When a game that should have been evenly matched actually had a 1-7 point disparity, and the side that lost miserably was still sitting on the home advantage of the "Samba Army", more than a dozen world-renowned bookmakers invariably doubted the "authenticity" of this result.

Moreover, they would very much like to find some clues that someone had manipulated the outcome of the game through some special means, so that they would have enough reason to refuse to pay the winnings. After all, the lowest odds of 1 to 7 also reached 1 to 180, and the highest one reached an astonishing 1 to 205. Even if there are very few bettors betting on this score, it has a big impact on the bookmaker's profits.

As a result, the bookmaker carefully screens bettors who bet on this score.

Although more than 100 countries have bettors who have guessed the outcome, all bets of more than €10,000 on this outcome have come from Asia, and all bets over €50,000 have come from China.

After seeing this result, the executives of several bookmakers were even more determined to speculate that someone was rigging the game.

However, since the proportion of bettors who guessed this result was less than 1 in 100,000, and the highest bet received by these bookmakers was only 80,000 euros, and there was no huge amount of betting, the bookmakers did not suffer much loss, but also because of this unbelievable upset and there was a big surplus.

As a result, in the absence of conclusive evidence that someone is rigging the game, the bookmaker has no choice but to pay out to the player who guesses the outcome. However, since the vast majority of the players who made this big bet on Brazil's fiasco were from China, it was decided that in the future, all bets from China should not exceed 10,000 euros.

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On July 15th, two days after the end of the World Cup in Brazil, the entrance examination for Wonder International Football School officially began.

Since Wande International Football School was not founded by Feng Quan alone, even though Feng Quan holds 51% of the school's shares and has a veto in his hand, he has made certain compromises in some major decisions for the stability and unity of the school.

For example, Feng Quan originally promised in the school enrollment advertisement broadcast before that 500 "public welfare enrollment" places for those football geniuses from poor families would be exempted from their admission fees, and 5 million yuan would be set aside every year as a scholarship to recognize outstanding students.

However, just a week before the start of the admissions exam, a number of representatives from Wonder Group in the school's management, who did not know what means were used, actually made sense of the "public officials" who were "sent from above" to supervise the normal work of the school, and suddenly proposed to convene a board of directors, hoping that Fengquan would revise the relevant matters of "public welfare enrollment".

In the eyes of these people, actively participating in "public welfare" although it helps to enhance the school's reputation and popularity in the society, but the school can currently accommodate a total of only 1,400 students, and this year's enrollment plan is only 1,000 places, if half of the places are used for "public welfare", even if the state sows 30 million support funds, the school will still have a big deficit this year.

Although Feng Quan is the largest shareholder of the school, the funds he used to establish the football school with Wonder Group were all borrowed from the bank in the form of interest-free loans because of the support of the "No. 1 Great Elder". Therefore, with the "supervisors" on the side of Wonder Group, Feng Quan had to compromise on the issue of "public welfare enrollment".

As a result, although the original 500 "public welfare enrollment" places remain unchanged, only the top 200 "poor students" in the admissions examination can enjoy the preferential treatment of "exemption from all fees"; The "poor students" ranked between 201 and 500 are also exempt from tuition and training fees, but they need to pay 800 yuan per month for "standard meals", as well as 2,000 yuan for accommodation and 1,500 yuan for clothing (halved).

In fact, the monthly "standard meal" fee of 800 yuan of Wande International Football School is still very conscientious. After all, three meals a day are all available in unlimited quantities, and the nutrition is extremely balanced (under the strong request of Fengquan, meat dishes are only served with beef and chicken), and the cost of ingredients alone is nearly 800 yuan per person per month.

It is precisely because of this that Feng Quan, who has the right of veto, finally chose to compromise. He knows very well that if Wande Group is forced to choose to withdraw its shares, it will be difficult to maintain the normal and lasting development of the football school with only his own financial resources and the 30 million support funds sown by the state every year.

After all, the salary of 30 foreign coaches alone will cost far more than 30 million yuan, and the annual expenditure of one salary will be nearly 50 million yuan, including the salaries of domestic coaches, cultural teachers, and other staff. If you add the water and electricity bills, the maintenance costs of various training venues, canteens and dormitories, the school's annual basic operating expenses may exceed 60 million.

In the future, unless the school can cultivate a large number of talented teenagers who can be favored by domestic and foreign clubs every year, and let the other party pay a relatively reasonable "training fee", let alone want to make a profit, just being able to maintain the normal operation of the school is already burning high incense.

However, Feng Quan, who had deep contact with those particularly poor students during his school years, knew very well that even if the school exempted poor students from tuition and training fees of 40,000 yuan a year, a large part of them still could not afford to pay more than 13,000 yuan a year for food, accommodation and clothing.

As a result, Fengquan decided to contribute 4 million yuan every year as the food, accommodation and clothing expenses for the remaining 300 "public welfare enrollment" places.

Of course, the reason why Feng Quan did this is not completely unrewarded, if these students who have received their own "funding" are really fortunate to become professional players in the future, then in addition to the school to charge them "training fees", Feng Quan himself has to charge 10 to 200,000 "return on investment" according to the "worth" of the students.

In addition, the sudden attack on the part of Wonder Group also made Feng Quan understand a truth, unless he invested and occupied the vast majority of the shares, he could not establish absolute authority and the right to speak.

As a professional athlete who "eats youth", although his annual income can be stable at more than 10 million euros. However, once he retires when he is old, he has no skills other than sports, and he can only rely on the wealth accumulated in his career for the rest of his life.

Therefore, unless Feng Quan can have a channel that can still provide a stable income after retiring, he really does not have the courage to invest heavily in establishing his own football school.

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