World Cup of Great Powers

Beijing Airport.

Zeng Zheng wore sunglasses and looked like an overseas Chinese who had returned to China.

After qualifying for the Olympics this time, he did not go back to China with his team members, but stayed in Bahrain for a few days to have fun.

This is not the first time that Zeng Zheng has "specialized".

The World Cup is all "doing it's own way". Can a small Olympic qualifier stop Zeng Zheng?
But no matter how unwilling he is, Zeng Zheng will face reality one day.

"Sigh, the golden nest and the silver nest are indeed not as good as my dog's nest."

As soon as he got off the plane, Zeng Zheng sighed with emotion.

Miss Qian, who was also wearing sunglasses and carrying a bag of souvenirs, rushed up from behind.

"Coach Zeng, I can't tell you are so patriotic!"

"I am love, but who the fuck loves me?"

Thinking of what he was about to face, Zeng Zheng couldn't help but tighten his brows again.

Qualifying for the Olympics was originally something worth celebrating.

But Zeng Zheng has been very unhappy these days.

When the victory against Bahrain was sealed, the team leader Li Chuanqi found Zeng Zheng and gave him a new assignment from Zhu Xie.

"Assist Ladd in preparing for the Asian Cup?"

"Did you make a mistake?"

"I'm the head coach of the National Olympics, why don't I go to the National Football Team to make a fuss?"

Li Chuanqi also looked helpless.

"Coach Zeng, I'm just responsible for conveying the tasks assigned by my superiors."

"For the specific situation, you should go back to your country and ask yourself."

For this matter, Zeng Zheng stayed in Bahrain for several days.

One is to hide from the enthusiastic gossip media in China, and the other is to think about how to talk about this matter with Zhu Xie.

However, the sunshine and sandy beaches in Bahrain did not make Zeng Zheng temporarily forget his troubles.

Except for Ms. Qian's proud bikini that occasionally made Zeng Zheng imagined, other times Zeng Zheng has been thinking about going to the national football team as an assistant coach.

After parting from Miss Qian, Zeng Zheng spent a day in the capital to recuperate.

Early the next morning, Zeng Zheng came to the Zhuxie office building and found Xu Fang.

After entering the door, I just briefly expressed my wishes.

Xu Fang, who was still enthusiastic just now, changed his face in an instant, and took out a whole "speech" that he had thought up a long time ago from the drawer.

"Look!"

"This is the latest poll."

"84% of the fans agree that you will take on the National Football Team, the National Olympics and the National Youth Team."

"More than 92% of the fans support you to replace Ladd and lead the team to compete in the Asian Cup next year."

"More than half of the fans think that Zhuxie should sign a contract with you until the 02 World Cup, so that you can form a team from now on and prepare for the next World Cup."

No more, Xu Fang spread his hands.

"Xiao Zeng, this is the opinion of the people, you just follow it!"

From public opinion?
Bullshit!
When did your bureaucracy get over it?

"Uncle Xu, you also know that my family still has a lot of trouble."

"The Jianglong team is still waiting for me to play A-A next year!"

"It seems that the season is coming to an end, and there will be spring training in the spring."

"The Jianglong team also needs to be strengthened and not weak. They can't play in the first round next year, right?"

"Abandoning the foundation for international competitions, isn't this going backwards again!"

Faced with Zeng Zheng's complaints, Xu Fang's determination not only did not waver, but he sighed.

"Xiao Zeng, Uncle Xu knows about your difficulties and situation."

"But you also know that all the work of Zhuxie is carried out under the excellent results in various international competitions."

"Let's not talk about it, just talk about the few suggestions and improvement directions you put forward."

"If you don't have the good results of the current national team, do you think those who are passive can agree?"

What Xu Fang said left Zeng Zheng speechless.

Seeing that Zeng Zheng was silent, Xu Fang pulled out another stack of thicker A4 papers from the drawer.

"This is the latest policy that Zhuxie will introduce next year."

"At the end of this year, find an opportunity to hold a meeting with the owners of major clubs. This is almost on the agenda."

"There is a reason of 'opening the way for the national team' in the front. If they agree, they agree, and if they disagree, they agree!"

Zeng Zheng knew that what Xu Fang said was true.

The development of Chinese football in these years has actually been carried out in the process of exploration.

Don't look at so many excellent, successful and advanced examples in Europe, South America, Japan and South Korea, but none of them can be used to apply to oneself.

