In Fan Zhiyi's "Football Palm" a few weeks ago, we highlighted this wonderful GIF, in the picture of "Fan Dajun" the iconic fish jump head ball break has become the classic title of the "Football Night" program, and careful observation is not difficult to find that in the moment before Fan Zhiyi rushed to the top, a blue figure made a wonderful flying backwards hook shot action, its stretch is also breathtaking, he is the protagonist of this issue of "Football Palm", the "lone man" of Chinese football: Xie Hui.
Xie Hui
Player profiles
Name: Xie Hui
Alias: Leo (English)
Birthday/Age: February 14, 1975 (age 46)
Nationality: Chinese
Place of Birth: Shanghai (China)
Ancestral hometown: Hengyang City (Hunan)
Position: Striker
Height: 185cm
Weight: 75kg
Dominant foot: Right foot
Nickname: Chinese Xiaobei
Relationships: Fan Zhiyi (club teammate), Cheng Yaodong (club teammate), Shen Si (club teammate), Qi Hong (club teammate), Yang Chen (national team teammate), Xu Genbao (club coach), Hahe (club coach), Ogenjanovic Rad (national Olympic team consultant)
Youth Team: Shanghai (China)
National team debut: In 1996, he was selected for the Chinese Olympic team
Career trajectory: Shanghai Junior Sports School, Shanghai Youth Team, Shanghai Shenhua (A A), Aachen (Bundesliga), Shanghai Shenhua (A A), Fürth (Bundesliga), Chongqing Lifan (A A), Shanghai Shenhua (Chinese Super League), Wiesbaden (Bundesliga)
Main honors: 1 A League champion, 1 East Asian Semifinalist Championship, 5th place in the Bundesliga top scorers list in the 00/01 season, 2018 Chinese Super League champion (coach status), 2019 Chinese Football Association Super Cup champion (coach status)
Technical features
Xie Hui FM property diagram
As can be seen through the FM attribute chart, Xie Hui has the physical conditions and technical characteristics that a center player must have: excellent physical confrontation ability and amazing bouncing force ensure that he has sufficient space to dominate in the penalty area, and excellent header skills and passing ability have also become the key factors for Xie Hui to stand in Germany; next, we will enter Xie Hui's football world together.
1/8 of the footballers of British descent
On February 14, 1975, Shanghai, China, was born a fierce player who would later dominate the football world, he is the protagonist of this article: Xie Hui, Xie Hui's great-grandfather Xie Yingrui was born in The Bookish Family of Hengyang, Hunan Province, during the "Foreign Affairs Movement" in the late Qing Dynasty, Xie Yingrui was sent to Germany to study, and later served as an attending physician in a public hospital in London, England, and participated in the First World War.
During the war, Xie Yingrui fell in love with and married the English girl Guria, after the war Xie Yingrui returned to Shanghai, China with his wife and children to settle down, the eldest son Xie Dihua, that is, Xie Hui's grandfather had a more legendary life, When he was young, Xie Dihua, who was a police chief in the British Concession Police Station in Shanghai, was forced to take off his police uniform and leave Shanghai during the War of Resistance Against Japan because he seriously injured a Japanese officer, and took a boat to the base area of the New Fourth Army in northern Jiangsu.
Xie Hui's grandfather Xie Dihua
Since then, Xie Dihua became a confidential officer of the headquarters of the New Fourth Army, during the Liberation War, Xie Dihua used the special status of the former British Concession sheriff to sneak back to Shanghai, establish a secret radio station, and contribute his own blood and youth to the establishment of new China.
As a child, Xie Hui regarded his grandfather as a big hero in his heart, and Xie Hui, who has 1/8 of British blood, would listen to his grandfather with a "foreign face" tell war stories every day, from Napoleon to Churchill, from Barton to Montgomery, and it was from then on that the spark of staying in the ocean gradually ignited in the heart of this Chinese boy.
Unlike other Chinese boys of the same period, Xie Hui's childhood environment was relatively rich, Xie Hui's father Xie Ruoshui was a track and field athlete when he was young, he held the Shanghai Javelin record for a long time, became a famous track and field coach in China after retiring, and his mother Shi Xiaoyun was a high jumper when she was young.
Got to know football
Xie Hui, who inherited the strong genes of his parents, soon showed his superiority in sports, at first his father Xie Ruoshui originally planned to train his son to become a track and field athlete, but Xie Hui had a special love for the black and white leather ball under his feet, in 1986, Xie Hui came to Shanghai Xuhui District Junior Sports School and officially became acquainted with football.
Xie Hui's father initially disagreed with Xie Hui's taking the road of football, because he specially found experts to observe Xie Hui's playing football, and concluded that the child's running center of gravity was too high and not suitable for football, but at the insistence of his mother Shi Xiaoyun, 13-year-old Xie Hui still entered the Shanghai Sports School to practice football.
