Speaking of national football, whether it is a fan or not, everyone in the country will laugh a few words, but a long time ago, there was a strong team in the Tianjin area - the Bac Ninh football team, a few months before the outbreak of the War of Resistance, this team had conquered Japan, and under unfavorable conditions such as the home partiality penalty, it successively defeated several football teams such as Japan's Liberal Arts University, Yingqing University, Waseda University and Kansai United.
The reason why such a football team can achieve such impressive results is inseparable from the land of Tianjin. Modern football was brought by the British, and many of the earlier football schools appeared in Hong Kong. As a port city open to the outside world, Tianjin can not only absorb players from Hong Kong, but also easily accept foreign football concepts and hold leagues. At that time, the star of the Bac Ninh football team, Li Huitang, was born in Hong Kong, and under the initiative of educator Zhang Boling and a group of people of insight, the old model of the school team was broken, and amateur football teams composed of various industrial and commercial enterprises emerged in large numbers, and the population base for football sports increased.
In 1928, a football team named "Pingfeng" appeared, and later this football team was renamed "Bac Ninh" football team with the support of Gao Jiyi, director of the Bac Ninh Railway Bureau. By recruiting and expanding its strength, the Bac Ninh football team grew rapidly. At that time, the famous ball king Li Huitang joined at this time, Li Huitang, the character Guangliang, the number Lu Wei, born in Hong Kong in 1905, the ancestral home of the Cantonese Hakka family in Wuhua County, Meizhou, Guangdong Province. In 1928, he was named "Asian Ball King" by the Asian Football Association. Although the team is not treated well, everyone usually trains hard (located in The Bac Ninh Stadium and Bac Ninh Park) This is the football team that pays attention not only to the technical and tactical level training, but also to the moral cultivation of the players. You can't play big cards and explode foul language.
In 1933, members of the Bac Ninh team and some students from Nankai University formed the Chinese team and reached the final of the Ai Luo Ding International Football Championship. In the final, it was 1-1 with the United Kingdom, but due to the referee's misjudgment of a penalty for the British team, the Chinese team was defeated. At the 1935 International Football Championship, the Chinese team, mainly members of the Bac Ninh team, won the championship by defeating England and the Soviet Union. In the 1936 World Cup, Bac Ninh football won the championship with 15 unbeaten games and 33 goals, which made the Chinese people excited. However, the French barracks were so ashamed and angry that they had no competitive sportsmanship, framed the Bac Ninh football team, arrested them in the barracks, and finally resolved it under the mediation of diplomacy. In the 1936 World Cup, Bac Ninh football won the championship with 15 unbeaten games and 33 goals, which made the Chinese people excited. The French barracks were so ashamed and angry that they ungracefully accused the football team of being arrested into the barracks, and public opinion was in an uproar, and only later did it under the mediation of diplomacy.
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At the beginning of 1937, Japan invited The Mayor of Tianjin, Zhang Zizhong, to come to Japan as the chairman of the Huitong Company, a Sino-Japanese joint venture, and the Bac Ninh soccer team also went to Japan, and the Japanese side wanted to boost national morale by defeating this famous Chinese soccer team.
Unfortunately, after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, although the Bac Ninh football team still performed well, in 1938 won the 9th Airoding Championship. But the all-out war has made it difficult for these people to continue to play the football sports they love and no one to support this football team, which has to be disbanded. But these players still showed patriotism and noble integrity. The Japanese army has invited Li Huitang to cooperate with the Japanese side many times, but the ball king did not pay attention to it, and went to Hong Kong, where he was born, and after Hong Kong was captured by the Japanese army, the ball king took Macao and returned to the mainland of the motherland from Guangzhou Bay, showing a commendable national integrity. In 1948, he obtained the FIFA International Referee Certificate, becoming the first person in China to obtain international refereeing qualifications, and in 1954 Li Huitang was elected secretary general of the Asian Football Federation. In 1965, he was elected Vice-President of FIFA, becoming the Chinese to fifa's highest office. In 1966, Lee Wai-tong served as vice president of the Asian Football Confederation and the International Football Confederation, enjoying a high prestige in world football. In 1976, Lee Wai Tong died of illness in Hong Kong at the age of 74.
Is there a world-class influence on the Bac Ninh football team? It has always been a topic of controversy. Because the opponents they play against are mainly Asian teams, there are few professional clubs in Europe to compete with them, and it is difficult to estimate their strength, but in that environment, players train hard and overcome difficulties, not only playing a competitive sportsmanship, but also combining sports with patriotism, with typical characteristics of the times and having an extremely far-reaching impact.