Liaoning basketball, a powerful force to be reckoned with in the Chinese basketball world, has always rubbed shoulders with the top of basketball. According to statistics, prior to the 2017-18 season, Liaoning had advanced six times to the
finals (of a competition)
The opponents have ranged from Bayi, Guangdong Hongyuan, to Beijing Shougang, to Sichuan, each time
finals (of a competition)
The opponents are changing, but Liaoning is always so close to the championship.
After Song Kai took over, he responded positively to the national strategy of "revitalizing the three major balls", and he once proposed: "From now on, we have to work boldly for three years, work pragmatically for three years, and strive to realize the revitalization and development of Liaoning's 'three major balls'. The new breakthrough in the revitalization and development of the 'three big balls' in Liaoning."
The 2017-18 season finally saw the Liaoning team blossom as they went 4-0 and swept their first-ever
finals (of a competition)
of Guangsha, successfully lifted the first championship trophy in the team's history.
In the ensuing years, the gap has gradually narrowed in the exciting rivalry between Liao and Guangdong, even though Liaoning lost twice to Guangdong at one point. In the 21-22 season, Liaoning swept Guangdong 3-0 in the semifinals to reach the finals, and defeated Guangsha again 4-0 in the finals to win the championship.
In the 22-23 season, Liaoning entered the playoffs with a third place finish in the league. In the semifinals, Guo Allen's injury gave Guangsha a 2-1 advantage at one point, but Liaoning withstood the pressure and eventually advanced with a thrilling 3-2 record.
go into
finals (of a competition)
After that, Liaoning took advantage of Zhejiang's lack of experience and the absence of core player Wu Qian due to injury, and eventually swept their opponents by a score of 4-0 to successfully defend their title.
In addition, the Liaoning Men's Basketball Team has won the National Games twice. Some people view these honors separately from Song Kai, which is obviously untrue. A current Liaoning player said in an interview, "Liao Basketball is Song's 'handful of projects,' no doubt about it."
Song Kai has left a solid foundation for Liaoning sports to promote the development of the three major balls. 2021, Liaoning Province released the sports and education integration revitalization of the development of Liaoning "three major balls" implementation opinions. In January of this year, the Liaoning Provincial Sports Bureau, after thorough research, formed a report on the revitalization and development of the three major balls in Liaoning Province.
Song Kai had set an ambitious goal: "To build a provincial sports team of 'three major balls' with excellent technology, physical fitness and style - Liaoning men's basketball team to continue to maintain its dominance, Liaoning women's volleyball team to return to the top three in the league, Liaoning women's soccer team to compete for a medal at the National Games to compete for medals, men's volleyball and women's basketball teams to return to the top eight in the league."
In addition to the three major sports, Song Kai has also achieved good results in other sports. As one of the main leaders of the Liaoning delegation, he led the group to participate in the 2017 and 2021 National Games.In the 2021 Shaanxi National Games, the Liaoning delegation won 22 gold medals, 16 silver medals, and 22 bronze medals, totaling 60 medals, of which the number of gold medals exceeded the 21 gold medals in the 2017 Tianjin National Games.
[Reform of the integration of sports and education has been effective]
During Song Kai's tenure as director of the Liaoning Sports Bureau, he has repeatedly emphasized the need to further integrate resources, scientifically formulate programs for the integration of sports and education, establish a sound coordination mechanism for the integration of sports and education, and make every effort to solve bottlenecks and promote the integration of sports and education for high-quality development.
In the term of office, headed by Song Kai, Liaoning Provincial Sports Bureau is very concerned about the combination of sports and education, to promote the Liaoning Sansheng Club and Shenyang No.2 Middle School work closely together, the Sports Bureau, the Basketball Association has sent representatives to visit Shenyang No.2 Middle School, Liaoning Men's Basketball team has visited the Shenyang No.2 Middle School, Shenyang 31 Middle School and other colleges and universities, and sent a youth team to exchange and learn, to provide valuable advice and practical support for the team's construction.
The combination of sports and education for young people to open up the upward channel, Shenyang No. 2 Middle School basketball team has sent to the Liaoning team Liu Yanyu, Ren Zhuhang, Li Huyi, Zhang Junhao and other four players, of which Liu Yanyu has become the main player of the first team. Zhang Junhao also by virtue of the outstanding performance during the school was selected for the national U18 youth boys basketball team, for the country, won the third place in the Asian Youth Championship honors.
Prior to this, the Guangsha team set up a branch in Shenyang, Guangdong, Shenzhen, Zhejiang, Tongxi and other teams have also found a number of excellent seedlings in Shenyang. In the face of the plight, the combination of physical education in-depth promotion gradually reversed the Liaoning men's basketball "lack of youth training" situation, the Liaoning men's basketball team in a timely manner to dredge up the upward channel of fresh blood, which is not only conducive to enhance the overall strength of the team, the selection of talent, revitalization of the three big ball also has great benefits. In this, Song Kai's performance can not be ignored.
"Ignoring Liao Football's unpaid wages.
Some fans also said that despite the repeated emphasis on the "three big balls", but Song Kai really contributed only to the field of basketball, in the field of soccer really do not have a bright resume.
This is not a false statement. Against the backdrop of the Liaoning men's basketball team's strong rise and the creation of a dynasty, Liaoning soccer is going through a cold period.
On May 23, 2020, the Chinese Football Association (CFA) officially announced that it had canceled the registration qualifications of 11 clubs, including Liaozhu, which also meant that Liaozhu officially withdrew from the Chinese professional league. Despite Liaozhu's withdrawal from the professional league, a series of legacy issues have not been resolved, including unpaid wages of up to about 40 million yuan.
