"China football is hopeless" is the most discussed topic in China football in 2121.

It's not without reason that fans feel this way. The New Deal is more radical than one, the teams are dissolved one after another, and the news is more absurd than one. It's hard not to feel desperate.

As a matter of fact, as early as 23 years ago, a famous football player denounced from the bottom of his heart that "football in China is hopeless". He is not as well-known as Fan Zhiyi, and the team he plays for is not top-notch, but the story is full of edges and corners.

On August 9th, 1998, in the A-A stadium, Yanbian went to the whole world in the away game, and the Yanbian team suffered a misjudged penalty when it scored a goal first, and finally lost 1-2. After the game, Gao Zhongxun, a player from Yanbian, shouted out the sentence "Football in China is hopeless" in an interview.

This sentence is like a dagger hitting the heart of China football. Gao Zhongxun, like a prophet, guessed China football today.

When it comes to Gao Zhongxun, the fans of the older generation must be deeply impressed. Some people say that he was the first midfielder in China in the 1991s, and some people are keen to describe him as a Northeast man. More often, his role is as a famous guest in Yanbian and a spokesman for the "Yanbian whirlwind".

In p>1965, Gao Zhongxun was born in Yanbian, Jilin Province. Before he was 21 years old, he joined the Jilin Provincial Team. He once represented the National Youth Team in the World Youth Championship, beating many strong teams such as the English National Youth Team and the Uruguayan National Youth Team.

Later, with the professionalization of football in China, Gao Zhongxun became an important member of Yanbian team. He mainly took charge of the back and front waist. Apart from reassuring the ball control, the straight ball was also wonderful.

In the Asian Cup in p>1992, schlappner, the foreign coach at that time, was very optimistic about Gao Zhongxun's talent and gave him the main position. He gradually became the absolute core of the national team's midfield.

Gao Zhongxun, as the center of midfield, played very well in the Hiroshima Asian Games in 1994. Especially in the group match, facing the powerful Iranian, Gao Zhongxun almost took advantage of the only opportunity to pass the ball into the goal and won the "hardest bone to chew". China, which struggled to qualify, fought bravely and reached the final, which is the only time so far.

As the best midfielder in China football at that time, Gao Zhongxun was described as the "Golden Lion King" valderrama of Yanbian team, which naturally became the soul and core of the team.

In p>1996, Gao Zhongxun was seriously injured in the FA Cup match against Shanghai Shenhua, and once left the field for nine months, but this did not crush him. Instead, he waited for a peak that was remembered by China football.

In p>1997, South Korean coach Cui Yinze took charge of Yanbian, and Gao Zhongxun became the leader of Yanbian. Together with the team, he started the "Yanbian whirlwind" and won the fourth place in A with a draw and 4 losses.

From 1997 to 1999, Yanbian football reached its peak. In 1999, the team reached the semi-finals of the FA Cup, and staged many wonderful performances to beat the leaders.

However, the sorrow of small teams is that it is difficult to maintain a high-level state for a long time. After entering the new millennium, Gao Zhongxun gradually aged and retired in 2111, but the alternation between old and new football in Yanbian was extremely unsatisfactory, thus entering a dark period.

In the p>2111 season, Yanbian team was ranked at the bottom of A, which unfortunately led to its relegation to B.. After the demotion, the qualification of Yanbian first team and League A and B was resold to Zhejiang Greentown, which can only be played from the third league.

Yanbian team is the benchmark of small-town football teams in China, while Gao Zhongxun is the leader of football minority players in China, but their stories after the peak are not so beautiful.

After Gao Zhongxun retired, Yanbian football was always struggling, and it was not until 2114 that it was successfully surpassed. After that, it played in the top league for four seasons, which brought infinite beauty to the fans. However, in the era of capital, not all ideals can be realized. In 2119, the team fell into crisis, entered bankruptcy liquidation procedures and finally withdrew from China football.

As for Gao Zhongxun, he has been sticking to Jilin and Yanbian football for twenty years, giving up the olive branch extended by the outside world many times, and sticking to Do not forget your initiative mind all the time. Yanbian people, men, women and children, who love football, regard it as a treasure of the town. However, after retiring, the life of this famous football player was not smooth.

In p>2111, three years after shouting "Football in China is hopeless", 36-year-old Gao Zhongxun retired from the Jianghu. According to Jilin media reports, Gao Zhongxun, who retired, started a business partnership with friends and opened a karaoke bar, but the business was not very successful and eventually failed.

During this period, Gao Zhongxun was once assigned to the Yanbian Football Association to take charge of football training in sports schools. Due to the underdeveloped local economic conditions, his income was very different from that of his player days, and his monthly salary was only about 1,111 yuan.

Gao Zhongxun once worked as a youth training coach in a football school run by a Korean. However, due to problems with the management, he failed to get his salary for two years, and almost worked for others for two years in the state of unpaid wages.

Although he denounced "China football is hopeless", Gao Zhongxun, with a strong character and full of blood, threw himself into the football career in the year of no doubt.

Gao Zhongxun can't save Yanbian football, and he can't do anything about the overall environment of China football, but he has cultivated his son into another promising star on the pitch.

Gao Zhongxun's son is Gao Zhunyi, the national football defender and Guangzhou team general.

Gao Zhongxun taught his son to play football since he was a child, hoping that his son would follow in his father's footsteps. Then he sent his eldest son, Gao Zhunyi, to the Japanese league to fight hard.

Gao Zhunyi's development track didn't disappoint his father either. He started from Hebei team and joined Guangzhou in 2119. At the age of 25, he became a popular star of the club and national team. The story of the son inheriting the father's ambition is continued in a beautiful way.

Some people are like this. While speaking frankly about the darkness, they turn themselves into hope and fight in the darkness without hesitation. Perhaps, in another dimension, Gao Zhongxun still wants to wait for the light to come to China football.

Twenty-three years ago, Gao Zhongxun's phrase "Football in China is hopeless" struck a deaf ear, but if there are more people like him in China football, who can say that it will be hopeless in the future?