“Take a cruise ship. It’s quite close from City Z to Country J.” Reba Chen, born in Jol City, looked at Chase Lu with a look of expectation. She seldom saw the sea, so she wanted to take this opportunity to feel the majesty of the sea.
Seeing that Reba looked forward to it, Chase soon knew her meaning and agreed.
Immediately, Reba booked the air tickets to City Z and a cruise ship’s tickets to Country J, scheduled tomorrow afternoon.
“By the way, how’s SW Team these days?” After Reba booked the tickets, Chase suddenly asked her.
He didn’t pay close attention to the football team for many days. Suddenly he thought of it, so he asked Reba.
After Reba bought 40% of the SW Team’s shares, Chase put her in direct charge.
“Its performance is excellent this season. We bought a few more outstanding players after we avoided relegation last season. In this season, it has been consistently ranking in the top five. By the way, ZH Team you acquired is stable. It has not been defeated this season. It is the only team in the Super League that had not been defeated. It is eight points ahead of the second-place HD team. If everything goes well this season, ZH Team will take the crown.” Reba said.
“What about the youth echelon? How is it going?” Chase knew it was essential to develop the youth echelon to promote domestic football, so he told Reba.
“It has been built and recruited a lot of talented little players. However, our national league only has Grade A and Super, and there are too few teams. The competition for these players to enter the league in the future is too great. That is why many parents do not want their children to play football.” Reba said.
Reba’s words made Chase suddenly a little shocked.
In the beginning, he set up a football foundation to improve the current situation of domestic football. He had good intentions, but he was only a fan of football. He didn’t have a deep understanding of the current situation.
Yes, if parents couldn’t see their children’s future, who would let them play football?
That’s a waste of children’s study time.
Besides, football training was also easy to get hurt. If the players couldn’t take part in professional football games in the future, it would not be economical to pay the medical expense. If they were in a poor financial situation, they couldn’t afford high medical costs.
The most important thing was that training without competition could not improve players’ strength, so it was of little significance to train football talents.
“The key is to give hope to youngsters who like to play football.” Chase nodded and said suddenly.
“But there are only a few professional teams in our country. The competition for players to enter the professional team is too great. Many people may give up unless we add a large number of teams, but this may be unrealistic.” Reba said.
“Yes, we should add some professional teams.” Chase leaned against the sofa, took out a cigarette, and put it on. He looked at Reba and smiled.
If it weren’t for Reba reminding him that, he wouldn’t have thought of it.
“The addition of professional teams, will disrupt the rhythm of the league, right? After all, everyone is used to this kind of competition. It will be difficult for the Football Association to accept that if the football team makes a large-scale restructuring.” Reba said.
She was also the president of the Football Foundation and had dealt with the Football Association many times.
The Football Association also wanted to change the status quo of Country C’s football, but they could do nothing.
That was not something that could be done with the money.
“No, my so-called increase of professional teams is to set up a provincial league system in each province under the first division.”
“That means each province has its professional league. A prefecture-level city should have at least one professional football team and participate in the provincial professional league.”
“In every prefecture-level city under the provincial jurisdiction and counties and districts below it, there should also be amateur football teams and leagues at different levels. In this way, the most basic regional units can be formed. With people at all levels and different ages, they can have regular matches all year round. So, the league mechanism can be promoted from the grassroots level to the cities, provinces, regions, and the whole country.”
“With professional or amateur leagues in different regions and at different levels. We can promote the cultivation of young players of teams at all levels and expand the mass base of football in Country C. An effective long-term mechanism will be formed.”
Chase hit upon a solution at once.
If he realized this vision, then Country C’s football could form a virtuous circle of development mechanism. There would be super-geniuses emerging in Country C’s football field in the future.
How couldn’t Country C, with a huge population of over 1 billion people, select eleven top players?
In the final analysis, the players didn’t receive good study and training from an early age, which caused countless real football talents to lose their opportunities.
Reba had a moment of enlightenment. With her insight into football in recent months, she thought that Chase’s idea was simply too perfect. If it could be realized, Country C’s football would take off constantly.
However, it was too difficult to realize this vision.
“Your plan is perfect, but have you ever thought that–without a certain amount of funds, how could those teams work, let alone conducting normal games day after day?” Reba pointed out sharply.
Chase nodded his head. It would take a considerable amount of money to run so many football teams, so he couldn’t afford it alone.
Smoking a cigarette, he was trying to figure out how to solve the problem.
“I have a suggestion. If you can convince the Football Association, your vision is very likely to succeed.” Reba suddenly said.
“Oh, tell me.” Chase nodded and looked at Reba.
“The quality of these professional players in our country is not good, but their salary is higher than that of many top players in Europe’s five major leagues, which does not match their strength. I think their salaries should be limited to the same level as Country J and Country K, or even lower than theirs so that Football Association can save a lot of money to invest in the football team. By doing so, many players will be willing to work out in Europe’s five major leagues. Many players are reluctant to go abroad for further study because their salary is far less than that of the national team. The European football concept is excellent, and we should learn from it.”
“Furthermore, I suggest that all the proceeds of football games, except the management fees, be invested in the provincial leagues. We, Football Foundation, sponsor some of it, and then we can pretty much keep the provincial league running.”
“Finally, as long as each team develops itself, attracts sponsorship, earns money from advertising, and so on, it is sure enough to keep a team running. “Reba talked with assurance and composure.
“Very good. When we come back from Country J, you can talk to the Football Association’s officials. I believe they will agree.”
Chase nodded frequently–he was pleased with the solution of Reba.