1BSPORTS 1B Sports June 13th News Sina reporter Zhou Chao/Li Puli wrote an article “From an annual salary of 1.8 million to a debt delivery, the confession of a Chinese Super League player”, telling the story of former Chinese Super League player Wen Tianpeng.
Once, at the age of 22, he caught the end of the Jin and Yuan dynasties. In the Super League, Chongqing Lifan had an annual salary of 1.8 million yuan, lived in large flat floors, drove luxury cars, and had all kinds of luxury goods.
Now, the 28-year-old is penniless and owes 4 million yuan in debt, of which he owes 2 million yuan in mortgage and owes about 1.4 million yuan in personal debt to his friends. The house was to be auctioned by justice, and I had delivered takeaways to make a living and opened a snack stall…
I chose to play football because I didn’t study and didn’t get beaten
I remember when Wen Tianpeng chose football because he didn’t want to study and didn’t want to be beaten.
“I was very late in football, about 10 years old. I was not good at studying in the fifth grade, so I sat in the last row of the class. The teacher said to me: You can not study, don’t affect others’ studies… It’s just such a naughty child.”
“One day, I sat in the class and looked out the window and saw a group of children running chasing football, and I yearned for it. I felt that if I went to play football, I didn’t have to sit here to study. Later, I joined the school football team and went to the team to practice. The coach felt that I felt a little bit like that. I had been here for a week , more children who have been playing football have been there for several months. “
” Later, the coach sent me to an institution similar to a football school in the mountains. I studied in the morning and played football in the afternoon, and took the path of giving up my studies. The coach looked at me for a week and asked me if I wanted to stay. I must think about it. My father often beat me up at that time, and he played football in the football school and went home every two weeks. If he was studying in the city, he would have to go home every day. I just thought that being beaten once every two weeks is better than being beaten every day! “
The proof of freedom of self
Wen Tianpeng said that the recently popular “Su Chao” team came to ask him if he could join, but he couldn’t play because he lacked the proof of freedom of self.
The story originated in June 2024. In a popular video on the Internet, the Zhongguan team Chongqing Chunlei ClubYu Yongjiang, a legal person from the music club, was furious at the player in the locker room: “XXX, don’t run in the second half, I will give you a knife!” This video caused an uproar in the market, and Chongqing Chunlei called the police for this.
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The person who took this video was a self-media staff hired by Wen Tianpeng and brought into the locker room. He played for Chongqing Chunlei at that time, negotiated with the club and brought people to follow the photo. The material club can also use it. In the competition stage, these people also have to be responsible for the editing and publishing of the video materials of the official media for the team, so in other words, the reason why this video was filmed at that time was because they were staff members allowed to enter by the team.
The reason why the video was leaked online later, Wen Tianpeng explained: “A young player in the team thought this video was very fun, so he copied it from my staff’s computer.”
“It was actually a misunderstanding, not me leaked it. I can understand the club’s reaction. After all, it was the filming staff I brought to take pictures of the material, which caused social impact. I feel sorry for the club. But I am actually quite unfair, because It was not my outspoken. I really want to eliminate this misunderstanding with the team, but the communication channels are gone. I now send a message to the team leaders and they are all red exclamation marks, and delete my friends. “
” Over the past year, I have suspended my salary, training and games, and have accepted the punishment from the team. Next, I don’t want to ruin my entire career like this, so I still want to continue communicating with the club and strive to resolve the misunderstanding.”
Not long ago, during the Sun Jihai youth training storm, “freedom proof” became the keyword. For Wen Tianpeng, he was very familiar with this. When he left Fushun team, he went to deal with the aftermath and obtained the certificate of freedom before he could go to Shenyang to enter the east. When Dongjin was disbanded, in order to prove his freedom, he had to give up on his owed wages. This thin piece of paper is really the lifeblood of the players.
Walking out, the result may be different
After talking about this, our outline of Wen Tianpeng may give you a rough portrait of a player in your heart: you have been talented since childhood, and have worked hard to touch the top of a pyramid like the Chinese Super League, but perhaps due to personal background, cognition, thinking and other factors, coupled with some influences in the football environment, he quickly slipped down after reaching the top of the tower, which is a pity.
In this regard, Wen Tianpeng’s own reflection was: Maybe the future development will be different if he changed the environment.
We asked him, what was the last thing he regretted in his career? If there is a chance to re-select, at which node will different decisions be made?
Wen Tianpeng thoughtAfter thinking about it, he replied: Go abroad and go out.
“At the end of 2018, I just joined the first team at Lifan in Chongqing. Zhongwei Yuan Mincheng (now Chengdu Rongcheng) and I are young people with potential in the team. Because the club cooperates, we have the opportunity to try out in Granada, Spain during the holidays.”
“In Spain, at the beginning, I was like an alien, everything was strange, and I couldn’t understand the language. I rely on my teammates to translate it. But in retrospect, it was a very pure time. In my impression, it was the blue sky and green grass. My teammates were very active and motivated, and they were also a bit contagious. It was also the happiest three months of my football career. Later, I was able to keep up with the rhythm and intensity there. “
” Later, I returned to Chongqing and played in the FA Cup. The opponent’s coach was Pedro Morilla, my coach in Granada B team. I also scored a goal and ran to greet him after the game. Thank him. It’s really a place to meet in life.”
“In Spain, I really had the opportunity to stay, and I could choose not to come back. But when I returned to China, I could make a lot of money. I had never seen money and wanted to make money, so I came back.If I stayed in Spain, the room for improvement might be more ideal, and my ability might be qualitatively improved. Now reflecting on it, I feel that my talent has not been fully realized, which is a pity.”