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After the start of the new season of the Chinese Super League, many fans found that many familiar veterans had disappeared. Such as Yang Xu, Tan Wangsong, Bai Yuefeng, Huang Bowen, Fan Yunlong, etc. have all announced their retirement.
At the same time, it is rumored that Wang Yongpo and Li Jianbin have also decided to hang up their boots, and players like Gao Lin, Hao Junmin, Deng Zhuoxiang, Sun Ke, Zeng Cheng and others who have not found a home seem to be only a matter of time before they retire.
This group of players, once known as the golden generation, enjoyed the benefits of the Golden Yuan Super League and was only one step away from reaching the World Cup in 2018. Now, with the change of times, they are about to bid farewell to the historical stage.
Xiaohuang retired and did not forget to say sorry to Guoan
Huang Bowen's retirement is not surprising, he basically said goodbye to the stadium last season, only to return as a player-coach after Zheng Zhi was appointed as Guangzhou manager.
In the first round of the Chinese Super League, Shenzhen's Xia Hezati scored a penalty, breaking Huang Bowen's record for the youngest goal in the Chinese Super League (16 years and 317 days) in nearly 19 years, which also seemed to announce the end of an era.
Huang Bowen, who was born in Changsha, came to the national security echelon when he was less than 15 years old. In the 2004 season, at the age of 16, he was given the opportunity to play in the Chinese Super League. After Lee Jang-so's arrival, he became the team's absolute workhorse and won the first league title in the team's history in the 2009 season with the Royal Forest Army.
Huang Bowen was once the darling of Guoan fans, but after his overseas career at Jeonbuk Hyundai ended in the 2011 season, he directly joined the more well-paid Guangzhou Evergrande because he had previously promised to return to Guoan, which sparked the anger of Yulin Army fans.
In the 2013 season, Huang Bowen was angry with fans when he left the stadium for Guoan, and he himself clashed with security. Huang Bowen also tore up with some Beijing fans online, causing him to become a public enemy of Yulin Army fans. This is also the reason why Huang Bowen deliberately "said sorry to the Guoan fans" when he retired.
At Evergrande, Huang Bowen achieved Grand Slams in the Chinese Super League (8 times), FA Cup (2 times), Super Cup (2 times) and AFC Champions League (2 times), and at his peak, the three midfielders composed of Zheng Zhi and Paulinho were also among the top in the AFC Champions League.
In his national team career, Huang Bowen was selected for the first time in 2008, and in the 2018 World Cup Qualifying Top 40, against Qatar, his long-range shot saved the Chinese team, which also earned him the nickname "World Expo". Today, however, all this is a thing of the past.
Jinmen wings are extinct
Before the second round of the Chinese Super League Tianjin Jinmen Tigers home game against Zhejiang team, Tan Wangsong and Bai Yuefeng officially announced their retirement after receiving the commemorative jersey handed by coach Yu Genwei.
Tan Wangsong and Bai Yuefeng were once the top full-backs in Chinese football, Tan Wangsong shined at the World Youth Championships in 2005, when he did not want to be delisted by Dalian because of the German system, he once said the cruel words "if you don't come to Tianjin, retire", and later it was the leader of the Football Association Nan Yong who chose to join Qingdao first and then return to Tianjin.
In 2008, because he was sent off for kicking the opponent Poconioli's lower body in the Olympic Games against Belgium, Tan Wangsong became the target of online spoofing. In the 2009 season in Tianjin TEDA and Beijing Guoan, Tan Wangsong turned red because of kicking Yang Zhi, and netizens called him "Tan Kick".
After the end of the 2009 season, because he refused to compromise with the club's general manager Li Guangyi after the training strike, he joined Henan Jianye after six months of unemployment, and then moved to Chongqing, and did not return to Tianjin until 2017.
Tan Wangsong is righteous and straightforward, born in a family of high-ranking intellectuals, and usually likes to study quietly in the house. The Chinese Super League has always circulated its legend of "chasing and slashing Zhao Xuri with a knife", in fact, this is just a small quarrel and joke between the two back then.
Before the 2021 season, Tianjin TEDA withdrew, and at the beginning of the establishment of Tianjin Jinmen Tigers, Tan Wangsong returned to the team and shouldered the responsibility of assistant coach. Accustomed to exporting chapters, he is now known as "Mr. Tan" in the Tianjin team.
It was after Tan Wangsong left that year, Bai Yuefeng joined Tianjin with his younger brother Bai Yuexuan, and his registered name in the Football Association was still Bai Lei.
Bai Yuefeng has a simple style of play, tenacious style, rarely injured, and was once the most stable link in the team. In the 2010 season, when Tianjin TEDA won the best ranking in history, and the historic FA Cup winning season (2011), Bai Yuefeng was the absolute main force of the team.
