The son inherits the father's business, Kesau Jiqiu, the younger generation chases the back of the father's former great shore on the green field, becomes a professional footballer to bear and inherit the jersey surname that symbolizes the family honor, such a moving story occurs from time to time on the green field, such as the famous European Cruyff father and son, Maldini father and son, Schumichel father and son, Djokav father and son, etc., are a very classic case.
So, in the history of the development of modern Chinese football, what father-son files have we witnessed? In this article, the author will synthesize the strength and influence of players of various generations and fathers, the strength and influence of children's players, and inventory ten representatives of father and son soldiers in Chinese football for reference. Of course, due to space limitations, if there is any discussion or the choice of lost pearls, you are welcome to leave a message in the comment area to share.
10. Li Ming & Li Si Rong
As a famous player in the history of Dalian Shide team, Da Li Ming was quite strong in his heyday and his personal peak period was also very long, he helped the club win 7 A championships and 1 Chinese Super League championship, and was a regular visitor to the national team from the mid-1990s to the early new century, playing 85 games for the national team and scoring 8 goals, during which he participated in four World Cup qualifiers & four Asian Cups. Looking back on Li Ming's career, the most regrettable thing is that he unexpectedly lost the final roster for the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup.
After retiring from the army, Li Ming worked in the management of the Beijing Guoan Club for a long time. As Li Ming's son, Li Sirong inherited his father's handsome appearance and football genes. Because of his excellent looks and his father's aura, Li Sirong has already achieved much more attention than many second-generation sons in the same period before he has played the results.
When Li Sirong was 13 or 14 years old, Li Ming sent him to the Netherlands to study football. As a youth training product of the Dutch first team In The Hague, Li Siyong, who is now less than 19 years old, has played all the way from the echelon to the adult team, and won a professional team contract in The Hague last year, looking forward to his future performance.
9. Li Longhai & Li Shenglong
As a professional footballer, Shanghai football star Li Longhai mainly plays as a main full-back, and can be regarded as one of the representative figures of Shanghai football from the mid-to-late 1980s to the early 1990s. Back at the end of 1993, the process of professionalization of Chinese football began, and Li Longhai entered Shanghai Shenhua as a former Shanghai veteran.
Unfortunately, because of the unqualified physical fitness test, it was already veteran Li Longhai who could not really catch up with the A-A era and announced his retirement in 1994. After retiring from the army, Li Longhai worked as a long-term youth coach in Shanghai and led his son Li Shenglong to the path of professional footballers.
Looking back on Li Shenglong's football career, the 29-year-old debuted at Shanghai Zhongbang Club in the 11-12 season, and then transferred to Haigang in 2013, gradually growing up in the luxurious Shanghai SIPG, and really starting to gain a foothold and a place in the team in the 2019 season.
VIII. Wang Hongli & Wang Liang
In the history of Liaozu, Wang Hongli was a godfather-like being and enjoyed the name of "Iron Marshal". In the player era, Wang Hongli was the main player of Liaozu, playing as a defender. It can be said that Wang Hongli's achievements as a coach are even greater, and the player era is almost interesting.
As the son of Wang Hongli, Wang Liang grew up and rose under his command since childhood, and in order to avoid suspicion on the football field, he would call his father "Wang Dao". Compared with his father, who also played as a defender, Wang Liang, who was selected as the national football team & the king of the middle super standard, achieved higher results in the player era, and his tireless running on the field and super physical fitness still impressed Liaoning fans or Luneng fans.
7. Yao Mingfu & Yao Xia
Yao Mingfu, the representative of Sichuan-Chongqing football in the 1960s, played mainly as a right-back in his career, and he was very fast. After the end of his player era, Yao Mingfu worked as a football coach in Sichuan-Chongqing for a long time, bringing out a group of well-known young male and female players, who died in January this year.
