The same age 35 years, the same former international players, Yang Xu has sailed the boat of retirement, while Zhao Mingjian chose to continue to gallop the field, at least one more season.
Looking back at last week, Chinese soccer's first division powerhouse Shijiazhuang Kung Fu officially welcomed Zhao Mingjian into their fold. In a recent live interview, Zhao Mingjian revealed that in the pocket of Shijiazhuang Kung Fu, but more than 10,000 yuan per month, after deducting rent and daily expenses, basically can not make ends meet.
So what does a monthly salary of over $10,000 mean in Chinese soccer?
Tracing back to four years ago, when only 20 years old national Olympic elite Zhao Jianfei has said that its monthly salary in Shandong Taishan is only 20,000 yuan. In recent years, women's soccer players' salaries have risen, and many clubs have annual salaries ranging from 300,000 to 400,000 for their main players, and women's international players' annual salaries have easily exceeded one million. From this, Zhao Mingjian's salary is even less than some women's soccer players.
However, Zhao Mingjian is also one of the beneficiaries of the "Golden Dollar Era" of soccer. 2017, he transferred from Shandong Taishan to Hebei Huaxia Happiness, with a transfer fee of 80 million yuan. It is reported that he can also get 10 million signing bonus and 15 million annual salary, in other words, in the two years of Hebei Huaxia happiness, he can earn 40 million.
Zhao Mingjian then moved on to Dalian Ren and Shanghai Shenhua. Although his income is not as good as in the past, he still earns millions of dollars every year. As a result, Zhao Mingjian's income throughout his career remained lucrative enough that he did not have to fight for his livelihood in his later years.
