Chapter 393 The World's No. 1 Highest Salary
Zhang Huasong's visit was naturally not sudden, but contacted in advance.
Otto Rehhagel was both surprised and pleased by Zhang Huasong's visit.
Unexpectedly, Zhang Huasong, an international superstar who practices track and field and tennis, will come to visit him, and he is happy that he also saw the news that Zhang Huasong invested 1.5 billion yuan to sponsor the Chinese Football Association and personally selected a coach for the Chinese national team.
The news of Zhang Huasong's 1.5 billion yuan investment in Chinese football not only caused a sensation in China, but also caused a lot of sensation in the world.
Zhang Huasong came to see him after signing a contract with the Chinese Football Association, and his intention was very obvious, he should want to ask him to serve as the head coach of the Chinese men's national football team.
At this time, Rehhagel stepped down as the head coach of the Greek national team and had been resting at home for more than half a year.
He has created miracles in the league, miracles in the European Cup, but there is still a miracle in the World Cup.
Although the strength of the Chinese team is very weak, if he can lead the Chinese team to create a miracle in the World Cup, presumably his reputation as Otto the Great will be more powerful in the football world and resounding all over the world.
However, Europe, far from the center of world football, went to Asia in the football desert to coach a national team weaker than the Greek team, and the opponent must offer him satisfactory terms.
Otherwise, he would not want to travel all the way to Asia to teach.
The so-called conditions are not only the amount of salary, but also the size of the right to coach.
According to the news, Zhang Huasong and the Chinese Football Association reached an official agreement not to interfere with the tactics of the national team and the selection of players, and the national team coach is fully responsible, which is more in line with Rehhagel's character.
However, the official Football Association does not interfere, what about Zhang Huasong himself?
Will Zhang Huasong himself rely on his investment in Huaguo football, or even the equivalent of his status of paying the head coach's salary to interfere with the national team's tactics and player selection?
A young man in his 20s, even if he is the one who pays his own salary, Rehhagel will never accept him pointing fingers in front of him.
Not to mention the age gap, it is the understanding of football, Rehhagel is also confident that he will not lose to any football coach, and he does not need anyone to point fingers in front of him.
Whichever team hires itself as its head coach has to give itself the absolute right to be the master at the competitive level of the team.
As long as the other party believes in him, he will return the championship glory to the other party, just like Werder Bremen, Kaiserslautern and the Greek national team.
If Zhang Huasong wants to interfere with the tactics of the national team and the selection of players, Rehhagel will never accept it.
In this regard, he has a lesson in failure.
I think that at the beginning, with the success of Werder Bremen, when he was asked to coach the German overlord Bayern Munich, the football emperor and chairman of Bayern Munich Club Beckenbauer pointed fingers in front of Rehhagel, and Rehhagel did not compromise at all.
This is also the reason why Rehhagel suffered a Waterloo in Bayern Munich at the beginning: the chairman and the head coach did not agree, and the superstars of the team relied on the support of the chairman to disobey Rehhagel's training and management, which led to the failure of Rehhagel's coaching experience at Bayern Munich.
Therefore, when he coached Kaiserslautern and the Greek team, Rehhagel first negotiated absolute control of the team before taking office.
When he fired several disobedient main players of the Greek national team at the beginning of his tenure, the Greek Football Association did not say a word.
And what he gave back to Greece was a European Championship title worth a fortune.
Zhang Huasong's visit this time included not only Zhang Huasong himself, but also Zhang Huasong's lawyer, sports negotiators invited by Feixun, and several officials of the Football Association.
When we met for the first time, it was naturally a compliment to each other.
Zhang Huasong praised Rehhagel's Kaiserslautern miracle and Greek mythology, while Rehhagel praised Zhang Huasong's great achievements in the field of sports and music, as well as his large investment in the football of his homeland.
After some greetings, Zhang Huasong directly explained his intentions, hoping to invite Rehhagel to be the head coach of the Chinese men's national football team, and lead the Chinese team to hit the 2014 Brazil World Cup finals, and even achieve better results.
Rehhagel's term runs from now until the end of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil Asian qualifiers, with an automatic extension until the end of the World Cup in Brazil if he qualifies for the World Cup finals.
After the end of the World Cup in Brazil, whether the two sides will renew their contract will be discussed at that time.
