"Oh, this is a good thing." After hearing the news, Zhang Sheng also knew that the critical moment had arrived.
Jiang Peng was obviously very happy about this: "Teacher, with your current influence in domestic youth training, there is a high chance that your opinions will be adopted."
Zhang Sheng and Jiang Peng were not happy for no reason.
However, what these three people don't know is that the Football Association's plan this time is very different from that in history, both in terms of formulation time and plan goals.
In real history, the third general meeting of the 10th Chinese Football Association held in Wuhan in early 2017 adopted a plan to hand over the "2020 Action Plan".
It is also proposed in the plan that by 2020, the registered youth football population will reach 1 million, including 100,000 women's football; a business development system covering campus football, professional football and other fields will be established; the men's football team will enter the top 70 in the FIFA world rankings, and the women's football team will enter the top.
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In particular, the men's football national teams at all levels, which are extremely concerned about the outside world, have specially set competition goals: to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics in 2019, to reach the semi-finals of the Asian Cup, to reach the quarter-finals of the 2019 U23 Asian Championship, and to reach the quarter-finals of the 2017 U22 Asian Championships.
(U22) Qualified in the Asian Championships group and appeared in the 2017 Asian Junior Championships.
At the same time, in terms of professional leagues, it is planned to form a league structure with an increasing number of participating teams in the Chinese Super League, Chinese First Division, and Chinese Second Division, that is, 16 Chinese Super League teams, 18 Chinese First Division teams, and 32 Chinese Second Division teams.
The Football Association, the professional league that capital investors are most concerned about, also gave a response: the reorganization of the preparatory working group will be completed by March 2017.
It can be said that this is an overall plan that covers government policy goals, industry performance goals, public expectations, and capital wishes. It is very majestic.
Ironically, this is also very unrealistic. After all, it is a fantasy to plan in 2017 and have results for all age groups in 2020.
By comparison, every time China formulates its famous five-year plan, which plan requires an industry to achieve an overall breakthrough within the entire industry within five years?
In this timeline, because of the emergence of Zhang Sheng, his extreme emphasis on youth training is reflected in two aspects. One is the club's massive investment of funds, and the other is that many of his good ideas and measures were uploaded to the top level of the Football Association through Professor Xie
.
The large number of outstanding youth training players in the Longteng team and the good results of the national team have established Professor Xie's current status as a domestic youth training policy expert. It can be said that this is also the result of the docking of government and enterprises, mutual support and mutual promotion. Of course,
To put it bluntly, it is also a model of "official, business, collusion, and alliance" in another sense.
Since many achievements have been achieved at this time. For example, in the 2016 Rio Olympics in Brazil, the Chinese Olympic team has historically won the bronze medal. Naturally, there will be no requirement to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics in 2019. At the same time,
Teams of all age groups including U23, U20, and U17 have already made great breakthroughs in recent years. Historically, the plan in 2017 was even less likely to happen.
However, for an industry leadership group, whether it is to announce goals to attract everyone's attention, or to reflect its image of being determined to make breakthroughs, a new plan has emerged, and this time the plan has higher requirements.
For example, in youth football, the registered population is required to reach more than 3 million, and the upcoming 2018 World Cup is required to achieve the "historical goal" of scoring a goal, scoring a point, and winning a game; the 2022 World Cup requires reaching the finals and competing for the group.
Qualifying; in the Olympic Games, the requirement is to make further progress while maintaining the current results; in the Asian Cup, the requirement is to win the championship.
Compared with the previous three years of producing results, the Football Association's requirements this time are higher, and of course the time given is one more year.
"Yes. I have gained some fame in the past few years. Even if I shout loudly, some people will listen. I am going to retire in two years, so I might as well sell out my reputation this time. No matter what, I have to give up my reputation.
Stop those who are confused." Professor Xie looked very serious.
"You don't know. This time I went out for research and heard some outrageous rumors. Some clubs have had their own ideas. They don't think about how to increase their investment in youth training, but they want to take shortcuts -
-Directly naturalize players." At this point, Professor Xie became excited.
"Ah? Naturalization?" Zhang Sheng and Jiang Peng shouted in unison.
Professor Xie nodded solemnly: "Yes. Several teams that are eager to achieve results have begun to think about naturalization. Not only are they naturalizing some well-known Chinese players from abroad, they are even thinking of directly attacking members of the team.
Naturalize the foreign players, and then buy more foreign players.”
"In order to naturalize players, I heard people from the Football Association say that they are persuading the Football Association to relax the restrictions on naturalization. What's more, they want to 'sponsor' the AFC and FIFA to let them also relax the restrictions on naturalization.
Restrictions. It can be said that all the agencies have calculated." Professor Xie shook his head, "It is said that they even used Qin Minghao as an excuse, saying that Xiao Qin was also 'naturalized' back from Brazil."
"Fuck him." Zhang Sheng immediately became angry, "Qin Minghao is originally Chinese, what kind of naturalization is that? He is a Chinese, but he is slandered as a foreigner."
Jiang Peng was also anxious: "No wonder. Am I saying strange? During this period, some articles about 'counting Asian naturalized stars' and 'some famous naturalized players from around the world' have appeared in various media. Among them
Many people mentioned Qin Minghao, although they all put the word naturalization in quotation marks, I thought it was to popularize football knowledge, but I didn't expect the intention to be so sinister."
"Humph, this is testing the attitude of the Football Association, fans, and society towards naturalized players." Professor Xie sneered, "I don't want to train young players well. I just want to be anxious to achieve results and do well in society."
, The next step must be very serious! As soon as the idea of the Football Association’s plan came out, those smart people..."
"All the smart people in China have come to the Chinese football circle, and they have all kinds of fantastic ideas." Zhang Sheng complained.
