Chapter 7 Chen Yiming: From top coach to professional gambler

Chen Yiming is undoubtedly the first person to gamble among well-known Chinese coaches.But he likes to say "everything is said". Before Chen Yiming uttered the words describing match-fixing so wonderfully, he was facing a lot of steamed buns in the CCTV director's room. While eating, he swallowed all the truth that he was about to reveal as steamed stuffed buns. inside.But at this time, there are at least 80 million people on the land of China, eagerly looking forward to the appearance of this rare reality TV show on CCTV, eagerly looking forward to the appearance of the truth.

The background of this story is: in the 21st round of League A and B, Chongqing Hongyan lost 0 to 4 to Yunnan Hongta, and Liaoning Tianrun lost 2 to 4 to Chengdu Wuniu. The obviously clumsy game process aroused public outrage.Afterwards, the Chinese Football Association suddenly and severely punished the two head coaches, Chen Yiming and Wang Hongli, by revoking their senior coach certificates without saying hello. The real moving part of this story is that the unspoken rules of the entire industry at that time believed that Henan Jianye had disrupted the situation in the previous season and put itself on the opposite side of all teams, but the development of the story evolved into, Chongqing Hongyan, Chengdu Wuniu, and Yunnan Hongta-based "tobacco dealers" finally joined forces to kill the "real estate developer" Henan Jianye.

In essence, this is no different from the empty alleys in Chengdu three years ago waiting to "defend Chengdu".The only difference is that people's perception of football has begun to produce a huge change in values. Three years ago, people gave a game of match-fixing a tragic color of defending the city; but just three years later, people are going to send Chen Yiming and his Chongqing Hongyan team to the court of moral trial.This year, a "fake kick" placard appeared on the stands in Chongqing, and a "fake B" banner was erected beside the stadium in Xi'an.This subtle evolution is like the Chinese people who used to be extremely fanatical in pursuing domestic milk brands, and also once boycotted all domestic milk powder because of melamine.

Even Wang Junsheng, as mentioned above, has actually patted the table for many "guards". This time, Chen Yiming, who is a little softer, is of course to be used as an example.But Chen Yiming, who is wild by nature, publicly threatened to go to Beijing to "redress his grievances", and even risked the world's disgrace by agreeing to Zhang Bin's request for him to do a live broadcast, boldly breaking the news, "I can tell how black Chinese football is." The news was grandly announced by CCTV, and there was a grand occasion of 80 million people watching a football program.After Zhang Bin, the deputy director of CCTV Sports Center, listened to the off-screen background sound "Schindler's List" that he liked to use in "Football Night" for the seventh time, he burst into tears, turned his head and glanced at it, and was munching in the director's studio. Chen Yiming was eating buns, but Chen Yiming had a strange expression after eating a bunch of buns.His impulse from the first day actually cooled down long ago. The process of eating buns was just thinking about how to deal with Zhang Bin.

In fact, after Chen Yiming announced that he would go to Beijing to "redress grievances", when he took the first step in Beijing, he received a warning from the Football Association. It was a familiar landline number, and the boss of the league department promised him casually to the media. After the severe criticism in the interview, there were of course the cold and warm, and the behind-the-scenes transactions—Wang Junsheng and the organization he represented obviously realized that if Chen Yiming, an outlier, were allowed to report the scandal of the Chinese League in the live broadcast of CCTV, it would be his official career. A major blow to the professional league he advocated was also a serious blow.After all, there were not a few people from the State Sports General Administration who opposed the professionalization of football at that time.A person from the Football Association said: "Professional reform is hard-won. You are alone in redressing grievances. Don't put everyone in it. This is not your business alone. It is the direction of institutional reform and the future of Chinese football. It is a matter of survival or death. Think about how many times your income is now higher than it was five years ago. If the results of the reform are in your hands alone, can you afford it... Other things are easy to talk about, and things in the circle should not be taken outside, let alone Let’s talk about it on TV.”

The show was officially launched, and the host Zhang Bin thought about it for a whole day and asked questions like a cannonball, but Chen Yiming dodged all of them.He almost turned this face-to-face "reality show" into a tactical seminar.The strong spotlight in the live broadcast room will not cause any stimulation to Chen Yiming who still wants to hang out in the circle, and those so-called truths that are so imaginative and seductive have really become a bunch of things that he has just eaten into his stomach. "Baozi", in addition to leaving a sentence at the end of the program that seems to be intriguing but is actually nonsense, "everything is said".

Later, most of the media liked to use such words to record this period of history: We were once infinitely close to the real inside story of Chinese football.However, this is destined to be a sacred and absurd night. The shrewd Chen Yiming has never been really angry. He made a gesture to pierce the sky, but it was just to give the Chinese Football Association a warning. Chen Yiming, a man from the south and a relative from the north, is quick to respond.When it comes to fake gambling in Chinese football, this person can never be avoided. Chen Yiming always runs faster than others, always ahead of time.Chen Yiming has created the first transfer in the Chinese professional league unprecedentedly: he bought Ma Mingyu for 420,000 yuan, and bought Li Bing for 450,000 yuan.When those coaches were still imitating the style of play in the world, he had transformed the full-back Li Bing into an efficient and powerful center. Crazy full back.This is in line with the law of development of Chinese society. A group of people who are ahead in thinking quickly become trend-setting successors in various fields with unlimited possibilities.

