On August 18, the Internet was abuzz with the video of Xie Hui, a former soccer star and now the head coach of the Nantong Zhiyun team in the Central League, who made remarks after drinking that triggered a hot debate, and the Nantong Zhiyun team then announced that it was suspending Xie Hui's position as head coach.
The incident continues to fester after Xie Hui, a former international footballer and now head coach of the Nantong Zhiyun team in the Central League, lost his job because of a drunken slip of the tongue at a private party and the video was uploaded on the Internet to spark public attention.
A drunken slip of the tongue triggers a workplace fiasco
The incident happened on the evening of August 17th, when Xie Hui had a secret dinner with some friends and drank too much alcohol. During the dinner, Xie Fai expressed his views on professional soccer in China, involving two Chinese Super League teams, Shanghai Harbor and Shenhua, as well as two Chinese League teams, Chengdu Rongcheng and Nantong Zhiyun, of which Nantong Zhiyun is Xie Fai's current employer.
Xie Hui's comments were unknowingly captured on video by someone at the same table (the filmmaker was not a friend of Xie Hui's, but a participant temporarily called in by a friend). The video was then uploaded to social media and reposted by multiple people, ultimately sparking a storm of public opinion within a day.
The Nantong Zhiyun team then issued an official announcement, citing head coach Xie Hui's inappropriate remarks made after drinking at a private party as the reason for suspending his head coaching duties with immediate effect.
Xie Hui himself quickly apologized publicly through his personal social media, saying, "Last night I attended a friend's party and drank too much. I don't know the other side of the ulterior motive, to secretly shoot, will be my drunken remarks posted online, and add oil and vinegar, seriously damaged my reputation. To such scum abhorrence, reserve the right to legal action! At the same time, I sincerely apologize to the units mentioned in the words (Chengdu Rongcheng, Shanghai Shenhua, Shanghai Harbour, Nantong Zhiyun)."
This is a typical case of a public figure making a slip of the tongue, which has evolved into a public incident as a result of Internet dissemination.
He was the representative of positive energy in the National Football League game
The name Xie Hui may not be familiar to young fans, but he was indeed a "top stream" star in the National Football League 20 years ago.
Xie Hui's family background is also quite prominent, his great-grandfather Xie Yingrui was born in Hunan province, a scholarly family, and was sent to study in Germany during the "foreign affairs movement" in the late Qing Dynasty, studied for four years for a doctorate in medicine and then went to the United Kingdom, where he became the only Chinese member of the Royal Society of Medicine, and worked as an attending physician in a public hospital in London. After the outbreak of the First World War, he became the chief surgeon at a British field hospital. Tse's great-grandmother was an English nurse. Xie Hui's grandfather, Xie Dihua, had an even more storied career as a member of the New Fourth Army, and was partly the prototype for Li Xia in the movie Never Fade Away.
As a "half-breed" with one-eighth British blood, Xie Hui showed his soccer talent from an early age, making his debut with Shanghai Shenhua in 1995 at the age of 20, and became a famous player of the late 1990s in the first A League, becoming the second top scorer of the 1995-1999 Shanghai Shenhua team.
In 2000, Xie Hui was transferred to Aachen of the German Bundesliga, and became Aachen's top scorer in the 2001 season with 14 goals as a starter.In 2001, Xie Hui was the top scorer in the World Cup qualifiers for the national soccer team, scoring 7 goals. However, Xie Hui was gradually marginalized by Milu in the ten-team tournament that year, and eventually fell out of the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup list amidst fierce competition in the forward line.
As an iconic figure of China's men's soccer team, Xie Hui has played for the German Bundesliga team three times before and after, and his strength is not for nothing. Xie Hui, who speaks fluent English, has always been an idol soccer player in China with his excellent expression and handsome appearance.
After retiring in 2009, Xie Hui has been engaged in soccer club management and youth training in Shanghai, serving as assistant coach and spokesman of Shanghai Shenhua, head coach of Shanghai Lucky Star Youth Football Club, and research coach of the U16 national youth team.In 2015, Xie Hui joined the coaching team of the reserve team of Shanghai Hong Kong as a coach.From 2016 to 2019, Xie Hui served as the Shanghai Hong Kong First team assistant coach, assisting three foreign managers, Eriksson, Boaz and Pereira, to achieve the 2018 Chinese Super League title and 2019 Super Cup title.
Considered an outstanding coach of the middle generation in China, Xie Hui made his debut as head coach of Nantong Zhiyun in the Central League since 2020, finishing in 12th place. So far this year, Xie Hui has led Nantong Zhiyun to a second-place finish in Group B of the first phase of the Central League. In the same group, Nantong Zhiyun faced first-place Chengdu Rongcheng in two rounds of matches and lost by one goal, but the game process was not inferior. Now, Nantong Zhiyun won the third place in Group A in the just-concluded second phase of the Central League.
With Xie Hui's life, rich soccer career and in recent years in the coaching process of the "learning" persona, he should have been a rare representative of positive energy in the national soccer world. But this time, Xie Hui drunken "more words will be lost", indeed regrettable.
We shouldn't beat Xie Hui to death.
Xie Hui this work in the content of the loss of speech in fact, mainly around our professional league on the inputs and results of some of the "spit", focusing on the expression of the three points of meaning:
The first is that the investment made by many clubs over the years has added up to tens of billions of dollars, especially Shanghai's Shenhua and Seaport, which are representative of the people. He even pointed out that Seaport had spent $12 billion behind the scenes when it won a Chinese Super League title with his experience of having worked in Seaport.
The second is that in this year's competition in the Central League, Chengdu Rongcheng spent 200 million dollars and hired Korean foreign coach Seo Jung-won. His Nantong Zhiyun had only 10 million invested, but was able to hold down the other team.
The third is that the big spending clubs don't know how to play football, and he's just going to beat the crap out of the ones that don't know how to play football.
It's no secret that all these years our professional soccer "gold dollar soccer" environment, I believe that many people know that Xie Hui is not false. Of course, such as "seaport 12 billion investment in exchange for a Super League champion" expression, in terms of numbers is not necessarily accurate, but Xie Hui in the seaport club work a few years, the club's specific operation is clear. Some people speculate that the evaluation of Seaport may be the main reason why Xie Hui was suspended by Nantong Zhiyun.
As for Xie Hui's "slagging off" of Chinese League One rival Chengdu Rongcheng and his confident expression of his own coaching ability, it was more of his "exaggeration" under the state of drunkenness, which was not malicious. Compared with the bad social impact brought about by many celebrities' "slip of the tongue" and the recent exposure of some celebrities' words and behavior in the entertainment industry, Xie Hui's private remarks belong to a completely different nature of content.
The media and many fans made numerous comments on the Internet after the work happened, and the mainstream opinion is that: this time, without Xie Hui's consent, the individual who shot the video privately and disseminated it, and part of the self-media, and even the platform that released it, are all the pushers that led to this public incident, and they should all take the corresponding social responsibility. This incident should also cause reflection on the regulation of online public opinion.
As for Xie Hui himself, he not only issued a personal apology statement after the incident, but also privately communicated with all the clubs, explaining the circumstances of the incident, with a rather sincere attitude, and all the clubs also accepted Xie Hui's attitude.
Many coaches and former national football teammates who care about Xie Hui believe that Xie Hui, as a public figure, must pay attention to his own identity in private social occasions, and this is a very painful lesson. However, they think that Xie Hui's character and professional ability should not be "beaten to death" or even completely denied because of this incident. They called on the community to treat Xie Hui with a more tolerant attitude, so that he can return to coaching as soon as possible and prove himself again.
