Recently, the new FIFA World Cup has been held in Qatar.
Domestic fans can't help but think back to our only participation experience in 2002.
Now netizens can't help but ridicule: "I thought it was the beginning, but I didn't expect it to be the peak." ”
Of the players who participated that time, all of them have retired and disappeared from sight.
However, as a central defender, Fan Zhiyi is still active in front of people, and he uses sharp language,
Time and time again, it satirizes the chaos of domestic football.
There are many young people who say suspiciously, "Didn't he just play abroad, didn't he also win nothing in the World Cup, why is he so crazy now, no matter who he is, he can criticize ah!" ”
In fact, looking at his resume, Fan Zhiyi is really qualified to evaluate anyone,
What I didn't expect was that he was so wonderful in football, and he was equally wonderful in life!
01
The environment in which he was born was destined to be associated with sports in this life.
His parents were both athletes, and Fan Zhiyi, who grew up in such a family, mixed in the stadium early.
When he was about 10 years old, his father officially took his small pin hand and walked into the green field.
Looking at the football being kicked around on the field, he did not expect that he would play with this ball for a lifetime, and in the end he became one of the most well-known players in China.
In 1987, at the age of 18, he joined the Shanghai football team.
In 1994, he began to represent Shenhua Club in the then A-League, which is now the Chinese Super League.
The following year, Fan Zhiyi scored 15 goals on the green field.
A central defender can score so many goals and also become the number one scorer that year.
Such an achievement was simply unbelievable and made many strikers feel embarrassed at the time.
And helped the team win the championship that year, and just came out to receive such a high honor,
It is a height that many Chinese Super League athletes cannot touch in their lifetime.
He stayed at Shenhua Fan Zhiyi for four years, during which time he tried to stay in the ocean several times.
In the end, it all ended in failure, although the results were unsatisfactory.
But Fan Zhiyi was not discouraged at all, with the ideal of playing football for the rise of the national football team.
He boarded the train to England again in 1998, and this time he managed to stay in the ocean.
His team was Crystal Palace, which was in League One at the time, and he went with Sun Jihai, another famous figure in domestic football.
As soon as he arrived at the team, he showed good performances and even became the team leader.
It was also the first time in history that a European team had been captained by a foreign captain, but none of that was entirely indicative of his success.
In 2001, Fan Zhiyi was invited by two veteran giants of the Premier League.
However, after reading the contract, Fan Zhiyi still refused the invitations.
It clearly stated that he wanted to limit the number and length of his appearances with the national team.
He chose to play football so that domestic football could go global, and he firmly refused the offer.
It's hard to imagine what Fan's achievements in football would be once Fan accepted the contract, and whether it would be the same as Yao Ming in the NBA.
This also made many people admire his decision at that time, after all, not everyone can refuse the solicitation of top giants.
After completing his journey to Crystal Palace, he began to concentrate on preparing for the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup, and finally realized his dream of entering the World Cup after a generation's efforts.
But in the final stage, the gap between the current opponents and the opponents in the same group is too big.
One was the champion of the year, the other was the third runner-up of the year, and even Costa Rica we couldn't handle it.
Fan Zhiyi did not play again due to injury after a game, but he and his teammates did not feel very upset at that time.
I think that the results will get better and better, and the new generation of players will become better and better.
Unexpectedly, this turned out to be the most brilliant moment of the national football team.
After leaving the World Cup, he retired from the national team until 2006, when the veteran officially left the green field.
After retiring, he was not idle and continued to cultivate in the field of football.
02
After retiring, Fan Zhiyi transformed into a coach, perhaps thinking of the same as his master Xu Genbao,
Cultivating more creative talents for domestic football backfired.
Compared with his achievements as a player, Fan Zhiyi did not do a very good job in the position of coach.
In 2007, due to salary issues, he broke up with the team.
In 2009, he led the team to the quarterfinals of the National Games before resigning and leaving.
In 2010, he led the team to a defeat and left again.
These three less-than-ideal experiences have made Fan Zhiyi not serving as a head coach so far.
Instead, he learned from Master Xu Genbao and began to cultivate some small players.
Perhaps because he no longer relies on football for food, his comments on some of the current situation are very sharp.