Start your career journey, the "Three Musketeers" help the "Blue Devil" to become the king
With more systematic training guidance, Xie Hui's skills have achieved a qualitative leap, in 1993, the "godfather of Chinese football" Xu Genbao began to form Shanghai's first professional football club: Shanghai Shenhua; at the beginning of the establishment of the team, Xu Genbao called Xie Ruoshui and invited 18-year-old Xie Hui to sign a contract with the club, xie Hui also officially started his professional football journey.
Joined Shanghai Shenhua
The real outbreak began in 1995, due to the long-term absence of the previous main striker Li Xiao due to illness, the 20-year-old Xie Hui was helped by Xu Genbao to the starting position, and the fledgling Xie Hui did not live up to the trust of his mentor, and in the first official game of the opening game, he used a difficult back-throw to shake his head and open the goal of Sichuan Quanxing.
Xie Hui, who laid the main role in the first world war, also opened his own rampage mode, throughout the 1995 season, Xie Hui represented Shanghai Shenhua in 20 games in the A-League and scored 10 goals, and was called "Shenhua Three Musketeers" with Fan Zhiyi, who was pushed to the center position, and Qi Hong, a young master, and helped Shanghai Shenhua successfully crown the A-League champion.
He scored on his professional league debut
A supernova in the forward position of Chinese football is rising, and in the following four seasons, Xie Hui continued to provide a stable output for the "Blue Devils", helping Shenhua to rank at the top of the A League standings for a long time, Xie Hui's cold face, handsome running figure and iconic long curly hair have won the love and support of countless fans, especially female fans.
Bumpy road and dream shattered World Cup
As Xie Hui's popularity in China soared, the voices about him staying in the ocean began to be heard endlessly; in 1996, the former Yugoslav coach Ogenjanovic Lade, who was the technical adviser of the national Olympic team at the time, took a look at Xie Hui in the A League A, and after the game, Rad said in English: "You will become the best striker in China!" ”
"Thank you for your trust and encouragement", before the translator spoke, Xie Hui immediately replied in English: "If I can become a member of the national Olympic team, I will feel very honored", since then, Xie Hui and Yang Chen have become the "twin stars" of the national Olympic front in the eyes of Chinese fans in the 90s.
Schlapner
As early as 1998, the Bundesliga Frankfurt club had contacted Xie Hui, but due to various reasons the transfer could not be carried out, and in 1999, Schlapner's eldest son Uvi Schlapner finally promoted Xie Hui's loan to join the German Second Division Aachen club, and Xie Hui officially began his journey to stay abroad.
"Everyone sees almost all of us playing abroad, in fact, our hardships are unimaginable to ordinary people, in order to be able to gain a foothold in the team, we are running like dogs on the pitch, you know this is the Bundesliga! The competition between teammates is quite fierce, and if you relax a little, you are likely to be replaced," Xie Hui said when recalling his initial feelings about Liu Yang.
Embark on a journey to stay abroad
Kung Fu pays off, in the summer window of 2000, Aachen Club bought xie Hui out with a record transfer fee of 1 million marks in the history of the team, and the precipitation and adaptation of the Bundesliga arena for a year also made Xie Hui usher in an outbreak, under the command of Enshi Hahe, the fiery Xie Hui scored 6 goals in the first half of the Bundesliga, once becoming a strong contender for the Golden Boot.
At this time, the Chinese men's football team also began the journey of the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup Asian Qualifiers, and Milu, who was the coach of the national football team at the time, personally called Xie Hui, hoping that he could return to China to compete in the World Preliminary Round, and the country's call was indispensable for Xie Hui, who was influenced by his grandfather since childhood.
He completed a hat-trick at the World Preliminary Tournament
In the World Preliminary Round, Xie Hui alone contributed 7 goals to the Chinese team, helping the national football team to successfully enter the top ten in the Asian region with 6 wins in 6 games; back in the Bundesliga Xie Hui still scored a lot of goals, and scored 8 goals in the second half of the season, with a total of 14 goals in the season, becoming the top scorer in the Aachen team, ranking fifth in the Bundesliga top scorer list, and successfully selected as the best team in the Bundesliga in the 00/01 season.
After a brilliant Bundesliga season, Xie Hui attracted the interest of many Bundesliga teams, and according to reports at the time, Kaiserslautern and Bayer Leverkusen were close to signing Xie Hui, but Xie Hui eventually passed by the Bundesliga because he wanted to continue to play the top 10 for the national team.
A brilliant goal in the Bundesliga
However, xie hui and Aachen's honeymoon period was abruptly stopped because of the "300,000 mark of appearance bonus", in the 01/02 season, the new coach Joelge Berger picked up the Aachen coaching whip, the German coach immediately put Xie Hui on the bench on the grounds of unstable state, digging deep into its roots, it turned out that Xie Hui's contract contained a bonus of 300,000 marks of the first appearances, which was unacceptable to Aachen at that time.
