Chapter 120: Xiao Qing's Luck
Xiao Qing will not dictate the team's recruitment work at all, in fact, although Xiao Qing is important now, he is definitely not the kind of top star, Hoffenheim will not change their strategy at all because of Xiao Qing's opinion; There are too few players who can have influence on the team's management in professional football, and Xiao Qing obviously does not have that qualification now.
Xiao Qing is still in a happy mood to watch the Olympic Games with his family, although Xiao Qing is unable to play in such a sports world, but now Xiao Qing, who is not bad for money, is still willing to take his family to see a rare sports event, in the whole 2008, all sports in China, and even the focus of attention in the whole country is almost this Olympic Games.
Xiao Qing has made a fortune again, although there is no signing fee, although there is no contract renewal to increase the contract period, but Xiao Qing's performance in the season just ended is too eye-catching, although Xiao Qing said early that he would stay in the team, which made the negotiation of Alan Tea lose more initiative; But as Hoffenheim's leading scorer and the Golden Boot of the Bundesliga, Xiao Qing has a reason to get a higher income.
Although most of the teams in the Bundesliga are run on a small budget, although there are few horrors of the Premier League here, perhaps this is also the reason why the Bundesliga has been tepid and lacks some competitiveness, because there is a lack of enough top players here, because the Bundesliga teams are still relatively weak in the five major leagues.
Although the competitiveness of the Bundesliga may be a little insufficient, it is still relatively good to be a member of the five major leagues. Although it is more popular here to operate on a small budget. But that's just the more expensive leagues than the others. In fact, players here also earn a lot, especially for players in the top league.
In 2008, the top 50 players in Shijie football's salary list ranked player wages without any additional income such as advertising and other commercial activities, Ibrahimovic and Kaka tied for first place with an annual salary of 9 million euros after tax, followed by Messi with a salary of 8 million.
Twenty of the top 50 players are from the Premier League, proving that the general wage level of Premier League players is still higher than in other leagues, with eight from Chelsea and five from Manchester United. Four are from Liverpool, with 13 in La Liga and 11 in Serie A. As for the Bundesliga, only Bayern can prop up their façade.
By comparison, the average annual salary of a Premier League player in 2004/2005 was less than €1 million. In 2001, Recoba's annual salary of 8 million was the highest salary at that time, and the annual salaries of Vieri, Barty, and Totti in the same period all reached 6 million euros; But now it looks like such a salary really doesn't necessarily match their performance. Nowadays, the football business is becoming more and more developed, especially when some of the top rich people are lavishly squandering checks, and the transfer value of players is constantly breaking records, and their salaries are also rising. No one hates high salaries, and Xiao Qing is naturally like this.
Compared to the luxury of the wealthy. Small and medium-sized clubs are much shabby, such as Valencia, which has an annual salary cap. Unless the player is particularly good, the annual salary cannot exceed 1.5 million euros, and only a few people in the team, such as Villa, Vicente, and Albelda, have reached 3 million euros, and there are very few players in other small clubs who have an annual salary of more than one million euros
Although Xiao Qing has changed his contract several times this season, many times the annual salary in football is constantly adjusted, and football players will often ask for a salary increase when they perform well, which is something that does not exist in many other sports; The simplest is NBA superstar Pippen, who chose a long contract in order to get a more secure contract; As a result, in the following seasons, the salary of NBA players skyrocketed, and with his phenomenal performance, he could only get a league or even average salary.
Counting the current Xiao Qing's weekly salary is also tens of thousands, which is definitely a pretty good level in the eyes of many people; A team tends to have about five core players who are paid first-tier salaries. Tends to be a captain, two strikers, a midfield core and a defensive core. Xiao Qing naturally belongs to the category of the team that should get the highest salary, and even after the team is promoted, Hoffenheim needs to reform the team's salary system, and Xiao Qing's outstanding performance in the Bundesliga has also prompted Hoffenheim to make some changes; Although Xiao Qing is willing to stay here, the threat of Schalke 04 is still there, and even other teams will be interested in Xiao Qing.
Therefore, the weekly salary is tens of thousands, but the annual salary is only more than 500,000, although there are benefits such as appearance bonuses and goal bonuses, but the salary is often a direct reflection of a player's strength; Although the excellent performance of the Bundesliga is not more convincing, one thing is certain, that is, Xiao Qing's performance can fully reach the average income level of the Bundesliga team, or even a little higher is what he deserves. The weekly salary is 30,000 yuan, and the annual salary reaches 1.5 million; Xiao Qing's income has increased dramatically after promotion to the Bundesliga, and he is at ease with all this performance, he is the best player at Hoffenheim right now, and his performance proves that he deserves it.
