Speaking of Li Tongguo, this person is also very interesting. He changed his name. Everyone knew that his name was Li Dongguo. He was in his best years and nightmare for Horton's Olympic team, but before and after that, his life was actually miserable.
Li Tongguo was born in a very ordinary town in Pohang City. The elementary school is very simple, so simple that there is no track and field department. One day Pohang City will hold track and field games. How can we participate in track and field games without the track and field club? The physical education teacher selected the fastest classmate in the class, and after a few days of emergency training, he went to participate in the city's track and field competition. Unexpectedly, Li Tongguo won the championship in all the professional athletes of the track and field team, and the school established the track and field team after that. He happened to be seen by a football coach when he was participating in track and field competitions. Talent, and launched an offensive against his parents.
At that time, Li Tongguo even said that he didn’t even know that there was football in the world, but his father said to him, “If you play football, you might become a professional player and be selected for the national team. , Can earn a lot of money, and even marry a beautiful wife." In this way, Li Tongguo started football training. After graduating from high school for three years, Li Tongguo successfully entered the Pohang Steelers team. In the early years of his career, he won the AFC Champions League and was taken to the French World Cup by Che Fangen. In South Korea’s match against the Netherlands, Lee Tong Guk got an appearance. Although South Korea was beaten 0 to 5 in that match, everyone knew about him. In the Sydney Olympic qualifiers, his goal was eliminated. The Chinese team. But after that, Li Tongguo’s own nightmare began...
When Nakata Hidetoshi shined in Perugia in the summer of 2000, the Korean media believed that Li Tongguo could also be famous in Europe and could participate in four World Cups later. . Li Tongguo joined the Bundesliga Werder Bremen, but the Bremen team had Pizarro, which led to Li Tongguo basically acting as the best perspective fan on the bench.
returned to Korea to participate in the World Cup training in this state, and met Hiddink, who was extremely demanding in training. Hiddink used high-pressure water guns to drive South Korean players every day in order to speed up his pace. This made Lee, who has always played lazily, The same country could not adapt. In a corner kick defense training entering the World Cup countdown, Hiddink finally broke out. When everyone was intensively marking and running in the center of the penalty area, Li Tongguo unhurriedly swayed outside the penalty area. Hiddink yelled, "How could I choose such a silly X to enter the big squad?" After that, Hiddink directly eliminated Li Tongguo from the national team squad.
Korea-Japan World Cup, the South Korean national team reached the semi-finals, and the players participating in the team were exempted from military service by relevant departments. Not only did Li Tongguo fail to enjoy the honor of eternal history, the issue of military service also became a problem he had to face squarely. It is conceivable that why Sun Xingmin, a crying ghost, smiled from the bottom of his heart after winning the Asian Games in Jakarta last year? That is really the desire to be exempt from military service.
And three months after the 2002 World Cup, Li Tongguo participated in the Busan Asian Games with the team. In the semifinals facing Iran before the penalty shootout, he had a bad premonition, and the result was consistent with the premonition. The host South Korea The team failed to pass the penalty kick, and Li Tongguo cut off his long hair a few months later and became a soldier. However, according to the tradition of the Korean league, Lee Tong Guk can still play in Sangmu, Gwangju, barely maintaining his form.
Two years of military career, Li Tongguo has also faded from his impetuosity. In that World Preliminary, Li Tongguo scored 3 goals in 6 games and helped the South Korean team reach the German World Cup in advance. However, the Chinese team had arithmetic problems that year. , Did not even enter the final stage of the Asian region. But then fate made a big joke with Li Tongguo. In a training session before the start of the World Cup, Li Tongguo broke the cruciate ligament of his right knee and missed the World Cup again... When
was at the lowest point, Li Tongguo had to I turned to a Feng Shui master. Under the guidance of the latter, the name of "Li Dongguo" was changed to "LiTongguo". However, in Middlesbrough, Lee Tongguo was drunk at the bar all day long, with no scoring record for one year and six months. In the summer of 2008, Lee Tongguo returned to South Korea to join Seongnam Ilhe. Everyone thought he was back. It is a pensioner, even Chengnanyi and coach Shen Tailong think so.
At the most critical moment, it was the current Shanghai Shenhua coach Cui Kangxi who reached out to Li Tongguo. The former recruited Li Tongguo. Beimodern, and frequent deep-hearted dialogues, Cui Kangxi really penetrated into Li Tongguo's heart. Deep in his soul, he meticulously sews and repairs the scarred place, which has made the subsequent record. Li Tongguo.
Now, with the K-League and the AFC Champions League record for the most goals, Li Tongguo also admitted that Cui Kangxi changed his life. In this regard, Li Tongguo said that Cui Kangxi really and other coaches The difference is that I am required to actively participate in defense and emphasize the word "sacrifice." After all, when teammates ran unselfishly in order to pass the ball to me, Cui Kangxi asked me to reciprocate in defense. The simple truth is that I, including many frontcourt players, don’t understand...
And with Li Tongguo’s upcoming retirement, there are only two players who have played records in the 98 World Cup and are still playing, 40 The year-old Shinji Ono played off the bench in the third game of the 1998 World Cup group game when he lost 1-2 to Jamaica. He is still playing in J3FC. The other is Arsenal star Paul Mawson, 51 years old. He is still playing for the Kellow team in the Welsh Division 3.
