Source: Mountain Walker
Recently, two heavy news stories closely related to Chinese soccer have ignited public opinion.
For one thing, China's women's soccer team grabbed the final ticket to the Asian zone of the Tokyo Olympics by beating South Korea's women's soccer team with a last-minute shot from Wang Frost.
This marks the sixth time China's women's soccer team has stepped onto the Olympic stage.
Meanwhile, the Chinese men's soccer team has failed to qualify for the Olympics on merit for 33 years.
Secondly, Jarrett was banned for life, not for life.
The final results of this penalty handed down by the SEC, which stems from a two-year case investigation, were revealed:
Jia Yueting and Leshi were fined 241.2 million yuan and 240.6 million yuan respectively, totaling up to 480 million yuan, a record for the highest fines in A-shares, for allegedly fraudulent offerings as well as ten consecutive years of financial fraud from 2007 to 2016.
One might wonder how Ja's fakery relates to soccer.
In fact, there is a not-so-subtle connection between the two.
In January 2016, Jia announced a small goal aimed at acquiring Beijing Guoan's chest advertising and naming rights, and planned to acquire a 50% stake in Guoan for 20 small goals.
For a while, Boss Jia became the man of the hour in Chinese soccer.
It was 2016 then. In five years, things have changed.
Poundland has just been founded and the new crown virus has yet to arrive. Experts predict the price of Bitcoin will rise to $1,000 a piece.
The price of Bitcoin has now soared to $64,000 a piece.
However, due to a shortage of funds, Boss Jia only paid for half of the mini-goals for the title, saving 21.5 mini-goals.
According to the SEC's recently released findings, he inflated LeTV's revenue by $5,124.7 million, expenses by $308.5 million, and profits by $4,327.633 million in 2016.
It turned out that at the time, he was bleeding National Security by falsifying accounts.
Nonetheless, he really couldn't afford it.
If Boss Jia were to fulfill all of his promises to Guan An, then he would have to compile the same false accounts four more times, literally rewriting the accounting law of the People's Republic of China four times.
Things weren't looking good at the time. Guoan hadn't won a single game at home since the Legends title.
On May 8, 2016, Guoan went down 1:2 to the far-flung Suning Ebay at Workers Stadium, their home ground.
Enraged Beijing fans protested. With ten minutes left in the game, they neatly chanted slogans:
Happy to fuck off!
Return my country to peace!
It wasn't long before Lexus fell on hard times.
Soccer, a sport that has been passed down for thousands of years, has always touched the hearts of the Chinese 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 winner will have the opportunity to attend the following year's World Cup in Mexico and witness Maradona's "Hand of God" and five consecutive passes.
But back then, a draw was enough to get out of the tournament. Some players even wrote directly to the central leadership: it was not a win unless you beat Hong Kong by three goals.
At the end of the match, the Chinese team had a total of 28 shots on goal and scored only one goal, while the Hong Kong team had six shots on goal and scored two goals.
Eliminated is the Chinese team.
This is the biggest fan riot since the founding of new China, too. All the subway stations in Dongsishitiao were smashed.
The news broadcasts covered the story the next day, and the police arrested 127 people. The head coach, Zeng Xuelin, turned white all night over this. Fans shouted slogans like: Shoot Zeng Xuelin.
Since then, cursing the national football team has become a reserved program among fans.
In the 1990 Asian Games in Beijing, the men's soccer team did not reach the quarterfinals. In that year's Spring Festival Gala, Feng Gong and Niu Qun flirted with each other in their comedy:
What smells best? The food at the Asian Games Village smells the best.
What stinks? The Chinese men's soccer team's kick at the goal, that kick, stinks the most!
Later, at the '98 Spring Festival Gala, the skit went home with Song Dandan reading a newspaper and conversing with Huang Hong:
--When will Chinese soccer show up?
-- What's the point of talking about that at this time of the year?
It's New Year's Eve and soccer is still out there, isn't it giving us more trouble? This year, after watching the A b to see the A a, the most furious world football! Every day, they shouted that they would be able to get out of the tournament, but later on, the dog wore a chewing stick and made a blind fool out of himself!
In the 2008 Olympic year, soccer continues to be a mocked sport. The two were quizzed in the hands of Zhao Benshan and Song Dandan sketches.
-- What sport at the Olympics is heartbreaking to watch?
-- Football!
-- What sport is more disturbing to watch?
-- Chinese soccer!
At that time, Mr. Benson's inner feelings must be more complicated than anyone else.
Because of the heartbreaking ah contained herein, he has truly experienced.
In June 2005, Zhao Benshan entered soccer, announcing himself as the chairman of Liao Football and ordering that any player found to have played a fake game would be dealt with seriously.
At that time, the rumors of fake and black ball have long been haunting the Chinese soccer field and beyond. Fans were happy in their hearts and 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 reporters:
Soccer is too dirty, too disturbing, I don't want to do it.
When it comes to the most glorious moment of Chinese soccer, we have to mention 2002, the World Cup for Chinese men.
Mr. Chen Kaige will tell you with deep eyes:
Everyone thought that was our beginning, but they didn't realize it was our peak.
In the two decades since, men's soccer has never made it to the World Cup.
Despite the deteriorating results, there's no stopping the influx of capital. And, not just any influx.
Once inside, it's a nest.
Since 2010, when Evergrande took ownership of the Guangzhou team, Jack Ma, Wang Jianlin, Zhang Dongbei and other bigwigs have been smashing money. Ten years have passed, smashing out a Chinese ball whose income is much higher than its strength.
In 2019, China's men's soccer team is ranked 76 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 to everyone, but the name of his team, you must have heard of it, Suning Ebay team.
Well, it is the same Suning team in front of us that kicked the crap out of Guoan in 2016. It was the winning team of the Chinese Super League last season.
But the most recent news about this team has been the announcement that the Sunnyside soccer team has suspended operations and is about to disband.
I remember the day we won the title in November 2020, a fan paid for a billboard at the Shanghai Hongkou soccer stadium station by himself with five words written on it:
Suning is the champion.
These days, sometimes money tops a ball. Sometimes the ball doesn't even top it.
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.
A loss for sure, but surviving has been luckier than the others who got in.
The answer to your question as to why these companies had to throw money at soccer in the first place is actually quite simple.
Here's why it ranks second:
(Omitted.)
If not for the SEC's decision to penalize, it would be hard to think that the original Jia boss had gone 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.
Fining Boss Jia with a lifetime ban from China's securities market seems like a death sentence followed by immediate execution, accompanied by seven days of detention and revocation of his driver's license in any case.
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 this fine of $240 million.
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.
