In March, Wu Jie led Bayern to another three league victories. Bayern's ranking also rushed to second place, successfully entered the semi-finals of the German Cup, and defeated Sweden's Ostad with a total score of 9:1 in the Champions League to enter the quarter-finals.

He ranks first in the number of goals scored in all three competitions. Many European media have publicly called him the King of Europe. A few German media have even called for the selection of the "Golden Ball Award" to be expanded to the entire world.

Of course, not many people raised this voice in Germany, and the European media basically pretended to be deaf and dumb.

Everyone knows that once the selection of the "Golden Globe Award" is expanded outside Europe, then Wu Jie will definitely win this award, and even have a long-term monopoly, which will be unacceptable to most Europeans.

The performance of Chinese players in Europe is also generally improving, which has led many teams to plan to send scouts to China all year round to look for talents.

In fact, there is indeed a Chinese genius who is being paid attention to by European teams, and this person is of course Lin Yaodong.

The British media has always looked down on ethnic Chinese and Chinese players. Even though many Chinese players have performed well in Europe recently, English League One teams are still not interested in Chinese players.

This situation did not change until Lin Yaodong was born. Especially after the British media reprinted the Hong Kong media reports, public opinion in England began to be interested in Lin Yaodong.

In early March, "Reuters", "BBC", "The Times" and other major media outlets used Hong Kong media to report on this Hong Kong genius who took the initiative to apply for restoration of mainland household registration.

Soon, a League One team even found his parents in Hong Kong and sent Lin Yaodong a trial training invitation.

Of course, Lin Yaodong did not accept the invitation from the English League One team for trial training. He knew that as long as he went to the UK at this time, the media there would immediately report the news that he had become a British citizen.

It is uncertain whether the British will resort to dirty tricks.

Therefore, Lin Yaodong has been training with the Guangdong team. He did not read the reports from the British media and the Hong Kong media, and ignored those invitations.

Finally, on April 1, which is April Fool's Day in the West, he was summoned by the Shantou Public Security Bureau.

His application for restoration of household registration has been approved, and now he needs to go through the procedures as soon as possible.

Of course, this matter was approved by the higher-ups, but it was the Household Registration Section of the Shantou Public Security Bureau who finally came forward.

Lin Yaodong's parents are both originally from Shantou, so it is normal for Shantou to take charge of this matter.

The happiest people at the moment are the Guangdong team and the Football Association. Lin Yaodong has made rapid progress in the past few months in the Guangdong team, and his physical growth is visible to the naked eye. He has already grown to 183m, and it seems that he will grow to over 190m.

The Chinese team has never had such a tall goalkeeper, but the advantages of being taller at this position definitely outweigh the disadvantages. The height of just over 1.9 meters is considered a golden figure for a goalkeeper. It would be best for Lin Yaodong to be 10 meters taller.

Su Yongshun also immediately recruited Lin Yaodong to join the national team for training. The Chinese team will conduct its last training before the World Cup in early April.

This training camp will last for two months and will determine the final squad for the World Cup in Spain.

Kuwait also sent 30 players to participate in this training camp, after all, they received so much small money.

Of course, this time the Chinese team did not recall players who played in Europe. They will gradually return to China in mid-May.

The leagues in various European countries will basically end in mid-May, and they will directly enter the 22-man roster when they return.

Wu Jie and Chen Haonan will not be back until early June. They will also play in the Champions League, which will not be completed until June.

The World Cup starts at the end of June, and European players will join the last month of training after returning home.

The training intensity at this stage will not be too high, it is mainly recovery and running-in training.

In short, most Chinese people's attention is now focused on football, and everyone is looking forward to the World Cup.

The exposure of basketball and volleyball has been suppressed to a very low level, and no one pays much attention to swimming.

On the contrary, a comic book written by a swimmer has become popular in first- and second-tier cities across the country. This comic book is "The Football Player" written by Shen Lang.

After the Spring Festival, this comic book was jointly published by several major publishing houses, but the money for the publication was paid by Wu Jie.

It doesn't matter. The most annoying thing is that the money is given to Wu Jiejie. The publishing house will have to keep half of the final income, and then the state-owned bookstores in various places will still have to keep half of the other half. He and Shen Lang's income will have to go to the fund.

I will donate half of it, and what I get in the end is basically negligible.

As for the comics sold in small shops and roadside newsstands, Wu Jie and Shen Lang didn't get a dime.

The comic strips sold in these places are actually privately printed by publishing houses in various places. Strictly speaking, they are also state-owned, but Wu Jie and Shen Lang charge less than a penny. Who knows that there is no concept of "copyright" in China at all.

Wu Jie's Chinese album has not been sold in China, but after the Spring Festival, it has been made into audio tapes by audio and video publishing houses in various places, and then sold in large quantities all over the country, and the price is only one or two yuan.

But don't think that one or two yuan is too little. Most people's salary now is only ten or twenty yuan.

It has only been a few months, and it is conservatively estimated that it has already sold millions of copies across the country.

Wu Jie still can't get a penny, and he won't be able to make any money in the next five years. It will take until the late 1980s for the country to begin to realize the concept of "copyright", and it will take until the 1990s for legal solutions to be taken seriously.

It will be after joining the WTO.

But he doesn't feel like he's losing money like this, because although he can't make any money, he can earn a lot of fame!

The same is true for Shen Lang's comics. Although he has not yet become famous in the swimming pool, the big "author" name on each comic book has made many people know about Shen Lang.

