Through Tafarel's recommendation, Zhang Sheng also took the opportunity to invite Costa and his four brothers to China. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Info Also invited was the elder Costa. Soon the boys and the elder Costa accepted Zhang Sheng's invitation.

Costa and the others came to China a week after Zhang Sheng's invitation. Zhang Sheng first went to Beijing to play with them, and accompanied their five families to play in Beijing for 3 days before taking them back to Jiangcheng.

After arriving in Jiangcheng, Zhang Sheng arranged for them to stay in his own hotel. Regarding the scale of Zhang Sheng's family in Jiangcheng, Costa and they have a relatively intuitive understanding. Especially when Zhang Sheng took them to the team's training base and the size of the football school. Even the old Costa was very amazed: "I didn't expect that China's second-tier clubs have such a large scale." ”

For the arrival of the old Costa, Zhang Sheng attaches great importance to it. Because the Corinthians club where the old Costa belonged later became a major foreign aid for Chinese football clubs. Augusto, Ralph, and Gil all came to China from Corinthians to play.

For the elder Costa, this visit to China is equivalent to testing the waters. While inspecting the Dragon Club, if we can establish relationships with several major clubs in China, then the purpose of this visit to China will be achieved. Cruise, Herrera and Demichelis wanted to take a preliminary look at the situation in China and lay the foundation for future business.

It should be said that the arrival of the old Costa this time is very confident. This is because his club Corinthians won the 2012 Copa Libertadores in 2012 and then beat Chelsea to win the 2012 Club World Cup. Many of Corinthians' players are also famous all over the world, and the old Costa came over this time to push the players in the team out at a high price.

Zhang Sheng also has a great chance to help the old Costa to recommend players. Because some time ago, a large number of teams came to buy several frontcourt attacking players from the Longteng team. And Zhang Sheng can give this information to the old Costa. Among them, Zhang Sheng recommended three teams to the old Costa: Dalian Albin, Tianjin TEDA, and Shandong Luneng Taishan.

Among them, Dalian Albin wants to introduce forwards, Tianjin TEDA wants to replace all the team's foreign aids, and Shandong Luneng needs to introduce midfielders and defenders, and these clubs are not bad at money.

Under Zhang Sheng's threading needle, the old Costa and these clubs have been in contact. Under the recommendation of the old Costa, Dalian Albin fell in love with Corinthians' striker Luciano, Tianjin TEDA took a fancy to Danilo Gabriel, and Shandong Luneng took a fancy to defender Fagner. Subsequently, the elder Costa sent the three interested players to China for a trial.

It should be said that these three teams are still very strong, and in the follow-up trials, the three clubs recognized the strength of the players, but there was still a big difference in the price of the transfer fee after that. Having just won the Club World Cup, Corinthians are very high on the player's offer. And the current Chinese Super League has not yet reached the level of burning money in later generations, so in the end only Danilo Gabriel reached an agreement on the transfer fee, after multiple rounds of negotiations between Corinthians and Tianjin TEDA, finally Danilo Gabriel transferred to Tianjin TEDA at a price of 300w euros. Of course, the main advantage here is that Danilo Gabriel played for three seasons with Japan's Kashima Antlers, and is relatively familiar with life in East Asia, so he eventually led to a trade here.

The elder Costa is also very happy with this player deal, because Costa has a commission as the guide of the player, and the old Costa also has a bonus because he is responsible for this transfer. Of course, they also mentioned giving Zhang Sheng a commission, but Zhang Sheng refused.

In fact, Zhang Sheng knows that in the future in the purchase of foreign aid, each club has gradually matured, everyone has their own channels, the best way for the old Costa is to try to get the ownership of the player, because of the particularity of Brazilian players, the ownership of many players is held by multiple agents, and the old Costa can rely on his own connections to accumulate player ownership. The elder Costa was very interested in the suggestion mentioned by Zhang Sheng, and after he returned to China, he also began to actively operate these things, and the matter of establishing relations with the Chinese football circle was handed over to Costa.

After dealing with these things, the pre-season training camp of the 2013 season of the Dragon Teng team has officially begun.

On January 10th, the players of the Longteng team began to assemble, and 4 foreign aides also rushed over thousands of miles. These four players are the first to come to China, to this strange country, what kind of life they will live, they are excited and apprehensive about this transfer. However, as a unique attribute of professional footballers, they have a certain amount of preparation.

The first to get into the groove were Ivo and McGovern. Of course, there are reasons for this, mainly because Zhang Sheng speaks English and Portuguese, and McGovern and Ivo from Australia and Brazil respectively can of course integrate into the team faster. Kante and Riyad Mahrez are a bit dull, but of course it has to do with their personalities.

