The three "top streams" of the Chinese football circle: Li Siyong, who smiles, Wu Lei, who scores goals, and Fan Zhiyi, who speaks wittily and complains without limits.
In the darkest moment of Chinese football, the TOP50 that can single-handedly climb the Weibo hot search list is the traffic effect triggered by the 51-year-old Fan Zhiyi after the broadcast of the seventh episode of the fifth season of "Spit Conference". This 10-minute off-script performance makes the sports circle, the entertainment industry and the stand-up comedy circle trinity, and the Chinese sports people dream of going out of the circle and crossover, but Fan Zhiyi moved his lips against Zhou Qi and Guo Allen.
"It is also the first time that I have met so many people to confess, and in addition to laughing, I hope that everyone will pay more attention to football and re-establish the heritage of the football world together." When Fan Zhiyi sighed solemnly on the afternoon of March 15, a Weibo topic related to him still existed on the hot search list that had been dominated by entertainment stars for many years - reading 27.749 million, discussing 5400, "How strong Fan Zhiyi was back then"
A centre-back with the A Golden Boot
Through Fan Zhiyi's ridicule of Guo Allen's "defender only takes 1 point", I think that at that time, the "Fan General" who played the main defender was also the best scorer who had touched the A League. He did take a lot, a lot of points. Incidentally, unlike the internal fictitious name of "Asia's first defender", in the official selection of the AFC in 2001, Fan Zhiyi was crowned "Asian Footballer of the Year". Deserved.
Compared with the journey to England and the World Cup in Korea and Japan, Fan Zhiyi's giving and taking in the A-League is undoubtedly a bit long-term. However, around the topic of "how strong Fan Zhiyi was in those years", his experience of winning the best player and top scorer in the 1995 season and helping Shanghai Shenhua win the championship is always an amazing existence. "Don't fry Fan Zhiyi anymore, he's already amazing." Xu Genbao also said this to reporters at that time.
In the 1995 season 26 years ago, the top 5 of the season-final scorers list of the A-League was like this: 9 goals, Wang Jun, Tianjin Sanxing; 10 goals, Xie Hui, Shanghai Shenhua; 11 goals, Sun Xianlu, Liaoning team; 12 goals, Gao Hongbo, Beijing Guoan; 15 goals, Fan Zhiyi, Shanghai Shenhua. With 15 goals scored in just 22 appearances, it's hard to imagine that the Golden Boot winner's place is actually as a centre-back.
"Strike Guard Swing Man"
"Liberating Fan Zhiyi" and pushing into the midfield, in the 1995 season when the classic wing was circulated, such a championship-level magic hand came from Xu Genbao, the then Shanghai Shenhua coach who admired "rushing to the siege". When Li Xiao suffered an injury and poor foreign aid ability, Xu Genbao, who ushered in the second half of the tournament, was forced to dig from the inside, and in the absence of more space, he selected Fan Zhiyi, who had scored 9 goals in the previous season - "Xiao Fan reassured me, he said that he was no problem". The latter also fulfilled its mission, using outstanding physique, strength and impact to activate Shanghai Shenhua's attack line, and the record of 10 consecutive wins and the championship trophy was more or less logical. Speaking of which, there is no need for more scene descriptions, and the classification statistics of these 15 goals alone are enough to show Fan Zhiyi's comprehensive attributes - 12 goals in the box and 3 goals outside the box; 9 goals on the right foot, 1 ball in the left foot, 5 goals on the head; 2 goals on penalties and 2 goals in direct free kicks. There are both Van Dijk's general goal-facing tops, delicate small space hanging shots, as well as free kick footwork that helps to run the goal and step up, if there is also a "front guard swing man" in the field of football, the "Fan General" in 1995 is naturally the most qualified representative.
Horizontal knife immediately, General Fan!
In the "China Youth Daily" published on August 22, 1995, the reporter Bi Xidong once wrote: "As early as 1990, after the Chinese team suffered two black three-minute defeats to lion city, the Chinese Football Association summed up the training work at the Kunming Haigeng Training Base. Wang Houjun, the head coach of the Shanghai team known as 'Little Zhuge Ge', said in a discussion with reporters: "Chinese football has not appeared stars for several consecutive years, which is the sadness of the Chinese football community." Now we have a talent in Shanghai, as long as it is properly cultivated, I dare say that he will be the leader of Chinese football in the future. The Queen's Army was referring to Fan Zhiyi, who was only 21 years old at the time. The old reporters all knew that the queen army easily did not praise anyone, and what could make him praise it must not be wrong. ”
Bi Xidong also wrote: "According to the calculation method of player transfer value stipulated by the Chinese Football Association, Fan Zhiyi's value at the end of this year has reached almost 1.6 million yuan, becoming the real first value in the country... If you ask the fans: Who was the most popular football star in China in 1995? I'm afraid that eighty percent of the people will invariably shout out a loud name - Fan Zhiyi! "So, how strong was Fan Zhiyi back then?" That is the current Chinese fans, the existence of unattainable. One last thing: In the opening credits of the "Football Night" of "The Festival of Fans", Fan Zhiyi's four-seat fish leap to the top in the third round of the 1995 season is a classic shot. After so many years, it seems that no chinese player can grasp such a stunning goal moment...
Whoever dares to slash at the sword, only I Fan General. Not Van Persie's "Fan", but Fan Zhiyi's "Fan".
This article is written by Chen Dingrui