In the arena of professional soccer, every step needs to follow its inherent rules, any attempt to circumvent these rules, not only is not the embodiment of innovation and reform, but rather a reaction to the historical process, and ultimately will only eat its own fruit. The collapse of the Department of Northern Sports University is a brutal portrayal of this truth. This heavy blow reminds every practitioner not to forget the pain that is engraved in their bones.
After a long wait, the access list for the new season of the National Football League was finally unveiled on March 29th. Tianjin Jinmen Tigers were resurrected at the last minute, while Chinese Super League champions Jiangsu Suning, as well as Taizhou Yuanda, Inner Mongolia Zhongyou, Beijing Renhe, Jiangsu Yancheng and Shenzhen Pokgang, have not been able to escape the fate of being relegated to the dustbin of the professional soccer landscape.
The unexplained disappearance of three teams in Jiangsu is sobering. And the fate of the North Physical Education University system is equally lamentable. Inner Mongolia Zhongyou due to unpaid wages, as the dust settles, the North Sports University has won the ticket to the new season of the Central League, but its future is still full of uncertainty, Hebei Zhuo Ao (the former Hebei Elite) is also difficult to predict the future.
After several years of doldrums, the NTSU department, a group with a unique background, stands on the verge of total collapse.
The demise of Inner Mongolia Zhongyou seems to be a foregone conclusion
At the end of last year, news about the imminent dissolution of Inner Mongolia Zhongyou circulated around. It seemed a foregone conclusion that the team would not be able to complete its access to the new season due to unpaid wages.
March 23, the day the CFA was scheduled to announce the new season's entry list. The day before, Inner Mongolia Zhongyou player Mou Shantao asked for his salary on Weibo, saying that the team owed him eight months' salary so far. Since he did not agree to the team's salary reduction and his contract expired at the end of last year, the team turned a deaf ear to him.
Soccer reporter "Bai Guohua" said, "the North University of Sports Dispatch, Liu Zhe, the boss of the salon has run away with the official seal". Many self-media also use this to make a big article.
Liu Zhe himself is a cadre in the system of the General Administration of Sport, "running away" may be an exaggeration. 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 could not afford to run a professional team, and the fate of Inner Mongolia Zhongyou was now finalized.
On March 25th, the payroll incident reached a climax, with some Zhongyou players pulling up banners in front of the North Sports University to demand their salaries. Cao Weidong was known to be so angry about this that he lashed out at Zhang Jian, the vice president of the North Sport University and chairman of the North Sport University Enterprise Management Company Limited, as well as Liu Zhe. However, this did not save the fate of Inner Mongolia Zhongyou, but led to the end of the cooperation between the Salon of the North Sports University and Haili Wansheng.
Aftermath of the N.S.U. Salon still swirling
Prior to the announcement of the access list, there was also news that the NTSU Saloon was facing disbandment. The final result proved that the news was unfounded. But the alarm on the NTSU Saloon has not been lifted.
On January 14th of this year, a team under the umbrella of Hopscotch Masonry officially took over the winter training of the NTSU Saloon. The cooperation between the two sides was never 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 partnership with HCL Wansheng.
January 29th is the big day for submitting the salary and bonus confirmation form as stipulated by the CFA. The North Sports University Salon, which had previously been in a situation of salary arrears, whistled to complete the submission of the form. The handling plan was to pay part of the players' salaries and reach a conditional agreement for the rest.
Prior to that, Haili Wansheng hired a new foreign coaching team for the North Sport University Salon, and there was a storm of individual players leaving the team. on March 22, Haili Wansheng seemed to have won the game, with Sun Zhedong, the former chairman and general manager of the salon, being removed from his post, and Zhu Jiang (the former general manager of the Hebei Elite Salon) becoming the head of the new leading group.
A day later, microblogging user "small stone" broke the news: "Shi Xueqing said to receive the instructions of the senior leadership of the North Sports University, the salon declared that all the players to re-sign the contract, and at the same time, must accept the salary reduction," and showed a recording. This could lead to a large number of lawsuits (or lawsuits) against the NBSU Salon.
It is understood that previous head coach Cebu and his team are still under contract with the NTSU Salon, and the two sides are also likely to go to court. Meanwhile, four players with contracts on the books were not among the call-ups for the second winter training session 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 of salon formed by the North Sports University, Zhu Jiang and Zhang Xu, have formally taken over the team, and the players and staff who were notified of the termination of their contracts 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 salon is urgent to prevent the situation from expanding.
The exit of Hopi Wansheng has temporarily stabilized the situation in the North Sports University Salon, but the crisis still lurks. The breakup of the two parties involved financial disputes. Although the cooperation between HCL Wansheng and NTSU Salon has not been officially announced, a fee has actually been paid in advance. The North Sports University Salon needs to return this fee and may face claims.
The N.S.U. Salon itself has a number of debt issues (not insignificant) that will need to be dealt with in the future. I'm afraid that the word "shaky" doesn't fully summarize the plight of the NTSU Salon.
Hebei Zuoao's origins are intricate
Hebei Elite has changed a brand new neutral name - Hebei Zhuoao. "Eyeball check shows that Hebei Joyo Football Salon is 100% owned by China Fortune Vanguard (Beijing) Import and Export Company Limited (hereinafter referred to as "China Fortune Vanguard").
On January 19, Hebei Elite had a shareholding change, the shareholder Elite Group Co., Ltd. will hold 40% of the equity of the salon, natural person Tao Xu will hold 5% of the equity of the salon transferred to China Fortune Vanguard. After the transfer, Zhongfu Vanguard holds 100% equity of Salon, and the legal representative of Salon 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 legal representative of the salon 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 "wanton soccer" questioned at the time, the change of shareholders may be the North Sports University in order to avoid the relevant links made by the "change of soup but not change of medicine" operation.
Informed sources revealed that there is currently a rumor - the North Sports University Salon and Hebei Zhuoao will merge in the next year. If BeiShiDa Salon uses continued salary reductions as an effective way to get through financial difficulties, the option of merging in the future would both solve the problem of where to go for players under contract 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 national soccer world has long been full of difficulties and embarrassment. The original intention of the formation of the North Sports University Department is to create convenient conditions for the national number to play 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 NTSU department has failed to produce a few young talents for the national soccer scene, but instead has let the salon's operations struggle and come to a dead end.
