After retiring, Zhang Shujie soon returned to Dalian, completely away from the rights and wrongs of professional football, and he and Wang Shihan concentrated on running their own business, mainly catering and sporting goods. With the popularity he has accumulated in world football over the years, his "JH9" themed restaurant and sports brand are popular.

Many football-related programs in China have invited him, hoping that he can be a special guest of the program group, but he refused. The reason is very simple, he has not been retired for a long time, and he does not want to ask about football matters for the time being. However, one thing he said is very clear, if he has the opportunity to make some contributions to the development of Chinese football in the future, he is still willing to contribute his meager strength, as for doing those things that are guests of the program group, Zhang Shujie has no interest.

A year later, Li Mu, Yan Tao, Chen Zihua and Xu Ziyi, who were far away in the United States, announced their retirement at the same time. The only Chinese national team champions who are still active on the football field are Liang Xiran and Xu Zhixin, the 36-year-old Liang Xiran has long been away from the five major leagues, and is currently playing in Belgium, he said in an interview with the media: "I have one year left on my contract with the team, I don't plan to renew the contract, and this time next year, I will retire." ”

Xu Zhixin is now thirty-three years old, his contract with Paris Saint-Germain has arrived, he hopes to continue to play in Paris for another year, but Paris considers his age and has no idea of renewing his contract, so Xu Zhixin left Paris Saint-Germain. Both the Major League and the Chinese Super League threw an olive branch to him, and Xu Zhixin finally chose to play in the United States.

This year, the forty-year-old Ma Junqiang moved into the Chinese Football Association and began to deploy his "grand hegemony". It was also in this year that Xu Ziyi began to obtain a coaching qualification certificate, and expressed his hope that one day in the future, he could coach the Chinese national team.

The others were busy with their own things, but they all promised Ma Junqiang that if there was a need to use something, just ask.

Five years later, at the age of 45, Ma Junqiang became the president of the Chinese Football Association, and his first step in office was to reform the Chinese Super League and control the number of foreign players to "1+1". Each Chinese Super League player can only bring in one non-Asian foreign player per season, and the number of people present at the same time cannot exceed two. At the same time, he also put forward standards for the stadiums of each team, and found that the "vegetable field" was immediately rectified, otherwise it would be banned from participating in the Chinese Super League. These new regimes will not be implemented immediately, but from next season.

Subsequently, Ma Junqiang proposed to vigorously develop campus football, not only high school leagues, junior high school leagues and college leagues. Coincidentally, now China's education system has also ushered in reform, the college entrance examination has been changed to "3+2", first of all, three basic subjects are compulsory, secondly, if you are a science student, you can choose one of the physics and chemistry students, and the other can be other sports that you are good at, such as football, basketball, art and so on. If you don't have a cultural or sports program that you are good at, then you can choose two of the subjects in physics and chemistry to take the exam.

Such an educational reform also allows Ma Junqiang to see the future development of Chinese football, but campus football is not under the jurisdiction of the Chinese Football Association and belongs to the National Sports Bureau, so Ma Junqiang can only start from the side. He invited all the former national teachers such as Zhang Shujie and Li Mu, and together persuaded the leaders of the National Sports Bureau to let them serve as the image ambassadors of Chinese youth football and look for future talents all over the country.

Some people may say that campus football has its own league and media attention, so why bother to invite people to do these things? Campus football also has its own media, but the big media are only limited to the national competition, and the qualifiers are only a very small number of media, and they are basically local media, with limited influence and low attention. You must know that not every good player has the opportunity to participate in the national competition, maybe due to injuries, maybe due to the overall strength of the team, these talented players may not be able to go to the national competition, so they will not be able to go to the national competition, so they will not be able to stand out from the crowd.

This situation is a bit similar to Chen Zihua, due to injuries and family reasons, he is getting farther and farther away from professional football, if Tian Lei hadn't accidentally discovered him, I'm afraid there would be no more famous "twins" in world football. Therefore, Ma Junqiang's approach is very necessary.

Zhang Shujie commented on Ma Junqiang's work: "In professional football, Chairman Ma follows the example of Europe, and in school football, he follows the example of Japan. I think he's done a great job, and as for how effective it is, it's going to take time to tell. ”

Many Chinese parents are no longer opposed to their children playing football, anyway, it is the "3+2" college entrance examination model, football is also an exam item, and if you play very well, many schools can also make exceptions for admission, even if you fail to become a professional player in the future, you can also go to junior high school or high school to be a physical education teacher after graduating from college, and guarantee a job. If you have a little tactical talent, you might even be a head coach in the school team.

In the next five years, Ma Junqiang's reform has indeed brought significant changes to Chinese football. The quality of the Chinese Super League has improved a lot, and a lot of talent has been discovered in campus football. Another year later, Xu Ziyi took the position of head coach of the Chinese national team, and soon after, he led the civilian Chinese team to the quarterfinals of the World Cup, and half of the players in this national team are from the high school league, four of them playing in Europe.

In this World Cup, the most shining figure of the Chinese team is the team's number one striker, Wang Jingyu, who wears the number nine jersey, who scored three goals and three assists in five games, and is the bronze boot scorer in this Cup. The 20-year-old striker was then spotted by AC Milan and arrived at the San Siro after the World Cup, donning the Rossoneri's number nine shirt. After Zhang Shujie retired and before Wang Jingyu took over the jersey, Milan sealed the number for a whole decade.

Wang Jingyu said that Zhang Shujie was his idol, and Zhang Shujie said that Wang Jingyu was worthy of AC Milan's No. 9 jersey.

He said: "It's great to see that the Milan Nine has a legacy, this number has been vacant for many years, and I hope you will continue to carry on this great number!"

Milan's No.9 and China's No.9 finally have an official heir, and Zhang Shujie is also very pleased that the 21st century football king will always pay attention to Wang Jingyu's performance at AC Milan and the national team.

After many years, if someone asks you, "Have you heard of Zhang Shujie?"

How would you answer?

Maybe you'll say, "Yes, that's a player." ”

But, what I want to say is: "No, it was an era!"

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