Through Taffarel's recommendation, Zhang Sheng also took the opportunity to invite Costa and his four brothers to come to China. At the same time, the old Costa was also invited. Soon the foursome and the old Costa accepted Zhang Sheng.
invitation.
Costa and the others came to China a week after Zhang Sheng invited them. Zhang Sheng first went to Beijing to meet them and accompanied their five families to play in Beijing for three days before taking them back to Jiangcheng.
After arriving in Jiangcheng, Zhang Sheng arranged for them to stay in his hotel. Costa and the others had a relatively intuitive understanding of the scale of Zhang Sheng's business in Jiangcheng. Especially when Zhang Sheng took them to the team's
The scale of the training base and football school. Even the old Costa was very surprised: "I didn't expect that China's second-level clubs are so large."
Zhang Sheng attached great importance to the arrival of Costa Sr. because the Corinthians club where Sr. Costa belonged later became a major foreign aid player for Chinese football clubs. Augusto, Ralf, and Gill all came from
Corinthians came to China to play football.
For the old Costa, this visit to China is equivalent to testing the waters. While inspecting the Longteng Club, if he can establish relationships with several big clubs in China, then the purpose of this visit to China will be achieved. And Gram
Russ, Herrera and Demichelis simply wanted to conduct a preliminary inspection of the domestic situation in China and lay the foundation for future business.
It should be said that Costa's arrival this time is very confident. Because his club Corinthians won the Copa Libertadores in the 2o12 season and just defeated Chelsea to win the 2012 Club World Cup.
Cup champion. Many Corinthians players are also famous around the world. The old Costa came here this time to sell the players in the team at high prices.
Zhang Sheng also has a great opportunity to help the old Costa recommend players. Because a large number of teams came to buy several frontcourt offensive players from the Longteng team some time ago. Zhang Sheng can give this information to the old Costa. Among them
Zhang Sheng recommended three teams: Dalian Albin, Tianjin TEDA, and Shandong Luneng Taishan to Costa Lao.
Among them, Dalian Albin wants to introduce forwards, Tianjin TEDA wants to replace all the team's foreign players, and Shandong Luneng needs to introduce midfielders and defenders, and these clubs are all wealthy owners.
Under Zhang Sheng's guidance, the elder Costa got in touch with these clubs. Under the recommendation of the elder Costa, Dalian Albin was interested in Corinthians forward Luciano, and Tianjin TEDA was interested in Corinthians forward Luciano.
Danilo Gabriel and Shandong Luneng were interested in defender Fagner. Later, the elder Costa asked these three players who were interested in transferring to come to China for trial training.
It should be said that these three teams are still very capable. In the subsequent trial training, the three clubs all recognized the player's strength, but there were still big differences in the price of the subsequent transfer fees. Because just now
After winning the Club World Cup, Corinthians quoted very high prices for players. However, the current level of China has not reached the level of burning money in future generations, so the only one who finally reached an agreement on the transfer fee was Danilo Gabriel.
After many rounds of negotiations between Corinthians and Tianjin TEDA, Danilo Gabriel finally transferred to Tianjin TEDA for 3oo euros. Of course, the main advantage here is that Danilo Gabriel once played in Japan
Having played for the Kashima Antlers for three seasons, he is relatively familiar with life in East Asia, so he finally facilitated the deal here.
Costa Sr. was also very happy with this player transaction, because as a player guide, Costa received a commission, and Sr. Costa also received a bonus for being in charge of the transfer. Of course, they also mentioned giving Zhang
The commission was increased, but Zhang Sheng refused.
In fact, Zhang Sheng knows that in the future, various clubs will gradually mature in terms of purchasing foreign players, and everyone will have their own channels. The best way for the old Costa is to try to obtain the ownership of the players. Because of the special characteristics of Brazilian players, many players
The ownership of players is held by multiple agents, and the elder Costa can rely on his own connections to accumulate player ownership. The elder Costa was very interested in the suggestion mentioned by Zhang Sheng, and after he returned to China,
He also began to actively operate these things, and the matter of establishing relations with the Chinese football circle was left to Costa.
After these matters are dealt with, the Longteng team's pre-season training for the 2o13 season has officially begun.
On January 10, the players of the Longteng team began to gather, and four foreign players also came all the way. These four players all came to China first, and came to this strange country. What kind of life will they spend?
They were both excited and nervous about this transfer. However, as a unique attribute of professional players - being at home all over the world, they had already made certain preparations.
The first ones to enter the state were Ivo and McGowan. Of course, there are reasons for this. The main reason is that Zhang Sheng can speak English and Portuguese. McGowan and Ivo, who are from Australia and Brazil respectively, can of course integrate into the ball faster.
