At 5:00 p.m. Beijing time on April 25, the Chinese Football Association officially announced the list of third-tier league teams for the new season, of which all 18 teams in the Chinese Super League were listed, and Hebei and Chongqing, which had been plagued by financial problems, were able to continue to compete in the 2022 season. However, in the middle of the first division, two familiar teams have disappeared.
They are Qingdao and Guizhou respectively, while they were replaced by two relegated teams from last season, Beijing Polytechnic and Xinjiang. In fact, as early as a month ago, there were rumors that the Guizhou team was not qualified for the Chinese Football Association. Subsequently, the general manager of the club, Wen Yingting, also generously admitted the matter in an interview, and said that the club would guarantee compensation for the players' unpaid wages.
Four or five years ago, in the Golden Yuan era of the Chinese Super League, Guizhou was a big dark horse in the Chinese Super League, sitting on the Spanish coach Manzano, the introduction of Premier League star Jelavic in the front line, the back line was guarded by former national football captain Dewey, and he won the eighth place in the league in the first season of promotion.
Unfortunately, the good times were not long, and the next year the team soon fell into the middle division, the team's financial pressure became increasingly huge, coupled with some foreign aid lawsuits, making the originally not rich team worse. In particular, the competition system and the impact of the epidemic in the past two years have slowly made the Guizhou team go to the end of the road. The Guizhou team has been brilliant in the Chinese Super League, while the Qingdao team, which has just been relegated from the Chinese Super League, has not even played the home Chinese Super League competition, and is already about to announce its departure.
Three years ago, they were promoted to the Chinese Super League as Champions of the Chinese League One, and that season they brought in former Manchester City superstar Yaya Toure, and the limelight was the same. Unfortunately, in the following time, the team quickly fell from the peak to the bottom and directly "died". In the 2020 season, when the league had not yet started, they changed two managers, and the team's foreign aid did not arrive until the eight rounds of the league. As a promoted polo team, they have been hovering near the end of the division until the last round of the relegation group competition, only to beat Wuhan and successfully relegated.
In the 2021 season, the team's internal hidden dangers are increasing, although at the beginning of the season it was unbeaten for several rounds and rose to the fourth place in the division. However, after returning from the interval, the team was in a slump and directly came to an eleven-game losing streak, setting a record for the longest consecutive defeats in the Chinese Super League, and finally they were stared at the last place in the relegation group. Losing to Zhejiang in the relegation play-offs, the only Chinese Super League team in this football city, lost the last straw.
Withdrawal has become the theme of this time of every year, after the Suning incident last year, now we have seen the habit, as fans, we should cherish their home team can still persist, want to build a century-old giants? In Chinese football, there is definitely no way.
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