Tan Yonglin once wrote in the article "My Star Daddy": "Speaking of my father Tan Jiangbai, his prestige in Hong Kong is simply unknown to everyone, no one knows, he was named 'Tan Copper Head', with this title, you can imagine that Dad's head ball kung fu is not simple." ”
Indeed, many people only know the miracle left by Tan Yonglin in the music world, but they do not know the man behind him.
Tan Jiangbai's life's achievements and tortuous life are much more exciting than Tan Yonglin's.
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In 1911, Tan Jiangbai was born in Guangzhou. In order to escape, the Tan family moved to Hong Kong.
His parents had high hopes for Tan Jiangbai, taught him to read and write, and hoped that he would become a talent as soon as possible. But this child is disobedient, mischievous, and does no evil. His parents were so disappointed that they once sent him back to the Guangzhou English Tuition School.
After a few years in school, Tan Jiangbai still had no intention of studying and thought about playing football all day. Helplessly, his parents could only take him back to Hong Kong and let him develop freely.
In 1927, the 16-year-old Tan Jiangbai was 1.78 meters tall, weighed 72 kilograms, was full of tendon meat, very burly, and kicked the ball even more fiercely.
Soon, the Hong Kong South China Youth Team set its sights on Tan Jiangbai and put him in the B team as a striker. After training here for a year, Tan Jiangbai entered the first team as a substitute.
After two games, Tan Jiangbai scored three goals in a row, which attracted cheers from the audience. Maybe he was too strong, and the players of the same team were threatened and drove him back to the second team.
However, Tan Jiangbai is not afraid, practicing hard day and night, the ball skills are gradually growing, and the opportunity is also coming.
At that time, the Guangzhou police football team repeatedly lost in the game and was beaten to death. Police chiefs Yuan Xixi and Wei Rucong could not watch it, so they invited the Hong Kong South China Football Team to perform in Guangzhou, first to observe their skills, and secondly to dig the foot of the wall.
Watching the outstanding performance of the South China football team on the field, Yuan Xixi and Wei Rucong threw olive branches to their core players Feng Jingxiang, Li Tiansheng and Ye Beihua, and Ye Beihua called Tan Jiangbai on.
In order to stabilize the military hearts of these four people, the Guangzhou Police Department also took pains.
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The chief of police appointed the four as traffic inspectors, who patrolled the city and specialized in catching vehicles that violated traffic rules.
At that time, I saw these four people riding patrol motorcycles in the city, and in the era when motorcycles were scarce, they could be described as out of the limelight.
Fans saw them and affectionately called them the "Four Horsemen", while Tan Jiangbai was the burest and was given the name "Flower Monk".
After the morning patrol, the group went to the football field to practice in the afternoon. With the "Four Horsemen", the strength of the Guangzhou Police Force has soared, and it has a fight with the strongest "Shanghai Donghua Team".
At that time, some people jokingly said: "Being born in the same era as the police football team is the sadness of other football teams in the Guangzhou football world." ”
So, when the police team played, the other teams did not have any certainty of winning, and the only thing fans wanted to know was how many goals the police team could win.
In the competition of victories, Tan Jiangbai and Feng Jingxiang, Li Tiansheng and Ye Beihua were also known as the "Four Heavenly Kings" and became the first strong players of the Chinese football team.
Tan Jiangbai plays as a left-back, and what he is best at is the header. As we all know, the header is the most technically difficult in football, but Tan Jiangbai is always the most outstanding on the field, and there are few mistakes, and the title of "Tan Copperhead" also comes from this.
In 1934, Tan Jiangbai was selected for the Chinese football team and prepared to participate in the 10th Far East Games.
As Sino-Japanese relations have become tense, the Games are of great significance. Before this, the Chinese team has won 9 championships, and whether the status of the Chinese team will be shaken this time lies in the "four heavenly kings".
In the final with the Japanese team, the game was once stuck in a stalemate, the disadvantage of the Chinese team was poor physical fitness, and it was about to lose, but fortunately, Tan Jiangbai regained two balls and helped the Chinese team stand on the championship podium again.
After the Far East Games, Tan Jiangbai became famous, and all newspapers reported on his heroic deeds.
With a full body of glory, Tan Jiangbai ushered in another turning point.
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In 1936, Tan Jiangbai returned to Hong Kong's South China team and was selected for the Chinese Olympic Games, preparing to play in the Berlin Olympic Games.
