In an interview on the 20th anniversary of the founding of Luneng Football School last year, Wang Tong once expressed envy for the improvement of the conditions of Luneng Football School. 1999 When Luneng Football School was first established, the hardware facilities were far less superior than they are now. Han Peng once recalled that they even had a cultural class with students from the Institute of Electric Power Technology. Over the past 20 years, Luneng Football School has been building bit by bit, and now the hardware facilities of Luneng Football School can be regarded as an excellent youth training camp even in Europe.
1998 luneng Taishan club was formally established. Since then, the economic conditions of Shandong football have been qualitatively improved, and the hardware facilities behind it have been gradually improved. But in the early days of professionalization, Shandong football was a different scene. For many fans who have not experienced that era, the hardships may be unimaginable.
From 65438 to 0994, China Football League officially implemented the professional reform, and since then, China football has entered a new era. This year's League A, Shandong team is also fortunate to participate as one of them. The reason why we are lucky is that the League has implemented the policy of expanding troops, so we are not qualified to participate in the Shandong team in this A League, and we can also participate in the 1992 A-B League as the third place. (The league match of 1993 was suspended for one year because schlappner led the team to attack the World Cup, so the league score of 1992 was taken as the admission standard).
Although it became a professional team, in fact, the Shandong team at that time was essentially a professional team in the era of sports teams. At that time, the team was sponsored and managed by Jinan municipal government, and the team accommodation remained in the dormitory of Shandong sports team (later moved to the warehouse below the east stand of the provincial sports center). Compared with the previous professional era, the actual situation of the team has not changed much.
I remember last year's interview, Wang Tong said with emotion, 1993, they all went to the collective bathhouse to take a bath in the dormitory, and now the small players can take a bath in their own rooms, which makes him very envious. However, compared with the conditions of Shandong players in the initial stage of professionalization, Wang Tong is still much happier. After moving to the warehouse below the East Stand of the Provincial Institute of Physical Education, the players at that time had to go to the central bathhouse near the canteen of the Provincial Sports Bureau if they wanted to take a bath after training. Fortunately, the coaching staff headed by Yin Tiesheng got special treatment at that time, and a water heater was installed in the room where they lived, so the team members later used the dormitory where the coaches lived as a bathhouse.
Taking a bath in the coach's room is just a microcosm of the team's hard life in those days. The Shandong team, which had no sponsors, even needed fans to donate money to buy mosquito nets and the like. But it is precisely because of this difficult material condition that the Shandong team has honed its indomitable will spirit, coupled with the extraordinary personal charm of Yin Tiesheng, who was still rumbling. Although this team doesn't have the top domestic big-name stars and the best material conditions like Dalian, Shanghai and Guangdong, it shows super willpower in the game. In the first round of the league, with Guo Kanfeng's right foot cross, the team center Su jumped high and stabbed the ball into the goal, which made a good start for the team in the first game of the professional league. Throughout the season, the Shandong team, which was not favored by the outside world, won the fifth place in the league, which surprised everyone.
During the period of 1994, Shandong team's "one high and one fast" was besieged all over the country, and many leading figures in the team were also attracted by other major teams. 1at the beginning of 995, Guangdong Hongyuan head coach made a special trip to Jinan to discuss the introduction of three core players of Shandong team, Su, Xing Rui. After seeing the team's hardware facilities, Chen Yiming felt an unprecedented shock and said, "How did you get to the fifth place under such conditions?" Such a sigh.
In fact, both fans and provincial leaders know that such a team that has won numerous honors for Shandong in China deserves better material treatment. So, starting from 1995, the team won 200,000 bonus from Jinan municipal government, and raised the winning bonus from more than 10 enterprises. From then on, the team can still get a bonus of 30,000 yuan for winning the next game (Dalian, backed by Wanda, can sometimes get ten times this bonus for a game). At the same time, the team finally had its own chest advertisement, and Jinan People's Shopping Mall provided the team with the words "Jinan People's Shopping Mall".
