At 15 o'clock in the afternoon of April 12, the Nanchong Sports Center was crowded with people.

It was the first home stadium for the Four Hills team after they were promoted from the second division to the first division, and the Four Hills fans were very enthusiastic.

What especially aroused the enthusiasm of fans was that Bac Giang Youdao was the final opponent of the championship against Sishan in last year's "National Second Division".

In last year's second division final, the Four Mountains team lost to Bakae Youdao. When they meet again after "upgrading their armor" this year, it must be "Mars hitting the Earth". In particular, Bak Gang Youdao showed a strong offensive spirit in the first game, and if the Sishan team can defeat Bak Jiang Youdao at home, it will definitely greatly boost the team's morale and self-confidence.

The wishes of the fans are good, and the understanding of the Sishan team is very sober, and they know that there is a huge difference between their strength and that of Beijiang Youdao.

The gap in strength stems from the gap in financial resources.

Playing in the "Second Division" last year, the Four Hills team was the poorest of all the participating teams.

When the team was first established, due to the shortage of funds, the Sishan team could only use the players' room as a warehouse, and could only buy a barrel of 9 yuan a barrel of mineral water during training.

When playing in the "Second Division" last year, no matter how far away the team was, the Four Mountains players never took a plane, but all took the train to play the game, which was hard and hard to describe.

Later, the "Chongjia" was successful, and the club gave the bonus of 15,000 yuan per person for the main force and several thousand yuan for each substitute.

When you look at this number alone, you can't see anything.

But everything is afraid of comparison.

At the celebration banquet, the Bac Giang Provincial Football Association rewarded the team with 800,000 yuan, and the Youdao Group rewarded the team with 800,000 yuan.

1.6 million! That's enough, right?

However, it is rumored among the players that the 800,000 at the celebration banquet is the second wave of bonuses.

On the night of Beijiang Youdao winning the second division championship, the team manager carried a suitcase of money to the whole team for a meeting, and the reward was 150,000 yuan for each of the main players, 50,000 yuan for each substitute player, and 50,000 yuan for each individual goal.

The main force of the same team, the main force of Beijiang Youdao is 150,000 per person, and the main force of the Sishan team is 15,000 per person.

Exactly 10 times!

Counting the goal reward and the prize money at the celebration banquet, is the difference more than 10 times?

Well, for someone with a "hometown football feeling", a little bonus is nothing. But when they actually played in the first division, everyone noticed the gap.

Class B, Class A, Super ......

This is not a play on words, but a watershed moment in the strength of the team.

For a soccer team, there is only one thing to do – money!

If you have money, you can hire a powerful coach to help the team train scientifically.

If you have money, you can buy domestic first-class players.

If you have money, you can get strong foreign aid.

What is foreign aid?

There is such a saying in the domestic first-class football circle - if you want to surpass, you must rely on foreign aid, and if you want to be relegated, you must also rely on foreign aid. For first-class teams, the gap in the strength of foreign aid is the gap in the strength of the team.

In many cases, the strength ranking of foreign players of each team and the competitive state ranking of foreign players are combined, which is the ranking of the team where the foreign aid is located this season.

It may sound exaggerated and extreme, but it's exactly what it is.

Some people analyze that the reason why foreign aid dominates the game and team results is because our country's football foundation is too poor. The domestic players are all sheep, and a team without foreign aid is equivalent to 11 sheep playing. A team that hires foreign aid is tantamount to stuffing lions, tigers, leopards, wolves and hunting dogs into the team.

Obviously, 11 sheep and 11 sheep are playing and that's a situation.

11 sheep and 2 leopards + 9 sheep play the game, that's a different situation.

If two leopards are replaced by two tigers, will there still be suspense in the game?

But the problem is that the beast foreign aid can only play in the league, not replace the sheep into the national team, so no matter how bells and whistles the league looks, the national team composed of sheep is still rotten like a piece of.

Because of this, some club bosses have jointly signed a joint agreement with the Football Association to "cancel foreign aid", or "further limit the number of foreign players owned and played by Chinese league clubs." ”

According to the general manager of a club, in the annual investment of a Chinese club, the cost of four foreign aides often exceeds 40%.

Subsequently, however, the idea of "canceling foreign aid" was refuted.

Opponents said: "Foreign aid is not the root cause of the deformity of the development of the Chinese League. Foreign aid should not be an excuse for Chinese players to become unsuccessful. ”

Opponents added: "The proportion of foreign players in the Premier League has reached 75%, but this does not prevent the Premier League from becoming the world's number one league, nor does it delay the emergence of English talent." The position of the league is already embarrassing, the level of the game is not high, the technical and tactical content, and the spectacle of the game are not high, and there is no high-level foreign aid, what can the game use to attract fans? ”

Therefore, after fighting for it, foreign aid should be repaid.

All right......

In the 2008 season, the total funding of the Sishan team was an unprecedented 8 million RMB.

According to the report, the budget for the 2008 season is 60 million RMB.

originally thought that 60 million was already very arrogant, but insiders revealed that Beijiang Youdao invested at least 100 million yuan in 2008. Because Bac Giang Youdao hired a full set of Dutch coaching staff this year, bought a Brazilian foreign aid, two Dutch foreign aids, and bought an international player and seven quasi-international players in China.

In addition, I also heard that Bac Giang Youdao selected 16 young players to go to the Netherlands for trial training.

Sure enough......

Beijiang Youdao, who "burns a lot of money", "bloodbathed" Jiangnan Shuntian, the leader of the Central League, in the first round of the Central League.

Several veteran first-class teams analyzed after the game that Shuntian was inferior to the enemy, but the Sishan team, which played against Bac Giang Youdao last year, knew in their hearts that this Bac Giang Youdao team was invincible.

Therefore, three days before the start of the game on April 12, the Sishan team determined the tactics against Beijiang Youdao - turtle defense.

Shrinking up is not the same as defending and countering.

Counter-attacking is the search for opportunities in defence with the aim of finding opportunities to score a goal to win.

And the turtle defense doesn't care about the ugly scene, the whole team defends in their own half, not seeking to win, only seeking a draw.

Playing "turtle defense" at the team's home stadium is actually very risky, because this tactic hurts people's morale, after all, fans spend time to watch the game, want to see the team's strength, want to see the team's blood, want to see the team's fighting spirit, and don't want to see a turtle.

However, a team like the Four Mountains team, which has climbed up from the second division step by step, is very pragmatic in their bones, and they choose to "seek stability and relegation" for the sake of face and the honor of standing in the first division.

Before the start of the game, the general manager of the team said to the whole team at a meeting: "I respect the tactics formulated by the coaching staff, but it is not easy to accumulate fans, and I can't chill the hearts of the fans, so I say seven words here - to win the draw and not to lose." ”

Draw, win, don't lose!

As a result, the Four Hills team still lost.