National Football League Memory: From Excitement to Contemplation
The next day after the national football team went out, Meng Hongtao had an in-depth conversation with Yan Shiduo, director of the football management center.
That excitement is difficult to calm down, Yan Shiduo talked about the hard work of the Association for the preparation of the World Cup for the national football team, from the internal mobilization to the competition, intelligence, news and other groups of meticulous division of labor.
The FA's tight security for many soccer journalists have tasted the bitter end: in order to prevent rivals from spying on intelligence, the "Mijiajun" during the ten-team tournament in Wulihe preparations for the strictest secrecy, any attempt to infiltrate the training ground of the reporter failed to succeed, every time they were recognized and invited to the field, "8,000 Footnotes "I can only look forward to the ocean sigh of relief. Meng Hongtao excitedly recounted an anecdote: "A reporter climbed to the stadium across the residential building, attempting to 'peek' team training. But it didn't take long for the staff of the local soccer association to appear in front of him."
Yang Pu used "frenzy" to describe the atmosphere of the fans after the line, that is a kind of atmosphere that made him intoxicated for a long time - every time you go out to eat will be recognized by the fans, wherever you go there are people around the request for autographs, photos, "at that time, indeed! A little bit of floating, like he really is a hero." After returning to the league from the national team, everything returned to calm, the only change was a sharp expansion of self-confidence, "just stand on the field, I feel like I can do anything."
In October 2001, far away in Kunming Hongta base and teammates to watch the game live Sun Chao on the national football team out of the line is also full of confidence. The national football team in Hongta base training, Milu invited Yunnan Hongta ladder team cooperation team for technical and tactical exercises, as a member of the Hongta team at the time, Sun Chao has not remembered how many times in the training ground with the national team, "that national team is really strong. Some people say that the '97 national team' is the strongest one, but I think the strongest is the 2001 World Cup impact of the national team, the physical conditions of that group of players, the overall ability is the best, everyone has distinctive features." 20 years later, Sun Chao is still on the "Mijia Army" in high esteem, "the national team out of the moment, the aura is different, then we know, they are definitely going to go out of the line."
That's what you get when you lose.
Out of the line that night the fireworks in the Shenyang night sky in the minds of many people are still clear, the carnival lasted longer than expected, immersed in the great joy of the people will not think of this carnival in the national football team in June 2002 really set foot on the World Cup field at the moment came to an abrupt end.
On June 4, 2002, China had its first World Cup match.
A 0-2 loss to Costa Rica was a wake-up call, followed by two even bigger losses: 0-4 to Brazil and 0-3 to Turkey.
Extended eight months of ecstasy in June 13, 2002, the national football team's final group game at the end of a huge loss, the team scored a goal, get a point, win a pre-match goals become the target of the outside world group of ridicule questioning.
Originally "a little floating" Yang Pu in that June stand back to the ground, "really stand on the stage of the World Cup, we suddenly found that we are a lot worse than others, that is really recognize the distance of the moment." Distance can not be simply summarized in terms of athletic ability, Sun Chao still think that the national team in Korea and Japan World Cup did not play the real level: "nervous, who first time to play the World Cup will be nervous, although Milo to the team to do the best psychological massage. But the national team really did not show the best of themselves, our opponents are more able to play the game."
Looking back at the national soccer team's pre-tournament goals for the World Cup in Korea and Japan
Meng Hongtao gave the recorder's summary: "Score a goal, get a point, win a pre-tournament goals at the time to see is relatively objective, but to the World Cup is a completely different matter. The level of Asian soccer itself and Europe and the United States and even African teams there is not a small distance, but because of the work of Chinese soccer for ten years, and then reached the World Cup, so many people at that time held a relatively optimistic attitude. But in East Asia 3 teams, only China team group stage 3 full loss, this is a true reflection of our level - not only with Japan and South Korea team pulled away from the grade, more with Europe and the United States strong team PK. this and we have long time no access to the high level of the World Championships, always unable to understand the pulse of the world's soccer development, did not really integrate into the big system. Not unrelated."
That one handsome man covers up a hundred ugly ones.
China's soccer development process has not been suspended because of the collapse of the World Cup, but has not been able to find a better way out.
After the World Cup in Korea and Japan, due to the fake black whistle, related relations and many other events, the image of Chinese soccer and the degree of attention fell, more and more fans left the stands, China's top working soccer league is in urgent need of a new life.
On May 15, 2004, the first year of the Chinese Super League began. Unlike the vision of "unity, joy, hard work and upward mobility" that Yan Shiduo expected in his speech at the opening ceremony of the first Chinese Super League, the first year of the Chinese Super League began with the chaos of "losing to get into the Chinese Super League" at the end of the first generation of the first A League in 2003, the dispute between Changchun Yatai and Liaozhi Football over the quota for the first year of the second Chinese Super League in 2004 due to the issue of seniority. From Beijing Guoan's strike due to unfair penalties to the establishment of the "G7 Alliance" by the investors of seven clubs, the first year of the Chinese Super League started and progressed in chaos. Yan Shiduo in his autobiography faithful no regret there is a paragraph let him palpitating text description: "2004 is really Chinese soccer's difficult time ...... Chinese football world all of a sudden become fire and fire, a thousand holes." In the end, up to eight months of salary arrears, Shenzhen Jianlibao took the first title after the A A promotion for the Super League, in an almost black humor way for the Super League first year to close the end.
Is it really a change from A-A to the Chinese Super League? The question of "What has impressed you the most about Chinese soccer in the past 20 years since you got out of the competition" was put to Yang Pu, and he answered after a few seconds of thought, "It's still the fact that the league went from A-A to the Chinese Super League, and that the Chinese Super League company was established, so the feeling is really different -- although the people are still the same. -Although the people are still the same."
Preparing for the Chinese Super League in those years Chinese soccer still happened a lot of changes, such as amateur sports schools gradually disappeared, youth soccer training turned over to soccer schools and work clubs. From the physical school out of the Yang Pu remembered that the 1983 age group of players is the last batch of Chinese soccer "physical school production", "after no physical school, each work club to cultivate their own youth talent. In fact, it was a period of breaking the original foundation of reconstruction, but the World Preliminary Cup line covered up a lot of problems."