Xiao Qing was in a good mood and watched the Olympic Games with his family, of course, his teammates Ibisevic and Edu also participated in this grand event on behalf of their countries, and all Xiao Qing, as the host, naturally wanted to do their best to be a landlord.
At the Olympic Games, Xiao Qing saw the growing momentum of the country's sports development, and aside from the so-called gold medal strategy, China's sports have indeed made great progress. 08 Beijing Olympic Games, when the whole country celebrated and the Chinese army was very successful, only Chinese football added blockage, the national team has lost in the top 20 in advance, and the national Olympic team against the two weakest opponents in the group stage, New Zealand and Belgium, also only achieved one draw and one loss.
Looking back, there are vague similarities in this scene. At the Athens Olympics four years ago, the Chinese team won gold and silver, and finally won the second place in the gold medal list. The Chinese football team led by Shen Xiangfu was eliminated in the Olympic qualifiers in the first half of the year, and the Chinese team was finally eliminated by Kuwait in the Shijie Cup qualifiers in the second half of that year.
The 2008 Olympic Games attracted worldwide attention, and the Pig Association also painstakingly operated the 08 Olympic strategy for several consecutive years, with the widest range of screening, and did not hesitate to create a group of players who could play a major role in the Super League at the expense of the league (cancellation of relegation, etc.); However, the over-pursuit of short-term effects not only did not make the National Olympic Games have some exciting performance in the Olympic Games, but even only shame is remembered.
The first game barely drew with the New Zealand team, which has forced the national Olympic team into a desperate situation where there is only one way to go but to defeat Belgium. Although promotion is just a luxury for the national football team, for the national football team, which is accustomed to winning with less losses, the fans' expectations for the second game are not too high. But in the next game, Shijie was shocked, and the fans of the national football team may not even be desperate.
In the seventh minute of the second half, Tan Wangsong was sent off with a red card because of a "precise" kick; Ten minutes later, Zheng Zhi, the number one star of the national football team, received a red card again, and what led him out was a rather lethal "iron elbow" - although the score on the field was only 0-1 at that time, everyone knew in their hearts that under the premise that the overall strength was not as good as the Belgian team, the Chinese "martial arts team" with two fewer players had been sentenced to death in advance! And in addition to making people feel blocked and disappointed, this game can be regarded as letting many fans on shijie know Chinese football, or Chinese martial arts!
A "blueprint" that Chinese football has painstakingly operated for several years burst like a bubble in the blink of an eye. In fact, as early as when the "local handsome" Yin Tiesheng rushed to "accept the order" like a Buddha a month ago, this bubble was already shaky and about to "burst". First, he invited a "Shijie No. 9 Coach" from Europe, and then used one "scandal gate" after another to make it notorious, and then, the defeat of the Shijie Cup qualifiers and the Olympics was nothing more than moving the "scandal gate" off the field to the field. Under the watchful eyes of the Olympic host, there will be two red cards for losing, Chinese football, there is really no end to your shame!
A striker who claims to be the most promising, there was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity at the opening of the game, and the surrounding three meters were empty, but his shot floated softly off the line!
In the last game, a fan sent a text message to ask a certain TV station, and everyone understood what he meant: China's number one star can hardly be found in the camera; So fans don't need to text the second game against Belgium, not because Zheng Zhi was liberated in the front midfield, performed well, and the TV camera could find him more, but because he elbowed the opponent and was sent off the field by the referee with a red card in front of everyone.
How many times have I thought that Chinese football had lost to the end. But time and time again, Chinese football keeps telling us: the shame of Chinese football has not yet come to an end!
The most pitiful are the Chinese fans, what is their mood? I heard that some fans at the scene shed tears in the stands and cried for the Chinese men's football team, it's not worth it! So some hurried to Qinhuangdao to cheer for the Chinese women's football team, they are the fig leaf of Chinese football zuihou, and they can't be hanged on the Chinese men's football team!
Some players don't have any shame at all, they don't even say it's okay to qualify, because the Olympic spirit is all about participation. They seem to have forgotten who swore that they would reach the quarterfinals or even the semi-finals!
Xiao Qing was a little lucky, fortunately he refused the call of the Pig Association at the beginning, otherwise he would be one of those scolded now; Although Xiao Qing felt that it was impossible for him to be that virtuous at all, but a team was in that state, and the gods couldn't save this team when they came! (To be continued......)