In the history of the national youth team in Chinese football, the 81-year-old national youth team coached by Shen Xiangfu is known as the super platinum generation, in the team Du Wei, Qu Bo, An Qi, Xu Liang, Sun Xiang, Cao Yang, Hu Zhaojun, Zhang Yaokun, Du Zhenyu, Wang Dong and others are well-known star players, and the 85 national youth team has become one of the few classic events of Chinese football because of its outstanding performance in the World Youth Championship in the Netherlands, Feng Xiaoting, Chen Tao, Dong Fangzhuo, Gao Lin, Arthur Junmin, Zhao Xuri, Zhou Haibin, Zhu Ting and others are also well-known strength players in Chinese football.
Because the 81 age group and the 85 age group are the Olympic age-appropriate age, so the Football Association attaches great importance to the fierce competition of players, so that a team sandwiched between the two Olympic age groups appears to be lonely and unremarkable, and their mission to form a team is only one, that is, the Asian Youth Games, whether from the number of players of the right age or the fame of the players are far less than the Olympic age-appropriate players, the selection of materials is also affected to a certain extent, but the other 83 national youth fame is an accidental time, a time to make them the focus of Chinese football, That is the famous "worship of gold four youngsters" incident.
In February 2002, the 83 national youth team was officially formed, with the purpose of participating in the 2002 Asian Youth Football Championship held in Qatar to compete for the qualification for the 2003 World Youth Championship, although it was not taken seriously, but there were also some players in the team who had a certain status in the Chinese football team in the future, such as goalkeeper Yang Zhi, Deng Xiaofei, defender Wang Qiang, Guo Liang, midfielder Yang Hao, Wang Song, Wang Yun, Wang Ke, striker Han Peng, Du Wenhui, Zhang Shuo and others, in March 2002, the team participated in the Asian Youth Championship qualifiers, and narrowly defeated Singapore. After being forced to draw by Myanmar, he crossed the border and entered the main tournament of the Asian Youth Championship.
Since then, the team has participated in a series of warm-up matches and friendly matches for the Asian Youth Championship training, in September to participate in the Youth Eight Nations Invitational Tournament held in Oman, successively defeated Syria and Lebanon, and then lost successively to Saudi Arabia and Brazil and finally won the fourth place, on October 17, the Asian Youth Championship group stage was played in Doha, the first game of the 83 National Youth League lost to the defeated Syrian in the Eight Nations Tournament, the scene was extremely ugly, and the team reporter Ma Dexing said, "After watching Chinese football for 25 years, I have never seen such a Chinese team!" After the game, head coach Wang Baoshan said with great anger: This is not my team, nor my players, I don't know what they are doing on the field.
In the second game, the Vietnamese national youth team still had no fighting spirit, and was equalized by Vietnam in the case of a 2:0 lead, the national youth team still performed poorly, some media even used the word scandal to describe the game, the overseas Chinese fans in the stands also angrily questioned the national youth players, after the game, head coach Wang Baoshan helplessly said: "The two games of the Chinese youth team are very abnormal, I don't know them anymore." Under the intervention of the Football Association, the team's main players Wang Yun, Hua Erkang, Guo Liang, and Wang Song were suspended by the coaching staff due to negative matches, which is also known as the "worship of gold four less" incident.
It is said that the reason for this incident is that during the training match, because the subsidy of the national youth team is only 5 US dollars per day, some players have repeatedly revealed the idea of going back to participate in the league to make a lot of money, and even once questioned the team leader, whether there is a bonus for winning on behalf of the national youth team, the training and life of the players are extremely loose, lack of cohesion and responsibility, and there is a gap between some of the old players in the team and the players who play the main force in the league, even to the point of intolerable water, In the end, the Football Association and the coaching team punished the four players according to their attitude of admitting mistakes, expelled Wang Song and Wang Yun, who refused to admit their mistakes, and gave warnings to Hua Erkai and Guo Liang, who had a better attitude of admitting mistakes.
The third group game against the United Arab Emirates, under the pressure of all aspects, the 83 national youth victory over the opponent difficult to appear, in the 1/4 final, the lack of major generals of the national youth team although the hard fight for 90 minutes, but finally 1:4 defeat to Saudi Arabia did not qualify for the World Youth Championship, the team returned to China on October 31 in Xianghe after summarizing the disbandment, the mission of the 83 national youth team was completely over. The so-called "worship of gold and four youngsters" has also become the object of verbal criticism by the Chinese football media and fans, for the punishment results, Wang Song said in an interview with the media: Absolutely did not make a principled mistake, I am not ashamed. And Wang Yun was white-headed for this night.
After the punishment was issued at that time, Wang Song's teammates in Sichuan Dahe said that they did not understand the FA's statement, they said that Wang Song's salary in Dahe team was only 900 yuan, and where did the statement that he went back to play in the league to make a lot of money come from? Who would not even want their own future for this little money? After learning the news that Guo Liang was suspended by the coaching staff of the national youth team, the Success Club said that this matter was strange, Guo Liang could not play at all in the Success team, and the salary and bonus were very small, how to go back to earn a lot of money? Cosco has also questioned the punishment of its two players, Hua Erkang and Wang Yun.
It is said that the real situation at that time was that the introverted Wang Yun was dissatisfied with the manager's tactics because the head coach was dissatisfied with dealing with Wang Yun, and Wang Song, who was in the same room with Wang Yun, told Wang Yun the news, and the two were reprimanded by the coach together, while Guo Liang was defined as a negative game because he did not run fast when taking the corner, and Hua Erkang was suspected because he took the initiative to apply for a yellow card in the hope of preparing for the next game, and the reason why such an incident occurred at that time was entirely the responsibility of the FA for shirking its poor performance, and why the four of them were chosen Because only four of them in the national youth team were playing in the A League at that time.
Many years later, the four players have said that they have suffered injustice, saying that they were forced by the relevant leaders to write a confession, and Wang Song and Wang Yun were expelled precisely because they were unwilling to admit their mistakes against their hearts, with the national youth team leader Zhang Jianqiang, who was the main leader of the matter at the time, was imprisoned in the 2012 FA anti-black storm, everything also seems to be the truth, 20 years have passed, only Wang Song of the four people is still galloping on the Chinese football field, the past of that year is like a cloud of smoke has long been forgotten by everyone, but 83 National Youth" The story of "Worshiping The Four Lessers" has become an eternal memory of Chinese football.