Gao Hong has been playing football since the age of 18 and has become a legend of women's football, and now he has joined Evergrande to take root in the youth training!
As a legacy of Evergrande for China"Legacy"The Evergrande Football Academy has now begun to be self-sufficient. On the third floor of the academy building, you can often see a man with a laptop in his hand, writing a large stack of papers. Her name is Gao Hong, and she used to be the "** generation" of the Chinese women's football team, and in 1999, she led the women's football team to victory in the Asian Games as the first place. Now, she is no longer a mentor like Liu Ailing, Sun Wen, Qingxia, and Wen Lirong, she has put all her energy into training young people and found a solution for China's new generation of players.
Today, the Evergrande Football School is still standing, thanks in large part to two women: Liu Qian, the director of the football school, and Gao Hong, the head of the sports competition department. Gao Hong is Liu Qianxue who plays football, and she admires it very much.
Liu Qian's comment on Gao Hong was: "I often use the word 'professional and clean' to describe her, in order to play ball, there is no food, no water, and no sleep. This style of play is very suitable for a university, where we are all striving for our inner goals, to overcome, to achieve our dreams. ”
Gao Hong, a Chinese player, for one"Clumsy"are proud enough.
On November 27, 1967, Gao Hong was born in Taixing, Jiangsu, however, she did not grow up gracefully like a Jiangnan girl, on the contrary, she grew up with her grandmother in the cold Hohhot since she was a child.
At this point, the story is no longer about football, nor about sports, but about an ordinary worker who dropped out of school early and was coerced by the trend of the times to embark on this road, maybe she will be like the previous generation, in a small workshop in a state-owned enterprise, put all her energy into work until retirement.
At that time, Gao Hong's only athletic experience was a women's basketball team in a textile factory. Soccer in China became popular in the 1980s, when the city of Hohhot hosted a corporate professional basketball tournament, and Gao Hong was called in due to a lack of female players"Make up the numbers"。
A legendary goalkeeper of the Chinese women's soccer team opened up football memories of her.
Now, he's not even a goalkeeper.
An athlete who only started playing football at the age of 18 would not have been selected for FIFA, let alone a world-class athlete, but Gao Hong could.
From the textile woman to the Inner Mongolia Women's Football Club, because of the injury of the goalkeeper of the national team, Gao Hong was called by the coach to be the goalkeeper, and he said to her:"You have experience playing basketball and the goalkeeper can also use both hands, so no problem!
Gao Hong saved three penalties in a row in the Women's League to earn Inner Mongolia's first win in a domestic tournament. Later, Gao Hong participated in the Shaanxi Women's Football Club, and it was at this time that she began her career.
In 1989, Gao Hong completed her first international competition at the Women's World Cup. Since Thailand's opponent was a relatively weak Thailand, coach Shang Ruihua finally let Gao Hong participate in this training camp, and Gao Hong also clearly recalled the situation at that time, saying that it was a "very confusing one".
She was so excited that she even changed her posture: "Before we scored, the opponent had already scored, and I really didn't know what to do. ”
Although she won 3:1 in the end, Gao Hong's poor form caused her status in the hearts of the team's coaches to plummet, and she stayed in the FIFA position for 6 years, during which she made an important choice - to study abroad.
In 1994, at the age of 27, Gao Hong joined the Japanese Takarazuka International Women's Football Team. Gao Hong came to Japan for three years, his first time playing in football, and he was mentored by a foreign goalkeeper coach hired by the team with high salaries. In the 1995 Swedish Women's Championship, Gao Hong was called up to the national team as a substitute before the end of the game.
Gao Hong got a chance to play in the third round against Nordic powerhouse Denmark, and at the age of 28, she is relatively old in women's football.
But Gao Hong felt that he could play no matter how old he was. "1995 was a turning point in my life, I went to the World Cup as an alternate goalkeeper, but I didn't expect that in that game I would get a starting spot," he said.
The Chinese women's football team played against the European powerhouse Sweden in the 1 4 finals, their overall level is higher than China, but they are also very tenacious, both sides fought until the last minute, Gao Hong appeared on the stage of the women's football team again, and played a penalty shootout.
However, together with the 18-year-old Inner Mongolia women's football team, Gao Hong also saved Sweden's penalty kicks three times in a row in the game, helping China advance to the quarterfinals and establishing her position as the No. 1 goalkeeper of women's football.
For the first time, women's soccer became an official event at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. Gao Hong eventually became the No. 1 goalkeeper in women's football, breaking into the last game with her teammates, and composing a sonorous rose myth with her persistence and passion.
The summer of 1999 in the United States coincided with the "** period" of this period.
In the past three years, Gao Hong, Sun Wen, Liu Ailing, Wen Lirong, Fan Yunjie and other four female football players have gradually become mature, and the 32-year-old Gao Hong is more confident that this will be her last stop for the Chinese national team.
The Chinese women's football team led by Ma Yuanan won three consecutive wins in the group stage, eliminated Russia in the round of 16, and defeated Norway 5-0 in the semi-finals, scoring 19 goals in five rounds and conceding only 2 goals, making the Chinese feel like winning the championship.
Years later, Gao Hong said that reaching the final was not a miracle.
