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In the past few years, Gao Han has been calling on Chinese football to pay attention to youth training.

So far, Chinatown has built three youth training centers in the country. BJ has been officially put into use for many years. Guangzhou and Shanghai have also started construction, and Chengdu and Wuhan are also under planning.

Gao Han and China Town have invested heavily in the youth training center alone.

In addition to youth training, Chinatown also organized coaching classes and trained a large number of coaches and youth training coaches for Chinese football. However, in recent years, they were sent to Madrid Chinatown for further studies and stayed in Chinatown, or There are nearly a hundred Chinese coaches who have been recommended to intern at other European clubs.

In addition, Chinatown has also cooperated with the Football Association to organize outstanding referees from the four major European leagues to come to China to establish referee training courses, with the purpose of strengthening the law enforcement level of domestic referees.

These are all down-to-earth projects. Except for the youth training center, the others are inconspicuous. Apart from being widely praised by the industry, some of them are not even noticed by fans, but Gao Han and Chinatown have always persisted.

Not only Chinatown, but also other domestic companies and institutions.

For example, in 2011, the study-abroad-in-Portugal project jointly organized by Adidas and the Football Association organized more than 40 people to study in Portugal, but it has now come to an abrupt end.

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"According to the reliable information I have received, the main reason is that domestic relations are not smooth."

In the BJ Royal Garden, in the living room of Gao Han's villa, Xiang Tianming explained to Gao Han the reason why his plan to study in Portugal failed.

"It is easy to organize overseas study, but it involves whether the selection of players is fair and whether there are any tricks or shady stories? As the leading organization in the industry, will the cooperation with the club violate the rules? The ownership of the players belongs to the club. Now How can we make up for the club’s losses with such a large-scale transfer?”

Xiang Tianming shook his head, "...Wait, these problems are too complicated and troublesome, plus there are financial problems, so after the new leadership team came to power, we decided to give up."

Gao Han kept nodding after hearing this.

On the surface, this is something that can be solved in one sentence, but in fact it is far from that easy.

Once the various details here are not handled clearly, it is easy to breed some gray areas and even evolve into shady scenes.

"What do you think of the Football Association now?" Gao Han asked with concern.

Xiang Tianming shook his head and smiled bitterly, "How else can we look at it? They have no intention of focusing on this matter now. The biggest trouble is the national team coach, your old friend Camacho."

Camacho is indeed Gao Han's friend. He had already known Camacho when Gao Han was coaching Atletico Madrid. Later, when Camacho took over the Chinese national team, he even learned a lot about China from Gao Han.

But it turns out that conflicts still arise.

It is difficult for outsiders to clearly define whether the whole process is right or wrong, but it is obvious that after losing to Thailand 1-5 a few days ago, the Chinese Football Association announced that Camacho was dismissed from get out of class. The next national team will be led by Camacho's assistant. Coach leads.

But the problem that followed was Camacho's contract.

There are so many complicated details involved that it is difficult to explain clearly for a while. It involves the Football Association, Camacho, sponsors and partners, and there is no way to tell clearly who is right and who is wrong.

But it should be said that it is a common practice for the Football Association to unilaterally terminate the contract and pay the salary stipulated in the contract in full.

Wasn't that what Moratti fired Cooper back then?

The same was true for Inter Milan at its peak, when they had three head coaches at the same time.

In this matter, it can only be said that the Chinese Football Association's handling was not professional enough, but one learns from the experience and lessons should be learned next time.

"Now the 2014 World Cup in Brazil has been missed, and the 2015 European Cup qualifiers have also won one win and one loss. The situation is not optimistic, so the Football Association is now in a mess."

After listening to Xiang Tianming's words, Gao Han shook his head and smiled bitterly.

Isn’t this the case with most football associations?

This is true for the English Football Association and the Spanish Football Federation.

Just when Gao Han was smiling bitterly, Xiang Tianming suddenly raised his head, stared at him, and asked tentatively, "I met with a certain boss at the Football Association today, and he asked me about you."

"Really?" Gao Han wasn't surprised either.

"Didn't you say in an interview with China News Agency not long ago that if you come back to coach the national team in the future, you will only take over the Chinese national team?"

"Yes, I did say that." Gao Han admitted that this was an olive branch he openly extended to the Chinese Football Association.

"So, the Football Association is really seriously considering letting you coach the Chinese national team."

Gao Han laughed after hearing this, "Then what's the minimum they can afford?"

This makes Xiang Tianming helpless, because Gao Han's annual salary is too high, one billion yuan a year, who can bear it?

"Listen to what they want. As long as you are willing, they can contact the company to pay and bear the salary. However, with their style, the annual salary must be negotiated." Xiang Tianming laughed.

"This is not a question of money." Gao Han replied seriously, "but what kind of power can they give me?"

"What's the meaning?"

"From Inter Milan to Bayern Munich to Manchester City to Paris Saint-Germain, I have the final say on the entire team from top to bottom. Can they give me this power? Can they provide the coaching environment I want?"

Gao Han's words really stopped Xiang Tianming, because this was obviously different from the practices within the Football Association.

