If it comes to Luneng's most lamentable player, Zhou Haibin must be at the top. After being purged by Luneng last year, many people, when looking back on Zhou Haibin's career, agreed that Zhou Haibin could have been the captain of Luneng Meritorious Service, like Li Xiaopeng, and became a banner for Luneng Club and Football School.
Unfortunately, he was too smart, just like Wang Xifeng in "Dream of the Red Chamber", "the organ was too clever to calculate, but it missed Qingqing's life", and in the end, he failed to cash in on his talent. On the evening of June 3, Zhou Haibin, who was almost forgotten by the outside world, could only reveal through online live broadcast that he did not want to retire for the time being. However, he has not yet found his next home...
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="01" > Riva and Barty</h1>
Although he did not have a satisfactory life in Luneng, Xu Yang, as a guest of the CCTV football commentary, still has a lot of feelings for Luneng. There was a time when Xu Yang used to tell a story when he was explaining Luneng's game, that is, when Zhou Haibin first entered the Luneng team, he wrote Rivaldo on the left foot of his sneaker and Barty on his right foot, "We will call him Riva every day, and call him Barty every day."
This is not a paragraph, it is a real thing. That was in 2002. 17-year-old Zhou Haibin entered the Luneng team, and the eldest brother Su Maozhen favored him, calling him the "most talented and promising one" of the Luneng 85 generation. In an interview, Su Maozhen also mentioned the story of Zhou Haibin's "left foot Riva, right foot Barty". Later, Zhou Haibin himself explained that at that time, he was trying to be fun, but he liked these 2 stars, "I have been a kind of player with great shooting strength and strong long-range shooting ability since I was a child, and I saw that Riva also had this characteristic, so I thought of learning from him." As for Barty, as long as he shoots in front of the box, he can basically score, and his medium and long-range shooting ability is too strong! So I wrote him on the sneakers as well."
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="02" > Northeast Road Elementary School</h1>
Zhou Haibin and Zhao Xuri, Dong Fangzhuo and Feng Xiaoting, who are all children from the football city of Dalian, have played football together since they were young, and Haibin's identity is more special, he is a "foreign aid" - Zhao Xuri, the three of them are Dalian Northeast Road Primary School, and Zhou Haibin is in the same city's Fuguo Primary School. Whenever there is a big game, Northeast Road Elementary School always tries to get the seaside to play in its own team. Later, Dalian City stipulated that non-students of the school were not allowed to participate, and the Northeast Road Primary School simply let Zhou Haibin transfer, and that year, Zhou Haibin was only 10 years old.
In fact, Zhou Haibin's physical condition when he was a child was not good, in his words, "small and thin", there is no strength in confrontation, but he feels good about football, "When I was a child, my legs were longer than others. It was this interception that allowed him to make up for the shortcomings of the confrontation with the opponent. The reason why Zhou Haibin likes to play football is two reasons, on the one hand, he is influenced by the fans' father, and on the other hand, he wants to enter the national team. In Zhou Haibin's own words, "Entering the national team can be famous, I thought so at the beginning."
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="03" > thirteen into Luneng</h1>
In 1998, 13-year-old Zhou Haibin went to Wuhan to participate in a tournament. At that time, if Zhou Haibin's team performed well, there was a chance that Dalian Wanda, which was at its peak, would be incorporated into four teams. Unfortunately, due to the generally low age and no game experience of the players, their performance is very average, the team is facing disbandment, and Zhou Haibin's football road may end here. Fortunately, Zhou Haibin's distinct and outstanding personal characteristics made Guo Kanfeng, the coach of the Luneng reserve team who also led the team to compete, shine. Since then, Guo Kanfeng has visited Dalian many times, and finally brought this good seedling of Zhou Haibin to Shandong.
In 1999, Luneng Football School was established, and Zhou Haibin and Yuan Weiwei were sent to Weifang to enter the football school training, and the leader of the team was Guo Kanfeng. At Luneng Football School, Zhou Haibin, who has a flexible brain, can always understand the technical movements and tactical essentials taught by the coach at the first time. With the passage of time, Zhou Haibin quickly became the leader of players of the same age, successively winning the U17 National Small League A Championship and the U17 National Youth League Championship, and was selected for the National Youth Team. In 2000, Zhou Haibin accompanied the Luneng echelon to European exchange competitions, and he was well received by European coaches, and was once selected by Ajax in the Netherlands and Strasbourg in France.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="04" > debut is the peak</h1>
In 2003, after entering the first team, Zhou Haibin was appreciated by coach Nepo and got the opportunity to play. In luneng's away match against Shenyang Jinde that year, Zhou Haibin scored his first professional league goal. Subsequently, Zhou Haibin quickly gained a firm foothold in Luneng and was selected for the national team, becoming the youngest international in the history of the Chinese men's national football team at that time, and also the first international player trained by Luneng's youth training, which can be described as a veritable "debut is the peak". A year later, at the Asian Cup in China, Zhou Haibin even became the main player of the national team, starting and playing the whole game against Bahrain.
His childhood dream became a reality, and Zhou Haibin not only became famous in the world, but also obtained a high income that he did not even dare to think about before. In the first year of entering the professional team, Zhou Haibin bought a house of more than 130 square meters for his parents next to his hometown, and later Zhou Haibin said: "They don't want to leave the place where they are used to life, they feel that the original place of my home is comfortable." Zhou Haibin, who got a high income, redoubled his efforts, so in 2005 he became the busiest player in the entire Chinese football world - representing Luneng, national brands at all levels and Shandong National Games team 7-line battle, and handed over a bright report card: the AFC Champions League group stage 6 wins, the Netherlands World Youth Championship group stage three wins three victories, the East Asian Cup helped China win the championship, the National Games final with a goal to help Shandong team successfully win the championship...
