Time flew by, and it was July 1995.

Yang Xiaoping's accidental injury made Jianlibao's return to China a week late, but it still couldn't stop the players from returning home.

Beijing, the office building of the Football Association.

"Military students, no matter what, arrange the children's return ceremony first, and don't let the soldiers who are out on the battlefield chill when they go home."

"Yes, Chair."

After leaving Yuan Weimin's office, Wang Junsheng frowned.

Vice Chairman Xu went out on a business trip, and the reception of Jianlibao to return to China fell on Wang Junsheng's shoulders.

Holding a press conference and holding a welcoming ceremony is extremely simple for Wang Junsheng, and there is no need for someone of his level to arrange it.

What really bothered him was the newspaper he clutched in his hand.

The newspaper once again mentioned Hao Wei's lung perforation surgery, bluntly saying that the harsh environment in Brazil, excessive training and difficult living conditions, it is very easy for a talented teenager to die.

And Yang Xiaoping's ligament tear this time also proves the "uselessness" and "danger" of the trip to Brazil from the side.

"TMD, how can you play football without getting hurt? Do you think it's a Yangge? Wang Junsheng scolded in his mouth.

The so-called monkey is not afraid of many people, and it is not a big deal to watch the excitement. Wang Junsheng has secretly made up his mind that when Vice Chairman Xu returns, he must take care of these media.

Reform and opening up, democracy and freedom do not mean that we can make things up and chase after the wind.

Jianlibao was decided by the Football Association after many meetings and discussions, how can such a decision allow some unscrupulous tabloids to criticize?

These tabloids only saw that after a whole year of auditions across the country, 22 teenagers were finally selected to go to Brazil to learn knowledge, skills, ideas, and broaden their horizons.

However, after arriving in Brazil, the living and training conditions were extremely poor, and the funds were seriously insufficient. At a time when the logistical forces were almost zero, there were again wounded.

In the end, he came to the conclusion that "is it necessary to persist in such a trip to Brazil?" in a vain attempt to fan the flames and arouse public opinion.

But what many people don't know is that the origin of Jianlibao is not at all a youth training that the Football Association has a hot brain, finds a company to invest casually, and blindly launches.

In 92, Geiger, the owner of the FIFA technical department, and Muir, the secretary general of the Malaysian Football Association, and others held a working meeting on the results of the FIFA inspection team on Chinese football in April. When talking about the development of youth football in China, Geiger raised three questions.

First, Chinese teenagers train too much and compete too little; Second, the coaches are uneven, without love and empathy; Third, there are too few venues and uneven distribution.

However, if we want to solve the above problems in light of the national conditions at that time, we will encounter more difficulties, which cannot be done overnight. In reality, fans and leaders need the Football Association to quickly improve the overall level of Chinese football in a short period of time, and strive to break out of Asia as soon as possible.

What to do?

After thinking about it a few times, the management of the Football Association came up with the means of "borrowing stones from other mountains to attack jade".

For a long time, the idea of sending a number of youth football teams to developed football countries to learn from this kind of "borrowing chickens to lay eggs" has been circulating in the football circles, and when Kim Jong-min, who is in charge of youth training, put forward a specific plan, he immediately received the support of all the leaders of the Football Association.

As a result, the formation of a junior team rushed to Brazil for training, and the five-year plan for the game was sent for consideration as a document of the 92 football work conference. And in the next "green project", it will be implemented gradually.

The so-called "Green Project" is to select two or three teams from the 77 and 78 age groups and send them to Brazil or Germany. Let them accept the influence of modern football from their youth, and master the advanced ideas, cash playing styles and advanced technologies of modern football as soon as possible.

And as they grow older, their football concepts and technical and tactical levels will not only improve and develop, but also slowly affect the next generation of footballers.

In fact, Project Greenery is not just sending a team to study in Brazil, its program is divided into three teams.

The first team was sent to Brazil for five years; The second team was sent to Europe for indirect training, and it took about three months to go abroad each time; The third team was broken up and placed in various football clubs across the country to participate in the domestic professional league.

After five years, all three teams have completed their studies, and then they will return to Beijing to combine and select an Olympic football team that can represent the national level, with the 2000 Sydney Olympics as the primary goal, and some of them will participate in the 2002 World Cup.

If this five-year plan, which is aimed at the Olympic Games and the World Cup, can be succeeded and realized, then Chinese football will surely appear in the world football arena with a new look in the new century.

However, this plan will cost tens of millions of yuan at the very least, so where will this money come from?

Who can sponsor it? Who dares to sponsor? Who wants to sponsor?

If you do invest, will you succeed?

No one has a bottom in their hearts.

Once it ends in failure, personal responsibility will be put aside, and the damage to Chinese football will be immeasurable.

But recalling China's ancestors, since the end of the Qing Dynasty, didn't they all find a development path suitable for China in the trial and attempt?

If Chinese football wants to develop rapidly, it must be bold and take some risks.

After the documents came down, Wang Junsheng and Vice Chairman Xu stared at each other in the office and smoked silently for an afternoon. In this era when there are no people and no money, such a project quantity and responsibility are all on the shoulders of the two of them.

After a while, Wang Junsheng said in a deep voice. "Lao Xu, if you fail, you and I will both know the end."

"What about failure? We've come this way. Vice Chairman Xu could see it, "Even if we fail, we are not in vain." At the very least, we can provide some lessons from experience and failures for future generations, right? ”

Looking at the tenacity in Vice Chairman Xu's eyes, Wang Junsheng saw the flash of Chinese football for the first time.

Later, Guangdong Jianlibao Company, which has always enthusiastically supported sports, learned of this plan and took the initiative to send someone to the door.

"We are all Chinese, 'football is backward, and the husband is responsible'! The leadership of our company, all employees, are very supportive of this plan! ”

In June 1992, Jianlibao Group signed a contract with the Football Association.

Jianlibao will contribute $2.6 million in the next five years, and the Football Association will contribute $870,000. In order to ensure that the team can go to Sao Paulo for youth training, the two sides jointly entrusted Brazil Dadong Company, a subsidiary of Beijing Foreign Enterprise Corporation, to complete this plan.

In addition, Tang Pengju led the national youth to Germany for training, and the third team was not formed, but the players returned to various provincial teams and clubs to participate in the domestic professional league, and I believe that some of these teenagers will always be selected for the Olympic selection.

In this way, after the "92 Hongshankou Zunyi Conference", Chinese football actively launched a "93 Westernization Movement".

Whether it is dead or alive, whether it is successful or not, everything is still unknown. But in any case, Jianlibao's trip to Brazil can definitely be regarded as a great attempt by Chinese football on how to carry out Chinese youth youth training within the system of planned economy.

Since Jianlibao is sponsored by the enterprise and selected nationally, the people naturally regard the Jianlibao team as all the preparations of the Football Association for the 00 Olympics and the 02 World Cup.

It is precisely because of this that Jianlibao has received so much attention and popularity.

Now, Jianlibao youngsters are about to return to China for the first time, do they bring hope or disappointment?

Nobody knows.

Those worrying and short-sighted media took the initiative to jump out to sensationalize the public at this juncture, and it is no wonder that Wang Junsheng wants to punish them severely.

Sure enough, twenty years later, their descendants have a unified name: Keyboard Warriors!