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Chu Zhongtian admitted that when he saw Gong Jianmin calling him, a lot of speculation flashed in his mind about "why did he call him", but he definitely didn't guess that it would be this purpose...... Invest in a football club?

He didn't know how to answer Gong Jianmin's question for a while. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

His silence may have given Gong Jianmin other understandings, and the chairman of the Chengdu Football Association said: "That's the case, I know that Sichuan football is not qualified to ask you to reciprocate." But I still hope that you can contribute to your hometown football, after all, you are also a player from Sichuan, and you don't want to see Sichuan football in trouble......"

Chu Zhongtian understood a little, and it seemed that Chengzu was in trouble again.

When he was a child, the representative of Sichuan football has always been a team called "Sichuan Quanxing", when Sichuan Quanxing's "Yellow Hurricane" fascinated Chu Zhongtian, and he also followed his father and became a fan of Sichuan Quanxing. Later, after the team changed hands, it was eventually forced to disband. If Sichuan Quanxing represents Sichuan football, then Chengdu Wuniu represents Chengdu football. It's just that Chengdu Wuniu's reputation is far less than that of Sichuan Quanxing, and they have also lived in the shadow of Sichuan Quanxing for a long time.

Later, when Sichuan people were proud of two of the top three supergirls from Sichuan that year, Sichuan Quanxing quietly withdrew from the stage of Chinese football, Sichuan football lost the flag, and Chengdu Wuniu became the only representative of Chengdu football.

Compared with Sichuan Quanxing, which is always in the first A and the Chinese Super League, Chengdu Wuniu's best result is the sixth place in the B League in the 99 season. There is nothing to brag about in terms of results. In January 2006, England's Sheffield United Football Club controlled Chengdu Wuniu, and the name of the club was changed to Chengdu Sheffield United Football Club, and the team's logo was changed from the previous five horns around a football to the team logo of Sheffield United - two knives and a flower.

However, Sheffield United does not really want to help develop Chengdu football, and the purpose of investing in Chengdu Wuniu is more to enter the real estate industry in Chengdu, southwest China, and even China. Now the whole world knows that China's real estate industry is a big gold mine, and people who can afford it want to come in and make a profit.

Last season, Chengdu Sheffield United was originally a Chinese Super League team, but it was ordered to be relegated because of the gambling with Qingdao Hailifeng during the overtaking last season. At the same time, the chairman of the team, Xu Hongtao, a "famous economist" who also wanted to represent Chu Zhongtian, and You Kewei, the deputy general manager of the club, were imprisoned for suspected gambling. After being relegated to the Central League, Sheffield United, the investor of Chengzu, gradually lost interest in investing in the team, coupled with the outbreak of the international financial crisis, the pressure on Sheffield United's British owners increased sharply, and they turned a blind eye to Chengzu.

Chu Zhongtian once heard Xu Xiaodi talk about the tragic situation of this team: for a short time, the team couldn't even afford to eat, Yao Xia and Wang Baoshan and other members of the coaching staff drove to the vegetable market to purchase for the players, and the coaches started to purchase canteens, which was really miserable. The salary can't afford it, Yao Xia borrows it, the player has no money to go home, Yao Xia borrows it. There were no sponsors, so Yao Xia pulled Zou Yungen to buy the billboard of the stadium...... Chu Zhongtian sighed when he heard these things.

It seems that I hope I can reach out and pull a handful?

Chu Zhongtian thought so, so he asked: "Invest in Chengdu Sheffield United, Chairman Gong?" ”

Gong Jianmin was a little surprised: "No, no...... Chengzu has a good prospect of overtaking this year, although it is indeed a bit difficult financially. But as long as they rush to the Chinese Super League, they should be able to find enough sponsors. Sheffield United are probably interested in continuing to inject capital......"

Chu Zhongtian was also surprised when he heard him say this-since it wasn't Chengzu, what other team in Sichuan was in trouble?

