The AFC announced on its official website today the postponement of the World Preliminary Round of 40, and recently there is news that the Chinese Football Association is actively bidding to host the World Preliminary Tournament to change to the tournament system, the location may be in Shanghai, and do everything possible to let the national football team sit at home.
The impression of the World Cup may only be that we can only stay in the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup, and a recent news really pulled our minds back to that controversial summer, when the South Korean team, which also sat on the advantage of the home field, really let people see the "advantage" of home games. Recently, former South Korean international Lee Tian-so admitted in a South Korean reality show that he deliberately kicked Maldini's head because the Italian players were too arrogant at the time.
At the 2002 World Cup in South Korea and Japan, in the battle between South Korea and Italy, Lee Tian-so kicked the back of Maldini's head, and the referee ignored the foul. Li Tianxiu talked about this scene on a recent variety show, saying that it was a deliberate headshot Maldini: "Those Italian players are arrogant, they have no one in sight, I feel that they look down on South Korean players." I kicked him, not because he was Maldini, but because he happened to be"
On June 18, 2002, in the quarter-finals of the World Cup in Korea and Japan, host South Korea relied on Ahn Jung-hwan's deadly victory over Italy 2-1 to advance to the final four.
In addition, there are many pictures of this game that can be recorded in history, such as the red card of the referee Moreno, the indignant departure of the Roman prince Totti, and the South Korean team's continuous full martial arts trip, and the most "show" of which is Lee Tianxiu, whether it is the "headshot" of Maldini or the "severed grandson" foot of Gattuso, but this series of operations Moreno did not look at all.
In the show, Li Tianxiu talked about the game with great interest, saying: "Those Italian players are very arrogant, they are very blind. I feel like they look down on Korean players and there are other Korean players in the game who are kicked and injured by them. ”
"The guy I played was called Maldini, he was in a similar position to Huming-fu, both captains. I kicked him, not because he was Maldini, but because he happened to be there. ”
For that game, the issue of the referee's decision and the style of The Korean players is still being discussed, but no matter when the penalty scale is used to look back at the game, public opinion has not sided with the Korean team, and Lee Tianxiu's remarks 19 years later are bound to cause a lot of waves.
However, this is not the first time that Li Tianxiu has made remarks about this foul, as early as the end of the World Cup that year, Li Tianxiu mentioned this foul in his autobiography "Daredevil - Li Tianxiu Tells the Story Behind the Scenes of the World Cup", "I deliberately kicked the head of the Italian player, fortunately the referee did not see it." To be honest, I was very happy at the time. "Forced to do so at that time, the development of the Network has not yet reached such a point, otherwise this may have already set off a huge storm."
But it is undeniable that Lee Tianxiu's ability was absolutely outstanding in the Korean team at that time, and in the Korean team at that time, he could play two full-back, forward and forward positions, and at the same time had a good dribbling technique, although the height was only 1 meter 75, but the excellent technology still made him the favor of the national team.
In the 2002 K League, Lee Tian-so helped Ulsan Hyundai to win the league runner-up with 7 goals and 9 assists, and also won the best rookie in the K League that year. After the World Cup in South Korea and Japan, Real Sociedad in La Liga brought Lee Sociedad to Real Sociedad with a beautiful vision of opening up the Korean market, but unexpectedly, the Korean "Star of Hope" sat on the bench in Europe, did not score goals and injured a lot, after being loaned to another Spanish club Numancia, Lee Tianxiu broke up with Real Sociedad and returned to South Korea in 2005.
The club manager at the time, the current club's sports director Orabe vowed at the time that Li Tianxiu's value would definitely double after being tempered in La Liga, but the decline in performance coupled with the fact that no Korean company was willing to sponsor them, and Lee Tianxiu's jersey sales were extremely unsatisfactory in South Korea, so that Olabe was beaten in the face and was praised by the outside world as the biggest failure since Olabe took office.
Although his performance has improved slightly after returning to China, his poor style of play has always been criticized, and all this stems from his grumpy personality, which has often plagued him with negative news. News reports that in 2008, Lee Tien-so was suspected of defrauding 100 million won defendants, borrowed money in the name of "corporate investment" and did not repay it, and was fired from suwon Samsung in the same year without listening to the coach's command; in 2009, Lee Tian-so insisted on joining the Saudi League without obtaining the consent of Jeonnam Tenryu, absent from training for no reason, and had many verbal and physical confrontations with the manager and coaching team, and was finally expelled by Jeonnam Tenryu; in 13 years, in the bar Lee Tin-so had a fight with a customer surnamed Kim at a bar in September-dong, Incheon Nam-dong District...
What is more worth mentioning is that in 2009, due to the influence of Zhou Haibin's transfer, Shandong Luneng almost introduced Li Tianxiu, but now it seems that fortunately, Luneng did not recruit Li Tianxiu, who is known as the "wine immortal", and escaped a disaster.
In 2015, Lee Tianxiu officially retired, and said in an interview that he was attending a coaching training class, hoping to work as a football coach after retiring to cultivate more outstanding football talents for South Korea, and then he also worked as a football commentator.
Compared with the name of "bad boy", more media usually describe him as a "villain", which can't help but make fans sigh, can such a career really be qualified for the coaching position? What would it be like when the young players knew what their coach had done to Maldini at that Year's World Cup, and still didn't feel any shame about that move decades later?