Pictured: Zhao Dayu, a famous international footballer in the 1980s and known as the "short-footed tiger", died of illness in Guangzhou at 12:30 noon on March 18, 2015, at the age of 55. For slightly older fans, the name Zhao Dayu will certainly not be unfamiliar. Zhao Dayu, who is only 1 meter 62 tall, is one of the representatives of Chinese football in the last century, and he made up for the lack of stature with strength and technology, and was affectionately called "short-footed tiger" by fans.
Pictured: An important reason why Zhao Dayu embarked on the road of football is actually his father. In other words, Zhao Dayu's father is a real football emperor, and he also knows many football coaches of the Guangdong provincial team, so obsessed that he sent his son to the road of football. For Zhao Dayu to play a good ball, Zhao Dad's family paid a lot. Zhao's father was just an ordinary bus driver at the time, and he often deliberately changed the time of his shift to night shift in order to watch his son play a game. Zhao Dayu often kicks bad shoes as a striker, and the family guarantees to help him change into at least one pair of liberation shoes every month, and also tries his best to ensure that Zhao Dayu can drink a bottle of milk every day.
Pictured: Although drinking milk every day, Zhao Dayu still only grows to 160cm (some say 162). Due to the height limitation, Zhao Dayu had to force himself to practice excellent footwork and foot strength. It is said that Zhao Dayu would tie sandbags every day to jump rope - how heavy were the sandbags? 10 kilograms! In order to improve the bouncing power. Zhao Dayu's brightest match in his life was, of course, the World Cup winner Argentina in January 1984, who beat the World Cup winner Argentina two years later at the Nehru Gold Cup in India. Zhao Dayu came on as a left-footed sweeper from Li Huajun in the last 10 minutes to help China beat the opponent 1-0.
Pictured: Many people know this paragraph, but there are some interesting things that many people don't know, after the national team won the game, it sent a piece of good news to the Chinese Football Association, but the Football Association actually couldn't believe it, doubting whether it was the Argentine youth team, until the Argentine Embassy in China sent a congratulatory message, which introduced the Argentine team, and the Chinese Football Association found that the defeat was really the genuine Argentine national team.
Pictured: Zhao Dayu's serious injury occurred in an internal teaching competition in 1986. Zhao Dayu represents the Chinese national team against the Beijing youth team. Zhao Dayu was kicked and broke his leg by Bi Sheng of Beijing in about 20 minutes of the game. At that time, the doctor's diagnosis was a complete and comminuted fracture of the tibia and fibula about ten percent of the upper part of the left leg ankle. Zhao Dayu was never able to recover from his injuries and was finally forced to retire at the age of 25. In August 1988, Zhao Dayu and his new wife traveled east to Japan to develop.
Pictured: After Zhao Dayu arrived in Japan, he became the head coach of a high school in Shizuoka Prefecture, a strong county in traditional Japanese football, and his best player should be Shinji Ono, who once played for Feyenoord, and of course, the former Hamburg "Shinei" Takahara Naotai. Zhao Also became a Japanese citizen while in Japan, and his Japanese name was Tatsuyuki Matsumoto. In Guangdong, there are two famous "principals", one is the singer Tan Yonglin, and the other is Zhao Dayu. The reason why he was called the principal was because Zhao Dayu founded yida youth football club in 1999.
Pictured: Zhao Dayu's "mentor" and former Guangdong team head coach Xian Dixiong recalled: "Zhao Dayu's basic skills are very good, and the short pass, small range coordination ability is strong, don't look at the short stature, the attack in front of the penalty area is very threatening." At that time, it was Sin Dixiong who had the unique insight to transform the pocket-sized Zhao Dayu into the team's positive printing striker. Zhao Dayu has a very bold personality, loves to drink liquor the most, and also serves as a football commentator, often working late.
Pictured: Chinese football celebrities Rong Zhixing, Chen Yiming, Peng Weiguo and others went to mourn. As Zhao Dayu's most proud disciple before his death, Guangzhou player Chen Zhizhao also specially returned to Guangzhou to send off his mentor. As a flagship figure in the history of Chinese football, Zhao Dayu has made indelible contributions to Guangdong football and Chinese football.