The Chengdu Rongcheng Gazette
Match3 Mar 2029
Matheusinho leads the rout of Changchun Yatai
3‑0, and Matheusinho took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Chengdu Rongcheng tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings5 Mar 2029
Matheusinho scores twice — 8.22
Two goals and a mark of 8.22 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
The dugout5 Mar 2029
Zhu Pengyu: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Chengdu Rongcheng have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match3 Mar 2029
Chengdu Rongcheng make it 4 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Chengdu Rongcheng have 4 straight wins of it.
Boardroom5 Mar 2029
Graduation day at Chengdu Rongcheng
6 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad5 Mar 2029
A row about effort at Chengdu Rongcheng
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Yegor Sorokin was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The terraces5 Mar 2029
Chengdu Rongcheng supporters have found a favourite in Matheusinho
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Matheusinho has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match3 Mar 2029
Another one collected away from home
3 on the bounce on the road for Chengdu Rongcheng. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.
Market5 Mar 2029
Liao Yiming steps up from the Chengdu Rongcheng academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Liao Yiming has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
In brief
- Market Lyu Binbin steps up from the Chengdu Rongcheng academy
- Market Ma Chengyu steps up from the Chengdu Rongcheng academy
- Market Chengdu Rongcheng promote He Xi from within