Like many of his former teammates who fought together, Tang Miao retweeted a video describing the club's process. "If you have to part, you should also say goodbye, with gratitude in your heart for the memories it gave you, see you in our jungle."
Tang Miao Weibo.
Until Chengdu Rongcheng club announced on April 9 that Tang Miao officially joined, the player's own microblogging name is still called "Guangzhou Tang Miao" - Guangzhou, which is destined to be the inevitable label of Tang Miao.
Though, from now on, he has come to a new city to fight anew.
Tang Miao is the flag of Guangzhou City FC.
The club is my home.
"When I was interviewed a couple of years ago, I said I would like to have that opportunity, I've been in Canton, my contract has always been a long term contract, and I want to be a legend in the music department."
After Guangzhou's decision to quit, the surging news reporter talked to Tang Miao, who had just returned to Chengdu. Tang Miao's tone was a bit low. "I'm a player with a stable character, from my 20s to my 30s. I didn't expect this result ......"
One man, one team, one city, it may not have been Tang Miao's dream at the beginning of his career, but he has a chance to write his own legend.
At the beginning of 2011, Tang Miao, who was in Beijing Guoan's second team, joined Shenzhen Phoenix in the Central League. Half a year later, Shenzhen Phoenix was acquired by Guangzhou R&F and the club moved to Guangzhou. In this way, Tang Miao gave the club the best 12 years of his career.
So far, Tang Miao still clearly remembers the first game he played on behalf of the club. At Yuexiushan Stadium, the fans were very enthusiastic. They debuted against Yanbian and the team won 2-0.
Tang Miao represented China in the World Qualifier.
"To be honest, when I renewed my contract, the club offered me the highest salary in the team. Even if other clubs had offered me more, I never wanted to leave."
At the time, R&F was a club with a stable of investments and, of course, in Don Miao's opinion, more importantly, the human touch.
He also vividly remembers suffering a serious knee ACL rupture in his 100th game for the club in 2015. At that time, the domestic medical level was not as developed as it is now, and the club immediately contacted one of Tang Miao's German hospitals.
Combining surgery and rehabilitation, Tang Miao stayed in Germany for 7 months and spent about 500,000 RMB for the whole treatment. Upon returning to Guangzhou, the club immediately reimbursed Tang Miao for all treatment costs.
"Thank you very much boss, we caught a good time." Tang Miao said.
Tang Miao played for the national soccer team against the Philippines.
An extremely tangled tweet
All those years, from young player to absolute starter, being selected for the national team, then becoming the team captain, and finally choosing to settle in Guangzhou in Panyu. On the other end of the phone, Tang Miao recalls some of the big events during the R&F period, and he speaks quickly, blurting them out without any thought.
"We completed the Super League in six months and qualified for the AFC Champions League in three years. 2014 was the best year in the club's history, finishing in third place with 57 points."
"And then our derbies with Guangzhou Evergrande over the years have brought back a lot of great memories for the fans, and it should be the most glorious moment in Guangzhou soccer for many years."
Suddenly, Tang Miao sighed, "It's a pity that I didn't get the championship, which is my only regret after so many years in the team."
Don Miao said he first felt it was in 2019.
At the time it was felt that the club was experiencing some difficulties and then it was affected by the epidemic. A lot of real estate companies are in trouble and R&F is no exception - the club is in arrears from the second half of 2021.
On Thanksgiving Day, Tang Miao tweeted, "Although I owe a lot of paychecks, I'm very thankful for my boss, who has been very, very good to me these past ten years. I hope this team will get better and better." Last year, the negative news of R&F never came to light, which is the love of our players for the team."
Outsiders see this as an accusation that the club owes wages, but Tang Miao has his own helplessness. In fact, during those years, as the owner of the team, Tang Miao sometimes needed to coordinate the relationship between the players and the club.
For example, when a club wants a player to renew his contract, perhaps in the face of a club defaulting on wages, the player will need to make some compromises in the face of a barrier to entry, and Don Miu will do what some players do as a big brother.
After completing his job, Tang Miao will naturally want the club to fulfill its promise as soon as possible.
But his heart was somewhat conflicted and a few days later posted a tweet, "Everyone really likes the ambient environment of the team and no one is saying anything bad about the owner. I hope our R&F can get over the hump and get better."
In his last moments at the club, Tang Miao was still training with his teammates.
These two regrets are irreparable.
During the past 2022 season, Guangzhou City FC finally completed its relegation thanks to the intervention of the Guangzhou Automobile-led state-owned enterprise consortium, and the players were paid their salaries for the year. However, some of the salary arrears ended up as a splash as the state-owned enterprise consortium's interest in stock reform cooled.
Tang Miao did the math himself and the club still owes him a few million - the player really has a clear conscience. In the access work before the league this year, Tang Miao led the local players are still in some parts of the signature confirmation, hoping to help the club to complete the access, but ultimately with Tosic wage dispute became one of the important factors in the exit of Guangzhou.
"I also tweeted and communicated with Tosic many times, told him the actual situation of the club and hoped that he could understand, but he may have other ideas ...... ah."