This year, the treatment of the team in all aspects has been greatly improved, but it is still relatively poor in all aspects of the domestic team. Let's tell a short story to illustrate the situation of the team in those days: In the away game in Guangzhou, Wang Jun was accidentally injured in the game and could not continue to play. As soon as he saw it, Yin Tiesheng was replaced by substitute goalkeeper Li Qingshan; However, at this moment, a shocking scene happened. I saw Wang Jun take off the goalkeeper's gloves on the spot and pass them to Li Qingshan. At that time, the Shandong team had three goalkeepers, Wang Jun, Zhang Pengsheng and Li Qingshan, but there was only one pair of special goalkeepers gloves in the team, which could only be used by three goalkeepers in turn, which we dare not imagine under today's conditions.
1995 the fa cup final is a watershed for the team. After successively reversing Jiangsu, Beijing and Liaoning teams, Shandong team reached the champion Shanghai Shenhua in the final. At that time, the outside world was generally optimistic that Shanghai would win the first "double crown" in the professional league, but it also aroused the morale of Shandong players. Zhang Pengsheng, who is now the head of the China goalkeeper coaching team of Luneng Football School, was the starting goalkeeper of that game, and he still remembers the past vividly.
"It doesn't matter much who is optimistic about us. After all, before the league and Shenhua lost, everyone still tried to prove the strength of themselves and our Shandong team. At that time, we were also a middle-class team in China, and everyone still wanted to prove it. Yin Dao also chatted with our team members before the game. Of course, every player said something different. It has been more than 20 years. I don't know exactly what he said, but at that time he generally told me to let go of my mind and regard this game as an exercise and accumulation on my own growth path. "
And reaching the final of the FA Cup is also very exciting news for the land of Qilu in that year. In order to make the championship trophy lead Shandong, the Shandong provincial government also put forward a million bonuses. Under such double stimulation, the team won 2-0 and won the FA Cup with its opening record and Li's opening record.
It is precisely because of this FA Cup champion that Shandong's influence in the whole country has been further enhanced. At this point, the team has gradually become a hot potato pursued by major enterprises. During 1996, GM entered the team with a large sum of money, and Shandong Tourism Group also bought out the management right of the team's home tickets at a record price. With the sponsorship of Jinan municipal government, the financial situation of the team has been greatly improved. At the end of 1997, with the withdrawal of GM, Shandong Electric Power officially joined the team, and Luneng Club was established on 1998. The team moved into the base of South Second Ring Road for the first time, which has continued to this day.
Now the foundation of Luneng Club is obviously very different from the initial stage of professional league. In September of 20 13, after nearly one year's construction, a brand-new Luneng Sports Base was put into use, and the training area and living area of this base have extremely high standards. High-standard natural turf, European-style decorated players' apartments, all kinds of high-tech training AIDS and medical facilities, and well-equipped gymnasiums are all unexpected for Shandong team members in the early stage of professionalization.
In Luneng Football School, the conditions here are also first-class. In 20 19, Luneng Football School won the first "Youth Training Academy of the Year" award issued by AFC, in which good hardware facilities were an important factor for Luneng's youth training award. More than 20 pieces of natural turf, tactical analysis equipment and physical therapy equipment are all available, which are rare conditions in youth training camps at home and even in the world. The wearable technical analysis equipment used by the echelon of Luneng Football School, according to the introduction of the foreign coach of the echelon, even in Europe, not every team can afford it because of the high cost.
When today's players enjoy superior conditions, we might as well recall the difficult conditions of Shandong team members in the early days of professional league. Without the unremitting persistence of those Shandong soldiers in every game, the team could not obtain such superior conditions step by step through good results. Moreover, when the team was poor, the players walked in the forefront of the country all the year round with unyielding faith and universal cohesion. Now that the material conditions of the players are good, it also requires our players to make more efforts in training and competition, and don't let the sweat shed by those old Taishan players be wasted.