On this day 120 years ago, on September 18, 1905 (August 20, 1905 lunar calendar), Chinese football player Li Huitang was born. Li Huitang (September 18, 1905 - July 4, 1979), the character Guangliang, the name Lu Wei, was a Cantonese Hakka from Wuhua County, Guangdong. Li Huitang was born in Hong Kong and was active in Asian football from the 1920s to the 1930s. He was not only a rare Chinese professional football player before the war, but also recognized as the king of Chinese football. He led the football elites of Hong Kong and Shanghai to dominate the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th Far Eastern Games. Generally speaking, before the 1930s, China's football level was the highest in Asia, and he took credit for it. The current prosperity of football in China began with the concept of "football is China's national ball" he mentioned in 1929. In the 1950s, Li Hui-tang retired and became a coach, and continued to promote football activities in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Li Hui-tang, who settled in Hong Kong after the war, not only made football the most popular and mainstream sport in Hong Kong, but also often visited Taiwan and promoted the local football atmosphere. In the 1954 and 1960 Asian Games, he also led the Hong Kong and Taiwan United Team to defeat strong enemies such as Japan and South Korea as a coach. In addition, the Taiwan Mulan women's football team he helped to establish in his later years also dominated Asia in the late 1970s and early 1980s. In September 1994, the county government of Wuhua County, Guangdong Province designated Li Huitang's ancestral residence as a county-level cultural relics protection unit. A small exhibition of "Ball King Li Huitang" was held in the building. The site has also become the main tourist attraction in the county since the mid-1990s. Comments on Li Huitang's great contributions to China's football cause. Unexpectedly, his era was an era when Chinese football once dominated Asia.