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The result of the negotiation with the Provincial Football Association was that Chu Zhongtian decided to take over the Xinchuan Football Team, which had no way out in the predicament, and at the same time, he did not forget to ask the Provincial Football Association for some preferential conditions - these conditions are all given for free, don't do it in vain, and it is convenient for you to do things by yourself if you come. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThe government's various preferential measures are simply his sword, and with these things, he will not be afraid of being troubled in the future. Chu Zhongtian is not stupid, he knows that it takes all aspects of the relationship to be done in China, and the government's care will make it much easier for him to settle the relationship between all parties...... He didn't tell anyone about this decision, and he decided it alone without consulting his agent team and business management team. The conversation on the phone didn't last long, Chu Zhongtian didn't like to go around, and it only took ten minutes for him to decide to take over Chuanzu.

Now, he can get a good night's sleep.

Xu Xiaodi was very surprised when he heard that Chu Zhongtian was going to take over the messy Sichuan football, it was Chu Zhongtian who called him to tell him, and he yelled on the other end of the phone with some gaffes, thinking that Chu Zhongtian was rushing to the head with enthusiasm for a while, or was embarrassed to refuse by the other party.

Chu Zhongtian told him very calmly: "First, I don't have blood rushing up. Second, their favor cards don't work for me, and the only one who decides my choice is myself, and I don't recognize anyone's love cards. I've seriously thought about it, Lao Xu. I want to try it. ”

Xu Xiaodi heard him say this, and said on the other end of the phone: "You wait, I'll fly to Nanjing now!" Let's talk! ”

※※※Xu Xiaodi really flew from Beijing to Nanjing, and after Chu Zhongtian finished a day of training with the Chinese team, he met Xu Xiaodi in the lobby of the hotel where the Chinese team stayed.

"Let's find a place to talk." Xu Xiaodi said to him.

"There is a café on the third floor, which is quiet and suitable for talking." Chu Zhongtian led the way, and the two of them took the elevator to the third floor.

They also met head coach Gao Hongbo in the café, and the three of them exchanged a few words of greeting and then separated.

I found a place near the corner and ordered two cups of coffee each, although the waiter tried to recommend their signature coffee, but neither of them asked for it, they didn't come here to taste coffee, coffee was just a "ticket" for them to sit here and talk about things.

After the waiter brought the coffee, the meeting officially began.

"What do you think, Xiaotian? Don't you know how bad Chinese football is? Xu Xiaodi stared at Chu Zhongtian, who was sitting opposite him, and asked.

Chu Zhongtian took a sip of coffee for a long time, and then nodded: "I know." ”

Seeing that he didn't care so much, Xu Xiaodi was even more anxious: "Do you know that you still do this?" Your money has been earned by hard work, so don't just waste it! Or rather...... Are you planning to learn from the Sheffield United boss and use the controlling football team to enter the real estate industry? ”

Chu Zhongtian shrugged: "Real estate? I don't have enough money to invest. I'm not interested in real estate, and now real estate is not as profitable as it was in previous years, so it's not interesting. I just want to build a team that belongs to me, a team that implements my football philosophy, or the best football concept in Europe. ”

"How can it be as simple as you say?"

"I'm doing it alone, of course it's difficult. That's why you're there. Chu Zhongtian said suddenly, which surprised Xu Xiaodi.

"What's the matter with me?"

Chu Zhongtian looked at Xu Xiaodi, who was surprised, and said with a smile: "I plan to let you be the general manager of this club, Lao Xu." ”

"Huh?" Xu Xiaodi didn't react for a while, and after a few seconds he slammed: "Ah!! ”

The other people in the café couldn't help but look sideways, and even Gao Hongbo was casting curious glances at them.

Chu Zhongtian put his index finger to his lips: "Shhh, be quiet, Lao Xu." Don't make such a fuss. You're making me lose face like this......"

"Uh...... Sorry, wait! Why should I be the general manager of your club? ”

"Because you're the one I trust the most."

Chu Zhongtian first put a high hat on Xu Xiaodi to make him happy, and then said, "I'm really not on a whim, Old Xu. I seriously thought about it. When I was a fan or a player, I had a lot of ideas about football, and the more I watched, the more I thought about it, and sometimes I thought to myself - if I were the manager of the team, if I were the owner of the team, what would I do...... Now that there is such an opportunity to come to my door, why don't I seize it? ”

"If you want to have such an opportunity abroad, I will support you with one hundred and twenty. But in China...... Don't you know what virtue Chinese football is? At the beginning, there were many people who were more ambitious than you and had more capital than you to confidently set foot in this industry, and what was the final result? Take Sichuan football as an example. At the beginning, Yang Zhaoji, the owner of Quanxing Distillery, was rich and loved football, and cooperated with Sichuan Sports Technology Institute to build Sichuan Quanxing Club, which initially said that it would provide one million per year, but after eight years, his actual investment exceeded 200 million! In exchange for what? Reluctantly quit. ”

