Spring 2010.
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Just over a month after joining the soccer world, at an internal gathering, Lao Xu first articulated the
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The vision.
"Create
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Soccer Club, our goal is clear at a glance, and that is to break out of Asia and compete for our country. We intend to win the AFC Champions League in 3-5 years and we are willing to pay any price to achieve this goal."
2010.
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Courageous and successful promotion to the Central League Championship.
2011.
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Won the Chinese Super League title four rounds ahead of schedule, becoming the first Chinese Super League champion team in Guangzhou's soccer history, and also set a record for a promoted horse to win the Chinese Super League title, making it to the AFC Championship for the first time.
During the two years, Lao Xu brought in Muric for 3.5 million dollars, Cleo for 3.2 million euros, and Kongka for 10 million dollars for the national team; he also brought Zheng Zhi, Gao Lin, Sun Xiang and Zhang Linpeng to Guangzhou fans.
At the 2011 Chinese Super League championship celebration, a reporter asked about the investment in the campaign for the AFC Champions League.
Lao Xu responded with bravado:
There's no limit to how much you can put in, and how you can put it in, and it won't be more than
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of annual sales.
That year.
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s annual sales reached $80.39 billion.
That year.
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On the occasion of his first Chinese Super League title, Lao Wang returned to soccer.
"My original idea was to permanently no longer involved in soccer, after the soccer crackdown in the second half of last year, the relevant leaders approached me to talk about this issue, hoping that rich private entrepreneurs can assume some social responsibility, and hoping that I will take the initiative to come forward to re-support soccer."
Old Wang waved his arms and said he would invest in at least five small goals to support the revival of Chinese soccer.
As a guest on CCTV, he said:
"Now the most worthless moment of Chinese soccer, in this good environment, I feel that I can do at least more than ten years, another spring of Chinese soccer is here."
Shortly after Wang's return, "international coach" Camacho replaced Gao Hongbo.
Camacho less than 20 days on the job, leading the national team's first game, the first game of the 40, 2-1 victory over Singapore, after the opening red, Camacho led the national team all the way down, 1-2 loss to Jordan, back to back against Iraq two 0-1, early start to prepare for the 2018 World Cup.
In less than 3 months, Camacho has completed the next 3 years, and can collect an annual salary of 4.3 million euros per year, still after taxes.
On February 29, 2012, the national team beat Jordan 3-1 in the final round of the group stage of the Top 40 tournament.
The first day after the War of Honor.
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An overall meeting for the new season was held, during and after which Sr. Xu made numerous remarks.
"The level of treatment of Chinese athletes has to be raised, and when the annual salary of Chinese athletes is pulled up to 1 billion yuan, Chinese soccer will reach the European level, for sure."
"The biggest gap between Chinese athletes and European athletes, the first point, running is not active enough; the second point, scrambling is not desperate enough."
As a doctoral supervisor of management, Lao Xu, personally took the lead, from 9:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m. discussion, spent a full seven hours to introduce the bonus distribution method, and then revised four or five times in succession, before finalizing.
Lao Xu was quite proud: "A team depends on management."
lit. with swords drawn and bows bent (idiom); fig. a state of mutual hostility
After the meeting that day.
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Just departed for South Korea to begin preparations for the match against Jeonbuk Hyundai a week ahead of schedule.
Lao Xu said: in the AFC Championship, it is necessary to go all out, not only for the
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Soccer clubs compete for glory, but also Chinese people, to play out the momentum, even if we lose the game, we must lose decently, as long as our "full of wolves, blood against the opponent" spirit is shown, is the winner, will be praised by the fans.
With this kind of spirit, I believe that we will not necessarily lose the game, we have to be determined to win, go all out to run, go all out to steal, especially against Jeonbuk on March 7, we have to show this kind of spirit of "full of wolves, blood to fight against the opponent".
This is an important game for us and the first game of our AFC Champions League situation, we have to have that spirit, not to be under pressure, and follow the tactical arrangements of the coaching staff, and we will be successful. We have to be confident, not to mention that we can't be intimidated by them!
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The coaching staff and all athletes took the oath, with skipper Lee Jang-soo and captain Zheng Zhi leading the way:
make full use of
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Spirit, carry forward the
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Culture, wolfishness, blood fight against opponents, resolute tactics, fight hard, do not dishonor the mission, for the country to fight for glory, for the rise of our country's soccer!
After the meeting, Lao Xu shook hands one by one to send off the whole team, he patted Gao Lin and said:
"Be careful with your kicks in front of the goal, don't hesitate and keep kicking."
At the time, no one looked favorably on
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The first opponent was Jeonbuk Hyundai, the insurmountable barrier of the Chinese Super League.
Zhang Linpeng was 23 years old that year, and he still loved playing Need for Speed.
Murray was 26 years old that year, and the March climate in South Korea had him screaming about the cold, and he asked if he could play in long pants during the match.
Zheng Zhi that year has 32 years old, winter training muscle strain, the game can not be on, is not quite sure.
On March 3, a warm-up game against a Korean college team, the
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1-2 loss, foreign trident Kongka, Muric, Cleo play general, Jiang Ning strain injury, confirmed no chance to play against Jeonbuk.
This made Lee Jang-soo so worried that he couldn't sleep.
"As a professional coach, I have my pride and I don't want to go back to my home country and lose more in Korea than anywhere else."
