《足球之夜》充满着锐气、冲击力和勃勃生机。它的制片人张斌年仅28岁,栏目主持人、记者也大多在这个年龄层,后生可畏在这里得到充分体现。张斌,这位1991年从人民大学新闻系毕业的高才生有着运动员的身材,与排球少帅汪嘉伟一样,都是1米92。他打过篮球、排球,踢过足球中锋,自认为只是校队的水平,无缘成为职业选手,但打球的实践与在新闻系的学习,却使他对体育新闻有着特殊的领悟。在中央电视台体育部工作几年,他深感必须有个足球专栏,才能与足球职业化的火爆相适应。1995年12月,他与韩乔生一起去上海开全国足球工作会议,浓烈的氛围使他们迫不及待了。而中央电视台规定,一个新栏目若在当年4月1日前不上,便只能等待来年。他们用了仅仅2个月的时间,便精心设计好各版块,首播便一炮打响了。“我们赶上了好时光——中央台从《东方时空》到《世界体育报道》, “Football Night” is full of energy, impact and vitality. Its producer Zhang Bin was only 28 years old, part of the host, most of the reporters at this age, awful awesome to be fully reflected here. Zhang Bin, a talented athlete who graduated from Renmin University’s Department of Journalism in 1991, is one meter tall with Wang Jiawei, a volleyball player. He played basketball, volleyball, kicking football center, considered himself only the level of the school team, missed a professional player, but the practice of playing with the Department of Journalism in the study, but made him have a special understanding of sports news. In CCTV Sports Department for several years, he deeply felt that there must be a football column, in order to adapt to the popularity of football professional. In December 1995, he went to Shanghai to open a national football conference with Han Qiao, and the strong atmosphere made them unable to wait. CCTV provides that if a new section is not completed before April 1 of that year, it will only be able to wait for the coming year. They spent only two months, they carefully designed the various sections, the first broadcast will be fired. “We caught up with a good time - CCTV from” Oriental Time and Space “to” World Sports Report "