"I am willing to help Gao Hongbo because I am optimistic about him."
After saying this, Chang Sheng leaned back on his chair leisurely and looked at the two people opposite.
He has played all his cards, and next he wants to see whether history will stubbornly follow its own trajectory, or... he has a chance to break history and create a brand new future.
Obviously he posed a problem to the Football Association.
The most important thing is that the Football Association has nothing to do with the coaching change, because the money for the coaching change was given by Wanda Group, and Wanda Group is their financial backer. If Wanda Group insists on changing the coach, then the Chinese Football Association has nothing to do with it.
way.
After all, it is other people's money, and the Football Association has no control over how they want to spend it.
So Vidi remained silent and didn't speak.
He wanted Wang Qiang to speak first, and Wanda Group had to make the decision on this matter...
If Wanda Group hadn't come to them excitedly, how could they have picked a winning coach from the global talent pool?
Wang Qiang didn't say anything, but he lowered his head and didn't know what he was thinking.
After a while, he raised his head again and asked Chang Sheng: "In fact, our Wanda Group also plans to carry out various cooperation with the Football Association. For example, we plan to send a group of young players to receive training abroad every year..."
Chang Sheng continued: "You can send it to Lazio. We are very willing to accept it."
Wang Qiang smiled.
This is what he wants.
Ever since he learned that the Chinese team had established a relationship with Chang Sheng, he had been wondering if he could do this.
In Wanda Group's plan, capable young players will be selected from all over the country and then sent to the best clubs in Europe for training.
He is just an idol at the moment, after all, they have not officially started cooperating with the Chinese Football Association.
They will not start work in this area until the cooperation agreement is officially signed.
So it is said that young players will be sent to European clubs for training, but in fact it is just a blank check now. It has nothing.
But since Chang Sheng loves Chinese football so much and supports Chinese football, can Lazio consider it?
Now Wang Qiang got the answer he wanted.
As for Wanda Group, it really wants to make Chinese football better. After all, they initially sponsored Dalian Football and established Dalian Wanda Football Club, which promoted their company's reputation throughout the country.
In the era when professional football was just emerging, many people didn't know the benefits of sponsoring football. Those were people who really liked football.
The person in charge of Wanda Group is just such a person.
He also hopes that Chinese football will be good. That’s why he spends so much money to sponsor the Football Association regardless of return.
If there is really a way to make Chinese football better, they would naturally want it.
Now cooperation with Chang Sheng may be a feasible way.
You must know that the performance of the Chinese team in the Asian Cup is obvious to all. The Chinese team played very well, but it was a bit unlucky. Just after qualifying from the group, they ran into Japan. Otherwise... maybe they can go further.
But just like this, we can also see the changes in the Chinese team. They trained in Lazio for a month, played against world-class teams, and trained with Lazio, which made them improve a lot.
If Chinese football can establish a deeper relationship with Lazio Club in the future, this will obviously be a good thing for Chinese football.
Look at the performance of Gao Hongbo's national team after a month of training at Lazio...
As for the coach... which one is more important, Chang Sheng or Gao Hongbo?
Wang Qiang may not care whether Gao Hongbo is the head coach of the national team, but he cannot care about winning...
Who is the most influential person in Chinese football today?
It's not Vidi, the full-time vice president of the Football Association, who is sitting next to him. It's the winning streak in front of him.
So Wang Qiang nodded: "I can make a decision on this matter, so I won't change the coach!"
Vidi next to him turned to look at Wang Qiang, feeling a little surprised that he agreed to Chang Sheng's request so quickly.
"Then the money we use to hire famous coaches can be used to support Chinese youth football activities."
Vidi felt a little sick.
With so much money thrown into youth football, can they improve the performance of the national team they serve?
If it is ten years later and the national team performs well, what does it have to do with you?
However, the people of Wanda Group have the final say on this matter, because the Football Association does not contribute money, and if it does not contribute money, it has no say.
He could only complain in his heart and did not dare to express his dissatisfaction directly.
Even when Chang Sheng asked him for his opinion, he could only wave his hand and say that the Football Association had no objection at all in this regard.
Wanda Group doesn’t give money anymore. The Football Association really doesn’t need to replace Gao Hongbo. If they bring in a new famous coach, they can’t afford the famous coach’s annual salary...
Nowadays, the annual salary of a successful winner is considered cheap. If it were a coach like Mourinho or Guardiola whose annual salary exceeds 10 million euros, the Football Association really cannot afford it...
So, just like that, the issue of coaching change was solved.
