Today is February 16th, the fifth day of the first month of the lunar calendar. This looks like an ordinary "Broken Five", but for Tianjin Jinmen Tigers it is a stormy day, and this day is also called Tianjin Teda Football club’s 23rd birthday.
Tianjin football originated from the Chinese White Team in 1956, and has experienced 65 years of history. On February 16, 1998, Tianjin TEDA Group integrated the two teams of Tianjin Samsung and Tianjin Vanke. Formed the Tianjin TEDA team. In those years, Tianjin football matches were important events that Tianjin fans must pay attention to every weekend. At that time, the Tianjin team played in the crowded Wudao Minyuan Stadium. Tianjin people’s passion for football is well-known throughout the country, and it was the time when Yu Genwei, Zhang Xiaorui, and Liu Yunfei were in their youth.
In a blink of an eye, Tianjin Football has reached its 23rd year. Time flies and things are different. The Minyuan Stadium that year had already been used for other purposes and became an online celebrity check-in place for convenient sports. Standing on the runway can no longer feel the classic moments of Shao Geng connecting five people, Shi Lianzhi flying to the peak, and Yu Genwei opening the record. . The Tianjin Teda Stadium, which was later used as a special football field for TEDA in Tianjin Binhai, has long since been abandoned. Yu Genwei and others have retired for many years, and even guards with swords like Cao Yang have long since become yesterday's strong grass, and the sword is in the scabbard.
TEDA has won the A-B championship, the Chinese Super League runner-up and the FA Cup championship. However, the short-lived moment does not mean that TEDA is a strong team. In the darkest moment of Chinese football, TEDA also played the victim many times in the era of black whistle match-fixing. In such a big environment, there have even been scandals of high-level bribery to opponent players. It can be said that Tianjin football is a veteran who has experienced the rise and fall of Chinese football. But on this 23rd birthday, the Tianjin Jinmen Tigers Football Club, which has been renamed, is now also facing dissolution due to funding problems. You must know that Tianjin just disappeared two years ago, and Tianjin people were proud of it. Tianjin Tianhai, and this year the Jinmen tiger did not escape the entanglement of bad luck. And 23 years old is exactly the age when a young man left university and went into social disturbance.Without the blessing of his parents, whether this young man can survive in the rivers and lakes really depends on his own strength and destiny to face reality.
Over the past few years, Tianjin football has been criticized in various ways by the fans with a mentality of hating iron and steel. However, behind the poor performance, there is really a factor beyond football that is the city’s economic downturn. As the second "Shenzhen" in the past, Tianjin Binhai is regarded by many people as a kind of fire for economic prosperity. However, the day did not fulfill everyone's wish. This city has not become a famous first-tier city like Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen. In the ranking of national GDP per capita last year, Tianjin fell out of the top ten. Under such circumstances, Tianjin Football's current step is really pulling the plow - one step at a time.
Actually, it is better to wait for rebirth than Nirvana. Tianjin can't live without a football team, but how can such a football team get into the eyes of the Tianjin people, so it is better to disband, but once the disbandment directly affects the development and construction of Tianjin youth echelon. When hesitated and vacillated, as a Tianjin native, he can only wait for the trial of fate. According to rumors, the owner of a club in a European Super League is a Chinese, and his lover is from Tianjin. During the Chinese New Year this year, they were also invited to negotiate an acquisition with the Tianjin TEDA Club.
But in the editor's opinion, whether such news is true or not, can it really change the status quo of the Tianjin football environment? Can private companies really drive Chinese football clubs? Finally, I would like to wish the Tianjin Jinmen Tigers Football Club a happy 23rd birthday, and hope that next year, Tianjin Football will be able to come back to life.
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