World Cup of Great Powers

Beijing Airport.

Zeng Zheng wore sunglasses and looked like a returned overseas Chinese.

After qualifying for the Olympics this time, he did not return home with the team members, but stayed in Bahrain to have a good time for a few days.

This is not the first time that Zeng Zheng has "engaged in specialization."

The World Cup is all about "going its own way". Can a small Olympic qualifier stop Zeng Zheng?

But no matter how reluctant he is, Zeng Zheng will always face reality one day.

"Alas, a golden nest and a silver nest are indeed not as good as your own doghouse."

As soon as he got off the plane, Zeng Zheng sighed with emotion.

Miss Qian, also wearing sunglasses and carrying a bag of souvenirs, caught up from behind.

"Coach Zeng, I can't tell you are so patriotic!"

"I am love, but who the hell loves me?"

When Zeng Zheng thought about what he was about to face, Zeng Zheng's brows couldn't help but tighten.

Qualifying for the Olympic Games is originally something worth celebrating.

But Zeng Zheng has been very unhappy these days.

When the victory against Bahrain was sealed, team leader Li Chuanqi found Zeng Zheng and gave him a new assignment from Bamboo Shoes.

"Assist Ladd in preparing for the Asian Cup?"

"Is there any mistake?"

"I'm the head coach of the National Olympics, and I'm going to work for the National Football Team?"

Li Chuanqi also looked helpless.

"Coach Zeng, I am only responsible for conveying the tasks assigned by above."

"For the specific situation, you should go back to your country and ask in person."

For this matter, Zeng Zheng stayed in Bahrain for several more days.

One is to hide from the enthusiastic domestic gossip media, and the other is to think about how to talk to Zhu Xia about this matter.

However, the sunshine and beaches of Bahrain did not make Zeng Zheng temporarily forget his troubles.

Except for Miss Qian's proud bikini that occasionally made Zeng Zheng think about it, Zeng Zheng had been thinking about becoming an assistant coach in the national football team at other times.

...

After separating from Miss Qian, Zeng Zheng spent a day in the capital recuperating.

Early the next morning, Zeng Zheng came to the Zhuxie Office Building and found Xu Fang.

After entering the door, I simply expressed my wishes.

Xu Fang, who had been so enthusiastic just now, immediately changed his face and took out a whole list of "rhetoric" that he had thought of for a long time.

"look!"

"Here are the latest polls."

"84% of the fans agree that you will shoulder the responsibility for the National Football Team, Olympic Games and National Youth Team."

"More than 92% of fans support you to replace Ladd in leading the team to next year's Asian Cup."

"More than half of the fans think Bamboo Shoes should sign a contract with you until the 2002 World Cup, allowing you to start forming a team now and prepare for the next World Cup."

No more, Xu Fang spread his hands.

"Xiao Zeng, this is public opinion, just follow it!"

From public opinion?

Bullshit!

When did your kind of bureaucracy get over it?

"Uncle Xu, you also know that I still have a lot of things to do at home."

"The Jianglong team is waiting for me to play in Class A next year!"

"It seems that the season is about to end, and there will be spring training and other things in the spring."

"The Jianglong team also needs to strengthen and not weaken. It can't be in the first round of Class A next year, right?"

"Isn't this going backwards again if we waste our foundation for the sake of international competition?"

Faced with Zeng Zheng's complaints, Xu Fang not only did not waver in his determination, but instead sighed.

"Xiao Zeng, Uncle Xu knows your difficulties and situation."

"But you also know that all the work on bamboo shoes is carried out based on the excellent results in various international competitions."

"Don't go into detail, just talk about the suggestions and improvement directions you have put forward."

"Without the good results of the current national team, do you think those who were passive in taking the cake would have agreed?"

Xu Fang's words left Zeng Zheng speechless.

Seeing that Zeng Zheng was silent, Xu Fang took out a thicker stack of A4 paper from the drawer.

"This is the latest policy that Bamboo Shoes is preparing to introduce next year."

"Finding an opportunity to hold a meeting with the owners of major clubs at the end of this year is almost on the agenda."

"There is a reason of 'opening the way for the national team' standing in the way. If they agree, they agree, and if they disagree, they agree!"

Zeng Zheng knew that what Xu Fang said was true.

The development of Chinese football in recent years has actually been a process of exploration.

Although there are so many excellent, successful and advanced examples in Europe, South America, Japan and South Korea, none of them can apply them to their own country.

