Thanks to Academician Shi Yuanchun, Then President of Beijing Agricultural University, Professor Cao Xihuan and Japanese friend Mr. Taiyuki Morimoto, on December 15, 1990, Chinese mainland's first local English football team was established at China Agricultural University.
In 2003, the 15-a-side national team trained in Kunming
Today is her 26th birthday, and in the happy birthday wishes and the cheers of Chinese rugby, I have some negative emotions that are difficult to sustain.
In 2003, the national team defeated Kazakhstan in Beijing
I don't want to dwell on the glory of the University of Agriculture in the past two decades, along with the bronze medal at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, the gold medal at the 2014 Incheon Asian Games and other brief "highlight moments" of Chinese rugby, and how closely the fates of the two have been.
Bronze medal at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha
2006 Hong Kong Sevensome
At present, with the Shandong team winning the gold medal of the National Games, the 2015 World Cup in England sold 2.48 million tickets, Fiji and Australia's Rio winning the championship, and Ali's high-profile voice, Chinese rugby seems to have entered a new era of rapid development with world rugby.
In 2007, the 15-a-side national team defeated Malaysia in Beijing
My two mother teams, the People's Liberation Army, are in the midst of a tide of military reform, and the dismissal is no longer a problem, the question is when the order will land. Under the circumstance that it is still unclear where the comrades-in-arms will go and stay, it will be difficult to form effective combat effectiveness, and the southern Guangdong faction has withered away for a long time.
In 2001, the People's Liberation Army competed in the Hong Kong top league
The other parent team, Nongda, used to have only a dozen players scattered on the rugby field and the magpie jun who did not abandon. The standing goals and stone sculptures seem to remind people that the brief glory of Chinese rugby has been witnessed here.
Next year's Tianjin National Games, another four years. The difference is that this time there will be no more "immediate family members" of the agricultural university and the military.
The growing number of young faces should have been comforting. However, the Japanese men's team has already beaten South Africa and New Zealand (7-a-side), the Hong Kong women's team has reached the 2017 World Cup, and our new generation of rugby players has almost disappeared on the international stage.
I have forgotten when the Chinese men's team last participated in the Hong Kong seven-a-side system, not to mention that the Hong Kong FA ten-a-man system, which has been participated in by the military and the agricultural defecation every year since the 1990s, has already closed the door to us.
The Liberation Army participates in the FA ten-member system
The slogan of an empty Chinese pro-fifteen-a-side pro league is below the national base of less than 30 strikers.
In 2015, the 15-a-side national team participated in the Asian Five Nations Tournament
What are we going to do? Where is the successor to Chinese rugby? I believe that I am not the only Chinese rugby player who is struggling to understand.