With Hu Lai's decisive kick, the 2024 Chinese Super League season comes to an end.
Hold the trophy when it's time to win, relegation when it's time to be relegated, and win when it's time to win.
Every team and everyone has their own place.
The new champion Anton Flashing became the biggest winner.
They won the league championship and were elected as a fair play team and an outstanding youth training club. At the same time, their Jincheng team also became the most popular division in the Chinese Super League this season.
Head coach Zhao Kangming won the best coach.
Hu Lai, Chen Xingyi and Zhang Qinghuan were selected into the best eleven of the season.
Wang Guangwei, Qin Lin, and Morikawa Junpei were selected as the substitutes for the best team.
Hu Lai won the top scorer and best local scorer this season with 30 goals, breaking Shi Wuyin's record of 28 goals.
At the same time, Hu Lai also won the best player of the Chinese Super League in the 2024 season.
His thirty goals brought the team one of the most important championships, and he was well-deserved for this honor.
The miracle of promotion created by Shining Star is highly talked about and continues to be hotly debated across the country.
This team just won the championship of the Chinese League One and the Chinese Football Association Cup a season ago. This season it went a step further and won the highest honor representing Chinese football - the Chinese Super League Championship.
Zhao Kangming led the team to set off a youth storm in the Chinese Super League.
This youth storm is not just a matter of the Flash Star family.
In the final round of the league, two young players, Luo Kai and Zhou Zijing, also performed well. It can even be said that they indirectly determined the league championship.
In this season's Chinese Super League, many young players have begun to play important roles in their respective club teams. They no longer only need to rely on the U23 policy to get some playing opportunities from clubs.
Their wonderful performance also gave football people more hope for the future of Chinese football.
Now that Flash Star has used the "Young Guards" to win the first Chinese Super League championship in the club's history, it should also stimulate other clubs and make them more willing to invest in youth training and give young players opportunities.
They prove themselves.
If this momentum can be sustained, it will form a positive positive cycle.
This is also the greatest significance to Chinese football for Flash Star to win the championship.
Of course, these are relatively distant things.
There is an urgent matter now.
That is the top 12 competition of the Chinese national team.
After the Chinese Super League ended, all players selected for the national team roster, including Hulay, left their respective clubs to report for training with the national team and prepare for the next home game against Qatar.
This game is crucial for the Chinese team and also for Marcel Wilson.
There are rumors that if Wilson cannot lead the team to defeat Qatar and score three points at home, he will be dismissed.
Although the Football Association did not require Wilson to give Hulay a chance, the outside world is mentioning Hulay's name.
Hu Lai, who just broke Shi Wuyin's record and won the league championship, top scorer and best player, is very popular.
Everyone is saying, such an awesome local player, if Wilson doesn’t let him play, who else do you want to play? Let Meli Banega come?
But Meili Banega is still the defeated enemy of our Hu Lai!
When did the talent selection standards for the Chinese national team become so high?
Some people took this anger to the level of the Football Association, and there were many voices criticizing the Football Association on the Internet.
The Football Association is also very aggrieved - when we signed the contract with Wilson before, you said you were not allowed to interfere with Yang Shuai's coaching and not to treat Yang Shuai as a puppet. Okay, let's write this into the contract and not interfere with his selection.
Employing people. Didn’t you fans and the media keep praising us for doing well?
how?
Now that Yangshuai doesn't select and hire people according to your requirements, we can't control it because of the contract, but you are scolding us instead?
This is really all good and bad things for you to say.
Grievances are grievances, and these words cannot be said outside, otherwise there will probably be another public opinion storm. The national team will not be able to enter the World Cup finals, and their position will not be affected. But if the public opinion storm arises, maybe
Someone has to lose his hat.
In addition to criticizing the Football Association, there is another voice that is spreading rapidly on the Internet.
Saying that Wilson did not let Hu Lai play is not the high-sounding reason he said. There was not enough running-in, and there was no time to modify tactics... They are all excuses! There is only one reason for Wilson not to let Hu Lai play, and that is him
He was unhappy when Hu Lai refused his call-up before the Asian Cup, so he wanted to give Hu Lai a kick.
Although everyone knows that it was Zhao Kangming's decision to refuse the call-up to the national team, for which Zhao Kangming was scolded quite a lot at the time.
However, in today's Internet rumors, Wilson believes that this must be the player's personal wish, and Zhao Kangming is just the person who was pushed out by Hu Lai to block the gun. In the final analysis, it was the player Hu Lai who refused his call.
So the relationship with Hu Lai was forged.
Later, as Hu Lai's performance got better and better, the outside world's call for Hu Lai to join the national team became louder and louder. Wilson had no choice but to comply with public opinion and recruit Hu Lai to the national team.
It's just to recruit Hu Lai into the national team. As for how to deal with Hu Lai after joining the national team, others can't control it.
This resulted in Hu Lai being selected into the national team to participate in the top 12 tournament, but failed to play a minute in four games...
Of course, the above are all based on internet rumors.
Neither Hulay nor Wilson has responded to this rumor.
There is no other evidence to prove that Wilson is a petty person and put Hu Lai on the bench just to get revenge on Hu Lai.
There is no credible source for this news, and no media reporter in the circle forwarded it.
But it is still widely circulated, which fully illustrates how dissatisfied Chinese fans are with Wilson...
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"Hey Hu Lai..."
On the bench, substitute winger Huang Yao, who was sitting next to Hu Lai, tilted his head towards Hu Lai, covered his mouth with his hand and whispered.
He is the main full midfielder in the South China Tigers, but can only be used as a substitute in the national team.