Jiang Peng continued: "I'm afraid that my cleverness may lead to my being misled by my cleverness."
"So. I have thought about it. Taking advantage of this opportunity for the Football Association to make plans, I will try to get scolded and mess up the affairs of these smart people." Professor Xie's attitude was very decisive, "I will come this time.
Being a shit stirrer, even if it means covering my body with shit and forcing me to retire early, I will still do it."
The three people present are well aware of the impact of naturalization on Chinese football.
Once the Football Association liberalizes naturalization, and several clubs respond by sponsoring the AFC and FIFA, a large amount of domestic funds will definitely go to the wrong path of naturalizing players.
If you don't pay more, which foreign player playing in China will be willing to change his nationality, and which Chinese player with some potential will be willing to give up a better football environment to come to China.
The vast majority of players who are willing to naturalize are like Volav who has mastered the code of wealth.
Naturalizing 1-2 players, oh, that will make it easier for the national football team to qualify for the World Cup. Naturalizing 4-5 players will make the Chinese team more confident of qualifying for the World Cup group. So when will it start?
Is it necessary to fast forward the Football Association's restrictive policy on foreign aid in the Chinese Super League to the national team: "At least three local Chinese players must play in the Chinese national football roster"?
The tree is not growing well. If you don’t want to fertilize the tree with nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, will inserting a few green leaves into the trunk of the tree make the tree better?
In real history, when players become naturalized, do their results get better?
Is it the national team’s performance that is better, or is it the Chinese Super League team’s AFC Champions League performance that is better?
"Let me polish your suggestion. Articles within the system are not written like this." Professor Xie made a lighthearted joke, "Others will know it is your Zhang Sheng's handiwork at a glance. Don't let this matter affect your club.
.Even if things don’t work out, don’t lose the only hope of Chinese football.”
"Teacher." A wave of heat surged through his body.
Professor Xie waved his hand to tell Zhang Sheng not to be impulsive: "There are some things that old guys like us should do. The upcoming 10th and 19th National University is a good opportunity. I have been in the domestic football circle all my life.
Nothing has been accomplished, so this time I have an opportunity to contribute."
"It's getting late. I'm looking at the schedule. You have a game the day after tomorrow. Don't let this matter affect your team's performance. Let's go back."
Seeing Professor Xie starting to chase people away, Zhang Sheng and Jiang Peng had to say goodbye reluctantly.
In the Chinese Super League on September 17, the top three teams were already 10 points ahead of the fourth, and the two teams that would be relegated were basically determined. The whole round of competition seemed uneventful.
The Longteng team defeated Changchun Yatai 3-1 at home without any suspense. The only thing that aroused discussion among fans was that the main goalkeeper of the Longteng team, Huang Dawei, came back and conceded a goal.
In the next league match, the strong Longteng team continued their victory at their home court, defeating the visiting Tianjin Quanjian 4:1.
The results of the league are not of great concern to Zhang Sheng's coaching team, especially Zhang Sheng and Jiang Peng, because the league's reform proposals are what they are most concerned about.
Since the last high-level meeting of the club, Zhang Sheng and Jiang Peng have not revealed much information in the club, and they have not mentioned the progress of the matter. Several senior managers thought that Zhang Sheng was also aware of this.
Due to the difficulty of the matter, the proposal was postponed.
In fact, considering the obvious resistance of several senior managers, at this critical moment of Professor Xie's operation, Zhang Sheng did not want his team to be held back and do bad things.
It was not until Zhang Sheng was to lead his team to Shanghai to prepare for the AFC Champions League semi-finals on September 27, which was the East Asia finals, two days before the game against Shanghai SIPG that Professor Xie called.
"I have made modifications to the bill you gave me, and I will send it to you later." Mr. Xie on the other end of the phone said in a relaxed tone, "I have contacted you on all aspects of the matter and also done a little bit.
homework."
Zhang Sheng quickly called Jiang Peng and took a closer look at Professor Xie's revised proposal. In this proposal, Professor Xie did not focus on salary limits as Zhang Sheng's proposal did, but instead focused on youth issues.
content of training.
He incorporated the results of his field investigations over the past few years into the proposal. This plan has a grand framework and complete details. It elaborates on all aspects of society, government, and capital, especially the club's youth training requirements.
At a high level, combined with the upcoming discussion of the establishment of a major alliance, he also raised questions and suggestions on blind investment.
Later, Professor Xie revealed all his plans: "I will be the main force behind this proposal. At the same time, I communicated with President Fu from Jiangcheng, and he will come out to support the youth training, and
I promised him that the next reorganized executive committee of the Football Association will help him further take charge of youth training. In this area, I still have a bit of face. He is also a senior brother of your Jiangcheng Sports Academy. Please contact him more in the future."
"Didn't Xiaolin come to the Olympic Committee from being the vice chairman of the Football Association? He has been responsible for the foreign affairs of the Football Association. It has always been one of his wishes to hold an international football event with a certain influence in China. He feels that the World Youth Championship is like this
The competition is a good choice. We have achieved good results in several consecutive World Youth Championships. You can communicate more with him. You have to make use of the resources in Europe."
"I am a close family friend of the contemporary Mr. Ai and his late teacher Mr. Dong. Their company is engaged in copyright management of tournaments. They are also very optimistic that the World Youth Championship can really be won. Moreover, the Football Association is reorganized.
The probability of them being elected to the next executive committee is not small."
Professor Xie put his heart and soul into doing this, obviously using all his resources. He also took care of all aspects of society, government, and capital.
For Zhang Sheng, what he has to do is to train more and better young players, help China gain more say in youth training internationally, and let more Chinese young players stand out in the international arena.
At the same time, resources will be invested to win the right to host the U20 World Youth Championship in 2021.
And these people mentioned by Professor Xie are exactly the supporters of this proposal.
