North Korea has a very special team, the "Four-Two-Five Club".
What makes the name special is that it is named after the founding of the Korean People's Army, and the main players of the North Korean national football team almost all come from the club, which is also the "thirteen champions" of the domestic league.
In this team affiliated with the Korean People's Army, the players and coaches are equipped with military ranks, and it is said that there is also a "political commissar", and strict discipline is the first impression of it.
Bayi
Similarly, the Bayi team, which was established by China in 1951, was professionalized in 1994, because the players were all active soldiers, the team was militarized and managed, and its combat effectiveness was extremely strong, and it won many domestic championships.
Players such as Ha Zengguang, Gao Junshi, Chen Fulai, Zeng Xuelin, Xu Genbao, Li Fusheng and Jia Xiuquan were the best in the early Bayi team.
In 1993, the then Beijing Fengtai Stadium found the leader of the Bayi team, hoped that the Bayi team would set its home stadium in Fengtai, and promised the Bayi team a "tea fee" of 20,000 yuan, which showed its dominance and influence.
The "tea fee" is very new for the Bayi team, there is a free home field, and there is money to take, which is really a good thing. After professionalization, the so-called "tea fee" began to appear in the form of an exponential explosion, soaring to one and a half million.
In the following years, the Bayi team had to run around in order to earn more "tea fees". They have successively set up their home stadiums in Shijiazhuang, Xi'an, Kunming, Chongqing, Xinxiang, Xiangtan, Liuzhou and other places, becoming veritable "wanderers".
In the fourth year of professionalization, in 1998, in addition to the restrictions of professionalization, when Sui Dongliang, Huang Yong and other Jianlibao young generals returned to the team, Guo Hui, another member of the national youth team who remained in China of the same age, gradually came to the fore, and there were also Liu Junwei and other members who were transferred after the withdrawal of the Shenyang troops.
The return and joining of these team members did not enhance the strength of the Bayi team, but because they were young and vigorous, they did not buy each other, and every action on the training ground may cause conflicts between the team members, "the first thing that just came back to learn is fighting."
At the end of the season, the Bayi team was "logically" relegated, and this story is a long-standing grudge with Kawazu.
Back in 1995, Sichuan Quanxing was in danger of relegation before the end of the season, and in the penultimate round, when the powerful Bayi team "released water" in Chengdu to help Quanxing team relegate successfully. Two years later, the Quanxing team also pulled the Bayi team ashore before the end of the season.
In the year of the relegation of the Bayi team, the last game was also against Sichuan, and the Bayi team only promised to "try to win" through high-level contact, and the Quanxing team, which was not too happy, only promised to "not try its best to win".
Sichuan Quanxing is not that he does not want to release water, but the boss Yang Zhaoji has the requirements to enter the top four, and if he loses to Bayi, he will not be able to complete the task, and this is linked to the bonus at the end of the year.
"Can you show it a little economically, even if it is much lower than the bonus", but at that time, Bayi was in a sensitive period, and the "revocation of the establishment" had been proposed, let alone taking money out to buy balls. In order to show his return for that year, Quanxing said, "When the time comes, although you attack, we can defend it."
But people are not as good as heavenly calculations, Peng Xiaofang shot randomly, actually kicked out the world wave, and personally sent the Bayi team out of the top league. After the goal was scored, the originally noisy stadium was silent for half a minute, like a dead city.
No one embraced Peng Xiaofang fiercely, he knelt on the ground, his mouth chanting. Later, when asked what he was chanting, he said, "I only said two words, Providence." ”
After that, whenever Peng Xiaofang was on the court, the Bayi players did everything they could to retaliate against him with a fierce tackle.
In 2000, Peng Xiaofang, who transferred to Chengdu Wuniu, scored another goal from the Bayi team in the teaching competition, and was beaten by the Bayi team members on the spot, he retreated to another field and angrily said: "Lao Tzu is Ke Bayi, and I will score your ball in the next game." ”
After the relegation, the Bayi team moved its home stadium to Xinxiang, Henan, and invited a South Korean coach, Lee Kang-su, who was the head coach of the Sangmu team of the Club under the South Korean Army before coming to China, and Lee Kang-joo left as the technical adviser of the Bayi team in the name of exchange between the two armies and actually exercised the head coaching authority.
Being able to hire a foreign teacher in such a far-fetched name is undoubtedly only one aspect of the embarrassing situation of the Bayi team.
At that time, the place where the team trained was adjacent to the National Defense University, a military powerhouse, and "every day as long as Li Kangzhu went downstairs, someone had to follow him", and the team members had to take turns to "guard" Li Kangzhu.
The Bayi team not only asked foreign teachers for trouble, but also asked for foreign aid, even if other domestic players were introduced, they also needed the other side to have military relations to be specially approved to join the army, and the players' salaries were much lower than those of the club.
