Since Wuhan Zall took over the baton of Wuhan Zhongbo at the end of 2011, Wuhan Zall FC has gone through ten spring and autumn seasons. After a stormy journey in the Chinese Super League and Chinese First Division, the club was officially renamed "Wuhan Team". Coinciding with the 10th anniversary celebration, CCTV Sports Football Night focuses on this Wuhan team that has been through thick and thin. Facing the camera, Chairman Tian Xudong said, "As investor Yan Zhi said, although the name of the team has changed, the support for Hubei Wuhan soccer has always been the same. We expect the team to climb to the top and live up to the glorious name of this heroic city."
Climb to the top and create an exclusive course
On March 23, Zall Holdings took three plots of land with a planned site of 503,100 square meters in the Airport Area of Pan Long City in one go, planning to build the Airport World Sports Center and other facilities. According to the plan, the Zhuoer side will invest 2.6 billion yuan to build a professional soccer stadium with more than 60,000 seats, which will be opened as the new home stadium, making Wuhan the third club with an independent soccer stadium in the Chinese Super League after Shanghai SIPG and Beijing Guoan.
This is an important initiative of Wuhan Zall's investment in soccer in the past ten years, but also a key step to realize the five-year plan. Tian Xudong has said that the club's "five-year plan" includes the Super League in 2018, relegation in 2019, better results in the Chinese Super League in 2020, and the goal for 2021 is to go even further, and Wuhan Zall will be a self-circulating soccer kingdom in 2022. set goals, and the 2021 season is highly anticipated.
Now, on the road to pursuing their goal, Wuhan is about to have their own new home stadium, and it's also a professional soccer stadium, which is the envy of many Chinese Super League clubs who are still renting venues.
Reinforcement "fishing", waiting for good news
At present, the soccer circle is very concerned about the invitation of Wuhan team, only because of one word - "stable". Whether it is the Wuhan team in the Chinese Super League or the Wuhan Three Town in the Chinese First Division, the stable investment, clear goals and no salary arrears, attracting the attention of many players.
Wuhan team, for example, from the second day of the Chinese New Year started the "official announcement mode", Yao Hanlin, Luo Yi, Li Chao, Wang Kai, Li Xing, Liu Yun, Jiang Minwen, Wang Zhifeng and other last year's relegation heroes have completed the renewal of the contract, and the introduction of the local striker Dong Xuesheng and the key players of the defense line Zhao Hongliu and Yang Boyu. In the fifth foreign aid selection, Wuhan team reintroduced Mbia, so that the former UEFA Cup champions of the back waist combination of "Cariso - Mbia" in Wuhan team. As for the U23 players, Wuhan has Li Xingqi, Viksel and Chen Yuhao in their squad.
