Reporter Bai Guohua reported
Born in 1987, he has entered the year of standing this year, 2017, for him, the meaning is not the same - Zhang Wenzhao, is in a bottleneck period in his career, he has few opportunities to play at Evergrande.
At the end of the year, he may once again get the opportunity to represent the Chinese team, and he is included in the Chinese team roster of the East Asian Cup. He first entered the national team in 2011, but compared to 6 years ago, he is now a 30-year-old veteran, but his characteristics are still the same as before - he can run, can break.
"Breakthrough is my characteristic, but in the past two years, I may have less time to play, and everyone has forgotten that I am still a person who will break through." Zhang Wenzhao, 30, talks about himself like this.
When he was a child, Zhang Wenzhao ran and ran.
His father was a worker at Angang Steel, and the football enthusiast did the first thing he did every day when he got up and did was to pull his son out of bed.
At five o'clock in the morning, whether it was windy or rainy or snowy, Zhang Wenzhao measured with his feet the street in front of The 29th Garden in Tiedong District, Anshan, and the more than a thousand steps of Martyrs Mountain.
This thin but able to run child is a student of Anshan 219 Primary School, and his academic performance is very average, which is simply not liked.
"As soon as I read a book, I get sleepy and have a headache." Zhang Wenzhao said.
But this student who is sleepy in reading, his advantage is not to make trouble in school, his reading grades are average, and he likes football, so his father designed the route for him to become a football player.
His father took him everywhere to try out, and the unique ones were Dalian and Shenzhen.
At a football school in Dalian, Zhang Wenzhao tried to go to an Internet café for the first time in his life to "brush the night", he liked Red Alert, StarCraft, CS... In CS he likes to be a cop, "because I'm full of a sense of justice!" ”
The 13-year-old teenager was already sleepy after brushing at two o'clock in the Internet café with excitement, at this time he began to miss the feeling of sleeping in bed, so from then on, the matter of sneaking to the Internet café to play games had nothing to do with him.
There is a greedy mind, but there is no habit of greedy play, the teenager Zhang Wenzhao is such a person, and his father is full of confidence in his future when he plans the growth route of football for him.
"I'm going to be the international footballer's daddy." His prophecy was finally fulfilled. Zhang Wenzhao was once a regular visitor to the national team, in 2014, the national team led by Perrin played a warm-up match in Anshan and Kuwait, Zhang Wenzhao's father came to the hotel to see him, and he could watch his son play on the national team at his doorstep.
Zhang Wenzhao was also full of expectations and bought a lot of tickets for relatives and friends, but Perrin did not let Zhang Wenzhao play in that game.
"The emotional intelligence of the coach is really high!" Some emotions, Zhang Wenzhao never hides, for this matter he is mindful, Perrin has his own considerations, the players have their own feelings - let the father have "face" in front of his relatives and friends, this is everyone's natural idea, not to mention Zhang Wenzhao can appreciate that it is not easy for his father to cultivate himself.
In order to cultivate him, his father sold the house in Anshan for more than 100,000 yuan (Zhang Wenzhao later bought the house back), and without a "nest", Zhang Wenzhao either lived in his grandfather's house or in his grandmother's house.
In order to run around with him, my father later went into business and was away for many years, so the backyard caught fire. "I didn't know until ten years after my parents were apart." The home was gone, and although he vaguely felt it, he did not ask his father and mother after all.
The father and son have only one goal, that is, to chase the football, and fate drives them to run, to the unknown far away.
From Anshan to Dalian to Shenzhen to Changchun to Jinan to Guangzhou, Zhang Wenzhao ran into his founding year.
There are coaches who appreciate him, and there are people who are not used to him.
In the 87 national youth team, the strict Jia Xiuquan once taught him a lesson fiercely. In the Eight Nations Invitational Tournament in South Africa, in the match against the North Korean team, Zhang Wenzhao was sent off by a red card within a few minutes of playing, and the angry Jia Xiuquan slapped his right hand, Zhang Wenzhao dodged, but Jia Xiuquan's left hand came up again, and Zhang Wenzhao, who did not dodge, was smashed by Jia Xiuquan's watch.
For those three days, Zhang Wenzhao's ears were buzzing. The friends said: "Jia Dao wants to beat you, why don't you run?" "It's too late, who would have thought he was going to do it so quickly?"
