Reporter Lu Mi reported on the performance of Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic in the league in recent years, the biggest feature is tenacious, every time can successfully relegate. From 2020 onwards, with the changes in the team's living conditions, there has been a lot of loss of personnel. Some of these players left on loan, such as Jiang Zhe and Ding Jie, who were out on loan last season and performed well, and at present, all teams are in the stage of personnel reinforcement, can they return to Chongqing and contribute to the relegation of Chongqing team?
After the end of the 2019 season, South Korean Zhang Wailong took over the coaching whip left by Cruyff and coached the Chongqing team for the second time, and Ding Jie's fate also changed.
Ding Jie spent the "golden stage" of his career in Chongqing - when he joined Chongqing in 2016, he was 28 years old, and in Chongqing, he appeared again and again in the position where the team needed him the most. Chongqing fans like to call him "Ding 8" because he wears the No. 8 shirt and runs all over the field. Ding Jie and Chongqing this team formed a deep fate, after the expiration of the first contract, the club renewed his contract, for him, is a very important thing, because after thirty years old, soon to be called a veteran, he was hoping to leave the outbreak of the last period of his career to Chongqing.
Because of the renewal of the contract at that time, Ding Jie bought a house near the Chongqing club, hoping to be able to better devote himself to work, hoping that the long-term life here would be convenient and stable. In fact, in that process, it was not that there was no team that paid a high transfer fee in the hope of introducing him, but he valued all the joy of playing in Chongqing and did not agree to leave.
But things are unpredictable. After the 2019 season, Ding Jie is not in the plan of the new coaching staff. At the beginning of the winter training of the 2020 season, the Chongqing team went out for training, Ding Jie was not in the list, because of the outbreak of the epidemic, the Chongqing team could not return overseas for the time being, and the league was delayed, for a long time, only Ding Jie trained alone at the Yanghe training ground. Subsequently, the transfer window opened, Ding Jie was told that he was no longer in the plan of the Chongqing team in the new season, he felt that he had just turned 30 years old, and it was not yet time to retire, he joined Zhejiang Yiteng on loan, hoping to help Yi teng to rush the first division.
This walk is two years.
In the past two years, Chongqing fans have been concerned about whether Chongqing Liangjiang Athletics can survive and whether the team can be relegated, and Ding Jie has also been paying attention to the game of Chongqing team.
Ding Jie joined Yi Teng on loan for one year, and in the 2021 season, he joined Shaanxi Chang'an Athletic on loan. Two years of low-level league competition, Ding Jie has always had a good appearance rate, especially last year in Shaanxi Chang'an Athletic, he played 33 times, scored 3 goals, originally played in the midfield, according to the needs of the team position, played center-back, full-back.
For the performance of the Chongqing team in the past two years, Ding Jie said that almost every game has been watched, especially last year, who plays in the team, basically knows what state, including the timing of the substitution in the back game period and what personnel venue, he can judge it. In the 2020 season, the team played sixth in the league under difficult circumstances, and last season, in the case of difficulties and promotion, serious loss of personnel and extreme shortage of funds, Chongqing team tenaciously succeeded in relegation. This fighting spirit of his teammates always reminds Ding Jie of the time when they were relegated together before, and he believes that the team's personnel have changed in the past two years, but the tenacity in his bones has not changed.
With the end of the 2021 season, his loan contract with Shaanxi has expired, and some time ago during the holiday, he returned to his home in Chongqing, also went to Chongqing Club to see, and got together with his former teammates.
So far, the share reform of Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic Club has not yet achieved final results, the coaching team has not returned to China, and the team has not been reassembled. Therefore, after the end of the year, Ding Jie returned to Shaanxi Chang'an Athletic to continue training with the team to maintain physical condition. The Shaanxi team has just changed coaches, wang Baoshan, who once led Chongqing Lifan to overtake, as the head coach, he also understands Ding Jie's situation, takes him to high-intensity training, in order to have better physical reserves, Ding Jie has to run at least 10,000 meters a day.
