When will the professional league be formed? "The professional league should come out after a thousand calls." This is the latest reply of Chen Xuyuan, the chairman of CFA, on May 19th for the preparatory process of the professional league. However, Chen's reply, once again by the media and fans questioned, after all, from Chen Xuyuan first made a commitment in this regard to date, has been close to two years past, this year the three levels of the league is indeed in the professional league preparatory group under the efficient coordination and steady progress, but so far the "professional league" has not been formally listed, there is no official name is also a fact.
So, is there any concrete progress to back up President Chen's promise this time? The answer is yes, we learned that the management of the preparatory group for the professional league is facing the latest adjustments, not surprisingly, a rich experience in organizing and coordinating the management of tournaments, but also has the resources of sports bureaus around the "newcomer" will enter the preparatory group for the professional league, to take the lead in accelerating the formation of the professional league.
In summarizing the reasons for the slow advancement of professional leagues, Chen Xuyuan mentioned three points, but the most important of them is: "It is essential to clearly delineate the authority. What does the league do? What does the FA do? What are the rules of procedure in the implementation process? Why is it that the Alliance formation process is relatively long, which spends a lot of time in the study of this issue, it must be studied clearly before the establishment, can not not make it clear, and then in the operation of the process of personal good and bad and feeling to deal with, sure to have problems." Chen Xuyuan said the relationship between the authority, but also happens to be the professional alliance preparatory group this time there is a reason for personnel adjustments.
First of all, in the epidemic to carry out the league, the professional league needs to coordinate things can be not only the internal problems of the three levels of the league, for example, to determine the district, the need is to fully coordinate and communicate with the local government and the Sports Bureau, the need to use is the government resources, the professional league in this communication level is not reciprocal, more need to be CFA or even more high-level appearances, the future if the recovery of home and away matches, it is even more need for the three levels of The league is located in the city government support and collaboration, which not only has a lot of work to do, but also need to have the relevant resources; Secondly, this year, from the Chinese Super League, appeared such as Cangzhou Lions, Henan Songshan Longmen, such as the government-led equity reform of clubs, which should also be the league's future trend, the State Council's football reform program explicitly mentioned: "optimize the club's Equity structure. The implementation of the government, enterprises, individuals, multiple investment, encourage the club where the government to soccer stadiums and other resources to invest in shares, the formation of a reasonable structure of the source of investment, promote the realization of the club's geographic region, to encourage the conditions of the club to gradually realize the name of the non-corporate. Improve the club's corporate governance structure, accelerate the construction of the modern enterprise system, based on the long-term, systematic planning, and strive to build a century-old club." The program is established, then the future to help more clubs into this model, coordination of the management of this type of equity clubs, also need to strengthen the communication with the local government and sports bureau. In today's professional league more and more rely on government power, simple investors alliance, it is difficult to achieve the goal of development and growth of the league.
The league needs people with professional experience in league management as well as government resources. Previously, the two leaders of the preparatory group of the professional league, Liu Jun, was mainly responsible for the competition level and Huang Shenghua was mainly responsible for the business operation level, and both of them had a solid and steady style of work, which ensured the framework of the three-level league under the general downturn of the investors' mentality, did a good job of managing the referees who had big disputes, and did a good job of distributing the broadcasting rights of the league again after the withdrawal of the Sports Olympics Power. After the withdrawal of Sports Olympics, the league broadcasting rights distribution, this year, these important work related to the process of the league, the professional league preparatory team have given a reasonable disposition, and thus ensure the normal development of the three levels of the league. Whether it's the timely release of match statistics after each round of the league, the timely handling of disciplinary actions, or even the timely disclosure of appeals for controversial penalties, all of them reflect the new working style of the Preparatory Team of the Professional League. However, in this process, the preparatory group of the professional league is also increasingly aware of the need to strengthen the resources at the government level in the future.
It seems that the most likely person to join the professional league preparatory group to strengthen this link is Shi Qiang. Currently serving as secretary general of the Asian Cup China Organizing Committee Shi Qiang, worked in the General Office of the State General Administration of Sports, at first glance, his resume, will make people feel that he entered the Asian Cup China Organizing Committee before, seems to be not too much to do with the soccer, and in fact as early as 2004 during the Asian Cup, Shi Qiang had been a member of the working group as a member of the organization of the important coordination work. 2015, to promote the implementation of the overall plan for the reform and development of Chinese soccer, Shi Qiang worked in the Office of the Inter-ministerial Joint Conference on the Reform and Development of Chinese football established by the State Council. In 2015, in order to promote the implementation of China's football reform and development of the overall program, Shi Qiang in the State Council set up China's soccer reform and development of the inter-ministerial joint conference office, during the period, many times to the professional clubs to visit the research, accumulation of a large number of first-hand materials, and participate in the discussion of the development of relevant supporting policies; Lippi as the national team during the head of the General Administration of the establishment of the preparations for the World Cup in 2022 working group, Shi Qiang is an important member of the 2019, Shi Qiang involved in the preparations for the 2021 Club World Cup and the 2023 Asian Cup, serving as the secretary general of the Preparatory Office, and in October 2020, serving as the secretary general of the Organizing Committee of the 2023 Asian Cup. So it seems that he has quite a lot of reading and working experience in soccer.
And Shi Qiang contact people know, this person likes soccer even to the degree of "obsession", always insist on watching and playing football. There are ideas in soccer. Most importantly, the General Administration of the Office of the work experience, the Asian Cup Organizing Committee work experience, so that Shi Qiang and the relevant state ministries and commissions, the General Administration of the departments and bureaus, the provinces and municipalities of the Sports Bureau to establish a very smooth communication channels. China's professional soccer future important initiatives, are inseparable from the implementation of the implementation of the local development, more or less need to deal with the local government, and the professional league leader if the local sports director of the "old friend", the value of the work of the help can be imagined.
Perhaps some people think that since the professional league represents the interests of various clubs, the leader of the league should naturally come from the clubs. In fact, this kind of thinking is rather a constraint on one's own resources, which is a bit narrow-minded. The system of rotating presidents may seem reasonable, but under the current reality, it does not guarantee the continuity of the policy. If Shi Qiang finally took office in the professional league, then he is a leader with professional ability, government resources, and no interest entanglement with the clubs, and once he finally took office in the league, he is also bound to do a thorough cut with the previous work, the independence of the professional league need not worry.
"High emotional intelligence, can listen to different opinions, unite the strength of all sides", is the Asian Cup Organizing Committee of the internal evaluation of Shi Qiang, as a collection of interests of all parties of the professional league, the specific views and demands of all parties are inevitably divergent, in particular, the need for a balanced coordination of multiple contradictions at the helm of the person.
