Mister Legend

Chapter 598 Summer Raiders

On May 5th, Li Modi, who had been busy for many days in Beijing and northern Xinjiang to establish a new youth football development plan, rushed to the capital of Jingchu Province by plane before the work at hand was completely completed. Jiangcheng.

The purpose of this trip is twofold. One is to be invited by the Football Association to participate in the launching ceremony of the 2025 Chinese Women's Super League, and the other is to participate in the retirement activities of Wang Shuang, the previous generation leader of the Chinese Women's Football.

Wang Shuang, who was born in 1995, is an authentic Jiangcheng native. Since he came into contact with football at the age of seven, he has formed an indissoluble bond with it, and has gradually grown into a world-class player with his talent and hard work. At the same time, he also led the sonorous rose of the Chinese women's football team to bloom again.

In the 2017-18 season, Li Moody, who got to know this outstanding player through the Asian Cup that year, had the idea of ​​bringing him to play in Europe. After that, through the relationship with Wenger, he successfully played for Wang Shuang in Ligue [-]. The powerful Paris Saint-Germain club established contact and acted as a lobbyist in person, which enabled Wang Shuang, who had previously missed joining the Arsenal and Manchester City women's football teams due to continuous obstruction by the Chinese Football Association, to successfully study abroad.

As of last season, she has played for Paris for a total of six years. As an important rotation and subsequent main force, she has won three Ligue [-] Women's Football League championships and two Women's Champions League championships, and has become the next player after Sun Wen. The second Chinese player who can break into the top three of the FIFA Miss World Football rankings.

In the national team career for many years, although the national women's football team did not achieve very good results because the overall strength was not dominant, they won an Asian Games championship, two East Asian Cup championships, a World Cup semi-final and an Olympic eighth. Strong, it can still prove how outstanding the number one star in Chinese football (including men's football) is.

Last summer, 29-year-old Wang Shuang chose to end her football career in Europe due to physical reasons, returned to her hometown team Jiangcheng Women's Football, and participated in the Chinese Women's Super League for half a season.Judging from her performance on the court, her technical ability is still superior to that of domestic players, but due to the many injuries accumulated over the years, her physical vitality has been seriously affected, so she can only play health-preserving football.

This is obviously not acceptable to Wang Shuang, who has dominated the green field for many years, so after fulfilling his wish to play for his hometown team, and after careful consideration, he decided to officially retire this year.

It is unbelievable for male athletes to choose to quit football at the age of 30, but it is more common for women. Except for a few talented people, most female athletes enter this age group. At that time, the physical fitness had already declined significantly, and the yellow race was indeed not as durable as the white race, so the retirement of the top star of the women's national team did not attract too much criticism from the outside world.

In view of Wang Shuang's brilliant player career and influence in the domestic sports circle, the Football Association quickly made a decision to hire her as the image ambassador of the Women's Football League. At the same time, the Jingchu Provincial Sports Bureau also intends to recruit her to work in the ZF organization.However, the former national team captain accepted the previous invitation, but did not follow in the footsteps of his predecessor Sun Wen and choose to enter politics as expected by the outside world. Instead, he planned to use his remaining fame to engage in women's football promotion. After all, her domestic teammates Their lives are so miserable that they need someone to stand up and help them get paid for their hard work.

According to a domestic media report last year, even with the implementation of the salary limit order, the average annual income of domestic male football players is much higher than that of ordinary white-collar workers. If they were placed in Western countries, they would be a proper middle class.But in contrast, female football players in the same industry can still only get wages that barely meet the standard of food and clothing. From 2017-2000 yuan per month in 3000, it will only rise to 2024-2500 yuan in 4000. , very poor.

Previously, almost every year, it was reported that former women's football players could only support themselves and their families by opening barbecue restaurants, snack bars or even setting up stalls on the street after retiring, which made those who heard it feel sad.In fact, it's just that they haven't received much attention from the outside world. In reality, this kind of tragedy is not an isolated case, but the most basic normality.

Asia's top women's soccer players can't save enough down payment for a new house even after they retire, while the 18-year-old male soccer player who has become the laughingstock of the world can easily buy several luxury cars. Gender injustice is everywhere It can be seen, but such a weird situation like the Tianchao football circle is still very incredible.

Even Wang Shuang, who has lived in Europe for many years, his total assets may not even be comparable to the two-year salary of a Tianchao team player. How far do you think this abnormal situation has developed!

It is precisely because she has seen the unfair treatment her teammates have suffered all year round that she wants to seek justice for everyone as much as possible when she still has some abilities (it is also impossible), at least to let The public can really become aware of the problem and make things better.

After learning about this, Li Mudi was also willing to provide some help to Wang Shuang out of morality and good personal relationship with Wang Shuang.Of course, the global problem of gender discrimination can't be changed by the efforts of the two of them alone. This kind of injustice exists not only in Tianchao football, but also in other sports and even in almost all industries in today's society. Even Europe and the United States, which claim to be a civilized world, are no exception.

Previously, female tennis players who had received equal pay for equal work in most of the top tournaments complained to the outside world that their commercial endorsement fees were far lower than those of men.

This is the real one who doesn't know the blessings in the blessings, because they definitely don't have former national weightlifting champions who make a living by scrubbing people after retiring, and there will be no former Olympic divers who work as waiters in restaurants and work multiple jobs at the same time A gold medalist, let alone a former World Skills Championship champion who doesn't know where his household registration should be, and who can't even get the most basic living guarantee.

