70-meter hanging shot, goalkeeper equal...... Dalian Kuncheng Chongjia, how can the word "god" be obtained

Reporter Chen Yong reports After the 27th round of the second round, that is, the 9th round of the championship group of the second division, the situation of Dalian Kuncheng is very delicate. In the league standings, Guangdong Guangzhou Leopard is far ahead, the second place Shaanxi United and the third place Dalian Kuncheng have 50 points, due to the disadvantage in the relationship with Shaanxi United, Dalian Kuncheng ranks third. In fact, Kuncheng's third place is still won by the team's five consecutive wins.

In the final round of the championship group, Dalian Kuncheng defeated Shanghai Port B team, which is considered a normal result, while Shaanxi United failed to win against Guangdong Guangzhou Leopards away. Dalian Kuncheng narrowly overwhelmed Shaanxi United and realized its counterattack on the road to the armor. At the same time, they also completed two years of double jumps from the middle championship to the middle league.

Magic has always been the main theme of Dalian Kuncheng's road to the armor.

As a promoted horse to enter the second division of the second division, Dalian Kuncheng's preparation for the 2024 second league is extremely rushed: on February 6, Dalian Kuncheng met the Spring Festival just after receiving the news of the successful replacement. After the Spring Festival, when Kuncheng began to prepare for the Chinese Second League, there was not much time left before the start of the league. It can be said that Dalian Kuncheng almost started its journey in the second division in a hurry without much preparation. However, luck was on their side.

In the first round of the second division, Dalian Kuncheng challenged Langfang Glory City away, and the latter did not taste a defeat during the Chinese Champions League. Dalian Kuncheng, who formed a team in a hurry, theoretically did not have the strength to compete with the home team. The same was true of the course of the game, Dalian Kuncheng was completely passive, but the final result was that Dalian Kuncheng defeated the opponent 1-0. The scorer was Liu Zhizhi, who was broken by the Langfang Glory City goalkeeper when he tried to get past Liu Zhizhi. The timing of this game coincided with the national football team's preparation for the round of 36 of the World Preliminary Tournament in Tianjin and Singapore, and many reporters were surprised by the results.

In the second round, Dalian Kuncheng continued to play away from home, and the opponent was Shandong Taishan B team, and the process of this game was almost exactly the same as the first game. The young Taishan B team used the press to put Dalian Kuncheng in a difficult situation and scored first. However, the more experienced Dalian Kuncheng used a counter-attack to equalize through Liu Zhizhi and Zhou Bingxu. The young people of Taishan B team fluctuated under the change of score, and the goalkeeper made a huge mistake of holding the ball out of his hand, and Liu Zhizhi seized the opportunity to score another goal to lock the win.

Everything is difficult at the beginning, and the beginning of Dalian Kuncheng was even more difficult, but I didn't expect that luck continued to stand on this side of Kuncheng, making the beginning difficult to a good start.

In these two games, Liu Zhizhi, who scored two goals and assisted once, was only 22 years old. Qu Xiaohui, general manager of Dalian Kuncheng, revealed when recalling Liu Zhizhi's joining that the team and Liu Zhizhi signed a contract over the air at that time. "I had a former teammate recommend him and say he's young, he's got quality and most importantly he's very hard working and hardworking." Qu Xiaohui said, "As soon as I heard it, this is the player I wanted. I trust my teammates' eyes. Of course, his statistics are good, and he will be the main player in the 2023 season in Dandong Tengyue, with good goals and assists. At the age of 20, he also had a lot of opportunities to play in Zibo Keju. In addition, there is a very important point that he came out of Northeast Road Primary School, has Dalian attributes, and has also received very standardized training in Luneng Football School before. ”

After two consecutive away wins, the magic belonging to Dalian Kuncheng continues. In the third round, Dalian Kuncheng returned to their home stadium, and they originally wanted to let go of their hands, but they were scored two goals by Xi'an Chongde Ronghai in the first half and fell behind 0-2. In the second half, veteran Zhu Shiyu scored a penalty. In the 99th minute of the game, Dalian Kuncheng took a corner kick, goalkeeper Wang Zhuo rushed into the opponent's penalty area, jumped high in the crowd and scored an equalizer with a header. Wang Zhuo also had his first professional league goal.

In addition to the extremely rare goalkeeper goal, Dalian Kuncheng also performed a "fairy ball" in the 2024 China B League: in the 7th round of the championship group, Dalian Kuncheng defeated Guangxi Hengchen 2-0 away, and Yuan Hao scored a magical hanging shot 70 meters away from the goal in the game.

For Dalian Kuncheng, who rushed into the Chinese Second League, there are many key gentlemen in the journey of the 2024 season. As the general manager, Qu Xiaohui completed the formation of the team at the beginning of the season under extremely difficult circumstances; During the second transfer period in the middle of the season, 10 key reinforcements became the main reason for the qualitative change of Dalian Kuncheng. In the second half of the season, Qu Xiaohui began to enter the coaching staff, and as the general manager, he effectively united the entire coaching team, and at the same time fully motivated the players, and finally achieved the goal of winning the first league.

