The double line pressed Shanghai Harbor, Shandong Taishan won the double for the third time in history, this is still the only one after the start of the professional league, and the two teams of Dalian and Guangzhou in the heyday did not reach this height. In the 28 years of professional leagues, Shandong Taishan has been competitive, although in the era of Guangzhou's dominance, Shandong Taishan has mostly become a background board, but in the post-Jinyuan era of Chinese football, Shandong Taishan has made a comeback, perhaps only the completion of the AFC Champions League to make other teams completely surrender.
Triple double crown No.1, breaking the spell of the FA Cup defending
After professionalization, the first team to achieve the great cause of double champions was Shandong Taishan, which created a new era in Chinese football in the 1999 season. It is worth mentioning that in that year, Hao Wei followed Shandong as a player to win the A League and the FA Cup, and Hao Wei's son Hao Haiyi was just born that year. When Shandong Taishan became the double champion for the third time, Hao Wei and his son Hao Haiyi witnessed it together, but Hao Wei had become the manager, and Hao Haiyi was a member of the team.
Dalian, which dominated the team for ten years, did not become a double champion until 2001, and then replicated the miracle again in 2005. Shandong Taishan last won the double title in 2006, the Chinese Super League has no team to match, 17 points ahead of the runner-up, the FA Cup, Shandong Taishan is stepping on the Dalian team to the throne, thus making the "Dalian Dynasty" gone forever.
In the era of Guangzhou's dominance of the Chinese Super League, it was limited by multi-front operations, only in 2012 and 2016 twice won the FA Cup, and guangzhou team, which won the Chinese Super League championship 8 times in 9 years, only 2 times became the glory of the double champion. For Guangzhou, 2013 was the most regrettable, the failure of the defending FA Cup made Guangzhou miss the opportunity to become Asia's first triple crown team (AFC Champions League, domestic league, domestic major cups), and for a long time to come, the Chinese Super League team will be difficult to attack this height.
The spell of defending the FA Cup has lasted for more than 20 years since Guoan won consecutive championships in 1996 and 1997, and the strongest team as Guangzhou can not achieve the FA Cup defense. Shandong Taishan, who broke the FINAL OF the FA Cup in 2018 and 2019, broke the biggest spell of the FA Cup under the leadership of Hao Wei, making Shandong Taishan's reputation as the "King of Cup Matches" more brilliant.
And counting only the number of domestic leagues and major cups, Shandong Taishan surpassed Guangzhou (8 leagues, 2 FA Cups) and Dalian (8 leagues, 2 FA Cups) with 11 trophies (4 leagues, 7 FA Cups) after winning the FA Cup for the 7th time, becoming the No.1 in Chinese football. Perhaps the only thing that Shandong Taishan lacks is the glory of the AFC Champions League.
Double crown has no gold content? Taishan has stood in Chinese football for 28 years without falling
As with Jiangsu team after winning the championship in the 2020 season, Shandong Taishan's double champion is still unable to conquer all fans, although the knockout system of the Chinese Super League was changed to a round-robin points game in the 2021 season, but because the 30 rounds of competition "shrunk" to 22 rounds, for some opponents, Shandong Taishan is somewhat "unwinnable".
The two main elements of a championship team are strength and luck. Strength, Shandong Taishan is definitely NO.1, the transfer window to take Ji Xiang, Shi Ke, Xu Xin, Sun Zhunhao, Shandong Taishan is one of the few teams to strengthen in the 2021 season, especially the main competitors Guangzhou team, Shanghai Harbor are basically standing still, Shandong Taishan's reinforcement makes Hao Wei's team quickly become popular.
The embodiment of strength is that in the first stage of the Chinese Super League, Shandong Taishan overpowered the Guangzhou team with a 3-point advantage to lead the way, coupled with the main championship opponents, they all played a two-legged match with Shandong Taishan, the only "missing" was Shanghai Shenhua, who entered the relegation group, and the strength of Shandong Taishan has been demonstrated in front of the opponent. Finally crowned with a 6-point advantage, this is a small gap, and the formation of this gap is invisible and untouchable luck, the rapid collapse of the Guangzhou team, the seaport foreign aid has always been untidy, the so-called luck is always biased towards the strong, perhaps this is how it came.
In the heyday of the Guangzhou team, often the opponents were timid before the battle, and the championships across the main competitors were basically stable, and shandong Taishan's victory was not like this? And from the 1994 season of the A-League 5th, 1995 FA Cup champion, to the 2021 season of the double champion, in addition to the Guangzhou team dominated the Chinese Super League for 10 years, Shandong Taishan is basically the first group of the league, even if it is for the Guangzhou team as a background, in addition to a few seasons, Shandong Taishan at least has the strength to impact the AFC Champions League qualification.
The only thing that can be explained by the stability of a team that can maintain a high combat effectiveness for 28 years is the stability of this club, which is precisely the reason why Shandong Taishan can quickly regain dominance in the post-Jinyuan football era. The double crown has no gold content, which may be a kind of "jealousy" of fans of other teams.
Master of Kings? Tarzan is still short of this front to prove himself
"Civil war insider, foreign war layman", during the chinese super league championship twice in 3 years, Shandong Taishan did not carry the banner of the foreign war of the Chinese super league team, so it fell into this unpleasant name. Of course, in addition to the AFC Champions League team, the other teams in the Chinese Super League have not yet touched the peak, and Shandong Taishan, whose number of major champions in the domestic arena has jumped to the first place, also needs to prove itself on this front, and the reason why the Guangzhou team has won the recognition of fans across the country is to play a world for Chinese football in the Asian arena.
In the 2021 season of the AFC Champions League, Shandong Taishan was disqualified from the competition due to violations, and in the 2022 season, as the double champion of Chinese football, Shandong Taishan is the only Chinese Super League team capable of carrying the banner of foreign wars. However, uncertainties still exist, last year's Chinese Super League 3 teams are in the echelon to participate in the AFC Champions League, are all hanging by Japanese and Korean teams, the 2022 season of the AFC Champions League group stage is still the tournament system, Shandong Taishan how to choose, I am afraid that before the start of the new season in front of the club and Hao Wei a problem.
Perhaps only by taking off the hat of "civil war insider, foreign war layman", Shandong Taishan will no longer encounter doubts about the lack of gold content no matter which gold medal he wins in China.
in Zakumi