"You can't say that, Old Xu. Although Quanxing was famous before, it was after investing in football that really made them famous in the country. Eight years spent 200 million on successful advertisements that lasted for eight years, and it can be counted. However, ......" Seeing that Xu Xiaodi seemed to have something to say, he hurriedly motioned to the other party to listen to him first. "I'm not going to use football to build the reputation and fame of any of my brands, and I'm not interested in advertising with football, at least not for the next few years. I know the past and present of Sichuan football, because I am one of the experiencers. I'm not trying to do something for Sichuan football, I'm trying to do something for the fans in Sichuan. You are an old football reporter, you should remember the popularity of Sichuan football in the first few years of the first year, Chengdu was a gold medal ball city, how happy were the Sichuan fans at that time? There are many children who become fans because their fathers love football. And what about now? Football has basically withdrawn from the mainstream life circle of Sichuan people, how many children will still like football because they were brought to the stadium by their father to watch football since they were young? Whenever I see those fathers abroad taking their children to the stadium to watch the game, I feel very emotional, why are other fans so happy, but our fans are not entitled to enjoy this happiness? I can't save Chinese football, and I can't manage that much. But I want to take care of my own one-third of an acre of land and do what I can to make Sichuan fans feel happy. Rebuilding Kawazuki is such a thing. I hope that in a few years' time, our children will be able to be brought to the pitch by us to watch the team that their father's generation liked, and thus to love the team and to love football. Just like me. ”

Chu Zhongtian's heartfelt words silenced Xu Xiaodi's words.

What should I say? As a football reporter, it is impossible not to know the "Chengdu Defense Battle", it is impossible not to know the "Xiongqi" that came out of Sichuan and Chongqing and resounded throughout the country, it is impossible not to know the "gold medal ball market" in Chengdu, it is impossible not to know Wei Qun, Ma Mingyu, Li Bing, Yao Xia, Zou Yungen...... Those stars of Sichuan football. But he always thought that this was already in the past tense, and it had nothing to do with the present and the future.

Who would have thought that the feelings that Chu Zhongtian generated from here would extend to the present, and they would also extend to the future.

"It's broken, it's bad, it's struggling in the second division, I know that. But I don't think there's anything bad about that. For an outside investor, there is nothing better than a mess and being poor. Wouldn't it be better if I could ignore the previous intricacies and carry my philosophy through and build a team that I want? What I really want to give me is a Chinese Super League team, I don't want it yet. Of course, I know how many problems Chinese football has now, and it is difficult to return. So I can't even look at those teams in the Chinese Super League, they are already dirty, every pore on their body is dirty, exuding the smell of decay. Give it to me and I don't want it, because I can't manage it well, and the result is just a bump in the head and a broken bloodstream, and in the end I will either go along with the dirt or have no choice but to leave. But this one is different, because they are young enough and rotten enough to disdain their vices, so I can implement my football philosophy. ”

"Your ...... What is the football philosophy? Xu Xiaodi interjected and asked.

"I want to build a team based on the philosophy of European football, from the infrastructure to the cultural atmosphere, to learn from the advantages of Western football."

Xu Xiaodi thought for a while: "That's a very large and complicated project......

"So I need your help, Old Xu. You've worked as a football journalist before, both in China and abroad, you've seen a lot, and you know the differences between Eastern and Western football, so it's perfect for you to be the general manager. You go to people according to this concept, I will support you if you want money, and I will support you if you want people. Anyway, if you go to do it, I will support you in whatever you do, and if you can't do it, I'll help you talk to the Provincial Football Association. You know what, Old Xu. Sichuan football was my dream when I was a child, and when I started playing football as a child, my goal was very simple, that is, to be able to play for Sichuan Quanxing one day. Now I can't play for them, but I can make them a dream for the kids again. My goal is not to be in the Super League, my goal is to spend maybe a few years, maybe 10 years, maybe 20 years, just like Hoffenheim's owner Dietmar. Like Mr. Hope, even if it takes half of my life, it's worth it, starting from the basics, laying a solid foundation, I don't ask for results, even if the first few years are in the second division, I don't care. I don't ask for financial returns, I don't expect this club to make me much money, I just want to spend a few years for all of us to calm down, no matter what the outside world says, no publicity, no hype, just football, from infrastructure to echelon construction. I don't care how bad the first team is, the echelon construction must be carried out. It took a few years to pull up the echelons of all ages, fight and then slowly talk about the first team. ”

Chu Zhongtian began to tell Xu Xiaodi about the plan for Chuanzu in his heart. Just like his style of play, he has the big picture, first talking about the whole picture, and then analyzing it one by one, and it is clearly organized, and under his leadership, whether it is Metz or Hoffenheim, the midfield is well organized. Now his plan is gradually showing clearly in front of Xu Xiaodi.

