The CFA, as the competent authority of Chinese soccer, has been having a lot of "tawdry operations", making the general environment of Chinese soccer smoky. Recently, Mourinho, the famous Portuguese coach and Roma coach, revealed in an interview that he received an invitation from China. He could coach not only the Chinese national soccer team, but also a Chinese Super League team made up entirely of international players. Mourinho's comments completely erupted the scandal of the FA and Guangzhou Evergrande colluding to create a "national soccer team".
At the end of 2018, there were rumors that the Chinese Football Association (CFA) was planning to set up a "national football training team" to participate in the Chinese Super League, which would be jointly operated with Guangzhou Evergrande. After obtaining authorization from the FA and higher authorities, Evergrande began to collect international players "under orders" and forcibly poach them at transfer fees far below the market price at the time. At that time, it was reported that Evergrande's list of poachers included Shanghai SIPG's Yan Junling, Wu Lei, Shandong Luneng's Artemisia Junmin, Wu Xinghan, Jiangsu Suning's Wu Xi, and other Chinese Super League teams' best local players. But in the end, due to the boycott of the other clubs in the Chinese Super League, the Football Association's "national football scratch training team" stopped its annual training.
At that time, there were also Shanghai reporters hinted that after the end of the 2019 Asian Cup, Wu Lei immediately began to study abroad, which also has the factor of avoiding the "national football training team", because if he continues to stay in the Chinese Super League, Wu Lei will probably be forced to join the Evergrande under the pressure of the Association of Football Associations, which greatly violates the wishes of the players, but also let the Shanghai Shanghai feel panicked. Therefore, as soon as the Asian Cup is over, Shanghai immediately operated Wu Lei to join the Spaniards, thus avoiding the consequences of Wu Lei to join the competitors.
However, for a long time, the "national soccer team" that the Football Association (FA) and Evergrande conspired to create was just an urban legend, as some of the details were too bizarre for the people involved to keep secret. Now, with Mourinho's confirmation, this plan of a national soccer team developed and operated by the FA and implemented by Guangzhou Evergrande has finally been exposed to the public. After all, major European media have reported that Evergrande invited Mourinho to coach at the beginning of 2019 with 30 million euros, which is exactly in line with the launch time of the "national soccer team" program.
Fortunately, the strong opposition of the Chinese Super League teams led to this plan. Otherwise, it really could have become the biggest scandal and laughing stock in the history of professional league development. Forcing buyers to form so-called training teams to participate in the league is not known to involve much collusion of interests. Considering that the head of the FA at the time was Du Zhaocai, who has now been investigated, it is also evident how these people created Chinese soccer in the first place.
