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Chapter 516 This summer is 'hot'! (Seeking monthly votes)

Hong Kong Island in July is sweltering!
The World Cup fever has just ended, and the outstanding performance of the Hong Kong Island team has almost made the already lively football market boil over.

Four years have passed, and the overall strength of the Hong Kong Island team has improved significantly.

Changes in playing style, a more scientific and humane tactical system, and improved logistical support can completely transform the entire league within four years.

That's how the Hong Kong Island Professional League is!

Originally, due to the number of teams and their strength, the league was divided into Group A and Group B, which clearly indicated that the scale was not large.

But since the Hong Kong team participated in the last World Cup and made it to the quarterfinals, the situation has been completely different.

A hot sports market can make money.

In addition, investing in football can greatly enhance one's reputation and the brand image of one's businesses. Therefore, many wealthy individuals with resources actively invest in football in Hong Kong, so as not to let their acquaintances monopolize the spotlight.

That's why the small island of Hong Kong has thirty or forty professional football teams, enough to support both the First Division and the Second Division leagues.

ATV Sports Channel is also proud of this, which allows it to easily fill all its time slots.

In just four years, all professional teams on Hong Kong Island have developed a style of play characterized by rapid attacking and fast-paced play.

With the addition of professional teams from Hong Kong Island, they are inevitably influenced by the English Premier League, and have also acquired the attribute of not being afraid of intense competition.

All these factors combined mean that the players' physical attributes and overall strength significantly exceed the average level of Asian football.

The team's strength goes without saying.

In addition, the agility unique to Asian players has gradually led to the formation of their own distinctive style.

Meanwhile, many promising young footballers from the mainland have voluntarily acquired Hong Kong citizenship and joined professional teams to play in the league.

Once their abilities were recognized, they naturally became members of the Hong Kong team and were able to travel to the United States to participate in this World Cup.
Of course, in order to avoid conflicts with sports-related institutions on the mainland, Hong Kong Island does not recruit potential football talents through sports schools and sports training teams, but mainly cultivates them on its own.

As mentioned earlier, in the 1980s, Guangdong Province alone had several strong football cities. This was not so much related to the economic environment, but rather to the physical education curriculum in schools, which allowed for the cultivation of football talent starting from elementary school.

For some reason, in the 1990s, this model, which did not affect the main subjects' studies and could continuously cultivate football talents, changed.

However, the internal schools of Wu Feng's factory group retained this system. They selected football talents with sufficient potential through numerous internal matches and matches against external school football teams.

The results were quite good; at least the pool of candidates was much wider than that of Hong Kong Island.

Among them are many talented young people trained by sports schools and sports teams who volunteer themselves. If they are noticed by Hong Kong teams and signed a formal contract, they will be given a considerable training fee.

At least for now, sports-related organizations in mainland China are not dissatisfied, and that is enough.

In fact, while football fever has swept through Hong Kong Island, neighboring Guangdong Province is no less intense.

It has little to do with the newly established Jia-A League!
To be honest, the Jia-A League was in its infancy and was quite immature in terms of commercialization.

For a period of time, it even adopted the operating model of professional basketball.

The main driving force behind the football craze in Guangdong Province is still the factory group under Wu Feng's control.

This factory is so large, with numerous subsidiary factories, and its workforce is predominantly young. To address the recreational and cultural needs of these employees, it was natural to form their own football teams.

Initially, it was just an internal league organized by the factory group.

That's right, it's the league within the factory team!

On weekends, the stadium inside the factory group, as well as nearby large stadiums and even open-air football fields, are all filled with factory group employees who come to watch the games.

To make it easier for employees to watch the games, the factory group also donated a considerable amount of money to local stadiums and outdoor football fields to improve the viewing environment.

The factory group is naturally generous to its own employees' football team, rewarding them for their better performance in various ways.

Points, appearances, and other factors can all be rewarded if you perform well.

Well, as long as the rewards are good and delivered on time, and there are no problems with the organization and operation of the competition, there's no reason why it shouldn't be successful.

For a time, the amateur football league within the factory group even became a must-watch program for local residents on their days off.

First, the downstream manufacturers of the factory group actively formed football teams to participate in order to curry favor with the factory group.

Then, Hong Kong businessmen who opened factories in the Special Economic Zone also actively formed amateur teams to participate in the competition.

As the league grows larger and larger, like a snowball rolling downhill, the factory group naturally needs to make proper organization and adjustments.

At the same time, in conjunction with the local sports management agency, they planned an amateur football league within the Guangdong Special Economic Zone.

In fact, because there were so many participating teams, it was divided into three leagues: A, B, and C, making it more formal and interesting than the A-League.

Since it's an amateur league, the lowest level third division, there aren't even any entry requirements. As long as an amateur team wants to participate, it can be arranged quickly. So it's simply divided into two seasons, one in the first half and one in the second half.

The rewards are quite generous, though not as much as those for professional players, but enough for an amateur team that mainly plays for fun.

Similarly, the amateur football league in the special zone is quite popular.

Many Hong Kong business owners even personally participated, creating a small trend, which is quite impressive.

The Hong Kong SAR government will certainly not turn a blind eye. Although it cannot provide financial support, it can provide assistance through other means.

With so many teams and competitions, naturally some talented players will stand out and be quickly spotted and signed by professional teams in Hong Kong.

Whenever such a situation occurs, it adds fuel to the already booming football market in the Special Administrative Region, making it burn even brighter.

It can be said that the football atmosphere in the Special Administrative Region and Hong Kong Island is quite good.

With a solid foundation, the top players and the team's overall strength are naturally not bad.

In fact, influenced by the trend, many wealthy people in both places are willing to invest in football, even just to gain a good reputation.

There will never be a repeat of 2004, when a Special Administrative Region team won the Chinese Super League title, but the players faced massive wage arrears.

Seeing the booming development of the two global cities, with both entry-level and top talents emerging one after another, Wu Feng couldn't help but think of a rebirth football novel he had read in his previous life. Two of the novels were about creating football cities in 1994, which were quite similar to the current situation in Hong Kong Island and the Special Administrative Region.

(End of this chapter)