Reporter Wang Wei and intern reporter Huang Hao reportOn January 23, the 2024 Chinese Football Association Cup Qualifying Tournament came to an end at the Soka Football Training Base in Zhuhai. Shanghai Changning Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Team won all 5 games without conceding a goal, and successfully qualified for the FA Cup. In their eyes, the most important goal of the team this year is to impact the professional league, and all the preparations are carried out according to the standards of professional teams.
Shanghai Changning Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Football Club, formerly known as Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Air Conditioning K Lion Football Team, was established in March 2012, the original members of the team were Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Air Conditioning employees and employees of other shareholder units, and it is a veritable corporate team.
In 2015 and 2018, Mitsubishi sponsored two top league teams, Shanghai Shenhua and Urawa Red Diamonds, during which the experience made the club's chairman Zhang Ziqin feel a lot, and also saw the possibility of this corporate team to develop to a higher platform.
We started as a corporate team, and I was the head of the marketing department at the time, organizing the company's leaders, employees, and family members to play football together. It used to be too difficult for us to win a game, we couldn't win many games a year, but everyone's passion for football hasn't changed. There is a node in the middle, that is, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries sponsored the Shenhua team and became the top sponsor of Shenhua, which made us start to think about whether we can also do a good job in this corporate team. ”
In 2019, Shanghai Changning Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Team was promoted to the Shanghai Super League; In 2020, the club officially completed its registration with the Civil Affairs Bureau of Changning District, Shanghai; From 2020 to the present, Shanghai Changning Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Team has won two Shanghai Super League championships and Shanghai "** Cup" championships, and participated in the China Champions League last year and the year before that.
According to Ma Yue, the leader of the Shanghai Changning Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Team, and Cheng Cheng, the liaison officer, there are currently 6 players and 2 managers in the team who still need to work in the company, and everyone is busy with the sustainable development of the team. In the words of head coach Zhu Jianmin, they are the "hardest working people" in the team at the moment: "Our goal is to impact the professional league, so the players who still have positions in the company will be very hard at this stage, they have to train according to the requirements of professional players on the one hand, and on the other hand, they usually have to go to work, which is a big challenge." ”
Captain Shen Jiahao plays as a winger on the field, and he is mainly responsible for the company's product marketing and project implementation in Jiangsu, and he is a typical representative of the team who holds two positions. According to Shen Jiahao, the team leader will post the training time in the WeChat group every Monday, and he will try to arrange the work to be completed outside of the training time, so as to maintain a balance between maintaining work and playing football. "The company understands our players so well that we have time to pursue our football dreams outside of work. Several of our players have never played in the FA Cup, but this is our first time representing the team in this premier tournament and every win we help the team to win is to leave their mark on the development of the club. ”
Before coming to participate in the FA Cup, Shanghai Changning Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has completed the personnel formation of the new season. In January this year, Zhu Jianmin officially became the head coach of the team, and the team has completed the trial of the first batch of new players in the new season and completed the first phase of preparation for this year in Shanghai.
Everything we are preparing for is to develop professional football and our goal is to hit the professional league. Zhu Jianmin was selected for the first team of Shanghai Shenhua when he was a player, and played in the Chinese Super League and the Chinese League with Shanghai Shenxin. After retiring as a coach, Zhu Jianmin has worked in the coaching staff of the U16 men's national team and the U23 women's national team.
This FA Cup qualifying match is the first game for Zhu Jianmin to command the team after taking office, "In addition to winning the FA Cup qualification, what is more important is to run in the player lineup and the coach lineup through this competition, especially the technical and tactical cooperation, it seems that our basic goal has been achieved." ”
For Zhu Jianmin and Shanghai Changning Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, the FA Cup qualifying tournament is an important training opportunity for them to impact the professional league this year, "The Champions League is an event that we attach great importance to this year, and the schedule of the Champions League is very cruel, and we must put forward higher requirements for the players and the support team to ensure that they can withstand the critical moment of this year's Champions League." We're doing a tough climb, we're only halfway up the mountain, and after the New Year, we're going to have to go to the next level in terms of preparation. ”
In normal times, the team will arrange three training sessions a week, two gym strength exercises, a warm-up game on the weekend, and every time before the competition, the team will also go to the field for closed training. There is a day off between every two matches in this FA Cup qualifying tournament, and Shanghai Changning Mitsubishi Heavy Industries will still arrange training sessions on this day. The club arranged two masseurs for the team to help the players better complete the post-match recovery, and the club invited the team doctor who had worked in the national team for a long time to help the team members carry out scientific research and technology, and provide the team with the most professional medical technical force. In terms of tactical analysis, the coaching staff is equipped with a Premier League-level data analyzer.
The professional coaches are strategic, the professional logistics are guaranteed, and everything shows that the team is fully prepared to attack the professional league. Team leader Ma Yue said: "The club has made every effort to provide logistical support for the team, make scientific plans, maintain a high level of training, and look forward to achieving excellent results with everyone's efforts." ”
The regional element of Shanghai is also one of the highlights of this team that cannot be ignored. At present, more than half of the players in the Shanghai Changning Mitsubishi Heavy Industries team are Shanghai locals, and many players will use the Shanghai dialect to communicate when playing on the field.
We are a team with Shanghai elements, and we are not afraid of others saying that we are football, football itself is a sport full of regional color, many players in our team are Shenhua fans, everyone has grown up watching Shenhua's ball. Zhang Ziqin, chairman of the club, said.
In Shanghai Changning Mitsubishi Heavy Industry Array, Li Haowen is a special existence. The 30-year-old learned from Genbao as a child, won the Liaoning National Games with the Shanghai team in 2009, and played for Shanghai Port and Suzhou Soochow after becoming a professional player. At the beginning of last year, Li Haowen officially joined Shanghai Changning Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, from the Chinese League to the Chinese Champions League, in addition to because he is optimistic about the club's development prospects, more importantly, as a Shanghai native, he can play for his hometown team again.
I was attracted to the spirit of the club and the idea of building a team, I had been playing away from home for a few years, but it was definitely better to be away from home than to be at home, and I felt at home here. The team has been going in a professional direction, and it will be a special experience for me to be able to follow my hometown team from the amateur league to the professional level. Li Haowen said.
After successfully entering the FA Cup, Shanghai Changning Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Team has made a plan for the first home match of this year's FA Cup that surprised everyone - to play at the Shanghai Hongkou Football Stadium.
In the first game, no matter who the opponent is, we want to put the home stadium at the Hongkou Football Stadium and let everyone relive their dreams in this way. Zhang Ziqin, chairman of the club, revealed, "Hongkou Football Stadium is a place that haunts our souls, and it is the dream of many people in the team to play a game as a player. ”
If Shanghai Shenhua is the emotional home team of Shanghai Changning Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, then Urawa Red Diamonds of the Japanese J League are an important learning object for the club. It is understood that Shanghai Changning Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Club and Urawa Red Diamonds, a club in the Japanese J1 League, belong to the same group, often maintain football contacts, and have sent people to Japan for study and exchange many times.
At present, the club has introduced relevant teams from Japan to assist in youth training and operation, and in the future, the team plans to form a B team in Japan to provide fresh blood for the team's first team.
From a practical point of view, it is feasible to rely on the power of enterprises to impact the professional league, but if you think of a higher-level league, it must be indispensable to support ** and social forces. Zhang Ziqin, chairman of the club, said, "We have to make all preparations in the early stage, and hope that on the day we enter the professional league, we are not a club with only one first team." ”