In this game, Tan Jiangbai prepared for a long time and vowed to help the country win another gold medal.
However, at this time, the Chinese football team has already inserted capital, and some capitalists have directly taken the back door to pull the players in, so the level of the whole team is uneven, and finally the British team is defeated.
After returning from Berlin, Tan Jiangbai did not have time to review the game, and Japan entered China. In order to defend his family and defend the country, Li Huitang, the "King of Far Eastern Football", formed a football team and traveled all over the country to collect materials for the War of Resistance, while Tan Jiangbai joined the army without saying a word.
Tan Jiangbai chose this road is inevitable, as early as 1932 during the Shanghai War of Resistance, Tan Jiangbai was the commander of the logistics and democracy movement brigade of the Nineteenth Route Army.
During this anti-Japanese war, Tan Jiangbai went all the way north and then to Yunnan, responsible for transporting supplies.
The war was raging, with countless deaths and injuries, tan Jiangbai saved a life.
Of course, in the course of the War of Resistance, Tan Jiangbai did not forget to play football. When playing in Guilin, a girl named Chen Jenny often sat quietly behind the goal, and Tan Jiangbai ran there, and her eyes followed everywhere.
No one expected that this girl would give birth to a world-famous Tan Yonglin for Tan Jiangbai.
After the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Guangdong's football facilities have been dilapidated, and the previous football teams have fallen into disarray, but Hong Kong's South China Sports Association is still thriving.
At that time, the South China Sports Club was the reddest striker Yao Zhuoran, and every time he finished a game, the fans would carry him back to the dormitory, and even the wealthy businessman Fok Yingdong personally hosted a banquet for him.
In the strong football atmosphere, Yao Zhuoran can earn 40,000 yuan a year of playing football, which is enough to buy several rooms in Happy Valley.
However, looking at Yao Zhuoran, who was in the limelight, Tan Jiangbai was only envious. Because he is middle-aged, even if his enthusiasm for football is still there, he is physically unable to do so.
After that, the Hong Kong football team gradually declined, and Tam Jiangbai's focus was not on football.
04
In 1950, the 39-year-old Tan Jiangbai ushered in the birth of Tan Yonglin. Looking at his son who was waiting to be fed, Tan Jiangbai was particularly pleased.
Before this, Tan Jiangbai and the original partner Zhu Weixun gave birth to two daughters, and they could not give birth to a belt handle for a long time, but Tan Jiangbai was anxious.
Fortunately, Chen Jenny was much more "contentious" than Zhu Weixun, and the first child gave birth to Tan Yonglin. However, Tan Jiangbai still wanted to have several more sons, and Chen Jenny could no longer give birth. No matter how Tan Jiangbai "cultivates", she has only three daughters.
Therefore, Tan Yonglin became the only son in the family, pinning all the hopes of Tan Jiangbai.
At that time, the livelihood of a family of eight was all pressed on Tan Jiangbai. The football team fell, Tan Jiangbai cut off the source of income, he tried to go to business, the result was a mess.
In this way, the Tan family fell, and the family was crammed into a small house in Hong Kong called North Point Health Village.
Sometimes, when it rains heavily outside the house, it rains lightly inside the house, and Tan Yonglin and her sisters and sisters have a water fight in the house and have a lot of fun.
However, Tan Jiangbai will not scold the children, in his view, playing and playing is the nature of children, as long as they do not do dangerous things.
However, in some aspects of etiquette, Tan Jiangbai is particularly strict, such as waiting for the elders to move chopsticks first when eating, and cannot ignore others to only pick their favorite dishes to eat.
For Tan Yonglin, the only son, Tan Jiangbai never doted. If there is a fight with his sister, no matter who is right and who is wrong, it must be Tan Yonglin who is beaten. On the most serious occasion, Tan Jiangbai punched Tan Yonglin in the leg, making Tan Yonglin unable to stand up for several weeks.
Severe to severe, Tan Jiangbai can be described as well-intentioned for this son.
He loved football all his life and hoped that his son would inherit his father's business, so Tan Yonglin was led to the football field by his father at a young age. Whenever he looks at Tan Jiangbai's heroic posture on the court, Tan Yonglin also hopes to be the same as his father.
