World Cup of Great Powers

Chapter 140 The Great 1998
"The Asian Games are over." Zhuxie Vice President and Secretary-General Zhang Heng looked out the window and let out a long breath.

"Fortunately, I came back with two gold medals. If one piece was missing, things wouldn't go so smoothly." Ma Ke picked up his teacup and took a leisurely sip.

A gust of north wind came with a whistling sound, and Zhang Heng quickly closed the window.

At the end of December, the capital was already blowing from the north.

If you want to change the indoor air, it is enough to open the window for half a minute to 1 minute.

"I'm not worried about the women's football. Our strength is there, and the investment is so high. It's the men's football, tsk tsk tsk, old Xu Laowang is really dangerous this time."

"Old Zhang, that's not right, it's called the boldness of a high-tech man!" Ma Jian laughed and said, "From the moment he sent Xiao Zeng to make a move, I knew that what Lao Xu wanted was definitely not what the military students and reporters said. As we said, we will hit the semi-finals with all our strength.”

"Xiao Zeng leads the team to play one more game in front, and Xu Fang can make a drastic move for one more day."

"How is it now?"

"The Asian Games are over, and the gold medal is back."

"Who else pays attention to what he promised to do over there?"

"When we hold a press conference, this matter will be considered a certainty, and it will be difficult for anyone to object!"

Ma Ke stroked his hands and shook his head, "But I'm in a lot of trouble at the delisting meeting!"

Not long ago, at the player transfer delisting meeting held by Zhuxie, a vice president of Shenyang Sea Lions suddenly stood up and told Ma that the locomotive teenager Li Yi was suddenly on the list after five rounds and was suddenly taken away by Beijing Guoan attack.

This happened so suddenly that it aroused the public's strong attention.

Ma Ke did not utter a word yet, and Guoan was also making a fuss.

They said that Qu Bo, a young locomotive player they valued, was quickly cut off by the newly established Harbin Jianglong!
In addition, Songri also strongly protested that Yangpu, whom he was in love with, was also intercepted by Harbin Jianglong.

In the words of the boss of Guoan, "We know that Zhuxie needs to focus on training the younger generation of players, but our club also needs fresh blood!"

"Who doesn't know what background he has in Harbin Jianglong?"

"With so many young talents in our hands, this is going to take our salary from the bottom of the pot!"

The protest of the Guoan boss struck a chord.

As the Jianlibao members who were not bought by Zeng Zheng played better and better in the club, those clubs that let people leave for a small profit regretted it.

Now that I know that Zeng Zheng started working directly from A B, doesn't that mean that A A will have an extra team of Northeast regulars in just one year?
Coupled with Zeng Zheng's excellent performance in international competitions, Zeng Zheng is now the weather vane!
In the first round of delisting, apart from Su Maozhen's level of international players, the most concerned are the young rookies who have been used by Zeng Zheng and joined Zeng Zheng's team.

Especially since the second round, these club bosses have been inquiring privately to see which young players have had a relationship with Zeng Zheng.

Under such "delisting standards", after all the clubs in the first and second levels are delisted, there are more than 300 players left waiting for work.

Where to put the extra players has also become a big headache for Ma Jian.

"Speaking of it, we still have a shallow foundation." Ma Kejian began to rub his temples, and he didn't talk about his calmness when he won the Asian Games.

"It's really not possible, let these people go to amateur teams to wait for work!"

"It's not good if you don't play football for a year!"

"And this year's transfer method of delisting sequentially, the effect does not seem to be very good."

"Neither the club nor the players seem to be satisfied."

"If it's still like this next year, I guess we have to change the transfer method."

"We just play football, what NBA do we learn?"

At the end of the year to welcome the new year, every household is busy celebrating the new year.

While all kinds of news are flying all over the sky, there are also some news events that are enough to make football "earthquake".

However, after getting used to these "earthquakes", the fans have long been accustomed to it.

"Dalian Wants to Bid to Host the No.18 Asian Club Cup"

"Bamboo Shoes is expected to complete the military expansion in 2000"

"Jianlibao Settled in Ice City"

"A Magical Coach Transforms into a Club Owner"

"Bamboo Shoes announced the results of a thorough investigation, some happy and some sad"

"The Suibo incident is so involved, Zhu Xie asks for judicial intervention"

"Zhuxie announced that it will further crack down on match-fixing black whistle in the coming year"

"Wang Junsheng: 1999, all preparations for the Olympics"

"Verapan: A team of six has been sent to Zurich for a showdown, resolutely boycotting the 6 World Cup"

"FIFA announced the latest world rankings"

"Shide Group Wants to Take Over Wanda"

For football, 98 was a year of harvest, turmoil and innovation.

