At the end of 1949, Chu Anping's "Observation" was republished, and he still served as the editor-in-chief.

At the same time, Li Huitang in Hong Kong received a letter from an old friend.

After leading the Chinese team to the 1948 London Olympics, Li Huitang trained in Robre, England, obtained a diploma from the FA, and became a certified international referee, so he returned to Hong Kong and founded the Chinese Football Referees Association and served as its chairman.

At the same time, the battle to clear the remnants of the Kuomintang and suppress the bandits had entered the final stage, and General He led his division south to start the important task of liberating the southwest. When the situation calmed down, Mr. He began to set up a football team - he is a sports fan and everyone knows, even during the Anti-Japanese War, he formed a basketball team in the army, and wanted to form a football team, but the conditions at that time were still unrealistic, and now he can start to do it.

The southwest region is remote, but football is quite popular at this time - in fact, if you think about the Liuzhou battle between Li Huitang and Tan Jiangbai during the Anti-Japanese War, you can also think of what the reason is.

Mr. He selected a group of cadres and soldiers from the army to form a football team, called the "combat team", but the level is not high, in a sense, this is also the predecessor of the new China national team.

The team is there, but where do you find a good coach?

In fact, who is the best coach in China now, do you need to say more!

Li Huitang's name, Mr. He also understands, known as the "King of Football" for more than 20 years, Li Huitang, not only plays football well, but also knows how to train players, and also knows the development trend of world football best - later, even Mr. He's second daughter He Xiaoming talked about Li Huitang's leadership of South China to Australia, 24 games and 31 goals.

How do I contact him? Mr. He's connections are also very extensive, and he now has Lin Shaozhou, who is very familiar with Li Huitang. It is said that Lin Shaozhou competed in the final of the 110-meter hurdles with Huang Yingjie and "Lu Poyu", and finally the three won the championship, second and third place, becoming a classic in the history of Chinese sports.

However, the whereabouts of the champion Lu Poyu are unknown, and the runner-up Lin Shaozhou is also quite bitter, and his career was almost interrupted after participating in the Olympic Games, and he once pulled a scooter in Chengdu. Mr. He saw him in the magazine after coming to the southwest, and was surprised that there was such a powerful person here! Mr. He, who cherished his talents, immediately decided to reuse Lin Shaozhou and transferred him to the sports team of the Southwest Military Region to guide the 110-meter hurdles, becoming the first professional coach of the 110-meter hurdles in New China.

Lin Shaozhou wrote a letter to Captain Li, who was far away in Hong Kong, saying that General He Long had personally hired him to be a football coach in the football team of the Southwest Military Region.

He Lao always cherishes his talents, he said, because the living standard in Hong Kong is higher than that in the southwest region, in order not to make Mr. Li's living standard drop, the amount of salary given to him is reported by himself-

How much to give, how much to give.

Li Huitang was naturally very happy to receive the letter from an old friend, and frankly speaking, Mr. He is indeed one of the few people who is truly obsessed with sports, and he is eager to seek talents. However, at this time, the mainland had just been liberated, and the southwest was not peaceful. After receiving the letter, Li Huitang hesitated and asked a friend to weigh it, but everyone did not support him to go to the southwest.

Mr. He got the news and was very sorry. However, he did not give up the idea of inviting Li Huitang, and soon the 1952 Olympics were approaching, and due to the abstention of the Indian team, the Chinese team automatically qualified for the 1952 Helsinki Olympics.

If Li Huitang takes the helm again, it will be his third consecutive Olympic Games for China. However, the Olympics involved various political reasons, although the Chinese team had already sent a letter half a year ago to participate in the Olympic Games, it did not receive an invitation from the mayor of Helsinki to participate until the day before the opening of the Olympic Games.

Don't give time to prepare at all?

But Premier Zhou said, "This trip to plant the five-star red flag in the Olympics is a victory!" ”

On July 22, the national football team re-established its flag, and the first national football team of New China was established. Mr. He selected Li Fenglou as the coach. On July 23, the Chinese sports delegation was formed, a basketball team, a football team, plus a swimmer, a total of 40 people, the head of the group is Rong Gaotang, Dong Shouyi became the commander-in-chief this time, and the basketball team became Mu Zuoyun.

is still that group of familiar faces, when it comes to 16 years ago, it is inevitable to think of Lu Poyu and Captain Li of the football team.

By the time the Chinese team arrived in Helsinki, the Olympics were halfway through and only swimmer Wu Chuanyu had time to compete in the 100m backstroke heats, leaving the rest of the competitors on the sidelines – Wu Chuanyu was the only one to participate in that Olympics.

The "miracle" of Berlin cannot be repeated.

At this time, the football match has reached the semi-final stage. Fortunately, the host country extended a hand of friendship and invited the football and basketball teams to visit Finland for a match.

On August 4, the Chinese team challenged the Finnish national team at the Palokenta Stadium in Helsinki, with 4,821 spectators in attendance. This was recorded by FIFA as the first international A-level match of New China, and since the last game, both coaches and players have changed many new faces, but the goalkeeper is still the main goalkeeper Zhang Banglun of the 1948 London Olympics.

It's a pity that the Chinese team lost 0-4 and got off to a black start.

It also seems to have a foreshadowing of the fate of the national football team in the next 70 years.

After starting from scratch, the Chinese team has a long way to go.

This year, the National Sports Commission was established, and Mr. He was naturally the best candidate for the director of the Sports Commission. The level of football has fallen to this point, and compared with the world's advanced countries, it is naturally like a fish in the throat. Mr. He's opinion is that all countries in the world basically attach importance to football, and if the level of football is not high, even if other sports are strong, they will be looked down upon. "If the three balls don't go up, I won't be blind" is his famous saying.

It's just that when he intended to invite Li Huitang to be the head coach of the national team again, and Li Huitang was also moved, in 1953, Li Huitang's unjust case of "drug possession" occurred and he was expelled from Hong Kong.

Fate is sometimes a matter of intertwining.

This year, Dai Linjing plans to retire, although he is not yet 50 years old.

The Bayi team formed the year before wanted to ask him to be the coach, after all, he was once the "second person in the world", with a high level and a great reputation, but his birth and background, the army would not allow such an alternative to enlist. Fortunately, Mr. He personally made the decision and specially approved Dai Linjing to enlist in the army, making him the head coach of the Bayi team. Dai Lin naturally redoubled his hard work to repay the kindness of his acquaintance, and in the first national football championship held in 1953, he also led the Bayi team to win the championship. Even when he was 50 miles away, his shooting and footwork were still admired by young players, after all, barbs and the like were not comparable to ordinary people, and with his master's degree, the players naturally respected him.

After he became the head coach of the national team, he started a good time for the new national football team to continue to improve - but it was a pity that he was out of the World Cup because of one less goal difference, for which he felt guilty for life, and also made Chinese football experience a long wait.