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53. Business expansion and first win

After nearly two months of negotiations between Longteng Group and the government, the location of Longteng Club’s new stadium has finally been finalized. The location is still next to the Hubei Olympic Sports Center. Both the province and the city intend to build around the Olympic Sports Center.

Sports culture industries in Hubei Province and Jiangcheng City, as well as sports industry-related companies in Qingshi Province and City, will build a sports industry park nearby, and Longteng Group will also acquire land to build peripheral facilities near the Olympic Sports Center, as well as some

The land is allocated to Longteng Group for commercial and residential use.Ww W.

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After planning and agreement between the province and the city, once the construction is completed, Longteng Club will move the club's office headquarters here, and the city will also invite Jiangcheng Zall Club to move nearby - this can only show that the city is interested in football.

I really don’t understand that only they can think of moving the headquarters of their rival club in the same city together - to make this industrial park the business card of Jiangcheng City.

The day after the resolution was passed, Longteng Group arranged a grand site selection and groundbreaking ceremony. A large number of provincial and municipal leaders at all levels were invited to participate. Many friends from Longteng Group’s business community were also guests. Even Zhuo

Mr. Yan from Er Group also came over.

No matter what Mr. Yan thinks in his heart, at least on the surface Mr. Yan behaves very kindly. After chatting with Zhang Zhijun, Mr. Yan directly found Zhang Sheng and said: "I didn't expect it. Xiaosheng, you were still in Germany back then.

At that time, I wanted to ask you to come back and help me. I never thought that you could create such a big industry by yourself. I will also help my team more in the future. Many of the players you have now are international players.

At the same level, if there are too many talents and you can't play in the game, you can come to Zall. They are better than our players, and I won't treat them badly."

Hearing Mr. Yan's subtle words, Zhang Sheng seemed neither humble nor arrogant: "Uncle Yan, you are serious. Zall Club has always been the leader of our Jiangcheng and even Hubei Province. I believe that the current difficulties are only temporary. With Zall's youth

The level of training is good, so we don’t have to worry about not having good players.”

In fact, Zhang Sheng's words are not a lie. Historically, Zall Club's youth training has indeed done well. After Jiangcheng Zall was relegated to the Chinese League One, even though they have never been successful, they have not been able to compete in the national team.

You may have seen players from Jiangcheng Zall, but whether they are in the U15, U17, U19 or U22 national teams, there is never a shortage of Jiangcheng Zall players, and they often sell entire teams of players to big overseas players like Wanda.

After all, Zall, which cooperates with the Jiangcheng Football Association, has the best football resources in Jiangcheng. With Jiangcheng's relatively good youth training environment and youth training foundation in China, there are still a lot of talents.

As a result, the Longteng Football Team can only recruit players from non-Jiangcheng circles in Hubei Province, and it also forces the Longteng Team to extend its player-mining tentacles outside the province. At the beginning of this season, the Longteng Football School began to scout for talents in cities within the province.

In addition, it has also established cooperative relationships with the adjacent Xiangnan Province, Jiangxi Province, Anhui Province, and the far-flung Shanxi Province Football Association.

The four units have signed an agreement with Longteng Football School respectively to cooperate in cultivating elite players. According to the agreement, Longteng Football School will carry out in-depth cooperation with the four units in cultivating elite football talents and will dispatch a coaching team to strictly follow the school's testing methods and standards.

A comprehensive assessment will be conducted on potential players within the jurisdiction of the four places, and students who meet the school's admission standards will be admitted by paying normal fees.

Longteng Club and Longteng Football School will help them cultivate football talents. The players they train belong to Longteng Club in terms of ownership, but these players will participate in the National Games of each province and achieve political achievements for the provincial football associations.

When Longteng Club entered these provinces, Longteng Group immediately followed suit and began to deploy sports industries in these provinces, including acquiring land for sports real estate.

It can be said that Longteng Club has now become the vanguard of Longteng Group's development. This is what Zhang Zhijun wants to do - to transform Longteng Group from a regional company in Hubei Province into a national company.

In fact, Longteng Club has brought a lot of fame to Longteng Group. Before the establishment of Longteng Club, Longteng Group’s brand valuation ranking was only around 35o among real estate developers nationwide, which was equivalent to Zall Group. However, with Longteng

With the club's step-by-step development, Longteng Group's valuation has now far surpassed that of Zall, reaching the 200th position. If Longteng Club has better results this season, Longteng Group's brand valuation, revenue and profit will still be there.

There has been considerable improvement, and Longteng Group has begun to discuss investments with LeTV Sports and ppTV Sports, hoping to further expand its sports industry territory.

Of course, subsequent business development was not something Zhang Sheng considered. After talking to Mr. Yan for a few words again, Zhang Sheng was pulled over by provincial and municipal leaders for a heart-to-heart talk. Their intention was also very clear, and they wanted Longteng Club to expand its business.

Investing in achieving better results was Zhang Zhijun’s original promise to them.

After participating in the site selection and groundbreaking ceremony, Longteng Group, which had already made preliminary preparations, began construction, while Zhang Sheng led the team to Shanghai to participate in the fourth round away game against Shanghai Greenland Shenhua.