Xie Hui is aware of his current embarrassing situation in Aachen, instead of continuing to sit on the cold bench and losing the opportunity to participate in the World Cup a little bit, it is better to find a place to play to ensure the state, combined with the above factors, and finally only one workaround is the most appropriate, that is, to return to Shanghai Shenhua on loan for 50,000 US dollars after negotiating with Aachen Club.
"Thinking back to when I was a child, I followed my father to the dormitory of the sports team to watch the World Cup, the TV was still black and white, at that time, the World Cup was simply heaven for me, and now, think about it now, the World Cup dream is so close to me, how can I miss it? Although I earn a lot of money playing as a substitute in Aachen, I will never eat my future, so I want to go back to Shanghai and fight for the opportunity to play, just for my childhood dream," Xie Hui said when he returned to Shanghai Shenhua in 2002.
There is no Xie Hui name in the World Cup squad finalized by Milu
However, the reality eventually blocked Xie Hui out of the door of the World Cup, and Milutinovic, who was the manager of the national football team at the time, deliberated and repeatedly, and finally did not recruit Xie Hui, who had been reduced to a substitute in the top ten competitions, into the big list; the World Cup dream was shattered, Xie Hui was discouraged, the house leaked in the overnight rain, and Xie Hui, whose contract with Aachen expired in the summer window of 2002, was still facing the crisis of ending his career in the West.
At the critical moment, Enshi Hahe reached out to Xie Hui when his career was at a low point, and bundesliga Fürth signed Xie Hui as a free agent, and the journey to stay in the west was able to continue to "maintain", mainly because Xie Hui was physically and mentally exhausted after experiencing multiple blows in the 01/02 season.
In June 2003, Xie Hui returned to China to join Chongqing Lifan Club, but due to contract disputes, he delayed more than half a year of systematic training, and in 2005, the 30-year-old Xie Hui joined his old club Shanghai Shenhua for the third time and scored 14 goals in the Chinese Super League.
Brilliant goal after returning to Shenhua
At the beginning of 2008, Xie Hui, who still had a foreign dream, rearranged his mood and embarked on the journey again, this time he joined the Bundesliga Club Wiesbaden on loan, but Xie Hui, who had passed the year, was no longer brave, and he took the initiative to terminate the contract with the team when he had few opportunities to play in Wiesbaden and was not accustomed to sitting on the cold bench.
Glory returns to the hometown and misfortune rises against the wall
On February 28, 2009, Shanghai Shenhua Football Club held a retirement ceremony and farewell match for Xie Hui, and the 34-year-old Xie Hui ended his 15-year professional football journey with tears; after retiring, Xie Hui did not leave his beloved football career, but returned to the embrace of the green field as a coach.
Joined the Shanghai SIPG coaching staff
In 2012, Xie Hui joined Shanghai Lucky Star Youth Football Club as the head coach of the 97/98 age group team, and in 2014, Shanghai SIPG Announced the acquisition of lucky star football club 97/98 and 99/00 two age group echelons, Xie Hui entered the Shanghai Gang team, and successively served as the club reserve team coach and the first team assistant coach.
On March 31, 2020, Xie Hui became the coach of Nantong Zhiyun Club, a Chinese League A club, officially starting his professional coaching career; however, just when Xie Hui set off a wave of new ideas in China as the banner of the Mesozoic coach, he suddenly caused Xiao Wall, and a drunken "gaffe" was secretly filmed and made public by people with ulterior motives, which caused an uproar.
Woe to the Wall
After the incident, Xie Hui apologized for the first time: "Yesterday I attended a friend's dinner and drank a lot of wine. I don't know that the people on the other side have ulterior motives, carried out secret photos, posted some of my drunken words to the Internet, and added oil and vinegar, seriously damaged my reputation, I reserve the right to legal action, and at the same time expressed a deep apology to the units mentioned in the words (Chengdu Rongcheng, Shanghai Shenhua, Shanghai Haigang, Nantong Zhiyun). ”
Nantong Zhiyun Club immediately also issued an announcement saying: "Xie Hui made wrong remarks after drinking at private parties, which had a negative social impact, and after the club's board of directors studied and decided to suspend his head coach position from now on", in the face of huge public pressure, Xie Hui announced his resignation as the head coach of Nantong Zhiyun a few days later, and finally calmed down the situation.
epilogue
"People who often challenge themselves will be frustrated and feel pain, and those who are content with life will feel comfortable, but this comfort will consume people's will and make themselves submit to life; I love pain more than comfort, the beauty and holiness of pain make it closer to the sky, and whenever I finish training, I will look up at the sky as if I can see a smile, which may be my secret" - Xie Hui.
Best wishes
In the past, the fans' impression of Xie Hui was untamed and eclectic; now, after understanding his difficult and bumpy career, we have rediscovered a delicate football "old boy" who dares to love and hate, "Even if the road ahead is full of thorns, he will also walk alone without fear of fighting swords," sincerely wish Xie Hui a smooth future life!
(Lanling TCFB)