19 13, several former officials came to Qingdao Forest Park (now Zhongshan Park) to attend the spring garden party and saw some German soldiers playing football beside the park. Old people are curious about this novel sport. Who knows, one of the old people smiled and said, "What's new about being a foreigner? Isn't this our old cuju? "
This story comes from a documentary novel called A Dream of Taoyuan, in which the author describes a group of old people from Xun Qing who lived in Qingdao after the Revolution of 1911. In fact, although FIFA also admitted that football originated from Cuju in ancient China, today's football style was introduced to China from the west. From 1897, Qingdao became a German colony. This special experience left a deep impression on the sports culture of this city.
The story in Peach Blossom Garden should not be fictional, but the recorded Qingdao football was played after China recovered Qingdao's sovereignty 1924. In this year, Zimanmei, an American Jewish businessman, contracted today's Huiquan Square for horse racing, but because it was a gambling activity, the authorities did not support it, so Zimanmei set up the "World Sports Federation", which was composed of sports associations such as football clubs, tennis clubs and golf clubs, and expressed her hope to use Huiquan Square to develop sports activities in Qingdao.
Of course, in the future, the main activity of the National Sports Association will still be betting on horses. However, Ziman still opened the oval space in the middle of the racecourse into two football fields. At the same time, starting from 1927, the National Sports Federation organized the annual "Qingdao International Football Championship", inviting foreign teams and Qingdao local teams to participate.
In the same year that Zi successfully established the "Football Club", that is, 1924 65438+ 10, Song Guomo, astronomical observer of Qingdao Observatory, invited a group of local sports fans to organize and set up the first China football team in Qingdao-the Chinese team. Two months later, foreigners living in Qingdao also formed the "Western Union" football team alliance, led by Blauf, a Russian who took refuge in Qingdao after the October Revolution.
Since then, the number of football teams in Qingdao has increased rapidly, and institutions such as Ji Jiao Railway Bureau, Customs and YMCA have also started to set up their own football teams. 1925, private Qingdao University (now closed on the campus of China Ocean University) and Japanese Business School (now closed on the campus of Qingdao No.1 Middle School) also set up student teams.
By 1929, the first middle school football team was formed by physical education teacher Gu in Lixian Middle School (now Qingdao No.9 Middle School). As a port, foreign merchant ships call at Qingdao almost every week, and these long-term drifting crew members often team up for friendly matches with Qingdao team.
By 1930s, Qingdao had more than 0/00 amateur football teams, large and small, and often played various football leagues. At that time, there were three main venues for football matches: one was Qingdao Stadium (today's Thailand Stadium), the other was Football Club Stadium (now Huiquan Square), and the third was Park Stadium (now Workers' Cultural Palace).
At that time, Western Union was a team alliance of foreigners, and the Youth League was a local team alliance. On the second day of the first month of each year, a "New Year's Eve Competition" was organized.
Among many early football teams, it is particularly worth introducing the earliest China football team. Its founder, Song Guomo, was an astronomical observer at Qingdao Observatory, and his hobby was football. After he initiated the establishment of the China Football Team, he received great attention. At that time, among the teams in Qingdao, the local team was weaker than the European expatriate team, while the China team was a rare China team.
1925, China team won the championship in Qingdao International Football Invitational Tournament, which greatly aroused the patriotic enthusiasm of the people. 1927, the "Youth Federation" dominated by the China team won 4-0 against the Japanese Navy's "Lu Ao" football team.
From 1929, East China Team, a strong domestic football team, defeated China Team with 1: 0, and this team began to decline. Results In 1933 and 1935 national games, Qingdao team did not send anyone to participate in the war because of its poor strength.
1948 In May, the 7th National Games was held in Jiangwan Stadium, Shanghai. Qingdao sent a team of 62 people to participate in the sports meeting and organized a football team to participate. But in the first game, I met the final champion "Lu Jun" and lost by 0:/kloc-0:. Although it later defeated Guizhou and other teams, it was eliminated.