Gong Jianmin also knew that Chu Zhongtian had misunderstood, and hurriedly explained: "It's Chuanzu." The people from the Provincial Football Association know that my relationship with you is okay, so let me be a lobbyist...... They want you to buy Kawazu, as long as you are willing to buy, there are many preferential conditions to negotiate......"

Kawazu?

Chu Zhongtian was stunned for a moment when he heard this: "What is Chuanzu?" Isn't Sichuan Quanxing all disbanded? ”

Gong Jianmin coughed, seemingly a little unspeakable. Indeed it is. Sichuan Quanxing, which was later acquired by Dalian Shide, later renamed Sichuan Guancheng and was forced to disband after a few years of dying struggle, it has always been an eternal pain in the hearts of Sichuan football people. How popular Sichuan Quanxing was at the beginning, when it comes to it, it is the pride of Sichuan people. As a result, as soon as Dalian Shide came, the original "Yellow Hurricane" became a vassal of the Shide system, and Sichuan Guancheng even became a training base for Dalian Shide to train young players. Many extreme Sichuan old fans think that Sichuan football will be gone after Sichuan Quanxing, and Sichuan Guancheng or something cannot represent the spirit of Sichuan football at all.

"That ......" Gong Jianmin began to tell Chu Zhongtian the story of the Sichuan team.

Sichuan Guancheng is dead, but Sichuan football is not dead. In February 2006, the new Sichuan football team was established in the remaining echelon of Sichuan football after being divided up by all parts of the country, and most of the players in this team were the former Sichuan Quanxing and Sichuan Guancheng youth teams, and at the age of 22 they were already the oldest veterans in the team - they had no way to use these young people, because they had no money to recruit them.

The salary of the players of the new Sichuan football team is only 2,000 yuan per month, there is no training base, no home stadium for the game, and even no shoes and jerseys.

Under such difficult conditions, the new Sichuan Football Team restarted from the Second Division, and without a home stadium, it could only borrow the stadium of Sichuan University, and also gave Sichuan University the naming rights. It took two years for this team to rush to the Chinese Super League, which is only one step away from the Chinese Super League.

Originally, everyone thought that the bright future of Sichuan football was just around the corner, but who would have thought that "no money" had become the fatal wound of the Sichuan football team. Because they can't pay their salaries because they don't have money, they lose a large number of players; Because of lack of money, the team was unable to bring in reinforcements to improve its strength; Because of lack of money, the players who barely stayed were without fighting spirit and hard work; Because of lack of money, they almost couldn't qualify for the Central League because they didn't have a home stadium; Because of lack of money, they had to go to Nanchong and leave Chengdu, an economically developed city, to seek a ball market.

Everyone says that Chengdu football is bitter, but in fact, Sichuan football is worse and more grassroots than them. After only two seasons in the Central League, the team was relegated again. In 2010, the Sichuan football team returned to the second division, and the result is that the same problems still plague the team, and more than enough - no money.

Before the start of the season, there were only 18 players in the team, eight of whom had just transferred, and all of them were players from the Chinese Super League, but they were only reserve players with limited experience in the professional league.

Other second-division teams have invested 10 million in order to rush to the first division, and only the annual investment of the Sichuan football team is only two or three million. At the end of March, in order to go to Kunming for training, the whole team could only choose to take the train.

When the new Sichuan football team was first established, the average monthly salary of each player was 2,000, but now after four years, prices have increased several times, and the average salary of the team is still 2,000. Whether it is the salary standard or the bonus standard, the team is the lowest among the teams in the second division.

At the same time, in addition to the lack of money, the lack of their own echelon construction is also one of the reasons for their unsatisfactory results, the current team only has a first-team configuration, and only the captain of the Chinese national team, Sichuan football star Ma Mingyu founded the Mingyu Football School can provide young players for the team, but the quantity and quality are always limited, and it is very unstable.

In addition to no money and no hematopoietic mechanism, the team also lacks sufficient hardware facilities, training is only to go to Sichuan University, there is no football training base of its own at all, Maojiawan such a training base they will only rent when training, Pujiang training base also belongs to the name of Dalian Shide, they naturally can't enjoy it, although it has been abandoned for many years.

