A glimpse into the drinking culture in football: Xie Hui, who has been abstaining from alcohol for many years, will not be the last one to make a gaffe

In the end, Nantong Zhiyun issued a notice that Xie Hui was suspended. Although it is unethical to secretly record a video at the dinner table and make it public, making a gaffe while drunk obviously also damages one's own image.

"Wine is the spirit of food. The more you drink, the younger you become. Wine is made of food. It is a sin not to drink." As an important carrier of social interaction, wine has penetrated into many aspects of our lives, but because of drinking, there are many dangers. There have been no shortage of people for thousands of years.

Even in the Chinese football world, where alcohol is a career killer, there are hundreds of cases of failure.

In the early years, professionalism was just beginning. China’s economic development, rich entertainment life, and high wages for players brought about a life of dissipation. At that time, the management level was backward and the players had poor self-discipline. , coupled with strong metabolic function, they are open to drinking. Drinking one day and training as usual the next day, many people are accustomed to it.

Alcohol has given Chinese football a bit of a Jianghu flair and made some drunken passions become legendary stories. However, with the development of the times, it has become more accompanied by danger and tragedy, which has wiped out the Chinese football Black, holding back.

Kunming’s wine, Chinese football’s tears

In the A-A era, many teams liked to go to the Haigeng base on the Kunming Plateau for winter training. Walking training was not popular at that time, and everyone was managed by the sports team model.

Many of the football legends we are familiar with, especially some of the Big Brother-level figures, were known for their prodigious drinking capacity. The basis for enjoying status on the court is that they can also influence the situation in the drinking game. , if you are a person who cannot drink, you are basically a "waste".

Just because the players love to drink, the Haigen base built a high iron fence and raised wolves and dogs, not to prevent theft, but to prevent the players from sneaking out. However, this still failed to stop these wine-loving people.

At first, the media only reported that Zhang Shuai was clubbing alone, but it was hinted that two other players left midway. Later, under strong pressure from public opinion, Lu Jiang and Xu Liang admitted the matter. < /p>

Afterwards, the Olympic team chose to deal with it seriously and all three people were expelled from the team. The "chief culprit" in this incident, Zhang Shuai, also had a lot of ups and downs in his subsequent career. After being expelled from the National Olympics, he was transferred to the Guoan reserve team. Although his performance improved since then and he played football in the league again, In 2003, he was investigated for doping again and was suspended for 6 months.

In 2008, Zhang Shuai performed abnormally in the Beijing-Shanghai Derby and was questioned by the club and the media, and has since been eliminated.

This is not the first time something has happened to the Olympic team, nor will it be the last. In 1999, Zhang Yuning, Sui Dongliang and Li Yan, players of the 1977 Olympic team, built a bar on Sixth Street in Guangzhou in the middle of the night.

In these two Olympic teams, many people had high hopes, and later became well-known figures in Chinese football. If they had learned self-discipline, they might not have had to wait until 2008 to enter the Olympics at home. And a glass of wine on the Yunnan Plateau eventually turned into a tear for Chinese football.

Impulse is the devil, wine is the devil's knife

There was a joke on the Internet many years ago, saying that there are 56 names in China, 55 of them sang and danced after drinking, and only the Han people Drunk is a braggart.

This is obviously half right. Whether it is Xie Hui or Wang Baoshan, there is nothing wrong with talking nonsense in the wine shop. But there are still many people who take advantage of the stamina of alcohol to behave badly.

The talented goalkeeper An Qi entered the national football World Cup squad at the age of 21. However, he failed to become the main force of the national football team throughout his career. His bad habits must be an important reason.

In 2005, Dalian Changbo visited Nanjing for an away game. That night after the game, An Qi went to a nightclub to have a drink and find a girl. In the early hours of the morning, the Nanjing police received a call. A woman claimed that she had been raped. When the police arrived at the scene, they found the man naked. When they found out it was An Qi, the "zipper door" began.