Veteran fans will remember that at the end of the 1995 season, in "Football Night", Xu Genbao, Jin Zhiyang, Chi Shangbin and Chen Yiming "cooked wine and discussed heroes" by the Huangpu River.That was the part that Chen Yiming really missed, because it was more like a ranking list that was tacitly approved. Chen Yiming, who couldn't compare with the top three in terms of qualifications and achievements, happened to rely on his hearty, eccentric, and crowded. Entered the orderly "Guangmingding". Success is also eccentric, and failure is also eccentric. Chen Yiming, who had a promising future, failed to control his pace in the end.He has long been closely related to various gambling and dealers.It is said that this came from a lottery. Superstitious Chengdu people still talk about Chen Yiming's "big and small hands are bound to make money".One year, the Sichuan Sports Lottery Center invited Chen Yiming to draw a lottery, and he drew a lottery, and unexpectedly won all 8 first prizes of 5 million in the prize pool.The following week, the competitive Tavares volunteered, but failed to offer a single jackpot.

Chen Yiming also withdrew from Chengdu due to some negative rumors. The official of the Chengdu Wuniu Club said bluntly: "They earn points in the first half of the year and sell the ball in the second half." In short, in the next few years, he was obsessed with opening the market and sitting on the bank, obsessed with using his professional experience to seize any opportunity that might make him rich overnight.He even became obsessed with Macau Lisboa. He frequented major casinos. A friend came across him by chance. He hurriedly took money out of the pockets of the fur coat he was wearing, and told the other party loudly: "I have money, I have money everywhere, I don't even know how much money I have."

The most talented coach among the coaches of the Mesozoic generation, this smart man who was ranked among the top four coaches in 1995, just gave up his own livelihood and almost full-time gambling. When Chen Yiming appeared on TV for the last time, he was far less cunning and free and easy than he was in "Football Night". He handed in his resignation because he lost to the Guangzhou Sun God, and he kept repeating to the camera. Severe: "My body's immunity has declined, especially the pain in the chest and back, and I dare not turn over at night when I sleep. At the same time, my throat is very inflamed, and I dare not speak for a while..." "Need to see Chinese medicine , To drink soup and medicine." Chen Yiming finally said.The eagerness and hoarseness seemed to be calling for help.That day was May 6, 2000, only five months after Peng Xiaofang was poached by him.

Now it is necessary to reveal that this mentor-level figure of the world led Peng Xiaofang, the "melon child", and shortly after Chen Yiming quickly retired and became a legend of the world, Peng Xiaofang was banned by the Chinese Football Association and blacklisted.The reason is that he scored the 2nd, 4th and 9th goals in the 2001 "A-B Five-Rat Case" Chengdu Wuniu beat Sichuan Mianyang 11-2. "God's will" is not enough to explain this hat-trick. "The ball has rolled to the opponent's goal line. As a striker, can you not kick it in?" Peng Xiaofang's explanation this time can fully show that he is a worthy mentor and he has become an apprentice. In fact, there are still many people who grew up in practice like Peng Xiaofang. In the 30-year history of China's reform and opening up, the years around the millennium have proved to be the years when Chinese people's ability to learn and practice has grown the fastest. The same rules apply in football circles. After the disgraceful part between the two teams in "Defend Chengdu" was wiped away without leaving any traces of grief, "Get rid of Jianye" was immediately upgraded to a joint battle between several teams. After swallowing it, the drama of the 1999 "Battle between Chongqing and Shenyang" already had a plot of fighting hard for money. The black windbreaker and lockbox that only appeared in Hong Kong movies were only added to five by the Chinese Football Association with the abacus. No wonder in 2001 there will be five teams from A and B to co-star in a well-designed and grand scale.As for Peng Xiaofang, at that time he was already a small character who was excited but could not affect the overall situation. The last time we saw him in public was in the Maldives, when Milu led the away team in the World Cup qualifiers. In that game, the Chinese team barely scored 1-0, and domestic fans called the TV station to ask him to "leave get out of class".In that match, Chen Yiming disclosed his identity as a front-line observer of a certain newspaper, but many people believed that he was actually sent by the dealer to watch the match. Later Chen Yiming disappeared.Almost everyone in the circle is aware of his experience of being chased by the banker with nowhere to hide, and his footprints have even reached as far as South America, leaving the helpless family members to bear the debt collection calls made by the banker three times a day.That hearty laughter is long gone. That shrewd Cantonese guy has been running forward, always looking for a simpler and faster way to run towards his dream of wealth. Of course, gambling is faster than teaching football. Baccarat, Of course betting money is faster than gambling, but history has abandoned him in a more simple and crude way, and then left a voice-over: Chen Yiming, in the process of professionalizing Chinese football, was killed by gambling The most famous trainer. His glory has been seen by all, but his downfall is just a legend.The vivid memory of this person will be frozen in that chaotic era. In the private room of one of the most famous nightclubs in Chengdu, you can still smell the familiar atmosphere of Chen Yiming.At that time, he was sitting in the middle, like a big Buddha, with a lot of empty beer bottles scattered under his feet, and clouds of hot air rushed out from his head, like clouds and mist.Liquor, sex, wealth, a man's four major realms, Chen Yiming has occupied them all, such a man must be outstanding, and must be tolerated by everyone. The missing person notice is: Chen Yiming, where are you now?