"At the beginning of 2020, when the epidemic was about to start, I had a one-year contract with the previous club, because the club was getting younger, and I was told that I could leave the team to find a team, and I was eating dinner and couldn't eat anything."
This is the content that Chen Bailiang posted on the online platform, which solved one of my doubts.
Two years ago, Zhejiang Greentown team captain Chen Bailiang still had a one-year contract, leaving the team to go north to Changchun to pursue his football dream, which made people wonder. There is still one year left in the contract, the two sides cooperate happily, they should perform the contract well, why should they run around to find the team? Moreover, there was no call-up before. Wouldn't it be more fragrant if you wanted to find a home and negotiate as a free person?
"Waiting for idleness to change but the heart of the green city, but the heart of the green city is changeable." As a result, Chen Bailiang did not say goodbye, did not say thank you, and the Greentown Club only sent the captain away for many years with a cold announcement.
Even today, two years later, Chen Bailiang still can't let go. When talking about Greentown Club, he euphemistically used the term "former club" and didn't even want to mention the name. Recalling that when he was informed at that time, Chen Bailiang was eating dinner but could not eat anything, and now that he thinks back on the situation at that time, his heart is still full of confusion and pain.
Perhaps it can only be said that when the manager of the personnel department informed Chen Bailiang that he could leave the team, he failed to pick a suitable time.
To be fair, Greentown treats Chen Bailiang not thinly, due to the policy of the Football Association, in 2016, Greentown and Chen Bailiang signed a five-year long contract, and both sides were very happy. Greentown was given a diligent and loyal courtier, and Chen Bailiang was fully recognized and guaranteed by a long contract. Even if Greentown is relegated, Chen Bailiang's position in the team has not been affected, but has become more stable.
The only shortcoming is that after Greentown was relegated at the end of 2016, his vow to lead the team back to the Chinese Super League has not been fulfilled.
The mountains and rivers are far away and sometimes end, and the day and moon of Trushin are long: twice lifted, twice illuminated
If Trussier had not come to China to coach, there would have been no Chen Bailiang, who later became popular in football.
No one can deny the fact that Trussier was Chen Bailiang's mentor. At the end of 2011, The Shenzhen team coached by Trussier invited Chen Bailiang to the trial training and successfully signed a contract. In the 2012 season, Chen Bailiang, who had just stepped onto the Chinese League One, grew rapidly under the tutelage of Trussier and sat firmly in the main position.
During his two years at Shenzhen Red Diamonds, he made 53 appearances, scoring nine goals and delivering an excellent answer. At the end of the 2013 season, he was matched by Shanghai Shenhua and played in the Chinese Super League. However, in the 2014 season, Chen Bailiang, who had just entered the Chinese Super League, was not trusted, and he played very hard, making only 13 appearances in the whole season, including 2 starts, the rest were all substitutes, and even appeared in stoppage time for a few minutes, this season he did not score.
Then, in February 2015, The Teacher Trucier extended an olive branch again! At that time, Trussier came to Hangzhou Greentown to coach, and he signed him again. This move can be described as sending charcoal in the snow, and Chen Bailiangxi, who is frustrated by Shenhua, raises his eyebrows. Although after half a year, Trussier was soon dismissed due to poor performance, Chen Bailiang gained a foothold in the Greentown team and gradually grew into a captain.
From joining the team in February 2015 to leaving the team in February 2020, Chen Bailiang stayed in the Greentown team for five years. From the age of 26 to the age of 31, he almost dedicated the best years of football to Greentown.
To be fair, Trussier twice built a platform for him, guided him, and was an indispensable mentor on the road of Chen Bailiang's growth. During the two years of the Red Diamond in Shenzhen, Chen Bailiang's level has been greatly improved, so he has the wisdom of Shanghai Shenhua and recruits him to his subordinates. And to be able to enter the Greentown Club, Trussier's recommendation and recruitment are the most important. And it turns out that unlike giants like Shenhua, small clubs like Greentown are more suitable for Chen Bailiang.
Then again, if there is no Chen Bailiang's own efforts and diligent practice, then he will not be able to gain recognition in the Greentown team and thus take root. All this is inseparable from chance and coincidence, and even more inseparable from their own anger and strength.
Now the topic of domestic players staying in the west has been mentioned, it seems that staying in the west can get great development, and returning to China after a few years will definitely become famous and return home.
In fact, it's too simple to think that way. I would like to ask, can a player meet a manager who recognizes him after staying in Yangyang? Can you build him? Will there be a suitable platform to help him grow? Looking at the level of Chinese players, foreign coaches who go to the European second division may not look at you squarely. Staying in the ocean is arduous, jumping out of the comfort zone, giving yourself a challenge, ambitious, but more to pave the way for future generations. Of course, this is indispensable to the hard work and diligence of the players themselves, and to play their talents and strengths in football.