Ding Jie has another year left on his contract with Chongqing Club, and this year is an opportunity for him to return to play for Chongqing. After two years of baptism outside, he also has a new understanding of his career, and he wants to do his part for Chongqing in the later stages of his career and once again taste the time of fighting for Chongqing football together.
At the beginning of the 2019 season, Jiang Zhe joined Chongqing Liangjiang Athletics from Changchun Yatai freely, and the Chongqing team's midfield was enriched with personnel reserves. That year, Cruyff Jr. officially took charge of Chongqing, in addition to completing the relegation task, but also to reorganize the age structure of the overall staff. In fact, since 2016, the Chongqing team has begun to raise the issue of age structure restructuring, but due to the severe task of relegation and the limited funding of the club, the strength and speed of the work have been limited.
After the arrival of Jiang Zhe, although he and Ding Jie are not young players, but in the year of playing, rich experience in the Chinese Super League and relegation experience, to other young midfielders who have just played in the Chinese Super League to provide a lot of guarantee and learning space, Cruyff Jr. coaching period, Chongqing's defense is the youngest and most stable defense line since he returned to the Chinese Super League.
During his two years at Chongqing, Jiang Zhe first played as a full-back and later at the back. In the 2020 season, because of the new crown epidemic, the return of foreign aid in the Chinese Super League was a big problem, when four Brazilian foreign aides from Chongqing team returned after the start of the league, as did Pole Adrian, and Chongqing had to play in the all-Chinese class for the first five games at the beginning of that season.
After the midfielder left Peng Xinli, Jiang Zhe was originally positioned to play at the back, but after more injuries at full-back, he returned to the back line. When the team didn't have a striker and couldn't put more threats on the opponent, he was even put on the forward line. In the 2020 season, Chongqing clubs suffered unprecedented financial problems, the entire season of unpaid wages lasted more than seven months, the team rose to the challenge, a wave of consecutive wins into the championship group, and completed the relegation task ahead of schedule. In the second stage of the competition, Chongqing performed well, and finally won the sixth best in the history of the league.
Jiang Zhe ate a red card in the second stage of the match with Suning at that time, and Chongqing, who played one less person, finally lost to the opponent, and Jiang Zhe's fate with the Chongqing team seemed to have pressed the pause button. During last year's winter training, Jiang Zhe was no longer in the coaching staff's plan, and in the context of a one-year contract with the club, he was loaned back to his former old club Changchun Yatai.
At that time, Jiang Zhe's loan back to Changchun Yatai was something that many people did not expect. First of all, he has been the main position of the Chongqing team for two consecutive years, or the vice captain of the team; secondly, after the end of the 2020 season, the team's three lines have experienced a huge loss of personnel, Kaldek left, Adrian went on loan to Shenhua, the back line Yuan Mincheng transferred to Shenzhen, and the other two Brazilian foreign aides have also decided not to return to China. At this time, Jiang Zhe, who was in the contract period, was loaned out, and during the period of Yatai' play, his salary was borne by the two clubs, which was really unreasonable for the Chongqing club, which had already encountered financial difficulties and insufficient personnel problems. Changchun Yatai managed to be in the championship group in his first season back in the Chinese Super League, and Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic was relegated in the final round.
On December 31 last year, Jiang Zhe's loan contract with Yatai expired, and the contract with Chongqing Liangjiang Athletics for the last year also expired. At the end of February, Jiang Zhe spent his 33rd birthday. He still wants to continue his career, and he knows that the current league environment and his positioning are no longer in the hands of the players themselves. Jiang Zhe, who has become a free body, is undergoing recovery training at his home in Changchun while waiting for new news.
Jiang Zhe also often pays attention to the situation of the Chongqing team, the key is the current progress of the stock reform, if conditions permit, he and the Chongqing club hold hands again, it is not impossible. He said that if Chongqing needs it, he will still choose to come back, because everything he has experienced in the previous two years with this team is very important to his career. There were also other clubs that contacted Jiang Zhe, but he did not decide where to go in the end.