Chapter 53 Chinese Football (I)

"Audience friends, audience friends, what you see now is the scene of hundreds of thousands of Chinese fans celebrating together outside Shanghai Hongkou Stadium," Duan Xuan held the microphone in the middle of the TV and was commenting passionately: "It has been more than an hour since the end of the game, but the fans still have no signs of leaving, they are celebrating the victory of this game, celebrating the first time in the history of the Chinese team to reach the World Cup final!" ”

Behind Duan Xuan were rows of red figures under the night, cars honking loudly, and fans with Chinese flags painted on their faces leaning out, waving the five-star red flag in their hands, or blowing the fan horns in their hands loudly, a cheerful atmosphere.

"I can't believe it, I feel like I'm in a dream!" A fan of some age couldn't stop wiping the tears from the corners of his eyes with his hands when he was interviewed: "This, in the past few years, I really can't believe that Chinese football has come to this point, all this feels like a dream, or you pinch me, don't pinch me too hard, I'm afraid it's really a dream, what if you wake me up?" ”

Duan Xuan was silent for a while, and the director switched the picture to the studio of the central station in time, and Huang Jianxiang and the beautiful Shen Bing took over the conversation.

"Shen Bing, I bet with you, Duan Xuan must have cried just now." Huang Jianxiang said, Shen Bing nodded again and again, and took over: "I wanted to cry just now, really, although as the commentator of the Central Station, it stands to reason that we should stand in a very, very objective perspective to explain each game and look at the results of each game, but this year's World Cup is different, really different." ”

Huang Jianxiang from the middle interface: "This year's World Cup has our Chinese team, and it has gone all the way. ”

"Yes!" Shen Bing immediately agreed: "We are commentators, but we are also fans of our country, what the fan said just now really touched me too much, it is really like a dream, since Ling Feng appeared, the whole Chinese football has been different immediately, and I am not afraid to expose the shortcomings, really, two years before Ling Feng returned to China, Chinese football really fell to the lowest point in history, but since he came back, a series of reforms, a series of honors have followed, these are the honors we usually look up to......"

"Yes, it's like World Footballer of the Year, the European Ballon d'Or, and the champions of Europe's top five leagues."

"That's right, when we talked about these honors before, we never thought that one day these honors could be linked to Chinese, when we talked about the World Cup, we were all talking about Brazil, Italy, Germany, these world powerhouses, and the names we often say in our mouths are Maradona, the Dutch Three Musketeers, Baggio...... These world's top names. ”

"Yes, yes," Huang Jianxiang said with a smile: "It's really the same as a dream, the last sentence of the fan, you pinch me, but don't pinch me too hard, I want to cry when I hear this sentence, is it easy for Chinese fans, we finally got these honors, we all think we are dreaming, even if we are dreaming, then just keep doing it!" ”

The conversation between the two hosts made the fans with a little bit of seniority full of emotion, indeed, the Chinese team has come to this point, it is really like a dream, the fans are afraid that they will wake up from the dream, and then everything will be over, everything, all will disappear.

Even the players of the national team, like Hao Haidong, have himself woken up in a dream several times, and then cried bitterly at the pile of photos representing honor, this feeling can only be deeply experienced by fans who have experienced the ups and downs of Chinese football.

"When interviewing Ling Feng, he said that if Chinese football wants to really rise, it can't be hidden and pinched, so when we did this World Cup special program, we especially did a special review of Chinese football in the past 60 years.

Shen Bing also said: "In fact, the professional league of any country, from the beginning of development, is always very difficult, even including the World Cup, at the beginning of the development is also very difficult, but for history, we should face it squarely, instead of saying, we only report the good, not the bad." ”

Huang Jianxiang said: "Well, in the next time, please watch the fans in front of the TV to watch this special program of the World Cup we produced - Chinese football." ”

The picture shifted to a series of black-and-white influences, and Liu Jianhong's voice sounded very ethereal.

"The first national football competition of the People's Republic of China was held in Tianjin in 1951, mainly for the purpose of selecting the first Chinese national team. There are eight teams participating in the competition, namely the six administrative teams of Northeast China, North China, East China, Central South, Northwest and Southwest, as well as the People's Liberation Army and Railway teams. In the end, the Northeast team, the East China team, and the People's Liberation Army team won the top three.

That competition has this very important significance, the first Chinese national team was selected, and the results of this national team are very dismal, in the competition to Eastern Europe with a huge score of 1:17 and 1:9 lost to the Czech Republic and Bulgaria respectively, that is the first contact between new Chinese football and the outside world.

In 1954, China did not participate in the World Cup, after that, the Chinese national team at that time and the world powerhouse at that time, the second place in the World Cup Hungarian team played three warm-up matches, Hungary was swept the entire world football under the leadership of Puskas at that time, China played three consecutive games with the scores of 0:2, 0:8 and 0:5, the Hungarian team was actually a Hungarian mixed team, there were not many big players in the team, but after this game, the Chinese team made the decision to study abroad for the first time in history.

This reminds us of the story of the Jianlibao team going to Brazil to study abroad a few years ago, and Ling Feng returning to China to take people to study abroad, but the nature of the two is different, at that time Chinese football was just starting, everything was still very backward, and the purpose of going abroad was to learn from the advanced experience of others.

It can be said that the significance of this overseas operation is far above the Jianlibao team's going abroad, and it can even be compared with Ling Feng taking people abroad.

Zhang Junxiu, Chen Jialiang, Sun Baorong, Cong Chunyu, Sun Wuyun, Zhang Jingtian, Zeng Xuelin and others who went abroad at that time became the backbone of Chinese football in the next few decades, which is of great significance.

