At the beginning of the season, Miura chira and Yokohama FC completed the renewal of their contracts, and his annual salary in Yokohama was as high as 40 million yen, about 2.4 million yuan, ranking fourth in the team. In the third round of the J-League, Yokohama FC lost 0-2 to Urawa Red Diamonds, and Chira Miura came off the bench in the second half of injury time, once again breaking his record for the oldest appearance in the J-League at the age of 54 years and 12 days. Miura Chira, who once again broke the J League record, was "complained" by many Japanese netizens, thinking that he was on a show, did not touch the ball for 2 minutes, and broke the record in order to break the record.
Mention of Miura Chira has to remind people of Zheng Zhi, who is 41 years old and still playing football. Guangzhou Football Club recently issued an official announcement that Zheng Zhi will no longer concurrently serve as the general manager of the club, and the chairman of the club, Gao Han, will resume serving as the general manager. The head of the club revealed that the club had in-depth communication with Zheng Zhi during the offseason. Zheng Zhi believes that his physical condition and competitive status are acceptable, and he can still compete in the professional league. At the same time, he hopes to lead by example, drive the growth of young players, and further strengthen and improve the level of coaching and management. As China's most successful football player to date, at the age of 40, he is still focused on football itself, and his mission is to promote the growth of young players with the old, and his work ethic is also touching.
Looking back at Zheng Zhi's international career, at the end of December 2002, he made his debut at the age of 22 at the bahrain four-country invitational tournament, when the national football team had just experienced the World Cup and was in an upgrade. Foreign coach Ali Han took office, extremely important to Zheng Zhi, leading the team to make his debut to face the World Cup champion Brazil, he put Zheng Zhi into the starting lineup, and let him play the whole game, zheng zhi and Li Weifeng led the defense line smoothly in the Tianhe Stadium to clean the "absent-minded" Samba Legion. In the 2004 local Asian Cup, Zheng Zhi shined and played all 6 games of the team as the main force, helping the team to get the runner-up.
After that best Asian Cup, Zheng Zhi became the lord of sorrow with Chinese football. In the final round of the 06 World Preliminary Round group stage, China won 7-0 against Hong Kong, Zheng Zhifei conceded a penalty, which was not a big victory, but in the end the national football team was eliminated because of a goal. In the South African World Cup qualifiers, the overall performance of the national football team was abnormal, and in the battle of honor, Zheng Zhi once again missed a penalty, which was very depressing to confidence. On the way to Brazil, Zheng Zhiben was abandoned by Gao Hongbo, and later Camacho was killed halfway, Zheng Zhi was recalled to the national team, and the veteran of the lizhi year had the honor of playing in the World Preliminary Tournament for the third time, but he was not lucky enough to complete the mission of Chinese football.
Failure after failure, Zheng Zhi is no longer young, in the early years of Chinese football is looking for Zheng Zhi's successor, Lippi "King Ding" He Chao everyone, the outside world has to pin their hopes on Arthur Junmin, Wu Xi, the future and then slowly look for young and promising big people.
Although Zheng Zhi's number of overtime appearances in recent years has been a new career low, when a healthy captain appears in the game, it can act as a deterrent for any opponent. Can't believe it, Zheng Zhi is really 41 years old! In the last shift, whether it is the national team or the club, the promising veteran will burn the flame of hope and pass his fire to the hearts of every successor.
Editor-in-Charge: Cui Fei Lao