The phrase "if you lose again, you will lose to Vietnam and Myanmar" was said during this time.
The cheerful words said the words in the hearts of many fans.
Anger and disappointment are on full display between words.
But his harsh words did not affect the fall of the national football team.
These harsh words have also become obstacles to the development of his head coach career.
Sun Jihai, a player of the same period, has become an indispensable player in football.
Even his former juniors have become the head coach of the national team, only he is still active in the civil society and active in major programs.
Because of this, many netizens have a good impression of this Fan Zhiyi, who only tells the truth,
I think that this person in the whole football world is the only one who dares to tell the truth and tell the truth.
Indeed, Fan Zhiyi, who absorbs today, still expresses his views on the national football team on the Internet.
The words are very sharp and can always point out the problem very accurately.
However, just when he lost the game that he shouldn't have lost at the beginning of the year, he began to support the national football team,
In the face of netizens' doubts about national football players taking high-tech but unable to play decent games.
Fan Zhiyi began to speak for the players of the national football team, and also said the controversial sentence,
"If you want to watch, don't look at it, don't look at it if you don't want to, the national football team is not because you alone can qualify."
After hearing this, netizens called out; "General Fan has become sleek!"
Maybe it's remembering your experience of being questioned by fans?
Will he start supporting the new national football players? What is the reason,
We don't know, but what is certain is that he has never changed emotionally.
03
Fan Zhiyi has experienced three marriages so far,
In every marriage, he and the other had children of their own.
His first marriage partner was named Li Qian, and he only knew that his profession was a flight attendant.
Still his fans, the two fell in love soon after bonding on a plane.
At that time, the combination of the two was once considered to be a combination of golden children and jade girls,
The marriage lasted for a full decade.
In order to give his daughter Fan Sijing a better life, he also brought his wife to England to give birth.
Unfortunately, this marriage still did not go to the best ending, and the two still ended in divorce.
This caused many people to sigh at the time, and questioned whether the marriage of football players could not grow old in vain.
As a celebrity, he soon ushered in his second marriage.
However, this time it only lasted for a year, and the consequence of impulsive marriage is definitely divorce. Very few couples can get married without getting separated.
Just when everyone thought that this veteran should take a break and walk through his life alone,
In 2016, he held another wedding, this time to Zhang Mengjin, who was 17 years younger than him.
At that time, netizens who saw this news thought, "Isn't this the old cow eating tender grass?" ”
Many netizens wondered why a ballerina married a footballer who had retired for many years.
His two previous wives were still able to talk to her and were familiar with his profession.
This Zhang Mengjin doesn't understand football at all, so many people are waiting to see Fan Zhiyi's last chicken feathers.
And at that time there was not much age difference between his eldest daughter and his younger wife, so people asserted that his family problems must have been serious in the end.
As a result, the two most important women in his life turned out to be very good in the end, and even always excluded him.
Sometimes some troubles in the daughter's life are inconvenient to tell the father, and they are all told to the little stepmother.
The degree of family harmony surprised many people, and netizens also said on the Internet:
"General Fan is a great general, he can be invincible on the court, and he can be like this in the family, it's really powerful."
Now Fan Zhiyi and Zhang Mengjin's marriage has passed a full 7 years, and they have been in love for 12 years, although some people still say that his old cow eats tender grass, but more people have expressed their blessings.
Now 53-year-old Fan Zhiyi also plays romance, at the Qixi Festival, he gave his wife a car worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, perhaps he is expressing his gratitude to his wife for so many years in this way.
While enduring the cold words of the outside world, he also worked hard to mend the relationship between himself and his eldest daughter, and the reason why this family can be as happy as it is now, his wife Zhang Mengjin has the most credit and paid the most.
epilogue
Throughout Fan Zhiyi's career, although he has not achieved much admirable achievement,
But he has done everything he can be big, and human talent is always limited.
Being able to captain a European team has surpassed the Asian players.
As the saying goes, a generation has a mission for a generation,
Even if the current national football team is not developing well and has not met their expectations,
But Fan Zhiyi is still rushing in front of people, in order to make himself famous,
Feed back to the new generation of children, so that more gifted children are noticed.
Hats off to this person who still works hard for Chinese football, and thank them for the hard work of their generation, come on!