In China, as long as you are online, even if you are not a football mini, you should have heard the name "Li Yi Bar".
"Emperor Bar expedition, no grass is born", they have "burst bar" of young madness, but also have "over the wall overseas, for the country to go out" to boil blood, they are the creators of "Diaosi culture", influence at home and abroad, all of this originated from a Chinese player - Li Yi.
Li Yi the Great, the imperial capital of Bengbu, must kill the skill "Bengbu Roundabout", Chinese football former international Li Yi inexplicably became the spiritual leader of a generation, all because of a word.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="132" > "My ball is like Henry!" </h1>
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="131" > year, Li Yi bar or Li Yi bar</h1>
Baidu Tieba is a forum product launched by Baidu in the early days, which is classified by interest topics and brings together people with the same interests and hobbies to communicate.
Around 2003, the forum became one of the mainstream cultures of online social networking, and many netizens have established interest tieba in Baidu Tieba to communicate, and Li Yiba is also one of them.
Li Yi was born on June 20, 1979, he began to train football at the age of 6, debuted at the Tianjin Locomotive Club, excellent physical fitness, extremely fast Li Yi has always been the star of Chinese football hope with high hopes, in the 2003 "Last Generation A A", Li Yi scored 14 goals, tied with Ayu and Martinez for the first place in the top scorer list, the national youth, the national Olympic, the national team Li Yi's way forward has been very smooth, until August 2004.
In the final of the Asian Cup on August 7, 2004, in the 78th minute of the game, Li Yi was given the opportunity to face Japanese goalkeeper Kawaguchi Nobu with a single knife, because the angle was not large at that time, Li Yi chose to pass Kawaguchi Noh to live, and as a result, the ball was cut off, and the Chinese team missed the equaliser, and finally the Chinese team lost 1-3 to Japan.
In an interview with reporters, he once said regretfully on the phone: "I will never forget this ball in my life." ”
From that moment on, Li Yi's life changed, Li Yi became a sinner in China's missed championship, and people even forgot about the Handball of the Japanese team.
After the end of the Asian Cup, Li Yi Bar began to be lively, but it was still just a simple football sticker, and many people would go to Li Yi Bar to black Li Yi to vent their dissatisfaction.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="130" > black enough to absorb all the light, Li Yi bar began to connotate</h1>
After 2004, the environment of Chinese football began to deteriorate, and negative news such as wage arrears, match-fixing, and black whistles flooded the media, and Chinese fans were very dissatisfied with Chinese football.
In 2005, after Shenzhen Jianlibao head coach Zhu Guanghu was transferred to the national team, Chi Shangbin began to take over the management of Shenzhen football, the team's performance plummeted, Chi Shangbin and the club's general manager Yang Saixin reprimanded the team's main players Li Yi and Li Weifeng as "ball masters".
On May 17, 2005, after experiencing the struggle with the "ball bullies", Chi Shangbin finally left the team, and on the day that Chi Shangbin left class, in the face of media interviews, most of the Shenzhen players chose to avoid, only Li Yi answered the media's questions head-on.
"It's dawn!" "Good is rewarded with good, and evil is rewarded with evil." It's a cycle. The irony and metaphor of Li Yi are all appropriate, and the interview has aroused the amazement of all Chinese fans after the broadcast.
On May 25, 2005, the AFC Champions League match between Deep Foot and Suwon Samsung, Deep Foot won the right to qualify, as a striker Li Yi was remarkable in the front court, after the game, an authoritative domestic sports media reported that Li Yi said proudly after the game: "My ball protection is like Henry."
Li Yi's few words have all become classic sentences in Chinese football, and soon after, some netizens wrote "Li Yi the Great Benji" with the narrative method of "History", and the name of "Emperor" resounded throughout the north and south of the river.
Of course, Li Yi did not get praise, but a flood of ridicule and insults, after Li Yi as long as Li Yi participates in the away game, the whole field will sound the slogan of scolding Li Yi (too rude, not suitable for repetition), and even when training away, hundreds of people will surround the training ground to scold Li Yi, Li Yi has been black enough to absorb all the light.
Li Yi bar also began to change at this time, from a simple football catharsis to jokes, connotations, songs, novels, PS, etc. Emerge in an endless stream, Li Yi bar began to become humorous, but the bar friends still have a bottom line, that is, "the disaster is not as good as the family", everything is just around Li Yi, absolutely do not joke with Li Yi's family.
During this time, Li Yi bar gathered a large number of very talented netizens, they are no longer limited to the "connotation" Of Li Yi, all kinds of social hot issues have also become the object of their "connotation", Xin Chun Ge, Bai Fumei, Gao Shuaifu, Check Water Meter, Xi Dang Dad and other network terms are circulated through Li Yi Bar, becoming well known to everyone. Perhaps at the beginning, these names were not all created by "Li Yi Bar", but they all became popular from "Li Yi Bar".