Just look at these titles.

Football is about to change!
In the past year, the national team entered the World Cup in a historic way, and also broke into the top 16, tying the best record of an Asian team in the history of the World Cup.

At the Asian Games, he also won the first Asian Games gold medal for men's football!
These two honors not only filled the barren honor room of Chinese football, but also brought great pride to all fans.

With the excellent performance of the World Cup and the gold medal of the Asian Games, in the latest world list released by FIFA at the end of the year, the Chinese team jumped 55 places from the 35th at the end of last year, ranking 20th in the world!

In Asia, except for South Korea, which has entered the World Cup finals four times in a row, countries such as Japan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq are all ranked behind the national football team.

In addition to the soaring world rankings, what shocked the domestic football world most was Xu's drastic achievements during the Asian Games.

Following the clues, according to the Suibo incident, Xu Fang finally found out more than 200 people.

Among them, 11 had their coaching certificates revoked, 7 people had their referee qualification certificates revoked, 16 players were banned for life, and 3 Zhuxie officials were suspended for investigation.

One Zhuxie official, 1 club bosses, 3 referees and 2 players were taken away by judicial intervention.

No one thought of it.

The first thing Xu Fang did after his comeback was to be so resolute and merciless.

Naturally, there were bursts of opposition during this process, and there were layers of resistance everywhere.

But Xu Fang Leng insisted that he would rather kill his mistakes than let them go, and used his power to break through the checkpoints and bring these people to justice.

Taking advantage of this anti-counterfeiting crackdown, Xu Fang also set out to do two major things.

The first major event was the establishment of the Football Association News Committee and served as the first director.

From the drafting of the charter to the organization of the event, Xu Fang personally arranged it.

And add news supervision for the National League, which will be held by the Standing Committee of the News Committee.

Xu Fang took the lead in establishing this system as early as 96, but at that time Xu Fang suddenly fell ill, and the crude system was not implemented by suitable people, and it was almost completely abandoned in 97.

Xu Fang made a lot of determination to bring up the past this time.

What happens in the game, fans and reporters feel abnormal about which team's performance, can all be brought up at this press supervision meeting and recorded.

Use the power of the people to supervise every game.

The second major event is to completely separate the referee department from Zhuxie and form a "professional league".

Since then, referees are no longer under the control of Zhu Xie, but under the supervision of Zhu Xie, and the salary is naturally not paid by Zhu Xie.

For each game, the "Referee Union" will select a suitable referee to enforce the law, and Zhuxie will also send an observer, whose duty is to supervise the referee's work and see if he enforces the law objectively and fairly according to the rules of the game.

After the game, the observers should draft a written report to evaluate the referee's enforcement during the game.

If an abnormal situation is found, a lawsuit can be filed with Zhuxie to sue the referee for improper practices.

Because observers and referees do not meet each other, Zhu Xie will keep this secret.

Therefore, without knowing who is the observer of the game, the referee naturally dare not have the slightest deviation in law enforcement.

In short, let the referee hang the sword of Damocles with the umbrella handle of civil, official, and media at all times, so as to completely eliminate black whistle from the root.

As for who will run the league, pay the referees, and seek benefits, Xu Fang has already found a next home.

Didn't you old Wang say that the football water is too dark, too deep, and it can't be done well?
So now the task of selecting referees is entrusted to you, so what do you think?

Wanda transformed itself from a Dalian team to the largest shareholder controlling 48% of the "Referees Union" in the blink of an eye.

From now on, if the referee has any problems, we can trace the source.

After the referee's big problem was solved, Xu Fang, who was in charge of foreign affairs, discipline, news, development and office, did not rest idle.

Before New Year's Day, an investigation report on "improper salary of Chinese players" was rushed out and submitted.

Today, the annual investment of an A-A team can reach up to 5000 million yuan, which is 4 times that of 10 years ago.

Four years ago, the total annual income of the highest level players in the country was only 4 yuan; now the national level players have soared to more than 20 million yuan.

At the beginning, Li Bing spent 64 yuan to transfer to the Hongyuan team, which was already astonishing. Now Deng Lejun, who is not a national player, has to spend more than 200 million yuan to transfer to Shandong Luneng.