As the son of Yao Mingfu, Yao Xia (pictured above) inherited his father's extraordinary speed, enjoyed the reputation of "cheetah" in Chinese football, and played impressively in Sichuan Quanxing in his heyday, and was selected for the national football team in the mid-to-late 1990s, surpassing his father's athletic achievements as a player.
6. Xie Yuxin & Xie Weijun
Xie Yuxin from Meizhou, Guangdong Province, is an active national football international football player from the mid-1980s to the early new century, with delicate footwork and strength, 169CM is not tall, is one of the representative players of the short-legged tiger midfield, fans affectionately call it "New Boy".
Back in 1987, as a major player produced by the Guangqing team, the 21-year-old Xie Yuxin joined the Dutch Zwolle club and played there for half a season, becoming the first Chinese player in the Dutch league. After returning to China, Xie Yuxin played in the Guangdong team, entered the professional era and successively played in Guangdong Hongyuan, Guangzhou Songri, Shenyang Haishi and other teams, and was a standing international football team in the national football team from 1988 to 1996.
After retiring from the army, Xie Yuxin coached in many low-level leagues and engaged in football youth training for a long time. Xie Yuxin's wife is former Guangzhou female footballer Xu Haiwen, and their son Xie Weijun was born in November 1997. In the case of genetic harmony and acquired nutrition, Xie Weijun grew to a big man of 190CM, and his playing style was completely different from his father's high school forward style.
Xie Weijun was born in the youth training echelon of the Guangzhou team, graduated from the Guangzhou Institute of Physical Education, transferred to Tianjin Teda Club in 2018 and has played for it so far, and has previously been selected for the Chinese Olympic team. From the current point of view, Xie Weijun is still on the rise, and in the past few years, he has gained a place in Tianjin Teda and has more opportunities to play every season. In an interview with the media, Xie Weijun once said that he hoped to improve himself and surpass his father through hard work, and the first reaction of fans when they remembered him would not be Xie Yuxin's son but himself.
5. Li Xicai & Li Xuepeng
As a player, Li Xicai was mainly active in the 1980s and was the main player who helped Liaoning win the national championship four times. After retiring from the army, Li Xicai transformed into a coach and was the most brilliant in his early years of coaching Dalian women's football team. Under his leadership, Dalian women's football team achieved a large number of domestic championship trophies in the same year.
As the son of Li Xicai, Li Xuepengqing is better than blue out of blue, and in his heyday, he can be said to be a strong contender for the first left-back in China, and his ability to insert the attack is particularly prominent, and he can take a place in the prosperous Evergrande and the national team. At present, although the 33-year-old Li Xuepeng is not in the same state as he was then, he is still a trustworthy general in the Guangzhou team with rich combat experience.
4. Li Songhai & Li Leilei
Li Songhai is a national football player in the 1970s, after retiring from retirement, he served as a goalkeeper coach in the national team and the national Olympic team for a long time, and he also worked as an assistant coach, team leader, deputy general manager and other positions in the Beijing Guoan team, and has up to 50 years of experience in the football circle, which is definitely a rare talent and watchman in the field of Chinese football.
To some extent, Wang Junsheng, Fu Yubin, Fu Bin, Jiang Jin, Jiang Hong, these excellent domestic goalkeepers can be said to be Li Songhai's disciples, who have received his guidance in the national Olympic team or the national team. Naturally, Li Leilei, the son of a goalkeeper who is engaged in the football industry, is the one who li Songhai has cultivated the most.
Looking back on Li Leilei's career, he became famous in the Bayi team at the end of the A era and on the eve of dissolution. After leaving the Bayi team, he successively switched to Shenzhen Jianlibao and Shandong Luneng Club, winning the Chinese Super League championship four times and being one of the classic goalkeepers in the early days of the Chinese Super League. Tiger father has no dogs, from 2005 to 2007, Li Leilei was selected for the national football team.
