In the summer of 2002, the legend of Milu's point of grace did not descend on Zheng Zhi, but favored Shao Jiayi, Yang Pu or Xu Yunlong. This feeling is similar to the first time he encountered the mail Chengyong, encountered that Scotland's cold temperate marine climate.
Zheng Zhi faded from the limelight when the National Olympics shocked the Sydney Olympics in 1999 and lost. A native of Liaoning, he walked around the city of Shenyang, which was like a messy stew, not realizing that his life would be transformed by a Shanghainese, passing through Shandong and ending up in Guangzhou.
From the northeast to the southeast, across not only twenty degrees of latitude, but also from the age of twenty to forty years of trajectory, like a long "Z", north, south, east and west, intertwined endlessly.
Shenzhen subprovincial city in Guangdong, special economic zone close Hong Kong
Yang Zuwu and Wei Kexing walked alongside each other at the end of 2002, when a conference organized by the Chinese Football Association (CFA) was held in Beijing to select cards. At that time, the transfer system of Chinese soccer adopted the reverse order of selection. Zhu Guanghu, the head coach of Shenzhen, shouted out the name "Zheng Zhi", and then Guoan shouted out "abstain".
Zheng Zhi scored seven goals and dished out nine assists in the league that year, earning him the title of "Mr. Football in the Chinese League", and in 2004, Zhu Guanghu led the underpaid Shenzhen team to the Super League title in its first year of existence when Tan Wangsong chased Zhao Xueri around the base of Pujiang and tried to cut him up.
See Zheng Zhi's subsequent success, Yang Zuwu smiled and said, "This at least proves that our vision back then was not wrong, in fact, Wei Kexing and I had the same meaning back then, Zheng Zhi to be here, will not let him play wingback. This kid plays football with a great style, is to play midfield material."
Milo said he was a little "jealous" of Hahn, "If Zheng Zhi hadn't been in his early twenties when I was the national team manager, I would have selected him for the team." This statement was made before the Asian Cup, which took place in 2004, which was later regarded by many as a turning point for the national soccer team.
Zhao Junzhe and Li Jinyu stood right in front of Zheng Zhi at the Workers' Stadium in Beijing, and he thought back to 1998, the year he was still a right back in the second division.
Zheng Zhi was standing in the penalty area at the moment when Takashi Fukushi broke through, Koji Nakata's handball, and Keiji Tamada's strike. Four days ago Beijing's subway operated overnight, and this night, again, was sleepless.
That year for Zheng Zhi, the biggest disappointment is not yet here, but the Guangzhou Galaxy Stadium in November. The place where he later went completely to the top, that night with an arithmetic problem completely crushed the thin self-esteem of the national soccer fans.
In the seventy-fifth minute of the match, Lu Guanbang's handball in the penalty area while fighting for the top was penalized by the referee on duty, Lee Jong-kook, and Zheng Zhi, who had previously missed a penalty kick against Malaysia, sent a half-volley that was pounced on by the goalkeeper, Fan Junye, and sent it over the line. For a while, a thousand fingers.
Shandong
The year 2004 was the golden Shenzhen, the Asian Cup runner-up, and also the defeat in Guangzhou. No one can give this year's Zheng Zhi definition, but everyone saw the Chinese soccer this year's bleak bottom, these later also become his career microcosm.
In 2005, the Chinese Super League transfer "king" title indisputably fell on the head of Zheng Zhi, at the same time, two years ago, the transfer of the "king" Qihong was Shanghai International off touting.
Zheng Zhi is only four years younger than Qi Hong, but it looks like two eras of national soccer players. Li Wei Feng did not leave Shenzhen, three years later they will meet again. And that year's Shenzhen team, most people remember is Li Yi in the interview, half a day of silence, out of that sentence "dawn".
It has been said that the Luneng of that time can be called "China's Real Madrid", Qingdao's Gao Ming and Shenzhen's Zheng Zhi to join, together with the team's Li Xiaopeng, Song Lihui, Li Jinyu and other internationals, as well as the Bucharest Star's top scorer, Danciunescu, and the former Beijing foreign aid Baxin, has been blurred with the color of the championship.
But in the 2005 season of the AFC Champions League in the last eight, Shandong Luneng suffered a crushing defeat away from home at the foot of the Etihad, with a near-shameful way to say goodbye to the AFC Champions League in that year, after the incident, the game was known as the "Jeddah Tragedy". In that match, Zheng Zhi was sent off with a red card and was later penalized by AFC.
In 2006, there were only twenty-eight rounds in the Chinese Super League, and Luneng scored sixty-nine points. Zheng Zhi played "21 + 10" data, Li Jinyu made twenty-six goals, Han Peng ten goals, then Han Peng is still U23, Zheng Zhi was Tubakovic called "including foreign aid unrivaled".
But this year is undoubtedly Zheng Zhi depressed year, Doha Asian Games group stage against Oman, he missed the penalty created by Gao Lin. Quarter-finals with Iran, penalty shootout first on stage but again lost penalties. Zheng Zhi and the national football team, in the twelve yards from the point of distance, seems to be in the underworld to confirm that the eight do not match.
study abroad (old term)
The story of Zheng Zhi's stay in China starts in 2003, when the team of agents who had successfully operated Shao Jiayi's landing in the Bundesliga listed Zheng Zhi as yet another candidate. Three years later, in June 2006, Zheng Zhi broke Cisse's right leg. At the end of December, he went on loan to Charlton in the English Premier League, the year Zheng Zhi was twenty-six years old.
