Chapter 6 Defense of Chengdu: The much-anticipated match-fixing

If 1994 was a year that was overlooked, in the name of the country, it was an angry counterattack against foreign reactionary forces, then 1995 was a year that was over-emphasized, in the name of the city, one business card after another was frantically created.This year, there was an important directive in the central economic reform: vigorously develop a city-centered economic model, and highlight the important role of cities in economic reform.This year, the viaduct in Shanghai was built extensively; this year, Beijing’s Third Ring Road was successfully completed; this year, all of China built modern cities according to their own understanding, including infrastructure and socialist spiritual things, such as football .

This passage, which seems to be no fun to the common people, is the precious sword of various city officials. Its importance has always guided everything from the construction of super high buildings to the contracting of taxis to the opening of a steamed stuffed bun shop on the street. Of course, the A-League will be swept in.It was no coincidence that fashionable terms such as "Football Governor", "Football Mayor" and "Football Secretary" appeared in a turmoil at that time. Make a good football team, build a beautiful lawn, and install brilliant neon lights... It is the local government officials who chase me Catch up on business.

Before the season, Chengdu was full of carnival atmosphere. Xu Shiqun, the vice-governor in charge of culture and sports, suddenly turned around and asked the people next to him, "How many home games does Quanxing play in a year?" The person answered: "11 home games." Governor Xu generously ordered: "Then, why don't we win 10 home games?" The leader focused on encouragement, and the people below nodded quickly. The leader made an amateur joke. Quanxing is not Manchester United. Even Manchester United can hardly guarantee a home win rate of more than 90%, but the leader's attention is the gospel. Afterwards, the club will attack and mediate as soon as people are waiting... This is an unspoken rule in the circle. Don't be afraid of away games Losing, the key is to save face in front of the home leaders. A little statistics show that the low winning percentage of the Chinese team in away games is a miracle in the world.

But there will be a lot of problems in the middle, because everyone wants to be a glorious business card. That year, Quanxing had 1 win, 3 draws and 7 losses away, and 5 wins, 1 draw and 5 losses at home. As early as 8 rounds left, Yan Junjun, then editor-in-chief of "Football", published an editorial article "Defend Chengdu", because defending Chengdu is defending the gold medal football market of the professional league.Of course, some people think that Yan Junjun's move is selfish to defend the newspaper's circulation in Chengdu. Regarding the complicated situation in the last two rounds of the season, there is no need to describe it professionally. People only need to understand one fact: Sichuan Quanxing must win consecutively in the last two rounds in order to successfully relegation.After an ups and downs goal battle, Quanxing defeated the Qingdao Manatee team, which was also relegated, 3-2. Although Tang Lepu, the coach and player of the Qingdao team, scored a beautiful goal, he burst into tears, and they did not finish. tasks assigned by the government.About Tang Lepu, I will mention it again in the future, but in 1995, he absolutely could not have imagined that nine years later, he would encounter a dark plot that would affect his life, and the cold muzzle of the gun was aimed at his head ...

Quanxing finally has to face the Bayi team, as long as they win, they can avoid relegation.You can easily find out on the Internet that a certain fan was kneeling at the feet of Li Fusheng of the Bayi Industrial Team with a sack of money, and asked him to let Quanxing go. I was thrown down by Li Fusheng like a penalty kick; you can also know that slogans such as "Hello, Political Commissar Jia" and "People's soldiers love the people" were displayed in the stands, and a fan named Fatty Shen cried so much that I felt pitiful; It can also be found that with 8 minutes left in the final, Liu Bin of the Sichuan team saw that Quanxing was unable to score a goal, so he yelled at his childhood friend and goalkeeper Jiang Jin of the Bayi team: "Jiang Jin, there are only 8 fucking left. It's a minute." Then Zhai Biao rolled into Jiang Jin's armpit with an easy header.