"Now Sichuan Football has been training and staying at the Sichuan Provincial Sports Technology Institute, and I don't think that's okay. As for the training base, it is too much trouble to build one by myself, and I don't have that kind of capital at the moment. I plan to buy the Pujiang training base in the name of Shide, anyway, they don't need it there, it's been abandoned for several years, and it is said that the barren grass there grows more than one person tall. It's useless to take Shide, you go to them to talk to see if you can sell it to us, the price is easy to say. Once you bought it, you will renovate it according to European standards, the standards of the new training base in Hoffenheim. Maybe our first team is the worst in the country, but I'm going to make our training base the best in the country. ”

"Echelon construction, that's what I think. I have a personal relationship with the Chengdu Football Association, they used to run a football school with the Derui Group, but it seems that it has not done very well in recent years, I plan to take it over, and the cooperation with Metz will continue to be done, and I will talk to Metz and engage in cooperative training with them - of course, they have helped us train, we are not able to help them train. In addition, I went to talk to Ma Mingyu to see if I could cooperate with Mingyu Football School, anyway, they were also providing some young players to this Sichuan football team. In addition to the football talents cultivated by these majors, they are selected from ordinary children, and they are recruited in the surrounding areas of Chengdu in the near future, and if the response is good, it will be expanded to the entire Sichuan and Chongqing regions. Oh yes, our school in Beichuan has also been incorporated into the echelon construction plan, and all children who enter our team echelon can enjoy the treatment of going to Beichuan school for free, free room and board, and a monthly subsidy - why are parents now reluctant to let their children play football? That's because playing football in China is not as good as playing abroad in the future, in case you work hard for more than ten years and spend millions to train a child and finally don't become a professional player, just like those players in Xinchuan Foot, who only earns 2,000 yuan a month, who wants? Therefore, the purpose of our echelon construction is that even if these people are not suitable for playing football in the future, they can also receive formal cultural education in our school, go to high school, go to university, go out to work, and it doesn't matter if it has nothing to do with football. You know that's what Hoffenheim did, Hope once told me that he cultivates people who are useful to society first, and then footballers, and all Hoffenheim's young players must be educated in cultural classes, and Hoppe also has a vocational and technical training center for young players who don't have much way to play football, so that they can find suitable jobs in society. I think that's really good stuff, so I hope to get parents to go to school for free and get them to want to give their kids to us and to football. ”

Chu Zhongtian talked eloquently, and Xu Xiaodi couldn't interject at all next to him. But he knew one thing - taking over Chuanzu Chu Zhongtian was indeed not a momentary start, but after careful consideration, it can be seen from the plans he listed.

"When it comes to building the culture of the team, it's important to be rooted in the local community and focus on interacting with the fans. In addition, if you gamble on match-fixing, tacit understanding balls, these messy things, let me stay away. I intend to set up a separate disciplinary department, which is not under the jurisdiction of the club, but is directly under my control, and is responsible for me - oh, I forgot to say, I am the president of this club - and then said that the only task of this ** department is to supervise the operation of the club, first of all, to prevent the team from being attacked from within, and to prevent all the possibility of coming to us to gamble and play tacit football. Any player who is found to have evidence of involvement in gambling or match-fixing will be expelled directly, even if it loses the strength of the team, I don't care. In short, Lao Xu, you remember, I don't ask for the team's results, at least for 20 years, I don't care if the team can play in the Chinese League or the Chinese Super League, I don't care if I can win the championship, I don't care if I can play in the AFC Champions League. All I want is that the team has its own style and character, which has been instilled in everyone from day one. As for the tactical characteristics of the team...... You know Lao Chuanzu, right? ”

Xu Xiaodi nodded.

Chu Zhongtian smiled, a little proud: "The Quanxing team in the past is definitely not the strongest team in Chinese football, but they are the best-looking and most passionate team to play football!" This is also the case with the current Shinkawa foot! Champions can win fans, but first of all, we have to rely on football to win fans, and when we play well, the results will naturally improve. Barcelona have continued to play a style for more than 20 years since Cruyff was in charge, playing flashy attacking football, and they have become six champions. Although Arsenal do not win titles often under Arsene Wenger, they have many fans around the world who like them. And Hoffenheim, where I played, we went from a small team with 3,000 fans to a team that was full every home matchday. It's all about us doing our best to please the fans, the fans are the foundation, the championship trophy is a giveaway, a gift after you have pleased the fans. There is no winning team in this world, no team can monopolize everything, we can do without trophies, but we can't do without fans. So a good-looking football can attract the attention of fans. We can't always expect old fans from the past to come back and support us. Chengdu Sheffield United has already grabbed a lot of fans. We have to look to the future, we have to appeal to young fans, dull football is not pleasant. Therefore, the style of the team should be established from the first day of the team, that is, to play passionate offensive football, just like Sichuan Quanxing in the past! No matter if you win or lose, you have to look good, you have to win beautifully, and you have to lose if you lose! ”

When Sichuan Quanxing won Shenhua, it won very passionately, and the two games with Shenhua have made Sichuan fans talk about it to this day. In one game, Mamelo contributed a number of players who were included in the top 10 goals of the First A for Chinese football, and the other game made everyone remember Masic, who scored a hat-trick against Shanghai Shenhua.

