(Guangzhou Daily) Guangzhou Evergrande Club Defeated Korean Champion on Visiting Filed in the First Match and Won Marvelous Victory
Date：2012.03.09 Publisher：Guangzhou Daily
In the match in Chonju on March 7, the greatest watching focus is that the Guangzhou Evergrande Club won the money award of 14,000,000yuan by the score of 5 to 1. Besides the money award of 6,000,000yuan according to the ‘6303’ award policy in Asia Champion League, Chairman Xu Jiayin offered extra awards.
Xu Jiayin required the chairman of Evergrande Club to hold a meeting to encourage all players three hours in advance of the match and to deliver the order of ‘making a struggle’ and ‘wining an honor’. And to realize the order, Xu Jiayin set an award for winning honor for the country, and ruled that the Guangzhou Evergrande Club would be awarded with 2,000,000yuan by scoring each goal in each match of the Asia Champion League.
3,000 Guangzhou fans ‘occupied’ the home field in Chonju, and gave the voice of Guangzhou to the world
On the field of World Cup in Chonju, more than 330 fans from Guangzhou, and over 2,600 local Chinese and overseas students thoroughly ‘occupied’ the southern stand of the Chonju field, and successfully changed the field into the home field of Guangzhou Evergrande Club. Obviously, the matches of Guangzhou Evergrande Club in Asia Champion League attracted numerous Chinese football fans.
Guangzhou Evergrande Club created history
During its debut in Asia Champion League, the Guangzhou Evergrande Club defeated Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors by 5 to 1 on the field of World Cup in Chonju, and won its first victory in the League. More importantly, the score of 5 to 1 is the greatest victory of China football team to Korean football team in history. The Guangzhou Evergrande Club not only ended the embarrassment of 6 losing streak of the Chinese Super League by Jeonbuk Hyundai, but also created ‘a Chonju tragedy’ in Korea.
First step in Asia Champion League, great step of China
After the Guangzhou Evergrande Club won the first match in the group game of the Asia Champion League in 2012, Lee JangSoo, the chief coach of the Club, said, ‘it’s only their first step in the league’ and warned the players not to be conceited and self-satisfied.