The two people who know that their actions are likely to have no particularly positive impact, the reason why they are still willing to do this kind of thankless "stupid thing" is not because they are full and have nothing to do, nor because they want to use A savior-like face to fill my own emptiness or desire to pretend to be B, just thinking that when I still have the ability to do something, I don’t want to watch those who have dedicated everything to the Chinese women’s football career retire. Only the pain of the whole body is left, and nothing is gained from the rest.

This is indeed the sorrow of the entire Chinese sports world, and also the sorrow of all of us ordinary people who love football and life. Do what you can, presumably not many people in the country will choose to refuse.

However, this is also destined to be a very difficult road, because it is difficult to bring about any change through the appeal and efforts of individual people. Fundamentally speaking, women's football is far less important in the hearts of the people than what they say That's all.

Don't you see that the men's football league, which has been constantly refreshing the lower limit, can still attract the favor of advertisers, the National Sports Bureau and the attention of all fans who scold them, so those "stinky feet" will get high salaries and live without food and clothing from now on A luxurious life of worry.As for women's football, the professional league has been developed for more than 20 years, but there are still only eight teams. If you need subsidies from the General Administration, you can imagine the treatment of the girls.

Therefore, the behavior of chanting the slogan of equality between men and women will not have much effect in China, at least in the field of football.Everyone expresses sympathy and support for women's football, but there are always very few who are willing to spend some money and time to really pay attention to them.If it weren't for the occasional pieces of news that could remind the fans how difficult it is for the women's football team, which has achieved good results, few people would take the initiative to stand up and complain for the girls. Really powerless.

And Li Mudi's plan is also very simple. Although he has already transferred most of the shares of the film and television company, he can still make some decisions if necessary. To make a TV series about the life of women's football is to let everyone in the country. Learn more about the first steps of this special group.

As for the ratings and buyout fees, there is definitely no need to think too much about it. This type of film is basically a bargain, especially it is difficult to gain any resonance among the younger generation of viewers.But fortunately, the Football Association, the State Sports General Administration and even the larger ZF departments provide various supports behind the scenes, even if they lose money, they will not lose much, even if only [-]% of the audience who have watched the show are infected, If you are willing to keep paying close attention to the women's football girls, it is worth it, no matter how high you are, there are no other requirements.

Next, Li Mudi returned to the capital and met with the famous Chinese football agent Mr. Li Yuhong who had previously been contacted through a friend relationship, and jointly established a new company, which is dedicated to the operation of domestic female football players going to Europe to play football.

The European women's football league has developed relatively maturely by 2025. Nearly [-] countries, including the five major leagues, have established women's football leagues. Formally, it is already very close to men's football.It’s just that it’s far behind in terms of scale, attention, and commercial development. This is a worldwide problem, not only in China, but it’s not as serious as the latter.

Although the Tianchao women's football team is no longer at the peak of the golden generation of Sun Wen and Liu Ailing at the end of the last century, there are still many players who are capable of playing in European leagues where the current environment and overall strength are world-leading.Moreover, with the development in recent years, the financial strength of European clubs has also been significantly enhanced. It will never happen that the salary Wang Shuang got when he first joined Paris Saint-Germain did not earn much in China.

Being able to go to a more competitive environment to exercise your skills and earn more money to change your life is indeed a path that can help the Chinese women's football team, even if it may only benefit from it A small group of people, but it still has a certain positive significance.

And just before the end of this season, the Real Madrid Club has confirmed that it will form a women's football echelon in 2026, becoming the last European traditional giants to step into this field.

Since it is a fresh start, it will inevitably face the problem of shortage of players, especially in the youth echelon, there will be a large lack of good seedlings. Li Modi wondered if he could introduce more Chinese women's football players to try out.Even though the Real Madrid women's football team in the past few years will definitely not be very strong and the results will not be too good, but the team's reputation is great, and the treatment will not be stingy. It is a good choice for players whose personal ability cannot reach the world's top level. Very ideal place.

And because the strength of the national team is not very strong, the Spanish Football Association's foreign aid policy for the women's football league is more relaxed than that of the men's side, which is conducive to the joining of non-European players. It's good news.

Now that the issue of foreign aid policy has been mentioned, the topic can be turned to Li Moody's next plan, because it also happens to be related to this.

In the just-concluded season, under the leadership of coach Scholes, the Coventry team not only successfully avoided relegation in the first year after returning to the Premier League, but also climbed to the points in one fell swoop by virtue of their outstanding performance in the last few rounds. Ranked No.12 on the list, the performance is very good.What makes the Tianchao fans even more happy is that, in addition to Li Tenglong, who has already gained a firm foothold in the first team, two young players from the Tianchao who joined the team in 2023 also won the honor of representing the Sky Blues in the Premier League in the second half of the season. Although they only played for less than 40 minutes in total, the signals shown are very positive.

It’s just that Li Moody’s previous plan of introducing several young players from China every year had to be suspended after just two or three years, because in order to cope with the general environment that the UK is likely to return to the European Union, the Football Association has already The previous rules on the number of foreign players owned by Premier League teams have been changed, and the type of non-English players formulated after Brexit has been restored to the previous classification of European and non-European players, and the labor certification policy that has been greatly changed before has been re-used.

For the Tianchao men's football team, which is impossible to rank in the top [-] in the international rankings, it almost blocks the possibility of landing in the world's first league (in terms of the intensity of competition and influence). With a platform that can provide domestic players with potential to go to European leagues to train, then Li Moody can only think of other ways.

And his choice is also very simple, buy another club!

(End of this chapter)