Not long ago, bad news came from Chinese football that Ding Guoliang, a young player from Shaanxi Chang'an Athletic, died of cancer. The 23-year-old youngster came from Jianye Youth Training and played for many years in the Chinese First Division and the Chinese Second Division, joining the Shaanxi Chang'an Athletic in 2017. The demon, who was diagnosed with left pelvic sarcoma cancer in September last year and then actively cooperated with treatment, but still failed to fight cancer, died in the early morning of November 30. This grief has not completely disappeared.
At 7:47 a.m. on December 2, the bad news came from Chinese football again, and former women's football international Zhang Ouying died at the age of 43, and it was still cancer that took her away. No one expected that the sonorous rose that once made us proud and crazy would go so early.
Familiar with the Chinese women's football team must know Zhang Ouying, born in 1975 Zhang Ouying, from 1993 into the women's national team to open a career in the international football team, in 1998 became the main force of the women's national team, and helped the team win the championship of the Bangkok Asian Games that year, and she is also the absolute main force of the Chinese women's football team that shocked the football world in 1999, and as a fast horse on the side, during the group stage, in the team's big victory over the Ghana women's football team, the substitute debuted within five minutes, becoming a classic memory. In the end, the Chinese women's football team was the runner-up in the World Cup. Since then, the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, the 2003 and 2007 World Cups, and the 2004 Olympic Games, have made great contributions to the Chinese women's football team.
In 2003, Zhang Ouying played for the San Diego Genie in the United States, wearing the number 7, she was once a well-known killer in the Us Major Leagues. And she also met the American Eddie during this period, the two fell in love for three years in the United States in June 2006 to register marriage and returned to China in October 2007 to make up for the Chinese wedding banquet, happy to be envied.
After retiring, Zhang Ouying also followed her husband to decide the United States, but she did not leave football and has been doing youth training work for women's football in the United States. At the beginning of this year, he also participated in the youth training meeting of the Women's Department of the Football Association held by his former teammate Sun Wen to offer advice. But what I didn't expect was that it was this trip back to China that found cancer. In March 2018, when Zhang Ouying took his daughter back to Shijiazhuang, he was sent to the 120 Hospital due to severe chest pain, and then transferred to the Beijing Cancer Hospital for examination, and was diagnosed with lung cancer.
Because he has been engaged in youth training, Zhang Ouying is not rich, and in the face of treatment costs of up to 2.5 million, Zhang Ouying and his family were once in trouble. Fortunately, with the help and promotion of friends in China and the United States, fundraising was launched in China, and many insiders and fans donated money for her. But the disease was too powerful, and she was not able to keep her after two treatments, and finally died after 8 months of fighting cancer.
It is worth noting that Zhang Ouying's birthday is November 2, and after celebrating her 43rd birthday, she left us on November 3, which is heart-wrenching.
Then to the sonorous roses are saying a happy birthday, may heaven and the green field, let all the players who leave us, play their favorite football!