Qu Xiaohui is a native of Dalian, graduated from the famous Dalian Northeast Road Primary School, and has a strong affection for Dalian football. At the end of the 2022 season, he chose to retire from professional football. In just two years, he successfully completed the transformation and embarked on a path that he had never thought of himself.

In the 2024 season, veteran Zhu Shiyu made 21 appearances and scored 7 goals. The former Qingdao Zhongneng veteran joined the team when the team started the Champions League, and the 33-year-old is the heart and main striker of the team. The sword is not old, and the more you fight, the more demonic it becomes, which is the most appropriate evaluation of Zhu Shiyu this season.

Mirzati Aili, who is two years younger than the 22-year-old Liu Zhizhi, joined the team before the transfer window closed at the beginning of the season. After joining, he quickly became a rotation player for the Kuncheng forward. This season, he played in 26 games, playing an average of 46 minutes per game, scoring eight goals and providing three assists, a statistic that makes him Dalian Kun's top scorer and assist leader in the 2024 season (tied with Chen Jiaqi).

For Dalian Kuncheng, 20-year-old Mirzati and 22-year-old Liu Zhizhi represent the future, and in the team's planning, youth is also the main direction.

In the 2024 season, the Kuncheng team has a player with special attributes - Chen Jiaqi, who has scored 2 goals and 3 assists in 13 games. His resume is extremely interesting: in 2021 and 2022, he successfully won the armor and surpassed the Qingdao Manatee in succession, in 2023 he joined Chongqing Tonglianglong and successfully won the armor, and in 2024, he successfully won the armor on behalf of Dalian Kuncheng. The never-ending upgrade journey is the truest portrayal of him. It is worth mentioning that last month,

When Chen Jiaqi was introduced, Kuncheng took into account his "upgrade attribute" and the competition experience behind this attribute. Interestingly, Chen Jiaqi was quite popular in the transfer market because of his "upgrade attributes", but Dalian Kuncheng finally won him to join.

On November 19, the Dalian Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government held a football symposium, and Liu Hong, deputy secretary of the Municipal Party Committee and head of the Municipal Football Restructuring Group, presided over the meeting and delivered a speech. Xu Guangxiang, member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee and Minister of the United Front Work Department, Li Damin, deputy mayor, and Li Yanfeng, vice chairman of the CPPCC and chairman of the Municipal Federation of Industry and Commerce, attended the meeting. The meeting was attended by investors and management of Dalian InBev, Dalian Kuncheng and Dalian Women's Football (Dalian Football Sports School). The topics of the meeting included normal support and incentives, as well as coordinating sponsorship for Dalian InBev, Dalian Kuncheng, and Dalian Women's Football Team.

The symposium also explored the possibility of Dalian InBev and Dalian Kuncheng sharing the Dalian Barracuda Bay professional football stadium. From a practical point of view, because the two teams do not belong to the same league, there are many restrictions on using the Dalian Barracuda Bay Football Stadium at the same time. For example, in addition to turf maintenance, frequent changes in locker rooms and related materials can be cumbersome.

With Kuncheng's promotion to the middle league, the new pattern of "one super and one first" has become a reality that Dalian has to face. This situation currently exists in cities such as Shanghai, Guangzhou and Qingdao, so the club has to consider a differentiated development model. In contrast, the situation in Qingdao may be instructive: Qingdao Manatee has its roots in the old city and its home stadium in Chengyang, while the west coast of Qingdao is based in the new area of the west coast, which is far away from the old city. As a result, the conflict between the two sides in fan building and business development is relatively small, and differentiated development has been achieved.

As far as the 2025 season is concerned, Dalian InBev is confirmed to settle in the Barracuda Bay Professional Football Stadium, while Dalian Kuncheng is more likely to take root in Jinpu New District. On November 30, Jinpu New Area held a separate symposium with Dalian Kuncheng to express its firm support.

In addition, whether it is Dalian InBev or Dalian Kuncheng, the development is inseparable from government support, from the perspective of the stability of the club's development, it is more necessary to support the policy in advance, that is, in the process of the 2025 season, the support funds will continue to be injected rather than at the end of the season. Of course, it is very important for the club to coordinate business sponsorship and to develop the club's own business.

Dalian football was once extremely brilliant, such as the eight champions of the Wanda and Shide eras, and later there was also the "one city and two supers" in the 2012 season where Dalian Shide and Dalian Albin coexisted, but Dalian football has also continued to have troughs, such as the relegation of Albin at the beginning, and the relegation of Dalian people in the 2023 season. But just a year later, Dalian regained its possession of the Chinese Super League team, and a new pattern of "one super and one first" appeared.

It should be noted that Dalian Football has merged the two clubs, but in terms of future development, the existence of more clubs with differentiated competition strategies is actually more beneficial to the development of Dalian football.

The new situation is not easy to come by, but to restore the glory of Dalian football, it still needs continuous efforts from all parties, but at least this winter, we have seen the whole of Dalian acting for football.