This afternoon, Chongqing Contemporary Lifan Club held a press conference to announce Gong Lei as the club's general manager.
In this way, Gong Lei guidance has since added another identity "football manager", from players, CCTV football commentators, football coaches to football managers, Gong Lei Gong guidance is definitely the most legendary one among Chinese football people.
The impression that Gong Lei's guidance should be known to fans at the beginning should be the identity of CCTV commentator, since 2002 Gong Lei has been serving as a CCTV commentator, and the Bundesliga, La Liga and other competitions can hear Gong Lei's game commentary. But in fact, Gong Lei in the player era has also achieved impressive results.
As the first Chinese player to be nominated by The World Footballer of the Year, Gong Lei, who plays abroad, is more mysterious than domestic players. Born in October 1965, Gong Lei was the captain of the 1985 Chinese Youth Team, and at the 4th World Youth Football Championship held in the former Soviet Union, they entered the quarterfinals as the first group in Baku Division, achieving the best result of the Chinese football national team in the world.
Due to injury reasons, Gong Lei has "retired" and studied in Canada, but he still can't put down football, so at the age of 24, Gong Lei went to the French island of Tahiti in the South Pacific and joined the Pillay team, where Gong Lei helped the team win a total of 8 league and cup championships, and he himself won the title of best player and top scorer 6 times. In the 1993 season, the outstanding Chinese foreign player was nominated by the head coach of the Tahiti national team as a candidate for Mr. World Footballer of the Year, and is the only Chinese player to be nominated by the World Footballer of the Year.
Rich player resumes and excellent foreign language skills also allowed Gong Lei to get invitations from some clubs after "retiring". The impression of Gong Lei's brilliant coaching was in Guizhou, and from assistant coach to final head coach, Gong Lei's coach did not disappoint the team's top brass and club. In the 2013 season, Gong Lei led the "civilian squad" of Guizhou to qualify for the AFC Champions League. In the case of Guangzhou Evergrande, ready to monopolize all domestic champions, it was Gong Lei who led Guizhou Renhe to defeat Guangzhou Evergrande with an aggregate score of 3:2 to win the Chinese Football Association Cup Championship, which is also the first FA Cup championship in the history of Guizhou team.
After that, at the critical moment of guizhou team relegation, Gong Leigong was once again ordered to play the role of firefighter in danger, and once led the Guizhou team to break out of the siege.
The resumes of players, commentators, coaches and other roles make Gong Lei's understanding of football more comprehensive and profound, which is also the main reason why Chongqing Contemporary Lifan Club invited Gong to be the manager of the club.
As Gong Zhi said at the press conference:
"We want to build our future technical system, focus on youth training, not only in the first team's economic level and performance improvement, we want to build our own hematopoietic function."
Chinese football needs such football people.
We would like to pay tribute to all the footballers who are committed to improving the level of Chinese football, and also bless the guidance of the palace and continue to write your legendary "football career"!
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