The Sichuan football team, which has no money, lacks its own hematopoietic mechanism, and has almost no hardware facilities, is not easy to survive until now, what else do you expect from them?

Gong Jianmin told Chu Zhongtian that at present, the only goal of Sichuan Football is to rush to the first division, but the league is nearing the end, and the prospect of Sichuan Football is very bleak. If they fail to break through this time, the team may face another disbandment. Because the annual investment of five million promised by their investor, Midland Shu, has not been fulfilled for a long time, and it is impossible to count on it. I can't rush to the armor, and I don't have any money, so it's estimated that none of the players in the team will be able to stay at that time. In this case, in the end, there is indeed only one way to disband.

"Although I am from the Chengdu Football Association, I am first and foremost from Sichuan. Thinking about Sichuan Quanxing at the ......beginning, Gong Jianmin realized that it was meaningless to recall the golden years now, so he said: "I definitely still don't want Sichuan football to disappear from the Chinese football map like this...... So I promised them to ask you, would you like to save Sichuan football? ”

※※※ Ending the call, Chu Zhongtian sat on the bed in the hotel room, leaning on the head of the bed, staring at the ceiling. Deng Zhuoxiang, who was in the same room with him, went out to play with his friends, and now he was the only one in the room.

He did not immediately answer Gong Jianmin's question.

His reply was "I'll think about it".

Gong Jianmin didn't expect Chu Zhongtian to be enthusiastic after hearing this, and said, "I'm willing!" "Everyone is an adult, and they don't do things so childishly and impulsively.

The "story" that Gong Jianmin told him today evokes his childhood memories many years ago. At that time, he was still a teenager who learned to play football in a football school, because he liked the Quanxing team and liked football, so he always looked forward to being able to represent the Sichuan Quanxing first team to play a league when he grew up, at that time this was China's top football league, for Chu Zhongtian, who did not know the Premier League, Serie A, and Bundesliga, China's A means everything, and it is the second highest level of football in the world - the first highest is the World Cup.

The yellow Sichuan Quanxing jersey is his dream birthday present, and being able to wear a brand new Quanxing jersey to school is the center of attention.

Everyone talks about Wei Daxia after class, Ma Mingyu, Yu Dongfeng, Yao Xia and other stars of Sichuan football. Anyone who knows a little bit of gossip about the stars is sure to quickly become the focus of the boys' circles – just as fans in England, Italy and Germany are interested in their own stars.

Later, he was forced to say goodbye to football because he refused to play match-fixing, and finally did not realize his dream of playing for the Sichuan Quanxing team. Sichuan Quanxing also changed its name to Sichuan Guancheng on February 21, 2002, becoming a club that still plays the Sichuan flag, but is actually a Dalian team.

He really didn't expect that more than ten years later, he would have the opportunity to become the owner of Sichuan football, not a player. The so-called creation makes people, but that's it, right?

Do you want to say yes?

Emotionally speaking, after hearing that Sichuan football was not dead, and there was still a faint spark to continue the hope of Sichuan football, he was a little reluctant to watch Sichuan football come to an end. If you don't know, it's just a pity, at most sigh afterwards. But now that he knows that Sichuan football is not dead, he is a little reluctant.

In the deepest part of his heart, he still has feelings for his hometown football. Especially Sichuan Quanxing is the first team he liked when he was a child, just like his first love. A few years later, you heard that your first love is now very depressed, desolate, unsatisfactory and unhappy, why will you feel and compassion?

The current Chu Zhongtian is like suddenly hearing that his first love girl has now been tortured by a cruel life, and he suddenly wants to reach out and pull her.

But Chinese football is already a mess, and Sichuan football is even worse. Those rich people who are richer than themselves can't bear the bottomless pit of Chinese football and have withdrawn. Why do you want to go in and join in the fun? If you want to invest in Chuanzu, it is a matter in the business field, everything must be considered according to the thinking of a businessman, why should I do something that has no interests? Or if the cost is high, but the benefit is small, why should I do it?