During Rehhagel's tenure as the head coach of the Chinese national team, the Chinese Football Association will not interfere in the tactical selection and selection of players for the national football team, and Rehhagel has full authority to decide everything at the competitive level of the national team.
Even if it is a commercial activity, the national team will only be allowed to participate after Rehhagel's consent.
This was officially confirmed by the officials of the Football Association who came with the team.
This is a relatively stable long-term contract, and Zhang's goal is for Rehhagel to make long-term adjustments to the Chinese national team during the World Cup cycle in Brazil, rather than changing coaches twice in three days.
If possible, Zhang Huasong even wants Rehhagel to stay on until the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
However, Rehhagel did not rush to agree, but called Zhang Huasong aside alone and asked Zhang Huasong about the team's ideas for the Chinese national team.
Zhang Huasong understands Rehhagel's personality and knows that this is definitely not a question that Rehhagel really wants to ask, and what Rehhagel really cares about is whether Zhang Huasong will interfere with his coaching.
Therefore, Zhang Huasong bluntly said that he, like the Chinese Football Association, will not interfere with the thinking of the national football team and the selection of players.
After receiving Zhang Huasong's affirmative answer, Rehhagel nodded with satisfaction.
Then, Rehhagel asked the question that the media and fans are more interested in, but Zhang Huasong has never officially answered: Will Zhang Huasong's sports career cross the border and play football again?
Zhang Huasong gave a positive answer to this question after thinking about it.
Zhang Huasong told Rehhagel that he will complete the achievement of the tennis gold master this year, and will win the Olympic championship in the London Olympic year next year and complete the Golden Slam achievement.
If nothing else, he will end his track and tennis career in 2012. Since 2013, he has been playing football.
Hearing that Zhang Huasong would play football in the future, Rehhagel was very happy.
However, he was more curious about Zhang Huasong's skills.
Because, football is not a track and field sprint, and it doesn't just run fast to work.
So, the two came to the backyard of Rehhagel's house, and Zhang Huasong purchased several basic football skills from the system and showed Rehhagel a good basic football skills alone.
From the basic skills seen in front of him, Rehhagel believes that with Zhang Huasong's physical strength, speed, and learning ability, Zhang Huasong's achievements after crossing the border in football will not be low.
When the time comes, Zhang Huasong joins the Chinese national team, and the strength of the Chinese national team will definitely rise a lot.
Rehhagel became interested in coaching the Chinese national team.
However, Rehhagel will naturally not leak out on his face, and the two sides still have salaries to discuss!
In fact, when he was coaching the Greek national team, Rehhagel and his coaching staff lost a lot of bonus income because he did not expect to win the European Championship and did not agree on the salary increase and championship bonus in advance.
Therefore, this time, Rehhagel, who is already world-famous, not only wants a huge annual salary contract, but also a detailed championship bonus.
Regardless of whether you can win the championship or not, at least the prize money will be agreed on first, and then there will be a contract to follow. can't be as careless as when he coached the Greek team, and in the end he can only look at the conscience of the Greek Football Association, and he has nothing to say how much to give.
Although after winning the European Cup, the Greek Football Association gave Rehhagel a bonus of 500,000 yuan and increased his salary, from 750,000 before taxes to 1.2 million euros.
But compared with other national team coaches, Rehhagel's annual salary level is still low compared to his results.
At present, the club's highest annual salary among all coaches in football is Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho, with an annual salary of up to 10 million euros.
Among the national team managers, the highest annual salary is England coach Fabio Capello, whose annual salary is 8.8 million euros.
Even the head coach of an African national team like Nigeria has an annual salary of up to 2 million euros.
Compared with these peers, Rehhagel's annual salary of 1.2 million euros in the Greek team seems so shabby, which does not match Rehhagel's coaching results at all.
Therefore, after the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, Rehhagel and his coaching staff left Greece without hesitation and did not renew their contract with the Greek national team.
On the one hand, they want to take a break, and on the other hand, they are also waiting for the price to see if there are any teams with higher prices to invite them.
In the past six months, it is natural that some teams have invited Rehhagel, but the annual salary cannot meet his requirements.
Now Rehhagel, with the miracle of Kaiserslautern and the two resumes of Greek mythology, the demand for an annual salary is very high.
Moreover, it is necessary to divide the teams.
If it is a big team, it is famous, and the possibility of achieving good results is also high, and the natural annual salary can be less.