As for Kante and Mahrez, they are a little dull. Of course, this is also related to their personalities.
Kante's parents are both Malians living in Paris. He was born and lived in a civilian area since he was a child. His family was poor. There were 9 brothers and sisters in the family. In addition, his father unfortunately passed away when he was 11 years old. To some extent, this caused
This reflects his taciturn character. According to Kanter's teammate in Boulogne, Vanderbilt, Kanter, who often rides in his car, often doesn't say a word for more than 10 minutes and just sits there quietly. In addition
This time he transferred to China from Boulogne and was far away from the center of football - Europe, which also made him confused about his future. Of course, as a player playing in France C, it is not bad to come to China and earn high wages.
things.
The same goes for Mahrez, who is also a second-generation immigrant born in France. His father Mahrez Sr. has also played for some small clubs in Algeria and France before, and has been training him since he was very young.
He played football and initially trained in the youth training system of the French team aassarce11es. However, in 2006, Mahrez, who was only 15 years old at the time, unfortunately lost his father. A similar situation to Kante made him not a person with a lively personality.
However, both players have the potential to become good professional players, that is, both of them have very perseverance in character and a spirit of never giving up. Neither of these two players are the kind of tall, powerful, and dark types.
A strong player, Kante is only 1.69 meters tall. Mahrez looks very weak. He is 1.79 meters tall and only 62 kilograms according to the data. But these two players have never been afraid of confrontation on the court.
The training camp for the China League One team is also a very interesting thing.
In the A-A era, Kunming Haigeng training base was a regular place for winter training for various teams. Haigeng is basically located on the shore of Dianchi Lake at the southern end of Kunming. Because it is located on a plateau and has a good climate and environment, it is popular among various players. The club's favor. Later, the Hongta Base became famous because of the Mi's Army, and more and more teams went to Kunming for training at the end of the year. Even around 2004, Hongta became a "concession" in South Korea. Including South Korea coached by Kim Ho-kun The National Olympic team also went to Hongta Base to prepare for the competition.
After that, Haikou was once regarded as the second training base for Chinese football after Kunming. Its good lawn and suitable climate made it an ideal choice for the winter training of the Chinese and Chinese League One teams. Since the 1990s, Haikou has been built It has established many football bases and once attracted many "customers" who trained in the winter training at Kunming Haigeng Base. However, with the popularity of winter tourism in Hainan, the football atmosphere has cooled down. Take Haikou Jiade Base as an example, from more than 20 yuan in its heyday The turf shrunk to 4 pieces. "Haikou used to have a lot of training bases, but many football bases are gone now because the land is valuable and have been used for other purposes," the staff said.
However, in recent years, with the anti-gambling and gang crackdowns in football, a large amount of money has poured into the football circle, and overseas training has become the choice of many teams that are not short of money. In the winter training before the 2012 season last year, 11 teams won the ball Two Chinese League One teams went overseas for training, and the training locations included the United Arab Emirates, Spain, Portugal, Cyprus, Turkey, South Korea, and Japan.
Media reports estimate that the cost of air tickets, accommodation, transportation, food, etc. for a team of 30 people to go overseas for training is close to 2 million yuan. Generally speaking, the number of players, coaches and staff participating in winter training for each team is about the same. There are 35 to 40 people.
If you choose domestic training, the round-trip travel expenses for a team are only about 80,000 yuan. Taking the fees at the Kunming Haigeng base as an example, the average daily training cost for a player is only about 300 yuan for food and accommodation, and a team of 40,000 yuan. It only costs more than 30,000 yuan to train a team for 30 days. This means that choosing overseas training will cost several times more than domestic training.
The purpose of many teams going out is very clear, that is, they want to find high-level European teams to warm up in these training venues, and find and solve problems by competing with these high-level European teams. But to warm up with Chinese teams Half of the teams participating in the competition are second- and third-level teams, and there are even teams below the third level.
Last year, Guangzhou Evergrande played a match in Spain with a team called ud Marbella, and lost 0 to 1. However, this team does not belong to La Liga, La Liga, or La Liga. It belongs to the "Spanish Second Division B League" (according to domestic understanding, it is equivalent to the "C League"). According to media reports, ud Marbella is one level lower. In Spain, clubs like ud Marbella have a total of There are 360 teams, which is basically equivalent to an amateur team.
Even if these teams who trained abroad returned to China, except for Guangzhou Evergrande, which was indeed strong and won the championship, other teams in the league did not see significant improvement in their performance.
Especially for the Longteng team, which is still in the Chinese League One, there is no need to go abroad for training. In the end, Zhang Sheng chose to train at the Haigeng base in Kunming in China. (To be continued.)
