introduction
When it comes to the Chinese men's football team, many people are shaking their heads and sighing, or hating the iron and steel pounding their chests and stomping their feet, the performance of the national football team in international competitions in the past ten years has made many Chinese who love football feel that their faces are dull, and I am full of talents in a big country, and I can't make up a football team that can play the World Cup. In this year's top 12 matches, the results of the national football team are 1 win, 2 draws and 3 losses, which is even less than some small countries that have just established football teams for a few years. People can't help but wonder, what happened to the national football team? I can't believe it, this is a team that was founded in 1924 and joined FIFA 90 years ago.
01
Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the development of sports has become a center of gravity of the country, together with other cultural undertakings. Physical activities can improve people's physical fitness, if you can't even participate in basic sports, let alone carry a gun in a time of danger. At that time, the soldiers in the army had just experienced countless wars of bloody killing of the enemy, and after the founding of the country, there was no place to show their physical strength. The leaders of the country thought about it and decided to vigorously carry out sports activities, which not only allowed the soldiers to have venting activities, but also let their qualities not be consumed by idleness, but also very interesting and able to exercise people's thinking ability.
At that time, He Long first formed a football team in the southwest region under his jurisdiction, but the players from the army had no professional training, and the team was self-elusive, and the ball had not been played very well. He Long thought, this is the same as marching and fighting, how can a commander do it without a commander? So he thought about hiring a great coach for this football team. At that time, the first candidate He Long wanted was Li Huitang, the king of Guangdong football. Li Huitang began playing football at the age of 17, was the first person in China to qualify as an international referee, and was also a hot ball king at that time. Unfortunately, Lee Wai Tong, who lives in Hong Kong and was invited by the Taipei team, turned down He Long. There was no way, He Long could only turn his eyes to the equally famous Tan Fuzhen and invite him to run the national football team.
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With experience in forming a national football team, He Long established a badminton and table tennis team in one go, and personally served as the director of the Central Sports Committee, determined to promote China's sports cause and let the international community see the ability of Chinese in sports. He Long personally took care of the formation, training and ideological construction of the team members, as a leader with a military background, he treated the players with the requirements of the soldiers, as long as they did not die, they would practice to the death. At the same time, he also has an open concept, allowing players to go abroad to exchange advanced experiences. Under his efforts, the national football team finally made some progress in international competitions. In 1959, the national football team achieved a good result in the Sino-Soviet-Hungarian confrontation, and won the championship in the subsequent four-country friendly match, when the national football team in the Asian region can be described as a strong team, with few opponents.
However, no one expected that such excellent results were only a flash in the pan. After the 1960s, the national football team began to decline, losing many important games and occasionally winning one. In the 63-year XinxingHui, He Long attached great importance to it and lectured the players before the game: If the top three in this competition cannot be won, the team will be disbanded on the spot and re-engaged! Although in the end, the national football team only won the fourth place, but in view of the spirit shown by the athletes and the performance of hard work, He Long finally could not bear to disband the team. But in 1964, he lost to Pakistan, which was average, and did not qualify in the group stage, which was a great shame. Such results made He Long very angry, decided to disband and reorganize, and made various changes to the rules and regulations of the team. He Long said: "If the national football team is such a ghost in my hands, I have no face to go down to see Marx!" ”
epilogue
Feeling He Long's dedication to China's sports cause, Changsha Stadium was renamed He Long Stadium in 1987, and to this day, nearby residents like to go to the gymnasium to play football and badminton. No one's life and career is smooth sailing, we must have the spirit of not being afraid of losing and not admitting defeat, although the national football team is still not optimistic about the level, but I believe that one day, they can be brilliant again.