Every penny of my own money is hard-earned, is it any good for me to spend money to save Chuanzu? Can I be more respected? I don't need to, I'm already famous. Can I make more money? Thank goodness for being able to lose less.

In that case, why should I save this Chuanzu who is on the verge of disbanding for the second time and may never be able to get up again?

I didn't play for this team, I didn't have any friends in this team, and the only thing I had for this team came from the dreams I had as a child. And the stars I liked are no longer in this kind of Sichuan foot, what does such a Sichuan foot have to do with me? What's the difference with countless ordinary teams that are also in trouble? Why do I have to save them?

He thought about it for a long time and couldn't come up with a reason, so he decided to call his father. His father is the most die-hard Sichuan Quanxing fan, and even when Sichuan Quanxing was at its worst, he never abandoned this emotion. But after Sichuan Quanxing was sold to Shide, he didn't go to the Chengdu Sports Center to watch a game of the team called "Sichuan Guancheng".

Chu Zuosheng was a little surprised after listening to what his son said on the phone. He really didn't expect that his son was still playing football, and someone would make him the owner of another team. Although such a thing has not happened, didn't Yao Ming become the owner of the Shanghai Oriental Sharks Basketball Club some time ago? Could it be that the people of the Sichuan Provincial Football Association got inspiration from Yao Ming. As the only two sports stars on the same list of China's richest people, one is basketball and the other is football, they do have a lot in common.

"What do you think, Daddy?" Chu Zhongtian asked.

"Do you know what I thought at that time when Sichuan Quanxing announced the transfer of equity?" Chu Zuosheng didn't answer the question, but asked.

"I don't know ......"

"I used to think that if I were a billionaire, I would have paid for Quanxing without saying a word...... Later, after Xu Ming bought her, I thought about it again. But I'm just an ordinary person, I can only think about it. Hey! ”

"What are you going to do if you buy Sichuan Quanxing, Dad?"

"Then I go to watch the game as an adult, and I don't need to ask for a ticket!" Chu Zuosheng's answer made Chu Zhongtian roll his eyes.

But wait...... He thought of Wimbledon, whose club president used to say that his favourite thing is to be able to stand in the stands behind the goal and cheer for the team at every Wimbledon game...... This is the simplest love of the fans for their favorite club.

When he started working at the Duns Bar, he was very envious of the English fans, because they had their own community team, and they were born to support the team in their own community, even if any team was unknown, they could only play in the amateur league for more than a hundred years.

He thinks of Sichuan Quanxing, which no longer exists, and feels that it is really sad to be a Chinese fan, especially a fan of Sichuan. Our fans are here, where are our teams?

At that time, would he have such an idea - if there was a team of our own, rooted in the local area, attracting local fans, so that we were willing to go to the stadium every weekend to cheer for him, so that the shouts of "Xiongqi" resounded in the third ring road of Chengdu, how great would it be...... Isn't there such an opportunity now?

A team that belongs to him and a team that belongs to all Sichuan fans...... Although it is only a second-division team, there is nothing, not even its own home stadium and training base, but it is also like a blank sheet of paper, on which you can freely draw a blueprint...... Dietma. Hope has been able to invest in his hometown team for more than two decades, and in the end, he has been in the best situation he is today. Why can't the new Sichuan football team that he invested in reappears in China's top league after a few decades? Maybe at that time, China's football environment will be even better than it is now...... Wimbledon fans who don't want their team to leave them and disappear from their lives have formed a new team from the fans and are now moving towards their goals. Why can't I do the same? I believe that there must have been countless Sichuan fans who wanted to keep their Sichuan Quanxing at that time, but they did not have the ability to do so, and the environment of Chinese football did not allow them to do so. Since I have the ability and opportunity, why can't I fulfill this wish on their behalf, albeit a little later...... In an instant, a lot of thoughts and thoughts poured into Chu Zhongtian's brain.

Then he pulled out his phone and dialed it back.

"Chairman Gong? Eh, yes, can you give me their number? I'll talk to them. ”

(To be continued)