On the evening of November 29, Shanghai Shenhua Football Club's "BLUE NIGHT Shenhua Family Day" was held on a cruise ship on the Pujiang River.
At the beginning of the day, Shanghai exudes its unique charm at night. The Pujiang River cruise ship passes through the Huangpu River, and the scenery on both sides of the river spreads out in front of you. The Bund's Wonderland of Nations is illuminated to tell the city's history and changes. The iconic "three-piece set" shows the vitality and vitality of the city. History, reality and the future are perfectly blended here.
On this night, Wu Xi and Yu Hanchao, two veterans who have repeatedly stepped forward in the most difficult times for the team this season, took a group photo with the blue Oriental Pearl as the background. In his acceptance speech for winning the 2024 Shenhua Player of the Season, Wu Xi said, "I am grateful to the club for giving us such a stable environment, and I am also grateful to the coaching staff for their trust in me personally, as well as my teammates for helping me all the time. And thank you to all the staff, our support staff, and everyone who has worked so hard and quietly. Last but not least, I would like to thank our loveliest fans for accompanying us on our journey. This is the best player (award) and I hope that next year, together with the fans, our club can really be the best in Shanghai, and we will work together. ”
Yu Hanchao also said when receiving the ace player award: "We have ace players, ace employees, ace coaching staff, and everyone who is ace, but I want each of us to be a gold medal player than to be an ace player." I hope we will work hard next year, unite and work hard to make progress like this year, and hope that we will have a good result next year and be able to realize our dreams. ”
"BLUE NIGHT Shenhua Family Day" is a team building event of Shenhua Club, which is attended by the club's management, first-team coaches, players, staff and families, club administrators, support staff and sponsors, Shenhua fans and media. Unlike the previous group activities, where the whole team wore uniform uniforms, this time everyone attended in casual clothes, foreign aid Teixeira and Andre brought their children, and Jiang Shenglong, Yang Zexiang and others attended with their beloved wives. There are also canteen aunts and bus drivers who have been serving the team in obscurity on weekdays, and they also came to the event. Therefore, this is actually more like a gathering of the Shenhua family, and it is happy.
Therefore, the players who seem to be quite restrained on weekdays show another side. Fernando pulled Wang Haijian to sing the Chinese version of "Little Apple", and also learned Shanghainese with the host. Gao Tianyi not only showed his English and Spanish skills, but also sang several songs in a row with the accompaniment of the band, as if he held a solo concert. Slutsky, the head coach who was active in the Russian variety show stage before coming to Shenhua to coach, also showed his hand, singing "Last christmas", as well as Manafa, Chen Jinyi, etc., all showed their talents.
The atmosphere of Shenhua Family Day is quite relaxed, but when it comes to the new season, everyone is full of fighting spirit and passion, and the players are very aware of the responsibilities on their shoulders. When awarding the "Magic Award" to Slutsky, the chairman of the club said: "This season, Shenhua has further improved in terms of temperament and positive energy output, and I hope that the head coach's magic can be maintained in the future, bring us more joy and bring more success, and hope that next year we will all move together towards a championship that we all want to see." After receiving the award, Slutsky exclaimed: "As long as we are united, no one can defeat us, and this is our slogan for next year." ”
Shenhua's 2024 season will come to an end after the AFC Champions League elite league against South Korea's Ulsan HD at home on December 4. In order to motivate the players who have worked hard all season, and to thank the sponsors and fans and friends, the club and coaching staff selected the best of Shenhua's 2024 season.
Although the captain Wu Xi is 35 years old, he is old and strong, with 7 goals and 4 assists, and has made a huge contribution to Shenhua's midfield, and he deserves to be elected as the best player in Shenhua this season. Another veteran, although he has not played much time in the Han Super League this season, has repeatedly performed as a substitute. Especially Shenhua played at home against Tianjin Jinmen Tigers, and he scored two goals in three minutes before the end of the game, completing a super reversal for Shenhua, and this game will also be recorded in the history of the Chinese professional league and become a classic battle.
Through the voting of the on-site participants, Yu Hanchao's goal scored in Shenhua's home match against Tianjin Jinmen Tigers was selected as the best goal of Shenhua in 2024. Chen Jinyi, who joined Shenhua during the second transfer period of the Chinese Super League in the 2024 season, was elected as the best U23 player of the year. Wang Haijian became the Player of the Year, he was selected for the national team with his good performance in Shenhua, and contributed key assists in the crucial battle between the national football team and Bahrain. The top scorers of the year are two foreign strikers, Malele and Andre, who have scored 21 and 20 goals respectively for Shenhua so far this season.
In this way, Shenhua Club commemorates this passionate and slightly flawed season, which not only has the joy of family, but also inspires everyone to fight for new honors, and Shanghai Shenhua in the 2025 season will burst out with greater energy and passion in order to complete all the promises of this night.