3. Chen Jialiang & Chen Dong
Chen Jialiang (above), from a working family in Jinzhou, Dalian, was a national football international in the 1950s, playing as a right winger, good at under-the-bottom crosses, and was the main winger of the first generation of the national team at that time. After retiring from the military, Chen Jialiang flourished in administrative positions, serving as the second in command of the Football Association from 1979 to 1985, and then serving as the head of the Olympic Sports Center and Chinese hockey Xie Hui for a period of time until his retirement.
Chen Jialiang has a son named Chen Dong, a midfielder who was briefly selected for the national team in the 1980s, appeared in the 1986 World Preliminary Tournament roster, and was famous for his passing ability, the same name as the A A goalkeeper Chen Dong, who later became famous. It can be said that Chen Jialiang & Chen Dong are a pair of international fathers and sons who are not easy to be remembered.
2. Gao Zhongxun & Gao Zhunyi
Gao Zhongxun (third from the left) from Yanbian, Jilin Province, was active as a player in the 1990s, played well in both the back and front back, was selected for the national team, and can be said to be one of the representative figures of Jilin football. Fast forward to 1998, in Yanbian's away match against Chongqing, Gao Zhongxun left behind a classic shot written into the history of modern Chinese football.
At that time, Gao Zhongxun, who was extremely disappointed and angry about the Chinese football environment due to dissatisfaction with the referee's whistle-blowing behavior, roared at the reporter on the sidelines after the game: Chinese football is out of play! However, as a famous national football player, Gao Zhongxun is actually quite enthusiastic and concerned about Chinese football, otherwise how can he be willing to train his two sons to become players?
As the eldest son of Gao Zhongxun, the 26-year-old Gao Zhunyi (first from the left), currently plays for Guangzhou, can be said to be the best middle generation defender among the active national footballers, and is the international football team that the national football team is currently focusing on cultivating for the next World Cup.
It is worth mentioning that Gao Zhongxun sent Gao Zhun wing to Japan to learn football very early, and Gao Zhun Wing is also a player who debuted from a Japanese professional team and returned to China at the age of 20 to join Luneng Development. Compared with the former international Gao Sheng's practice of allowing his son Gao Yuyang, who is also a footballer, to naturalize in Japan and play for the Japanese Olympic Games, Gao Zhongxun is obviously more recognized by domestic fans.
Incidentally, the 21-year-old Gao Mingyi (Ko Joong-hoon's second son, fourth from left) currently plays for South Korea's K4 League. It seems that in terms of potential and strength, he is much worse than his brother and father's peers, and it is estimated that he will transform into other football practitioners early if he can't play later.
1. Xie Hongjun & Xie Feng
Born in Zhongshan, Guangdong Province, Xie Hongjun was one of the first international footballers in the 1950s, and as a player in China, he successively represented Shanghai and Bayi in China, and was famous in Chinese football in that era for his good headers and outer insteps.
In 1954, Xie Hongjun was given the opportunity to go to Hungary to study football and was one of the outstanding Representatives of the Chinese international at that time. After retiring as a player, Xie Hongjun has long served as the coach of the football class of Beijing No. 2 Sports School and the coach of the football team of the Beijing Youth Team, and has trained a large number of young talents in Beijing, including his son Xie Feng.
For Xie Feng, who enjoys the reputation of "fast horse", I believe that the old fans who have seen from the A and A era will not be strangers. After Chinese football entered the era of professionalization, Xie Feng and Gao Feng, who were also in Guoan, Formed the famous "Four Famous Catches in Beijing" combination, and was a standing international footballer in the mid-to-late 1990s, known for his breakthrough speed and sharp shooting, and few could stop him within the first three steps of the peak Xie Feng's start.
Back on October 17, 2020, Xie Hongjun passed away at the age of 91. According to Xie Feng's recollection, his last conversation with his father was still related to football, and Xie Hongjun was concerned about Xie Feng's achievements and difficulties as a coach in Huaxia, Hebei Province.