"The championship that Evergrande wants, if you don't give it to you, you can't grab it. This domineering statement came from Liu Yongzhuo.
In the 2016 FA Cup championship celebration banquet, he was proud and full of ambition at this time, overlooking all living beings. At that time, he would never have thought that this was the last highlight of his life.
Now, 8 years later, he fell from the altar and was ruined. Together with the boss Xu Jiayin, they went to the prison cell.
In terms of honors, Liu Yongzhuo is the first professional manager in Chinese football.
In 2010, Evergrande became the owner of Guangzhou football. Boss Xu chose Liu Yongzhuo, a 33-year-old layman, to be at the helm of this new field.
In his first speech after taking office, Liu Yongzhuo made a bold promise: "Do a good job in Guangzhou football at all costs and build an ace team." "In the Guangzhou football world that has experienced fake gambling, no one takes his words seriously for this high-profile boss.
A few months later, Gao Lin came, and the popular international gave up a lucrative offer from Shaanxi. It didn't take long for Zheng Zhi, who had not completely given up staying in the United States, to return to China and settle for the second league. Liu Yongzhuo used his eloquence and talent to successfully grab people. At the end of the year, with Muric, Gao Lin, Zheng Zhi and others, Guangzhou Evergrande won the championship of the Chinese League and succeeded in surpassing 3 rounds ahead of schedule.
One year later, Liu Yongzhuo spent a lot of money and used the historical transfer price of Chinese football at that time to $10 million to poach the MVP Conca. For the first time, Chinese football opened its eyes and saw world-class stars playing at home.
10 months later, Liu Yongzhuo's most outstanding masterpiece of his career. After the thrilling qualifier for the group stage of the Evergrande AFC Champions League, Evergrande officially announced that Lee Jang-so would leave class. The replacement is the World Cup-winning coach and the world-famous silver fox Lippi.
As a result, the two most important pieces of the puzzle of the Evergrande Dynasty have been achieved, and the Asian warship has officially set sail.
One year later, in 2013, the celestial body attracted the attention of the whole country. Exxon killed, Evergrande beat Seoul and won the AFC Champions League for the first time. The Evergrande battleship built by Liu Yongzhuo swept thousands of armies in 3 years, creating a championship monument that is unprecedented and difficult to come.
Two years later, Liu Yongzhuo was decisive and dismissed Cannavaro and invited the world champion coach for the second time, Brazilian Scolari. Half a year later, Lao Shuai helped Evergrande reach the top of Asia again.
In the following year, Evergrande led by Liu Yongzhuo reached an unattainable peak. The league has won six consecutive championships and the domestic triple crown, refreshing the history of Chinese football that has never been seen again and again. Because Liu Yongzhuo's Evergrande is history in itself.
So when the Jiangsu team led twice at home in 2016, but was tied by Evergrande twice and finally lost the championship, Liu Yongzhuo had that classic line: "Evergrande doesn't give the championship, you can't win any of them." ”
In his seven years at Evergrande Club, Liu Yongzhuo won all the championships except for the Club World Cup.
As a professional manager, his most unsuccessful manoeuvre was undoubtedly the recruitment of former Atletico Madrid player J Ma. The groundbreaking transfer fee of 42 million euros was only exchanged for a glass man and 15 games, 4 goals and 2 assists.
In contrast, Paulinho's one-in-one-out, bought from Tottenham at a low price, and then sold to Barcelona at a high price, became a representative work and a model for future generations of the Golden Yuan League in those years, which greatly enhanced the attractiveness of Chinese Super League clubs and leagues. It turns out that playing football in China is not a pension, but a springboard to Huangsa.
In the 6 years since he left football, Liu Yongzhuo's magic and magic are no longer there, and he has successively worked in Evergrande Technology, New Energy, and Automobiles. When the edifice of Evergrande was about to collapse, he was not spared. I could only see him rise from a tall building, and I could see him collapse.