"Rainbow of wind and rain, sonorous roses, no matter how much sorrow and pain to carry yourself." Whenever the melody of "Sonorous Rose" sounds, you and I must have drifted back to the summer of 1999.
That year, with Huang Jianxiang's commentary, we experienced the most brilliant Women's World Cup of the golden generation of Chinese women's football. All the memories are so beautiful, time, little by little, these memories are precipitated, but the faint bitterness is the truest taste of the memories.
Fans who are familiar with the Chinese women's football team will certainly not be unfamiliar with the name Liu Ailing.
She is the core of the "golden generation" of Chinese women's football, and the two goals in the semi-final of the 1999 World Cup are called "classic shots that can be written into football textbooks"; she is also one of the representatives of "Sonorous Rose", wearing the national team shirt for 15 years, creating the highest moment of Chinese women's football.
Liu Ailing (born on May 2, 1967 in Dongfeng Company, Hubei Province) to a family of ordinary workers, is a Chinese professional footballer.
Liu Ailing because of her natural activity, but also the family's young, do not need to rush home after school to cook, so she went to the school basketball team to volunteer to play basketball, as she wished, the then coach Zhao Shouli left her.
"Although I'm not tall, I play basketball well." Later, the Second Automobile Sports School was established, and I was recommended to the Second Automobile Sports School to practice athletics. Maybe there is no future, after practicing for 3 years, my 100m performance has been floating around 13.7 seconds, and the coach also said that my track and field practice is over. At this moment, Zhao Hongyi's guidance appeared. Once he came to see us training, but he suddenly took a fancy to my physical fitness and recruited me into the football team. ”
In June 1983, Liu Ailing officially became a member of the football team of the Second Automobile Sports School, and soon showed amazing talent and made great progress. Two years later, Liu Ailing represented Hubei Women's Football Team in the first National Women's Football Invitational Tournament.
It was the performance of this national competition that left a deep impression on Shang Ruihua, the coach of The Beijing Women's Football Team, and the sharp-eyed Shang Ruihua concluded that this was a piece of jade, not far away, and tried every means to find Liu Ailing's home, three Gu Maolu, and brought her into the Beijing Women's Football Club.
Another two years later, Liu Ailing was recruited to the national team and began her 15-year career as an international footballer.
Liu Ailing entered the Chinese women's national football team at the age of 20 and competed in more than 140 matches with the Chinese women's football team.
He is one of the main players with the most appearances in the national team, and has won the championship of the 6th to 11th Asian Women's Football Championships with his teammates, the champion of the 1993 World University Games, the runner-up of the 26th Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996, and the runner-up of the 3rd World Cup Women's Football Championship in 1999.
Born for football.
Ma Yuanan, a former head coach of the national women's football team, said more than once, "Ai Ling is the first person in Chinese women's football. "On the pitch, she always finds her place easily." When you're a player, you just think about football every day.
There is a question on zhihu: which of Liu Ailing or Sun Wen is more important to the national team? Which is stronger?
Liu Ailing should be the strongest No. 10 at the time, and Sun Wen may be the only two forwards in women's football in the 20th century. Many people say that Liu Ailing is stronger than Sun Wen, but Sun Wen has won Miss Football of the Century, and this status is the polo king of women's football. In the end, who is more powerful, I hope that the emperors have enough dry goods to support their own views (these two people should not pick their mouths).
Some netizens answered:
From the overall perspective of football, I think Liu Ailing is more important. Sun Wen often has it, liu Ailing does not often have it.
Must Aunt Sun Wen!! Left and right foot free kicks are present when the penalty kicks are kicked.
How is there a comparison between the core of the organization and the main scorers, like Zidane and Ronaldo who is stronger?
What do you think?
In May, the IFFHS (International Federation of Football History and Statistics) selected the best team in the world of women's football in the 20th century.
In the star-studded list, Liu Ailing became the only Chinese player to be selected.
When the reporter recently talked to her about this time, in addition to the joy of being recognized, Liu Ailing, who has just celebrated her 54th birthday, has shown her concern for China's women's football team. Among the 11-man roster, American players accounted for half of the list, including Kristen Lily, Michelle Ax and others who are well known to Chinese fans. For this selection, Liu Ailing said bluntly: "After so many years of hard work, I am finally recognized, and I am really happy to get this honor." ”
Since being selected for the national team in 1987, Liu Ailing has been following the team to the south and the north. She has won the Asian Cup 6 times with the team, participated in the Women's World Cup 3 times, and won the Olympic Games and the World Cup runner-up. Behind this series of honors, it is inseparable from the hard work of Liu Ailing and her teammates.
