Qiao Anchen's rise is so fast that many ordinary fans outside China and Spain have not yet reacted. But in professional football and media circles, Qiao Anchen is already a famous name and has attracted much attention.
After Atletico Madrid's official website announced the news that Qiao Anchen had changed his contract and was transferred to the first team, other clubs had no choice but to give up their efforts to introduce Qiao Anchen and missed out on this European Golden Boy Award reserve player.
Media reporters naturally tried their best to find out the details of Qiao Anchen's contract.
Qiao Anchen's promotion to the Atletico Madrid first team has long been expected. Now what everyone wants to know is what Qiao Anchen, who is only 15 years old and underage and has never played a professional game, can get in the changed contract.
How much is the annual salary?
Based on Qiao Anchen's strength and potential shown in the three games of La Liga B, most people expected three to four hundred thousand, not more than five hundred thousand.
After all, there is La Liga between La Liga B and La Liga, and Qiao Anchen has yet to truly prove himself in a professional game.
Xiong Hancai and Zhuo Yifei also called Qiao Anchen and congratulated him, then tried to learn the specific contract details from Qiao Anchen, but Qiao Anchen abided by the confidentiality agreement with the club and did not disclose it.
The two had no choice but to pin their hopes on their Spanish colleagues to see if they could extract information from Atletico Madrid club staff.
In fact, Atletico Madrid did not keep it strictly confidential, because revealing the contract would also help prevent other wealthy clubs from coveting Qiao Anchen.
In addition, some reporters had cooperating informants within the club, so the last news someone learned from the club staff was that Qiao Anchen's annual salary was as high as 1 million euros, and the liquidated damages reached as much as 50 million.
This greatly exceeds Qiao Anchen's current value, and is a huge gamble on Qiao Anchen's future.
However, considering the efficiency and potential shown by Qiao Anchen's goals in 18 consecutive games, as well as the huge Chinese market behind it, although the annual salary of 1 million is a premium, it is reasonable for Atletico Madrid to take a gamble.
The European media only expressed their admiration and admiration for Atletico Madrid's determination to spend a lot of money to buy horse bones and retain the new stars from their youth training.
Then, that's all.
After all, the five major European leagues are the center of world football. Annual salaries of several million or tens of millions are not uncommon. Although a million annual salary is a bit astonishing for a 15-year-old minor, it is not up to the level that shocked Europe.
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What's more, whether Qiao Anchen can be worthy of an annual salary of 1 million euros still has to wait until he officially plays in La Liga. It's too early to say anything now.
But this is only the European media. For the Chinese media, it really shocked the whole country.
As mentioned before, the highest earner in the Chinese Super League at this time is Guangzhou Evergrande’s Argentinian foreign aid Conca, with an annual salary of 23 million.
Tied for second place are foreign aid Cleo and Chinese player Zheng Zhi, both with annual salaries of 10 million.
The fourth place was Feng Xiaoting with 8.5 million, and the fifth place was Gao Lin with 8 million.
This is the annual income of the top five players in China's top league, including foreign players. If foreign players are not included, the maximum salary is Zheng Zhi's 10 million.
Qiao Anchen's annual salary of 1 million euros, based on the current Euro-RMB exchange rate, is 9 million, which is 500,000 more than Feng Xiaoting's 8.5 million. Among Chinese players, it is already second only to Zheng Zhi's 10 million.
And the difference is minimal.
This is just the annual salary. As long as Qiao Anchen can really get the chance to play in La Liga, the appearance fees, goal awards, assist awards and other bonuses will all be added up, and the annual income will exceed 10 million. It is a high probability that he will surpass Zheng Zhi.
However, the person who received such a high salary is a 15-year-old boy who was even expelled from the national team by the Chinese Football Committee and permanently expelled.
I have to say it is a huge irony.
Therefore, the Chinese media who got the news went into a collective uproar. Regardless of the faces of the Football Committee and domestic players, almost all of them reported or reprinted the news that Qiao Anchen had renewed his new contract and was promoted to Atletico Madrid's first team in front-page headlines or important pages.
On December 20, when Qiao Anchen, his aunt, and uncle were busy moving the luggage from the base dormitory to the suite he rented and packing up the new house, the news about him in the domestic media had spread overwhelmingly.
"Qiao Anchen was promoted to the Atletico Madrid first team, with a new contract with an annual salary of 9 million!"
"At the age of 15, with an annual salary of tens of millions, Qiao Anchen becomes the highest-paid player in China!"
"Qiao Anchen has been promoted to Atletico Madrid's first team with an annual salary of tens of millions, and is expected to make his debut in La Liga in the second half of the season!"
"The five major leagues once again welcomed Chinese players, Qiao Anchen was promoted to the Atletico Madrid first team with an annual salary of 9 million!"
Although the performance of Chinese football is not good, many people pay attention to it and its influence is large enough. Therefore, even Xinhua News Agency sent a text message for such a blockbuster news.
Xinhua News Agency, Madrid, Spain, December 20:
"Qiao Anchen, a 15-year-old Chinese football player who previously played for the B team of La Liga giant Atletico Madrid, officially promoted to the Atletico Madrid first team after renewing a new contract with Atletico Madrid yesterday."
"After Atletico Madrid completes the registration procedures for Qiao Anchen to participate in La Liga and Europa League professional football matches as a minor, Qiao Anchen will officially report to the first team during the winter training camp next spring and participate in the second half of the 2011/2012 season schedule.
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"It is reported that the annual salary of Qiao Anchen's new contract reaches 1 million euros, which is almost the same as Zheng Zhi's maximum salary for domestic players. It is also similar to the maximum annual salary that Sun Jihai, the most successful overseas player, received when he was at Manchester City."
"Giving such a high salary to Qiao Anchen, who is only 15 years old and has not yet participated in a formal professional game, shows how much Atletico Madrid values Qiao Anchen."
"We also look forward to Qiao Anchen making his debut in La Liga as soon as possible, performing well, and finally helping the national football team achieve a breakthrough in the World Cup."
Xinhua News Agency's briefing can be said to have completely ignored the Football Committee's banning order, and expressed the hope that Qiao Anchen would return to the national team and lead the national football team to achieve a historic breakthrough in the World Cup.
Everyone in the football committee counts, whoever looks at it will be embarrassed.
But the media and fans won't care that much. Under the current circumstances, any explanation is redundant. Praising Qiao Anchen and criticizing the Football Committee is politically correct.
As fan Bailang said:
"Even Atletico Madrid was conquered by Qiao Anchen and had to offer him an annual salary of 1 million to keep him, for fear that he would run away."
"The Football Committee insisted on expelling Qiao Anchen, and even said that Qiao Anchen was not worthy of fighting for the country."
"I bother!"
"The Football Committee is still pretending to be dead and has not come out to apologize or withdraw the punishment!"
"Just wait, I wonder if the Football Committee will still be tough when Qiao Anchen is killing everyone in La Liga and the Europa League!"
