Yanbian Longding, a Chinese second division team training in Meizhou, Guangdong Province, originally planned to leave on the 22nd to return to its base camp, Yanji, but due to the new crown epidemic, the team could only continue to stay at The R&F Football School in Meizhou. In the team's two hard training sessions in the morning and afternoon, you will always see an old acquaintance of Yanbian football on the sidelines - Gao Hun.
Gao Hun (fourth from the left)
The head coach who once led Yanbian Aodong to become the "giant killer" of the A-A era, is currently serving as an adviser and youth training director of Longding Club, undertaking the mission of cultivating reserve talents and rushing to the top for Yanbian football. He felt that the responsibility was on his shoulders: "Yanbian football will rely on these children in the next ten years, and if they can't play, Yanbian football will have no future." ”
As the "Nanmei County, North Yanbian" Yanbian football has encountered great difficulties in recent years, yanbian fude in 2019 is in arrears and bankruptcy, and in 2020, Yanbian north country is directly dissolved, which makes Yanbian football completely disappear on the professional map of Chinese football. In 2020, Yanbian Hailanjiang participated in the Chinese Champions League and finally ranked eighth. In 2021, he entered the ranks of the central B and eventually won the 10th place. In 2022, because of the 70th anniversary of the establishment of Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, The goal of Yanbian Longding for the new season was set as "Chong Jia". In fact, with the current player strength of the Yanbian Longding team, it is not difficult to complete this goal. When Gao Hun came out of the mountain, he actually accepted a task that was extremely difficult. "Our coaching staff are all relatively young, all post-80s, all of them are players I have brought, they don't have much professional league experience. Now when I come to the team, I am helping to control the whole, making training, game plans, and so on. Gao Hun defined his role in this way.
After relegation last year
Born in 1958, Gao Hun is long past the retirement age, and over the years there have been ups and downs, there have been highlights and lows. However, for this native Yanbian, he can't get rid of his plot for Yanbian football. Gao Hun said: "Since Chairman Zhang Wenji (Longding investor) thinks I can still do it, I feel that I also have an obligation to help Yanbian football. "Last season, Yanbian Longding team did not win in the first qualifying round, but finally remained unbeaten in the relegation group and finished 10th in the league. However, the team has encountered bigger problems in the new season. Although there are more than 30 players in the team, most of them are players from 2004 and 2005, who are still young and not well developed, so that the confrontation is very bad. "Especially when it comes to the attack and defense zones, the physical condition is not good, you can't attack and defend, you have to have a few veterans to take them with you." Gao Hun told the truth.
Yanbian Longding is now not only the only professional football club in Yanbian, but also shoulders the heavy responsibility of continuing the incense of Yanbian football. After the bankruptcy of Yanbian Fude, a team of 2 people was left, and the reserve team was almost completely lost. The incense of Yanbian football left only two teams in the 2003 and 2004/05 age groups. The two teams belong to Yanbian Prefecture Sports School and one to Yanbian Hailanjiang (renamed Longding due to the name requirements of the Football Association). In 2021, the 04/05 team played in the second division and finished 10th, and the 03 age group played the central championship zone and failed to qualify. Now the 03 age group players Luo Dongping (forward), Kim Hyun-do (forward/forward), Lang Pengming (full-back) have also joined the current Longding team. "Although their characteristics are not particularly prominent, they are a year older than the original players and physically better." Gao Hun introduced.
Last month, Longding Club also issued a notice of trial training, and there are fifteen or six people back and forth in a month, and now only the main goalkeeper of Xinjiang last season is still in the team trial. "Overall, there are opportunities, and not many people have actually played in professional leagues." Goh said: "I'm expecting to get now is two centre-backs and a goalkeeper. If two centre-backs can't come, one can too. "Last season's main centre-backs Xia Ao and Yang Chenyu have left the team, and the possibility of returning from the new season is very small.
Gao Hun believes that this group of young players is the hope of Yanbian football in the next ten years. Now to serve as a team consultant is such a sentiment: "They are the seeds of Yanbian football, how to support them." It is not easy for Hailanjiang (Longding) to carry the banner, and the next ten years will rely on these children. If it falls this time, Yanbian football will not be able to get up for at least ten years. ”
One of the biggest characteristics of Yanbian players is that they can endure hardships, and these post-2000s have also inherited the fine traditions of their predecessors. In Hillhun's words, they all really love football and want to play football. 'Now we need to find a few experienced players to play with them, because of the financial reasons we can't give a high salary, and now the experienced players in our team are our veterans who went out of Yanbian." For example, Xu Bo. When Gao Hun led the Yanbian team in 2006, he was selected a year after the promotion of Park Sung. Xu Bo, born in 1987, is now 35 years old, and his experience is the most lacking in the team. At the same time, there are also four players in the team who have played in the Chinese Super League on behalf of Yanbian Fude. Kim Sung-joon has been rotating between centre-back and striker because of the lack of people in the team.
The menu is limited, which is really a bit difficult for the "chef" anymore. In this regard, Gao Hun is still very optimistic: "Football games have to be played one by one, and there are other factors such as luck, come one by one!" My goal now is not to rush to the first place, but to enter the championship group first. ”
In 2000, Yanbian Ao Dong was sold to Zhejiang and transformed into Zhejiang Greentown. The Yanbian second team began to rush the armor, and as a result, the two consecutive years of rushing the armor failed. In 2003, Gao Hun returned to the Coaching Bench of Yanbian after a gap of three years, helping the team to complete the goal of rushing the first division that year, and led the team until the end of the 2007 season. The team later became Yanbian Fude until the team was bankrupted and disbanded in 2019. Now, Yanbian football is working hard again towards the Chinese First Division, and Gao Hun is back to the starting point of Yanbian football dreams, will he succeed this time? The head coach, who had gone through the storm, replied with a smile: "The pressure is great, but start working hard now!" ”