With the powerful neutral name reform movement sweeping, all eyes are either focused on the deep-rooted Guoan, Shenhua and other veteran clubs, or locked in Guangzhou, seaport and other Chinese Super League newcomers, but rarely noticed that outside the spotlight, a team was born on the banks of the Bohai Sea, the team has not yet made a sound, is silently submitting an application for a change of name.
On January 21, 2021, the national industrial and commercial system showed that Qingdao Zhongneng officially changed its name to Qingdao Hainiu.
Manatee, the starting point of carrying the soccer dreams of countless Qingdao fans, has gone through 20 years of vicissitudes and embarked on a new journey again.
On May 10, 2021, more than 400 people gathered at the 28th anniversary celebration of Qingdao Manatee with the themes of "inheritance", "greetings" and "wishes" to review the past and look forward to the future. Looking forward to the future.
-Scintillating look back-
In 1992, Chinese soccer ushered in a historic turning point - the Hongshankou Conference - and professionalization became the new direction of development for Chinese soccer.
The following year, Qingdao Hainiu Football Club was born on the fertile soccer soil of the Jiaodong Peninsula.
In the following ten years, Qingdao Hainiu has always been a force to be reckoned with in the Chinese soccer scene, despite hovering between the first A and first B leagues.
At the end of 2004, Yizhong Tobacco decided to transfer all the shares of its former Qingdao Yizhong Hainiu Football Club. Facing the predicament that there was only one Chinese Super League team left in Qingdao, the "Football City", Qingdao was coordinated by the Qingdao Municipal Government and the Municipal Sports Bureau, and Qingdao Zhongneng Group Limited and Yizhong Group signed an agreement, in which the Yizhong Group transferred Qingdao Yizhong Hainiu Football Club to Zhongneng Group. Ltd. and Yi Zhong Group signed an agreement, Yi Zhong Group transferred Qingdao Yi Zhong Hainiu Football Club to Zhongneng Group.
Since then, Qingdao Manatee has entered into the era of neutral energy.
Because of soccer, Zhongneng has transformed from a local private enterprise to a nationally recognized brand. And Zhongneng has also made Qingdao soccer a success.
Since its establishment in 2004, Zhongneng Group has invested more than 1.3 billion RMB for Qingdao's soccer cause, dedicated nearly 400 high-level matches, represented Qingdao to play in the Chinese Super League for 9 consecutive years, and gradually established the medium- and long-term development plan of "building a century-old club and reviving Qingdao's soccer city" and the civilized belief of "fighting for Qingdao". It has gradually established the medium and long-term development plan of "building a century club, reviving the football city of Qingdao" and the civilized faith of "fighting for Qingdao", and it is one of the few working clubs in China that have invested in soccer for the longest period of time.
In the past ten years, a total of more than ten players have emerged from the ranks of Zhongneng and become international players for their countries.
Chasing the wind boy Qu Bo, that is the Argentina World Youth Championship stage on the dynamic figure, face the Pampas Eagle when a dynamic pick shot, let how many Chinese fans see belong to the hope of Chinese soccer. 2002 Japan and South Korea World Cup, there is his young face.
The word "Qu Bo" has an unbreakable link with Qingdao Zhongneng and Qingdao soccer. He is a flag of Qingdao. From the 2000 season to the 2009 season, Qu Bo used the best ten years of his life to write a legend with Qingdao soccer, and also established an inseparable love with this city.
Jiang Ning, the Qingdao football out of the supernova, at the age of 20 years old in the stage of the Chinese Super League hat trick, which also made him become the darling of the spotlight, but also in Qingdao, the soccer town, Jiang Ning also on the stage of the national youth, national Olympic Games, China's stage. 2016 World Preliminary League against the Maldives, the return of Gao Hongbo, China's debut, Jiang Ning withstood the pressure to stand up to the performance of yet another! Hat trick, the Chinese team to qualify for the final 12 hope to stay. 2020 season, outside the drifting for many years Jiang Ning chose to return to Qingdao.
