In the past, Jiangsu Suning absorbed a large number of Greentown players, fans teased as “Suning Greentown love like a family”, this time Cangzhou Lions reproduced this scene. In addition to 2019 to join the Cangzhou Lions Zang Yifeng, the team recently announced a series of heavy news, Xie Pengfei, Luo Jing, Chen Zhongliu also have to join the team, which accidentally recruited to the Chinese Super League league.
The latest group photo from their training session in Foshan.
The beginning of a story often starts with “a long, long time ago”. For a player's soccer career, more than 20 years ago can undoubtedly be called “a long, long time ago”.
A long, long time ago, in Guiyang, a few kindergarteners met by participating in an out-of-school soccer class. “At that time, we are all small, just started to play football, there is no soccer concept, is to think that soccer is fun, love to run up to kick a few feet.” Xie Pengfei recalled with a smile. In this group of children, there are Xie Pengfei, Luo Jing and Zang Yifeng.
Xie Pengfei rose to fame earlier, traveling to France to play in Metz in 2010, becoming one of the players who stayed abroad. In the same year, he was selected for the first time for the national junior team, and has since become a regular member of our national team. If you trace back to Xie Pengfei's soccer career, is also a “strong body” and become a star of the typical. In fact, Xie Pengfei as a child, on the soccer is not too interested, is fond of soccer father sent him to the field, the family let him play football and a goal: exercise.
“I should have been exposed to soccer when I was 3 years old. At that time, it was adults let me practice, and then followed the coach to play, until elementary school.” Mentioning the Guiyang Experimental No. 2 Primary School where he studied, Xie Pengfei, as a Guizhou native, looks proud, for example, his Guizhou predecessor, Wang Song, also graduated from that elementary school.
that era, Guizhou soccer is a treasure, even in a small kindergarten soccer interest class, was born Xie Pengfei, Luo Jing and Zang Yifeng 3 now playing in the Cangzhou Lions professional players, Xie Pengfei said: “In addition to us, there are a few players have also played the Chinese Super League Chinese A! , the soccer atmosphere was good at that time, so the rate of success was higher.” “The 3 of us have known each other for more than 20 years, and it's really a kind of fate that we can still play soccer together now.” Luo Jing said, “The 3 of us, all of us, are the kind of not so naughty, in the eyes of adults, good children, the character is very similar, so also can always play together.” Primary school in the first grade, Chen Zhongliu came to Guiyang Experimental Second Primary School, he also finally and the other three players “division”.
Xie Pengfei from a young child playing soccer is very spiritual, read to the third grade, Shenzhen, a coach to select people, including Xie Pengfei, including 11 small players to Shenzhen. Later, these young players joined the Yantian District, a sports school soccer team, in this team, Xie Pengfei and his teammates, including Xie Yuxin, Zhang Zengqun, including the coach of the famous, but due to the Super League and the All-China Games team to use the coaches, these coaches are often to come soon to leave, coupled with the team's players are also coming and going, the team's mobility Very big. Although the personnel is not very stable, but the team's results are very good, they participate in the same age of some of the provincial and even domestic competitions, often can take the first. 2006, Yantian District Junior Soccer Team Coach Bian Song found Xie Pengfei's offensive potential, he was mentioned from the left back of the position of the center forward. Since then, Xie Pengfei has been playing in the front waist or striker position, and not only can organize the attack, but also able to score very beautiful goals.
In 2007, Greentown's coach Yang Ji and Xu Deming went to Shenzhen to choose the players, a pick away 11, Xie Pengfei, Luo Jing, Zang Yifeng and Chen Zhongliu so and Zhejiang soccer ties.
The team was formed to prepare for the 2009 Shandong National Games, and eventually the team won the 5th place in the Men's B Group of the National Games, which also created the best result of Zhejiang soccer in the National Games. In this team, there are not only four Guizhou youngsters, but also Shi Ke, Zou Dehai and Zhao Yuhao, who will shine in the Chinese Super League League later. This achievement has given Greentown boss Song Weiping the confidence to put greater expectations on the 2013 Liaoning National Games in four years' time, and Song has asked them to get the title.