The two parties... no, the three parties... the three parties reached an agreement that Gao Hongbo will continue to serve as the head coach of the Chinese national team until the end of the 2014 Brazil World Cup qualifiers - if Gao Hongbo can lead the Chinese team to the World Cup
, then his contract will be automatically extended for four years. If not, then everyone will sit down to discuss this issue at that time, which does not mean that Gao Hongbo must get out.
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For the rest of the time, Wang Qiang and Chang Sheng, representatives of Wanda Group, mainly talked about the cooperation between their two companies.
First of all, the Wanda Group naturally selects young players to come to Lazio for training. This matter can be decided by Chang Sheng himself.
Both parties can agree on this.
There have also been some discussions on other cooperation matters.
Among them, Wang Qiang received a call from his father. After this call, the cooperation project discussed by Wang Qiang and Chang Sheng went deeper.
Wang Qiang said that Wanda Group can sponsor Lazio Club's new stadium, but the condition is that it exchanges for 50 years of naming rights. If Lazio Club agrees, Wanda Group can help Lazio build the stadium with funds, so that Lazio does not need to borrow from banks. Avoid
is in a state of debt.
After the construction of the new stadium is completed, Lazio's new stadium will be named "Wanda Stadium"...
In addition, Wanda Group is also very interested in a piece of commercial land around the new stadium and hopes to develop it together with Lotito.
In short, after Wang Qiang answered the call from his father, Chang Sheng couldn't decide this matter. It depends on Lotito's opinion. Chang Sheng promised to help Wang Qiang introduce Lotito to these business affairs after this meeting.
When it comes to cooperation, Lotito is more professional and more interested.
Chang Sheng is only interested in Wanda Group's promise to select young Chinese players to train at Lazio.
Helping Chinese football naturally starts with young people.
However, no matter how rich and capable Wanda Group is, it is just a company. Some tasks still need the support of Conquer to promote them better.
At this time, it is the Football Association's turn to come forward.
Vidi recovered from his disappointment and realized that the Football Association still wanted to get some benefits from it.
Even if you can't make any money, at least if you can fully cooperate with Chang Sheng and Lazio, then it will be your own political achievements and contributions.
It would be even better if Chinese football really improves and develops because of this matter.
My political achievements are so good that I cannot escape them.
When the Football Association participates in an official capacity, the scope of cooperation becomes wider.
As Chang Sheng said before, Lazio can help the Chinese Football Association train domestic coaches in China. Any coach who wants to go further can come to Lazio for a three-month training and learn to improve themselves here.
In addition, Lazio Club can sign an agreement with the Chinese Football Association to serve as a designated training base for the Chinese team when training in Europe. However, this is not free. It used to help Gao Hongbo. Now everyone is talking about business. Business is business.
, renqing is renqing.
The other thing is the cooperation between the three parties.
For example, Chang Sheng proposed a cooperation idea. That is, Lazio Club will build a football school in China to train players of all ages under the age of 18, and then send them to various football clubs in China. The particularly outstanding ones will be
Arrange for trial training with a European team, and particularly outstanding players will have the opportunity to directly join Lazio!
This cooperation is not a matter between Lazio Club and the Football Association, because building a football school naturally requires a real estate company, and Wanda Group does this.
The Football Association provided a lot of policy support after the football school was established.
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Later, no one mentioned the matter of changing the national team head coach. Compared with this, the cooperation they were discussing was obviously more important.
In the end, all three of them were very happy.
During their discussion, everyone seemed to see the blueprint for the future of Chinese football.
They don't know whether this will have good results, but at least it is a valuable exploration.
There are no roads in the world, so there are always people coming to explore them.
They are the pathfinders.
Finally, when Chang Sheng said goodbye to them, he shook hands with them one by one: "This meeting was very pleasant. I hope our future cooperation can be as pleasant."
Wang Qiang smiled and said: "It is such a joy to cooperate with Chang Sheng!"
Vidi also said: "I will go back and report to the General Administration. I think the General Administration will also support our cooperation..."
"Then I'll wait for the good news from Chairman Wei!"
Chang Sheng smiled.
Although he is a full-time vice chairman, Vidi is quite happy to be called chairman by Chang Sheng.
Everyone wants to do the right thing.
In the end, Chang Sheng bid farewell to the two of them with a smile, and felt very happy when he returned home.
He has indeed changed a lot. He ruined Sir Alex Ferguson's second Champions League title. He ruined Inter Milan's treble. He has also changed the fate of many people and teams.
But none of them can compare to what he has done today and how he has changed the future.
He changed the destiny of football in his homeland.
Perhaps in the future, thousands of Chinese fans like myself will be able to cry less often... (To be continued)