Besides Qu Bo and Jiang Ning, Yao Xia, Lv Gang, Zhou Ting, Mao Jianqing, Zhao Peng and other famous players have left their own chapters in Qingdao Zhongneng. At present, nearly 100 players from Chinese Super League, Chinese League One and Chinese League Two clubs, such as Liu Jian, Zheng Long, Zou Zheng, Liu Zhenli, Wang Ziming, Zhong Yihao, etc., have all come from the youth training of Zhongneng.
Although Zhongneng has been temporarily relegated to China B due to various reasons, the club started early, has a good foundation and sufficient background, and has a long-term plan, and still maintains a high upward momentum and the hope of returning to the high-level league.
-Staying true to the faith-
Zhongneng has been sticking to the stage of soccer for decades without the support of President Qiao Weiguang.
As a native of Qingdao, Qiao Weiguang has always been interested in soccer in a way that no other soccer player ever has. 1978, when Qiao Weiguang was only 8 years old, he was selected to attend the Hai Bo He Junior Sports School and became a soccer cadet, and at that time, he was obsessed with soccer and regarded growing up to be a soccer star as his only pursuit. However, at the age of 15, due to various reasons, Qiao Weiguang had to leave the school after practicing sports for 7 years. Although there was a period of great distress, he soon came out of the predicament and devoted all his energy to normal schooling, and eventually became a leader among his peers on this path.
In 2004, Qingdao soccer came to a point of survival when Yi Zhong Group was ready to quit soccer. Zhongneng Group stepped forward and took over the baton of Qingdao soccer, so that the heavy town of Chinese soccer did not lose the light of the torch.
More than ten years, Zhongneng with this team ups and downs, during this period there has been the opening seven games undefeated, topped the table of the high light, but also had relegation relegation loss, but also had the idea of quitting soccer. But Qiao Weiguang still carried the pressure, with this team through the vicissitudes of life continue to move forward.
Qiao Weiguang said, "Joining hands with Qingdao soccer makes the growth of Zhongneng Group seem more meaningful and makes him personally feel spiritually rich. Through the 'marriage' with soccer, the popularity and reputation of Zhongneng Group has been significantly improved, and soccer has become one of the most shining business cards of the group."
Nowadays, Zhongneng is not only an enterprise operating professional soccer, but also a diversified private enterprise group involving sports, culture, tourism industry, new energy and resource recycling industry, automobile after-market and other fields, with more than 3,000 employees, total assets of more than 6.5 billion yuan, and the brand value of "Zhongneng" reaching 3.05 billion yuan. The brand value of "Zhongneng" reaches 3.05 billion yuan.
As an entrepreneur with a soccer player's background, Qiao Weiguang has a clear positioning for Zhongneng and Qingdao Hainiu. Compared with the real estate or state-owned enterprises as the background, relying on state-owned funds to develop soccer, Zhongneng, as a grassroots club invested and operated by private enterprises, is a typical representative of the social force to run sports. Its youth popularity as a prominent feature, "popularization and promotion of the combination of sports and education, culture and competition, the government, schools, the community to promote the joint efforts of" as the main feature of the youth training and development model by the industry, Xinhua News Agency has been three times to organize research to be affirmed, the CCTV, People's Daily and other major media continue to give attention and coverage and report. CCTV, People's Daily and other national media also continue to pay attention to and report.
Since its establishment, Zhongneng has always attached great importance to youth training, with teams of all age groups from U9-U19, a total of 6 teams representing the club and Qingdao FA to participate in the National Youth Super League matches and FA Cup matches of all age groups, and more than a hundred school soccer cooperative schools, which is one of the few working clubs in the country with a perfect youth training system.
It is believed that in the near future, one by one, the new stars of Chinese soccer will rise from this fertile land of Qingdao and become the new hope of Chinese soccer.
