Li Huitang's sports career.

1922, Li Huitang, who was only 17 years old, was selected as the main striker of South China Team, the most famous football team in Hong Kong. His height 1.82 meters, speed, agility, especially excellent ball control skills. The ball is under his feet, and it is difficult for two or three people to enclose it and take it away. His shooting skill is even more amazing. No matter what position and angle, he can open the bow left and right, and the ball is like an arrow that leaves the string. His ground shooting is a great skill. /kloc-in the summer of 0/922, Li Huitang represented the South China team in the first-class football league in Shanghai and became a left-inside striker. Because of his skillful skills and superb ball skills, he often makes amazing moves, and Hong Kong fans call him a ball monster. 1923 In May, Li Huitang represented China football team for the first time in the 6th Far East Games held in Osaka, and China won the championship. Li Huitang, 18 years old, made a name for himself in four competitions. From then on, he began a glorious career dedicated to football. In August of the same year, Li Huitang went to Australia with the South China team to compete with the all-Australian champion New South Wales team. Only five minutes into the opening, Li Huitang scored twice. He won three yuan in this competition, and the Australian authorities specially awarded him a gold medal. The local newspaper in Hong Kong called Li Huitang the king of the ball with extra-large headlines, and some poems were called the king of the ball in the condemnation, and the blue eyes and purple beard were also full of praise.

From 65438 to 0925, young people came to Shanghai from Hong Kong with strong patriotic enthusiasm and childhood neighbor Liao, determined to compete with foreign teams. During his stay in Shanghai, Li Huitang's football skills reached the peak. Because of his outstanding skills, he was hired as a coach by the football team of Fudan University in Shanghai at the age of 22. Subsequently, he joined the Shanghai Lehua Football Team with excellent results. 1926, Li Huitang led Lehua Football Team to participate in the Scooter Cup football match held in Shanghai, and defeated the British hunting team for nine consecutive championships with a disparity score of 4∶ 1, setting the first record for Shanghai China Football Team to beat foreign teams, which greatly increased Li Huitang's prestige on the court. It has washed away the shame of the sick man of East Asia and won glory for the Chinese nation. During the period of 1927, Li Huitang's team was in full swing, winning the first Western Union League, the first Senior Cup and China United League, and Li Huitang became the king of the generation. In the same year, Li Huitang led the Lehua team to explore Southeast Asian countries, especially the Philippines, and made great achievements, and returned home with excellent results.

In the 1920s, China had a saying: See Mei Lanfang at the theatre and Li Huitang at the dance. In old China, it was extraordinary that a football star could be compared with the name of Mei Lanfang, a master of Peking Opera. It can be seen that he has won people's respect and love with his tenacious struggle and superb skills.

Li Huitang has made outstanding contributions to the national team. /kloc-0 was selected as the China team in 1923, and participated in the football matches of the 6th, 7th, 9th and 0th Far East Games of 1923, 1925, 1930 and 1934 respectively, four times. (In fact, only three or four countries participated in the competition at that time. ). Li Huitang 193 1 returned to Hong Kong and joined the South China Football Team as the captain. 193 1 year, the IOC recognized the All-China Sports Association as a member of the IOC, which gave China athletes the opportunity to learn and communicate with football players from other countries. Due to the financial difficulties of the Kuomintang government at that time, in order to participate in the football match of the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, Li Huitang and the football team had to raise their own funds and set off more than two months in advance, relying on the ticket income of the games along the way as the cost of participating in the Olympic Games. Li Huitang and his teammates played 27 games all the way and scored 23 wins and 4 draws. They scrimped and saved all the way to Berlin. However, due to the battle all the way, the players were exhausted. By the time of the Olympic Games, they lost 2-0 to the British Olympic team and were eliminated in the first round. 1939, Li Huitang went on an expedition to Nanyang with the South China team in Hong Kong. In the first match in Penang, Malaysia, the South China team won by 1 1: 0. In this game, 35-year-old Li Huitang kept her posture unchanged. Before opening the bow, she frequently took the ball and shot, scoring 7 goals alone. After the fall of Hongkong, Li Huitang didn't want to be a conquered nation. 194 1 year, he took the opportunity to take part in the competition in Macao and returned to the mainland. He and his hometown people formed the Wuhua football team. A couplet was posted at the door of the house: Seriously resist the Japanese War and celebrate the New Year casually.

1942, Li Huitang went to Meizhou to face the Qiangmin team, and the result was 1∶3 courtesy for Qiangmin. The following year, Li Huitang invited the first-class experts from Hong Kong to compete with the Qiangmin team in the name of the Hang Jian team. Through these two competitions, it has played a certain role in promoting football in Meizhou, the hometown of football. Later, Li Huitang went to Guilin to organize the Guangdong Football Team to participate in the so-called Four-province Heads of State Cup. He held exhibitions and charity competitions in Chongqing, Chengdu, Zigong and other places to raise money, help orphans and refugees, and support the anti-Japanese and national salvation. 1947, Li Huitang is 42 years old. He participated in an international competition in Hong Kong (predecessor of the Shanghai-Hong Kong Cup), and a penalty he shot was saved. This game is a battle for him to hang up his boots. From 65438 to 0948, Li Huitang led the China football team to participate in the14th Olympic Games as a coach, and in the same year, he won the FIFA international referee certificate, becoming the first person in China to obtain the international referee qualification. 1954, 1955 led the China Taipei team to win the football championships in the 2nd and 3rd Asian Games.

1954 Li Huitang was elected secretary-general of the Asian Football Federation. 1965 was elected as the vice president of FIFA, and became a China native who won the highest position in FIFA. From 65438 to 0966, Li Huitang served as the vice-chairman of the Asian Football Federation and the International Football Federation, enjoying high prestige in the world football. From 65438 to 0976, he was rated as one of the top five ball kings in the world in the selection activities organized by the Federal German Football Magazine. Li Huitang died in July 1979 at the age of 74.