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="05" > turning point in the boom-and-bust</h1>
Less than 20 years old to become the core of the national team, the national Olympic team and the club's midfield, Zhou Haibin's starting point seems to be comparable to his predecessor Sun Jihai. Facts have also proved that Zhou Haibin did prove su Maozhen's "most talented and promising one" thesis with his actions: in 2006 and 2008, he helped Luneng win the Chinese Super League championship twice, and in 2007, the Asian Cup of the Four Southeast Asian Countries and the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games played all the competitions as the main force. At that time, Zhou Haibin was almost the hottest player in the entire Chinese football world.
But also during this time, there were many negative news about Zhou Haibin. In the 2006 Toulon Cup match against Portugal, Zhou Haibin was sent off for a red card for kicking the neck of the opposing player Villera in stoppage time, and the Chinese Football Association penalty notice afterwards required Zhou Haibin to write a written inspection and publicly apologize to fans across the country. After the 2008 Olympic Games, some netizens broke the news that Zhou Haibin and other 3 national Olympic players had close contact with several scantily clad women. Later, Nan Yong, who was the full-time vice chairman of the Football Association at the time, said that some national Olympic players left the station privately during the Olympic Games and went to the hotel outside to open a room and meet their girlfriends privately. However, afterwards, Zhou Haibin said that he absolutely did not open a house. It can be said that 2008 became a turning point in Zhou Haibin's transition from prosperity to decline.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="06" > Dutch alert</h1>
Frequent "rushing" has made Zhou Haibin the busiest player in Chinese football, the national team has his figure, the national Olympic team is the core, and Luneng is indispensable to him. Tu Ba, the Luneng coach who was distressed about his disciples, couldn't help but complain: "Zhou Haibin will rest for three or five days after a year, and I am really sorry for him." And Zhou Haibin, who became famous at a young age, has also become sluggish, and privately, he has said that he does not need to spend 100% energy to deal with the Chinese Super League. Such a state, Tuba also can not look down, the Serbian even publicly accused the disciples: the last two seasons have not made progress.
Zhou Haibin, who is becoming increasingly mediocre, has also performed very generally in the national team and the national Olympic team. Zhou Haibin was finally tired. In February 2009, Zhou Haibin successfully took advantage of loopholes in the transfer rules of the Chinese Football Association and negligence in the work of Luneng club to sign a transfer agreement with Eindhoven in the Dutch League. Zhou Haibin's action can be described as "unconscious", and many Shandong fans have sighed: when they wake up, Zhou Haibin suddenly becomes a player in Eindhoven. Some fans also believe that Zhou Haibin's behavior is a "betrayal". Unfortunately, Zhou Haibin's trip to the Netherlands did not go well, and although he entered the squad of Eindhoven, he did not get an official chance to play.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="07" > seems to have come from the past</h1>
Without that defection, Zhou Haibin would have become a label-like feat like Li Xiaopeng in Luneng. Unfortunately, Zhou Haibin, who has a flexible brain, is smart but is mistaken for smart, and the result is that the talent cannot be fully realized. After experiencing Eindhoven's warning, Zhou Haibin returned to Luneng. Zhou Haibin, who has been sitting on the cold bench for a year, returns to the Chinese Super League and is still one of the best midfielders in Chinese football, and Luneng also won the Chinese Super League for the third time that year, and the last Chinese Super League championship so far.
After that, Zhou Haibin slowly lost its position in Luneng. In 2013, in order to be able to play football, Zhou Haibin had to leave Luneng for the second time and was loaned to Tianjin Teda. In Tianjin, Zhou Haibin once found his form and even became the captain of the team. In 2017, Zhou Haibin returned to Luneng for the second time. After that, he came on as a substitute more often. Off the field, Zhou Haibin is the big brother who passes on the help to help the young people of Luneng grow up as soon as possible. In the 2019 season, Zhou Haibin made 16 appearances for Luneng, started 7 times and came off the bench nine times, a total of 831 minutes, scored 2 goals, and 1 assist, in addition to scoring 1 goal for Evergrande in the AFC Champions League quarterfinals. Despite seemingly decent form, Zhou Haibin was purged after the season.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="08" > the future is still promising</h1>
On the evening of June 3, Zhou Haibin opened his live broadcast debut on the Internet. Talking about leaving Shandong Luneng after the end of last season, Zhou Haibin said that he understood the club's decision very well, after all, the club still has many excellent young players, they also need to play, and it is reasonable for himself and Cui Peng and other old players to leave. However, he said he does not plan to retire, and as for whether to continue his football career, the final decision will be announced in the near future.
After Zhou Haibin left the team, he has not found a suitable home, and Liu Zhenli and Cui Peng, who were not as good as him in the team at that time, have found the next home one after another. Many fans suggested that Zhou Haibin go to the Yellow Sea to play. In the future, if the Yellow Sea can press the whistle to sign the Yellow Seashore, it will undoubtedly be a good thing for the team, and the chances of success in completing relegation in the new season will also be greatly improved. However, the reason why Zhou Haibin has not found his next home so far is actually in himself - he wants to play in the Chinese Super League and get a big contract, which is difficult to realize in the current football environment. However, for Zhou Haibin, as long as he can have the opportunity to continue to play football, he is still worth looking forward to...