Wang Tao, a former Bayi team player, is also a bartender. In 2006, Wang Tao, then the coach of a second-division team, had a conflict with other customers in a bar. The two sides fought, and Wang Tao was outnumbered. Injured, he ran out of the bar naked and fled to the airport, claiming he was being hunted. In the end, the police intervened and calmed the incident.

Among the strikers of Wang Tao's generation, Kuai Ma Gao Feng often caused troubles due to drinking.

When he was playing football in his early years, Gao Feng was addicted to alcohol. "A box of beer is the standard amount" and "drinking must be drunk thoroughly" are Gao Feng's rules in the bar. When Schlapner was coaching the national football team, he thought Gao Feng only liked drinking and having sex with women, so he excluded him from the list.

When Gao Feng was playing in Chongqing, the then coach Li Zhangzhu once found 68 beer cans from his room. It is said that Munich 1860, who originally planned to rent Gao Feng, gave up because they learned of his bad habits.

In 2015, Gao Feng, who had been retired for many years, was still on the drinking table after all. He, actor Nie Yuan, host Qiu Qiming and others had a fight with a taxi driver after drinking in Shanghai, which violated the criminal law. , constituted the crime of picking quarrels and provoking trouble, and was sentenced to 7 months in prison, suspended for 1 year.

However, when it comes to this drinking scene on the beach, the most famous thing is Mao Jianqing. He is also a well-known talented player. He shot Brazil and defeated Iran. He became famous at the age of 21, just like Chinese football. The style of a future leader.

However, this player is a drinking addict. He feels uncomfortable if he doesn't drink for a day.

In 2006, he was sent to the reserve team by Shenhua coach Wu Jingui because of drinking. The next day, he smashed Wu Jingui's BMW with his sneakers.

In 2008, Mao Jianqing and male basketball player Xu Yong got into a fight after drinking outside and were detained for seven days. According to media reports at the time, Mao Jianqing was completely drunk and his attack was not serious. Fortunately, no one was killed.

Although he repeatedly expressed his intention to quit drinking, he failed. In 2009, Mao Jianqing went to training after drinking, and the Shenhua team sent him down again. In 2013, when he was on the Shenxin team, he beat up another teammate Jiang Zhipeng because he stood up for his teammates.

Character flaws and bad living habits have kept Mao Jianqing wandering for many years. In 2016, due to his outstanding performance in Shijiazhuang Yongchang, Mao Jianqing returned to the national team after many years. He originally thought he had matured, but he did not want to be exposed later. There was a scandal about going out drinking after the game.

Drunk driving feels good for a while, but who cares about the old people

Compared with being expelled from the team for drinking in Haigeng, what shocked us more was the murder that occurred while drunk. Once upon a time, our awareness of traffic safety was not strong. Many players took desperate risks and developed the bad habit of drunk driving, which also led to many tragedies of blood and tears.

The most famous incident in Zhang Yuning’s career mentioned above is the car accident dispute with Qu Leheng.

On the evening of April 26, 2000, Liaoning Football Team forward Zhang Yuning and his teammate Qu Leheng went out for dinner. After drinking and talking, Zhang Yuning chose to drink and drive. The two had a car accident on the road. Qu Leheng, who was in the co-pilot due to He suffered a lumbar spine fracture without wearing a seat belt and was paraplegic from the waist down. His career was directly scrapped and he could only rely on a wheelchair to walk.

Although Zhang Yuning was only slightly injured, he also suffered from various pressures from outside public opinion. Later, he moved to Shanghai, and his career development was not smooth. The legal dispute between the two lasted for many years and even became an unresolved case.

In 2005, a more serious drunk driving incident occurred in Chinese football. Jiao Chunben, the head coach of the Qingdao Zhongneng Youth Team at the time, was not happy with his marriage and work, and he also liked drinking. Drink away your sorrows.

One early morning in May, a black Lexus he drove under the influence of alcohol hit Liu Huofang, a 49-year-old female sanitation worker who was sweeping the road, causing her death on the spot.

