This week, the China Champions League officially announced the list of players from all teams participating in this season, including some former Chinese Super League stars, former internationals, and some new stars who have stayed in overseas leagues. In terms of former internationals, including Shen Longyuan, Qiu Shengjiong and Wu Wei'an, they have all signed up for the Chinese Champions League, but there is also a long-lost name that attracts attention - Han Yanming.
Speaking of Han Yanming, young fans may not know it now, but most of the fans who have watched the end of A and the beginning of the Chinese Super League have a good impression of him. Born in Tianjin in 1982, Han Yanming debuted from his hometown team Tianjin Teda, and mainly played the front waist on the field, and could also play a position such as a back or shadow forward.
Han Yanming gave the impression that he was not tall and had poor physical fitness, but his technique and footwork were quite outstanding, and he was also very good at using his brain in the game. Han Yanming, who is accustomed to using his left foot, has good organizational skills and his footwork of taking the set-piece is also superb. In the early years of the Chinese Super League, Han Yanming and Mao Biao were super substitutes for Tianjin, and whenever they came off the bench, they always made some contributions to the team, which made fans very satisfied.
With his outstanding performance in the Chinese Super League, Han Yanming, who was rarely selected for the national name at first, began to attract the attention of the national team. During Gao Hongbo's tenure as head coach of the national team, Han Yanming was selected for the national football team several times and scored in the internal warm-up matches for the national football team.
In December 2009, Han Yanming came off the bench in a friendly match between the Chinese national team and the Jordan national team, which was his first official match for the national team, and he also left a record for an international A-level match, but it was also the only time he participated in an official match with the national football team.
Originally, during that time, Han Yanming's career showed a clear upward trend, but the occurrence of an incident changed his life. In January 2010, Tianjin TEDA broke out a "strike incident" that shocked the whole country, Han Yanming, together with Yang Jun, Cao Yang and Tan Wangsong, refused to participate in the team's winter training assembly, and then Cao Yang apologized and returned to the TEDA team, Tan Wangsong transferred to Henan Jianye, while Yang Jun and Han Yanming had no ball to play in 2010.
After Tan Wangsong joined Henan Jianye, he recommended Han Yanming to Jianye, and Han Yanming was also able to train with Jianye. However, due to the previous "strike training", TEDA did not let Han Yanming join Jianye. After the transfer was hopeless, Han Yanming went to the South Korean team to participate in the trial training and was recognized by the other side, but the salary problem made his plan to stay in the West also fail.
In the case of repeated transfers, Han Yanming apologized to TEDA Club, and TEDA also began to register for Han Yanming again in the 2011 season. However, this time the cooperation between the two sides still failed to start and end, and during the season, Han Yanming left the team and never returned.
Han Yanming, who left TEDA, once played for Fujian Junhao and served as the captain of the team. In September 2012, Junhao Club announced the dismissal of Han Yanming, saying that he had violated the discipline of the team, but as for what discipline was violated, the club did not explicitly announce it.
At that time, some media claimed that Han Yanming was forced to flee and hide debts because of "gambling debts", and Han Yanming himself made a debunking of rumors, and also sent the rumor-mongering media to court, which was also the last impression he left on the fans. Then in the past ten years, Han Yanming seemed to disappear into the crowd, and many Tianjin fans were inquiring about his recent situation, and various statements were not confirmed.
In recent years, fans have occasionally seen Han Yanming working as a youth trainer in Kunming, Yunnan Province, and has participated in amateur leagues in some regions. Until the recent announcement of the list of participants in the Chinese Champions League, the news about Han Yanming in Yunnan was confirmed. In the 2021 season, Han Yanming is the No. 10 player of Kunming Guardians Club, and he is also the most well-known player in this team.
Looking back, I wonder if Han Yanming will regret that "strike", which was a turning point in the trajectory of his career and even his entire life, making him quickly change from an international footballer to an amateur player. However, in the Championship, he still has the opportunity to prove his worth. Participating in this competition at the age of 39, Han Yanming also proved his love for football.