The Ball at Your Feet

Episode 900

Updated: 2013-11-06

"I don’t understand. It stands to reason that Zheng Zhi and Qu Bo have both returned to China this year. They are both older and can’t play well. It stands to reason that the strength of the national team should have dropped drastically. When I was playing, it felt like the strength of the national team has picked up a bit?"

Zhao Yaning was very puzzled by this, but Zhang Yuan just smiled, "I have been abroad for a long time, and I haven’t come back for a long time. Don’t always think about the national team. The Chinese Super League has hired you as the image spokesperson this year. Are you not interested in thinking about the Chinese Super League?"

"That was your disguised form of hacking money from the Football Association, right? What kind of image spokesperson, the match-fixing has not stopped just after the anti-corruption campaign, what does it mean to endorse a match-fixing." Zhao Yaning asked, "Moreover, what's so interesting about the Chinese Super League recently? Is it true? Didn’t our province say that there is no show this year?"

"You don't want to know who is playing?"

"My team?"

"That team has always played in the youth training. The promising ones are sold, and then they train new players. It's not bad to maintain the mid-range. Do you still want to win the championship?"

"Then I'm not interested." Zhao Yaning shook his head.

"Look at the game, Guangdong's team, the current leader." Zhang Yuan is very persistent, "I have their list here, you can see for yourself."

Zhao Yaning took the list and only scanned it once, and his face changed.

"Zheng Zhi, Qu Bo, Li Datou, Sun Xiang, Gao Lin, Feng Xiaoting, the strength of this team is too strong, right?"

It has been eight years since Zhao Yaning has not been in China. He thought he did not fully recognize the list of players in the domestic league. However, looking at this series of names, he was still suppressed-this is basically a small national team. The lineup is amazing no matter how you look at it.

Of course, not all national team players are there. Hao Junmin and Zhou Haibo are still doing well in Europe. Naturally, it is impossible to return to China to play football for the domestic big money-even if they thought, Zhang Yuan, the agent would not allow it. As for a few of them, they all mix well abroad now.

And how did the players in the country do this? They all went to the same team?

Zhao Yaning looked at Zhang Yuan. Of course he knew the most about this matter. Now Zhang Yuan is already the largest agent in the country. These players are basically under his control. If he does not let go, they will not all get together, but to say such things, behind the scenes Without the shadow of Zhang Yuan's operation, Zhao Yaning would never believe it.

What did he want to do, and how did he do it?

"Yes, basically all the people that the national team can find. Of course, there are a few people who are symbols of other clubs, and they don’t let them go. Xu Yunliang from Beijing and Han Peng from our province are both. There are others. There is Ronghao, but Zhao Junzhe and others have not come. However, it is not an exaggeration to say that this is the prototype of our national team?"

Zhao Yaning nodded and didn't say much about it. Indeed, this team is really strong.

"Look at those foreign players...maybe you don't know them, but they are all international players from second-tier European countries, and they are not weak. What's more, what I can tell you is the characteristics of these players, and You, Hao Junmin, Haibo and the others, although their strengths are different, they are quite similar in terms of technical characteristics. This team is built specifically to give the national team a good run-in. This season, it is them. The second season began to play together, and they played a little bit like the same. That’s why I was able to bring their videos over to show you."

Zhao Yaning did not speak, and Zhang Yuan continued, "Moreover, the owner who invested in this team now wants to build another football school. But on his side, he has money, land, and enthusiasm, but he just doesn’t. Experience. He wants to learn more from our football school, and you have to nod as the principal."

"I'm like Jiang's bald head." Zhao Yaning shook his head, "Give them what you want! Someone is willing to invest in football, this is a great thing, but... why suddenly someone is willing to invest in football?"

Zhang Yuan smiled, and Zhao Yaning immediately understood, "You instigated this, right? You really did it? What a big trick! Get all the international footballers to play in a team, this trick is really good. ..."

"Aren't the Spaniards in the national team just like a few other teams? The others are from Barcelona? Just follow the example. It's just that we can't do it after all. They are Barcelona and we are the one who broke the team. Just like England. It's like, it used to be formed with Manchester United as the team, but now it is formed with Tottenham as the team. This is not the grade..."

Zhao Yaning ignored Zhang Yuan's words, he was still shocked and speechless at this handwriting.

"He has to spend a lot of money on such a large investment? How much money does he have to spend to build a school, buy stars, and organize the team." Zhao Yaning was a little unbelievable.

"How much money was spent... I have slapped up the account. From the 2008 rectification campaign to the 10th World Cup, the annual investment totals 2.5 billion. People are big, just thrown by a football school. Seven hundred million, this is indeed a big deal."

"How on earth did you convince him to pay for it?" Zhao Yaning looked at Zhang Yuan as if looking at a god. "2.5 billion, not 250, so much money, why would he throw it on football to spoil it?

"It wasn't me who convinced him, it was the environment that convinced him." Zhang Yuan shook his head, "You kicked out, and football received high attention. Especially after the Football Association's raid, the current football market is also thriving. If football has a market, people will naturally invest."

"Football can make money now? But how do I remember that when the whole world is there, all football players who want to win the championship are just losing money and not making money..."

