of regret in his heart that he did not realize his dream.
However, fate brought her to meet Mr. Li Bing. Li Bing's first chat showed his understanding and comfort to Gan Ping, which made her inadvertently feel a lot of good feelings towards this "international footballer".
Li Bing also slowly develops a crush on Gan Ping, and the pressure of the team's competition is always somewhat relieved by Gan Ping's beautiful singing. In the end, Li Bing chose to move on to love and filed for divorce from his then wife.
Their love is to withstand the pressure of love, in the view of many people, in the marriage of Li Bing, Gan Ping is the third party, and Li Bing is the marriage of the "unfaithful".
However, despite worldly criticism, they chose to get married. Although Li Bing's career hasn't been very successful in the past few years, Gan Ping has always chosen to stand behind him and support him in every choice he makes.
Perhaps it is because of a happy family that Gan Ping, who has retired to the background, still looks very young on camera even though she is 53 years old.
The road to 03 National Football League is a long one.
Li Bing is lucky, but also unfortunate, he caught up with the best era of China's national soccer team, but also met the era of China's national soccer team hit rock bottom.
Obsessed with the pursuit of life's dreams, but unable to resist the effects of harsh circumstances.
For Chinese soccer, changing the status quo will be a difficult and long road, but if there is still a group of people to lead Chinese soccer out of the haze, Chinese soccer can not always be in the dawn of the "eve".
