In the early spring of 2024, Sun Jihai made a high-profile announcement on social media, aiming to cultivate Chinese international players who will enter the top five leagues, and the Haikou Future Football Program officially kicked off.
At the same time, this year coincides with Xu Genbao's 80th birthday. On the second day of the first month, many Chongming disciples gathered on the island, as if it were a lifetime ago, Xu Genbao's contribution to Chinese soccer has spanned 20 years.
From Qatar to the United States, Canada and Mexico, Xu Genbao changed into the national team behind the scenes "invisible" head coach. Two World Cup cycle, Chongming players occupy half of the national team debut.
Sun Jihai recently acted quite low-key. In an interview, he did not hide his feelings of anticipation for Xinjiang's youth training. "I think Xinjiang soccer has unlimited potential, and perhaps my soccer dreams can be realized in Xinjiang."
With the rise of the concept of "Xinjiang Youth Training", Sun Jihai has been in the spotlight for his role in the Olympic team while also serving as the vice president of the Xinjiang Football Association.
In August 2019, Gao Hongbo became vice president of the Football Association, and Sun Jihai then submitted his resignation and left the Olympics. The team's situation stabilized after Hao Wei's coaching failure.
Behind the National Olympic fan case, Sun Jihai and Hiddink had worked hand in hand.In September 2019, China's Olympic Games and North Korea's Olympic Games met at the Huangshi Four-Nation Invitational Tournament, and when the camera was on the coaching box, it wasn't Hiddink who commanded, but Sun Jihai.
Three days later, Hiddink faced the Vietnam National Olympics and suffered a two-goal defeat, as the CFA's crisis of confidence in Hiddink reached a tipping point. Abdukhemi's performance may be one of the driving forces behind Sun Jihai's commitment to Xinjiang's youth training.
During Hiddink's tenure, the selection of the national Olympic team was manipulated by brokers. The brokers worked with low-level Portuguese clubs to ship young domestic players overseas, gold-plating them before selling them to domestic clubs at high prices.
Duan Liuyu and other Luneng players were rejected for a long time until Hao Wei took office. However, the failure did not change.
With the mystery of the Olympics still alive, why is no one being held accountable for using the national team for personal gain? Did Hiddink passively relinquish his command or actively give it up? What role did Sun Jihai play in the Olympics?
Xinjiang youth training, is it as holy as people think? The details of Sun Jihai's youth training in Xinjiang seem to be the same as Li Ming's playing the rest of the Xinghui Hesheng.
The Xinjiang youth training manipulator that Sun Jihai is pushing is Bong Yu Mang, CEO of Hi Ball Technology. Sun Jihai is rumored to earn as much as $20 million a year as chairman of Hi-Ball Technology.
Xinjiang Football Association formally delinked from the autonomous region Sports Bureau Football Management Center, Xinjiang Daming Mining Group for the first time as an entrepreneur, Chairman Xu Minglai Football Association Chairman, Xinjiang youth training autonomy is high.
The director of the Xinjiang Football Administration Center has high hopes for the local youth training, believing that Xinjiang players are superior to other regions in terms of blood testosterone, red blood cell content and other indicators, with better physical strength and endurance.
However, the reality was harsh, and it wasn't until Baitijiang was selected for the Xinjiang national team that there was the first truly international player.
At the end of 2018, Sun Jihai, together with Beijing Hi Ball Technology and Xinjiang Daming Mining Group, co-funded the establishment of Xinjiang Snow Future, which is dedicated to the development of soccer in Xinjiang.
Sun Jihai firmly said, "Youth training is not a business, if it is pure business, I will not choose to do youth training. The input and output are disproportionate and the payback period is too long."
However, Chen Xuyuan shouted "conscience is dead", Li Tie looked much purer than Sun Jihai, the savior of Chinese soccer in a time of crisis to be properly handled.
Sun Jihai's Xinjiang Youth Training also involves fundraising and crowdfunding, sparking a public outcry. From the National Youth's victory over Saudi Arabia to the draw with Kyrgyzstan, nine years after breaking through the Asian Youth group.
The current crop of young, well-known Xinjiang players basically left Xinjiang before Sun Jihai went there to do youth training, and Sun himself has never worked with the youth in this country.
There are really too many leeks in Chinese soccer to not cut and apologize. Sun Jihai drew a big cake for Chinese soccer back in 2016, but never got another chance to fulfill the promise.
Chinese soccer not working is not a problem of youth training, but a problem of poorly built professional league system. The Chinese soccer league has a limited number of professional players, and except for head players who make money, playing soccer in China really doesn't pay.
It remains to be seen whether Sun Jihai will be able to form multiple professional training teams by attracting investment. It is worrying to see if the players who followed them in the beginning will have a second option once the path of the youth-fed industry goes wrong.
Whether Sun Jihai's Xinjiang Youth Training really contributes to Xinjiang soccer remains to be seen. Starlight Sports that year and the National Youth Olympic Games have no disconnect, is to expand business in Xinjiang, or really contribute to Xinjiang soccer, it is worth pondering.
Xinjiang seedlings themselves escaped the local youth training system, Sun Jihai with capital into the commercial operation, do just try, even through crowdfunding to try other people's money.
A statement rooted in Xinjiang's youth training is enough to inspire Chinese people to play soccer. I wonder if anyone remembers his lack of self-confidence and his statement that "Chinese people are not fit to play soccer".
As for youth training, Wanda's Atletico Madrid program, Hebei Elite, and other projects were done at the best time of the gold dollar environment in Chinese soccer, and they all ended up being gone.
If you can actually engage in popularizing and building a small team in the area like everyone else, that's admirable. Traffic is up and then the tone is set so high it can only be embarrassing.
In Chinese soccer, everyone is acting, some are solving problems, some are trying, but for the real problems, everyone pretends not to see them.