Kante's parents were both Malian living in Paris, and he was born and lived in a poor neighborhood with nine siblings, plus the tragic death of his father when he was 11 years old, which contributed to his taciturn personality. According to N'Golonie's team-mate Van de Biller at Boulogne, N'Golo Kante, who often sits in his car, often sits quietly alone for more than 10 minutes without saying a word. Coupled with the fact that he transferred to China from Boulogne this time, he is far away from the center of football - Europe, which also makes him confused about the future. Of course, as a player playing in France C, it is not a bad thing to come to China to get a high salary.

The same goes for Mahrez, a second-generation French-born immigrant. His father, Riyad Mahrez, had previously played for some of the youngest clubs in Algeria and France, and he was trained at a very young age, initially in the Aassarcelles youth system in France. But in 2006, Mahrez, then 15 years old, lost his father. Kante's circumstances make him not a buoyant either.

However, both players have the potential to become good professional players, that is, both of them are very resolute in character and have a never-give-up spirit. Neither of these players is the kind of player who is tall and dark, and Kante is only 1.69m tall. Riyad Mahrez looks very weak, he is 1.79m tall, and his data shows that he is only 62 kilograms. But these two players have never been afraid to fight on the pitch.

The training camp of the Chinese Super League and the Chinese League A team is also a very interesting thing.

In the first year, the Kunming Haigeng training base was a standing location for the winter training of various teams. Haigeng is basically located on the shore of Dianchi Lake at the southern end of Kunming, because it is located in the plateau, and the climate and environment are quite good, it is favored by various clubs. Later, the Hongta base became famous because of the Mijia army, and more and more teams went to Kunming for training at the end of each year. Even around 2004, Hongta shocked South Korea's "concession". Including the South Korean Olympic team, coached by Kim Ho-kun, has also been to the Hongta base to prepare for the game.

Since then, Haikou has been regarded as the second training base for Chinese football outside of Kunming, and its good lawn and suitable climate have made it an ideal place for winter training for Chinese Super League and Chinese League A teams. Since the 90s of the last century, Haikou has built a lot of football bases, which have attracted many "customers" for winter training in Kunming Haigeng base. But with Hainan's winter tourism boom, the football atmosphere has cooled. In the case of Haikou Guardian Base, it has shrunk from more than 20 pieces of turf in its heyday to 4. "There used to be a lot of training bases in Haikou, but many football bases are now gone, because the land is valuable, so it has been changed to other uses. The staff said.

However, in recent years, with the anti-gambling and anti-crime in football, a large amount of money has poured into the football circle, and overseas training has also become the choice of many teams that are not bad for money. In the winter training before the 2012 season last year, 11 Chinese Super League teams and 2 Chinese League A teams went overseas for training, including the United Arab Emirates, Spain, Portugal, Cyprus, Turkey, South Korea and Japan.

According to media reports, a 30-member team will spend nearly 2 million yuan on air tickets, accommodation, transportation, and food to train overseas. Generally speaking, there are about 35 to 40 players, coaches and staff members participating in the winter training of each team.

If you choose domestic training, a team's round-trip travel fee is only about 80,000 yuan, taking the charge of Kunming Haigeng base as an example, the average player's daily training, accommodation fee is only about 300 yuan, and a team of 40 people only needs more than 300,000 yuan for 30 days of training. This means that choosing overseas training will cost several times more than domestic training.

Many teams go out for a clear purpose, that is, they want to find high-level European teams in these training camps to warm up, and find and solve problems by playing against these high-level teams in Europe. However, half of the teams that played warm-up matches against Chinese Super League teams were second- and third-tier teams, and even teams below third-tier teams appeared.

Last year, Guangzhou Evergrande played a match in Spain against a team called UD Marbella, which resulted in a 0-1 defeat, but this team is neither La Liga, nor La B, nor is it part of the "Spanish Second Division B League" (according to the domestic understanding, it is equivalent to the "Third League"). According to media reports, UD Marbella is even lower, and there are as many as 360 clubs like UD Marbella in Spain, which is basically equivalent to an amateur team.

Even if these foreign training teams return to China, except for Guangzhou Evergrande, which is really strong and won the championship, the results of other teams have not seen significant improvement in the league.

Especially for the Longteng team, which is still in the middle league, there is no big need to go abroad for training, and in the end Zhang Sheng still chose to train at the Haigeng base in Kunming, China. (To be continued.) )