What leaders like most is subordinates who are obedient and capable, but Gao Han is obviously a man of great achievements, especially since his influence at home and abroad is so great. He responds to thousands of calls on Weibo. Who can control him? Live him?

"Today, I don't care about money anymore. What I want is a coaching environment where I can display my talents. When will they be able to give me such a bargaining chip, let alone negotiating salary? I’ll do all the money.”

Xiang Tianming smiled helplessly.

From Gao Han's words, he has no doubt about Gao Han's feelings for the motherland and his love for Chinese football. But the problem is that now the Football Association cannot provide such conditions at all. Even if it can be provided now, there is no guarantee that it will regret it in the future. .

"Don't be anxious, take your time, I have plenty of time now." Gao Han chuckled.

After dealing with the Football Association in the past few years, Xiang Tianming is also very clear about the thoughts of these leaders. It is probably impossible for them to make such a compromise and ensure that Gao Han can get the coaching environment he wants, unless …

"Stop talking about these bad things, let's talk about the youth training center." Gao Han quickly changed the subject.

Xiang Tianming became excited when he mentioned the youth training center.

Since the opening of the BJ Chinatown Youth Training Center, Xiang Tianming has been following Gao Han's ideas to promote cooperation between China and Spain in youth training, with Chinatown as the first link.

According to Gao Han's intention, the first step is for China Town to cooperate with the Chinese Football Association to build the China Town Youth Training Center in Madrid into the Chinese Football Association's first overseas youth training center. China Town will provide high-quality teaching and training for Chinese young players. Training resources have become the first step for Chinese football to go global.

It should be said that this first step is not difficult to take.

The Youth Invitational Tournament in Chinatown is now in its third year, and it is held in BJ for the second time. Coupled with the relationship between Gao Han and the special background of Chinatown, the youth players know each other well and are better able to adapt when they arrive in Madrid.

The next step is to arrange for domestic youth teams to participate in low-level leagues in Spain. This is also what many Japanese and Korean teams have done. They have been making arrangements over the years.

But to achieve this step, the governments and football associations of China and Spain need to come forward to negotiate, with Gao Han leading the way.

As for going further, the same overseas study model can be copied to other countries, such as Germany, France, the Netherlands, Portugal and other countries with excellent youth training. Gao Han is confident that he still has some connections and influence in European football, so he can definitely help. Matchmaking.

But the premise is that the first two steps must be taken well.

"We have a lot of cooperation with the Football Association, from coach training to referee training. We have established a very good cooperative relationship in the past few years. The Football Association is also very interested in the plan we proposed. You know, now European football When it comes to youth training, Chinatown is definitely second to none.”

When Xiang Tianming said these words, he was also quite proud.

"They are a little busy at the moment, but next they will organize an inspection team to go to Europe for on-site inspections, and further discuss specific cooperation details with Chinatown. They will also actively contact the Spanish Football Federation and the government."

Gao Han nodded, this is also necessary.

After all, they are also responsible for the domestic players who go abroad.

"Then I will start preparations immediately after returning to Europe." Gao Han was also very happy about this.

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After talking with Xiang Tianming for a while, the two began to focus on the development of the youth training center in Chinatown.

Gao Han's attitude has always been very clear. He does not seek rapid expansion, but stable development. Therefore, Chinatown's domestic youth training center does not develop quickly, and only BJ is actually opened.

But in BJ, a youth training center, the representative teams of every age group are invincible in the country.

This made Gao Han happy but also deeply helpless, especially a market survey submitted to him by Xiang Tianming.

The number of youth training players in China is too small.

Chinatown once cooperated with the Football Association to organize a football forum, inviting many senior players in the domestic football industry to participate, each expressing their opinions, summarizing past experiences and lessons, and making suggestions for the future development of Chinese football.

Many people believe that the biggest regret is that Chinese football missed an excellent development period, that is, reaching the World Cup in 2002. The whole country was elated at that time. It should have been an excellent opportunity to vigorously develop Chinese football.

But unfortunately, due to various reasons, Chinese football has experienced a long-term downturn since then.

"What we need most now is to once again ignite the enthusiasm of the people across the country for football, to recreate the grand occasion of national jubilation in 2002, and to use this as an opportunity to vigorously promote the development of Chinese football with the full support of the government. Comprehensive reform.”

But over the years, the national football team has been weak and unable to shoulder such a heavy burden.

Although Gao Han has made a name for himself in Europe, he cannot do it alone.

Gao Han also deeply regrets missing the opportunity in 2002.

But since you missed it, you missed it. There is no use regretting or regretting. You can only work hard to change the status quo and work hard to become stronger.

The first thing is to do a good job in youth training.

Thanks to the experience of the first Chinatown Youth Invitational Tournament two years ago, the preparations for this year's third invitational tournament were also carried out in a more orderly manner, with Gao Han's father-in-law Lin Guoping personally responsible for the preparations.

After Gao Han returned to China, he immediately went to inspect the preparations for this event, which was very reassuring.

The only thing that is worrying is the group of young players. Will they give satisfactory results in the home game at home?