This is the football of Sichuan Quanxing, just like the Sichuan army in the War of Resistance Against Japan, full of courage and passion. During the eight years of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Sichuan army undertook more than one-fifth of the country's front-line combat missions, and more than 640,000 of the three million Sichuan troops were martyred. The number of people who participated in the war and the number of people who died ranked first in the country.

Sichuan people are not lacking in passion and courage, which is vividly reflected in the war of football in this era of peace. Sichuan Quanxing's "Yellow Fury" is a statue of the most golden era of Chinese football, which freezes the good memories of countless people and the glory of the early days of Chinese professional football.

"So it's a very troublesome thing to find a coach, you can't just find someone with a coaching certificate to be a coach, the style of the echelon coach and the first-team coach must be the same, tell them that this is not the coach's personal style, this is the style of Sichuan football! I don't want a coach who is not suitable for this style, no matter how big a name is, I want a coach who is suitable for this style, even if it is an obscure grassroots coach. ”

"There are so many things that take time and energy to do......" Xu Xiaodi finally interjected.

Chu Zhongtian nodded: "So I said that I don't arrange a timetable for the team, I don't ask the team to produce results, there is no pressure, just let you take your time, one year, two years, three years, four years, five years, six years...... As long as the foundation is solid, I don't care if it takes ten years to be in the second division. ”

Chu Zhongtian suddenly understood his boss Hope. Boss Hope's ultimate goal is not to create a big scene with him, his ultimate goal is to make Hoffenheim survive well without him one day. He's not like himself, he's just a passerby, he doesn't belong to Hoffenheim, and he can abandon this team at any time in order to pursue his goals. But he can't, he's been a fan of this team since he was born, he's been a fan of this team all his life, he'll never be able to abandon Hoffenheim, his goal is Hoffenheim's goal, he loves this team, and he hopes that Hoffenheim can live well without him.

Isn't that what he expects from Kawazu? I can't manage Chuanzu for a lifetime, and I can't manage it for a hundred years. What did he spend so long laying the groundwork for? Isn't it just so that Kawazu can live without himself in the future, and live well? The future of Sichuan football should never be pinned on a certain company, a wealthy boss who loves football, and a leader with a row of heads, but should be pinned on thousands of fans in Sichuan. As long as there are them, as long as they continue to like and support Sichuan football, then this team, this club can continue to live. Even if the team will be relegated and face a financial crisis, as long as there are fans, the flame of Sichuan football will not be extinguished!

"That's my philosophy of football." Chu Zhongtian finally said. "Football should be rooted in the people and should belong to the people, not to a certain organization, a certain enterprise, or a certain leader."

Xu Xiaodi didn't know when he opened his mouth and didn't close it. He was completely shocked by Chu Zhongtian's words, and he only now realized that he should reacquaint himself with the person in front of him who he thought he was already familiar with.

He never thought that Chu Zhongtian's ideal would be so ambitious. Where is the future of Sichuan football, this is clearly the future of Chinese football...... Where is the future of Chinese football? In the past year, the Chinese Football Association has promoted the campus football project, which shows that they are also aware of this, and the ultimate destination of football is still among the people, among the youth, and among the ordinary people. You can't do football behind closed doors, China is a diving powerhouse, but how many ordinary people have nothing to do to dive and exercise? And how many people like diving? Football is not diving, and it cannot be diving. Without a mass base, football is nothing.

Give football back to the people, the officials of the Chinese Football Association and the General Administration of Sports, those big entrepreneurs, those municipal government leaders, and those media...... What he didn't do or disdained to do, Chu Zhongtian was about to do.

We are always used to scolding Chinese football, or sneering, and it is of course the easiest to move our mouths. But will Chinese football be good in this way? As Chinese, who doesn't want their football to really get better and be reborn? But just by name-calling, cynicism, and even indifference, can Chinese football get better? So now that I have such an opportunity in front of my eyes, what reason do I have to oppose Chu Zhongtian to do it?

Chu Zhongtian looked at Xu Xiaodi, who was surprised, and took the coffee that had completely cooled down and drank it all in one gulp, after saying so much, his mouth had already dried up, and his throat was even a little painful.

Xu Xiaodi finally came back to his senses, and he asked, "When will I start working on our team?" ”

Chu Zhongtian smiled.

(To be continued)