So, Xie Pengfei began to experience a soccer career in the intensity of the largest “grinding”. In order to let the players get more practical experience, this team in 2011, the team participated in the year's second division league. Although the team eventually finished ninth in the South Zone and did not enter the playoffs, the players, who were only 18 years old at the time, began to gain experience in playing against opponents who were generally older than themselves.
“We played a lot of matches that year, and despite the mediocre results, the whole team gelled more and more.” Recalling the 2011 season with his teammates, Xie Pengfei summarized in this way. In the subsequent City Games, the team made it all the way to the quarterfinals, but lost on penalties in the semifinal match with ShandongLunengbased Qingdao, losing the chance to compete for the title.
After Takeshi Okada joined Greentown's first team, his assistant Tsuyoshi Ono was appointed head coach of this team, with which they participated in the 2012 and 2013 seasons of the Chinese Super League Reserve Team League. But in the end, the team lost to Shanghai in the semifinals of the 2013 Liaoning National Games and only finished 3rd in that edition. So in the previous year a foot shot to help Jiangsu Suning eliminated Shanghai SIPG into the Super League final, Luo Jing also on the National Games loss grudgingly: “our group of players, the most defiant is the Shanghai team. So these years I am very upset in my heart, I want to have the opportunity to win back.”
did not hold up the trophy, so Song Weiping determined to force this group of players on the Super League league, no one knew at the time, this is a fast track to growth, or a counterproductive elimination.
In 2014, Song Weiping bravely started a young hometown coach, Yang Ji, and also told him, “The 11-man starting lineup for the new season, in addition to the goalkeeper, should be two veteran players, four young players and four foreign aiders.” Older players refers to the players born in 1993, Song Weiping hopes that the 93 generation can more quickly pick up Zhejiang Greentown the beam. Massive reuse of young players is a huge pressure for the coach, and for the players, who are also growing in pain and even collapse. In 2014, 30 games Chinese Super League league, Hangzhou Greentown conceded 60 goals, of which a number of games are big score loss. Greentown away 2:6 lost to Guangzhou R&B that ball, young players in the final stage of the continuous mistakes. In fact, before that year, Xie Pengfei has become the earliest player of the same age to play on the Chinese Super League league. 2012 Greentown away from Tianjin Teda, Xie Pengfei first got the Chinese Super League the opportunity to play, but only played 34 minutes to be replaced, a blow to his said: “At that time, the feeling is still a little bit uncomfortable, after all, 19 years old started to play in the top league, and then will often go to think about how to play the league.”
These players together experienced the first time to fight the Chinese Super League the joy, experienced the pain of losing by a large margin, it can be said that together with the laughter, but also together with the tears. It is these players have more Chinese Super League playing time than players of the same age, Green City players occupied the National Olympic team at the time of the majority of the rivers and mountains. 2014, in China's National Olympic team 1:2 defeated Brazilian National Olympic team in a warm-up game, China's first 11 people in 5 people from Green City, a total of 6 players, Xie Pengfei smiled to remember! At that time, the National Olympic said: “I feel that teammates before quite tacit understanding, because there are so many familiar people around.”
In this way, Xie Pengfei, Luo Jing, Chen Zhongliu and Zang Yifeng “teammates” from the salon has been to do the national Olympic team. Due to good relations, the salon and the national Olympic team also let them become roommates, like this Cangzhou Lions training in Foshan, let Xie Pengfei and Luo Jing live in a room. Xie Pengfei usually love to play the guitar, this is a way for him to relax. In Greentown playing soccer, Luo Jing when the lead singer, Xie Pengfei play guitar, Zhao Yuhao is the drummer, big brother Wang Song laughs to be the agent of this idol orchestra. “It's just fooling around, playing casually when there's nothing else to do.” Xie Pengfei said with a smile, “The band has not been named, is the rest of the time, play the guitar and sing, when it is a kind of relaxation.” When Xie Pengfei and Luo Jing from Suning together to the Cangzhou Lions, the band can obviously in Cangzhou “show”.
