Wang Guolin

Wang Guolin

Wang Guolin (1958-august 29, 2017), former head of COSCO club in Shanghai.

During Wang Guolin's tenure as the general manager of COSCO, Shanghai COSCO rushed from a B to a at the end of 2001, and became a favorite to win the a league in the second year. In 2003, COSCO finally passed the champion because of the "fake gambling black" incident.

On August 29, 2017, Wang Guolin suddenly fell to the ground and lost consciousness while playing football. He was sent to Putuo District Central Hospital in Shanghai for emergency treatment. After ineffective rescue, he died at the age of 59.

Character experience

According to a phone call from COSCO's "helmsman" Xu Zexian, Wang Guolin, a 19-year-old seaman after graduating from high school, entered the football circle by accident and became the general manager of COSCO club in Shanghai. when Wang Guolin was the general manager of COSCO, Shanghai COSCO went from A-B (Chinese football A-B group League) to A-A (Chinese football A-A group League) at the end of 2001, and became the favorite to win the first a league in the second year. In the League A in 2003, COSCO and Shenhua were the hot spots to win the championship, and Shenhua won the championship with one point advantage. However, it was later confirmed in the anti black storm of sweeping gambling that in order to avoid relegation, Tianjin TEDA paid off COSCO players Qi Hong, Jiang Jin, Li Ming and Shen Si for 8 million yuan. In the end, TEDA successfully beat COSCO to avoid relegation, and COSCO failed to win the championship. after learning the truth, Wang Guolin was distressed: "knowing that we were betrayed, I was so angry. How wonderful life will be if we start with a B champion and a a takes another champion? And the fate of our whole team will change, including myself. In the future, the Chinese football environment will be very clean and good. So I will come out when I have a chance. " COSCO team went to other places later, and then sold it as a whole. COSCO Group withdrew from Chinese football forever. Wang Guolin left the Chinese football circle in 2007 to set up a logistics company, but he always loved football. Wang Guolin sets up an amateur team with an annual investment of about 100000 yuan. He serves as the general manager, leader and head coach of the team and participates in activities once or twice a week. In February 2016, Shanghai Lingang Economic Development (Group) Co., Ltd. cooperated with Wang Guolin's Shanghai Aosheng Sports Management Co., Ltd. to build "Lingang - Juve international football youth training school base". The project will introduce the football teaching mode of Italy's juveniles to cultivate the reserve force of youth football. Wang Guolin said at that time that he hoped to build a team of his own. Wang Guolin has equipped the new base with seven professional football fields and built six supporting facilities buildings, including gymnasium, swimming pool, physical therapy and Rehabilitation Center for players and press release hall. Unfortunately, Wang Guolin stopped chasing the football dream.

Unfortunate death

On August 29, 2017, Wang Guolin suddenly fell to the ground and lost consciousness when playing football in a stadium in Putuo District of Shanghai at 19:45, and then was sent to Putuo District Central Hospital of Shanghai for rescue. The rescue lasted half an hour, but still failed to save his life. hospital staff said that Wang Guolin died because of heart problems. Wang Guolin's heart has not been very good. He had a heart stent operation.