Idealists will inevitably be quite critical of this era, you will inadvertently miss the era, and glad that you lived in it, but the memory will eventually gradually blur over time, so that the bits and pieces of growth will occasionally be ignored and become less important. However, everything that happened in that era really existed objectively, and Chinese football did not lack tradition, but we often lacked enough respect for history. 22 years ago, a Yanbian man shouted at the CCTV camera: "Chinese football is out of play!" "A word? At least the status quo is really not optimistic.
The person named Gao Zhongxun who fired this shocking shot at CCTV was caused by the fact that in 1998, he represented Yanbian in Chongqing against the defender Huandao in a lot of penalties that made him feel strange, it was Yanbian who took the lead in scoring the goal, and was later awarded a controversial penalty that led to a 1-2 defeat. Years later, Gao Zhongxun was asked about this on many occasions, and his answer was generally like this: "We were stared at by the referee all the time, not once or twice." The ball that was not a penalty was forced to blow us on the penalty, and he (the referee) stood in a good position at that time, which should be clearly seen. I was really disappointed at the time, so I said something like that. ”
If it were not for the cold heart, as an influential star with a national brand resume, who had received state training, paid great attention to obedience to the organization, and strictly abided by various disciplines, Gao Zhongxun could not have stabbed this sharp dagger at the ugly phenomenon of Chinese football at that time on the national television camera.
Indeed, there are many deficiencies in the A and A era, and the sudden professionalization has allowed many unscrupulous people to find a shortcut to make huge profits from football, and its means are absolutely subverting the imagination of many Chinese people at that time. After all, the black sheep are only a minority, but it is precisely these cancers that have made all Chinese footballers bear a notoriety that will never be washed away, and their influence has not yet dissipated.
The depth of love, the depth of responsibility. Gao Zhongxun's love for football can be confirmed by the height he finally reached, as a representative figure of Yanbian football, Gao Zhongxun has been playing for his hometown team since the beginning of the establishment of the Chinese professional league, and even led the Yanbian team to beat the Chinese national team 2-1, not to mention that in those years, even now, this result is extremely shocking.
And the Yanbian team composed mainly of Korean players, in the absence of foreign aid for a long time, is famous in Chinese football with its fierce, tenacious, all-attack and full defense unique playing style, and in that Yanbian team, Gao Zhongxun, who plays as a midfielder, is a well-deserved big brother, and his godfather behind him is the Korean football star Choi Yin-taek.
Gao Zhongxun, who was too deeply injured by match-fixing and black whistle, finally ended his playing career in 2001, when he was 36 years old, he dedicated all his youth to Yanbian football in his player era, and suddenly disappeared from the eyes of the world in nearly 10 years after retiring, until 2011, when he returned to the media vision, and he revealed in an interview what he had experienced in the past 10 years. At first, Gao Zhongxun opened a small song hall, just started the business OK, many fans are admiring, but with the aging of the equipment and other reasons, the small song hall did not take long to close.
In 2003, gao Zhongxun, who ran into a business wall, still wanted to do his old business, and he was arranged by the Yanbian Prefecture Football Association to work in the local sports school in 2003, responsible for forming a team with a monthly salary of 1,000 yuan, but he chose to leave after only half a year. "Let me team up, but I don't have the money. I drove to various places to select people, had to pay for my own fuel, did not give money for meals, and could not even guarantee the team's training ground. Gao Zhongxun explained the reason for leaving.
Next, he went to a Korean football school in Kunming as a youth coach, which was four years, but then the school was hit by a problem with the capital, and the old gao who had been beaten for nearly two years finally failed to hold on, and after going to South Korea to ask for a salary without success, this working career also ended, but the old gao looked at it very openly.
"Those were comfortable years. Although I don't pay money, I can eat and live for free, and I can play football with my friends. Gao Zhongxun, who has saved a team during his work and life in Kunming and won the city amateur league championship three times, said. Now the people who play with me are old comrades, they can't run, I'm young, I run the most. When he played football, he was 77 kilograms, and now 80 kilograms, it has increased by 3 kilograms. ”
After leaving Kunming at the end of 2008, Gao Zhongxun returned to Yanji, and since then he has been idle at home for a long time, so he has offended the leaders of relevant departments, and Gao Zhongxun, who returned to his homeland, could not continue to make a living with football, and the main source of income for the family at that time was his wife who worked as a dance teacher at Yanbian University.
But it is also in this situation that can not be worse, Gao Zhongxun passed on his love for football to his son, the eldest son is named Gao Zhunyi, who has now grown into an active international, and is still pulled by the world famous coach Lippi Novice, currently playing for the Chinese Super League champion Guangzhou Evergrande, its growth route has many similarities with South Korean star Sun Xingyu, and at the national team level is Sun Xingyu's direct opponent, the second son is named Gao Mingyi, although once the old Gao is more optimistic about the second son, but now it is the boss who plays famous.
After the two sons entered the field of football one after another, Gao Zhongxun stressed more than once: "I told them not to tell outsiders not to say that they were Gao Zhongxun's sons, living under the reputation of their father, the pressure was too great." ”
Old Gao is true, to talk about the influence of football, even the current high precision wing has not reached the height of his father's generation, you know, in the 90s of the last century, Gao Zhongxun has always firmly occupied an important position, and even by many people in the industry at that time as "China's best midfielder".