Some policies, rules and regulations are well practiced in other people's territory, but once they are brought to their own place, not only will they not promote the effect, but they may also have a counterproductive effect.

Once this kind of reaction occurs, the impact will be far-reaching, even deep-rooted.

With the size of Chinese football today, once some roads go wrong, if you want to completely change it, it will be impossible to do it in ten or eight years.

A saying that Xu Fang often talks about is: Strive to find a characteristic socialist road suitable for the development of Chinese football in his lifetime.

It is still the early stage of football professionalization, and the Zhuxie family dominates.

Although the judicial power is separated from the bamboo shoes, it is not enough.

In order to develop football at this moment, it is necessary for the decisiveness and dictatorship of elites to influence the normal operation of the league until the league matures to a certain level and forms its own market rules.

When the bamboo shoes no longer cover the sky with one hand, the system and monitoring agencies will become the guarantee for the normal development of the league.

Although Zeng Zheng doesn't know whether the current path of "driving grass-roots reforms with international competition results" is correct, but at least with the efforts of Zhu Xie, who is monopolized by Xu and Wang, it is definitely better than those bastards who don't understand football in the previous life. Much stronger.

Open the first page of the A4 paper, which is the salary limit mentioned by Zeng Zheng.

After the Jianglong team took the lead in limiting salary for a year, Xu Fang finally introduced a salary limit policy for all professional leagues.

The salary limit is not only limited to salary, but how much is the salary in the contract?

The specific restrictions are the various bonuses.

Hundreds of millions of bonuses make some clubs overwhelmed, and it is easy to increase unhealthy trends among players.

According to the policy introduced by Zhuxie this time, in addition to canceling some unnecessary bonuses, it also imposed a 100% "luxury tax" on some bonuses.

In this way, the harm caused by the flood of bonuses can be limited from the source, and the enthusiasm of the players will not be hindered too much.

Moreover, Zhuxie also sets appearance fees and some reward and punishment systems according to player performance and effort.

While increasing the upper limit of players' income, it also lowered the lower limit of some players' income.

According to the European market, the income of players in the team is basically divided into three parts.

Basic salary accounts for about 30.00%, appearance fees, goal awards, etc. account for 40.00%, and winning championships or completing certain exciting goals account for 30.00%.

In China, the basic salary of some players accounts for more than 80.00%.

This is an extremely unreasonable system, and it is easy for players to regard playing football as an "iron rice bowl" job.

This salary limit policy is to reduce the proportion of basic wages in players' income without flooding the bonus system, while ensuring players' enthusiasm for training, playing, competing, and winning, and maintaining positive income for each club. the ultimate goal.

After Zeng Zheng read it carefully, he also more or less understood Xu Fang's good intentions.

Not to mention anything else, just some of the figures, if you don't go to the grassroots to investigate in person, you can't get such accurate results.

You must know that such a salary limit order not only convinces all players, but also takes into account the real situation of 26 clubs with different domestic incomes.

Even a newly established small club like the Jianglong team will get positive benefits from this salary limit order.

Not only that, the money from these luxury taxes will also be used as special funds to develop youth football and women's football.

This salary limit policy alone is inseparable from the exhaustive consideration of Xu Fang and his team.

In addition to the salary limit, Xu Fang also introduced to Zeng Zheng the results of the first U16 league during this period.

After the final competition, the Wuhan representative team won the national championship.

People at Xu Fang's level look at this matter, and they are no longer concerned about who will win the championship, whether the southern team or the northern team will win the championship.

As long as an undisputed champion is determined in this first competition, it will be considered a success.

Next year, we will continue to do it according to the gourd painting, sum up a little bit, and bring forth the new, so that the healthy growth of this nascent league is the key.

After the final attendance rate and public opinion surveys, it was concluded that more than 80% of the people are looking forward to the second Youth Cup next year.

Although it is still not as good as the national high school competition in the little days next door, it can be regarded as adding the word "football" to the lives of middle school students.

"Xiao Zeng, you don't know."

"After learning that the Wuhan team had won the national championship, none of the northern teams were convinced."

"There are even people clamoring for the finals to be held in the Northeast next year, so that those players from the South will also feel the acclimatization."

"How about it, do you have any ideas to get your Jianglong team to give up their home court?"

Zeng Zheng rolled his eyes after hearing this.

"Uncle Xu, if you really can play the home game of the final in Harbin, I agree with it without saying a word."

"But then I will have to talk to the media."

"It has nothing to do with my dime!"

After hearing this, Xu Fang laughed, "Harbin is indeed too far away."

