Chinanews.com client Beijing, May 24 (Bian Liqun) "According to the results of the publicity and later investigations, it has been confirmed that Liaoning Football Club has wage arrears and has not been resolved. It is now decided to cancel registration qualification.

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  Liaozu, who has survived a spring in a near-death state, finally ushered in the verdict of fate. The announcement issued by the Chinese Football Association on the 23rd completely declared the "death" of Liao Football.

  There is no miracle, not even struggling too much before dying. The long-time Chinese football "Ten Crowns" disappeared in the summer of 2020.

  At the moment of Liaozu's departure, there was no crowding, tears and tears, and some were just endless sighs and helplessness, because this was already the expected ending. In 30 years of Hedong and Hexi, the former king Liaozu unfortunately became the protagonist of this tragedy.

Data map: Liao football players are in tears. Image source: Osports All Sports Pictures

  There are different opinions about how long Liaozu ’s history is. Information shows that this team originated from the 1953 Northeast Sports Training Course, so calculated, Liao Football has a history of 67 years. A voice also pointed out that the name "Liaoning Team" first appeared in the first National Games in 1959, which is a 61-year history.

  Under the erosion of years, although the origin of Liaozu is a little vague, but the golden trophies can not wipe out the era that belongs to them.

In 1990, Liao Football won the AFC Cup (predecessor of the AFC Champions League). Image source: Osports All Sports Pictures

  1990 was the most glorious year in the history of the Liao Football Team. Li Yingfa, a famous player, led the team to defeat Nissan of Japan in the final of the Asian Cup and became the first Chinese men's football team to win the championship in Asia.

  In the subsequent 7th National Games in 1993, Liao Football won the championship again, and the title of "Ten Crowns" came from this, becoming the absolute king of the era of Chinese football.

  Talent advantage and system advantage were the core strengths of Liao Football at the time to dominate domestic football. Before the professionalization of Chinese football, domestic football teams were mostly professional teams managed by local sports committees, but Liaozu had entered a semi-professional system that combined with corporate strength. In the context of the national sports reform at that time, Liaozu played a pioneer role.

Data map: Dalian Wanda team won the first year of the A-League Championship. Image source: Osports All Sports Pictures

  However, in 30 years, the drama of Hedong and Hexi unfortunately fell on Liaozu. In 1994, it became the turning point of Liaozu's fate.

  That year, the League A was established, and Chinese football entered the professional era. The same provincial team, Dalian Wanda, won the championship trophy in the first year of the professional league, and thus took over the throne of the Liao foot, opening a new dynasty in Chinese football.

  The Liaozu, whose system advantage is no longer, began to lose talent, and the team has since been lost in a new era of professionalism. In the second year of the League A, the "Ten Crowns" Liaozu was relegated. The rapid fall of the former dynasty team became the most sensational news in the country at that time.

In 1999, the "Liao Xiaohu" formed by Li Jinyu, Li Tie and others was full of vigour.

  After that, Liaozu made a comeback with a new batch of young players such as Li Jinyu, Li Tie and Zhang Yuning, and became a famous "Liao Xiaohu" in Chinese football. They almost won the championship in 1999. In 2011, Liaozu relied on Yang Xu, Yu Hanchao, Yang Shanping, Zhang Lu and other new batches of "Liao Xiaohu" to reach the top three of the Chinese Super League and obtained the qualification for the AFC Champions League.

  The two small glory, as if people saw the shadow of the former ten crowns, but in fact this is more like "returning to the light". After the professionalization of Chinese football, the era of Liaozu is destined to pass. From 1994 to the present, for 26 years, the pace of Liaozu has been moving towards the abyss of death.

In 2011, Liaozu rushed into the top 3 of the Chinese Super League to win the AFC Champions League qualification, but then gave up. Image source: Osports All Sports Pictures.

  In the second half of his life, this "big brother" who was famous in Chinese football did not keep up with the pace of the times. When many younger generations rose, they could only struggle to survive, and they were "stigmatized" in their later years. .

  "Liao running", "changing a living method", "selling blood to survive" ... similar descriptions have long overshadowed the former glory. The era that belongs to Liaozu is too long. From the turn of the century to the present, more is the decline and lingering.

  These words are precisely the portrayal of the distressed living environment of Liaozu. Year after year, shouting "change a living method" is not the good hope that the former king tried to find his dignity, but this hope is too weak in the face of cruel reality.

  No money is always a problem that Liaozu can't get around.

  Therefore, in the professional era, Liaozu faced the collapse of its lineup after each small peak, and then the team once again entered a rapid fall and a long downturn, which has become a reincarnation of Liaozu's fate.

Data Map: Under the tide of Jin Yuan, Liaozu also spent a high price to introduce foreign aid Uja from the Bundesliga. Image source: Osports All Sports Pictures

  Unfortunately, the slightly crazy wave of Jin Yuan in recent years has completely hit the weakness of Liaozu. Even if the high price sells players to the local tyrants team, it can't resist the reality of rising operating costs. "Selling blood" is not enough to "survive." In 2017, the Liaozu team's history was relegated for the third time, and in 2019 it was almost dropped from the first division.

  If the external environment has accelerated the demise of Liaozu, then its own mismanagement will completely put the team to a dead end. After the players in the 1987 age group sold out, the quality of the players in the subsequent age group has been much worse than before.

  As the main export destination of the international football, Liaoning's excellent player resources have been seriously depleted in recent years. After being trained out of the national team of Han Chao, Yang Xu and Zhang Lu, the Liaoning football team almost "cut off" the national team and "have no blood to sell." "Liaoliao struggled.

  In early February of this year, several Liao football players appealed to the Chinese Football Association, and the publicization of wage arrears became the last straw that crushed Liao Football. After failing to obtain admission qualification, Liaozu completely died in the summer of 2020. It is amazing that this season 30 years ago was when the king's Liao foot reached the Asian football.

Data map: In the 2017 season, Liaozu and Tianjin Quanjian were in the game, and now both teams have been declared "dead." China News Service reporter Yu Haiyang

  Football has always had its own rules, placed in the world football system, want to shine in the World Cup every four years, often requires the hard work of several generations of football people. In the small league system, the king of an era will be created because of various factors, and it is inevitable that there will be dynasty change and survival of the fittest.

  Especially after the wave of Chinese football "Golden Age" swallowed up, those fallen kings will eventually fade, becoming a historical segment of new fans that has not been traced back, and finally disappeared in the dust of the years.

  Regrettably, as one of the few "old time-honored" teams in China, the rare historical heritage of the Liao foot has dissipated. The Liaozu, home of Shenyang, is the spiritual sustenance of several generations of fans in Liaoning and Shenzhou. It is this hometown complex and geopolitical factors that support many players and fans to choose to stay behind when Liaozu is "poor. This historical accumulation of spiritual connotation is precisely a precious resource that is scarce at the current stage of Chinese football.

Information figure: On November 4, 2017, fans in the stands issued a banner message to Liaozu. On that day, Liaozu lost to Shanghai Greenland Shenhua 1: 4 at home and bid farewell to the Chinese Super League with a fiasco. China News Service reporter Yu Haiyang

  When the Liao foot was dying, the Shenyang City team, who had just entered the first division, was renamed Shenyang City, Liaoning, and was hailed as the "New Liao Foot."

  Perhaps this brand-new team can trust a little bit, can open a new chapter in Liaoning football, and even regain the ability to transfuse Chinese football.

  But the old Liao foot is dead, and those lost are lost after all. I only hope that the death of Liaozu will bring some warning to Chinese football and Liaoning football. Perhaps this is also the last contribution of the former king. (Finish)