Some policies, rules and regulations are implemented well in other people's territory, but once they are adopted in your own place, not only will they have no promotion effect, but they may also have counterproductive effects.

And once this kind of reaction occurs, the impact will be far-reaching, even deep-rooted.

With the current scale of Chinese football, once something goes wrong, if you want to completely change it, it will not be possible for ten or eight years.

One thing Xu Fang often talks about is: strive to find a characteristic socialist path suitable for the development of Chinese football in his lifetime.

It is still the early days of football professionalization, and bamboo shoes are the only one.

Although the judicial power is separated from the bamboo shoes, it is not enough.

If you want to develop football at this moment, you need the decisiveness and dictatorship of the elite to influence the normal operation of the league until the league matures to a certain level and forms its own market rules.

When the bamboo shoes no longer cover the sky with one hand, the system and supervision agencies will become the guarantee for the normal development of the league.

Although Zeng Zheng doesn’t know whether the current path of “using international competition results to drive grassroots reforms” is correct, at least with the efforts of Xu and Wang’s monopoly, it is definitely better than those bastards who didn’t understand football in the previous life.

Much stronger.

Turning to the first page of the A4 paper, there is the salary limit mentioned by Zeng Zheng before.

After the Jianglong team took the lead in salary restrictions for a year, Xu Fang finally introduced the salary limit policy for the entire professional league.

The salary limit is not just a salary limit. How much is the salary in the contract?

The specific restrictions are on various bonuses.

Bonuses that can easily reach millions of dollars have overwhelmed some clubs and can easily lead to unhealthy tendencies among players.

According to the policy introduced by Bamboo Shoes this time, in addition to canceling some unnecessary bonuses, a 100% "luxury tax" is also levied on some bonuses.

In this way, the harm caused by excessive bonuses can be limited from the source without hindering the enthusiasm of players too much.

In addition, Bamboo Shoes also sets appearance fees and some reward and penalty systems based on player performance and level of effort.

While raising the upper limit of player income, it also lowered the lower limit of income for some players.

According to the European market, players' income from the team is basically divided into three parts.

Basic salary accounts for about 30%, appearance fees, goal awards, etc. account for 40%, and winning the championship or achieving some exciting goals accounts for 30%.

In China, the basic salary of some players accounts for more than 80%.

This is an extremely unreasonable system that can easily lead players to regard football as an "iron rice bowl" job.

This salary limit is to reduce the proportion of basic salary in players' income without flooding the bonus system, while ensuring players' motivation to train, play, compete, and win, and allowing each club to maintain positive income. the ultimate goal of the policy.

After Zeng Zheng carefully read through it, he more or less understood Xu Fang's good intentions.

Not to mention anything else, just some of the figures, if you don't personally go to the grassroots level to investigate, you can't get such accurate results.

You must know that such a salary limit order not only convinces all players, but also takes into account the real situation of 26 domestic clubs with different incomes.

Even a small club like Jianglong, which has just been established, will make positive profits from this salary limit order.

Not only that, the money from these luxury taxes will also be used as special funds to develop youth football and women's football.

This salary limit policy alone is inseparable from the hard work of Xu Fang and his team.

In addition to the salary limit, Xu Fang also introduced to Zeng Zheng the results of the first u16 league during this period.

After the final competition, the Wuhan team won the national championship.

When people at Xu Fang's level look at this matter, their concern is no longer about who will win the championship, or whether the southern team or the northern team will win the championship.

As long as this first competition determines an undisputed champion, it will be considered a success.

Next year we will continue to follow the same pattern, summarize bit by bit, introduce new things from the old, and allow this new league to grow healthily is the key.

After conducting final attendance and public opinion surveys, it was concluded that more than 80% of the public are looking forward to the second Youth Cup next year.

Although it is still not as good as the national high school competition in my childhood days next door, it can be regarded as adding the word "football" to the lives of middle school students.

"Xiao Zeng, you don't know."

"After learning that the Wuhan team won the national championship, none of the northern teams were convinced."

"There are even people clamoring to host the finals in the Northeast next year so that the southern players can feel acclimatized."

"How about it, do you have any ideas to ask your Jianglong team to give up their home court?"

Zeng Zheng rolled his eyes after hearing this.

"Uncle Xu, if you can really host the final in Harbin, I won't say anything and will support you with both hands."

"But I have to make a deal with the media then."

"I have nothing to do with this!"

Xu Fang laughed after hearing this, "Harbin is indeed too remote."