"But it shouldn't be a problem to put the home court in Shenyang and Dalian."

"After all, I also went out here when I went to the World Cup in 98. Presumably no one will object."

Speaking of this, Xu Fang raised his eyebrows.

"Xiao Zeng, I heard that you also set up a youth training base."

"What's the matter, do you want to sign up next year, participate in it, and see the strength of the players?"

Zeng Zheng shook his head.

To be honest, his youth training base is not yet scaled, at best it is just a winter and summer camp.

The Olympic qualifiers are over this time, and he is trying to expand the youth training base in his free time.

But if you shoulder the burden of the national football team again, you may not have so much energy and time.

Turning the A4 paper down again, it is the transfer adjustment made this year.

Last year, Zhuxie imitated the NBA and created a "listing system", which turned out to be a mess.

First of all, football and basketball are not the same sport.

The NBA can use a talented player to build a team, but a talented player in a football team can only serve as icing on the cake at best.

And if you have to let a talented player go to a "bad team" to integrate the team's strength, then the most likely result is that this talented player will sink.

Secondly, there is no such thing as relegation or relegation in the NBA, so in order to ensure the intensity of the regular season and prevent certain teams from dominating the rankings for a long time, each team has one or two influential stars in an artificial way. , This is also for the consideration of commercial interests!

Third, the delisting and transfer will also cause various other small actions that are difficult to control.

After the implementation of the delisting transfer system last year and Zeng Zheng's questions, Xu Fang's changes this season are also very simple.

The first is to set the broker examination and issue formal qualification certificates to standardize brokers.

Then let the agent and the club negotiate with each other, and everything will be done according to economic laws.

Although the general direction follows the laws of the market, in order to protect the enthusiasm of the club to train players, it is stipulated that every young player newly trained by the club must sign a five-year contract with the club at least.

If other clubs want to buy this young player during the contract period, they must pay the corresponding transfer fee and liquidated damages, and also need to obtain the consent of the player and the club.

Zeng Zheng took a brief look at some rules and regulations, most of which are transfer regulations of European leagues.

After introducing the old and bringing forth the new, and removing the protective clauses between the EU, it is more than enough to be used in the domestic market.

Seeing that Zeng Zheng was still looking through the terms seriously, Xu Fang couldn't help asking curiously:
"Xiao Zeng, what else do you not understand?"

"Uncle Xu, I just want to ask about the rule that people under the age of 25 are not allowed to transfer abroad."

"Ah, that, it's in the appendix!"

Zeng Zheng hurriedly turned to the end, and sure enough, he saw a line of fine print: Starting from XX, XX, XX, the ban on transfers to foreign clubs under the age of 25 will be completely revoked.

In other words, except for some rules to protect young players and club youth training, there are basically no restrictions on "staff outflow".

After Sun, Li, Zhang and others studied abroad, Xu Fang also tasted the pleasure of using "foreign guns".

Even so, for the development of local youth training, Zeng Zheng also saw several new rules for the season.

For example, starting from next year, the number of foreign players allowed to play at the same time for each team will be reduced from 5 to 4.

This news was actually released last year, but it took a year to buffer it.

It seems that next year's Spring Festival has already planned to fully implement it.

The second rule is that from next season, regardless of A B or A, there must be a local player under the age of 20 on the field.

And in case of a substitution at the beginning of the game, the playing time of this young player was also stipulated.

There are good and bad aspects of this rule, but the specific purpose is to cultivate outstanding young local players.

Although there will be dissatisfaction from some clubs, considering the background of the times and the excellent results of the National Youth and Olympic Games, most people will not make any waves on this new regulation.

What's more, after the Jianglong team took the lead in selling three players overseas, the club not only got back the funds, but also had a surplus.

The other teams are all envious!
In other words, under the background of the national youth championship and the national Olympic qualification, training and excavating young players has become a current craze, and it has also opened up a way for some clubs to make money.

In addition, there are some policies and proposals on the expansion of AA and AB in the next few years, as well as the expansion of the second division to the whole country.

While vigorously excavating and cultivating football talents, it has not forgotten to increase the size of the superstructure of Chinese football.

"Linglinglingling~~~"

Unknowingly, the canteen bell rang.

One morning passed.

Looking at Zeng Zheng who was thinking seriously after finishing his work, Xu Fang said seriously:
"Xiao Zeng."

"Listen to Uncle Xu's advice."

"Put the club aside first and concentrate on leading the national team."