At the beginning of 20024, Sun Jihai announced on social media that he was launching the Haikou Future Football Program with the goal of developing Chinese international players who would enter the top five leagues.
This year is also Xu Genbao's 80th birthday. Many Chongming disciples visited the island on the second day of the first month. In a trance, people realized that Xu Genbao's influence on Chinese soccer has been more than 20 years.
From Qatar to the United States, Canada and Mexico, Xu Genbao has become the "invisible" head coach behind the national team. In the two World Cup cycles, Chongming players accounted for half of the national team's starting lineup.
As for Sun Jihai, he's a bit of a mystery these days. In an interview, he made no secret of his expectations for Xinjiang's youth training. "I think Xinjiang soccer can have a good development, or my soccer dream can be realized in Xinjiang."
The popular and slightly politically correct concept of "Xinjiang youth training" became rampant. At this time, Sun Jihai was still working with the Olympic team and had a new identity as vice president of the Xinjiang Football Association.
In August 2019, Gao Hongbo was appointed vice-president of the FA and Sun Jihai immediately handed in his resignation to leave the Olympics. The team's chaos disappeared after the Hao Wei fiasco.
The National Olympic Mystery
It has to be said that Sun Jihai worked with Hiddink before talking about his move to the Great Northwest.
In September 2019, the Chinese Olympics and the North Korean Olympics met at the Yellowstone Four-Nation Invitational. When the broadcast cameras of the match were trained on the Chinese Olympic coaching box, the coach directing the Olympics from the sidelines was not Hiddink, but Sun Jihai.
Three days later, Hiddink's crisis of confidence in Hiddink reached a tipping point when he faced a complete two-goal loss against Vietnam's national Olympics, coached by past assistant Park Hang-su.
In this Olympic training match, only Abdukhemi's performance impressed the fans, which may be one of the driving forces behind Sun Jihai's later commitment to Xinjiang's youth training without hesitation.
At that time, Hiddink basically didn't watch the Chinese Super League or the Chinese League One, and didn't check the players' form. He spent most of his time at home in the Netherlands. Nearly half of the Olympians selected by Hiddink's assistant, Sinkehraafen, came from the agency Xinghui and Sheng.
In the aftermath of the fiasco, a clue is emerging that the selection of the national Olympic team was manipulated by agents during Hiddink's tenure.
Brokerage firms work with lower level clubs in Portugal to operate young domestic players overseas, select national brands for the next round of packaging once the young players have completed their gold plating overseas, and then sell them at a high price to domestic clubs.
In addition, Luneng players led by Duan Liuyu were long rejected by Hiddink and Sun Jihai. This situation did not get better until Hao Wei took over. Of course, the end of the failure did not change.
The mysteries of the Olympics include, but are not limited to, why no one has been held accountable for using the national team as a tool to make black money. Was Hiddink passive or subjective in relinquishing command to be shelved and what role did Sun Jihai play in the Olympics?
Business in Xinjiang
Xinjiang youth training, whether there are people imagine so holy?
If one were to explore the details of Sun Jihai's youth training in Xinjiang, one would realize that his model is pretty much the same as that of Li Ming's leftover Starlight Hopscotch game.
In the Xinjiang youth training program, Sun Jihai pushed the actual manipulator, is hi ball technology CEO Bong Yu Mang.
Sun Jihai, of course, has a truer identity, chairman of Hi-Ball Technology, a company rumored to bring in $20 million a year.
Xinjiang youth training is special, in the context of the foot reform, Xinjiang Football Association officially delinked from the autonomous region Sports Bureau Football Management Center, Xinjiang Daming Mining Group for the first time as an entrepreneur, Chairman Xu Minglai Football Association Chairman.
In this case, youth training in Xinjiang is highly autonomous, but of course it can be completely entrenched. No one can answer the question of whether an excessively high level of superior will affects the rules.
According to the director of the Xinjiang Football Administration Center, who has high hopes for local youth training, his reasoning is fairly concise.
"Currently, dozens of Xinjiang players play in leagues at all levels across the country. Authoritative studies also say that Xinjiang players are generally better than other regions in indicators such as blood testosterone and red blood cell levels, which means they have better stamina and more endurance."
The harsh reality, however, is that it wasn't until Baitijiang was selected for the Xinjiang national team that there was the first truly international player.
At the end of 2018, Sun Jihai Beijing Hi-Ball Technology and Xinjiang Daming Mining Group jointly funded the establishment of Xinjiang Snow Future, as the development of Xinjiang soccer entity company, commercialized operations.
"Youth training is not a business," Sun Jihai is adamant. "If it were pure business, I would not choose to do youth training. The input and output are disproportionate and the payback period is too long."
The words in the true or false without comment, Chen Xuyuan still shouted "conscience is dead", Li Tie at first looked much purer than Sun Jihai, the savior of Chinese soccer in the moment of crisis to be properly dealt with.
Of course, the most interesting thing is that Sun Jihai's Xinjiang Youth Training engages in fundraising and crowdfunding.
Youth training leeks
The ignorance of the crowd lies in the fact that public opinion has inexplicably seen a wave of thanks to Sun Jihai, from the National Youth League's victory over Saudi Arabia to the draw with Kyrgyzstan and the breakthrough to the Asian Youth League group nine years later.
Efirdin went from Kashgar to Shaanxi Old City Roots in 2014. Baihramu and Buyurang both went to the Luneng soccer academy around 2016. Only Mutalifu and Sun Jihai went to Chengdu together around the same time.
The current young well known Xinjiang players basically left Xinjiang before Sun Jihai went there to do youth training. Sun Jihai himself never worked in this national youth. The national youth outing really has nothing to do with him.
From this point of view, Chinese soccer leeks are really too much, do not cut also sorry for themselves.
In fact, the righteous Sun Jihai drew a big cake for Chinese soccer back in 2016. "Golf live audience of more than 1 million explosions Gao Hongbo black material", he never had the opportunity to realize this promise.
Chinese soccer is not working is not a problem of youth training, but a problem of poorly constructed professional league system.
Due to the lack of a system, the number of professional players in the Chinese soccer league is now very limited, and it really doesn't pay to play soccer in China except for head players who make money.
I don't know if Sun Jihai will be able to put together multiple professional training teams by attracting investment, but it's unpredictable whether those players who followed them in the beginning will have a second choice once the path of the youth-feeding industry goes awry.
Therefore, why not ask Sun Jihai, Star Sports that year and the National Youth Olympic Games there is no disconnect, is to go to Xinjiang to expand business, or really contribute to Xinjiang soccer, think about what are the little things.
Xinjiang seedlings themselves are still escaping the local youth training system. Sun Jihai entered the business operation with capital, doing nothing more than trying, even trying other people's money through crowdfunding.
A statement rooted in Xinjiang's youth training is enough to inspire Chinese people to play soccer. I wonder if anyone remembers his lack of self-confidence and his statement that "Chinese people are not fit to play soccer".
As for youth training, Wanda's Atletico Madrid program, Hebei Elite, and other programs were done at the best time of the gold dollar environment in Chinese soccer, and they all ended up being gone. I'm sure Sun Jihai knows better than anyone whether selecting and centralizing training is useful or not.
If you can actually engage in popularizing and building a small team in the area like everyone else, that's admirable. Traffic is up and then the tone is set so high it can only be embarrassing.
In Chinese soccer, everyone is acting, some are solving problems, some are trying, but for the real problems, everyone pretends not to see them.