It's just a pity that Tan Yonglin was born without this talent, his physique is weak, his physical fitness is poor, and he lost without playing a few balls.
Over time, Tan Jiangbai did not force Tan Yonglin to make achievements in football.
At that time, there was also a man named Zeng Zhiwei who played football with Tan Yonglin, because the fathers of the two people were friends for many years and had common hobbies, so they were very close.
Zeng Zhiwei is not tall enough, and it is very difficult to play the ball. No one expected that these two golfers would later gallop the entertainment circle.
05
Can't play football, school is not good, Tan Jiangbai is very worried about Tan Yonglin's future, but Tan Yonglin has gone out of his own way.
That year, Tan Yonglin, who had just opened her love, could not chase the girl, and could only hide in the room to listen to the sad mood song, listening to the idea of becoming a singer.
So, he carried Tan Jiangbai on his back, grew long hair, put on flared pants, and participated in singing competitions everywhere. Every time in the competition, the judges poured cold water on Tan Yonglin, and Tan Jiangbai was even more cold-eyed, and he expected that his son was not this material.
In order to prove it to Tan Jiangbai, Tan Yonglin and Chen You, Peng Jianxin, Ye Zhiqiang, and Zhong Zhentao formed a "Wenna Band" and signed a contract with Poly Gold's predecessor, Polydor Company.
Unexpectedly, the first album made Tan Yonglin out of the circle. Later, with the dissolution of the band, the solo Tan Yonglin instead ushered in the peak of her career. With the development of film and television songs, Tan Yonglin gradually has a name.
During this period, a girl named Yang Jiewei broke into Tan Yonglin's world. In order to support Tam Wing Lin, she quit her job to study styling and music, and became Tam Wing Lin's personal assistant.
Tan Jiangbai watched his son get mixed up, and he no longer objected, his only hope was that Tan Yonglin could give him a grandson.
However, in the increasingly busy work, Tan Yonglin and Yang Jiewei agreed to be a Dink family. To this end, Yang Jiewei is convinced and desperately helps Tan Yonglin take care of everything in work and life.
There are unpredictable storms in the sky, and men's mouths are deceitful ghosts after all.
In 1995, while Tan Yonglin said that he would give all the money to Yang Jiewei to take care of, he and zhu Yongting, a female college student, exchanged phone calls, asked for warmth, and sparked when they chatted.
In the midst of public opinion, Zhu Yongting gave birth to a son Tan Xiaofeng for Tan Yonglin, and Tan Jiangbai was overjoyed to see it, and his later life was finally complete.
06
Although Hong Kong football has set over the west, Tam Jiang Bai still loves football in his heart.
In 2002, when the Chinese team participated in the World Cup, 91-year-old Tan Jiangbai watched in front of the TV set with blood boiling, and the fans stood up to direct, as if they were on the field.
Tan Yonglin laughed at the side, he may have a hard time understanding the significance of football to Tan Jiangbai.
Fortunately, Hong Kong football has not forgotten this old predecessor, and in 2004, the medal of "Lifetime Achievement Award" fell to Tan Jiangbai.
This medal is actually many years late, but for Tan Jiangbai, it is a lifetime affirmation.
In 2006, when 95-year-old Tan Jiangbai drove to the west of the crane, Tan Yonglin appealed to the outside world to discount the money sent to the wreath, and he would donate the money to charity.
In the end, a total of 280,000 yuan was raised, part of which was donated to the Star Football Team Fund and part to the Seniors Fund.
At the same time, Tan Yonglin also made a decision that shocked the world. He wrote the names of Zhu Yongting and Tan Xiaofeng on the obituary, which was a formal recognition of the identity of the mother and son.
Tan Yonglin's decision is also understandable to Tan Jiangbai, after all, he made the same decision many years ago.
However, leaving aside the red dust past, Tan Jiangbai's life is also vigorous enough. A person born for football has witnessed the decline of Hong Kong football from glory to decline, and also witnessed a country from backwardness to strength.
For Tan Jiangbai, the biggest regret is that Tan Yonglin failed to achieve results in football.
Tan Yonglin once confessed: "I have always been reluctant to admit that my level of ball skills is not high, although I am only one step away from the empty goal, I can still kick the ball away." When I first came to the game, my dad came to cheer me on. Later, he really couldn't watch it, and no matter how I mobilized him, he wouldn't look at me again in front of him. ”