CHONGQING (CQNEWS) -- Jerseys with signatures, cheering horns, souvenir pictures... Recently, during the special donation campaign for football fans of cultural relics collection by the Chongqing Sports Museum, organizations such as the Chongqing Football Lovers Association, the Chongqing Football Fans Association, and the Chongqing Yuzhou Twelve Guards Fans Association donated a large number of collections to the Chongqing Sports Museum.

Zhang Renbin, president of Chongqing Football Lovers Association, donated 230 pieces of souvenirs in total that have been treasured for many years, including jerseys with signatures and tickets. Among them, the most noticeable one is a flag with words of "重庆雄起" printed on it.

"This flag was made in 1991," Zhang Renbin said. It has traveled extensively with fans form Chongqing over the past 30 years. When Chongqing teams such as Chongqing Yuhai Team, Chongqing Jialing Team, and Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic Team took part in matches, fans would bring this flag with them to cheer for the players.

In this donation campaign, the Chongqing Fans Association donated over 20 pieces of collections. President Ma Yancheng specially introduced a photo taken in Chengdu in 1993, when the Chinese team failed to qualify for the World Cup finals, and Ma Yancheng and fans from Chongqing felt very sad after the match, so they wrote a slogan on their bodies and banners with red paint, "Poor Chinese Football Fans, Where is the Way for Chinese Football". The reporter on the scene took this photo, which had a wide social impact after being reported by the media.

Among the collections donated by the Yuzhou Twelve Guards Fans Association, a horn attracted the attention of a lot of citizens. The horn is off-white, with the words "重庆雄起" printed on it, full of traces of use on its body. President Lin Wei introduced that the horn was bought in 2014 used to celebrate the Chongqing Lifan Football Team's return to the top league of Chinese football by winning the championship of Chinese Football Association China League One. "We made only one request to the store owner that the horn’s sound needed to be loud and could be heard clearly in a stadium holding tens of thousands of people," he said.

"As big football fans, we have tasted the joy of victory and experienced the pain of failure over the past years, having many memories and historical evidence," said Zhang Renbin, adding that he hoped that the donated collections could be displayed in the Chongqing Sports Museum to stimulate young people's love for football and let more people join in football. (Translated by Hu Chuanmin, Fathom Language Limited)