The victory in the game brought praise from the outside world, but from Zhang Sheng's point of view, there were many things going on.
The team had a great time in the AFC Champions League, but what about the next Chinese Super League?
After playing the AFC Champions League on March 2, the team could fly back to China the next day on March 3. After a long flight and jet lag, the team's physical fitness and state must have been at a low point, and in March
On the 6th, the Longteng team will fly to Chongqing to participate in the first round of the Chinese Super League.
Such continuous flights not only test the team's logistics arrangements, but also place extremely high demands on the players and coaching staff.
After the end of last season, Lao Xing, the oldest coach in the Longteng team and the club's deputy team leader, officially retired. Now only Yu Jie is left as the team leader. Many of Lao Xing's previous jobs were left to the latter.
, he is also extremely busy now.
Before Lao Xing left, Yu Jie actually had some complaints. As a "regular soldier" who came from the football circles in Hubei Province and Jiangcheng, he was not too fond of "Tubal" who came from amateur teams like Lao Xing.
Affordable.
The position of deputy team leader is usually held by the club in order to reward players who have retired from the position of professional players and have been captains or vice-captains in the team for a long time. However, Lao Xing has no such experience at all, so Yu Jie has been
He thought that Lao Xing was asked to stay by Zhang Sheng as a good old man, but now that Lao Xing has completely retired, Yu Jie realized that Lao Xing had silently done many things for him.
Including communicating ideas with the players and giving feedback to the head coach about the players' opinions, Lao Xing, as a kind-hearted grandfather-like figure, did a very good job.
When Yu Jie started to do it, he realized that these things were really difficult to do. At this time, he missed Lao Xing extremely.
Yu Jie has already thought about it this time. At the regular meeting of the club, he will propose that the team establish the position of deputy team leader. Otherwise, it will be all up to him alone, which is really too busy.
Moreover, Yu Jie has already thought of the recommended candidate, which is Chen Hao, who was the main forward when the team was still an amateur team and is also a retired player in the team.
After Chen Hao retired, he was arranged to take the coaching qualification exam. However, because of his many injuries, he rarely directly coached young players and mostly participated in logistics work. This time, Chen Hao happened to be pulled out.
Just do the logistics directly.
Considering that Chen Hao played for the team for three years when he was in the amateur team, and worked for the club for more than five years after Longteng bought the club, his qualifications are definitely sufficient.
When Yu Jie was still worrying about his business, good news came from the Longteng club.
Soon after the club went public, Longteng Club conducted its first private placement after the Spring Festival this year. On the day the Longteng team returned from Australia, Longteng Club completed its first transaction of 35,000 shares at a price of 60 yuan/share.
The price can be said to have blinded countless people.
Because if calculated at this price, the market value of Longteng Club has reached 19 billion yuan, which is more than 2.5 billion U.S. dollars when converted into U.S. dollars. This price exceeds Manchester United's market value of 2.35 billion U.S. dollars, ranking first in the world.
The third place in the world football club rankings, ahead of the Dragons, is only Real Madrid with 3.26 billion and Barcelona with 3.16 billion.
Of course, this price is artificially high, because in the past year, Manchester United had the highest revenue, reaching 700 million U.S. dollars, and Manchester United had the highest profit, reaching 190 million U.S. dollars, while Real Madrid ranked second in profit.
Net income was $162 million.
The total revenue of the Dragons last year, even including the revenue from player transfers, was only less than 800 million yuan, one-seventh of Manchester United's. In terms of profit, even because the club's operating costs are low, the profit reached nearly five times.
billion, which is only one-third of Manchester United’s.
This season, the Longteng team has significantly increased the salaries of most players, and the operating costs are even higher. However, the outside world's expectations for the Longteng team are even higher. The price of 60 yuan/share just shows that everyone has high expectations for the Longteng club.
confidence.
With the completion of the first transaction, the few shares of Team Longteng in the market have been robbed by everyone, and it is said that some institutions are already preparing to buy large amounts. There is even news that a fund company that has been entrusted is preparing to make a large-scale purchase once it is targeted.
When the company issuing additional shares is ready for trading, it purchases shares from buyers of private placements, which means it wants to become a shareholder.
The actual situation is that during this period, many institutions and individuals have contacted Longteng Club, hoping to invest in Longteng Club, and this news has been hyped up. Many sports industry companies and Internet giants have become the target of rumors.