Before this season, Shenhua, as a veteran team in the Chinese Professional Football League, was in a state of turmoil. At the 20th anniversary ceremony of Shenhua Football Club before the season, Zhu Jun, the investor of Shenhua Club, made it clear that he would not give any more money.

The team is investing, and at the same time all the talk surrounding Shenhua is the team's relocation.

Ever since Zhu Jun proposed that Shenhua move to Kunming, gods and goddesses from all walks of life began to appear, and various rumors suddenly spread. For a while, an "unnamed insider" said that the team was now ready to move, and the Shanghai Sports Bureau would not be stuck.

; A while later, a "certain internal staff member" claimed that the Shanghai Football Association was responsible for Shenhua's relocation, and then a large number of "Shanghai football celebrities" came out and angrily accused Shenhua of breaking the rules for money.

The attitude of the Chinese Football Association also changed three times a day. One moment, internal staff said they agreed to the relocation, and the next they said it was not in compliance with laws and regulations.

After Shenhua's relocation application was completely rejected by the Football Association, Shanghai Shenhua fans cheered for joy, but what followed was Wang Dalei and Dai Lin's 5,000 package transfer to Luneng. In this process, only one sentence from Wang Dalei was left:

"My own departure will allow Shenhua to stay." The meaning is that the transfer fee will allow Shenhua to pay nearly half a year's back wages to players and coaches, and at the same time repay Yunnan's 3,000 loan.

What followed were endless rumors of club transfers, including Greenland, Poly, Red Bull, and agricultural industry and commerce. Although it was finally confirmed that Greenland would take over Shenhua, for Zhu Jun’s nearly 30% equity and

For the actual operating rights, the two parties were locked in bargaining over the acquisition funds, from the initial 500 million, to the 330 million that was later rumored, to the 230 million, and finally to the officially announced 150 million. The process was also full of twists and turns, with occasional...

Song Boxuan’s 2000 transfer fee to Beijing Guoan, and Shanghai SIPG’s Bai Jiajun’s 700 transfer fee arrears lawsuit.

This transfer lasted until just before the start of the league. The players were still struggling with the previous salary arrears from Shanghai Shenhua, and even reached the point where the Football Association refused to register. Finally, with the help of the Shanghai Municipal Government, the two parties were able to reconcile.

However, the subsequent controversy over the team's name change became more and more violent. Fan groups complained and warned against the removal of the word Shenhua, and the city government was dissatisfied with Greenland Group's removal of the word Shenhua. Shenhua has been in the whirlpool of media public opinion.

While other teams have begun to recruit, run-in, and train, Shenhua has not made any progress in recruiting domestic and foreign players. On the contrary, a large number of main players have left the team one after another.

When Greenland finally solved all the problems, they suddenly discovered that the team's personnel were seriously insufficient and the team's tactics were in a mess. Shenhua had no choice but to target the Longteng team and spent a lot of money to steal it from the Longteng team.

Sun Yu and Xu Di, it's just that they joined the team too late.

After the start of the Chinese League, except for the first game in which Shenhua defeated Shanghai Shenxin, the weakest team in the league, Shenhua lost the remaining two games by more than two goals. One of them was a 1:3 loss at home.

Shenhua lost to its archrival Hangzhou Greentown, and the other game was a rout against Beijing Guoan, one of the "Beijing-Shanghai Derbys" against its old man. This shows the team's current predicament.

Although this game is an away game, after a week of rest and adjustment, the Longteng team, with all members fully resurrected, will never miss the good opportunity to get three points.

Before the game, the two sides seemed to have a warm relationship. Sun Yu and Xu Di both talked about the Longteng team's careful training for them. Zhang Sheng also praised the two of them as one of the best players at their positions in the country. But on the game field

, the strength gap between the two sides was still exposed.

Only 5 minutes into the first half, Lin Feng assisted Pato to score a goal in the midfield, and it was his former teammate Sun Yu who was broken through. This goal was lost due to Shenhua's own defensive mistakes in the midfield.

Although Shenhua then forced several waves of attacks under the leadership of Moreno, and Moreno once hit the goal post with a hook shot based on his personal ability, the gap in strength still showed up again in the 38th minute of the first half.

At that time, Pato scored twice after receiving Wenkai's ball to lead 2:0.

A series of disputes before the season seemed to have dissipated Shenhua's spirit of never admitting defeat. Even though they were trailing 0:2 at their home court, Shenhua still had no good offensive methods. At halftime, they did not score a goal.

After the second half, Shenhua's offense still failed to improve. In the 63rd minute, Pato used his personal ability to successfully break through alone. After winning the penalty kick, he successfully took the penalty and completed his first hat trick since coming to China.

After that, the Longteng team, whose victory was already determined, began to replace Pato, Lin Feng and Wen Kai one after another, and let young players Zou Weijia, Tao Wentao and Xiong Jian come on. Only then did Shenhua improve to a certain extent. In the 86th minute, foreign aid Khatib played

Scored a face-saving goal.

In the end, the Longteng team scored all three points against a veteran team like Shanghai Shenhua and won its first victory of the season. (To be continued.)


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