China News Service, June 6th, on the morning of the 6th, 34-year-old Shandong Luneng veteran Zhou Haibin announced his retirement. He said that his career began in Luneng and ended in Luneng. This is a perfect curtain call. Unfortunately, he failed to retire Luneng won another championship.
Zhou Haibin was born in 1985 and played as a midfielder. He entered the Luneng Football School in 1999, was selected to the Chinese U16 Junior Team the following year, and officially entered the Shandong Luneng First Team in 2002, gradually emerging in the Chinese football top league.
In 2003, Zhou Haibin was selected for the first time in the Chinese national team. He has also represented the Chinese National Youth Team and the National Olympic Team in the 2005 World Youth Championship and the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
In February 2009, Zhou Haibin signed as a free agent in the Dutch Eindhoven, but did not get the first team appearance opportunity, and returned to Shandong Luneng the following year. In 2013, Zhou Haibin joined Tianjin TEDA as a lease, and officially joined the following year. In 2017, Zhou Haibin returned to Luneng again, playing 29 games on behalf of Luneng last season.
Zhou Haibin wrote in the article: "In my 17-year career, I have had the joy of winning the championship, the regret of missing the championship, the troubles of injury and illness, the happiness of siege, and the accusation of going to the Netherlands for dreams. The sorrow after the verbal abuse, the joy of calling my name in the audience after coming back, everything is given to me by football, and there is no such thing without football."
Talking about the reasons for retirement, Zhou Haibin said: "In the months when the league was shut down due to the new crown epidemic, I watched my son grow up day by day, the happiness of my daughter when he was accompanied by his father, and the parents grew older. I knew at the moment: it was time to leave the field."
In the end, Zhou Haibin sent his blessings to Shandong Luneng and Chinese football: "Even if I say goodbye, my heart will always have the blood of the champion, and I believe that the young people in the future team will certainly dream for themselves like me. Working hard for the honor of the champion, I believe that Luneng can certainly rebuild its glory, and I believe that Chinese football will definitely rush out of Asia to the world." (End)