The car that caused the accident did not stop after hitting the person. It jumped onto the sidewalk, smashed a billboard one after another, flattened a lamppost, and almost pulled up a bus license plate. It stopped more than 100 meters away, and its right front wheel was almost knocked off.

After the car accident, Jiao Chunben reached a settlement agreement with the family of the deceased, compensating the family 430,000 yuan. Jiao Chunben was also released on bail pending trial, but he was still sentenced to 1 year in prison for the crime of traffic accident. 06 months, suspended for 2 years.

Cui Peng and Zhou Haibin, Shandong Luneng’s rising stars at that time, also had drunk driving behaviors. Among them, Cui Peng and two mysterious women were involved in an accident while driving too fast while drunk. They were detained for one year and were detained. Expelled from the National Olympics. Zhou Haibin, on the other hand, had "three wheels knocked out of four", and it was all due to his luck that his career was not affected.

In recent years, the drunk driving accidents of "Quan Jian Er Zhang" Zhang Xiuwei and Zhang Lu are still vivid in our minds. In 2017, Zhang Xiuwei, who played for Tianjin Quanjian, drove his luxury car into multiple motor vehicles late at night after drinking. Not only was he sentenced to three months in prison, he was also severely banned by the Football Association. He lost his career during the rising period of his career. Valuable exercise opportunity.

What is even more unexpected is that Zhang Xiuwei’s drunk driving also involved the fact that he had changed his age. As the big brother, Zhang Lu did not persuade his younger brother in time when he was driving drunk, nor was he alerted. Instead, he continued to cause problems, causing serious negative consequences as a national player.

Nowadays, the 25-year-old Zhang Xiuwei has obviously not reached the level of the "Chinese Magic Flute". Although he has a high salary in the Guangzhou team, he does not have stable playing time. The fans are also dissatisfied with his performance and can only Sighing is the wasted years.

Zhang Lu, 34, is considered a figure in Shenzhen Football Association and has a much richer life than ordinary people. How much reflection does he have on what happened two years ago? Recalling that Liu Dianqiu, the 60-year-old leader of the national team, wrote a letter of self-criticism in tears, would Zhang Lu be touched in his heart?

When will the football and wine culture end?

Times are changing. Although the new generation of football players now have more scientific management and training models, they are also in the scientific After recovering from the disease, they thought it was okay to drink a little.

Shortly after the Zhang Lu incident, national youth team player Tao Qianglong and others were fined heavily by the Chinese Football Association for going out to drink privately during the training camp. At this moment, who wouldn’t think of what those nationally renowned players did in Kunming 20 years ago?

Today, with the development of Internet media and the unprecedented strengthening of public legal awareness, as a public figure, he turns a blind eye to team rules and regulations, and even acts lawless, without any thought of restraining himself and maintaining the good quality of Chinese football. Image, this phenomenon is repeated, which is definitely not a good thing for Chinese football.

Chinese football has always been considered to be "high-paid but low-energy". At the level of competitive sports, performance is the first element, and playing well is the most important.

It should be noted that the stadium is not a world after all, and the ball should speak for itself, not the wine. Over the years, far more people in Chinese football have been in the news because of alcohol problems than in other sports. Should football people reflect on this?

There is a saying in Du Mu's "A Fang Gong Fu": Qin people have no time to mourn themselves, and future generations will mourn for them; future generations will mourn without taking note of it, which will also make future generations mourn for future generations again. .

Looking at world football, even geniuses like Gascoigne and Ronaldinho like to numb themselves through alcohol, and their bad living habits lead to their early degeneration. As for Gao Feng and Mao Jianqing, many people in the industry have said that if they did not drink, their career achievements would be higher.

For Chinese football, these tragedies caused by drinking are like products that spiral with the times. They appear again and again after a period of time. The essence is that there is a problem with education.

Football players have received little formal education since childhood, and the immersive environment has failed to give them a good guidance. Many coaches and veteran players just smoke and drink, and they have not set an example at all. effect.

This time, Xie Hui just made a gaffe after drinking, but if the "drinking culture" of Chinese football is not stopped, who will be the next person to fall on the wine table?