But if it is a civilian team that is not well-known, if you want to ask him to coach, you have to get a sky-high price.
As for the Chinese national team, which is located in the football desert of Asia, in Rehhagel's heart, it is not only a civilian team, but also a fish belly team.
To make the Chinese team reborn and make a historic breakthrough in the World Cup, I don't know how many brain cells Rehhagel will have to die.
Therefore, Rehhagel's annual salary requirements for coaching the Chinese national team are very high.
If it's a European national team or club, Rehhagel only needs a few million.
But for the Chinese team, which is located in the football desert, Rehhagel's asking price is very high.
Rehhagel's bottom line is to surpass Mourinho and become the world's first-year-paid football manager.
Otherwise, there is no need for him to suffer from a team like Huaguo, who doesn't know how hard it will take to produce results, and it is not at all concerned by mainstream European football.
Only when he gets a higher annual salary than Mourinho and shakes the world, will the news of his joining the Chinese national team attract European media coverage.
When Rehhagel proposed that he personally asked for 12 million euros, and his assistant team asked for 3 million euros, a total of 15 million euros in annual salary, Qin Zhuozheng, Ye Chu, and Football Association officials in addition to Zhang Huasong were stunned.
Moreover, the annual salary of this astronomical amount will increase by 10% every year.
15 million euros, equivalent to more than 122 million yuan at the current exchange rate, and an annual increase of 10%.
After signing a contract for 3 years, Zhang Huasong's salary as a head coach will exceed 400 million yuan.
That's an absolutely insane amount of money.
In China, where an annual salary of one million is rare, an annual salary of hundreds of millions is simply a myth, and the CEOs of the world's top 500 listed companies dare not give themselves an annual salary of hundreds of millions.
Qin Zhuozheng and others made a conclusion in their hearts that Rehhagel was "crazy for money".
Then, everyone instantly looked at Zhang Huasong.
However, Zhang Huasong's face did not have a surprised expression.
It's not that he has a lot of money, but because when the Chinese team on the parallel time and space earth invited the Italian coach Lippi to be the coach of the national football team in 2017, the annual salary for the Lippi team was 20 million euros.
With Lippi's 20 million euros annual salary as a comparison, Zhang Huasong's 15 million annual salary proposed by Rehhagel is not so shocking.
Although the time and space are different, and the time nodes are also different, this kind of thing is just asking for a price and paying back the money on the ground, and it has not yet been decided!
It's not that Rehagel wants 15 million, and Zhang Huasong will give 15 million.
Next, the two sides began negotiations on the annual salary.
After two or three days of talking, the two sides each made some concessions before reaching an agreement on the issue of annual salary.
Zhang Huasong paid Rehhagel an annual salary of 11 million euros in the name of the Chinese Football Association, allowing Rehhagel to successfully surpass Mourinho and become the highest salary head coach in world football.
Rehhagel's team of assistant assistants such as tactical coaches, goalkeeper coaches, physical coaches, team doctors, and translators is 2 million euros, which is a total of 13 million euros in the team's annual salary.
In terms of salary increase, there will be no annual salary increase, and the annual salary of 13 million will continue until the end of the 2014 Brazil World Cup Asian qualifiers. (Qualifiers ended in 2013)
If Rehhagel can lead the Chinese team to the 2014 Brazil World Cup finals, he will receive a one-time salary increase of 2 million until he finishes the Brazil World Cup finals.
After the end of the World Cup in Brazil, if the two parties continue to renew their contracts, the annual salary will be negotiated according to the results of the World Cup in Brazil.
Of course, all salaries are indicated before tax, and the personal income tax is the responsibility of the Rehhagel team, and they cannot make the low-level mistake of signing Camacho with the Chinese team in parallel time and space.
This maximum annual salary level is only 15 million, which is still a big gap with Rehhagel's requirement to start with 15 million and increase by 10% per year.
If Rehhagel starts at 15 million and rises by 10% per year, by 2014, the annual salary of his team will be close to 20 million euros, which is already the same as the annual salary of Lippi who signed the national football team in 2017.
That Zhang Huasong naturally couldn't agree.
Still, Rehhagel didn't expect his sky-high salary needs to be met. He can ask for a price all over the sky, and the other party will naturally sit on the ground and pay back.
Fortunately, Zhang Huasong's wealth and love for Chinese football made the two sides reach an agreement in the end and did not collapse.
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