I would like to introduce you to an old general who has almost never lost a game in his life, but has made football a joke.
This person is the famous unlimited rank general Cheng Zihua, he does not have a military rank because the rank is not enough, on the contrary, according to his rank and qualifications, he can be awarded a general, and he is also the only general without a military rank among all corps commanders.
Cheng Zihua is a native of Yuncheng, Shanxi, in 1926, 21-year-old Cheng Zihua was admitted to the Wuhan branch of the Whampoa Military Academy, participated in the Guangzhou Uprising in 1927, and later worked in the southeast base until April 1931, when he was transferred to the Central Soviet District.
Since then, he started as a regiment commander, and later became a division commander, and successively served as the commander of five divisions.
In June 1934, Zhou Enlai personally talked to him, issued a task, transferred him to Hubei, Henan and Anhui to work, and was appointed as the commander of the Red 25th Army.
It can be seen from this that during the Red Army period, Cheng Zihua's position was very high, even during the Anti-Japanese War, in October 1948, he was appointed as the commander of the Second Corps of the Northeast Military Region, participated in the liberation of Beiping, and also became the commander of the Beiping garrison.
General Cheng Zihua
In the War of Liberation, Xu Haidong had been recuperating from his wounds, but Cheng Zihua, who had been on the front line, did not have a military rank in the end. It turned out that at the end of 1949, Cheng Zihua was transferred out of the army and became secretary of the Shanxi Provincial Party Committee.
Therefore, although it is a pity that he was not awarded the title, it is also understandable, many generals at that time did not receive the title after being transferred out of the army, and Cheng Zihua still became the leader of Shanxi, which is also very good.
It turned out that Cheng Zihua liked football when he was young and had won the championship, and when he retired in his later years, he wanted to give full play to his spare heat, so he became the honorary chairman of the Chinese Football Association.
In 1982, the team was going to play against the Hong Kong team, so Cheng Zihua called the team's coaches and players to his home despite the break, and personally discussed with them the game strategy and how to deal with it.
As a result, the game was lost, and the invincible old general was defeated in a small football, but the old general personally went out of the horse, and it can be regarded as doing his best, only to blame the team for not being angry, and tarnishing the reputation of the general, many old comrades-in-arms often joke about him, and it has become a "joke".
On March 30, 1991, General Cheng Zihua died of illness in Beijing, and it is a great pity that he once had a hopeful national football team, but has not yet gone abroad.