"It depends on Mei Lanfang to watch the play and Li Huitang to watch the ball." This is a sentence that spread in Shanghai in the 1930s. In old China, it was unusual for a sports star to be compared with the name of Mei Lanfang, a master of Beijing Opera. Li Huitang won the title of "Asian King" with her tenacious struggle and superb skills.
Li Huitang, 1905, was born in Dakeng Village, the eastern suburb of Hong Kong. Father Li Haoru is a native of Wuhua County, Guangdong Province, and specializes in contracting construction business in Hong Kong and Macao. When Li Huitang was 4 years old, she returned to Laolou Village, Xikeng Township, Wuhua County with her mother. As a result of hard exercise, his body is getting stronger and stronger, and his feet are better. /kloc-returned to Hong Kong at the age of 0/0 and became a football player. 13 years old, became a member of Hong Kong South China Team.
At the age of 65,438+06, Li Huitang made great achievements and attracted the attention of football professionals. At the age of 20, he left Hong Kong for Shanghai.
Li Huitang, 22, was hired as a coach by the football team of Fudan University because of his excellent skills. Subsequently, the Lehua football team was established in Shanghai and achieved remarkable results. Li Huitang, 24, was named the best star in the World Football Championship held in Shanghai, so he was called "the king of the ball".
Li Huitang was the most famous center in the 1920s and 1930s. Especially, it is famous for overhead shooting and down shooting (leaning or even falling to the ground with body cover). He shot with great strength and sharp angle, which often made the goalkeeper unable to react and watched the ball fly directly to the bottom of the net. 1934, 30-year-old Li Huitang participated in the National Games as a member of the Hong Kong team. In the 24-0 victory over Anhui, Li Huitang won with a score of 14. 1939, Li Huitang went on an expedition to Nanyang with the South China team in Hong Kong. In the first match in Penang, Malaysia, the South China team won with 1 1-0. In this campaign, 35-year-old Li Huitang was still in high spirits, dribbling frequently and scoring 7 goals alone. Once, in a match with a foreign team, Li Huitang shot hard and the ball fell into the goalkeeper's arms. The goalkeeper's stomach couldn't get in, so he knelt down.
After the fall of Hong Kong, Li Huitang didn't want to be conquered people, so at 194 1, he took the opportunity to play in Macau and returned to the mainland. He and his hometown colleagues formed the Wuhua football team and went to Meixian to play against the Qiangmin team. The competition he organized has played a certain role in promoting football in Meixian, the hometown of football.
Later, Li Huitang went to Guilin to organize a football team to participate in the so-called "Heads of State Cup" football match in four provinces. He held exhibitions and charity competitions in Chongqing, Chengdu, Zigong and other places to raise money, help orphans and refugees, and support the anti-Japanese national salvation.
Li Huitang has a good football style and never hurts anyone. Once in a match in Nanyang, a player of the opposing team deliberately kicked his leg bone, and he also excused the opposing team in the hospital to avoid being punished by law.
From 65438 to 0966, he served as the vice chairman of the Asian Football Association and the World Football Association, enjoying high prestige in the world football.
Li Huitang retired at the age of 4/kloc-0, and his football career lasted for 25 years. 65438-0946 began to write football commentary articles in Shanghai, which were well received from both writing style and viewpoint. He likes calligraphy and is good at English. He can speak, read and translate. 1948, based on his own decades of experience, he wrote two football monographs, The Collection of Vegetable Roots in the Ball Garden and The Tray of Miscellaneous Fruits.
1979, Li Huitang died at the age of 74.