In the top league, Bai Yuefeng played 393 games, ranking fifth in history, behind Wang Song, Xu Yunlong, Zhang Yaokun and Zhou Ting. Of these, 333 were completed in Tianjin. At the moment of retirement at the Water Drop Stadium, Bai Yuefeng left tears more than once and gave a thumbs up to the audience. Bai Yuefeng, who served as an assistant coach of the Jinmen Tigers last season, may return to the team in the future.
Yang Xu's second half: engage in Japanese-style youth training
Yang Xu's sudden retirement before the season was a bit of a surprise, because a few days before the official announcement of hanging boots, he was still training with Shanghai Shenhua and received a new jersey.
Yang Xu, who debuted in Liaozu, was once known as "Gemini" with Yu Hanchao. After leaving Liaozu, he played for Shandong Luneng , Changchun Yatai, Tianjin Quanjian and Shanghai Shenhua. The highlight of Yang Xu's career was in 2015, when he beat Ibrahimovic, Neymar and Messi to rank sixth in the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS) annual goalscorers.
He was once known as a "master of abuse", often able to kill against a fish-belly team, but difficult to open an account against a strong team. After turning 30, Yang Xu's form continued to be sluggish, and in the 2020 and 2021 seasons, he did not even score a single goal in two years.
At the end of his career, Yang Xu entered short videos and often broadcast live. Before this season, he took his son to Japan for trials and competitions, and wrote an article sharing Japan's youth training experience, which was well received. At the same time as his retirement, Yang Xu's youth club in Shanghai has been put into operation.
They will also say goodbye in 89
Before this season, Guangzhou City announced its withdrawal, and the disheartened Fan Yunlong announced his retirement at the age of 34: "Then take a good note!" The sweat of more than ten years of youth has watered the glory and dreams on the green field; And these glory and dreams are the sun that will not die on my future path. ”
Fan Yunlong became famous at a young age, playing in the professional league before the age of 18, and sadly, his successive teams Guizhou Hengfeng, Beijing Renhe and Guangzhou City have all been disbanded.
Another defender, Li Jianbin, moves fiercely, often sends reckless fouls, is a big red and yellow card, and was once known as one of the "Chinese Super League villains". In the 2021 season, he received a 10-game suspension and a fine of 100,000 yuan for insulting the referee on the sidelines. In the 2015 season of the Chinese Super League, Li Jianbin, who played for Shenhua, directly kicked teammate Xiong Fei in a relief, resulting in more than 30 stitches on the other side.
Former Guoan defender Xie Chaoyang commented on Li Jianbin: "There is no need for such a villain on the court, and if I were the Football Association's disciplinary committee, he should be banned for life." In contrast, Li Jianbin was very quiet in the audience and rarely spoke.
As he gets older, Li Jianbin has fewer and fewer appearances, and last season in Chengdu Rongcheng, he made only five appearances in the whole season. Although it has not been officially announced, it is reported that Li Jianbin has decided to retire.
The golden generation is on the verge of retirement
Compared with Feng Xiaoting, who switched to China League One Dongguan United before the season, most of his contemporaries are on the verge of retirement.
Gao Lin and Wang Yongpo, who play in Shenzhen, not only did not enter the roster for the new season, but they did not even enter the coaching staff as rumored. It is reported that Wang Yongpo has decided to hang up his boots, while Gao Lin is still thinking about it. With the closure of the China League One transfer window on April 19, it seems that Gao Lin will have no other way out than retire.
Unlike his two teammates, the 34-year-old doesn't want to end his career, but his appearances in the past two seasons have dropped significantly due to a long injury problem. At present, he has not found a next home.
Hao Junmin, who returned to join Guangzhou in the middle of last season, did not stay in the new season, and he is also planning to retire. A few days ago, the names of Hao Junmin and Feng Xiaoting have appeared in the "AFC/FA B-level Coach Admission Notice" published on the official website of the Football Association.
Deng Zhuoxiang, who was the core of the national team's midfield during Gao Hongbo's period, did not get a contract extension after winning the championship with Wuhan Three Towns last season. He has suffered many major injuries before, and now he is interested in finding another team.
The most special situation is Zeng Cheng, a former national gate, who is rumored to have not been given the opportunity to stay in the team because of a dispute with Shenhua over unpaid wages. At the age of 36, he has a hard time finding a new owner.
What makes people sigh is that this group of players represented by Hao Junmin, Gao Lin, Zeng Cheng and other players, born around 87, has been expected by the outside world since the 2005 World Youth Championship, until the 2018 World Cup qualifiers, they occupy an important position in the national team.
After enjoying the benefits of the Golden Yuan Super League, the era that belonged to them is long gone. Today's group of players are either too old or plagued by injuries, and perhaps waving goodbye is their best choice.