In 1985, 8-year-old Sun Jihai easily won the 100 meters, 400 meters and long jump of the Xigang District Experimental Primary School Games in Dalian, the former decathlete athlete, later the physical education teacher of Hengdao Hezi Middle School, and the then Dalian Sports School coach Sun Liangzong was very comforted, and his son did not live up to his 4 years of hard work.
Sun Liangzong's idea was to train his second son to become an athletics player, but on the sidelines, a football coach set his sights on Sun Jihai.
His name was Zhang Bin, he was a football coach at xigang district sports school at the time, and later followed Li Yingfa to Haishi as an assistant coach. He asked Ma Shaohua, the first generation of national goalkeepers present, "This child has such good conditions, why don't he engage in football?" Ma Shaohua's wife, who was also present, was a colleague of Sun Liangzong's, and she said, "Don't you know him?" He is the son of track and field coach Sun Liangzong, if you like it, I will help you do the work, but he may not do it. ”
Sun Liangzong really disagreed, he was afraid that the change of career would affect the development of his children, and he was preparing to lead the team to Tianjin to participate in the separate urban athletics competition, and he said that he would wait until he came back to discuss with his wife.
A week later, Sun Liangzong returned home, and as soon as he saw the jersey, socks and leggings on the sofa, he understood everything and could only support it.
Sun Liangzong knew that the body was the foundation of everything, and he began to help his son in his own way.
One is "Sun's nutritious soup", the specific formula is unknown, the ingredients include ginseng, goji berries, cordyceps, ejiao, female virgins, epimedium, honey, etc., Sun Liangzong told Sun Jihai, "take this as water to drink."
There is also the sea cucumber. Sun Jihai is one root a day, at that time, Sun Liangzong and his wife who was a physics teacher added up to a monthly salary of 150 yuan, the family has three children, but for Sun Jihai, he is willing to spend money, Sun Liangzong specially ran to Changhai County under Dalian to buy sea cucumbers, there is a local saying that "Chinese sea cucumbers look at Dalian, Dalian sea cucumbers look at Changhai", once, he spent more than 1,000 yuan at once, all he bought were high-grade sea cucumbers, which frightened everyone.
Sea cucumber, Sun Jihai ate for decades, it is said that when he was training in the national youth camp, he would set up a small stove in the dormitory, and then boil a kind of "seafood soup" that his teammates felt strange, but in fact, Sun Jihai was making sea cucumbers.
In 2002, Sun Jihai stayed in the Premier League, the first time to bring more than 400 pounds of things, there are Sun Liangzong specially bought more than 4,000 yuan of sea cucumbers, it is said that in the United Kingdom, the customs in front of a box of black things a look of confusion, but can not find out whether it is a prohibited object, can only wave to let go.
Regarding the "efficacy" of sea cucumbers, Sun Liangzong is firmly convinced, and Dalian football star Lin Lefeng has also said that one of the prerequisites for Dalian's good football foundation is that Dalian people often eat sea cucumbers and create a strong body.
In addition to Sun Jihai, another player in Dalian who often eats sea cucumbers is Yu Hanchao.
When he was a child, Yu Hanchao was thin and small, 15 centimeters shorter than children of the same age, and in order to increase his nutrition, his father, who was a driver in a cement factory, and his mother, who was an accountant, cut down on food and bought him sea cucumbers.
"In addition to beef and milk, my family let me eat a sea cucumber every day." Yu Hanchao said that later it became a habit, when playing football in Liaozu, every time he came back from Dalian, he had to bring a box of sea cucumbers, which were processed and put in the dormitory refrigerator and eaten every morning on an empty stomach.
In 2011, Yu Hanchao gave an interview, when the reporter asked him, "Your physical fitness is so good, I heard that you insisted on eating sea cucumbers from childhood to adulthood, and the sea cucumbers that fit into your stomach are estimated to be countless, what do you want to say to these sea cucumbers?" His answer was, "I'll be a sea cucumber in the next life, and I'll be buddy with them!" ”
In 2013, Yu Hanchao transferred to Albin, and before the match between the two teams, he went to the seafood market and bought a sea cucumber for thousands of yuan and gave it to the Liaozu coaching team.
There are those who eat sea cucumbers, naturally there are those who raise sea cucumbers, Wei Yimin, Han Wenhai, Wu Jun, etc. have all raised sea cucumbers.
In addition to sea cucumbers, there is also a "tonic" for players that is also quite popular, that is, turtles, and, compared to sea cucumbers, turtles are more suitable for teams to eat together, especially to make soup.
When there was a physical test in those years, regardless of whether there were conditions or not, the necessary weapon for each team was turtle soup.
In the winter training of 2006, TEDA launched a secret soup enhanced version, before each pot of soup was two turtles, for YOYO physical testing added one more, but also put cordyceps, ginseng, deer antler velvet, known as three hours of boiling. This kind of large soup that can sell for hundreds of pieces in a bowl of outside restaurants is very popular among the players, and after some players drink tea, they will use the soup to add some hot water and brew a bowl of instant noodles. A few days before the physical test began, the team chef also added a dish based on turtle meat.
However, in that year, although the difficult household Chi Rongliang passed, Wang Xiao, Han Yanming and others fell off the horse, and did not pass the test until the supplementary test.