The official Weibo of the 2023 AFC China Asian Cup posted a happy birthday to Liu Ailing.
The most shining moment for the Chinese women's football team and Liu Ailing was undoubtedly the 1999 World Cup. In that event, the Chinese women's football team was only one step away from the championship.
That was the best result of the Chinese women's football team in the World Cup so far. Countless fans still remember this heavy runner-up honor, but its process is rarely mentioned.
In that World Cup, the Chinese women's football team suffered from the journey, and they traveled to and from 4 cities in 7 days, traveling more than 5,000 kilometers. At that time, the Chinese women's football team did not have much advanced recovery technology, and could only rely on the massage of the team doctor to relieve physical fatigue.
Traveling around is just one of the difficulties that girls encounter. Since the organizing committee only provided Western food at that time, the players were not accustomed to eating, and the staff had to often find some simple Chinese food adjustments. Despite the difficulties one after another, Liu Ailing and the girls of the Chinese women's football team are reluctant to talk about the influence of objective factors, and always try to do the best part of their control.
Step by step, the Chinese women's football team has historically appeared on the stage of the World Cup final. That classic semi-final, let Liu Ailing gain the title of "women's football Zidane".
Facing the Norwegian women's football team, Liu Ailing contributed two classic shots that can be called textbook level. She swung her bow left and right during the game, surprising four with two-legged super world virtuoso.
The Chinese team won 5:0 in the end.
Many years later, recalling the battle of the gods, Liu Ailing only said lightly: "It's nothing, it's the goal, it's normal." Later, for a long time, there was a saying in the world football world: "Those who get Liu Ailing, get the world." ”
After the 1999 World Cup was runner-up, the Chinese women's football team faced the pain of alternating the old and the new. The Sonorous Rose finished only 5th at the Sydney Olympics.
With the increase of age, Liu Ailing also had the idea of retreating.
In 2002, Liu Ailing officially announced her retirement and left her beloved green field.
As a women's footballer of the older generation, Liu Ailing dedicated her entire youth to football. Even after years of being away from the field, I still have this team in my heart. While paying attention to the development of Chinese women's football, she also hopes that more girls will participate in football projects in the future, "there are more excellent reserve forces to keep up." ”
Liu Ailing and her husband Liu Jun.
Taking Liu Ailing out of Shiyan, Hubei Province, Shang Ruihua had the grace of knowing her. Making Liu Ailing a world superstar, Ma Yuan'an has carefully cultivated her.
Liu Ailing, who was still a player at the time, fell in love with Liu Jun, who was then the deputy director of the office of Guoan Football Club, and the young man underwent a harsh review. At that time, when she learned that she and Liu Jun had a conversation, Shang Zhi took the opportunity to go to Guoan to do things and deliberately "looked" at him; Coach Ma also went to Guoan for a "private visit". Liu Jun said he was under a lot of pressure. Ai Ling smiled happily. In family life, she is by no means the kind of big woman who needs to control everything, "Listen to our family Liu Jun, yes. ”
The story of Liu Ailing and her husband Liu Jun is explained in detail.
This happy marriage begins with yin and yang.
Zhang Honghong of the Beijing women's football team is Liu Ailing's close friend.
Liu Ailing's husband, Liu Jun, worked for a long time as the chief of staff at the Beijing Guoan Club.
Liu Jun helped Liu Ailing introduce the object, and as a result, he was intercepted halfway! Oh, my God!
In 1997, Liu Ailing's close friend and former women's football international Zhang Honghong found Liu Jun and asked if he could introduce an object to Liu Ailing, and the condition was one - good people. Liu Jun pondered and felt that he was quite appropriate, "Or I will see you first." ”
"Originally, people asked me to introduce ai ling to the object, but I left half of it, but this is also fate." Speaking of this past, Liu Jun's face was happy.
Liu Jun was 33 years old and Liu Ailing was 30 years old.
On September 9, 1997, the two met for the first time, and Liu Jun borrowed a car from the south of the national security team and went to the appointment on time. Liu Jun invited guests, ordered 6 dishes, and spent 166 yuan. Before going, Zhang Honghong told Liu Jun to talk more, because Liu Ailing was more introverted.
"As soon as I went, I found that it was OK, and I was able to talk about it, and I thought there was a drama in this matter."
If You let Liu Ailing say this past, just a sentence, "Just two people eating, he ordered so many dishes, it is pure waste." Liu Jun said, "In terms of conservation, such as saving water and electricity, Liu Ailing is definitely a pacesetter." ”
The first 4 years of marriage. Living together for less than 4 months.