After so many years of playing together, these players have been like family. If you return to Guiyang on a holiday, the families will get together. In the time of the Green City, Xie Pengfei and Luo Jing often live in a room, in the time of Jiangsu each married and had a child, the two families and live in a neighborhood in Nanjing. Interestingly, Xie Pengfei and Luo Jing was also taken “convenience store combination” nickname. Because one is No. 7, one is No. 11, usually two people often together, so teammates called them “711 combination”, the English is Seven-Eleven, overnight became “convenience store combination”. The company's name is “Seven-Eleven” and it has become the “Convenience Store Group” over time.
combination also have the end of the day, professional soccer, is always divided and close, even if it is more than 20 years of destiny, as if there will be the end of the time.
2016, the earliest to leave the green city of Xie Pengfei, “people to the high place to go” he joined the Jiangsu team in that year. 2018, left the green city of Chen Zhongliu, Chen Zhongliu has been to Chongqing, but also in the Suzhou Dongwu kicked. 2019, Luo Jing and Zang Yifeng two people are in this year to leave the green city of Luo Jing and Xie Pengfei become teammates, and the two are in the same year, Luo Jing and Xie Pengfei. Pengfei became teammates, and Zang Yifeng joined Shijiazhuang Yongchang, now Cangzhou Lions.
But it seems to be really “divided for a long time will be united, united for a long time will be divided”, this time, these four people and coincidentally came together - if not the Chinese Super League championship of the sudden end, should not have been this time, “the”, “the”. There would have been no “renewal”.
In fact, this time several players can be reunited in Cangzhou Lions, and the earliest to join the Zang Yifeng has a lot to do. “I and Zang Yifeng is hair small, in the middle of the previous year we were in Shanghai together with the rehabilitation treatment, chatting when I learned that the Cangzhou Lions club management is very good, the team is stable, but also a very have to rise up the team, so I chose to come here.” Chen Zhongliu said: “Now this team is the most familiar stranger. Me and these Guizhou players, we all came out from Guizhou together and have gone through a lot together. By the time we reached adulthood, we had gone through life's ups and downs, each growing up peacefully, and I had experienced failures and setbacks, and was now ready to start again. Now we get together, often talk about childhood, my family's bedroom are placed in our hourly photo.”About his restart, Chen Zhongliu is full of expectations: “After experiencing a low period, to meet the current coach and management team, really feel quite lucky. There are some teammates from the National Olympic team here, and we can all help each other. I look forward to proving myself again at the player's best age.”
In contrast, Xie Pengfei and Luo Jing, who experienced winning the championship but the team ended, also had huge life lessons.
“During that time, I kept myself as well as possible, ready to start my new career. After learning about the end of the Jiangsu team, Cangzhou Lions also contacted my agent, I was touched by the sincerity of the other side, and finally decided to join this team.” Xie Pengfei said.
In the semi-final overtime of the previous years Chinese Super League league, Luo Jing made a stunning long-distance shot to assist Jiangsu Suning to reach the final. For this high moment, Luo Jing but low-key said: “nothing to mention, it's all in the past. I was definitely happy and excited at the time, but as players, aren't we there to help the team win?” From winning the championship to the end, Luo Jing confessed that such an experience does make people's state of mind lost: “But it is also necessary to immediately adjust the mentality, and go back to face a new career. Cangzhou Lions attach great importance to our players, the preparation for the new season is also very full, I have full confidence in the team to play well in the league this season.”
About once played for the Zhejiang team, several players also still have deep feelings, they shouted: “Zhejiang team rushed to Super League , next year we are in the Super League and so on you.”