For Jia Xiuquan, giving Zhang Wenzhao a slap, it is just a performance of "playing is kissing, scolding is love", after this game, he contacted Inter Milan through his agent, and Zhang Wenzhao had the opportunity to go to Inter Milan for trial training.
"In retrospect, what a blessing that was." Zhang Wenzhao said.
At that time, Inter, there were Figo, Adriano, Ibrahimovic also just transferred to the past, Zhang Wenzhao still keeps a photo with them, this Chinese teenager is so happy that he almost can't find the edge.
At Inter, of course, he can't play Serie A, and can only register him in the reserve team, but this has made Zhang Wenzhao very satisfied. Finally know what the outside world is like.
At Inter, Zhang Wenzhao knew that he could not stand, but there was a chance to go to the midstream and lower reaches of the club, and Inter's echelon coach had a high evaluation of him, Zhang Wenzhao described himself at that time: "It may be encouraged, some games have the opportunity to shoot, and can also score." ”
With this experience, Zhang Wenzhao naturally retained a dream of staying in the west, but unfortunately, for various reasons, he has not been able to make the trip.
"After coming back, I was really a little lost for a while, and I felt that I was quite bullish, but now that I think about it, I am really young and crazy."
Transferred from Shenzhen to Changchun in 2009, in 2010 Yatai head coach Shen Xiangfu gave him the opportunity, 352 formation, let him serve as a wingback, can run can break through, Zhang Wenzhao's characteristics can be fully utilized. In 2011, he was the player with the most breakthroughs in the Chinese Super League, and the second in line was Muric.
It is good to be able to break through, but Zhang Wenzhao's style of playing football is sometimes considered "unique".
A former Yatai big brother dismissively commented on Zhang Wenzhao's style of playing: "As far as his style of playing, can the blind belt play well?" ”
Such pressure, Zhang Wenzhao can feel, in a league, he even three people on the side of the road caused chaos in front of the opponent's goal, and finally Yatai scored successfully, after scoring, Zhang Wenzhao ran to the then head coach Sabrich and roared: "Don't blindly lead, can this ball score?" ”
I don't know if the translator can accurately translate the word "blind belt" and Zhang Wenzhao's emotions to Sabrich, but Sabrich laughed. 'He's a great coach and he gives me the most freedom in attack. Zhang Wenzhao said.
Therefore, that cathartic roar is actually a roar to others.
Regarding his style of playing, Zhang Wenzhao also had a verbal clash with a local journalist in Changchun. Zhang Wenzhao called the reporter directly: "Do you think you are talking objectively like this?" Do you play football? It doesn't matter how you comment objectively, but your current statement is simply not understood, and such a mess will affect the player's job! ”
Until now, Zhang Wenzhao has been very dismissive of some commentators, such as his criticism of a popular commentator: "I don't understand anything, I think I understand very well, if I have the opportunity, I really want to fight with him in the ring, see how many pounds he has!" ”
He never hid his feelings on the issue of principle he believed, and later left Changchun Yatai for Shandong Luneng, and before the transfer, he said this sentence: "I hope to go to a bigger platform." ”
Just such a sentence has angered many fans of Yatai, but Zhang Wenzhao still does not regret saying this sentence: "This is my real idea, players pursue a larger platform to develop, is there anything wrong?" ”
Transferred from Changchun Yatai to Shandong Luneng, Zhang Wenzhao met Guoqing's teammate Dai Lin.
1987-88 Guoqing is a special team, they are in the gap between the Olympic age group, but the team's success rate is higher than the Olympic age group, Cui Peng, Arthur Junmin, Wang Yongpo, Yu Hai, Huang Bowen, Zeng Cheng, Rong Hao, Yu Hanchao, Yang Xu, Zheng Long are all members of this team.
When they were in Guoqing, Zhang Wenzhao and Dai Lin were still only "slightly favored", and after transferring to Luneng, the relationship between the two people can be called "like glue like paint".
Their "iron brother" relationship, foreign aid also knows, after the transfer to Evergrande, Zhang Wenzhao as a guest in Shandong, Tardelli said to Dai Lin: "Look, your 'wife' is back!" ”
"I don't know why this is so, man, maybe it's just a matter of fate."