"Little Football Captain" has only released its first volume. Shen Lang plans to divide this comic into six chapters, namely "Elementary School Chapter", "Youth Team Chapter", "Youth Team Chapter", "League Chapter" and "European Chapter"

", "National Team Chapter".

It is still only the first volume of the "Elementary School Chapter", and it will be at least two years before this chapter is serialized.

But this sequence has revealed a lot, because this is exactly the football reform Wu Jie hoped to carry out in the 1980s.

China cannot spend too much energy on sports in the next 40 years. Even if the big guys like a certain sport, sports must not compete with the college entrance examination for talents.

But can some people who are not academically gifted but are talented in sports be diverted from primary school and middle school?

Wu Jie plans to look for talents in these two age groups, and then enter sports schools set up by the Ministry of Sports at various municipal levels, including departments under the Ministry of Sports, for further studies.

Whether you have talent in football or basketball can basically be seen around the age of ten.

He hopes that the physical education classes in primary schools and junior high schools in the first two years can play a role in discovering talents, and the sports fund can provide certain subsidies to these schools.

After these sports schools recruit good talents, they can provide blood transfusions to local sports teams.

The sports teams in various places have formed regional leagues to provide blood for the provincial teams, that is, the A, B, and C leagues.

If a star is cultivated who can play in Europe, the sports fund will follow the star's growth trajectory and issue subsidies to each stage one by one until he graduates from elementary school.

This mechanism can be used until the professionalization of Chinese football in the 1990s. In fact, it will only need to be slightly modified by then.

To put it bluntly, Wu Jie just wants to tap sports talents through the two stages of "primary school" and "sports school". There is not even a need for too many sports schools. One or two sports schools in each city are enough, and only one or two hundred people are recruited every year.

The three major basketball players will be recruited, along with one to two hundred good players from other sports, and then the Ministry of Sports and the Sports Fund will subsidize them.

More than 600 cities across the country can probably establish more than 1,000 sports schools, which can provide at least 100,000 reserve players for the three major teams every year.

If you include the youth training echelons of each sports team, then in ten years the number of registered football players under the age of 18 in China will easily exceed 500,000, and the number of registered adult football players will reach one million.

For basketball, there are probably half as many registrations as football.

This number is still far behind the number of tens of millions in Europe and the United States, but you must know that these people in China are either from sports schools or from the youth training of sports teams. Their gold content is higher than that of a large number of amateurs in Europe and the United States, such as Bai Yansong.

It is also considered to be much higher.

Wu Jie believes that with such blood transfusion ability, Chinese football and basketball will not lack talents, and China's leagues at all levels will be full of competitiveness.

As for what to do with the millions of people who are eliminated, Wu Jie is naturally prepared.

In the future, these sports schools will be surrounded by technical and art colleges, as well as sweatshops such as Foxconn.

Naturally, these factories and technical schools are run by his tool workers. He will not let all his hard-earned money be stolen. If he wants to exploit them, it will be exploited by me.

But don’t think this is cruel. Competition in the sports industry is so real that it can even be described as brutal.

Of these millions of professionally trained sports people, only tens of thousands will eventually be able to avoid being eliminated. Except for a very small number of people who can find jobs in the industry, most of them have to go to the technical school next door to change careers, or go to the next door.

factory job, what else could I do?

Now when you look at those passionate sports comics, do you feel like you have been deceived?

That's right, football and basketball are pretty good. The elimination rate is at most 99%. At least one person in 100 can make a career.

But in the invincible table tennis, behind each member of the national team, how many thousands of athletes who have worked hard for ten years will be eliminated?

After these people are eliminated, except for a few who can become coaches or work in schools, what can most of them do?

Shen Lang looked at his three teammates at the airport. These were the only three Chinese swimmers of this generation. Plus he was not eliminated. Most of the others were eliminated before the age of 25.

This group of them is preparing to participate in the Super Challenge held in Miami, USA.

This is an invitational tournament with great influence in North America, and the system gave the tournament two stars.

Every "Miami Super Challenge" invites many swimming masters from the United States, Australia, and West Germany. In recent years, it has been in the honeymoon period between China and the United States. The organizer has conveniently given four invitation quotas to the Chinese swimming team.

The four quota places are actually very poor. All swimming events add up to more than 30 events. It has always been a major medal winner in major comprehensive sports games. The organizer only gave four places, which is indeed a small amount.

But in world-class swimming competitions, there are almost no traces of Chinese athletes at this time.

In the early 1980s, the presence of the Chinese swimming team was too low. All eyes would only focus on athletes from countries with outstanding records such as the United States, Australia, Germany, and the Soviet Union. Even the Japanese swimming community was ignored.

situation.

Even if Asian swimmers can enter the international arena, everyone will only regard them as foils, and no one even remembers their names.

Miami did not invite specific Chinese athletes this time, because they did not know any famous athletes in the Chinese swimming world, so they simply gave four places for the Chinese swimming team to choose outstanding athletes to participate.

After Feng Jingyuan received the invitation, the first thing he thought of was Shen Lang.

He is the only one in the national swimming team who has the ability to help China gain fame.

But when it comes to winning the championship, this is just a pipe dream.

Shen Lang has made rapid progress in the past six months, but his current results are only among the best in China. It is difficult to win a gold medal in Asia, let alone compete with those international masters.

Feng Jingyuan predicts that it will take half a year before Shen Lang has the ability to win gold medals in Asia, and a year before he has the ability to win medals at the World Championships.
To be continued...