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="129" > di si culture</h1>
Around 2009, other Baidu Tieba netizens began to call Li Yi bar fans as di si, as to why it is no longer possible, it is said that it is because at that time, Li Yi bar netizens often imitate Jay Chou's mantra "super dick" when posting.
At first, the fans of Li Yi bar did not accept this title, because it sounded very indecent, but it did not take long for "Di Si Culture" to become the mainstream culture of the Internet, and the popularity of "Di Si Men" pushed this culture to a climax, whether you are white rich and beautiful, rich and handsome, or poor and short, fat and round, will use "Di Si" to laugh at themselves.
"Di Si" is no longer a simple Internet term, it has begun to highlight people's anxiety and become a social phenomenon that must be paid attention to.
At the same time that Li Yi bar became popular, Li Yi himself fell into a career trough and began to stagnate in 2005.
In the 2006 season, the Chinese Super League only scored 3 goals, after the transfer to Shaanxi in 2007, he still did not find the feeling of scoring, only 1 goal was scored in 17 appearances, Li Yi only scored three goals in the 2008 season, and Li Yi, who did not score a goal in the 2009 season, was punished by three suspensions for reasons such as "negative training attitude".
Although he was later given the opportunity to play, Li Yi himself was already discouraged, and in 2011, at the age of 32, Li Yi chose to retire with "hanging up his boots".
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="97" > Li Yi really said "Is my ball protector like Henry"? </h1>
Li Yi's decline in football career and his popularity on the Internet are all because of his unobstructed mouth, "It's dawn!" Words such as "Good has good rewards, evil has evil rewards" and "My ball is like Henry" are the reasons why he became "Emperor Li Yi".
But did he really say all of these things? In fact, there are still some derivative elements of these words.
The source of "dawn", "good has good retribution, evil has evil retribution" is in the media interview video after Chi Shangbin's class, these words Li Yi did say, maybe there were some differences in the team at that time, who is right and who is wrong is unknown, perhaps Li Yi as a player did bear great pressure, but his way of expression may be a little too extreme.
And the most controversial "my ball protection like Henry" is indeed imposed by the media, and Li Yi's original words do not say so.
After searching, I found the original source of "My Ball Protector Like Henry", which appeared in an interview published in Sports Weekly on May 26, 2005, with the title of "Self-proclaimed Never Been So Happy Li Yi: My Ball Protector Is Like Henry".
In the whole article, the sentence "My ball protector is like Henry" did not appear again, and the original text of Li Yi's interview in the article was "These are all taught by Zhu Dao." Without much time, he delayed at the opponent's horn flag and protected the ball like Henry did on the field. I'm okay with these two shots today, right? ”
The so-called "My Ball Protector Like Henry" just appears in the title, which is what we call the title party.
For this sentence, Li Yi later explained it in the media many times, probably because he himself could not remember how he said it at that time, and two versions appeared.
Version 1
"That year we finished playing with Suwon Samsung, and a reporter asked me what I thought of Henry. I said at the time that Henry was my idol and that his approach to ball protection was the direction I was studying. Who knows that when it comes out, it will become my own ball protector like Henry. Tell me, which fan would say, 'I'm more than my idol'? Henry is the world's top striker, and his skills on the pitch, worth learning from every striker, are role models. 'I'm going to be like him' and 'I'm going to be like him' are definitely two concepts. So I didn't bother to explain, there was no need, I just said it. ”
Version 2
"The meaning I mean is definitely not this (my ball protector like Henry) meaning. When we are ahead of the game, we have to learn to control the rhythm on the field. We were watching Premier League Arsenal games. How did they control the rhythm at that time? It's about putting the ball on the bottom line, and then holding the ball and killing time. What I meant at the time was that we were going to learn about people, and as a result, many journalists wrote that. Some reporters actually did not come to the scene, but just saw others write that, and they wrote it themselves. Sometimes China has no legal restrictions on this, so we can only be victims. ”
Regardless of the version, we can be sure that Li Yi really did not say that sentence.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="133" >What should we do when we are under pressure? Carry it yourself</h1>
Because "my ball protection is like Henry", Li Yi became an Internet celebrity and became the object of ridicule by tens of millions of people, and we can imagine how much pressure Li Yi was under at that time.
As a striker, Li Yi is a player with both shortcomings and strengths, he has been criticized for his ability to grasp opportunities in front of the goal, and his number of goals is indeed not much. But his speed, his ability to protect the ball in front of the field is definitely one of the best in the Chinese forwards at that time, which is why he can enter the national team.
Retiring at the age of 32 is indeed regrettable, but retirement is not a bad thing for Li Yi, after experiencing various storms, Li Yi has become light and breezy, he has become peaceful, he began to accept the title of "Li Yi the Great", "Di Si" also began to re-examine their nominal "leader", in the past Li Yi's various behaviors in the new value system became not so difficult to accept, Li Yi began to change from black to red, becoming the real "Di Si" spokesperson.
After Li Yi retired, someone once left a message on Li Yi's Weibo, telling Li Yi about the situation that his life was stressful and had nowhere to tell.
Li Yi replied to him with four words.
Carry it yourself.
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