When it comes to Chinese football, especially the national football team in the era of professional system before professionalization, there is one person who cannot be erased no matter what, he is Nian Weisi.
In 1933, Nian Weisi was born in Beijing, and when he was a student, he liked the sport of football, not only playing the ball well, but also the young man looked very spirited.
In 1951, Nian Weisi, who was still in middle school, was selected to join the Beijing football team and participate in the North China Football Competition. The purpose of this competition is to select the best football players in North China from seven participating teams including Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Chahar, Shanxi, Suiyuan and Pingyuan, and to form a team to participate in the first national football competition conference held in Tianjin. After six rounds of fierce battles, Nian Weisi won the North China Championship with beijing team, and he was also successfully selected for the North China football team with his outstanding performance.
On December 1 of the same year, the first national football competition conference was officially opened in Tianjin, with a total of eight representative teams from North China, Northeast China, Northwest China, Central South, East China, Southwest China, Bayi and Railway, and after seven rounds of competition, the northeast team won the championship with an unbeaten record of 6 wins and 1 draw, and Nian Weisi's North China team ranked fourth.
After the event, the organizing committee selected 30 players who performed well in this competition as Chinese football players, and Nian Weisi, who was only 18 years old, was also among them. These thirty Chinese football players, this is the first generation of international footballers after the founding of the People's Republic of China.
A list of 30 Chinese football players in 1951 is attached:
Wang Libin, Guo Hongbin, Wang Zhengwen, Wang Shouxian, Jin Bingkui, Cong Anqing, Li Fengchun, Cui Zengshi, Jin Longhu, Sun Fucheng, Ma Shaohua, Chen Chengda, Qian Yunqing, Fang Shuqiu, He Jiatong, Zheng Deyao, Zhang Jie, Zhang Banglun, Xiao Ziwen, Gao Baozheng, Xu Fusheng, Gao Xiuqing, Xing Guifu, Zhuang Wenquan, Jiang Jiexiang, Cao Guiming, Shao Xiankai, Li Chaogui, Shi Wanchun, Nian Weisi
After the competition, Nian Weisi, who returned to school to study, received an order to participate in the training of the Central Sports Training Class (National Training Team) not long after receiving the transfer.
In 1954, the General Sports Federation (the predecessor of the National Sports Commission) sent two groups of young players to Hungary to study the world's most advanced football technology and theoretical knowledge at that time, and Nian Weisi was one of the first fifteen players.
Attached is a list of those who went to Hungary in 1954 to stay abroad:
The first players: Nian Weisi, Jang Joon-so, Kim In-jae, Choi Ho-jun, Park Wan-bok, Kim Chang-gi, Sung-moon-kwan, Jang Hong-geun, Jang Shui-ho, Wang Kebin, Xie Hongjun, Wang Lu, Chen Sung-da, Fang Seok-choi, Choi Tsung-seok
The second batch of players: Wang Jinfeng, Sun Baorong, Zeng Xuelin, Cong Zhiyu, Sun Yuanyun, Chen Shanhu, Chen Jialiang, Li Yuankui, Zhang Jingtian, Park Zengzhe
A year and a half later, Nian Weisi and the others returned to Hungary after their trip to Hungary. The new national football team is also formed with Hungarian players staying in the world as a team.
In 1956, Wei si was selected for the national football team to participate in the Melbourne Olympic team, but due to the background of the times at that time, the Chinese Olympic delegation ultimately failed to participate in the Olympic Games. What people did not expect is that Chinese football has been separated from the Olympic qualifiers for more than 20 years.
In 1957, Nian Weisi followed the national football team to start the first world preliminary tour in the history of Chinese football.
In the first round of the Asian qualifiers, the opponent of the national football team is Indonesia. The two sides fought in the first leg, and the national football team lost 0-2 away. After returning to the home field, the national football team defeated the opponent 4-3 at the Xiannongtan Stadium, in this game, Nian Weisi took advantage of the corner kick opportunity to score the second goal of the national football team in front of the goal.
In the final play-off match, the two teams moved to Yangon, Myanmar, and both sides failed to score for 120 minutes. According to the rules of the time, the national football team eventually had few opponents because of the total number of goals scored in three games, and it did not qualify. Nian Weisi's only World Cup as a player came to an end.
In October 1960, Nian Weisi represented the Beijing team in a teaching match against the Soviet Belarusian team visiting China, when an accidental injury caused a comminuted fracture of the tibia fibula of the left leg. After a long period of recuperation, although Nian Weisi recovered from his injuries, he also bid farewell to the green field.
