He was once a well-known "international player", worth as much as 70 million, setting a record for the first value in the Chinese Super League. Marry a beautiful anchor and go to the pinnacle of life. He once bluntly said that "I will be worthy of this value".
But soon after, he was imprisoned, was exposed to playing match-fixing, and took 200,000 yuan a month to raise other women outside, and the "darkness" of the national football team was reflected behind the glamorous and glamorous, no wonder he was ridiculed!
Recently, I believe that netizens have been angry with the national football team again. In the 2026 World Cup Asian qualifiers, China faced Japan and ended up with a record low of 0:7.
The consistent "stinky feet" of the national football team have made fans unable to spray wildly, so they turned their anger to head coach Ivan and angrily denounced him as a "charlatan".
It has been 22 years since the national football team participated in the World Cup, and in order to no longer make the national football team a weakness of China, the country has made great efforts in this regard, with top foreign coaches, improving the training environment, and funding and sponsorship.
The value of the players has risen little by little, but the skills have not changed at all. Take Zhang Lu as an example, he is a former "national player", his height is unprecedented, and after the country has invested a lot of effort, he still ends up in prison.
If Zhang Lu hadn't collapsed, he might have really brought new hope to Chinese football. Zhang Lu entered the industry very early, and was not yet 18 years old when he first represented the Liaoning team.
Zhang Lu played very beautifully in this game, and naturally entered the national team and became one of the youngest goalkeepers in history.
When Zhang Lu talked about his national football dream, his parents did not disappoint the fun, but worked day and night to help his son enter the club to complete his dream.
In order to replenish the child's body, parents save money. Although the club is free of charge, these consumables such as football and football shoes still make parents feel the pressure.
Zhang Lu understands the hard work of his parents, and dreams of joining the professional team, so that he can get a bonus to subsidize the family. Finally in 2003, 16-year-old Zhang Lu was caught by Liaozu.
After a short period of training, the coach found that Zhang Lu had enough level to play, and in just two months, Zhang Lu played 10 games in a row, and his excellent results allowed him to squeeze directly from the reserve team to the first team.
Few people may know that in the goalkeeper battle of the National Olympic Games, Zhang Lu entered the team far earlier than Qiu Shengjiong and Liu Zhenli. At the age of 20, he has completed the "triple jump" that others would take at least 3 to 40 years.
From the main goalkeeper of the Chinese Super League to the goalkeeper of the national team, and finally to the goalkeeper of the 2008 National Olympic team. Zhang Lu's achievements are incomparable to others.
In 2010, Zhang Lu faced Portugal for the first time in an international match, and it was because this football match showed more people Zhang Lu's terrifying goalkeeping ability. Reacts quickly and often makes surprise goalkeeping.
For a time, the world media were praising Zhang Lu, and Portugal, as an opponent, even evaluated Zhang Lu's performance higher than Ronaldo. Zhang Lu's worth has soared.
When Zhang Lu was in the limelight, he met the love of his life, who was the beautiful anchor Chen Mi.
Once when the media asked Zhang Lu what he thought of love and marriage, he always said that "football is more important", judging from the results, it was just that Zhang Lu did not meet the girl he really liked at that time.
In 2016, Liaozu transferred Zhang Lu to Tianjin Quanjian, with a transfer fee of 70 million yuan, setting a new record for the transfer fee of the Chinese Super League. Before the transfer, the Chinese Super League played 231 games for the Liaoning team, and the results were very good.
After the transfer, I thought that Zhang Lu should reach new heights, but I didn't expect that the next step would be endless ups and downs.
On September 18, 2019, at nearly 11 o'clock in the evening, Zhang Lu was seized by the traffic police on the spot for drunk driving in a section of Hedong District, Tianjin, and the results of blood sampling showed that Zhang Lu's blood alcohol content was 253.3mg/100ml, which belonged to drunk driving, and the police immediately detained him.
After the incident, the club immediately announced that Zhang Lu would be suspended from salary, training and matching. At the same time, the Football Association canceled Zhang Lu's national team's training and competition qualifications.
Originally, Zhang Lu's football career had a bright future, but with a fluke mentality, he always felt that the road section was remote and the itinerary was close to the traffic police and could not be checked. One laziness was exchanged for 4 months of detention.
After being released from prison, Zhang Lu transferred to Shenzhen Football Club, but because of the "scandal" and did not have the opportunity to play, Zhang Lu gave up on himself.
In 2020, Zhang Lu was exposed to smoking on the high-speed rail in 2019 and was administratively punished, and wrote a review. This incident made Zhang Lu lose hope of returning to the game again, and since then, Zhang Lu has gradually faded out of the sight of netizens.
Until 2022, when the former coach of the national football team, Li Tie, was under investigation, he reported that 3 former Chinese men's football internationals played match-fixing, one of which was Li Tie's Shenyang hometown, and the other was an international fullback. The last one is Zhang Lu, Li Tie said that Zhang Lu participated in match-fixing in the 2019 Chinese Super League relegation match against Tianhai in Wuhan.
Then coincidentally, within a few days, Li Kangping, a well-known media person, broke the news that a certain goalkeeper was not innocent with other women outside with his wife behind his back, consuming at least 200,000 yuan a month, and this person had gone in. Although he did not name him, netizens already knew that Li Kangping was alluding to Zhang Lu.
Manipulating the game and making money from it, Zhang Lu's behavior undoubtedly violated the country's legal bottom line. Zhang Lu will also be punished accordingly, and the money he collected at the beginning will now be spit back little by little.
Zhang Lu's career is embarrassing, Zhang Lu has a high starting point from the beginning, but it is because of his own efforts. In the end, under the erosion of money and desire, Zhang Lu did not take care of himself.
A good hand of cards is played poorly, I don't know if he remembered the transfer fee of 70 million when he was in prison, and said "I will definitely be worthy of this value". Now he has clearly forgotten his ambitions.
One by one, the houses collapsed, and one by one they were led by the nose by money, which has become a chaos in the football world. As a sport with a long history in China, he should be more pure.
Enough to be involved with too many things will take the athlete's attention away from the technical. I just don't know when football, which is always nicknamed the "national sports balancer", will get rid of its infamy.
Article information sources:
Shenyang Evening News 2013-11-21 "The Wife Talks About the Acquaintance with the Liaozu Goalkeeper, Zhang Lu Secretly Booking a Ticket to Create Romance"
Tonight 2016-01-13 "Mr. 70 Million Yuan Filial Piety Promotes Homecoming Zhang Lu: Will Afford This Price"
Red Star News2019-09-27 "Zhang Lu was banned by the Football Association for drunk driving, and the thousand-word review of the 60-year-old team leader of the national football team was released"
The Paper 2020-05-26 "Sports Network|The Premier League Restarts Selects a Specific Date, Zhang Lu Was Exposed to High-Speed Rail Smoking and Writes a Review"
China News Weekly 2022-12-01 "After the former coach of the national football team, Li Tie, was taken away, he confessed three international players"