On December 25, 2005, the 61-year-old Xu Genbao let go of another dream: the Shanghai East Asia Football Club, which was formed with the players of the Genbao base as the team, was officially established, and he brought 14-year-old Wu Lei, Yan Junling and 15-year-old Wang Shenchao and Cai Huikang to write the legend of "ten years of grinding a sword".
On December 25, 2021, the official Weibo of Shanghai Harbor Football Club posted: "Shanghai Harbor will start again at the age of 16". For the first time in history, Shanghai Harbour officially confirmed the club's birthday, which is the registration date of the predecessor Shanghai East Asian Club: December 25, 2005.
The road is blue to open up the mountain forest. Wu Lei, Yan Junling and other international footballers, on this day, have forwarded this Weibo and sent birthday wishes. The Shanghai Harbour Club set up a special fund in the Shanghai Charity Foundation to celebrate the 16th birthday in this special way and promote the concept of public welfare.
Genbao has played on the piano to pay tribute to sixteen years
In the past few weeks, every Monday night, Five Star Sports's "Five Star Football" program has exclusively launched the Shanghai Harbor documentary series "My Growth and Me", with the theme prefix of "Sixteen Years of Positive Youth". International footballers Wu Lei, Yan Junling, Wang Shenchao and other Genbao disciples, media personalities and fan representatives, who had just represented the national football team in the World Preliminary Tournament, all participated in the program recording.
The five-episode documentary "My Growth and Me" tells the story of xu Genbao, the founder of the club, and his disciples who worked hard for Chinese football and Shanghai football. The soldiers' real dream of "winning a championship for the city of Shanghai" came after SIPG acquired a 100% stake in Shanghai East Asia Football Club at the end of 2014.
In the 2018 season, Shanghai Harbor relied on the strong offensive strength of Wu Lei, Oscar, Elkeson and Hulk to finally help the city of Shanghai win the first Chinese Super League championship in history. In 2021, under the requirements of the Chinese Football Association's "neutral name", SIPG club changed its name to "Shanghai Seaport".
Although the names of the team and the club have changed, after SIPG acquired 100% of the equity of Shanghai East Asia, the industrial and commercial tax number of the club as the main body of the market has never changed, and the registered place has always been on Chongming Island, and yan Junling, Wang Shenchao, Cai Huikang and other members of the first phase of Chongming Island have been playing in the same team for 16 consecutive years.
Choosing a city to grow old, encountering a person with a white head - a professional football arena that has been disturbed, it is common to transfer and jump jobs, but some "old ministers" in the Shanghai harbor team, such as Yan Junling, Wang Shenchao, Cai Huikang, etc., may be expected to be like Maldini's "loyal soul": only play one team in life, and only love one city in life.
In the hearts of many Shanghai fans and harbor fans, the founder of this team and this club has always been Xu Genbao. On December 25, Xu Genbao also played the piano song of "The Last Waltz" played by himself, with pictures of the team's participation in the Chinese Second Division, the Chinese First Division, the Chinese Super League and the AFC Champions League. For this team, this club and even Shanghai football, what really remains unchanged is the spirit of Genbao, the football context behind the harbor culture, the spirit of the city and the historical heritage.
The harbour commemorates the sixteenth anniversary with a charitable foundation
During this time, The Shanghai Harbor team coached by Lyco is competing in the second stage of the Chinese Super League in Guangzhou. Due to injury reasons, physical fatigue, etc., Harbor against Shandong Taishan and Guangzhou two strong teams, regret to pass by the win. Even so, the players who are busy preparing for the league still send warm wishes to the club's 16th birthday.
Goalkeeper Yan Junling left a message on social media: "Sixteen years of wind and rain in the same boat we have walked together, and in the days to come we continue to move forward together." Shanghai Seaport departs again at the age of 16. As the only Chinese player to play in the five major leagues in Europe, Wu Lei's blessing is sincere: "Looking back on the experience and precipitation in time, we have enough experience to grow." I believe that the future will be better! 16 years of youth, happy birthday! ”
On this day, Harbor Club people, staff, young players, media and fan representatives appeared in the lobby on the first floor of the Shanghai Charity Foundation. In addition to traditional programs such as cake cutting, a new concept of "celebrating birthdays" has been introduced: the establishment of "Shanghai Seaport Annual Ring" targeted funds.
The 16-year-old Harbor Club, the first donation figure injected into the "annual ring" targeted funds this time is 160,000 yuan, from the sincerity of the club's coaches, staff and so on. It is reported that on December 25 every year in the future, Harbor Club will inject the same amount of love money (in units of 10,000 yuan) with the same age number as the team. It is reported that the "Shanghai Harbor Annual Ring" directional funds are mainly used for poverty alleviation, poverty alleviation and dream fulfillment of individual young people in Shanghai, and the club hopes to bring more warmth to those in need and continue to transmit the "red upward power".
In addition to playing football, you must assume social responsibility
It is worth mentioning that Lu Kun, a youth echelon player wearing a Harbor team jersey, also came to the scene, and he just signed the first professional contract of his football career with the club and is about to start a new journey of professional players.
Harbor Club has put forward a new initiative for public welfare this year: after each youth echelon player signs the first professional contract with the club, he will make a "professional first signing public welfare donation" in this year. Signing a professional contract is a "coming-of-age ceremony" for young players to enter the professional league, and the club hopes to use the "public welfare donation" method to enable more young players in the harbor to always be grateful to their parents and society.
In November 2018, Shanghai Harbor won the championship strongly, which was the first Chinese Super League championship in Shanghai's history. Behind the champion, Wu Lei, Yan Junling, Wang Shenchao, Cai Huikang and Lü Wenjun, the native disciples cultivated by Xu Genbao's ten years of grinding a sword, are indispensable. In recent years, these players have paired up to help more than 10 Chongming primary and secondary school students.
Cai Huikang, who has been funded for the third consecutive year, said: "Several of us have trained and grown up in Chongming Genbao Football Base and have deep feelings for Chongming. We hope that these Chongming students will study hard and continue to study, and we will donate to the children's graduation, hoping that they can give back to the society in the future. ”
In addition, team coach Lecco and former coach Pereira have all sponsored poor students at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and foreign aid Hulk and Elkeson have also sponsored poor college students in Tibet and Xinjiang in Shanghai. Oscar and Arnautovic also donated to The Fengxian fruit farmers in Shanghai whose income was affected by the typhoon. In 2019, Yan Junling, a goalkeeper who is a party member, donated through the foundation to bear the full medical expenses of danzen dolma, a 3-year-old Tibetan girl, for congenital heart disease treatment.
Text: Chen Hua
Photo: Zhao Haochen, Shanghai Charity Foundation, Shanghai Harbor Football Club, Liu Wenchao, Weibo, etc
Source: Shangguan News
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