The rules of the soccer field has its own rigorous place, if you make a mistake, deviate from its path, not only can not talk about upgrading and innovation, but as against the tide of history, will ultimately suffer the consequences. The collapse of the North Sports University system is a reflection of the reality of this truth, a loud alarm, warning every participant.
After a long wait, the access list for the new season of China's national soccer work league was finally revealed on March 29th. Tianjin Jinmen Tigers were resurrected at the last minute, while Chinese Super League champions Jiangsu Suning, along with Taizhou Yuanda, Inner Mongolia Zhongyou, Beijing Renhe, Jiangsu Yancheng and Shenzhen Pokgang, became the newest members of the soccer world.
The disappearance of Jiangsu's top three is lamentable, as is the fate of the North Sports University system. Previously, rumors of eight months in arrears of wages in Inner Mongolia, Zhongyou became a grain of dust in the history of the North Sports University has gained access to the qualification of the new season of the Central League, but the future is still confusing, Hebei Zhuo Ao (the former Hebei Elite) of the future is also full of uncertainty.
After a few ups and downs, the NTSU system, a system with a unique background in Chinese soccer, has come to the brink of total collapse.
The disappearance of Inner Mongolia Central Excellence seems inevitable
At the end of last year, there was a lot of news about the imminent dissolution of Inner Mongolia Zhongyou. Due to the issue of unpaid wages, Inner Mongolia Zhongyou's inability to complete the new season access seems to be the nail in the coffin.
March 23, the CFA was scheduled to release the new season access list of the day. A day ago, Inner Mongolia Zhongyou player Mou Shantao in microblogging voice salary, "Inner Mongolia Zhongyou soccer team owes me eight months salary! Most of the players in the team before and after a total of five months of pay, did not give me a penny." Mou Shantao said, because he did not agree with the team to reduce the salary, and the contract expired at the end of last year, so the club turned a deaf ear to him.
Soccer reporter "Bai Guohua" is published, "affiliated with the North University of Sports Dispatch, you club boss Liu Zhe has run away with the official seal". Many self-media also reported on this topic.
Liu Zhe himself is a cadre in the system of the General Administration of Sport, "running away" is somewhat alarmist. In order to save the team, Cao Weidong, the party secretary and president of the North University of Physical Education and Sport, led Liu Zhe to Hohhot in an attempt to communicate with the local sports bureau and ride out the storm. However, Hohhot made it clear that they were unable to run a working club, and the fate of Inner Mongolia Zhongyou was sealed.
On March 25th, the payroll incident reached a climax, with some Zhongyou players pulling up banners in front of the North Physical Culture University to ask for wages. Cao Weidong is known to have been furious about this, and lashed out at Zhang Jian, vice president of the Beitida University, who is in charge of the working club and chairman of the Beitida Enterprise Management Company Limited, as well as Liu Zhe. This failed to save the fate of Inner Mongolia Zhongyou, but led to the end of the collaboration between the North Sports University club and Haili Wansheng.
Fallout still swirling from Northern Sporting Clubs
Before the access list came out, there was also news that the NTSU club was facing dissolution. The final result proved that the news was unfounded. However, the alarm on the NTSU club has not been lifted.
On January 14th of this year, a team under the banner of Hopscotch Winsome officially took over the winter training of the NTSU club. The collaboration between the two sides has never been officially announced. Zhang Jian, on the other hand, made it clear that NTSU would not give up its position as the majority shareholder after the collaboration with HCL Wansheng.
January 29th, is the big day to submit the salary and bonus confirmation form stipulated by the CFA. The North Sports University club, which had previously been in a situation of salary arrears, whistled to complete the submission of the form. The treatment program was to pay part of the player's salary, the remaining part of the agreement reached a conditional agreement.
Prior to that, the Haili Wansheng side hired a new team of foreign coaches for the North Sports University club, and there was also a storm of individual players leaving the team. on March 22, Haili Wansheng seemed to have won the game, with the former club chairman and general manager, Sun Zhedong, dismissed from his post, and Zhu Jiang (former general manager of Hebei Elite Club) becoming the head of the new leadership team.
A day later, microblogging user "small stone" broke the news: "Shi Xueqing said to receive the senior leadership of the North Sports University instructed the club to announce that all the players to re-sign the contract, and at the same time must accept the salary reduction," and showed a recording. This may lead to a large number of lawsuits (or lawsuits) faced by the North Sports University club.
It is understood that previous head coach Cebu Maozhen and his team are still under contract with the NTSU club, and the two sides are also likely to go to court. Meanwhile, four players under contract were not among the call-ups for the second winter training and may not be on the final league roster. Two other players whose contracts are up who were promised extensions are also likely to be left off the season roster. These are all potential pitfalls.
Hidden problems are handled in a defensible way. Multiple sources have revealed that the Haili Wansheng team is out of the picture, and the new team formed by BeiShiDa, Zhu Jiang and Zhang Xu, have officially taken over the team, and the players and staff who were previously notified of their termination by Haili Wansheng have been recalled. This is closely related to the Zhongyou players pay incident, the higher level has also begun to ask about this matter, the North Sports University club urgently need to prevent the situation from expanding.
The exit of Haili Wansheng has temporarily stabilized the situation of the North Sports University club, but the crisis still lurks around. The parting of the two sides involves financial disputes. Although the collaboration between Haili Wansheng and the North Sports University Club has not been officially announced, a fee has actually been paid in advance. North Sports University Club needs to return this fee, and may face claims.
The NTSU club itself has a number of debt issues (not insignificant) that will need to be dealt with in the future. The word "faltering" does not adequately summarize the plight of NTSU FC.
Hebei Zuoao has a complicated life
Hebei Elite has changed a new neutral name - Hebei Zhuoao. "According to "Eyes on the Sky", Hebei Zuoao Football Club is 100% owned by China Fortune Vanguard (Beijing) Import & Export Co.
On January 19, Hebei Elite had a shareholding change, shareholder Elite Group Limited transferred 40% of the club's shareholding and natural person Tao Xu transferred 5% of the club's shareholding to China Fortune Vanguard. After the transfer, Zhongfu Vanguard holds 100% equity of the club, and the legal representative of the club is Zhao Xing.
It may seem that Hebei Elite doesn't have much to do with North Sports University, but the situation is intricate. Back on January 11, 2019, the original shareholder, Beijing North Sports Technology Center, withdrew, transferring its shares to CFFV, and the club's legal representative was changed to Liu Zhe. Liu Zhe's own identity is the deputy general manager of the North Sports University Sports Culture Development Company, and later served as the general manager of Inner Mongolia Zhongyou. Self-media "wu ke soccer" questioned at the time, the change of shareholders may be the North Sports University to avoid the relevant links to do the "soup but not change the medicine" operation.
Sources close to the matter have revealed that there is a rumor going around - that the North Sports University club and Hebei Zhuao will merge in the coming year. If the BeiShiDa club uses continued salary reductions as an effective way to get through financial difficulties, the option of merging in the future would both deal with the question of where players with contracts are going and prevent public opinion from continuing to fester. This news is only rumored, but the likelihood of it becoming a reality is not particularly low.
Although it has not yet come to this point, the situation of the North Sports University Department in the Chinese soccer world has been awkward and delicate enough. The original intention of forming the North Sports University system was to create convenient conditions for the national team to play in the league. Last year, during the league, the North Sports University Department had implemented the 8 + 3 policy, that is, 8 U21 players + 3 veteran players on the field.
Even after taking this extreme form, the Northern Sports University system has failed to produce a few young talents for the Chinese soccer world, and instead has left the club struggling to operate and at a dead end.
