In December, the Hebei Xianghe Training Base was a little cold, Jia Xiuquan took the national youth team in the training camp, suddenly turned his eyes to Zhou Haibin, who was sitting on the sidelines, and jokingly asked: "Do you want to think of the national team training?" ”
The latter was probably caught off guard by a sudden question and said a little absently, "I don't know." Obviously the answer was not what was asked.
Regarding entering the national team, Zhou Haibin, who was only eighteen at the time, did not seem to think too much. But such rumors are not all empty, the then head coach of the national team Alihan has seen his training and game performance, and the media rumors are "very important to him" .
Jia Xiuquan knew that the news was not false, because he saw that Arihan's assistant Deyang had already arrived in Xianghe first. A few days later, Zhou Haibin was transferred to the national team, which is said to be "borrowing Zhou Haibin for a week".
At that time, Li Xiaopeng, the big brother of the Shandong team, was still in the team, Li Xiaopeng's popularity and activity ability were amazing, with Li Xiaopeng's care, coupled with Zhou Haibin's own cleverness, he was successful in the national team. Smooth sailing, which became the tone of Zhou Haibin's early career.
Zhou Haibin is a dalian native, a football prodigy in football city. In the year of Dalian's large-scale construction of Xinghai Square, the football stadium north of the square was demolished as planned, and several teams, including the Dalian Football School football team, lost their training ground in an instant.
In the years when he was transferred from Shahekou District to Lushunkou District and "fighting guerrillas" everywhere, Zhou Haibin's heart was full of admiration and longing for the older generation of stars of dalian Wanda team, and his dream was to one day become one of them.
At that time, in addition to the first team, Dalian Wanda only had three teams in the second and third teams. They proposed that this team, including Zhou Haibin, could go to Wuhan to play a national junior game, stating that "if the results are good, they can buy the whole team and become a fourth-tier team."
But due to its lack of competition experience and young age, the team lost miserably in Wuhan and finished third from the bottom. For Dalian Wanda, who was in full swing at the time, they were unwilling to buy the entire team for a week. So the team disbanded, and the road ahead was confused.
What he didn't know was that in order to get him, Shandong coach Guo Kanfeng ran Dalian three times in a row. At the beginning, Guo Kanfeng wanted to buy three team members in their team, but the price was always not negotiated, and then Guo Kanfeng was fierce, "Or those money, this time I only buy one person, Zhou Haibin." "The introduction fee of Luneng in this transaction alone cost 20,000 yuan, and the house price of the excellent location of Xinghai Square this year was just 3,000 per square meter."
Four years after entering Luneng, then Luneng coach Nebo promoted Zhou Haibin to the first team. The league is in the middle of the league, and people can no longer see the shadow of the young players in him. In the match between Luneng Taishan and Shaanxi Guoli, Ali Han appeared on the rostrum.
The purpose of the Dutch trip was to investigate Song Lihui and Shu Chang, but in the end they were caught by the eighteen-year-old Zhou Haibin's performance on the field. On August 20 of that year, Zhou Haibin wore a warm-up match between China and Chile, thus becoming the youngest international in the history of the national team to participate in an international A-level competition.
After that, Zhou Haibin probably couldn't remember how many games he played, from the Chinese Super League to the AFC Champions League, from the FA Cup to the World Youth Championship, and of course, the National Games that broke the "over-age event". The age limit for the men's football team at the National Games is 20 years old, and the information provided by the Shandong team shows that Zhou Haibin, who was born in 1985, was just in line with the standard.
The Liaoning team, which was cut down by Shandong in the semi-finals, claimed to have sufficient evidence of Zhou Haibin's "overage" after the match: on the registration form registered by the Dalian Football Association, Zhou Haibin's date of birth was clearly recorded as: July 19, 1984.
There are rumors that the Shandong team and the Liaoning team once had a so-called "gentleman's agreement": Zhou Haibin can play, but cannot play against the Liaoning team, otherwise Liaoning will have a "bottom". In the semi-finals of the National Games, Zhou Haibin not only played, but also wore the captain's armband.
The Chinese Football Association intervened in the over-age incident, and finally replied that the appeal period had passed and the Football Association would not accept it. After that, the Liaoning side suddenly stopped, and "whether Zhou Haibin is overaged" became a suspicious case in Chinese football.
Whether it was flying in the Toulon Cup or helping Luneng win the double, the twenty-one-year-old Zhou Haibin began to reach his peak in the year. At that time, Luneng coach Tuba said, "Zhou Haibin will rest for three or five days after a year, and I am really sorry for him." With no time to adjust, coupled with an premature "honor plus", the Serbian publicly accused the lovers of "no progress in the last two seasons".
In the Round of 20 of the Asian Quarterfinals of the South African World Cup, the national football team played at home against Qatar, Zhou Haibin, who was regarded as an absolute main force, did not even enter the eighteen-man list, and after the game, the rumor that "Zhou Haibin was beaten by his teammates because of dissatisfaction with the coach's arrangement" was amazing. After the end of the Chinese Super League season, Zhou Haibin began to operate the transfer.
Zhou Haibin's transfer process is very strange. Relying on Bosman's law, he became the first Chinese player to "dare to eat crabs". During the Spring Festival, he took matters into his own hands and secretly signed a contract with Eindhoven with his agent Roman, all of which were unknown to the Chinese Football Association, Shandong Luneng Club, domestic media and fans.
Zhou Haibin chose the date of the showdown on January 29, the fourth day of the first lunar month. This transfer to Luneng is not a complete loss, and a part of Zhou Haibin's annual salary in Eindhoven will be used as compensation and will be allocated to Luneng.
In the first round of the new season in the Dutch League, Eindhoven was forced to a 3-3 victory by promoted Ma Yunlu, and the "best player of the game" was taken away by the japanese star Keisuke Honda in the away team. Zhou Haibin gave up his comfort zone to stay in Yangyang, but there were still many people who laughed at his failure.
Zhou Haibin is also an exception, as Chinese players will almost always rise after returning to China, but he has worn out his spirituality in less than a year on the bench in the Netherlands.
The season when Zhou Haibin returned to Luneng, under the tutelage of Ivankovic, Luneng won the league championship again, and the double back configuration of Zhou Haibin and Antar was the most terrifying midfield combination of attack that year. In the summer of 2013, Zhou Haibin was loaned to Tianjin Teda and subsequently transferred permanently. Four years later, Zhou Haibin returned to Shandong Luneng. Three years later, Zhou Haibin announced his retirement.
Eighteenth Week Seashore, twenty years old. Cui Peng, number twenty, is eighteen years old. This is probably the most beautiful memory of Luneng fans for that time.
Zhou Haibin said: "Going to the Netherlands to play football has taught me what football really looks like. "But when he came back, he couldn't play football anymore. Some say he is a traitor, some say he broke the "slavery" of Chinese football. But people have almost forgotten that at the Asian Games in Doha, that best week on the seashore.