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Seven years ago, in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, a middle-aged figure stood silently at the end of the team. He had no communication with his companions around him, and his eyes did not meet, leaving only a lonely back, disappearing in the night color of a foreign land. That is Gao Hongbo. This moment is fixed in October 2016, the fourth round of the 12 strong match, the national football team to 0-2 away from Uzbekistan, four rounds of matches only accumulated 1 point, the road to Qatar only remaining theoretical hope. Gao Hongbo therefore stood in the eye of the public opinion, and finally announced his resignation.
However, who would have guessed that three years later, Gao Hongbo would return to the Football Association as vice president. Now, seven years later, Chinese soccer is scarred by the wave of anti-corruption and match-fixing. With the new soccer congress approaching, Gao Hongbo once again submitted his resignation, stepping down as vice chairman of the FA. This time, he chose to take a step back and return to the soccer field he knows so well, which is saddening.
When he was appointed as a "firefighter", he needed to survive in the cracks, and he demanded sincerity from international coaches like Camacho and Lippi. He asked Camacho, Lippi and other internationally renowned coaches to show sincerity, while the cost of Gao Hongbo in the Football Association is just a phone call. 2009, Gao Hongbo first coached the national football team. In the warm-up matches, he led the team and Germany 1-1 draw, 3-0 sweep of South Korea in the East Asian Cup, ending the 32-year-long "fear of Korea", and Japan on an equal footing, and even 1-0 beat France's stunning moment. However, after the loss of the 2011 Asian Cup, Gao Hongbo led the national football team to beat Jamaica in the rain, but was eventually replaced by Camacho.
Camacho's 1-5 fiasco, Perrin's 2015 Asian Cup debut, and two draws for the national soccer team in Hong Kong's Top 40, the national soccer team seemed to be back to square one. At this time, Gao Hongbo is still in Beijing Babaoshan cemetery to participate in the farewell ceremony of Mr. Chen Jialiang, but suddenly received a phone call from Wei Jixiang, and thus, in desperation, he led the national football team to achieve two consecutive victories, and successfully advanced to the final 12. However, when it came to the 12-team tournament, the national soccer team only accumulated 1 point in the first four rounds, and the tragedy was staged again.
The ground attack of the Gao Hongbo era no longer exists as the 2023 national football team had to rely on defensive counter-attacks against Vietnam following the shake-up in the leadership of the Football Association (FA), including Tran and Du. At this point, countless fans miss the Gao Hongbo they once blamed.
Soccer commentator He Wei once said, "I witnessed Gao Hongbo stepping up in the most critical moment of Chinese soccer, saving the Chinese soccer team and the atmosphere of Chinese soccer at that time to a certain extent. I sincerely hope that this story will have a fairytale ending, but we don't live in a fairytale world, and things often go against our wishes in the course of development."
Whether this departure from the FA was active or passive, we wish Director Gao continued to shine in his new role.
