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In order to end the monopoly of foreigners on football competitions in Shanghai and recover sports sovereignty, from the autumn of 1924 to 1937, the Chinese Football Federation held 13 sessions of the "Shanghai Chinese Football League", which was the first football league hosted entirely by Chinese, changing the situation that Shanghai football has always been controlled by foreigners. At first, it started from schools and gradually extended to all social strata, first some foreign-funded factories in Shanghai organized teams to participate in the league, and then workers and shop assistants in national industry and commerce also formed teams to join the league. The number of participating teams continued to increase, and by the seventh edition of the league in 1931, there were so many teams that only 56 teams were accepted for the league due to the limited number of courts, and the number remained at that level since then.

In the twelfth "Chinese League" this year, because of the addition of head coach Lu Zhuhu, Fudan University successively defeated Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai St. John's University, Jinan University (formerly in Nanjing, later moved to Shanghai, and rebuilt in Guangzhou after the founding of New China), Hujiang University, Lehua, Youyou and other strong teams, and won the Chinese League Group A championship for the second time in history.

Lu Zhuhu, the head coach of Fudan University, who single-handedly created this strong team, said that changing the name of the league to "Chinese Football Super League", that is, "Chinese Super League", would be more atmospheric and better-sounding, and it was unanimously recognized. However, the matter was finally settled with the suspension of the league after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War in 1937.

Of course, that's another story.

When Lu Zhuhu was training his student army in Shanghai, in Hong Kong, the national football team of the Berlin Olympic Games, which had already begun to take shape, arranged three open tournaments before leaving Hong Kong, and the ticket income was used as the team's travel expenses to Shanghai for training. In the first two games, the captain of the national football team, Li Huitang, did not play.

The first match was played on 16 April against the British Army and Navy in Hong Kong. The game is scheduled to be played at 5 o'clock in the afternoon at the South China Stadium in Jiashan, Hong Kong, in view of the strength of the opponent, the national team did not send all the main forces, but in order to see the style of the national team, many Hong Kong fans began to line up the mountain at 11 o'clock in the morning to wait for tickets to enter. In the end, the game ended with a 4-0 victory for the national team.

Two days later, the national team was split into two and played two consecutive matches against the "Hong Kong United", which was composed of all foreigners, as a farewell match for leaving Hong Kong.

In the first game, he came on as a substitute against Team B of the "Hong Kong United" and finally won 5:4;

In the second game, the main team played against Team A against the "Hong Kong United", and the captain of the national team, Li Huitang, also made his first appearance. When Hong Kong United Team A scored the first goal, captain Li Huitang scored three goals in a row to complete a hat trick and overtook the score in the first half, 3:1. In the second half, the offensive continued unabated, Sun Jinshun got Cao Guicheng's cross, picked the Hong Kong United defender and handed it over to Li Huitang, scored directly on goal, scored four goals in a row, and easily staged a big four, 4:1. Then Li Huitang passed a single knife to Sun Jinshun and assisted the opponent to score, 5:1.A few minutes later, Li Huitang passed Sun Jinshun, Sun Jinshun transferred to Feng Jingxiang, Feng Jingxiang handed over Cao Guicheng's cross, Sun Jinshun volleyed sideways into the net, 6:1. The dazzling offensive coordination made Hong Kong fans addicted. At the end of the game, Li Huitang scored another goal to complete the last game in Hong Kong with a score of 7:1, and he himself also handed over five goals, an assist, and a report card of instigation, and the curtain came to a perfect end.

After the match in Hong Kong, the 12 national team players who played in the front row prepared to take a boat to Shanghai for an exhibition match to raise funds for future training in Nanyang. But an undeserved omission caused an uproar, and the reputation of the national team that was loved by thousands of people fell to the bottom.

The cause was the ship that the national team took to Shanghai: Tian Long Maru.

From the word "Maru", it is clear that this is a Japanese ship. In fact, it is precisely the case that its full name is "Nippon Yusen Shipping Co., Ltd. Tatsuda Maru". When the news came out, it immediately triggered extreme disgust and fierce protests among all Hong Kong fans. Subsequently, major newspapers also began to vigorously criticize this "scandal".

On April 21, the "Hong Kong Business Daily" scolded the national team bloody:

"Can't we take our own China Merchants steamship, but we have to sit on a Japanese ship!"

"I have lost the face of the Chinese nation!"

"Before you go abroad, you will be disgraced!"

Although China and Japan have not yet started a full-scale war, the actions of the Japanese in the three eastern provinces have aroused the common hatred and hatred of the people of the whole country, including the people of Hong Kong.

After the Hong Kong Chinese Association saw the report, it hurriedly changed the Japanese ship to the German steamer "Boston", and the members of the national football team also quickly stood up to apologize to all walks of life and all the people - it was also because of this incident that Li Huitang, who was the captain, dragged down Li Huitang and made him have to postpone his trip to Shanghai.

In fact, there is also a trace of helplessness behind this matter:

Because Japanese ships were cheaper than German ships, they could save a little money on the journey......

However, since the Chinese national men's football team first participated in the Far Eastern Games in 1913, it has always been regarded as the pearl of the palm by the people, and has almost never been criticized even once, and this only "ruthlessness" can be regarded as a miracle in the first half of the 20th century.

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On April 22, 12 players of the national team arrived in Shanghai first. Li Huitang also on April 23, after solving the "Tian Long Maru" turmoil, arrived in Shanghai by plane one day late, other players have their own affairs to deal with, and there are also "Lu Zhuhu" who have not participated in the selection tournament with a "wild card", and will go to Shanghai one after another to meet with the big army. Because of the delay of the "scandal" of the national team, Li Huitang, who hurried to Shanghai, was unable to contact his little brother Lu Zhuhu again, because on April 25, the national team was going to play against the Western Union powerhouse "Portuguese" at Shenyuan Stadium.

The game will be played at 3 p.m. On the day of the game, Lu Zhuhu and a group of his Fudan students arrived at the Shenyuan Stadium early, waiting to watch the first game in Shanghai since the national team became an army. Shenyuan Stadium is a simple stadium with a capacity of 20,000 spectators, which was rebuilt from the former "Shenyuan Dog Race". Interestingly, several major football stadiums in Shanghai where football leagues are held, Yiyuan and Shenyuan, are all rebuilt from the previous dog runs.

Shenyuan Stadium is a bit smaller than the Shanghai Municipal Stadium built for the "Sixth National Games", but the small stadium does not affect the enthusiasm of the fans at all. According to Lu Zhuhu's visual inspection, it is estimated that there will be no less than 30,000 spectators - after all, there is a thing called "standing ticket" in the stadium at this time (according to the ticket sales statistics after the game, there are indeed as many as 30,000 people who bought tickets to watch this game. ）

Compared with the situation when he was in Fudan when 1,000 people entered to watch, the influence of the national team is really not covered! Moreover, this is their first battle in Shanghai!

Oh, not "them".

Yes – "we".

Lu Zhuhu corrected himself.