Source: Mountain and River Roadrunner
In recent days, our football world has seen two heavyweight plays in quick succession.
For one thing, China's women's soccer team beat South Korea's women's soccer team with Wang Frost's brilliant low shot at the end of the game, and grabbed the last ticket to the Tokyo Olympics for the Asian region. This is also the sixth time that our women's soccer team has embarked on the Olympic journey, while at the same time, the men's soccer team has not entered the Olympic Games by strength for 33 years.
Second, LeTV founder Jia Yueting was effectively banned for life for his lifetime ban. After a two-year investigation, the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) finally ruled that Jia Yueting and Leshi were fined 241.2 million yuan and 240.6 million yuan, totaling 480 million yuan, a record for the highest fines in A-shares, for the allegedly fraudulent issuance of the shares, as well as for ten consecutive years of financial fraud from 2007 to 2016.
Careful readers may ask how Jia's counterfeiting is related to soccer. In fact, there is no small connection between the two.
In 2016, a year before Jia Yueting announced his run, LeTV had announced a small goal: take the chest advertisement and naming rights of Beijing Guoan, and proposed to buy 50% of the shares of Guoan at the price of 20 small goals. For a time, Boss Jia became the most talked about figure in the soccer world.
However, five years have passed. Poundland had just been founded, the New Crown Virus didn't exist yet, experts predicted that the price of Bitcoin would rise to $1,000 a piece, and today, Bitcoin's price is up to $64,000 a piece.
What happened later is known to all. Boss Jia saved 21.5 by paying for only half of the title of Small Target due to a broken financial chain. According to the investigation results released by the Securities and Futures Commission, he falsely inflated LeTV's revenue by 51,247.00 million in 2016, falsely inflated costs by 30,855.15 million, and 43,276.33 million in profit, which is equivalent to the fact that at that time, he used the falsified books to give blood to Guoan.
Nevertheless, he failed to fulfill his promise after all. If Boss Jia were to fulfill all of his promises to National Security, then the fake accounting books he used at the time would need to be turned over four more times, and perhaps even the Accounting Law of the People's Republic of China would need to be amended four times.
At the time, Guoan's home record was poor. On May 8, 2016, Guoan's 1:2 home defeat against the far-flung Nanjing Suning E-shop team at Workers' Stadium triggered strong discontent among Beijing fans. With ten minutes left in the game, they neatly chanted, "Lets go! Give us back our peace!" They chanted the slogan "LeTV get lost! Soon after, LeTV declared bankruptcy.
As a sport with a history of thousands of years, soccer has always touched the hearts of our people.
On May 19, 1985, China's national soccer team and Hong Kong's soccer team played a World Cup Asian qualifying match at Workers' Stadium. The winners were expected to participate in the following year's World Cup in Mexico, witnessing Maradona's "Hand of God" and five consecutive passes. But the situation was that a draw was all that was needed to qualify.
Some players even wrote directly to the leaders of the Central Authorities, stating that the match would not be considered a win unless Hong Kong won by three goals. However, at the end of the match, our team took a total of 28 shots on goal and scored only one goal; Hong Kong took a total of six shots on goal and scored two goals, and it was our team that was eliminated.
It was the first and largest fan riot in the history of the new country. Even the subway station on East 40th Street was vandalized. The news broadcast reported the incident on the next day, and the police arrested 127 people. Head coach Zeng Xuelin was white for the night. Fans chanted the slogan "Shoot Zeng Xuelin".
Since then, cursing the national soccer team has become a reserved item among fans.
In the 1990 Asian Games in Beijing, the men's soccer team did not reach the quarterfinals. At the Spring Festival Gala that year, Feng Gong and Niu Qun added a burden to their comedy: "What smells best? The food in the Asian Games Village smells the best. What stinks the most? China's men's soccer team's goal kick, that foot, the most stinky!"
