Ferguson sat opposite Braida.

The two were discussing Ferguson's successor.

With Alex Ferguson's departure, the selection of the club's next manager has become a top priority for the club. Brajda is the team's athletic director, while Alex Ferguson is Manchester United's former manager and legend. Therefore, before picking a new manager, Braida first needs to respect and listen to Ferguson's advice.

"To be honest, the situation is much better now than the last time I 'retired'." After listening to Braida's introduction of several candidate coaches, Ferguson couldn't help but feel a little emotional.

Braida smiled.

He spread his hands and said, "Of course. We're a team that just won the treble and broke the league points record, so who wouldn't want to be the new coach of this team? We have great youngsters like Mbappe and Pogba and any ambitious coach in the world is eager to coach them. ”

"In particular, our captain is hailed as a superstar who can dominate football in the future, and many media even joke that as long as Chu Ge is still at Manchester United, even if there is a dog on a leash in the dugout, Manchester United can win any glory they want. With such a good player, of course, you don't have to worry about choosing a manager, the best managers in the world, they will want to come here to coach. ”

Braida was a little smug.

These days, as soon as the league ended, he was in contact with several potential managers who could take over as Manchester United manager.

Without exception, every coach who has been in contact with Braida has expressed a desire to coach the team.

Some coaches even contacted Braida before they got in touch with him directly, and submitted detailed coaching plans and even tactical CDs to express their strong desire to coach the team and their confidence in leading the team to good results.

Ferguson's position as Manchester United manager has become a favorite in the eyes of many world coaches.

"If it weren't for my health, I really wanted to work for another hundred years." Ferguson teased with a smile.

The two were discussing the selection of a coach when Braida's cell phone rang.

He apologized and answered the phone.

Soon after, Braida hung up, looking a little strange.

Ferguson couldn't help but be curious.

He looked at Braida, but didn't ask.

Braida glanced at Ferguson and spoke slowly.

"Zinedine Zidane has left Real Madrid. It was he who took the initiative. ”

……

Chu Ge did not yet know the news that Zidane had left.

He was looking up some information.

Su Qingqing took out the company's work reports, financial statements, project progress reports and other documents in the past year and asked Chu Ge to check them.

However, Chu Ge was not interested in those at all.

He tossed most of the content aside.

The only thing that has aroused his interest is some public welfare projects related to the development of football youth that he has invested in and promoted in Huaxia in the past two or three years.

Some people say that the so-called public welfare is to invest money and reap satisfaction.

Chu Ge was noncommittal about this view.

However, in the promotion of domestic youth football, Chu Ge did not gain any monetary benefits.

He doesn't make money from these either.

As for the satisfaction......

Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be.

It's not that Su Qingqing and Lin Murong don't work hard enough, but the foundation of Chinese football is too poor, and you can't just invest money to see the effect.

In fact, they have put in a lot of effort.

For example, with their help, many Hope Primary Schools are named after Chu Ge, and the schools are equipped with football fields for children to play multiple sports.

For example, they have also held several football summer camps, sending some talented children to developed football countries to be trained by local football coaches and participate in local youth football competitions.

They have also cooperated with some well-known clubs to open football schools and football training classes in China.

Chu Ge saw the efforts of his partners.

However, under the influence of our own national conditions, the results of these efforts are not ideal.

"We've been able to get some results because of your appeal and because people have been more passionate about football in recent years." Su Qingqing understood what Chu Ge was concerned about, and she was a little helpless.

Chu Ge nodded.

"You've done a good job."

"But maybe there's an idea you can draw on."

"I hope you can shift some of your focus to youth football in medium and large cities. We can fund the creation of new football clubs in schools that are already in good condition, pay for them to hire football coaches, fund their activities, and fund the establishment of football tournaments to provide bonuses for the best of them. ”

"Similar to the model of Japanese football?" As soon as Su Qingqing heard this, he somewhat understood what Chu Ge meant.

Chu Ge nodded.

"Some are similar, but there are also differences."

Regarding such a football model, Chu Ge has also been thinking about it for a while.

There has always been a saying in Huaxia that the poor are rich in literature and martial arts.

When people's living standards are generally not high, reading is the lowest cost and the highest benefit way to change their fate.

Therefore, everything is inferior, but reading is high.

Thousands of troops come to the college entrance examination, which has become the best and most reasonable choice for the vast majority of Chinese people.

However, with the rapid development of the country in recent years, people inevitably diverged. Many people still need the college entrance examination to change their fate and achieve a leap in social status; For some people with a higher standard of living, their needs have begun to diversify.

Parents of this part of the middle class are no longer as stubborn as before, believing that the only way out for their children is to go to college.

They are more open-minded.

If a child is talented, he can become a professional writer, a professional UP master, a professional copywriter, a singer, an idol artist, and an actor...... and so on, they can also accept it and have the intention to make some useful attempts.

On the premise of continuing to go to school as a guarantee, they will be more willing to cultivate their children's interests, explore their talents, and accept different choices.

Society has become more diverse.

Among them, many training institutions saw the opportunity and sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and many people made a fortune and dug the first pot of gold to start a business.

Chu Ge was not very interested in making money out of this.

But he felt there was a chance.

Everyone knows that many professional athletes in Chinese football belong to the high-paid class, and the number of young people entering this field is small. The competition for football players is still fierce, but which industry is not fiercely competitive?