"We also just pay and not make money. This is the same wherever it goes. People who engage in sports want to rely on sports to make money, unless they learn from Wenger to buy and sell people and become traffickers." Zhang Yuan did it right away. Answer, "But, you forgot another thing. Our country’s teams are all directly named by companies. By doing this, companies are advertising their own companies. Don’t think that hundreds of millions are too much. , Do you know how much money you get for the timekeeping in front of the news network, just the beeping dial? It's not much different from investing in a football team."

This made Zhao Yaning extremely surprised, but think about it, in the past two years, even in Europe, I have heard every day that China’s economy has developed and that CCTV’s advertisements have this price, which is indeed not a surprise.

In fact, Zhang Yuan was afraid of scaring him, so many of them didn't tell him. The cost of many CCTV advertisements is not low at all. It is the time signal, which is auctioned once every two months. At the least, Gome’s 215 million time-reporting advertisements were sold for two months. In most cases, Wuliangye spent 499 million yuan in two months.

These years, the cost of advertising and publicity has been high, and it is still the case of the central government. The title of a documentary is 80 million, the title of a martial arts show is 140 million, and the title of a popular talent show is 340 million. The 10-second advertisement of the news network has an average of 60-80 million-now China spends more money, a company invests 2.5 billion in football, which seems to be a lot, but in fact, it depends on the effectiveness and investment of the advertising. It's really not much.

"For the same money, investing in football, you get more fame, and somehow it still leaves a real asset-apart from anything else, the land will have to be worth some money in the future. It's better than advertising on CCTV. People are not stupid. Of course they know how to choose. Although they spend a little more money, the reputation and attention they get after spending money is quite high. They did not lose money on this single transaction."

Zhao Yaning nodded. He can also imagine that if most of the international football players are put together on the same court, the results will be different and the attention will definitely be extremely high. What's more, China has always been extremely enthusiastic about major honors in the sports world. If the domestic team can win the AFC Champions League, then the advertising effect obtained will far exceed any program. And if the ball market is really like what Zhang Yuan said, then this advertisement will be played too well.

"Unfortunately, why is it not our province."

Zhang Yuan rolled his eyes, the good things can't always be yours.

"They have improved a lot in their ability to play now, right?" Zhao Yaning turned around and asked.

"Look at how you say it. No matter how you say it, the national team, the club, and every day you see each other, you can practice it no matter what." Zhang Yuan nodded, "Moreover, let’s say nothing else, we don’t have enough players. Isn’t there a good enough coach yet? You just patronized the list of players, but didn’t you see who the coach is?"

"Who?" Zhao Yaning asked puzzledly.

"You know Heathfield? It's the German who took Bayern to win the Champions League-he is willing to come over to coach this team."

These words made Zhao Yaning unable to say a word for a long time. He really did not expect such a thing to happen, "Hisfeld? Bayern’s Heathfield? I remember that he also coached Bayern in the 0708 season? How did he fall to this point? Where are you coming to teach in China?"

"What is depravity? The money we gave him is more than what Bayern gave you, okay." Zhang Yuan rolled his eyes and said, "We gave a lot of money, work is easy, and he is old and can't do anything. Why not come when he is alive? Let's give him the end of his retirement."

Zhang Yuan has long understood this truth: foreigners are not living Lei Feng, so don't expect them to work for you in vain. Anyone interested in Chinese football is bluffing, unless it is a mad scientist, who has that kind of dedication? But he is really a mad scientist, and the national team dare not do it for him. And since you have to use foreigners anyway, why use coaches who are not well-known and need to gamble on their abilities? It's better to pay more and find a big-name coach directly. Such a person has an advertising effect, and his performance is incomparable.

And when the money is in place, even if it can't recruit people? Maybe not all coaches can be moved by money~www.ltnovel.com~ But there are so many top coaches, if one touches one, won't they all be there?

And this time it's Heathfield. Next time, who knows if it will be Aragones, Lippi, Wenger, Capello? Holding a lot of money in your hand, what are you afraid of?

Zhao Yaning was silent for a while before speaking, "Three years ago, the 2006 World Cup ended, and you said that in 10 years, how can I be able to play well-I thought you were a joke at the time."

He did think so, until he saw this team. Putting seven internationals into the same team to play, the degree of tacit understanding of the team is basically unmatched by other teams, and with the training of Heathfield, the tactics of this team are also enough to make people. Trust, coupled with a few players playing abroad, this kind of team is definitely able to have more skillful cooperation and better tactics than the average national team, and in the international arena, these A small advantage may be the key to victory.

Zhang Yuan was not joking. Three years later, he really gave this national team on the way to the fall a possibility of ascending. Of course, it may not be certain that it is a victory, but, at least, it is a thousand times, ten thousand times better than Zhao Yaning imagined.

"Some things, treated as jokes, will be jokes for the rest of your life. But if you treat them truly, you can achieve something." Zhang Yuanzheng looked upright, "I don't want to joke about the national team. Ning Zi, I’ve set up the stage for you, and the rest is up to you. In the 2010 World Cup, it’s all up to you to see if you can go further."

"Don't worry, I am absolutely satisfied." Zhao Yaning nodded.