In response to this issue, the Liao football players have repeatedly voiced, Liaoning Provincial Football Association has also issued a letter of supervision to the Liao football club on the proper handling of salary arrears and other issues, requiring the club to properly deal with the team's salary arrears and the subsequent resettlement of the issue, while the Liaoning Provincial Sports Bureau relevant departments will always track, the whole process of supervision and guidance work.
Despite the attention of many parties, the issue of Liaozhu's unpaid wages has not been sustained.On May 25, Song Kai, director of the Liaoning Provincial Sports Bureau, promised to give Liaozhu's players an answer this week and promised to assist the players in contacting the Hongyun Club to solve the unpaid wages and other problems after the team's dissolution.
However, until June 4, the Sports Bureau still did not reply to the Liao football players. Liao football players had no choice but to come to the Liaoning Provincial Sports Bureau. Unfortunately, the staff said Song Kai went out to dinner and did not return, unable to meet, failed to get a reply to the Liao football players can only leave the Sports Bureau, to seek help from other organizations.
On June 8, former Liao football players, ladder coaches, and some of the players' parents came to the Liaoning Provincial Sports Bureau again to inquire about unpaid wages. Unfortunately, Song Kai still did not appear, waiting for a few hours, the Sports Bureau even called the police, to the Liao football players deducted a "crowd trouble" hat.
In this regard, Liaozhu players Sang Yifei said on social media: "Alarm hahaha, we want to sweat money natural and rightful, your government promised a week to help us solve the problem! Now two weeks, the leaders just hide and don't see us, and then call the police to say that we gather a crowd! You guys are really a disgrace!"
[After hitting the man and awarding the flag, Song Kai's clashes with Liaozhu continue]
After Liaozhu withdrew from the professional league, Liaoning Provincial Sports Bureau in Shenyang City Olympic Sports Center to Liaoning Shenyang City Football Club awarded the "new Liaozhu" flag, hoping that this new army of the Central League should shoulder the mission of reviving Liao Shen soccer.
In the face of the internal and external problems of the Liao Football, the Sports Bureau has no plan to save it, but hope to re-establish a new Liao Football, that only in this way can we expect the health of Liaoning soccer to continue. Fans are mostly opposed to this, believing that the two teams should not be forcibly equated with each other, and the public pressure faced by Song Kai can be seen.
Who knows a wave is not yet calm, before the flag ceremony, there are "old Liaozhu" players and players' families to the Liaoning Provincial Sports Bureau, hoping to "new Liaozhu" appeared today, to solve the "old Liaozhu" problem. The problem of "old Liaozhu".
During the exchange, there was a heated confrontation between the two sides, and Song Kai even struck the videographer's cell phone, making the scene very chaotic at one point.
After the incident, Sang Yifei posted a sarcastic message on social media, "After beating up the Liaozhu players, you're giving the new Liaozhu the flag! Definitely a 'good director of the people'."
[No shelf, no preaching, this is the Song Kai you don't know]
Chinese soccer is undergoing a fierce anti-corruption storm, and even Du Zhaocai, the deputy director of the State General Administration of Sports, has been arrested. In such an eventful time, the new chairman of the Football Association must have the attributes of a "clean official", or else it will be difficult to bring a new face to the tainted Association.
Song Kai's resume, regardless of its ability to lead Chinese soccer out of the predicament, at least from the point of view of the style of action, Song Kai and the current anti-corruption storm in the football world has a few similarities. As early as 2005, soccer newspaper reported that the then deputy director of the Liaoning Provincial Sports Bureau of Song Kai for the many chaotic phenomena of the Chinese soccer professional league, and the then full-time vice chairman of the CFA Yan Shiduo had a number of exchanges, in the rectification of the league environment, Song Kai insisted on the "chaotic world with the heavy" approach, treating some of the nature of the serious disciplinary actions will not be lenient. In the issue of rectifying the league environment, Song Kai insisted on the method of "applying heavy rules in a chaotic world" and treated some serious disciplinary behaviors with no mercy.
Elected chairman of the Football Association, Song Kai also mentioned in his speech many times soccer corruption, said to learn from the deep lessons of systemic, collapsing corruption in the field of soccer, resolutely abandon the idea of quick success and short-term profits, and be prepared for a long and hard struggle. These remarks undoubtedly hit the nail on the head, the rush to profit is the stubborn disease of Chinese soccer, only to grasp the reform in practice, to solve the problem from the root, in order to find a good medicine to break the situation.
According to the blogger "Li Ji" recalls, Song Kai "did not have any frame, food, drink and clothing are not picky, speak politely, want to talk about what to talk about", business trips, but also sat with them in the economy class, in the CFA to familiarize themselves with the work of the Association, he has also made use of his spare time many times and the Association of Staff together with the field to play soccer. Such a "grounded" chairman of the CFA, for the current Chinese soccer is experiencing turbulence, undoubtedly released the return of pragmatic signals, as Song Kai himself said:
"The CFA will be more united, work harder, be more open, be more pure, be more courageous, sink its teeth into it, and step by step promote the reform and development of Chinese soccer to a new level."
[Conclusion]
Since November 1998, Song Kai has long been in charge of, presided over the work of Liaoning such a strong sports province, the ability to grasp the sports performance has been fully embodied, the Liaoning men's basketball team triple crown greatness is the best proof.
Of course, the fans' concerns are fully justified. Although Song Kai has had a lot of dealings with soccer, he also has some negative information, and I'm afraid it's still unknown what the road ahead will be for this new FA president.
Every new chairman of the Football Association will always be talking, but fans have long been accustomed to see the beautiful words, we do not need a lofty idealist, but also need a step-by-step pragmatist, in the end, back to the old way, or break the boat to create a new phenomenon, I am afraid that we have to wait for the time to test.
