Zhang Sheng came back from Germany and has experience as a professional team coach. He is very familiar with the German scouting system.??
In Germany, in addition to having 2 to 8 full-time scouts, each Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2 club also has some part-time scouts who hunt for reserve talents for the club.
Take Hoffenheim, the "Huo Village" that Zhang Sheng is familiar with, as an example. While establishing its own scouting system, the club has begun to devote itself to theoretical research on scouting. Before returning to China, Zhang Sheng heard about Hoffenheim.
Heim is already preparing to join forces with German universities to conduct scouting courses and establish a scout training program.
The club's inspection scope is eight to ninety kilometers around the club. They have a group of people responsible for inspecting future stars who are eleven or two years old. Most of these talented teenagers will stay in their own amateur clubs to play football, but they will
Invite them to special training sessions on a regular basis. Let them attend training camps during the holidays. Although these players are still members of their own clubs, they begin to develop a special bond with the team.
Starting from the under-16 age group, you can join the club's youth training camp, including those talents from out of town. There is a special division of scouts responsible for the inspection of talents of all ages from under 16 years old to the first team. Professional scouts are responsible for the inspection of talents from the age of 17 to the first team.
, talent inspection begins at the age of eighteen. Players from this age are expected to be promoted to the adult team.
Each scout will write a report for each game he observes. For example, he should record his observations on the player's ability, and judge his tactical skills, overall coordination ability, physical development, etc., especially paying attention to his future potential. And
Establish a database and enter information in a way that facilitates future retrieval.
Therefore, Hoffenheim is one of the Bundesliga teams with the youngest average age of its players.
Zhang Sheng took many issues into consideration when he established the scouting system of the Longteng Club.
First of all, Zhang Sheng did not get rid of the amateur staff left by Shengdong before. Instead, he signed a scouting contract with them. If the player he sends can enter the first team, there will be a bonus of 3,000 yuan. If the player can enter the second team, he will receive a bonus of 3,000 yuan.
, it will be 1,000 yuan. If it meets the training requirements of the football school, it will be a reward of 2,000 yuan.
Afterwards, Zhang Sheng issued recruitment information and recruited a large number of part-time scouts. In addition to Jiangcheng, he also recruited at least one scout in every county and city in Hubei Province.
After the scout signs the contract, it will be stated in the contract that the scout will be trained every few months. The content of the training is very detailed.
This includes that scouts must keep an eye on the players they are prepared to observe at all times during the game, whether with or without the ball, offensively or defensively.
We should also focus on observation before and after the game. We should pay attention to whether the player warms up seriously before the game, whether he is focused on the bench, whether he respects his teammates and opponents after the game, whether he does his best in daily training, etc. Through these scouts, we can infer the player.
Personal characteristics, and combined with other aspects to determine whether there is sufficient room for improvement.
In terms of personal life, we should also observe the character and habits of players in private life. Do they like to stay at home or go out crazy on rest days, whether all-night parties are too frequent, what kind of comments are made in front of the media, and even what they will buy when they get a high salary for the first time.
, these are all items that scouts will pay attention to during long-term inspections.
Because Zhang Sheng had seen a similar situation in Ferguson's autobiography, Sir Alex once considered signing Balotelli who was still at Inter Milan. However, after asking Italian insiders and scouts about the evaluation of Balotelli's living habits
, Sir Alex quickly gave up the idea. Later it proved that this choice was wise.
At the same time, Zhang Sheng, who was born in IT in his previous life, also attaches great importance to the scouting system in the Internet age.
Zhang Sheng asked the club to purchase memberships of scout7 and yscout, the most professional scouting websites in Europe. Among them, he purchased the rights to the top version of yscout (39oo euros per month). Roma of Serie A is also a top member of this website, and through this
The website directly finalized the transfers of Lamela, Pjanic, Stroman and others. It achieved good results.
The clients of the scouting website yscout include not only Barcelona, Bayern, Juventus and other European giants, but also Guangzhou Evergrande.
The club's scouts will look for player videos on paid scouting platforms such as scout7 and yscout, analyze player data through professional databases such as opTa, and then select targets for on-site inspections based on this.
At the same time, Zhang Sheng teamed up with his father-in-law Ye Jianjun, and both parties funded and jointly opened their own scouting website. This is also part of the football software system jointly developed by the club and Jiangsoft Technology.
Zhang Sheng does not expect that his club will become like the "black shop" Porto or the "little zebra" Udinese from the beginning.
Porto's profits from selling players in the past 12 years have reached 400 million euros. Even if half of the profits belong to third parties, this has also brought huge profits to the team.
Porto's success is based on having a total of 250 full-time and part-time scouts around the world. Of course, the Portuguese language has a natural advantage in South America. Portugal has previously allowed third-party ownership, long-term cooperation with Mendes-level agents, and
Thanks to the scouting network rooted in South America, the black shop became famous.