Pre-match press conference, saber rattling.
Jeonbuk skipper Lee Heung-sil said, "With the
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of the game, Jeonbuk will 100 percent get a win."
Lee Jang-soo, on the other hand, responded, "As a head coach, he was able to say that, and I'm also a Korean coach, and I know that some Korean coaches like to talk big before matches, it's a habit of theirs."
blood-washing
At that time in Beijing to participate in the "two sessions" of the old Xu, before the game specially called the team, asked "for the glory of the country", and for this set up a heavy award, every net victory of a goal additional bonus of 2 million yuan.
In the stands, Jeonbuk fans put up the slogan "Guangzhou, go home".
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Fans put up banners saying "Guangzhou's voice is heard internationally".
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The starting lineup was 4231, with Yang Jun in goal, four defenders Sun Xiang, Feng Xiaoting, Zheng Zhi and Zhang Linpeng, backs Zhao Xu Ri and Zhao Yuan Xi, and Gao Lin partnering Kong Ka, Muric and Cleo up front.
27th minute of the game.
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The first to break the deadlock, Gao Lin broke the ball in front of the field and then finished a two-on-one with Cleo, who fired a powerful shot to make it 1-0!
41st minute.
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The next goal came when Kim Sang-sik fouled Gao Lin in front of the penalty area.
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A great free kick opportunity, Konka free kick moment, Zhao Xuri dodged to leave a gap, the ball through the wall in front of the goal landing rebound drilled into the net, the side of the Lee Jang-soo waved his fist roar to celebrate, the end of the first half!
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2-0 lead.
In the 69th minute of the second half, Conca got the ball in the penalty area and started to pump and pass, Cleo alertly padded, 3-0, and Cleo also made a trademark domineering celebration.
Jeonbuk pulled a goal back in the 70th minute, but the
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Three minutes later, another one.
In the 73rd minute, Conca stunned Jeonbuk with a skillful international wave to make it 4-1 and leave the South Korean TV commentators speechless.
This is not the end, the 75th minute, Muric killed into the penalty area a shot, Jeonbuk goalkeeper pounced on the ball, but still can not stop the soccer into the net, 5-1, Muric to participate in the side, stand on the stands, accept the site of the Guangzhou fans applauded.
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Sent Jeonbuk a shameful battle, but also created our team visited South Korea's largest score to win the record.
According to Korean media, Jeonbuk's overall players collectively knelt in the locker room after that game, while Jeonbuk manager Lee Heung-sil, who said before the game that he was 100 percent winning, apologized to the fans.
After the match, Li Zhangsu said, "Because our team didn't reach the top ten of the World Qualifying Tournament, many people in the industry in China, including fans, put the expectations of Chinese soccer on the
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With the team, we feel a lot of responsibility and it gives the players a lot of motivation."
Talking about the boss's concern before the match, Li Zhangsu said, "The boss's concern is the biggest encouragement for us, he personally called before the match and told us that we represent not only Guangzhou, but also China, and I am very grateful to him."
For that game, Lao Xu paid out 14 million dollars in prize money, setting a record for a single-game winning bonus in Chinese soccer at the time.
Lee Jang-soo split over $1.1 million for that game, and the starting 11 players each got close to $1 million.
That year, the "two sessions", Lao Xu became a "red", he called Liu Jianhong soccer night, said:
Many delegates hounded him to comment on the game and asked where they could watch the video of the game.
afterwards
That night, Li Wei Feng, who was playing for Tianjin Teda at the time, said after the 0-0 draw at home with the Australian Premier League's Center Coast Mariners: foreign aid this thing, a penny a penny a good thing, and can't look forward to all of them are Muric, Cleo.
"I think
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The foreigners that were brought in were well worth their money."
Huang Jianxiang said: "Some people say that rich people should use their money to do something practical, do not engage in soccer. I think, take their own money to China's hundreds of millions of fans to buy happiness to send happiness, is also a practical matter to save the suffering. Boss Xu's buying private jets and wearing Hermes belts is nothing to talk about. He is 10,000 times better than the man who sends his mistresses to his team but owes his players' salaries! If he brings in Lippi, he'll be even more awesome."
After returning to the hotel that night, Gao Lin said, "This success can give encouragement and hope to our countrymen.
That game really gave many people hope for Chinese soccer.
The day after the success of that game, the CFA organized a "journalists' home" party in Beijing, the then head of the Association, Wei Di, said:
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The success of the program proves that Chinese soccer is still promising as long as it is determined and resolute."
Lin Xiaohua, then vice chairman of the Football Association, believed that: one flower alone is not spring, a hundred flowers bloom in the spring garden, the rise of Chinese soccer still need to pay more time and effort.
That game was a "milestone" for Lao Xu in leading China's "Golden Dollar Football".
5-1, brought Chinese fans joy, let the soccer industry to see the hope, but also let the old Xu "fame and fortune".
Later, the band
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After a thrilling group exit, Lee Jang-soo was relieved of his military duties on his return to Guangzhou.
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It's also true that Ripley was brought in.
Lao Xu said:
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Either you do it or you do it best.
Unfortunately, that year
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It didn't manage to reach the top of Asia and win for the country.
But that classic 5-1, left a joy that continues to this day.
After all, Chinese soccer brings so little joy to Chinese fans.
