On March 24, Beijing time, Chen Chengda, former coach of the national football team, the elder of Chinese football and the winner of the FIFA Special Merit Award, passed away at the age of 93. Pu Wei, a famous Chinese women's football player, also sent a tribute to his mentor, "Chen Guide has gone all the way to the death. Thank you Director Chen for your teaching and help to our sonorous Rose generation players, and I will always miss it. ”
Subsequently, the official account of FIFA also mourned for Chen Chengda's guidance, releasing a dynamic saying: "Deep condolences! Former national football coach Chen Chengdaxian, who won the FIFA Special Merit Award, died at the age of 93. To mourn the seniors who have made great contributions to Chinese football, may there be football in heaven. "This is enough to reflect the status of Chen Chengda in the field of international football, and he is a well-known overseas football figure!
Coach Chen Chengda, formerly known as Zhigang, in 1950, at the age of 21, Chen Chengda was selected for the Shanghai team and entered the national team at the age of 23. In the following years of playing football, Chen Chengda also followed the national team to Hungary to study, was the first batch of international footballers since the founding of New China, at the age of 29, Chen Chengda's coaching has been selected as a football player. In 1957, Chen Chengda began to serve as the head coach of the national football team, and in the first seven years of his tenure, he won two four-national championships and had outstanding coaching ability.
In addition to the status of coach, Chen Chengda is also a heavyweight in Asian football and even world football, 45 years old as the secretary general of the Chinese Football Association, followed by the AFC and FIFA to hold positions, was once the vice president of the AFC, due to the huge contribution, in 1994, Chen Chengda coached to win a grand prize, won the FIFA Special Merit Medal.
In 1999, Chen Chengda, who was already in a retired state at the time, also achieved a great achievement, as a consultant role, helping the Chinese women's football team to win the best result in the history of the World Cup runner-up. At that time, chinese female footballers talked about the achievements of that year, and their evaluation of Chen Chengda's guidance was: "Without Chen's guidance, there would be no glory of women's football. It can be said that Chen Chengda is one of the founders of Chinese football, he is a pioneer, he is a taidou!
In the days after retirement, Chen Chengda's guidance even summed up the development secrets of modern football, emphasizing that playing football should have wisdom and leave enough valuable suggestions for future generations, Chen Chengda's guidance specifically said: "I think playing football should use brains, accurately handle the ball, pass, and cooperate." We must pay attention to wisdom, we must have courage, but we must also have wisdom, and football without wisdom cannot win. In response to the success of Spanish football at that time, Chen Chengda also said: "Spain (won the 2012 European Championship) is to inherit their Latin American style, coupled with Europe's first offensive and defensive tactics, so Spain is very prominent." ”
(Lin Xiaoxiang)