Liu Ailing later found Yang Zuwu and inquired about Liu Jun's personality, "Yang Zuwu is my leader, working together for so many years, can you say that I am not good?" Liu Jun seemed to have been prepared. On June 20, 1998, the two were happily married. The harmonic sound of 620 is very similar to Liu Ailing's name.
The marriage is married, but Liu Ailing, who is preparing for the 1999 Women's World Cup, has been training in the national team, followed by the 2000 Olympic Games.
If the team arrives in Beijing, the coach will generally give Liu Ailing a half-day off, go home to see, have a meal with her husband, and return to the team in the evening. Later, in 2001 and 2002, Liu Ailing spent most of her time playing football in the United States, and the couple lived separate lives.
Liu Jun said, "The two of us were idle that day, even if before she retired, the time she lived together was really calculated day by day, and finally added up, less than 4 months, which also included the two months when I went to the United States to see her." ”
Until August 2002, Liu Ailing officially retired from the army, and the couple who had been married for 4 years could be regarded as living a normal life.
Ailing has always been grateful for her husband's profound righteousness. "If he had asked me to stay, I wouldn't have gone abroad to play football. But instead he encouraged me to cherish the opportunity, and I felt I owed him a lot. "It is destined that Ai Ling will owe more and more to Liu Jun." Now well, we are much more convenient in the same unit. He used to drive me early in the morning and rush home in the evening to cook. Liu Jun is the pillar of the family. However, the "top pillar" said that Liu Ailing was her "organization". The title he is most willing to introduce to others is: "I am Liu Ailing's lover." ”
Gathering less and leaving more has become the normal life of the two, but it does not affect the feelings between the two in the slightest, as Liu Ailing's most loyal fan, staying up late to watch the ball is the richest amateur life of his lover Liu Jun, as he himself said, when he sees such an excellent wife winning glory for the country, all the suffering is nothing.
Liu Ailingtian's son, a family of three is very happy.
Liu Jun, who was already in his thirties at the time of marriage, and his family longed for a family of three more than the average person, but in order to support their lover's football career, they have been silently supporting and never putting pressure on her, until two years after Liu Ailing retired, they finally got their wish and had their own cute and handsome son.
In March 2003, Liu Ailing went to work for the Beijing Football Association. Secretary-General Zhang Heng said, "Liu Ailing has made so much contribution to Chinese football and Beijing football, and has delayed the major events of her marriage and childbearing, and these two years have not given you too heavy work, your task is to hurry up and have children." ”
In May 2004, his son, Cao Cao, was born. His father, Liu Jun, is 40 years old, and his mother, Liu Ailing, is 37 years old.
Youth, left to the glory years. After precipitation, Ailing only wanted to be an ordinary woman. "There's a home, the place I look forward to going back to every day. Having loved ones, having joy, days without football, are also fulfilling. ”
A family of three, Liu Ailing's life is calm and relaxed.
Football is no longer all she is, and as a woman, football should no longer be her whole.
Liu Ailing is a genius on the court, but after retiring, she is just a cadre of a local football association, who wants to teach her husband and children, wash and cook, which is no different from the most ordinary virtuous wife and mother.
The Chinese women's football team really needs more Liu Ailing, the inside of the stadium is a genius, the stadium is still deeply in love with women's football, and is still doing a small part for this once brilliant cause.
Liu Ailing's sense of responsibility is enough to move me, and I hope to move or influence more people, especially those decision-makers who really influence the development of Women's Football in China.
The corners of Liu Ailing's eyes were no longer smooth and full. Wind and frost is also a kind of wealth.
Liu Ailing, as the documentary "Daughter of the Party" said, as a first-generation women's football player, she participated in and witnessed the whole process of the rise, development and ranking among the world's strong teams in China's women's football team. "Sonorous Rose" is not afraid of any difficulties, and the spirit of going all out to fight has also become the "women's football spirit" learned by the Chinese people.
The Chinese women's football team has won glory for the country, and with the power of sports, on the world stage, it has demonstrated the national spirit of unity and hard work of the Chinese. And Liu Jun also made a strong backing for Liu Ailing.
The country is the guarantee of the home, the home is the harbor of love, and the support between husband and wife is the most important. I wish Liu Ailing and her family a safe and smooth journey, and I also wish that China's football is getting better and better.
Who else remembers Liu Ailing's sonorous rose?
Liu Ailing, a famous football player in women's football, the corners of her eyes are no longer smooth and full, and the sonorous roses will never wither!
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