After the 98th Spring Festival Gala, the skit home, Song Dandan read the newspaper, and Huang Hong dialog: "-- national soccer when to step forward? --What's the point of mentioning that annoying thing at New Year's Eve? New Year's Eve, the soccer is also a whole out, this does not add to our jam? This year, after watching the A b to see the A a, the most irritating World Cup! Every day shouting to get out of the line, but later on, the dog wearing a chewing horse blindly huller!"
2008 Olympic year, soccer is still being teased project. Zhao Benshan, Song Dandan skit in the hand, the two asked and answered: "- what sports in the Olympic Games let people look at the heartbreak? --Soccer! --What sport is more disturbing to watch? --Country soccer!"
At that time, Mr. Benson's heart must be more complicated than anyone else. Because it has his personal experience of heartbreaking.
In June 2005, Zhao Benshan entered soccer, announcing himself as the chairman of Liao Football, while ordering that any player found to have played a fake game would be severely disciplined. At that time, the rumors of fake and black balls were already haunting the national soccer team inside and outside the field. The fans were happy in their hearts, they all felt saved this time.
Six months later, at the shutdown ceremony for Ma Da Shuai 3, Mr. Benson blew his nose while holding a handkerchief and told a reporter, "Football is too dirty, too disturbing, I don't want to do it anymore."
To talk about the most glorious moments of the national soccer team, we have to mention 2002, the World Cup trip of our men's soccer team.
Mr. Chen Kaige will tell you with a deep look in his eyes, "Everyone thought that was our beginning, but I didn't realize that was our peak. After twenty years, men's soccer never made it to the World Cup again."
Despite the deteriorating results, capital is swarming into soccer. Starting with Evergrande's ownership of Guangzhou in 2010, bigwigs such as Jack Ma, Wang Jianlin and Zhang Dongbei have been throwing money at the team. Almost a decade has passed, smashing out a Chinese ball whose revenue is far higher than its strength.
In 2019, the national football team is ranked 76th in the world, ninth in Asia; the average annual salary of Chinese super players is 8.4 million, sixth in the world. Zhang Dongbei may not be known, but his team name, you must have heard of, Suning Ebay team. Well, it is the same Suning team that kicked the win over Guoan in 2016 in front of it. It was the winning team of the Chinese Super League last season.
But the most recent news about this team has been that the Suning soccer team has announced that it is suspending operations and is about to be disbanded. Remember, on the day they won the title in November 2020, a fan paid for a billboard on his own at the Shanghai Hongkou soccer stadium station that read five words, "Suning is the champion."
These days, sometimes money tops a ball and sometimes the ball doesn't.
Over the past five years, Zhang has burned more than tens of billions of dollars on soccer. The previous year's financial crisis at Suning forced him to abandon his car and invest the money in his other team, the world's Milan, far away in Italy.
It's a loss for sure, but it's already luckier to have survived than the others who got into the game.
The answer to your question as to why these companies had to drop money on soccer in the first place is actually quite simple. Here is the second most popular reason:
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If not for the SEC's decision to penalize, it would be hard to think that the original Jia boss has been to the United States for four years.
More than two hundred times it redefined next week.
Some netizens teased that he went from passing through the house every week to being banned for life.
How does fining Boss Jia a lifetime ban from our securities market look like a death sentence followed by immediate execution, with a seven-day detention and revocation of his driver's license attached?
Oh yeah, and a $240 million fine.
During the four years that Boss Jia didn't return to China, he wasn't idle, and he filed for divorce from Ms. Gan Wei. Ms. Gan piggybacked on his claim for more than 30 small goals.
But that doesn't work well either, and doesn't offset the debt they both took on together in their first few years of glory.
No, in order to pay off their debts, a mansion in Beijing under their name was put up for auction last year and sold for 24.2 million yuan, exactly one-tenth of the 240 million yuan fine this time.
Even if Boss Jia is rich and really willing to pay this 240 million fine, he has to go back to his country to talk about it.
Now that Japan's nuclear wastewater is dumped into the Pacific Ocean, Boss Jia will have one more reason to return home next week.
Rumor has it that the scallops that ran away from Swede Island saw the news and swam back.
