World Cup of Great Powers

"The Asian Games is over." Zhang Heng, deputy director and secretary-general of Bamboo Shoes, looked out the window and let out a long breath.

"Fortunately, I came back with two gold medals. If there was one less, things would not have gone so smoothly." Ma Ke picked up the tea cup and took a leisurely sip.

A gust of north wind came with a whistling sound, and Zhang Heng quickly closed the window.

At the end of December, the north wind was blowing hard in Beijing.

If you want to change the indoor air, opening the window for half a minute to a minute is enough.

"I'm not worried about the women's football team. Our strength is there and the investment is so high. It's the men's football team... Tsk, tsk, tsk, Lao Xu and Laowang are really in danger this time..."

"Old Zhang, what you said is wrong. This is called boldness of an expert!" Ma Ke laughed and said, "From the moment I sent Xiao Zeng to take action, I knew that what Lao Xu wanted was definitely not what the military students and reporters said.

Just like that, we will hit the top four with all our strength."

"Xiao Zeng leads the team to play one more game at the front, and he may be able to make drastic changes for one more day."

"How is it now?"

"The Asian Games is over and the gold medal is back."

"Who else is paying attention to what he is doing over there?"

"When we hold a press conference, it will be a done deal, and no one who opposes it will be able to do anything!"

Ma Ke stroked his hands and shook his head, "But the delisting meeting will cause me a lot of trouble!"

Not long ago, at the delisting meeting for player transfers held by Bamboo Shoes, a vice president of Shenyang Sea Lions suddenly stood up and told Ma Keshi that Lokomotiv player Li Yi suddenly appeared on the list after five rounds and was suddenly taken away by Beijing Guoan.

Get angry.

This happened so suddenly that it aroused strong public attention.

Ma Ke didn't say a word yet, but the National Security Bureau also started to slap him.

They said that Qu Bo, a young locomotive player they valued, was quickly intercepted by the newly established Harbin Jianglong!

In addition, Songri also protested strongly, and Yangpu, whom he had chosen, was also intercepted by Harbin Jianglong.

In the words of Guoan’s boss, “We know that Bamboo Shoes needs to focus on training the younger generation of players, but our club also needs fresh blood!”

"Who doesn't know about his Harbin Jianglong background?"

"With so many young talents in our hands, we are going to have to drain the bottom of the fire!"

The Guoan boss’s protest resonated.

As the Jianlibao members who were not bought by Zeng Zheng played better and better in the club, those clubs that had let them go for a small profit all regretted it.

Now that we know that Zeng Zheng started working directly from A B, doesn’t that mean that in just one year, A A will have another team of regulars from the Northeast?

Coupled with Zeng Zheng's outstanding performance in international competitions, Zeng Zheng is now the benchmark!

In the first round of delisting, apart from the international players of Su Maozhen's level, the most focused ones were the young rookies who had been used by Zeng Zheng and joined Zeng Zheng's team.

Especially starting from the second round, these club bosses are privately asking to see which young players have had a relationship with Zeng Zheng.

Under such "delisting standards", after all clubs in the first and second tiers were delisted, more than 300 players were left waiting for work.

Where to put the extra players has become a big headache for Ma Ke.

"Speaking of which, our foundation is still shallow." Ma Ke began to rub his temples, but his face did not mention the calmness when he won the Asian Games.

"If it doesn't work, let these people go to amateur teams to find jobs!"

“It’s okay not to play football for a year!”

"And this year's transfer method of sequential delisting does not look very effective."

"Neither the club nor the players seem satisfied."

"If this is still the case next year, I guess we will have to change the transfer method."

"Let's just play football. Why should we learn NBA?"

...

At the end of the year, every household is busy celebrating the New Year.

While all kinds of news are flying all over the sky, there are also some news events that are enough to cause an "earthquake" in the football world.

However, after getting used to seeing these "earthquakes", fans have long become accustomed to it.

"Dalian intends to bid to host the 18th Asian Club Cup"

"Bamboo Shoes is expected to complete its military expansion in 2000"

"Jianlibao settles in Ice City"

"The magical coach transforms into a club boss"

"Bamboo Shoes announces the results of a thorough investigation, some are happy and some are sad"

"The Suibo incident is so involved that Bamboo Shoes requests judicial intervention"

"Bamboo Shoes announced that it will further crack down on match-fixing in the coming year"

"Wang Junsheng: 1999, all preparations for the Olympics"

"Veerappan: A team of 6 has been sent to Zurich for a showdown to resolutely boycott the 2002 World Cup"

"FIFA announces latest world rankings"

"Shide Group intends to take over Wanda"

...

