Last night, Yang Zhi announced his retirement decision when he was a guest on Beijing Satellite TV's "Football 100 Points" program. Due to injuries, the most reassuring guardian in front of the goal of the Beijing Guoan team in the past ended his career.
Injuries 丨 Age
He was the goalkeeper who had no choice but to say goodbye
On December 31, 2019, Beijing Sinobo Guoan Club announced yang zhi's departure. That was the result that fans had vaguely expected: during a training camp in Portugal in 2018, Yang Zhi had a torn foreminal ligament in his left knee, and although he went to Germany for surgery, he failed to return to the field for a season. After returning from injury in 2019, Yang Zhi failed to get a chance to play and was withdrawn from the first team by the club during the summer transfer period. The contract between the two parties ended on December 31 last year and was not renewed.
After leaving the Guoan team, Yang Zhi once trained with Hebei Huaxia Happiness at the beginning of this year to maintain his physical condition, but his physical condition made him finally choose to hang up his boots - during a pre-match training last season, Yang Zhi took a high ball and jumped on one foot, and then felt a little uncomfortable in his knees. When I went to Germany for treatment again, the doctor's advice was surgery, "If you don't have surgery, you can't play football." He made a lot of efforts to get back on the field, but he could only bow his head helplessly: "There is really no way, after the injury, my muscle ability cannot be compared with before." It's not that you don't want to kick, it's that your body doesn't allow it. ”
Yang Zhi had no choice but to say goodbye due to injury. Photo/Osports
Gentle 丨 passionate
He's a reassuring goalkeeper
Yang Zhi, 37, sat in front of the camera and announced his retirement with a calm of accepting reality. Social media is full of Beijing fans' reluctance: for 14 years, he is the most reassuring guardian in front of the Goal of Beijing Guoan Team, and the "Saint Yang Zhi" of the Royal Forest Army.
The transformation from Yang Zhi to "Sheng Yang Zhi" takes time: in the 2005 season, Yang Zhi joined Guoan, when he commanded his teammates in front of the goal, he often got a "cold" response, not that the young goalkeeper did not move, but many teammates at that time could not understand his Mandarin; 4 years later, Guoan won the first professional league championship in the history of the team, Yang Zhi made great contributions to the team; the Beijing-Tianjin derby on October 23, 2011 has been relished by fans, Tianjin Teda won a penalty in the last moment of 4 minutes of injury time. Yang Zhi "pounced on the gods" and blocked Bilasco's low shot out of the bottom line, as he had done before, and guarded the team's victory.
The field is gentle and low-key, and the field is a passionate goalkeeper. He is the first goalkeeper in China to play 300 games in the top league, and he has set a record of 681 minutes of time without conceding goals in various regular matches, which no one can break so far, without these capital and confidence, who can afford "Saint Yang Zhi".
In 2016, Yang Zhi participated in 300 commemorative ceremonies. Photo/Osports
Street Fighter 丨 Forward
He is an omnipotent goalkeeper
Playing Street Fighter, loving basketball, and having a forward's heart, the former guoan gate god is a different firework in the goalkeeper circle.
Yang Zhi had long since let go of the words, saying that his Street Fighter was the best played in the team, of course, his talent was not in the game - in the competition of Beijing Shougang, people often saw Yang Zhi sitting in the audience. The basketball enthusiast also performed a pull-on layup and a one-handed dunk when visiting the Shougang team, which established the status of "the best basketball level in the football circle" in one fell swoop.
Good bouncing power, good footwork, and 100-meter sprint speed used to be among the best in the team, and these characteristics of Yang Zhi are almost the "standard" of an excellent striker. In Guoan's team training, Yang Zhi has made cameo appearances as strikers, and occasionally in the game, he shows his feet to pass the opposing players, which can also let people glimpse the heart of a striker.
These are all small cross-borders with ease, but now Yang Zhi is really cross-border, he has obtained a C-level coaching certificate, and may continue to learn and transform into a coach in the future. Perhaps, another legend is waiting to be written.
Beijing News reporter Zhou Xiao
Edited by Wang Xichong Proofreader Liu Jun
Source: Beijing News