Henan Business News (Reporter Liu Kaiyin) The Fifth Member Congress of Henan Football Association was held in Zhengzhou M Hotel on the morning of March 20, the meeting deliberated the work report of the last Football Association, and elected a new Football Association Council and responsible person, Yang Nan, who is now serving as the executive committee of the Chinese Football Association, was unanimously elected as the new president. Wang Bingqi, deputy director of the Henan Provincial Sports Bureau, and Li Jiyang, director of the Provincial Ball Sports Management Center, attended the meeting, which was presided over by Xie Guochen, secretary of the Party Committee of the Provincial Ball Sports Management Center. The Chinese Football Association specially sent a congratulatory message to congratulate the convening of the meeting.
In 2016, the Fourth Member Congress of the Henan Football Association took the first step in de-administrativeization under the spirit of the policy of decoupling the relevant national industry associations from administrative organs, and a number of "outside the system" people entered the leading institutions of the Football Association. The Henan Football Association held a new conference in strict accordance with the requirements of the "five separations and five norms" and officially completed the "decoupling" reform, and the newly elected president Yang Nan and 8 vice presidents: Wang Jiaxiang, Wang Tao, Li Jinhui, Ma Jiayong, Li Lin, Deng Junxia, Liu Haiqin, Shi Yanlu and Secretary General Fan Ronghui are not in the sports administrative department. Yang Nan, who has been the general manager of Henan Jianye Club for a long time, has been a well-known "beauty boss" in domestic football many years ago, during her time at the helm of Jianye Club, Jianye Team won the runner-up of the A-B League in the 2003 season, which set the best record in the team's history at that time, and in the 2009 season, she won the third place in the Chinese Super League and qualified for the AFC Champions League, which is still the highest height in the history of Henan professional football.
After leaving the club's front-line management position, Yang Nan focused on the public welfare of football and led the Henan Football Development Foundation to devote himself to the promotion and popularization of football, aiming to "achieve more football dreams". She is also currently a member of the Executive Committee of the Chinese Football Association and the only member of the Executive Committee of the Chinese Football Association in Henan. Therefore, her election can be described as the expectation of all. After being elected, Yang Nan said: In the future, the Henan Football Association will continue to take the "Overall Plan for the Reform and Development of Chinese Football" as the guide, starting from improving the institutional system, accelerating the construction of high-quality talent teams and football venues and facilities, enriching and improving the football competition system, strengthening the development of the football industry and football cultural exchanges, etc., to promote the sustained and healthy development of Henan's football industry. It is worth mentioning that the participation of a number of Henan football celebrities also made the membership congress a "group of heroes" of Henan football: "Wang Suisheng, the godfather of Henan football", Yang Yanzhu and Zhou Yanling, representative figures of the professional football era, Song Qi and Nie Lei, who have become the backbone of the Jianye team since the early stage of professionalization, Lu Feng, Liu Xiang, Yao Bing, Zhang Miao, Wang Yujing, and former women's football international Bai Lifang, all attended the meeting. There was also a "foreign face" at the meeting site - one of the famous Romanian "three musketeers" in the Jianye team, and poulau, who is now coached by the Songshan Dragon Gate Club echelon.
The new international Wang Shangyuan was also elected as a director of the new Henan Football Association, but he was unable to attend the meeting because he went to Xi'an with the Songshan Longmen team to participate in the warm-up match. Wan Xu, director of the Provincial Sports Bureau, who was studying in Beijing and could not attend the meeting, specially congratulated the convening of the meeting by video and put forward hopes and requirements for the new Football Association: "We must deeply understand the wide influence of football, recognize the love of fans for football, is the development of football, but also the inexhaustible driving force for our good work; we must deeply understand the essence and function of the association, and do a good job while doing a good job' Five norms', to better serve the development of football in our province and the main body of the market. At the meeting on the 20th, the signing ceremony of the strategic agreement between the Henan Football Association and Carme Sporting Goods Co., Ltd. was also held. As a well-known brand of domestic football equipment, Carme has given Henan football a very large support in recent years, and with the formal formation of a strategic partnership with the Provincial Football Association, the two sides will have more comprehensive and closer cooperation in the future.
(Editors: Liu Mengge, Li Yingxuan)