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There are commonalities in football, and the development of football in each country also has its own particularities. But some countries can learn from their methods, while others, such as Qatar, really don’t work.

Qatar's GDP ranks tenth in the world, but this 'per capita' is reported per capita of 2.7 million people in the country.

But in fact, of these 2.7 million people, more than 2.3 million are ‘foreign workers’, and Qatar’s local population is only 320,000. Calculating only this part, Qatar's per capita GDP is the world's first and far ahead at US$582,000.

Qatar's "low-key" rich second generation is so poor that they only have a BMW, a four-bedroom apartment and two living rooms and a deposit of 1 million. A life of further poverty is beyond the limits of their imagination.

As rich as you are, the country is still so small and there are really few places to spend money, so when you start football, you need 20 billion US dollars in start-up capital.

What is the most expensive thing in the 21st century? Talent! As early as 2004, when Qatar intended to bid for the World Cup, it launched the 'Asbeir Football Development Plan' with the goal of youth training.

With a population of 320,000, how big is the base of boys suitable for playing football? According to statistics at that time, there were only about 800 people. Therefore, Qatar has set its sights on the brotherly countries in the Middle East and Central and North Africa, which are also in a blue world, especially those who are poorer and more chaotic.

With 20 billion, it is easy to do anything. Qatar has built many training camps in the Middle East and Africa, and selected local "prodigies" who are about 8 years old. There is a scientific basis for this age. The vast majority of stars have already shown talent beyond their peers when they are eight years old. After all, only a handful are late bloomers.

The selected children spend all their money to go to Qatar’s ‘Asbair Youth Training Academy’.

Asbel Youth Training Academy is a super first-class youth training base built entirely in the desert. All the staff inside are from the five major leagues, and all training plans are replicas of famous European youth training clubs.

Every year, we continuously absorb talented football children around the age of 8 from various countries, give them the best training conditions and the best youth training instructors, and then when they are 12 years old, they will be selected again.

The people responsible for this work are Spanish coach and Asbaier technical director Felix Sanchez and famous scout Josep Colomo.

Sanchez, who has coached Real Sociedad and Almeria, may be a little famous, but the truly awesome figure is Colomo from La Masia. It was this guy who first discovered the player in Rosario, Argentina, who was only 13 at the time. Messi, who was 20 years old, took him to Barcelona. This alone is enough for him to eat for a lifetime.

They are all gifted children in the first place, so what’s the point of selecting the best from the best? And there are still layers of screening. After being selected at the age of 12, he will be granted nationality by Qatar and become a truly wealthy Tianlong.

Qatar’s ‘elite naturalization’ is similar to China’s ‘Spring Buds of Hope’ in that they both rely on the population base to discover football talents and then implement elite routes.

In fact, in recent years, the biggest opponent of the national youth and youth teams at all levels in Asia, with Hope Chunlei as the absolute majority, is Qatar.

The difference is that Qatar relies entirely on money and is limited to football, while Hope Chunlei not only cultivates football talents, but also diverts students with talents needed for many other projects, and also has a certain degree of poverty alleviation function for both young and old, and has social significance. bigger.

Once Qatar stops spending money, their base will immediately return to 800 people, while Hope Chunlei's base will always be 8 million people per year.

Liu Langdong, Wang Yixin, Mei Zixi and other children are the real top of the pyramid, but Qatar has failed to collect all its dues. Otherwise, from Iraq, Yemen, to Sudan, Senegal, the national football teams of these countries should have been discontinued, but obviously not.

For now, Qatar's advantage is its early start. The first batch of spring buds in China were basically born around 2000, while the earliest batch of Qatar’s ‘naturalized elites’ were of suitable age for the national team, and they will be at their peak during the 2022 local World Cup.

The acquisition of Paris Saint-Germain by the Guao-Qatar consortium is just a window-dressing project. In order to cooperate with the 'Asbel Plan', they also acquired many teams in La Liga, Belgium and Austria, and then formed a group of 'elites' who have grown up. They were sent there just for actual combat training.

All in all, which country can copy this football development model? Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are pretending to be a little imitated, but these two countries have a much bigger plate than Qatar, and naturally have more places to spend money. It is impossible to allocate 20 billion at once just to get addicted to football.

In fact, the fact that Qatar has embarked on the "children's audition" route to develop football has something to do with Zhuo Yang.

In 2003, the former French coach Troussier began to coach Qatar. Seeing the withering strength of his team and the lack of successors, he suggested that the Qatar Football Association, which was not short of money, recruit naturalized players around the world.

The card association followed suit and set a very high starting point. In the first wave, they targeted three first-tier stars from the Bundesliga, Werder Bremen's Brazilian 'ball lightning' Elton, Bayern's French defender Ismail, and Dortmund's Brazilian defender Didi. .

At that time, Qatari football did not have any appeal, and the three stars in their prime still had lofty pursuits. Ismail and Didi were the first to decline the invitation.

Elton also refused at first, but soon changed his mind.

In the quarter-finals of the German Football Association Cup that year, the third-division team Madiburg relied on Zhuo Yang's outstanding performance to defeat the declining Bundesliga powerhouse Kaiserslautern 2:1 in two rounds, starting the magic of the Six Musketeers. The road was still a game where Zhuoyang and Sforza became connected.

However, Keizer center Miroslav Klose was deeply disappointed with the team due to the humiliating defeat and left his heart behind. In the new season, at the invitation of coach Schaff, Klose moved to Bremen.

But his arrival aroused strong dissatisfaction with Bremen's center forward Elton. He tried to prevent the team from introducing Klose, but Schaff ignored him.

Elton was quite emotional. Not only did he behave badly in training, but he also angrily agreed to the Qatar Football Association's proposal and wore the No. 10 jersey of a rich man.

But naturalization is easy for others to say, but Elton's fame is so great that not only Qatar's neighbors in West Asia can't stand it, but even China, Japan and South Korea feel a huge threat, so they all work together to sue Qatar to FIFA.

There is strength in numbers. FIFA ruled that Elton did not meet the conditions for naturalization and was not allowed to participate in official competitions on behalf of Qatar. FIFA has since tightened its pockets regarding naturalization.

Qatar, who wasted money in vain, saw that this road was not going to work, so he finally found another way to start from the baby.

If Zhuoyang hadn't killed Keizer in a blockbuster, perhaps Klose wouldn't have switched to Bremen, and Elton wouldn't have been put under a lot of pressure, and he wouldn't have agreed to Qatar. As a result, Qatar may still be picking up unwanted leaks from other national teams around the world. Even if its strength has increased, it will definitely not be as awesome as this Asian Cup.

The fighting ability of these children when they grow up cannot be compared to those who were naturalized purely for money, because they have grown up here since they were young. The first thing they do every day is to sing the Qatar national anthem, and they already have a sense of belonging.

The reason why Qatar is awesome is because they kept a clean sheet all the way to the final.

The Asian Cup final, China VS Qatar, is a contest between the sharpest spear and the strongest shield.

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