In 2007, Zhu Guanghu led the team to the Asian Cup, Zheng Zhi and Li Wei Feng due to the accumulation of yellow cards do not have access to the final round of the group stage. The two sat in the stands and watched the 0-3 scoreline, feeling a little strange.
Zheng Zhi went to the Premier League, Li Wei Feng moved to Shanghai, Zhu Guanghu is no longer the head coach of the Shenzhen team, three years has been enough to change everything.
The chaos of the 2008 Chinese national soccer team began during the Olympic preparation cycle with the sudden dismissal of Duy and the appointment of Yin Tiesheng. The Chinese national Olympic team, which claimed to be in the quarterfinals, drew one and lost two of their three group stage matches, scoring one goal and conceding six, and accumulating only one point without even touching the threshold of the top eight.
The three overage player selections, with the exception of Li Wei Feng, who is barely competent, the mythologized Zheng Zhi and Han Peng, who is completely relegated to political selections, are nothing more than the products of a Chinese national football team manipulated by its leaders.
In the final game of the group stage, Zheng Zhi sat in the stands again due to a red card. It was like the Asian Cup a year ago, with the same 0-3 scoreline, only this time there was no Li Wei Feng sitting next to him, who stood on the field and witnessed the shattered dream of 1999.
This year Zheng Zhi played the most outstanding year after landing in England, goals, assists are ranked in the top of the team, in the entire Championship ranked in the top five midfield. Zheng Zhi front waist or back waist are enough to win, guest second striker and side, is worthy of the "oil".
But Charlton's final stage of six consecutive rounds without a win, was squeezed out of the top six of the table, did not get a play-off qualification. That year with him, in addition to injuries and Pardew's dismissal, cut-price sale, the financial turmoil scraped the Valley Stadium.
In September 2009, Jung signed for Celtic in the Scottish Premier League and played only sixteen Scottish Premier League matches, two Scottish FA Cup matches and one Scottish League Cup match.
Guangzhou subprovincial city and capital of Guangdong
In 2010, Zheng Zhi joined Guangzhou Evergrande and served as captain. Gao Hongbo's national team was arguably insulated from Zheng Zhi, but of course he was similarly not open to Du Zhenyu, Wang Dong and Li Wei Feng. The thirty-year-old stood outside the door, his thoughts drifting to the southern tip of the African continent in 2014.
Luneng did not pick up Zheng Zhi, they have Wang Yongper, Zhou Haibin led the "85 golden generation". Evergrande's offer of no less than five million dollars a year is also enough to pull him from Shandong to Guangdong, even if it is in the first division.
Twenty-eight, this is Zheng Zhi in Evergrande starting number. The day he returned to China, the era of Chinese players staying in the ocean ceased.
Experienced "Gao Hongbo - Camacho - Perrin - Gao Hongbo - Lippi" such a "soil and foreign marshal rotation" coaching, the eighties of China's national football team successor to the African continent of the dream has been transferred to the north of the Asian and European continents, the age of thirty years old to thirty-eight, from the first to the fourth, the only constant is the defeat in all its forms and meanings. The only thing that remains the same is defeat, in all its forms and senses.
Zhang Enhua said, "He (Zheng Zhi) didn't catch up with the players of our generation, but carried the dreams of our generation."
In 2013, Zheng Zhi helped Evergrande win the AFC Champions League and won the title of "Asian Footballer of the Year", which was the pinnacle of his honor, and he was thirty-three years old that year.
Golden dollar soccer and the last afterglow of the eight five national youth created the era of Evergrande, but some people are surprised that most of the players from abroad back after the traces of rising ball, but Zheng Zhi back to the country has lost the original sharp breakthrough and offensive ability.
As many people remember the rainy night at Changsha's Heron Stadium in 2017 as will remember the red card in Doha, but neither a 1-0 South Korea nor a 2-1 Qatar will get the national soccer team to the summer in Russia.
2019 Asian Cup, the national team can leave in a posture of a tragic defeat. Zheng Zhi in tears in the post-match interview, He Wei is still commentating, "Against a first-class Asian powerhouse like Iran, we can still see that Zheng Zhi occupies a very important position in this national team ------"
conclusion
With him, the national soccer team is fortunate. With him, it is also the sorrow of the national football team.
Zheng Zhi is not a perfect man, his career has been successful and full of flaws and mistakes, and to some extent he has been the symbol of China's national soccer team for the past nearly two decades.
Since 2002 since the selection of the national team, in addition to Gao Hongbo that Asian Cup, Zheng Zhi participated in all the major competitions, but as he himself said, "did not bring anything to the national team".
Compared with Dabao, Zheng Zhi is not "lucky", sometimes fate is a kind of unfathomable things, it can once give you glory, but in the future a little bit and you discuss the weight of the exchange price.
There are a lot of managers to praise him, there will be a lot of fans to question him, if you ask me what I think of him, I would say that in the national team he did what a captain should do. As for the rest, no judgment.
Some people say that he is "no great general in Shu, Liao Hua as a pioneer" I do not refute, because we now have no second "Liao Hua".
From Shunsuke Nakamura and Hidetoshi Nakata to Keisuke Honda and Shinji Kagawa to Shoya Nakajima, the opposite side is the flowing number ten, we are the iron Zheng Zhi.
Can't forget the penalties he missed that year or the unshed tears in the UAE.
In the past, many people have joked that Zheng Zhi kicked people into Zheng Zhihua, and now when I think back, Zheng Zhi is quite worthy of Zheng Zhihua's song sailor.
