Rebirth 1994: Football Situation

Chapter 2 The beginning of everything is difficult
In June 1992, the Hongshankou Conference, later known as the "Chinese Football ZY Conference", was held. At the conference, the development direction of Chinese football's professionalization was determined.

In October 1993, the Chinese Football Association held a meeting in Bangchui Island, Dalian, and the "Draft Chinese Football Ten-Year Development Plan", "Chinese Football Association Draft Charter" and "Football Club Draft Charter" were released, and Chinese football officially embarked on the road of professionalization .

In April 1994, the National Football League A began, and the audience was enthusiastic, presenting a thriving scene.

When all parts of the country were swept by this wave of football, Pei Wei was very distressed.

His company is a listed company, so it took him half a year to transfer part of his shares to several other major shareholders, and he only kept about [-]% of the shares, and announced that he would never intervene in the company's operations—to put it bluntly In the future, he will just wait for the annual dividends.

In fact, he originally planned to do the same, but he didn't know what to do after handing over the management of the company. After all, he was only 30 years old, and it seemed a little early to retire, but now he already has The goal - that is to start a club.

The [-]% to nearly [-]% of the shares he transferred out brought him close to one billion in cash, which was more than enough to build a football club, even if he wanted to buy a small club in Europe.

He didn't think about just buying a club, and then assigning a manager to that club to manage it—in fact, most of the Chinese clubs he knew in his previous life were of this type, and the clubs were all linked to a certain group. The subsidiary under the company is equivalent to a branch company, and the boss who manages the club is equivalent to the manager of the branch company, but there is a big disadvantage in doing so, that is, the boss will not care too much about whether the club is well managed—because the club Not his own, but there are still people who violated the law by profiting from the club—for example, several bosses of a famous southern club were found to have various problems after resigning.

Foreign clubs are generally the personal property of the club chairman, so they generally have deep feelings for the club and will not do things that are not good for the club. Moreover, the club is also his personal property. Only by running the club well can he With more and more wealth, in this case, how could there be a club owner who is negligent?
So after thinking about it, Pei Weisi reluctantly gave up the company he had created, and prepared to start managing the club wholeheartedly.

As a result, after he finished dealing with these matters, he discovered one thing. Although he had already applied to the Football Association, his club was established, the place was found, and the staff was hired-but this club was a An empty shell -- no players, no coaches.

Originally, there was a football team in this city, and Yunjia City has always been a big football city in this province. In its heyday, almost half of the provincial team’s players came from Yunjia. When he was about to fall, he received a dumbfounding answer: due to financial constraints, this team had been disbanded as early as last year, the players went their separate ways to find their way out, and the old coach retired. Everything is still there, but there is no one!
"Then what should we do? Without a team, how can my club get going?" Pei Wei's first words were this after breaking into the office of the Sports Commission.

The deputy director of the sports committee in front of Pei Wei knew that the city's richest man was ready to take over the team, and the municipal party committee also took this matter as an important project for the city's spiritual civilization construction, so he didn't think so much about Pei Wei's words. Respectful words did not show any anger, just said with a wry smile: "You should sit down first... Our sports committee can't help it, it's really tight on funds. Last year's team's bastards didn't pay for half a year. There was a lot of noise, and we really don't need to keep this football team, because there is no football competition in our Provincial Games... Besides, compared with other sports teams, the cost of maintaining a football team is the highest Yes, let me tell you..."

The director of the sports committee counted with his fingers: "The football team has a lot of people. There are more than [-] players, a few coaches, as well as team doctors, cleaners, and maintenance personnel... Just maintaining this stadium is a huge sum of money every year. Big expenses! These people have to be paid wages, and the nutritional allowances can’t be low, jerseys, sneakers, footballs... these things may seem insignificant, but the accumulated consumption figures are astonishing! Our funds are limited, Who doesn't know that the Sports Commission is a poor unit? We had no choice but to disband the football team. Just to repay those bastards with half a year's wages and send them away, we still embezzled the expenses of several other items to fill in, otherwise How could we be willing to disband the football team... Who doesn't know the whole province of Yunjia Football League? We have no choice..."

Pei Wei kept silent, he knew what the other party said was true, but if he didn't report enough players to the Chinese Football Association before the start of the second division league on May 5, his club would automatically be disqualified!

"Do you... know the whereabouts of these players?" Pei Wei lit a cigarette and handed it to the other party: "How many are there?"

"How do I know this? I do have their contact information, but it's been a year, and I don't know how many others I can get in touch with..." The deputy director of the sports committee had a bitter face.

"Just do your best for me, Director Ma." Pei Wei sighed: "Help me, try to contact me, I will treat you to dinner tonight, and share your views on the development of football in this city by the way, how about it?"

Director Ma immediately smiled: "Oh, how embarrassing it is... Mr. Pei, it's only right to help you, the city has issued a notice, asking us to do our best to assist you in your work... Where are you at night? "

Pei Wei smiled slightly, and handed over a business card: "Call me tonight, I'll arrange a place, how about it?"

"No problem, no problem." Director Ma hurriedly took the business card, saw Pei Wei standing up, and quickly stood up too: "Go slowly, I'll see you off."

"No need." Pei Wei laughed.

"Yes, yes, you are a distinguished guest, the development of football in our city depends entirely on you!"

When passing the stadium, Pei Wei vaguely heard a few shouts from the stadium.

"Why does it seem like someone is training?" Pei Wei stopped.

"Oh, that's the training of the second-tier team and teams of several other age groups. Most of them pay tuition to train, so the teams of these age groups are still there." Director Ma said proudly : "The football atmosphere in our city is very strong, and the members of the reserve teams are also very complete. There are teams for those aged 19 to 9... Would you like to go and see?"

"No need." Pei Wei turned his head and took a deep look in the direction of the court: "It's better not to disturb their training, I'll come back tomorrow, please find all the coaches of these age groups tomorrow, I think Talk to them."

"Ok, no problem."

(End of this chapter)