"But there should be no problem if we place our home games in Shenyang and Dalian."

"After all, I went out here when I went to the World Cup in 1998. No one will object then."

Speaking of this, Xu Fang raised his eyebrows.

"Xiao Zeng, I heard that you also set up a youth training base."

"What's the matter, do you want to sign up next year and take part to see the strength of the team members?"

Zeng Zheng shook his head.

To be honest, his youth training base is not large-scale yet, it is just a winter and summer camp at best.

Now that the Olympic qualifiers are over, he is planning to expand the youth training base while he has free time.

But if I were to shoulder the burden of the national football team again, I probably wouldn’t have that much energy and time.

Scroll down the A4 paper and you will see the transfer adjustments made this year.

Last year, Bamboo Shoes imitated the NBA and instituted a "listing system", which resulted in a lot of confusion.

First of all, football and basketball are not the same sport.

The NBA can use a talented player to build a team, but putting talented players in a football team can only serve as the icing on the cake at best.

And if you have to let a talented player go to a "bad team" to combine the team's strength, then the most likely result is that the talented player will sink.

Secondly, there is no such thing as promotion or relegation in the NBA, so in order to ensure the intensity of the regular season and prevent certain teams from dominating the rankings for a long time, artificial methods are used to allow each team to have one or two influential stars. , this is also for the sake of commercial interests!

Third, delisting and transfer will also cause various other small actions that are difficult to control.

After the implementation of the delisting transfer system last year and Zeng Zheng's questions, Xu Fang's changes this season were also very simple.

First, we set up broker examinations and issued formal qualification certificates to standardize brokers.

Then let the agent and the club negotiate with each other and everything should be done according to economic laws.

Although the general direction follows the laws of the market, in order to protect the club's enthusiasm for cultivating players, it is stipulated that every young player newly trained by the club must sign a five-year performance contract with the club at least.

If other clubs want to buy this young player during the contract period, they will have to pay the corresponding transfer fee and liquidated damages, and also need to obtain the consent of the player and the club.

Zeng Zheng briefly looked at some rules and regulations, most of which were European league transfer regulations.

After innovating and removing the protection clauses between the EU, it is more than enough to be used in the domestic market.

Seeing that Zeng Zheng was still carefully reading the terms, Xu Fang couldn't help but asked curiously:

"Xiao Zeng, is there anything else you don't understand?"

"Uncle Xu, I just want to ask about the rule that people under the age of 25 are not allowed to move abroad..."

"Ah, that, it's recorded in the appendix!"

Zeng Zheng quickly turned to the end, and sure enough he saw a line of small print: Starting from xx, xx, xx, it will be completely revoked that those under the age of 25 will not be allowed to transfer to foreign clubs.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! In other words, except for some rules to protect young players and club youth training, there are basically no restrictions on "personnel outflow".

After Sun, Li, Zhang and others studied abroad, Xu Fang also tasted the pleasure of using "foreign guns".

Even so, Zeng Zheng also saw several new season rules for the development of local youth training.

For example, starting next year, the number of foreign players allowed on each team to play at the same time will be reduced from 5 to 4.

This news was actually released last year, but it took a year to buffer.

It seems that the plan has been fully implemented by spring next year.

The second article is that starting from next season, regardless of whether Class B or Class A, the players on the field must be a local player under the age of 20.

And in case of a substitution at the beginning, the young player's playing time was also stipulated.

This rule has both good and bad aspects, but its specific purpose is to cultivate outstanding local young players.

Although there will be dissatisfaction from some clubs, considering the background of the times and the excellent results of the National Youth and Olympic Games, most people will not cause any controversy over this new rule.

What's more, after Jianglong took the lead in selling three players overseas, the club not only got back its funds, but also made a surplus.

The other teams are all covetous!

In other words, in the context of the era when the National Youth Team won the championship and the National Olympic Games qualified, cultivating and discovering young players has become a current craze, and it has also opened up ways for some club cards to make money.

In addition, there are some policies and proposals regarding the expansion of League A, League B and the expansion of League Two to a nationwide level in the next few years.

While vigorously exploring and cultivating football talents, we have also not forgotten to improve the size of China’s football superstructure.

"Ling Ling Ling Ling~~~"

Unconsciously, the canteen bell rang.

One morning passed.

Looking at Zeng Zheng who was thinking seriously after doing his work, Xu Fang said seriously:

"Xiao Zeng."

"Listen to Uncle Xu's advice."

"Put the club aside first and concentrate on leading the national team."

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