Compared to other professions, the level of competition among football players is not necessarily high.

As for the issue of football players eating youth rice, why is there only one profession for football players?

In the past, there was a problem for football players, that is, the social recognition was relatively poor, and although they made money, they were generally considered to be high-level dishes and low quality.

The reasons for the formation of such stereotypes are complex, including the unscrupulous morale of the national football players, the unscrupulous media making up all kinds of news, and even squatting in the hotel room to find first-hand news.

But the emergence of Chu Ge has changed people's stereotypes to a great extent.

Chu Ge himself is a top student in a key middle school, with excellent grades, and belongs to the kind of students who can enter 985 if they play normally, and they do not belong to the stereotype that football players must be poor students.

He is handsome and has an even more handsome style of play, so he has naturally become an idol sought after and emulated by young children.

Moreover, his success in the field of football and his huge market appeal in the business field have also made people see what kind of market value Huaxia will have if they have a top influential football player.

The appearance of Yao Ming made countless young people on campus fall in love with basketball.

And now, it is no exaggeration to say that Chu Ge has made all the children know and fall in love with football.

Football already has a broad mass base.

What is lacking is just a suitable development opportunity.

Therefore, Chu Ge came up with such an idea.

Many people encounter a very real difficulty when choosing to play.

First of all, there is a lack of hardware conditions such as venues.

Su Qingqing and a lot of their previous work was to solve this problem. They spent a lot of time and money sponsoring the construction of football fields in many schools, giving away football shoes and soccer balls.

Chu Ge's idea is that these works will continue to be done, but it should also be noted that the children in the city actually do not lack the hardware environment to play football.

The problem that children in the city encounter is not the problem of the field, but the problem of the concept of parents and the school, and the most realistic problem of the back road to engage in football.

There is survival of the fittest in any profession.

Football is no exception.

Successes are always in the minority, but what about losers?

One of the big practical obstacles in football is that while the winners can earn a good salary, the losers often get nothing, and the best of their youth is wasted, and injuries may be lost.

A lot of people are holding back because of this.

They all know that football is a lucrative profession, but once they are not able to enter the first team of professional football, then the consequences are unacceptable to ordinary people.

As a result, many potential children who have the opportunity to become professional footballers have withdrawn.

And among these people, there may be some young people who are very talented and have a very good chance of success.

It's a shame.

Chu Ge wants to establish a football club in the school, just to provide a realistic and feasible way out for those who are unlucky in professional football.

On the one hand, urban schools have a demand for the all-round development of students.

Moreover, Chu Ge can also use his status as a national representative, as well as his own influence, to implement some student fitness policies with partial coercion.

For example, "physical education teachers must not be infirm and sick" and so on.

On the other hand, the establishment of the football department can absorb a large number of professionals and solve some of the employment problems that plague local governments.

Moreover, the resulting industrialization of sports will also provide many emerging industrial needs, and will also play a positive role in expanding domestic demand, promoting development, and ensuring employment.

Although Chu Ge does not aim to make a profit, he still hopes to provide a profitable commercialization attempt for the industry, rather than a simple sponsorship.

Simple sponsorship, once Chu Ge retires, or his money runs out, there will definitely be a day when it stops.

And if there is a profitable outlook, then the situation is completely different.

If the football department of some cities is running well and the model is extended to the whole country, it is likely that Chu Ge only used part of the money to solve the problem of football players' back roads, and leveraged the originally frozen professional football market and opened the door to a new world.

Many people make commercial support for this market, thus generating a money-making effect.

Driven by the money-making effect, coupled with the government's reasonable supervision, it will promote the orderly and good development of the entire industry.

At that time, even without Chu Ge's sponsorship, the industry can continue to develop.

Just like today's Japanese university sports and culture industry.

Chu Ge didn't expect the project to have immediate results, and the establishment of the football club was probably just an additional way for the students to have fun.

But he believes that through this kind of attempt, if real football talents emerge in China, they should no longer be as easily buried as their predecessors, and they are considered to be stupid people who are not worth cultivating.

In fact, sometimes, it's not that they're stupid, it's just that people don't discover the true talent of the so-called "stupid people".

……

Chu Ge put forward his idea, and Su Qingqing recorded it carefully.

This year is the year of the World Cup.

If the spring breeze of the World Cup is used to popularize football, it may be the best time.

The reason why Chu Ge was able to become a player was also due to the last World Cup to a large extent.

"You're going to have to work harder this year." Su Qingqing quipped.

"If you can help the national football team to get a good result in the World Cup, maybe there will be a lot less resistance to building a football department." She said to Chu Ge.

Chu Ge smiled.

Of course he understands that.

It's just that it's really difficult to achieve this goal.

Then.

Lin Murong handed the phone to Chu Ge.

Chu Ge saw the title on the phone screen at a glance.

……

'I have made the decision not to continue in charge of Real Madrid next season.

"I made this decision because although I love Real Madrid, I think it's better for me and everyone to change, so I chose to leave."

– Zinedine Zidane.

……

Chu Ge was shocked.

He suddenly remembered what Zidane had said to him that day in the players' tunnel.

He thought it was just a joke.

Who would have thought that what someone said in a joking tone would actually be his true words?

Chu Ge immediately left the work in his hand.

He picked up his phone and walked out onto the balcony.

A phone number was dialed.