Live bar on March 24, the former national football coach, Chinese football veteran Chen Chengdaxian died at the age of 93.
Women's football pu Wei sent a text of mourning, she wrote: "Chen guides Xian to go all the way. Thank you Director Chen for your teaching and help to our sonorous Rose generation players, and I will always miss it. ”
Chen was selected for the national team in 1952 and went to Hungary to study with the Chinese youth team in 1954.
In 1959, the 29-year-old Chen Chengda was appointed head coach of the national football team, and he was also the youngest head coach in the history of the national football team.
Chen has also served as the Secretary-General of the Chinese Football Association, the Executive Committee of the AFC, the Vice-Chairman of the AFC and the Director of the Technical Committee. In 2017, the Football Association awarded the "Outstanding Contribution Award for Football" to Director Chen.
"Shangguan News" commented that Chen Chengda is the founder of China's women's football team to glory. During this year's Spring Festival, Shui Qingxia coached the Chinese women's football team to win the Asian Cup. In fact, the most brilliant competition before the sonorous rose was the 1999 Women's World Cup to win the world runner-up. This achievement is indispensable to Chen Chengda, one of the founders of Chinese women's football. The "old women's football team" talked about Chen Chengda, who was a consultant at that time, and all of them were solemnly respected: "Without Chen's guidance, there would be no glory of women's football. ”