In fact, Udinese in Serie A makes more money from selling players. Handanovic, Sanchez, Benatia and others have brought the club an average annual net transfer profit of about 3,000 million euros.
Behind the transfer proceeds is Udinese's huge investment in scouting. Udinese has shares in more than a dozen European professional and semi-professional clubs in Europe, and these clubs share scouting networks and other related resources. This sharing
The annual investment in the scouting system exceeds 2 million euros, of which Udinese’s exclusive share is as high as 8 million euros. For example, the later acquirer of Chongqing Lifan, Jiang Lizhang, had a joint venture with Udinese’s boss Pozzo in a sports company.
The family's shares show that Udinese's tentacles have penetrated deeply into China.
You know, the second highest scouting investment in Serie A in 2014 was Juventus's 1.2 million euros, and Udinese's 8 million euros was more than the other 19 Serie A teams combined.
Zhang Sheng, on the other hand, is preparing to take root in China.
With the country's large population and economic development, the number of people watching and playing football is increasing sharply. Zhang Sheng believes that as long as he perseveres, invests heavily, and goes to more football countries to study, sooner or later one day the Longteng Club will
It will also become the Porto and Udinese of China.
This call for players is the first result of the scouting system.
Judging from the data, this player named Ma Yongli was previously a player in a provincial echelon, and was a player trained for the provincial National Games. His strength is not bad, but he made a mistake, that is, he lied about his age.
, and then was found out and disqualified from the competition.
Falsifying your age to participate in competitions is a bad habit in domestic football circles. As long as you are playing in relatively high-level competitions, there is basically no one who does not falsely report your age. Even if scientific methods such as bone testing were later added, there are still a lot of people who have passed other
To take the wrong way.
Ma Yongli has shown his talent for playing football since he was a child. After being discovered by the coach of their local sports school, Ma Yongli was always mentioned in the provincial team because of his good performance. After arriving in the provincial team, the coach took his ID card directly to the household registration department.
Fake age (1). Of course, this does not mean that the coach wants to harm him, but basically most coaches will do this, and this kind of thing is the default in the circle.
After Ma Yongli joined the team, his family spent a lot of money to support him in playing football. As a family with a very average income level, it is very difficult to support a child playing football. For example, Zhang Yuning, a young overseas student whom Zhang Sheng knew in his previous life,
His father sold a villa in Liujiazui, Shanghai for him to play football.
When the team was predicting last year's National Games, the coach told him clearly that it would take 30 to play the main force. When Ma Yongli's father was seriously ill and the family couldn't afford it, Ma Yongli went to ask the coach, but the coach said very
Understand, he does not want this 3o alone, there are many people behind the scenes who are making money from this (2).
Just when Ma Yongli was worried about this matter, the Football Association organized a spot check on the players of the appropriate age for the National Games. This spot check was very strict.
Among the team members who were randomly checked at the time were his teammates, but this player had connections in his family, so he directly pushed Ma Yongli out as a scapegoat. Ma Yongli, who was already worried about money, got angry and mentioned the age of the team.
They were all exposed, and things got serious now. Many players from the provincial team were suspended. Of course, Ma Yongli, who broke the unspoken rules, was also fined and suspended for one year.
When Ma Yongli returned to his hometown and was about to stop playing football, the coach who originally scouted him gave him a hand and asked him to train with his second-division team while working, with the intention of reusing him when his suspension period was over.
Unfortunately, the team did not perform well and was disbanded after just one year. The team's coach also lost his job. However, Ma Yongli, who had nowhere to go, was spotted by the Longteng team and spent more than half a year observing his training.
The Longteng team scout immediately reported this matter to the club.
After Zhang Sheng read his information, he was also disappointed. It is really difficult to play football in China.
Soon, Zhang Sheng met Ma Yongli. The first thing the young man asked after meeting was whether it would cost money to move from the youth team to the first team. It seemed that this matter had a great impact on him.
Zhang Sheng shook his head seriously and said, "Don't worry about this. No matter what happens elsewhere, at least in our club, everything depends on ability and status."
Zhang Sheng then asked the club to conduct a physical examination and trial training on Ma Yongli. A week later, Ma Yongli passed the test and officially signed a contract with the team.
The moment he got the contract, Ma Yongli said with red eyes: "Coach, I will play well to repay the team."
Zhang Sheng patted Ma Yongli on the shoulder: "Playing football is not for anyone. This is your profession. Doing this job well and being worthy of yourself is the best reward for the team."
This player discovery is the first time that Longteng Club’s scouting system has added players to the first team. But Zhang Sheng believes that the scouting system will bring him more good players and contribute more to Chinese football.
