Pu Wei, a famous Chinese women's football player and one of the representatives of sonorous roses, posted a message in the WeChat circle of friends on March 24: "Chen Guide Xian passed away all the way. Thank you Director Chen for your teaching and help to our sonorous Rose generation players, and I will always miss it. ”
It is reported that Chen Chengda died in Beijing on March 24 at the age of 93. Chen Chengda, who was polite and quiet, started as a bully in the department of architecture at St. John's University in Shanghai, and gradually grew into the first generation of international footballers and national football coaches in New China, and later became an administrative official of the Chinese Football Association. Chen Lao is known overseas for his excellent foreign language skills and elegant personal charm, and he has distinguished himself in the foreign exchange of Chinese football.
Born in Shanghai, Chen Chengda, born in 1929, is a prominent athlete, coach and manager of Chinese football. In 1945, he joined the Shanghai small club "United Stars" and the Shanghai A club "Jingwu" team, and in 1949 was admitted to the Department of Architecture of St. John's University in Shanghai.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Chen Chengda played for the Shanghai Students' Federation in 1950, was selected for the Shanghai Municipal Team and the East China Team in 1951, was selected for the National Team in 1952, and went to Hungary with the National Team in 1954 to study, and was the first international football team of the New China Men's National Team. In 1958, he was named one of the first football players in China. In 2015, the 60th anniversary of the Chinese football team studying in Hungary was held in Chongming Island, Shanghai, where football elders such as Chen Chengda and Nian Weisi and the Hungarian football delegation gathered to continue the football complex between China and Hungary.
From 1957, Chen Chengda served as the coach of the national team until 1963, when he was re-elected for seven years, and he was also the fourth head coach in the history of national football. During the period led by Chen Chengda, the national football team won the 1959 China-Soviet, Soviet and Hungarian three-country competition and the 1964 China-North Korea, Vietnamese and Mongolian four-country competition championship.
The Cultural Revolution interrupted Chen Chengda's career as a footballer. In 1974, he returned to the Chinese Football Association as Secretary-General, and later at FIFA and AFC, where he served as Vice-President. The solid foundation of English laid at St. John's University made him more than comfortable on the diplomatic front of football. Chen Chengda understands that China must strengthen exchanges with FIFA and the AFC to increase the weight of Chinese's speech.
On 3 October 1979, the FIFA Executive Committee voted to restore the people's republic of China to its legitimate seat in FIFA. In 1980, Chen Chengda began to serve in FIFA, and in 1984, Chen Chengda was elected as a member of the AFC Executive Committee and a member of the Competition and Emergency Committee. In 1986, Chen Chengda was elected vice president of the Asian Football Confederation. In June 1994, Chen Chengda was awarded the FIFAORDEROFMERIT (FIFA SPECIAL Merit Award) Medal at the FIFA CONGRESS in Chicago, USA.
After retirement, Chen Chengda's coaching still does not forget football, especially for the development of youth football and the establishment of a youth competition system. During this year's Spring Festival, Shanghai coach 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. ”
Hearing the news of Chen Chengda's death, Pu Wei, a former Chinese women's football international and now a high-level women's football coach at Shanghai University, expressed his condolences to the seniors: "When our Chinese women's football team competed in the 1999 Women's World Cup, he has been giving us guidance and help in the team, he is really sincerely paying and working hard for football, and he is really grateful, grateful, grateful for chen's guidance for our help and guidance, which is what we Chinese women's football team today." ”