At that time, we were the best athletes in the world. Sun Wen's forward attack, Zhao Lihong's high-speed breakthrough, Liu Ailing in the middle, Wen Lirong's tough defense, Wang Liping's full-back, so to speak, among the 11 starters, at least six or seven are world-class figures. Unfortunately, due to various factors, we did not win the final championship.
On July 10, 1999, 90,000 people gathered in the "Rose Cup" stadium in California, USA, and thousands of fans waited on Chinese TV screens thousands of kilometers away to wait for this miraculous event to happen. Five years ago, Roberto Baggio left a sad legacy to the world, but what do women's football clubs expect from that now?
On a sweltering afternoon, China and the United States staged a scene in the history of the Women's World Cup, a 90-minute battle between the two teams, and Fan Yunjie scored a goal in extra time"Goal-line kicks", Judging from slow motion, Fan Yunjie did hold up the entire goal line, but in the end he was kicked away by the opponent.
In the middle of the first row, a short distance is the eternal pain in the hearts of countless fans.
Another penalty, Gao Hong faced in front of the goal, he felt more depressed than ever: "I don't feel uneasy, but the feeling of oppression is invisible, I can't control it, and I feel a lot of pressure in the penalty shootout. ”
She'll face not only her rivals, but also her audience, much of whom is expecting the American to win the title.
American goalkeeper Scolari crossed the goal line several times and twice to open the opponent's defense, but the referee turned a blind eye, and Gao Hong has been abiding by the rules of the game, and many people do not want to see that day"Rose Clash"and do not want to see China play a major role on the big stage set by the Americans.
Liu Ying's goal was saved, and the Chinese woman fell near the penalty spot, but the entire women's team held the goal firmly. Gao Hong won the smallest goal of the match with the lowest number of goals conceded and was nominated for the "Best Team".
A few years later, Gao Hong went to play in the United States, and he found himself a major target in the American coaching team before the penalty was taken. In a similar match between China and the United States in the Algarve Cup, when Gao Hong scored two penalties, the American coach has been studying Gao Hong's style of play ever since.
Toney, the goalkeeper coach of the U.S. national team, has collected a lot of ** from my penalty kicks and found that I have a habit of watching the referee. Before the last game, we cut it out and sent it to the U.S. players, and all the players had to bow their heads when they took penalties so I couldn't see their faces. "
She never imagined that the U.S. women's soccer team would be as well prepared as it had been two decades earlier.
In 2000, when the major league was established, Gao Hong, as a top goalkeeper, was hired by a top team in New York to play in the United States.
In 2004, at the age of 37, Gao Hong ended her 19-year career. Although she started her career in an accident, she walked out of her own avenue of star with tenacity and bravery.
In some ways, she is herself the best example of women's football, and although it has only been a few seasons, she still wants to be a shining star.
Accidents have created brilliance, and it is enough to shine, shock, and integrate the ancient and modern, Gao Hong stepped down from the position of goalkeeper, and she was almost forty years old, but she still decided to go down and find herself.
He graduated from the University of Worcester in the United Kingdom with a Bachelor of Science in Sports. He also visited some European teams and some of the top managers.
He and German national team member Tina Toyna discussed the development of women's football in China and Germany, Sweden's Domanski, another former coach of women's football, and Mo Marley of the English Football Association about the direction of women's football.
"I would like to express my gratitude to them for their great assistance and advice. In particular, their charisma, professionalism and dedication have been a great inspiration for my career.
He once led the under-17 women's football team to participate in the World Youth Championships, in which Zhang Linyan and Shen Mengyu are the backbone of the Chinese women's football team, their tradition has not been interrupted, but their strength and development are irreversible.
The Chinese women's football team will not decline, but the women's football team in many parts of the world is also getting stronger and stronger, and we don't seem to be able to keep up with this trend, and the growth of the football team is inseparable from young people.
She joined the competition training department of Evergrande Football Academy in January 2023 and is committed to finding a new direction for the Chinese women's football team.
I see kids who are working the rugby pitch and they lack ...... in all areas"I want to give them more of their own ideas, they have to have their own minds, to use them to play football, not just to run, but to train, train, train and run, football is a sport of ideas. That's what Gao Hong thinks at Evergrande Football School.
She went to Canada in 1994 to participate in the event, met locals, and was introduced by friends, but because Gao Hong devoted herself to the national football team, the two fell in love for more than ten years, and finally did not wait for a happy ending.
On the one hand, in terms of emotion, on the other hand, in terms of football, Gao Hong can be said to have made up his mind.
She said that she is a workaholic, and her hobbies in her spare time are traveling, driving, and not long ago, she went to Africa with her mother to take pictures.
One night in the 2019 Women's Soccer Championship, Gao Hong drove a white jeep along a road without pedestrians and street lights, confidently driving forward, when the car behind flashed its headlights: "It pulled away from me and shone the headlights on me." The car drove all the way to the brighter part of the city and then left. Maybe it was because I was a little hesitant to drive, but the driver of the car turned on a light to alert me that there was someone walking with me.
This path, as China is currently facing, is a choice: there is still no light ahead, it can only be a lost road, a path to the unknowable, but on this road, there is still a fortress of Gao Hong, who has guided everyone with his football career for more than 40 years. Perhaps, as said in "The King of Comedy", Chinese football is currently very lucky: "There is darkness ahead, and you can't see anything." It's not true, when the day comes, everything will be fine.