In fact, this is a very funny thing in China. Among the big names who invested in the Chinese Super League in history, Wang Jianlin, not to mention, is a veteran figure, but two people like Alibaba boss Jack Ma and Suning boss Zhang Jindong invested in football.
The boss is not a fan at all, and Jack Ma even bluntly said that he doesn’t understand football at all.
On the contrary, several other wealthy people on the wealth list are very senior football fans.
Although Zhang Chaoyang, the founder of Sohu, considers himself a "fake football fan", he has never failed to win every World Cup and even often commentates on the game; Ding Sanshi, the founder of NetEase, behaves like a veteran fan and uses NetEase Sports to interview star players.
He also got a jersey No. 163 that was exclusive to him; Sina's Cao Guowei not only watched the football, but also took the lead in organizing the game; Fu Sheng, a senior Internet investor, is a senior Brazilian fan and often expresses his laments about the Brazilian team in the media.
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Needless to say, Lenovo's Liu Chuanzhi, as a fan of Messi and Yang Chen, when he was working in Hong Kong, because he couldn't see the TV broadcast of the League A, he actually rushed to Shenzhen by car to watch the broadcast. He once had his own thoughts
The idea of creating a football club; Robin Li, the boss of Baidu, was a campus football player as early as in middle school. In addition to the Chinese team, he was also a fan of Germany and Bayern. Later, Baidu established a football team, often competing with Sina, Sohu, etc.
Teams competing against each other; Zhang Xiaolong, known as China’s number one product manager and the founder of WeChat, is not only a fan, but also a good green player in college. When he was still in college at Huake, he often played with his friends at the stadium near the south gate of Huake.
He plays football, and his skills are said to be extremely superb.
As a senior fan of Tencent, Ma Huateng talks endlessly about the national football team. In addition to being a senior fan, he is also a committee member of the All-China Sports Federation.
Therefore, it is very strange that these domestic giants, real fans do not vote for the Chinese Super League, but those who are not fans have always invested heavily in the Chinese Super League.
In fact, in the final analysis, as business people who understand football, they have a deeper understanding of investing in domestic football clubs.
This time, the Internet giants want to invest in the Longteng Club. To put it bluntly, it is not because they are fans, but because they feel that in the domestic sports field, the Longteng Club is a sure-profit deal and is an extremely popular one.
IP.
As the actual owner of the club, Zhang Sheng knows which companies are contacting Longteng Club. Among them are 200 million yuan more than in history. LeTV, which monopolized the broadcast rights of the Chinese Super League for 3 billion yuan for two years, and then plummeted, and Tencent Sports
Such steady giants even include Alibaba-based investment companies that want to break the rules of domestic football - one company cannot own two clubs at the same time.
It's just that the club is still considering these investments. Of course, Zhang Sheng has left these matters to his father and the club's senior management, letting them evaluate the pros and cons of accepting the investment. Zhang Sheng himself is
He flew the team to Chongqing to prepare for the first game of the 2016 Chinese Super League.
Originally, as many as four teams applied to host the opening ceremony of the Chinese Super League this season. There were three types of teams: one with particularly good results, such as Guangzhou Evergrande; one with strong local support that wanted to take advantage of the situation and create excitement.
Those with good atmosphere, such as Chongqing Lifan; those with new faces and good money, such as Jiangsu Suning and Hebei China Fortune.
In the end, Suning Club, which had just taken over Jiangsu Sainty, intended to use the opportunity of the opening ceremony to show off the image of the new club and grabbed the right to host the 2016 Chinese Super League opening ceremony. Chongqing only grabbed the opportunity to host the 2016 Chinese Football Association Super League on February 7.
Cup.
This also means that the Longteng team, which was supposed to play in the opening ceremony, was assigned to an ordinary game.
Compared with last year's "diligence and frugality", this season's Chinese Super League opening ceremony is only about good results, no matter how much money is spent, and Suning, as the organizer, also strives to make this opening ceremony the most expensive opening ceremony in history.
In order to achieve the strongest publicity effect, Jiangsu Suning Brand Department is responsible for the design and operation of this opening ceremony. According to outside rumors, the investment in the entire opening ceremony may be 50 million to 100 million yuan, or even more.
Jiangsu Suning's idea is very simple. They must use the fastest speed to make the Suning team the focus of national attention in the shortest time, become unique in the Chinese Super League, and create the greatest social effect.
