As we all know, baseball is the number one sport in Taiwan Province, and other sports, including football, must retreat. This is because during the Japanese occupation period, Japanese national baseball was highly promoted. The current Taiwan Provincial Baseball is also quite good and can rank in the world.
However, football has always been in a very embarrassing position. There is not even a professional league at present, but a semi-professional league called "Enterprise League One". As the name suggests, the employees participating in the league are some companies, they are real company employees, not professional athletes. The most well-known football player in Taiwan Province is Chen Bailiang , who plays in Zhejiang Greentown. He was a part-time employee of Taiwan Electric ("You play football in a large company and play for seven years, you can become a lifelong employee of that company. This is the best way out for Taiwanese football players." This is what Chen Bailiang said):
Baodao Football King Chen Bailiang
In recent years, Taiwan Province has vigorously naturalized foreign players to join them. As long as those with Chinese blood relationship (such as Chen Changyuan ) choose Chinese as wives (such as Zhu Enle ), they are all their considerations. The latest naturalized player in Taiwan Province is Shen Zigui (Chinese and English mixed-race). He is young and has great potential. He is produced by Crystal Palace Youth Training. With a number of naturalized players and several local players who play in China League One , Taiwan Province's strength has also improved by leaps and bounds. Their goal is to enter the top 100 in the world. However, their biggest hero, head coach White (formerly Shanghai Shenxin head coach, a Chinese son-in-law), has been poached by Hong Kong, China because of his excellent performance in Taipei, China.
China Taipei rankings have made significant progress
Taiwan Province's "Enterprise League One" currently has 8 teams participating, all of which are semi-professional teams. Moreover, the two "joint troops" of Taichung Lion and Royal Blue are mainly composed of local foreign staff. There is no promotion and relegation system, which means there is no second-tier league, which is the first-tier league, which is almost the same level as the Chinese Championship Division of , mainland in our (the Chinese Championship League has a total of 8 major regions, and each district has a maximum of 8 teams). But their champion can participate in AFC Cup , which is a good benefit (the women's name is Mulan League, with 5 teams, and they are quite strong. They have achieved the fourth place in the Asian Games before):
Taiwan Provincial Enterprise League One
Women's Mulan Football League
Women's Mulan Football League
In Taiwan Province, there is really no way out to play football. Players who play well will try their best to escape from Taiwan Province. The average monthly salary is less than NT$30,000 (less than NT$10,000), so many young players feel that they cannot see the future. Therefore, many players from Taiwan Province have joined the China League One team, such as Chen Bailiang from Greentown, Chen Haowei and Wen Zhihao from Beijing Enterprises, and some naturalized players have used their identity as a Taiwanese compatriot in China to join, such as Chen Changyuan from previous Renhe, Yin Jiya from Yatai, Zhu Enle from Meizhou Hakka, etc., they all chose to play football in the mainland. No matter how bad he is, he will go to Hong Kong to play in Hong Kong first. Chen Bailiang played in the Hong Kong Super League first, then joined the Shenzhen team, then transferred to the Shenhua team, and finally became the captain of Greentown. He is the first professional player in Taiwan Province and is a legend.
The first naturalized player Chen Changyuan
Taipei City University football team is considered the highest-level team in Taiwan Province that can represent the entire treasure island. Many of their players are members of the Chinese Taipei team and have participated in the qualifiers for the Asian Cup and World Cup. In the 2018 Dongfeng Fengshen Football League Finals, Taipei City team reached the semi-finals and lost to the popular Dalian Shengwei team in the round of the quarterfinals on November 17. Compared with the 11-person system, 5-person football has developed very well now. The school has specially sent a team (10 people) to participate in the Zhuzhou Super League in Guangdong, and the team is stationed in Jiangmen . In the 2017/2018 season, Jiangmen Qiansehua won the Super League championship with a 14-game winning streak with 42 points. Taiwan players Hong Weiteng and Lin Zhihong each scored 54 goals and shared the best scorer.
Jiangmen Qiansehua Hong Weiteng and Lin Zhihong won the best scorer
Taiwan Province's most hope is to develop the professional league, but the situation is really bad. Even sports fields that meet football play are rare. Currently, there are only Taipei Track and Field Field and Kaohsiung Longteng Stadium in the entire province that meet international standards. Chen Guiren, head coach of Taiwan Electric Football Team, said that at present, the personnel expenses of Taiwan Electric Team alone cost NT$20 to NT$30 million per year, and the professionalization will definitely exceed 100 million (equivalent to 22 million yuan), which is only the expense of a China League Two team in mainland China. I personally think that professionalization is still far away in Taiwan Province, and there is only one way to achieve substantial development.
Kaohsiung City, Taiwan Province
In this year's China Champions League, the Chinese Macao Special Administrative Region team sent football teams to participate in the game. Although the ranking was not very good, it also pointed out a clear path for Taiwan's football. The success of Taipei City University's 5-a-side football has once again proved that playing football in mainland China has become a trend (and the same is true for basketball). I believe that in the near future, compatriots from both sides of the Taiwan Strait and the Three Regions can participate in the same league with justifiable reputation and work together for the rise of Chinese football. Come on!
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