This practice of blatantly asking the opponent's goalkeeper to release water was a good story at the time, and it became a sign of a family of soldiers and civilians. Marching along the widest Renmin South Road, shouting "Long live Quanxing, Long live China", when all the reporters are using the most sensational language to praise the bloody spirit of this city, a match-fixing in the name of defending the city is regarded as a A romantic story. That happened 14 years ago. For this match-fixing, it was hard to get a ticket in Chengdu. Three days in advance, many people lined up tickets outside the stadium on camp beds. Fearing mass incidents, Yang Zhaoji station set up a ticket at two tables. On the raised platform, he shouted "Comrades, I guarantee that you can all see the game", and the following directly called Quanxing Xiongqi, Quanxing Long live.

According to statistics, on the second day of Quanxing's relegation, the number of newlyweds in Chengdu increased by more than three times than usual, and the sales volume of Quanxing wine that year increased by 10 times compared to previous years. 14 years later, when You Ke and Xu Hongtao were arrested one after another, the most loyal fan, the former Quanxing team leader and now the vice president of Chengdu Sheffield United, Wang Maojun mumbled: "It seems that now we have to reflect on the defense of Chengdu." In fact, in 1999, we reflected on the defense of Chengdu. Since then, defending Yanbian, defending Chongqing, defending Beijing, defending Tianjin, defending Shanghai...even the "defense" for the sake of defense has flooded, and They are all in the name of nobleness, and they cannot get rid of the secret support of the local government. People don't realize that they are doing things that hurt themselves.

In terms of value standards, all walks of life in China are changing, but football has not changed. Until the end of 2009, there is still a strange phenomenon: everyone is calling for a crackdown on counterfeiting and crimes, and everyone hopes that the judiciary will resolutely eradicate the cancer. However, the local newspapers and TVs in the location of the club involved in the case shouted on behalf of many fans: "We are wronged, don't let us be relegated, our city needs a team." This includes Chengdu, Guangzhou, and Qingdao.The local complex and the home team complex make fans and the media think that they are justifiable, and can even go beyond the law.

Just after Xu Hongtao was arrested, Ma Mingyu even said: "For the sake of being the only team in the disaster area, please treat us with leniency." I repeat, from 1994 to 2009, the biggest failure of Chinese football was not technical tactics, let alone race, but a change in the system and values ​​that did not improve at all. There is an example of God's will: In 1998, the Sichuan Quanxing team once again faced the Bayi team, the benefactor of the year, in the Chengdu Sports Center, but this time it was Bayi's relegation.Before the game, the Bayi team would of course send someone to find Quanxing to let them go. Quanxing didn’t want to let it go, but some of the main players said in embarrassment that this season, Quanxing owner Yang Zhaoji has a requirement to enter the top four. If he loses the game, he will I can't complete the task, and the task is linked to the bonus at the end of the year, can you show me a little financially, even if it is much lower than the bonus...

Bayi happened to be in a sensitive period at that time, and the issue of canceling the establishment of the Bayi football team had been raised, not to mention spending money to buy balls, so they could only play normally.However, the Quanxing team members said that in order to show their return to the year, they would not be head-to-head. "At that time, you can attack, and we will defend if we can." After the game started, the song "Military and Civilian Yushui Family" was played in the stands. It was a tacit portrayal that Quanxing team, which was obviously superior in strength, didn't want to attack. The first team used their quick counterattacks to frequently threaten the gate of Quanxing. The whole game was developing in favor of the Bayi team. There was no suspense, just waiting for time... However, history is always rewritten by small people. At this time, there is a An unknown little guy, Sichuan team substitute Peng Xiaofang appeared. At that time, the Bayi team had a round of offense to no avail. The ball happened to fall at the feet of this Quanxing substitute. He knew it well and did not organize an effective attack. After taking the ball, seeing a player coming to intercept, he raised his foot and shot wildly—but, a world wave appeared, just like the long shot scored by Beckham, the ball whistling and rubbing against the goal post went in .