When the Bayi team reported the idea of asking for foreign aid upwards, the reply was "we can't be the master", and only half a year later, Lee Kang-joo returned to South Korea.
struggle
In 2001, the Bayi team, which returned to the top league, gritted its teeth and fought hard, and finally the season ended dismally, but it was relegated successfully.
In the last two years, they moved to Xiangtan, Hunan Province to make the final struggle, and the team experienced the "Chuyang Incident" and "Aircraft Failure" one after another. Under all kinds of turmoil, it once again broke into the final four of the FA Cup.
In July 2003, the Bayi football team was withdrawn, and the Bayi swimming team was also withdrawn.
At that time, it was in the middle of the league, and the Bayi team, who had learned of the withdrawal, had no intention of fighting, because they had received a death order "not to return to Beijing".
It was in the final year of this fifty-two-year-old team that The Rashomon Incident, in which Payn and Zhuang won consecutively, became the final blow to crush the players' confidence in survival.
At the end of September, all the players of Bayi were called to the conference room on the second floor for a meeting, and the leader Zhuang Liansheng arrived at the meeting, and the players seemed to know that this was a "regular meeting" to change the head coach.
When the director said, "In order for the team to rush to the Chinese Super League, we now ask the players to elect the head coach, and the candidates are Zhuang Liansheng and Pei Encai", Pei Encai, who was the head coach of the Bayi team at the time, walked off the rostrum in anger and rushed out of the conference room.
The "election work" continued, and the twenty-nine players attending the meeting began to vote in turn with anonymous white papers, and finally Zhuang Liansheng won twenty-two votes, and Pein only received a pitiful seven votes when he slammed the door, which was zhuang Liansheng's third time as the head coach of the Bayi team.
Payne has his own knowledge and understanding of the end of the class, "the players and coaches are all in the right place." Because of the problem of game arrangement and lineup, Pei Encai and Zhuang Liansheng, who initially cooperated with tacit understanding, gradually became estranged, and eventually became strangers. By the time Payne left class, the two were barely able to communicate.
In the last year, the Bayi team finally ended the final journey with an unprecedented ten consecutive defeats. Coincidentally, it was also in that year that the A-League officially bid farewell to history.
Professional leagues are cold mirrors, and untimely feelings will be eliminated, leaving only rational calculations. A and A are over, Bayi has disappeared, and together they have become the dust of history.
disillusionment
People at that time may not have imagined that after the dissolution of the Bayi team, Chinese football began to miss this team that was named "high execution", and even exercised the so-called blood and ambition in the form of military training.
In the era of no foreign aid, the Bayi team can recruit talents from all over the country without geographical restrictions. Initially, the background of the army was a very attractive unit, and Liu Yudong could become a general.
The earliest Bayi team, famous players such as Yun, the two national gatekeepers Li Fusheng and Wang Zhenjie, have half a line of defense of the national team, Jia Xiuquan, Zhu Bo, and the center forwards are Sheng Baihua, Yang Zuhua and Zhang Zongben.
In addition to the reasons for their own physique, there is a key factor in the decline of the Bayi team, that is, Dalian football. For special reasons, it has become a historical tradition for Dalian people to join the army to play football and then join the Bayi team.
Moreover, at that time, joining the army had all kinds of advantages, social status, political treatment, if someone in the family was in the army, a "glorious family" was posted on the door, and no one in the local area dared to touch it.
In 1981, the division of regional administration was adjusted, and the original brigade city was changed to Dalian City, and Dalian began to form its own football association and build its own team, and the seedlings originally given to the Bayi team were also intercepted.
In the mid-1980s, local businesses began to get involved in football sponsorship, and within a year almost all local teams embraced this model.
At that time, the national league did not have a home and away game, all the teams lived together to train, ate in a canteen, the local team accepted sponsorship after opening a small stove, ginseng stewed chicken, Wang Eight stewed soup, overflowing with fragrance, and the Bayi team could only eat a big pot of rice with dry eyes.
After professionalization, the Bayi team was more affected, the system was limited, the military sports team could not accept the enterprise naming, and then there were a few Brazilians who played football in the team, what they counted, where the organization was, not to mention foreign aid, even internal aid was impossible, and they could not become soldiers.
This decline is a kind of marketization and professional inevitability, but twenty years later, some people begin to miss a team formed by soldiers, as a flag that once represented a pure football, but this simplicity could not accept the impact of the gold dollar.
At the beginning, Jiang Jiexiang was the left-back of the Bayi team, and was known for his desperate Sanlang. In 1990, when the old man died, he made a will, and the ashes were sprinkled on the left-back position of the workers' body and the Xiannongtan Stadium, "I will die to see the Chinese team win the foreign team." ”
In 2001, Milu led the national football team to a historic World Cup, and the Jiang family went to the left-back position on the workers' lawn to pay homage. This is the integrity that Chinese football should have, but in the decades of tossing and turning, it has gradually disappeared.
Chinese football no longer has August 1st and their military salutes, but it has forever left their legends.