Although the Chinese Super League is currently in the off-season, the hot news in domestic football is one after another. The recent Guangzhou team (formerly Guangzhou Evergrande) has attracted the attention of a large number of fans because of the latest salary restriction clause for club players issued by them, which has undoubtedly made this former 8 champions of the Chinese Super League once again arouse the attention of a large number of fans.
Under such circumstances, some veterans in the Guangzhou team only have one way to retire, and Huang Bowen is one of them.
Huang Bowen, who debuted in Beijing Guoan, can be described as a young man, and at the age of 16, he has already entered the Guoan first team and scored his debut goal in his first Chinese Super League season. The record he set for scoring goals in the League at the youngest age has yet been unbroken.
The ambitious Wong Bowen joined Jeonbuk Hyundai in the K-League in early 2011. He returned to the Chinese Super League after only 1 year, but the team he joined was not Guoan, but Guangzhou Evergrande. Because when he left Guoan, Huang Bowen promised to join Guoan after returning to China, so he was also criticized by many Beijing fans at that time.
As the best local defender in China at that time, Huang Bowen, who joined Evergrande, was also regarded as the successor of big brother Zheng Zhi at that time, and he also proved himself with his outstanding performance in the league. In his 11 seasons with Evergrande, Huang Bowen won 6 Chinese Super League titles and 2 AFC Champions League titles with Evergrande.
With the increase of age, Huang Bowen has also faded out of the main lineup of Guangzhou in the past 2 seasons. After the expiration of his contract with the club at the end of last year, Huang Bowen has now reached the moment of retirement.
From the current situation, Huang Bowen will not leave Guangzhou after retiring, he will assist Zheng Zhi and become a member of the guangzhou team coaching team. Therefore, if Guangzhou can continue to stay in the Chinese Super League next season, I believe that fans can still see him on the Chinese Super League.
In addition to Huang Bowen, a well-known football media person has also recently revealed that an old international and former national football captain of a southern giant will also announce his retirement in the near future. Although he did not disclose the name of the Southern giants and the former national football captain, there are very few players in the Chinese Super League who meet this condition.
Therefore, we can easily guess that the former national football captain who is about to retire is Feng Xiaoting, a meritorious iron guard who has played for Guangzhou for many years.
As the former captain of Evergrande, Feng Xiaoting led the team to win 7 Chinese Super League titles and 2 AFC Champions League titles in the 10 years from 2010 to 2019.
At the national team level, Feng Xiaoting was also the captain of the team and the absolute main force in the back line when Lippi was in charge of the national football team for the first time. Feng Xiaoting's highest moment in the national football team was undoubtedly in the 2017 World Cup qualifiers, leading the national football team to defeat the South Korean team 1-0 at home, helping the national football team out of the haze of "Korean phobia".
In this battle, Feng Xiaoting's performance in the back line can be described by the four words of "Fixing the Sea God Needle". He not only destroyed the cross of the Korean team many times, but also often broke through to the front with the ball, thus greatly reducing the pressure on the national football midfielder.
In addition, he also used his rich game experience to use skirmishes with Korean players to disrupt the rhythm of the opponent's game. It can be said that Feng Xiaoting is one of the biggest contributors to the national football team's defeat of South Korea in this game.
However, the 2019 Asian Cup became Feng Xiaoting's Waterloo for the national team, and in the quarter-final with Iran, his fatal mistake in the backcourt allowed the Iranian striker to break the ball successfully and break the door of the national football team, resulting in a 0-3 defeat to the opponent. After this game, Feng Xiaoting was also completely abandoned by Lippi and has never been able to play for the national team since.
At the end of the 2019 season, Feng Xiaoting was also loaned to Shanghai Shenhua by Evergrande and officially transferred to Shenhua last season.
Today's Feng Xiaoting is about to turn 37 years old, although the professional age of defender players is longer, but in the current Chinese Super League environment, retirement has become the only choice for the former national football team and Evergrande double captain.
Huang Bowen and Feng Xiaoting, two meritorious players of evergrande team, retired this year, which also represents the end of a golden age in the Chinese Super League. Here, we would also like to wish the two of them all the best in the future, continue to be active in domestic football, and contribute to the early take-off of Chinese football.