In 1954, the youth team went to Hungary and received the personal instructions of Premier Zhou, which shows the importance of the party and the country. Of course, the young republic paid the price, and in the words of the leader Curlen, each of them cost a year the fruit of a year's hard work of thousands of peasants.

In the 1958 World Cup, the Chinese team won one win, one draw and one loss in three games with Indonesia in the group stage, failed to qualify for the group, and failed to qualify for the World Cup for the first time.

However, soon after, due to the two China incidents created by some people with ulterior motives in the international community, China's sports circles broke off contact with most international sports organizations, including FIFA, which delayed China's second impact on the World Cup for 20 years.

In 1974, the AFC held a meeting in Tehran and confirmed that the Chinese Football Association was a full member of the federation, which was the first step for Chinese football to return to world football.

In 1977, there was one province in China that many old fans will never forget, that is, the visit of the American Cosmos team to China. ”

The shadows of some people appeared on the screen, and these people are familiar to fans around the world!

"The U.S. Cosmos team is an all-star team, and the team has Pele, Beckenbauer, Kinalia, Alberto and other world-class stars, when the Cosmos and the national team played two games, the first game was a 0:0 draw, the second game was won by the Chinese team 2:1, and Pele scored the only goal of the away team.

The football king Pele told the media after the game that China is very close to the World Cup, but Uncle Pei's words do have a wonderful magic, and the curse of Chinese football in the next 20 years will start from this moment? ”

After listening to the translator's words, the bay crow grew up in front of the TV, but he didn't expect his curse to be so powerful......

"The first Italian Serie A team to visit China was Inter Milan in 1978. But at that time, we were closed for a long time, and even football professionals did not know about the famous Milan, so the impact of their visit was far less than that of AC Milan, Sampdoria and other teams now.

Inter Milan did not ask for any appearance fees at the time, and they played two games against China in Beijing and Hangzhou, both of which ended in a 1-1 draw. ”

"Hmm......" Ling Feng held his chin: "I don't even know about this matter, alas, tsk, I have to give Moratti some benefits when I go back, I didn't expect Inter's predecessors to be so high-spirited!" ”

On October 13, 1979, the FIFA Executive Committee passed a resolution to re-admit the Chinese Football Association as a member, and since then, China has returned to the world football family.

The first major tournament after Chinese football returned to international football was the football qualifiers for the XXII Olympic Games in 1980, but the Chinese team lost to the weak Singapore team in the group stage and failed to qualify.

At the end of 1980, Su Yongshun led the Chinese team to participate in the 12th World Cup Asian Region Qualifiers, which was the first time in Chinese football. But the Chinese team was plotted and finally lost.

At that time, the Chinese team had basically determined to qualify, because as long as the Saudi team did not lose to the New Zealand team by a large score in the last game, then the World Cup ticket was an ironclad thing, but the Asian powerhouse Saudi Arabia lost the game 0:5, as for whether they released the water We are difficult to judge, but in the Asian Cup final at the end of 96, what the Saudis did made us see that this bad atmosphere on the field should not be said to be able to form in a short period of time......"

In the official program broadcast by CCTV, there are words that make such a statement to other countries, which is absolutely impossible, but now it is different, the Saudi team is not even a vegetable in front of Chinese football, and it is scolded and scolded, what do you want to do?

"The fans gave the national team the greatest forgiveness for failing to qualify for that World Cup, because the fans all know that it is not that the national team is not competitive, but that someone is plotting, and after that World Cup, the slogan of rushing out of Asia and going to the world resounded throughout the country.

In 1985, the Chinese football team coached by Zeng Xuelin participated in the Nehru Gold Cup in India.

In this tournament, the Argentine national team sent all the main players except Maradona and Bruchaga to play. In the second half of the battle between China and Afghanistan,

"Bantam" Zhao Dayu's long-range shot gave China a 1-0 victory over the World Cup winners the following year.

The result of the match shocked the Argentines and the country's football news called it 'the darkest day in the history of Argentine football'".

Lao Ma bit his cigar very angrily: "That's because Lao Tzu is not ......"

But in the World Cup qualifiers of the same year, the Chinese team unexpectedly lost 1:2 to the Hong Kong team and failed to qualify. This led to the "5.19" incident. ”

The background music, which was still cheerful, became muffled, and the colorful picture became pale and bleak.

On the evening of May 19, 1985, in the last group stage of the World Cup qualifiers, the Chinese team faced the Hong Kong, China team at the Workers' Stadium.

At that time, the Chinese team was in a group with Hong Kong, Macau, China and Brunei, and it was almost a natural thing to qualify from the group.

The situation in the last game is that you can qualify with a draw, which is an easy task for the Chinese team, which has just won the runner-up of the Asian Cup and has outstanding players such as Jia Xiuquan and Tang Yaodong in the team.

Head coach Zeng Xuelin's opinion is to win the draw, but the opinion of the advisory group of more than 20 football associations is: 'To win this game openly, less than 2:0 is a failure!' ’

The mentality of the Chinese team was chaotic, and they began to launch a fierce attack from the beginning, attacking the opponent's door again and again, but the Hong Kong team played very cunningly, and in the end, the Chinese team lost 1:2.

Speaking of this, we have to sigh at Ling Feng's current vigorous and resolute approach, no matter what it is, we have to admit that in China, there is always a group of people who don't understand anything but like to point fingers, the team is the army, and there can only be one voice! ”

The players of the Chinese team who returned to the hotel early collectively scolded, for these things, they only heard about it, and did not know the detailed content, and now when they heard that someone was pointing fingers in the back like this, they were immediately furious, Ling Feng even kicked over the sofa and scolded loudly: "In other words, it is Lao Tzu, which guy who doesn't know how to ball dares to point fingers in front of Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu castrated him alive with nail scissors!" ”