However, after the opening ceremony, which was said to cost more than 100 million yuan, only the "most expensive money in history" became the highlight. Other things, including the referee Fan Qi's penalty, were criticized by the fans. In the end, the opening ceremony
The style was summed up by fans into one sentence: a Yangko-type opening ceremony created by people in the 1950s and 1960s.
However, from the game after the opening ceremony, everyone understood a truth - nothing is spent. Teixeira's overwhelming performance in the face of domestic players proved that these 50 million euros were really not in vain.
After the run-in in the first two games, the wonderful performance in the AFC Champions League a few days ago and the two goals scored in this game undoubtedly showed the strength.
Compared with Jiangsu Suning's 3-0 victory over the veteran team Shandong Luneng in the opening ceremony, this game for the Longteng team was extremely difficult.
Although "little motorcycle" Fernando was not bought by Chongqing Lifan due to the emergence of the Dragons, another fast Brazilian striker they purchased at a low price posed a great threat to the Dragons.
The Longteng team indeed suppressed Chongqing Lifan in the half court and was unable to launch an effective positional attack. However, Chongqing Lifan's counterattack was still very sharp. The Longteng team still had a lot of opportunities to fill in for the wing backs in the midfield.
Mistakes.
At the 13th minute of the first half, the Longteng team broke the deadlock with Ben Alpha and turned the score into 0:1. However, soon after, the opponent's Brazilian foreign aid used the Longteng team's interception in the midfield to make up for the disadvantage five minutes later.
, a long-distance attack, turned the score into 1:1.
Zhang Sheng was very angry about this goal. He had witnessed Guangzhou Evergrande's 2:1 loss to Chongqing Lifan on TV. Is he going to follow the same old path now?
Seeing Zhang Sheng's unhappy face, the players on the field also knew that they should concentrate their attention. In the next game, the Longteng team maintained the siege of Chongqing Lifan. Although they failed to expand the score, they did not give the opponent any advantage.
What a great opportunity to counterattack.
After the second half, Chongqing Lifan, which had been without the ball for a long time, finally made a mistake. Chavez received a header from Nie Jiang's pass in the penalty area and scored, turning the score into 1:2. The Longteng team once again took the lead.
As the game time goes by, the physical energy consumption of the players on both sides is increasing. Especially the players of the Longteng team who play continuously and have double matches a week are really very tired. Although they have an advantage on the court, they can't run anymore.
It was impossible for Zhang Sheng to change the entire starting lineup before the game. All he can do now is to check for leaks and fill in the gaps. After successively replacing Ben Alpha, De Paul, and Nie Jiang,
After replacing Xiong Jian, replacing Rock Gill, and replacing Zhang Hao, the game came to an end.
In the end, the game ended in an anticlimactic 1:2.
After a week's rest, the Longteng team regained its physical fitness and played at a very high level in its first home game of the 2016 Chinese Super League.
After the last game, the outside world unanimously questioned why the Longteng team insisted on playing 3-5-2. They believed that the team should not forcefully use the mad dog tactic of full-court pressure and should adjust it according to its own situation.
Zhang Sheng ignored the doubts from the outside world. The loopholes in the execution of tactics cannot be seen without being tempered by actual combat. Since Zhang Sheng chose to play this tactic, how should he use the tactics to their full potential in different situations?
The best is what must be considered.
As a strong team, it is inevitable to fight on multiple fronts. The Dragons will definitely encounter double games a week or even three games a week in the future this season, so the last game can be regarded as a preview of this situation in the future.
If problems can be discovered during the game, the sooner the better. Fortunately, the Longteng team still won a victory.
In this game, the Longteng team's full-court pressure was severe. Changchun Yatai originally acted like a weakling and tried to defend the backcourt by chance, but put two fast players in the frontcourt to steal one. This was completely
What I learned is Chongqing Lifan from the last game.
However, the Longteng team's pressure prevented them from holding on in the backcourt. In just 35 minutes of the first half, the Longteng team relied on Ben Alpha's brace and Nie Jiang's shot to make the score 3:0.
In the second half, the Longteng team's continuous pressure completely collapsed Changchun Yatai. Ben Arfa completed a hat trick, and Chavez and substitute De Paul also scored their first goals in the Super League.
In the end, the Dragons' first home game of the season ended with 6:0.