Four years ago, the most prize money for a team winning a game was 4 yuan, but now the maximum prize money for winning a "key ball" is more than 10 million yuan!
Why do clubs lose money every year?

Isn't a lot of money spent on player hype?
How much money are clubs really spending on football right now?
In fact, half of it was used to pay the players salaries and bonuses, and some of the remaining money was used for disgusting "public relations".

This kind of things other than football caused by the clubs themselves eventually made the clubs miserable or unable to express their sufferings, so they had to knock out their teeth and swallow them in their own stomachs.

Xu Fang referred to the J-League, which had just issued a new salary limit order not long ago, and formulated a set of salary regulations for professional players.

The contracts of all professional players will be divided into three levels: A, B, and C. The annual salary of players in level A shall not exceed 50, the annual salary of players in level B shall not exceed 30, and the annual salary of players in level C shall not exceed 15.

In principle, each professional club has no more than 20 A-level players, and A-level players must play no less than 720 minutes per season.

As for C-level players, they must go through more than three years of review before they can be promoted to A-level, rather than being divided according to clubs.

If the plan is finally implemented, the worst will be those veteran players who get high salaries and rarely play. Their annual income may drop to one-tenth of the current level!

In addition to the above, Xu Fang also took the opportunity to submit more than a dozen reform plans and development goals.

Each one was marked with a key number, and all of them were marked with the words "the sooner the implementation is better", which made Wang Junsheng feel very headache.

You know, none of these battles are small!

This year, with the help of the World Cup and the Asian Games, it was barely able to hold the field.

If so many people's cakes were touched at once, Wang Junsheng would have his family ruined by extremists the next day!

"You can figure it out yourself."

Xu Fang smiled slightly, "Anyway, our two families live in the compound, if they are really capable, just let them rush in!"

"If Wu J can't stop it, then I have nothing to say!"

Wang Junsheng laughed angrily when he heard this, "Old Xu, are you kidding me?"

"Now that the referee's horoscope has just been drawn, I don't know what will happen next year."

"The old horse also told me that this delisting method is not appropriate, and it does not respect the personal wishes of the players. Let me change to a new plan next year."

"I have so many things on hand now, which one do you think is not important?"

Wang Junsheng spread his hands and threw the question back to Xu Fang.

Xu Fang took a sip of black tea, and then said slowly, "After New Year's Day, we will invite all the bosses of the first-tier clubs to a meeting to discuss the salary limit."

"They were the ones who started this matter first, and they were the ones who suffered in the end."

"Wang Yilin can't afford it, let alone them."

"Limiting players' salaries is conducive to player management and more conducive to the healthy development of clubs."

"This is a good thing that kills multiple birds with one stone, and those club bosses will definitely agree."

Wang Junsheng nodded after hearing this, and then couldn't help asking: "What should we do if the players collectively make trouble?"

"What should we do? Hmph! Let's eat cold salad! Fire a few and be honest!" Xu Fang narrowed his eyes, "As long as there are no problems with Xiao Zeng, so what if all the three hundred or so people from A A are replaced?"

"15W a year, I don't know how many people are waiting in line to do it!"

"Hiss~~~" Wang Junsheng gasped after hearing this.

What does it mean to draw salary from the bottom of the pot?

This is called pulling from the bottom!
Zeng Zheng's 20 or so young talents don't make trouble, who else would dare to stab them?The big deal is that the "professional system" will be restored for another year and the professional league will be restarted.

With these 20 people under Zeng Zheng's command, it is no big problem to stabilize the results of international competitions for 10 years!

"Speaking of Xiao Zeng, tsk tsk, this kid is really good! He really pulled me up the team!"

When mentioning Zeng Zheng, Xu Fang's originally cold eyes showed a rare trace of tenderness.

"What is that kid doing now? He didn't attend the celebration banquet after he came back, and I didn't even see him when I wanted to!"

"Of course I'm going back to the Northeast!" Wang Junsheng said, "It's spring training in a few days, so why don't he go back and rest for two days?"

Zeng Zheng did not return to the Northeast.

At this moment, he was holding a large fruit basket and standing at the door of a dilapidated residential building in the capital.

"Ding dong~~"

"Who is it?"

Click!

When the door was unlocked, a long, thin, dark face was revealed inside.

"You are."

"Brother Gao, you don't even recognize me so quickly?" Zeng Zheng took off his sunglasses and hung them on his chest.

"Coach Zeng?!" Gao Hongbo's eyes lit up, and he quickly moved away, "Come, come, please come in, please come in!"

(End of this chapter)