Mr. He's love for sports is as passionate as his passion for life, and soccer and basketball have become an unquenchable flame in his heart.
At the time of the founding of New China, Mr. He took charge of the sports department and incorporated the iron rules of the army into the arena. His militarized management and strict daily discipline led to outstanding results in table tennis and badminton.
However, the men's soccer team has not been able to break through the bottleneck, to which Mr. He has devoted his efforts, trying to improve the training in order to enhance the performance.
Under his leadership, the Chinese men's soccer team made a qualitative leap forward: in 1958, it drew with the Soviet Union, the Olympic gold medalist, and in 1959, it defeated the Hungarian national second team. In 1959, the Chinese men's soccer team defeated the Hungarian second team. In a friendly soccer match between China, Korea, Vietnam and Mongolia, the Chinese men's soccer team won the championship.
However, as the core players aged, the Chinese men's soccer team's performance declined, and in 1964, the team lost 0-2 against the visiting Pakistani team, despite playing at home, in a dismal scenario.
Mr. He is furious about this event, and the fans' disappointment with the men's soccer team rises. In order to find out the root cause of the failure, Mr. He personally goes into the national soccer team and finds that the players have no fighting spirit at all, so he decisively disbanded the team and sent the players to the army for military training.
The athletes reaped the benefits of military life. After the National Games, the Chinese national soccer team, with young players as its mainstay, regrouped, and at the end of 1966, they made a brilliant comeback by winning second place in the Asian Emerging Forces Games.
