Generally speaking, before 1930, China's football level was the first in Asia, and he contributed a lot. Today, China's flourishing football atmosphere actually started with the concept that "football is the national sport of China" put forward by him in 1929.
In the1950s, Li Huitang retired as a coach and continued to promote football in Hongkong and Taiwan Province. Li Huitang, who settled in Hong Kong after the war, not only made football the most popular mainstream sport in Hong Kong, but also often lived in Taiwan Province, which promoted the local football atmosphere. At the two Asian Games, 1954 and 1960, as a coach, he also led the Hong Kong and Taiwan team to beat Japan, South Korea and other strong enemies to win the championship. In addition, the Taiwan Province Mulan Women's Football Team, which he helped to establish in his later years, also dominated Asia in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
1September, 1994, the county government of Wuhua County, Guangdong Province designated the ancestral home of Li Huitang as a county-level cultural relics protection unit. And held a small exhibition "Li Huitang, the King of Ball" in the house. And this place, after1mid-1990s, has also become the most important tourist attraction in the county. [Edit this paragraph] Li Huitang, a rising star, is a Hakka in Guangdong./kloc-0 was born in Dakeng Village, Hong Kong in 1905. He is the third son of Hong Kong construction giant Li Haoruzhi in the early 20th century. Six-year-old Li Huitang was sent by his parents to Meixian County, China for basic education, where he taught himself football skills. 19 17, returned to hong kong, received western-style secondary education in Ren Huang college, but continued to participate in school football activities.
17-year-old Li Huitang showed his superb football skills and led the school team to achieve good results in the "Summer Camp Cup" football match of Hong Kong University in 1922. As a striker, he scored an amazing number of goals. After the game, he was absorbed as a member of the first-class football team of South China Athletics Association and participated in the first-class football league there. [Editor's Note] During the period of 1923, the Asian soccer king started his professional football career after graduating from school, and helped his football team win the Shanghai-Hong Kong International Tournament, Shanghai First Division and other competitions as a famous striker. At the beginning of 1925, he joined Shanghai Lehua Football Team as an early professional football player in Shanghai.
In May of the same year, the 7th Far East Games was held in Manila, Philippines. In football, the football team of the Republic of China, including many famous football players in Li Huitang, entered the finals. In the subsequent confrontation with the Philippines, Li Huitang scored three goals in a hat trick; Let China win the championship with a disparity score of five to one. In fact, the China team with him as the captain also won the championship in the next eight, nine and ten sessions. Among them, 29-year-old Li Huitang scored a key goal in the Sino-Japanese football final of the 1934 Far East Games, which made China win 4-3. Because of his excellent performance, there was a popular saying on the beach in the1930s, "Listen to Mei Lanfang at the theatre and watch Li Huitang at the ball". Since then, the nickname of Li Huitang, the king of football in China, has spread like wildfire.
In addition to representing China in important competitions, he is also extremely keen to promote the football atmosphere. From 65438 to 0929, he put forward the concept of "Football is the national ball" as a sports coach of Fudan University and a major member of China Football Association. Rooted in this concept, in many public speeches, he not only pointed out that football can promote the sports atmosphere in China, but also believed that the physique of China people is absolutely suitable for developing football, the mainstream sport in the world.
1936 At the Berlin Olympic Games, Li Huitang, as the captain, led China's football team to play as the No.1 in Asia, but lost 2-0 to Britain in the preliminary round.