Judging from Chen Bailiang's situation, he also belongs to the category of the Chinese Super League. After years of struggle, he is still successful and has become a veritable treasure island ball king.
The goal reward knows the grace, and the green city finally loses the qing: the goal of the birthday night came a little late
Looking back at Trussier's short coaching career in Greentown, Chen Bailiang is indeed a topic that cannot be avoided.
As a player personally recruited by Trussier, It seems natural that Chen Bailiang will be reused. But when he first arrived in Greentown, he really did not have a prominent performance. The main force of the field, the field performance is average. Greentown's record is dismal, and the relegation is cloudy. In early July, Trussier ended classes. At this time, it was only half a year since he took office. Maybe the club's patience is not enough, but competitive sports must speak in terms of results. This brilliant theorist had no choice but to leave class.
As the main player in the midfield, Chen Bailiang, although he worked very the field, he still did not score a goal and failed to share the pressure for his mentor. Off the pitch, he was described by some fans as Trussier's "dry son" and was subjected to a cyber storm. For a time, he had mixed tastes. After the teacher left class, he silently understood the pressure and licked the wound alone. He just wants to prove his worth with actions. He didn't change his love of football because of that encounter. On the field, he runs at all costs, and his overall view, reasonable handling of the ball and ability to create threatening balls have gradually gained everyone's recognition.
It wasn't until August 11, his birthday, that this special day finally ushered in a turnaround.
This day is destined to be an unforgettable day for Chen Bailiang, who joined Greentown from Shanghai Shenhua half a year ago. Scoring goals, assisting, killing the old masters and helping Greentown get a win. The Debut of the Chinese Super League and his highlights happened on his 27th birthday night, and nothing could have been more perfect. After the game, when the fans sang birthday songs for him, Chen Bailiang was full of emotions, from being questioned to gradually being recognized, Chen Bailiang went through a difficult mental journey, and today, he finally exhaled and raised his eyebrows.
Unfortunately, the day came a little late.
Chen Bailiang said: "This goal came too late. I always wanted to send my first goal to the former manager Trussier, because it was the coach who let me come to Hangzhou, and many fans and many people were not optimistic about me before, but only the coach has been supporting me and encouraging me and believing in me, so I want to give this goal to him, but unfortunately he has left Hangzhou. "
With the paving of this goal, Chen Bailiang gained a firm foothold in the Greentown team. Later, Yang Ji, Hong Mingfu, Xu Lei, Sergi, Zheng Xiong, and successive managers liked this diligent Taiwanese player very much and entrusted him with heavy responsibilities as a midfield commando. And Chen Bailiang did not live up to their trust. The captain received unanimous praise.
And Chen Bailiang's sentimentality and righteousness are also well-known. After scoring his debut goal in the Chinese Super League against Shenhua, Chen Bailiang did not celebrate or even smile. He said: "Shenhua is my old owner, although last year was very painful, I had a very unhappy life, but after all, Shenhua is my old owner, they helped me." "
Then, since Shenhua, who was very unhappy, could get Chen Bailiang's approval, and he had been in Greentown for five years and was deeply valued, why did he have no gratitude to Greentown after leaving the Greentown team?
Champion rushing is not a dream, but the green clothes change into red clothes: the dream moment, the helplessness that the old people cannot share
After failing to renew his contract with Changchun Yatai, Chen Bailiang expressed his gratitude.
Thank you Changchun Yatai for allowing me to continue to play on the stage of chasing dreams in the past two years, and also let me feel the life and culture of Northeast China. I am very happy that I have spent the past two years in Yatai, and the atmosphere of everyone coming together is really great.
Finally, I would like to thank Changchun Yatai again for allowing me to realize the dream of championship rushing.
You can easily feel Chen Bailiang's gratitude to Yatai and his complicated feelings for Greentown.
Maybe it's over-interpreted. If he stayed in Greentown, he wouldn't be happy. In the years when Greentown played in the middle division, he did not lead the team to successfully overtake, and this has always been a wish in his heart. Until he left at the beginning of the 2020 season, he was unable to fulfill this wish. It was in that year that he realized this wish in Changchun Yatai, two key goals and multiple assists, helping the team to win the Chinese First Division championship and successfully overtake! This was exactly what he had longed for years: to take back what he had lost from his own hands.
What is slightly emotional is that the team uniform on the body has changed from green to red.
Greentown has finally won against Qingdao in early 2022 on the stage of the Chinese Super League, but all this has nothing to do with Chen Bailiang. He also didn't send a congratulatory message, just as when he left Greentown, he once again chose silence.
For the 33-year-old Chen Bailiang, there are no regrets in his football career.
The only regret is that he did not end up in Changchun Yatai, just like his original plan in the Greentown team. When you want to give everything to him, he either politely or impolitely refuses.
Sighing years like morning dew, where retirement is not busy?
It is conceivable that he will not stop following the footsteps of his football dreams, only this time, where will he go?