Chapter 19 me and football

I am a big football fan, and I must watch every major football match.For this reason, Kong Xiangming and I had conflicts, as I have already said.But my infatuation has not changed so far, and as my experience continues to enrich, my understanding of football has deepened.I think football, like Go, is full of philosophy of life. There are struggles and struggles; there are victories and failures; there are joys and pains.Sometimes watching a game is really like experiencing a life.So I love football. I have always had hope for Chinese football. I remember that in 1985, I had an argument with Vice Premier Wan Li about Chinese football.At that time, we had just finished playing cards and sat chatting together. Somehow, we talked about the topic of Chinese football breaking out of Asia.After hearing this, Wan Li said very clearly: There is no hope for Chinese football in this century.

I was a little anxious when I heard it, and I said: Uncle Wan, maybe your view is right, but shouldn’t you care about football from now on?I know that he was in charge of the executive work of the State Council at the time, and I hope he can take more care of Chinese football. Wan Li said: You don't understand this. It is definitely not a matter of this century for Chinese football to break out of Asia and go to the world. Don't do such advanced things, it is too wasteful.I am an absolute fan, and I couldn't accept what he said about Chinese football so badly, so I argued fiercely with him.Cao Dayuan, Rong Ledi and others were present at that time.In the end, Wan Li said calmly: "If you don't believe me, take a look."

Fourteen years have passed in the blink of an eye, and Chinese football was once again eliminated in the Asian region of the "Century Cup" qualifiers. Not only has it lost its last chance to break out of Asia in this century, but it has also lost its status as a strong Asian team. Wanli was "unfortunately speaking".Looking back now, even though I am not in a happy mood, I admire Wan Li's foresight and savvy. To use a word from our fans: Really awesome! Another thing related to Chinese football is that Hu Yaobang gave me a bottle of Moutai before his death.How is Moutai related to Chinese football?This has to start from the beginning.

It is said that the Maotai Distillery found two bottles of the oldest wine, one bottle was given to Deng Xiaoping, and the other bottle was given to Hu Yaobang.The bottle given to Deng Xiaoping has already been drunk, and the bottle given to Hu Yaobang has become a veritable lonely wine, which is even more precious. Hu Yaobang was reluctant to drink. He knew that I love to drink, so he gave me the wine and told me to drink it with new wine, so I couldn't just drink it like this.Of course I was reluctant to drink it, so I collected it. Once I had dinner with Qi Wusheng, Yu Genbao, Rong Zhixing, Yang Xiuwu, Gao Fengwen and other members of the national football team. When it came to qualifying for the World Cup, everyone was very emotional.I am a football fan, and I was very anxious that the Chinese team could not make it out, so I took advantage of the wine and said, if the Chinese team can make it out of Asia and participate in the World Cup, I will take out this bottle of Moutai to celebrate the Chinese team's success.They were very happy to hear that, and said that they must break out of Asia.

It's a pity that over the years, the World Cup has failed again and again, and this bottle of wine is still kept.Not long ago, Gao Fengwen told me that I really want to drink your bottle of wine, but I just can’t. Later, someone heard about this and offered 1 million yuan to buy this bottle of wine, but I did not agree.The value of this bottle of wine is by no means what a million can buy. I told Hu Yaobang about this, and Hu Yaobang said loudly: Good!Now that Hu Yaobang has passed away, I hope one day I can take out this bottle of wine to celebrate the success of the Chinese football team on behalf of Hu Yaobang and myself, and put an end to our worries.

Hu Yaobang saw that I had left the Moutai wine to the Chinese football team, so he gave me another bottle of tiger bone wine.This bottle of tiger bone wine has a lot of origins.In the early 1950s, when Gao Gang was still the "Northeast King", he once killed a tiger with his own hands.He soaked a jar of wine with tiger bones and gave the jar of wine to Chairman Mao Zedong.At this time, Mao Zedong had already developed an aversion to Gao Gang, and he was not interested in wine, so he asked someone to bury the wine in the ground. Over the past few decades, the situation has changed, and the person who buried the wine has long since disappeared, and this incident seems to have been forgotten.It wasn't until after the "Gang of Four" was smashed that this jar of wine was discovered when Mao Zedong's relics were being cleaned up.The wine is well sealed, and there is an explanation on it, so that people can know the origin of this jar of wine.Later, the wine was divided into more than a dozen bottles, which were given to the old comrades of the central government at that time, and Hu Yaobang also got a bottle.However, the approachable Hu Yaobang gave me this bottle of wine again, how could it not be touching!

In addition to watching football, I also play football occasionally, but it is purely for activities.Our Go team has a football team, and we play for a while during the break.I was a goalkeeper, and the players took good care of me and never shot too hard, so I never conceded the ball, so I got the nickname "Gangmenzoff". In addition to playing football, we also often play basketball, and once played a game against the national women's basketball team. At that time, the physical training of our Go team was in the same gymnasium as the national women's basketball team, and the relationship was relatively close.One day Wang Yuan told me that the women's basketball team offered to play a game with us.I said that's okay, aren't we just being beaten?He said it's okay, they only have three players, we are still five, we are practicing every day now, we must hit them hard to serve, and whoever loses will buy the other fifty ice creams.Seeing his incredible appearance, I believed his words credulously.

As a result, they didn't even show up to Zheng Haixia, and only three substitute players came out to clean us up.It's not that they can't serve the ball, but that we can't hit it, we can't even touch the ball, and our height is much worse. Standing with them, we are like little brothers, so short that people bump into the stand Can't stand.I went to see it that day, and the Go team was so humiliated that we had to pay for fifty ice creams in the end. But we were very proud of the match against the national women's volleyball team and defeated them miserably.But the game is not volleyball, but futsal.Later, Yuan Weimin became anxious and played in person.He was extremely brave and extremely brave. None of us could stop him, and we were beaten to pieces by him.Originally, we were a big winner, but when Yuan Weimin got on board, we completely collapsed.

Speaking of Yuan Weimin, another incident happened. I once beat his son severely.His son was in his teens at the time, not to mention being mischievous, relying on his father being Yuan Weimin to do whatever he wanted.Conditions were bad at the time, and after training, everyone took a shower in the public bathroom of the Sports Commission.One winter, the weather was extremely cold, and everyone was taking a hot bath, when his son suddenly ran in, soaked the family with cold water, and played a prank. People knew that he was Yuan Weimin's son, so they didn't dare to take care of him.I didn't know whose son he was, so I walked over to him and said, kid, it's not good for you to do this, everyone is naked, and it's easy to catch a cold... Before I finished my words, he said something to me , you don't care!I seldom lose my temper. Besides, he is still a child, so I still patiently said, it’s not good for you, how cold he is!He said, where are you from?Can you manage it?My father is Yuan Weimin!That look is very arrogant, just like the villain in the TV series.

I was furious when I heard that, what?You are Yuan Weimin's son and you dare to do anything wrong?I'll beat you like this today, let's see if you dare next time!I've never hit anyone before, I picked up the towel and whipped him that day. After smoking, I said to him, go back and tell your father that it was Uncle Nie Weiping who smoked you.It's outrageous!If he hadn't said he was Yuan Weimin's son, I wouldn't have beaten him, at most I would have taught him a lesson, but if he said it, I would have beaten him.Yuan Weimin's son really told his family after he went back, and they called to say that I managed it well. "