Chapter 103: North Korea's "Victory" Club
The People's Republic of Korea, Tongcheon-gun, Gangwon Province, is located in the east-central part of the Korean Peninsula, spanning the dividing line between North and South Korea. It has long been a relatively poor region.
But two things changed that.
In the nineties of the last century, the Korean government announced that the scenic spot of Mount Kumgang, located on the east coast of the Korean Peninsula, would be opened up as a special tourist zone, which would allow foreigners to freely travel and invest in the Mount Kumgang tourist area, and could enjoy duty-free treatment. Tongcheon County also enjoyed the benefits of this policy and began to become wealthy.
Another thing that has made the region and football inextricably linked: the father of Chung Mong-joon, president of the Korean Football Association and vice president of FIFA, and the founder of South Korea's Hyundai Group, Jung Joo-yong, was born here, and Jung Joo-yong is a household name in both South and North Korea, where there is the Yoo Kyung Jeong Joo-young Stadium named after him. In June and October 1998, Chung Joo-yong and his family escorted 1,000 cattle into North Korea through Panmunjom and presented them to his hometown of Tongcheon County, Gangwon Province and some poor areas in the mountainous areas of northern North Korea as farming cattle. The "scalping diplomacy" has greatly eased the tense atmosphere between the North and the South, and is an unprecedented event in the history of North-South relations on the Korean Peninsula.
And Jung Mong-joon became the chairman of the Korean Football Association, vigorously promoted the football reunification of the two Koreas, advocated and promoted North Korea to join the ranks of co-hosting the World Cup, and realized the dream of joining the team to participate in the competition.
North Korea's domestic football is still stuck in the era of professional football, team formation and training are based on each administrative region, the domestic league is in good order, due to economic and transportation factors, North Korea's leagues at all levels are still concentrated on the game system, rather than home and away. North Korean football also has no sponsorship, unlike Chinese professional teams that sell naming rights and jersey advertisements, and North Korean teams at all levels have no foreign coaches, no foreign aid, and almost no international exchanges. However, in recent years, some small corporate football clubs have slowly begun to develop, and in Tongcheon-gun, a football club called "Shengli" is struggling to develop.
Club chairman Lee Jingshun went to Incheon, South Korea when he was very young, in the early eighties of the last century, he was coached by the famous coach Choi Yin-taek in the varsity team of Incheon University in South Korea, and he was very hopeful to join the Korean professional league founded in 1983, but due to a slight heart attack, he did not get his wish, and later came to work in a trading company in Incheon, and he has been unable to give up two things in his heart: football and his hometown in North Korea, and finally returned to his hometown in Tongcheon County, Gangwon Province, North Korea in 1988 with some savings, married a wife and had children, Settle in.
The special tourism zone and Jung Joo-young's continuous investment brought business opportunities to Tongcheon-gun, and Lee Jing-shun gradually became rich by running the resort, and Jung Meng-joon's football promotion caused a football boom in Tongcheon-gun for a while, and at this time, Lee Jing-soon actually sold the resort, opened a football club, and signed up for the third division of the North Korean Football League.
This crazy decision later proved to be so hasty, North Korea's socio-economic environment loved, and it was simply not able to support a completely corporate club, with very little financial resources, but the place where money was spent was everywhere, Li Jingshun's wife persuaded him many times, but he was punched and kicked by Li Jingshun, who believed in machismo, the husband who loved her back then no longer existed, which broke her heart, and what was even more pitiful was that she was diagnosed with severe kidney disease, leaving her beloved daughter and son behind on a winter evening, Away from this earthly world that brought her joy and pain.
Before she died, she gave the last private money she left to her eighteen-year-old daughter, and asked her to take her younger brother out of North Korea, away from the father who had been blinded by football, so her sister Li Suyan took her thirteen-year-old younger brother Li Gejun, with the help of a relative who did international trade, came to the United Kingdom, Li Suyan originally wanted to use the money to open a small shop, make ends meet and support her younger brother to go to school.
"But, my sister's money was cheated, woo, she worked very hard for a few jobs, and her income was not much, I also wanted to help her, but I didn't expect to be favored by those bad people, to help them do bad things, and then they arrested you, I can't do bad things anymore, so let my sister save you." Xiaobao wiped her tears and interrupted her sister Li Suyan (Linda)'s calm narration, "Her kung fu is very powerful, in her hometown, she is the master sister of the kung fu gate, she ......" was about to go down when she was patted on the head by her sister.
"Thank you, Linda, this matter has caused you trouble, I wonder if you can still get used to life here?" Lao Liu looked at the plainly dressed woman in front of him, and it was difficult to associate her with the amazing nocturnal girl that day. "Don't say that, in fact, we should thank you for finding me a job so that Xiaobao can go to school......" "I can still play football, sister, today the coach praised me again, saying that I have the potential to become a star." Xiaobao was so happy that he danced again. "Football, it's football again, Xiaobao, it's a good thing that you like to play football, but I don't want you to be like that person."
"Linda, in fact, I can't say anything about this matter, but in fact, your father is quite pitiful, you ......" "Please don't mention him again, okay?" Linda had a pained look on her face.
"By the way, big brother," Xiaobao is now very familiar with Lao Liu, "my father...... Well, there are a few brothers in that person's club, and they play football quite well, and they said that they can play abroad in the future, and you can go and see them when you have a chance, I miss them. "Okay, the person recommended by Xiaobao, the big brother must take a good look."
Linda looked at Xiaobao's cheering appearance, her heart was bitter and sweet, and her cheeks slowly turned red, "You, how many days will you live here?" ……”……
Three days later, Liu returned to his club in London, with less than 10 days left before the Championship.
"What, you're going to develop the Asian market now?" Leboeuf had known about the boss's idea for a long time, but he didn't expect it to be implemented so quickly, "Yes, I thought about it, now is the best time, the league has just started, you don't have much to do, take Maori to China, set up a small liaison office, I need a smart and capable person to lay the foundation for me in China, what I need is a very solid foundation for sustainable development, do you understand?" So, you prepare, let's go tomorrow, and we'll study what needs to be done first. ”
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