The two of them had just fought to the death for a championship in the league, but now they were sitting together on the bench of the national team, just like a pair of inseparable brothers.
"Brother Huang, is something wrong?" Hu Lai covered his mouth and tilted his head towards him.
"I just want to ask you something..." Huang Yao glanced at the head coach, "It was said online that you couldn't play in the game because you refused Wilson's call... It's true.
?"
Hu Lai smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Of course it's a lie, Brother Huang. It was the club that refused to be called up, and I never said anything at all."
"That's right..." Huang Yao didn't continue to ask. Maybe he felt that it was not good to talk about the head coach behind his back, and he was afraid of being judged.
Hu Lai did not discuss this issue with Huang Yao anymore, but continued to watch the game.
In the last round of the first round of the top 12, the Chinese team faced Qatar at home, which had already lasted fifty-five minutes.
The score on the field was 1:1.
The Chinese team took the lead in the first ten minutes, which seemed to indicate a good start.
But Qatar equalized the score before the end of the first half.
It poured cold water on many Chinese fans.
Despite the high calls before the game, Hulay did not start in this game. He was still sitting on the bench. He didn't know when he would play or whether he would play.
Just then Wang Sheng, the head of the Chinese coaching staff of the national team, ran over and hooked at Hu Lai: "Hu Lai! Quick, go warm up!"
Huang Yao, who was next to him, suddenly understood - Wilson was finally going to let Hu Lai play.
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"Ah! My son is about to play!"
When Hu Lai got up from the bench of the Chinese national team and went to warm up alone, the TV broadcast specifically cut away from the ongoing game and gave him a shot.
The director used such broadcast language to tell the TV audience: Hu Lai may be substituted!
So not only Xie Lan but also countless Chinese fans were excited in front of the TV.
They waited for Hu Lai to take over at the critical moment, and then went on the field to help the Chinese team defeat Qatar.
Just like he did with the Olympic team and club.
But to everyone's regret...
Although Hu Lai was substituted in the 60th minute and completed his first appearance in the top 12 matches.
But Hu Lai, who got 30 minutes of playing time, did not turn the tide.
He worked very hard during the game, but he was unable to score until the end of the game...
In the end, the Chinese team was tied 1:1 by Qatar at their home court.
Hu Lai looked very disappointed when he walked off the field, but he still shook hands with head coach Wilson. There was no irreconcilable conflict between the two as rumored on the Internet.
The TV broadcast camera shifted from Hu Lai to Wilson. Wilson in the camera was still shaking hands and patting the shoulders of every Chinese team player who came off the field, just like he did after the previous games.
The same.
But there was still disappointment on his face.
"The Chinese team did not win against Qatar at home. The schedule of the top 12 matches is already halfway through, and the Chinese team is ranked last in the group... The fate of both the Chinese team and Wilson has reached a critical moment..." He
Feng said in the commentary.
Yan Kang's tone was stern and anxious: "We must do something to change everything... Hu Lai came on as a substitute today, and his 30 minutes of playing time was not a small amount. But Hu Lai, who is in the national team, is not in the Olympic team and the club.
I feel so comfortable when I play. What is the reason for this? Is it a personal condition problem? Or is it a team tactical problem? Or is it a staffing problem? No matter what, the Chinese team must make changes next! The next twelve games
The strong competition will have to wait until March next year, we still have time! But there is not much time!”
Shi Wuyuan, who saw this scene in the box, said to Li Zhifei next to him: "Lao Li, do you want to call your sister-in-law to talk about it? This time I have to go on a business trip for a long time..."
Li Zhifei curled his lips: "She had guessed it a long time ago. Her luggage was packed for me. I brought it with me this time."
Shi Wuyin looked at the stadium. There were some unwilling Chinese fans in the stands who had not yet left the stadium. They chanted slogans in the stands to dismiss Wilson.
Shi Wuyuan sighed.
"What are you sighing for?" Li Zhifei asked him.
"I'm thinking... maybe... maybe, we can enjoy such treatment next year." Shi Wuyin did not look away.
"What about that? Are you scared?"
It wasn't until he heard Li Zhifei's words that Shi Wuyin looked away and looked at his partner: "Back then, so many people booed me and asked me to be dismissed, but I wasn't even afraid. What's there to be afraid of?"
"Then why are you sighing?"
"I just feel that it is a pity... If we fail to complete the task, the get out of class will be dismissed, but Chinese football will lose another window period, and then have to wait for another four years..."
"Thinking too much, Xiao Shi. We are here to put out the fire, transition coaches, and buy time for the Football Association's global coaching selection. Maybe two games... no, maybe not even a game, and we will end get out of class."
"Then I have to hand this team over to my successor properly."
"Of course." Li Zhifei nodded repeatedly and tugged at him: "So don't hurt the Spring and Autumn here. It's only four months until the next top twelve games, and we still have a lot of work to do to change the status quo.
Doing it."
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Two hours after the match between the Chinese team and Qatar, the Chinese Football Association and the national team officially announced the resignation of Marcel Wilson and his coaching team.
The official statement thanked Marcel Wilson and his coaching team for their contribution to Chinese football and sincerely wished them smooth sailing in the future.
At the same time, it was announced that the global coaching process would be launched.
Prior to this, the temporary head coach of the national team will be Shi Wuyin, the former head coach of the Olympic team who led the team to an outstanding performance in the Olympics. He will continue to work until the Football Association finds a new coach.
Regarding this news, there is an answer on the Internet that represents the voice of the vast majority of Chinese fans.