Dai Lin, once "notorious", for his "evil man" style, Zhang Wenzhao said: "He is playing center-back, this position originally requires toughness and murder. But in his life, he is a knife-mouthed, tofu-hearted person. ”
Two people experienced something like this: having dinner outside in the evening, then drinking some beer, in which case they could not drive, and then called a substitute driver. On the other hand, the substitute driver was a novice that day, and the road could not be found, and dailin's luxury car was rubbed.
So, Dai Lin split her head and covered her face and scolded the substitute driver, this driver "shivered", luxury car, what to do next? After scolding the driver and getting out of breath, Dai Lin waved her hand: "You go, I will take care of this car myself." Then take out 200 yuan: "It's so late, it's not easy for you, take this money to take a taxi back!" ”
"Dai Lin is such a person." Zhang Wenzhao said: "And now, his temper and performance on the field are not the same as before. ”
Why? Maybe everyone is changing, and their team members have entered the year of standing. There is a family, there are children, before it was a lonely body, now it is a wife and children hot kangtou.
The football dream that was once pursued has now become a career for supporting the family.
After the transfer to Evergrande in 2016, for Zhang Wenzhao, it was a process of suffering and growth.
After moving to Luneng, he did not have many playing opportunities, and in 2016, Luneng decided to transfer him out.
Interested in him included Evergrande and Guoan, and in the end he chose Evergrande. "This may be fate, Evergrande wants me, to prove that I still have this ability."
But after arriving at Evergrande, his situation was similar to that of Luneng.
Taking this year as an example, he did not play much, from the data point of view, only 1 goal, 2 assists, in addition, in the match with Liaoning, in the case of the team falling behind, he came on as a substitute to create a penalty, which became the key to Evergrande's reversal.
"Now that I'm a veteran, I can figure out some things. In Evergrande, the competition is fierce, whether you can play or not depends on the arrangement of the coach, anyway, for me, usually practice well, let me play well, other, think more is useless. ”
Evergrande has many wingers, such as Yu Hanchao, who is the same age as him. After Yu Hanchao came to Evergrande, he also experienced the process from substitute to main substitute to main force.
For this point, Yu Hanchao's summary is: "You may be the core of the attack in other teams, but when it comes to Evergrande, what you need to do is different from your role positioning. At Evergrande, to play full-back, you need to start from defense, start with dirty work and tired work. ”
This passage, Zhang Wenzhao listened. After making penalties in the match with Liaoning, he said: "In fact, breakthroughs are my characteristics, but these two years may have less time to play, and everyone has forgotten that I will still break through." ”
At the end of that game, he was injured: "Or my physical state has not adjusted to the best, at the age of 30, the function of the body will change somewhat, and now my goal is Zhi Brother (Zheng Zhi), who is the role model for our team." ”
The more you live, the more simple you are, the more you live, the more "boring", which is Zhang Wenzhao's current state of life.
He was divorced, and to his ex-wife, he said: "I was young and impulsive at the time, so I got married. I don't remember any acquaintance days, because to me, she was a hurried visitor in my life, so what is there to remember? ”
After training or competition, return to your home in Evergrande Yujing Peninsula, watch movies, eat and eat, is the whole of life. "I'm a boring person myself, so I like to watch funny movies. For example, Zhou Xingchi's "Journey to the West", that is my beloved. ”
But in fact, "Journey to the West" is a funny tragedy...
When the mind is not calm, I will read some "chicken soup articles", and after reading it, "Hey, after all, what I say is someone else's business, other people's feelings." ”
This bowl of chicken soup is not very useful...
He sketched a picture: one day, I stopped running on the court, the next day, I went to the beach to find a cottage for a vacation, I am an otaku. "But I can't eat raw and cold things, my stomach is not good, and seafood is not suitable for me."
He also has a wish to build a mountain primary school: "The children there are too hard!" ”
On Christmas Eve last year, Feng Xiaoting held a football charity game and invited some Children from Xinjiang to play football in Guangzhou, and Zhang Wenzhao was the only teammate who came to the scene, because only a "single dog" like him would be so "idle" during the vacation.
He had a great time playing with the kids. "In them, I felt as if I had seen myself running when I was a child."