In 1963, at the age of 30, Nian Weisi served as the interim head coach of the national football team and led the team to Burma, Pakistan and other places for foreign visits. Three years later, Nian Weisi officially became the head coach of the national football team, and led the team to Phnom Penh, Cambodia to participate in the first Asian Emerging Forces Games football match, and finally won the second place in the national team with a record of 5 wins and 1 loss.
When Wei Si led the team back to China, what awaited them was not flowers and applause.
In 1970, the sports brigades across the country began to rebuild, and Nian Weisi also began to reorganize the national football team. At this time, all walks of life in the land of China began to regain vitality. The league, which has been suspended for many years, has reopened, and a large number of young and outstanding football players such as Chi Shangbin, Rong Zhixing, and Li Fusheng have begun to emerge in various domestic arenas.
In 1974, Nian Weisi handed over the position of head coach of the national football team to Ren Bin, and he was transferred to the team manager. At the 7th Asian Games football tournament held in Tehran, Iran in the same year, although the national football team only won 1 and lost 2 losses in the group stage, it finally reappeared on the Asian field.
Two years later, in the sixth Asian Cup, also held in Tehran, Iran, the national football team won the third place in its first competition. In the last three-four-place battle, Su Yongshun, who followed the national football team on the sidelines and played an advisory role, temporarily offered a plan to Nian Weisi, allowing Chen Xirong to play as a substitute, forming a midfield iron triangle with Rong Zhixing and He Jia, and finally the national football team won 1-0 iraq with He Jia's goal.
Su Yongshun also left a very deep impression on Nian Weisi.
In September 1977, Pele led the New York Cosmos team to visit China. More than half a month later, Nian Weisi, who was back in charge of the national football team, led the national football team to the United States for a return visit, and then went to Jamaica and Mexico for training.
Interestingly, when in Mexico, the national football team even took a group photo with Milu, who was coaching in Mexico at the time. More than twenty years later, when Milu was the head coach of the national football team, he recognized assistant coach Chi Shangbin at a glance.
In 1980, Nian Weisi led the national football team in the Olympic qualifiers, unexpectedly lost 0-1 to Singapore, this loss made Nian Weisi bear great pressure, and then retreated. Subsequently, under his strong persuasion, Su Yongshun took over the national football team and served as the head coach of the national football team. In the following five years, under the leadership of Su Yongshun and Zeng Xuelin, the national football team twice hit the World Cup finals, but finally ended in failure.
After Zeng Xuelin left office, Nian Weisi once again went out to fight the fire, and after leading the national football team to participate in the Busan Asian Games, Nian Weisi announced that Gao Fengwen and Xu Genbao would become the head coaches of the national first and second teams respectively, and he finally unloaded the burden on his shoulders.
As a disciple of Nian Weisi, Gao Fengwen set himself a goal at the beginning of his tenure to surpass his teacher in leading the team. In 1987, Gao Fengwen led the national football team to beat the Japanese team 2-0 away from home and successfully advanced to the men's football final of the Seoul Olympic Games, achieving the first time in the history of the national football team to rush out of Asia to the world.
In 1988, Nian Weisi was elected president of the Chinese Football Association, which he left in 1992. In 1994, Nian Weisi officially retired, and Chinese football also bid farewell to the era of professional system and entered the process of professionalization.
Nian Weisi has been controversial in the history of national football, and many people say that his ideas are old and solidified, especially when Su Yongshun and Zeng Xuelin interfered in the employment of the national team during the coaching period.
Xiaobian believes that It is a fact that Nian Weisi may have an old and solidified mind, and his conservative tactical style and coaching level are indeed not very outstanding, but it is biased to say that he interfered in the employment of the national team.
The simplest example, before Su Yongshun entered the national football team, Rong Zhixing had actually been abandoned by the national team. However, Su Yongshun re-recruited Yung Chi-hing to the national team after the Asian Cup and entrusted him with a core responsibility. Su Yongshun's move is actually equivalent to overturning Nian Weisi's previous decision when he was the head coach of the national football team, but Nian Weisi did not do anything to block it, but fully supported it.
Nian Weisi was a football manager in the era of professional system, and many of his decisions may seem difficult for fans today, such as preventing Gu Guangming and Shen Xiangfu from staying in the ocean, but all of this can not be separated from the background of the times.
It is undeniable that Nian Weisi has dedicated his whole life to Chinese football and is definitely a meritorious person in Chinese football.
His football life is a history book of the era of the national football professional system.