Yesterday, bad news came from the Chinese football community, and former national football captain Zhang Enhua died of illness at the age of 48. After the incident, Zhang Enhua's wife Sun Xiya also rushed from Qingdao to Shenzhen to take care of its aftermath, and the farewell location of Zhang Enhua's body has yet to be confirmed.
According to previous media reports, Zhang Enhua and his wife Sun Xiya met in 1994, when Zhang Enhua won the league championship for Dalian, and Dalian held a grand celebration banquet for them, and Sun Xiya was interning in the hotel where the banquet was held. At that time, because the foreign aid translator in the team did not come, Zhang Enhua went to the hotel manager to "borrow" a translator. Coincidentally, Sun Xiya's English is very good, she personally went out, so the two also had their first interaction. Later, Zhang Enhua wanted to learn English, so he took Sun Xiya as his teacher, and the two became more and more familiar with each other, and gradually developed feelings. On August 27, 2000, Zhang Enhua and Sun Xiya officially entered the palace of marriage, and it is worth mentioning that the then national football coach Milutinovic and his wife also attended the wedding of the two. At the wedding scene, the smiling Milu said that this was his first time to attend the wedding of a Chinese player after coming to China.
Due to the reason of playing football, Zhang Enhua rarely gets together with his wife, but Sun Xiya is very supportive of her husband's football career and has always inspired him to chase his dreams. In 2001, Zhang Enhua, who was playing for the British Greensby team at the time, was pleased to have a noble son, and his wife Sun Xiya gave birth to a big fat boy weighing nearly 4 kilograms for him. For the sake of this precious son, "Old Black" deliberately asked the club for leave, stayed up for two days and two nights in the Greensby Maternity Hospital, and accidentally got a cold, but the joy of becoming a new father still diluted all the hardships. In an interview with the media, Zhang Enhua smiled and told reporters: "The little guy looks quite strong, looks like a kicking material, but in the end, it depends on his own creation." Today, Zhang Enhua's son has long since reached adulthood.
After Zhang Enhua retired from the army, he and his wife Sun Xiya were ready to start a business together, but then Zhang Enhua felt that the mall was not suitable for him, so he transformed into a commentator, and his wife persevered, and now has a successful career. However, Wanwan did not expect that Zhang Enhua had an accident at the 48th birthday party.
After learning the news of Zhang Enhua's death, the England Greensby team he played for before his death also posted a tribute to the Chinese football star, and republished the full text of last year's interview with Zhang Enhua, and many British fans also expressed their condolences for Zhang Enhua's death on social platforms. At the end of 2000, Zhang Enhua joined Greensby in League One on loan from Dalian Shide, and in the following four months of staying in The Ocean, Zhang Enhua scored three goals against Burnley, Bolton and Wimbledon, and was loved by Greensby fans. Today's Greensby is in League Two (fourth division).