Liaoning Football Team leads the Chinese League One and is stable to advance to the Super League? Li Jinyu refuses to talk about advance to the Super League, with far-reaching thoughts behind it

, in the short term, the scenery is unlimited, but the foundation is not laid firmly, and everyone knows the result. Dayu knows very well that Liaoning football has been in trouble in recent years. From the disbandment of Liaoning Football Team to the current Iron Man team taking over the banner, the hearts of fans have long been fragile. I remember one time after training, he said when chatting with the team's old consultant: "I would rather stay in the China League One for a few more years and lay a solid foundation than rush up and fall down like a roller coaster."

fans have different views on this. A "Liaoning football fan Lao Yang" was typing on the keyboard fiercely on the forum and firmly believed: "Dawu is right! Liaoning Football Team was stunned by the Super League. In the end, not only did they owed wages, but they had to sell the players. As a result, the team was disbanded." However, there were also young fans who were anxious: "The situation is so good now, you must strike while the iron is hot! Look at the standings, we are four games ahead of the second place. If we don't call for the Super League, how can we be worthy of the young men who are fighting on the court?" As soon as the words were posted, someone posted photos of the team's away victory. The players were wearing old white training suits, and the Aquarius on the bench was still the kind of big bottles that the players brought - everyone knows that the team's finances are not well-off and limited resources need to be concentrated on the blade.

Li Jinyuzhi's team does have a strong old-school style. He asked players to arrive at the base half an hour in advance every day, not for training, but for shining shoes and tidying up their equipment. Once, when the foreign player was five minutes late, he was unceremonious and punished the whole team to practice and return to the run. He ran to the end and said to everyone with a heavy breath: "In the Liaoning team, rules are more important than anything else." He would personally check the grass of the base every week, and repair it immediately when he found a pothole, "Players run here, and they can't sprain their ankles." These small details seem inconspicuous, but they are the old traditions of Liaojiao’s glory. Li Jinyu picked them up little by little and took care of them like treasured antiques. In the interview, there was a sentence that was particularly touching. Li Jinyu looked at the training ground outside the window, and his tone suddenly lowered octave: "Do you think fans are watching the game just to see us win? What they want is to see a team that can accompany them for a long time." After the team won a key battle at home last year, an old fan in a wheelchair held up the sign "Liaoning must win" and his eyes were filled with tears from the beginning to the end of the game. After the game, Li Jinyu went to shake hands with him. The old man held his hand tightly and said, "I have been waiting for this day for ten years." In that scene, even the reporters present could not help but have red eyes.

Nowadays, most of the young players in the team grew up watching Li Jin play badminton. Forward Zhang Wei said: "The badminton always tells us that we should learn to be a good person before playing football. He said that Coach Marin took him back then, and now he will take us. These words sound ordinary, but in today's football circle, this kind of inheritance is more rare than victory. Once, the team went to the community to do charity. Li Jinyu personally taught the children to shoot. When the movements were not standard, he squatted down and corrected them step by step. The sun shone on the white hair on his temples, and he looked more like a warm-hearted uncle next door than a football coach.

Some people on the Internet said sourly: "Li Jinyu is leaving a way out for himself. If he fails to advance to the Super League, he can say that he has never shouted a slogan." Such remarks are simply untenable. Anyone who knows him knows that when he was playing football in Luneng, he bet with his coach that if he didn't get the golden boots, he would shaved his head, but he really shaved his hair. Li Jinyu has never been afraid of failure, he just doesn't like to mess around without planning. As he said: "Building a club is like building a building. The foundation must be laid firmly. Three floors of foundation, one floor is money, the second floor is the hearts of the people, the third floor is the rules, and even if you lack a floor, you will have to collapse." Fans understand the difficulties and hardships of Liaoning football over the years. From the glory of the "Ten Championships" to the dissolution of Liaoning Football Team, from the players wandering around to the difficult start of the Ironman team, it seemed like a roller coaster ride. Now, seeing some hope, Li Jinyu’s goal is not to rush to the Super League, but to lay the foundation down to earth. His patience is more precious than anything. A netizen drew a cartoon in which Li Jinyu planted a tree with a shovel, and the words "Ten Years' Result" were written under the tree, and the likes below were all from Liaoning fans.

In the end, the promotion to the Super League is just a result, not the only purpose. As Li Jinyu said at the end of the interview: "When one day, fans can take photos with players at will, children can play wild football on the grass, and the old men and aunts nearby are also willing to dance square dance around the stadium. At that time, we don't need to shout 'Promotion to the Super League', and the results will naturally come naturally." This sounds simple, but in fact it shows the most authentic spirit of football - not to make crazy struggling for rankings, but to make football truly integrate into the city, take root, grow, and bear fruit.