Many years later, I met a key person in Xi'an, Wang Jiawei's early players and Li Jianxin, the vice president of the Bayi team. He recalled: After the goal was scored, the originally noisy stadium was completely silent for 30 seconds. Like a dead city.After Peng Xiaofang scored a goal, no one hugged him fiercely. He knelt on the ground and muttered. Later, I asked him what he was talking about, and he said, I only said two words, God's will. "I suffered the same injury as Ronaldo, and I'm just as strong as him!" This is Peng Xiaofang, who scored the goal for the first time since the patellar tendon rupture in 1997, to "God's Will". He didn't predict the possible impact of these two words that popped up.The Sichuan natives who were dissatisfied with his revenge and the outsiders with ulterior motives have since laughed at him endlessly as a "melon". The encirclement of playful eyes is far more lethal than "Peng Tanleg" and "Peng Feifei". The self-confidence to stay, he had no choice but to leave Chengdu Wuniu after finishing 1999. "God's Will" turned into a curse and followed him!In Haigeng's first teaching match representing Wuniu, Peng Xiaofang had a narrow encounter with the Bayi team. As a result, the teaching match turned into a fist fight.It is said that the Bayi team members privately said, "Peng Xiaofang is going to be abolished." Xiao Jian kicked his stomach and made Peng Xiaofang roll on the ground in pain for a long time.After getting up, his eyes were red with blood, and he was aggressive, turning into a lonely hero.After he dodged countless flying legs and staggered to score another goal, the Bayi players simply came up to beat him up. Then he escaped and retreated to another field, gnashing his teeth: "I am against the Bayi team. Next game I even scored your goal!" It's just that the breath that was full of chest was released the moment he spoke, and the words were not majestic or sonorous. "I don't understand the rules." Not long after that, Peng Xiaofang said that the change was a bit sudden. It was not the fists and kicks of the Bayi players that enlightened him, but Chen Yiming, who dug him into the Wuniu team with his own hands.It was in 1998 that Chen Yiming, who had a pair of ingot hands and enlightened "soldiers and horses", used the phrase "everything is unspoken" to prove his understanding of human relationships in the world. In the first 5 months, Peng Xiaofang was enlightened. In the "Tangkou Era" when urbanism is frantically creating city name cards, let's list how many "defenses" have actually occurred: 1. Defend Yanbian.Jin Guangzhu equalized. With a precious 1 point, Yanbian was saved from relegation under the leadership of Changbai coach Li Huen. After the game, more than half of the audience lit their lighters, like stars lighting up lights, like the last football fire in ethnic areas.Many Korean audiences shed tears on the spot. 2. Defend Chongqing. The "three-game losing streak" Huandao team was forced to the edge of the relegation group. Mancheng put forward the tragic slogan "Defend Chongqing, Defend Huandao". Finally, the slogan "He Long Yingling Defends Datian Bay" was hung on the stands. 3. Defend Guangzhou.The fans played the slogan "Defend Guangzhou", and Zeng Qinggao, No. 20 of the Guangzhou team, became the "savior". With a long shot from outside the penalty area in stoppage time, he successfully avoided relegation.Guangzhou fans jumped over the guardrail one after another and rushed into the stadium to hug the Guangzhou players tightly, forming a rare and touching scene in the history of Guangzhou football.However, due to a large number of home fans rushing into the field, this Guangzhou home stadium was punished by the Chinese Football Association's suspension of home qualification. 4. Defend Beijing. On May 13, 2005, after Li Shilin announced his "personal withdrawal from football", on the evening of the 15th, he announced that CITIC Guoan Headquarters had withdrawn from football.The Chinese Football Association urgently negotiated with the capital team and reached an agreement. In the end, Li Shilin suddenly announced that he would not withdraw. There are many such defenses. Every team has a city behind it, with millions of people, and leaders who represent the people. At that time, the Chinese Football Association was very busy. Wang Junsheng faced one of the " "Defend" once slapped the table and yelled: "If this kind of game is not caught, Chinese professional football will never have peace!" He ordered the league department to investigate immediately, but when a phone call came, he changed from a serious face to a blank face, and then to a full face. His face was humble, and finally he had a smirk on his face: "Okay, I will definitely..." Afterwards, he started to go bald.He came from this entangled relationship, so he must not be able to deal with these entanglements of interests.What's more, as an important official said: "Let's just pick someone at the deputy ministerial level, and I'm afraid he will be a fart."In the end, the Chinese Football Association became a "bird's nest" and raised more ostriches. Therefore, Chen Yiming took advantage of the trend, and after losing those two big games and being punished by the Football Association, he finally uttered a ten thousand sentence on CCTV, "Everything is in the air".Later, he had nothing to do. He was a coach and played football freely, and finally lost himself.