For football, 1998 can be described as a year of harvest, turmoil and innovation.

You will know just by looking at these titles.

Football is about to change!

In the past year, the national team made a historic breakthrough to the World Cup and even reached the top 16, tying the best result of an Asian team in the history of the World Cup.

At the Asian Games, they also won the first Asian Games gold medal for men's football!

These two honors not only filled up the barren honor room of Chinese football, but also brought great pride to all fans.

With its outstanding performance in the World Cup and the gold medal in the Asian Games, in the latest world list announced by FIFA at the end of the year, the Chinese team jumped 35 places from 55th at the end of last year, ranking 20th in the world!

In Asia, with the exception of South Korea, which has entered the World Cup finals four times in a row, countries such as Japan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and South Korea are all ranked behind the national football team.

In addition to the soaring world rankings, the most shocking thing for domestic football is the many drastic results achieved during the Asian Games.

Following the clues and following the incident, Xu Fang finally uncovered more than 200 people.

Among them, 11 have had their coaching certificates revoked, 7 have had their referee certificates revoked, 16 players have been banned for life, and 3 officials have been suspended for investigation.

One Bamboo Shoe official, three club bosses, two referees and eight players were taken away by judicial intervention.

No one expected it.

The first thing Xu Fang did after his comeback was so resolute and ruthless.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! There will naturally be opposition in this process, and there will be layers of resistance everywhere.

But Xu Fang was willing to kill the wrongdoers rather than let them go. He used force to break through the barriers and bring these people to justice.

Taking advantage of this crackdown on counterfeiting and illegal activities, Xu Fang also embarked on two major tasks.

The first major event was to establish the Football Association Press Committee and serve as its first director.

From drafting the charter to organizing activities, Xu Fang took care of it himself.

It also established a press supervision for the national league, headed by a member of the Standing Committee of the Press Committee.

Xu Fang took the lead in establishing this system as early as 1996, but Xu Fang suddenly fell ill at that time, and there were no suitable people to implement the crude system, and it was almost completely abandoned in 1997.

This time Xu Fang brought up old matters again and made a lot of determination.

Whatever happens during the game, and if fans and reporters feel that a team's performance is abnormal, they can raise it at this press supervision meeting and record it.

Use private power to supervise every game.

The second major event is to completely separate the referee department from Bamboo Shoes and form a "professional league."

From then on, referees were no longer controlled by Bamboo Shoes, but they were supervised by Bamboo Shoes, and their salaries were naturally not paid by Bamboo Shoes.

In each game, the "Referee Alliance" will select a suitable referee to enforce the law, and Bamboo Shoes will also send an observer, whose responsibility is to supervise the referee's work to see whether he enforces the law objectively and fairly in accordance with the rules of the game.

After the game, the observer must draft a written report to evaluate the referee's law enforcement during the game.

If an abnormal situation is discovered, you can file a lawsuit with Zhu Xie and accuse the referee of improper practices.

Because the observers and referees do not meet each other, Bamboo Shoes will also keep this confidential.

Therefore, without knowing who is the observer of the game, the referee naturally does not dare to make the slightest deviation when enforcing the law.

In short, let the referees hang the sword of Damocles on the umbrella handle of civilian, official and media umbrellas at all times, and completely eliminate black whistles from the source.

As for who will run this league, pay salaries to the referees, and provide benefits, Xu Fang has already found a suitable partner.

Didn’t you, Mr. Wang, say that the football water is too dark and too deep, so it’s not good?

So now I leave the task of selecting referees to you, what do you think?

Wanda has transformed from a Dalian team into the largest shareholder controlling 48% of the shares of the "Referees Alliance" in the blink of an eye.

From now on, if there is a problem with the referee, the source can be traced.

.....

After the big refereeing issue was resolved, Xu Fang, who was in charge of external affairs, discipline, news, development and office, did not take any time off.

Before New Year's Day, an investigation report on "illegal wages of Chinese players" was rushed out and submitted.

Nowadays, the annual investment of an A-level team can reach up to 50 million yuan, which is 10 times that of 4 years ago.

Four years ago, the total annual income of the country's top players was only 200,000 yuan; now, the annual income of national football players has soared to more than 1 million yuan.

It was an eye-popping 640,000 yuan when Li Bing transferred to the Hongyuan team. Now Deng Lejun, who is not a national football player, also spent more than 2 million yuan to transfer to Shandong Luneng.

Four years ago, the most prize money a team could win for a game was RMB 100,000. Now, the maximum prize money for winning a "key ball" is more than RMB 1 million!

Why does the club lose money every year?

Haven't a lot of money been spent on player hype?

How much money do clubs have now actually spending on football?

In fact, one-half of the money was used to pay salaries and bonuses to the players, and some of the remaining money was used for disgusting "public relations."

This kind of things other than football, caused by the clubs themselves, eventually made each club miserable or unable to express its pain, so they had to knock out their teeth and swallow it in their own stomachs.

Xu Fang made reference to the J-League, which had just issued a new salary limit order, and formulated a salary-reduction regulation for professional players.

The contracts of all professional players will be divided into three categories: a, b, and c. The annual salary of players in category A shall not exceed 500,000, the annual salary of players in category B shall not exceed 300,000, and the annual salary of players in category C shall not exceed 150,000.

In principle, each professional club can have no more than 20 A-level players, and A-level players must not play less than 720 minutes per season.

As for C-level players, they must be reviewed for more than three years before they can be promoted to A-level, instead of being divided according to clubs.

If this plan is finally implemented, the worst sufferers will be those veteran players who earn high salaries and rarely play. Their annual income may drop to one-tenth of what it is now!

...

In addition to the above, Xu Fang also took the opportunity to submit more than ten reform plans and development goals.

Not only were each one marked with a key number, but they were also marked with the words "the sooner they are implemented, the better", which gave Wang Junsheng a headache.

You know, none of these battles are small!

This year, with the help of the World Cup and Asian Games, the situation was barely suppressed.

If this touches so many people's cakes at once, Wang Junsheng will be ruined by extremists the next day!

"You have to figure it out yourself."

Xu Fang smiled slightly, "Anyway, our two families live in the compound. If they are really capable, just let them rush in!"

"If Wu Jie can't stop him, then I have nothing to say!"

Wang Junsheng laughed angrily after hearing this, "Old Xu, aren't you kidding me?"

"The refereeing issue has just been decided. I don't know what will happen next year."

"Lao Ma also told me that this delisting method is inappropriate and a bit disrespectful of the players' personal wishes. He asked me to change to a new plan next year."

"I have so many things on my hands right now, which one do you think is unimportant?"

Wang Junsheng spread his hands and threw the question back to Xu Fang.

Xu Fang took a sip of black tea and spoke slowly: "After New Year's Day, we will invite the bosses of all first-class clubs to a meeting to discuss the salary limit."

"They themselves were the first to do this, and they were the ones who suffered in the end."

"Wang Yilin can't even afford it, let alone them."

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Limiting players' salaries is conducive to player management and is more conducive to the healthy development of the club."

"This is a good thing that kills two birds with one stone, and those club bosses will definitely agree."

Wang Junsheng nodded after hearing this, and then couldn't help but ask: "What should we do if the players collectively make trouble?"

"What to do? Humph! It's cool! Fire a few and you'll be honest!" Xu Fang narrowed his eyes, "As long as there are no problems with Xiao Zeng, what if we replace all the three hundred or so people in A-A?"

"For 150,000 a year, I don't know how many people are waiting in line to do it!"

"Hiss~~~" Wang Junsheng took a breath after hearing this.

What does it mean to draw fire from under the cauldron?

This is called removing the fire under the cauldron!

If the 20 or so young talents under Zeng Zheng don't cause trouble, who else would dare to attack? At worst, the "professional system" will be restored for another year and the professional league will be restarted.

With the 20 or so people under Zeng Zheng, there is no big problem in maintaining stable results in international competitions for 10 years!

"Speaking of Xiao Zeng, tsk tsk, this guy is really good! He really helped me rally the team!"

Mentioning Zeng Zheng, a rare hint of tenderness appeared in Xu Fang's originally stern eyes.

"Then what is that boy doing now? I didn't attend the celebration party after I came back. I didn't even see him once!"

"Of course he's going back to the Northeast!" Wang Junsheng said, "Spring training will be in a few days. He doesn't have to go back to rest for two days first?"

...

Zeng Zheng did not return to Northeast China.

At this moment, he was holding a large fruit basket and standing at the door of a dilapidated residential building in Beijing.

"Dingdong~~"

"Who is it?"

Katcha!

The door lock opened, revealing a long, thin, dark face.

"Who are you..."

"Brother Gao, you can't even recognize me so quickly?" Zeng Zheng took off his sunglasses and hung them on his chest.

"Coach Zeng?!" Gao Hongbo's eyes lit up and he quickly moved away, "Come on, come on, please come in, please come in!"

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