As a Bulgarian international player, former Meizhou Hakka foreigner Bojinov disclosed his amazing encounter in the Chinese Super League in a podcast interview. Upon hearing this, fans have said, "This is beyond the imagination of normal people!" Talk about unprofessional, but we pride ourselves on being extremely professional!
I thought only the CFA looked like amateurs in their spare time, but I didn't realize that the Chinese Super League clubs were the same way. The experts have to listen to the advice of amateurs. Looking back at past national team tournaments, it's hard to get away from amateurism when it comes to selecting players, regardless of whether the coach is from the local or overseas. It is said that when Jankovic first took over, he could only select 23 players from a list of 50 given by the Football Association to make up the national soccer team.
Guangzhou Evergrande has been hailed as a model of professionalism in the Chinese Super League, but there have been some amateurish moves, such as the involvement of Cannavaro in training courses, and the owner's idea of an "all-Chinese class". Nevertheless, Guangzhou Evergrande's management is still recognized by many fans as a model for Chinese Super League teams, at least in terms of rewards and punishments.
Nowadays, there is only one Chinese Super League club left in Guangdong, Meizhou Hakka. For a prefecture-level city to produce a Chinese Super League (CSL) team, I would have thought that its management must be well regulated. However, former Meizhou Hakka foreign aid player Bulgaria's Bojinov revealed in a podcast that his experience in the Chinese Super League was mind-boggling, leaving fans in awe.
"I was drifting off to sleep when, at 2 a.m., the phone rang suddenly. It turned out to be Mr. Chiu on the other end, who told me I had to go. He wanted to see me. When I got to Mr. Chiu's house, I found him lying on the couch, Erikson's writings in hand. He said, 'Now, let me read you a chapter and we'll discuss it together.'"
"He was reading in Chinese and I needed to translate it into English. It was after 2 a.m. and I was so sleepy that I listened to him read for half an hour, and at the end he asked me, 'How can I win the race tomorrow?' You woke me up at 2 a.m. It's now after 3:30 a.m. When can I rest? We have training tomorrow! I really don't understand what the hell these people are doing."
This is the actual conversation that Bozinov had on the podcast. Listening to it, fans were in disbelief. We are indeed experts. Talk about unprofessional, yet we claim to be professional. First of all, as a player, not a coach, Bodinov's inquiry about how to win should have been made in consultation with the coach, not the player. Secondly, even if counseling was needed, it should have been done at a reasonable time, not late at night, affecting the players' rest.
Some fans teased that Mr. Zhao could be worried about his team losing, so he told the foreign aid to listen to his reading in the middle of the night to deplete the foreign aid's state. Regardless of the reason, when Bodinov's words come out, I believe many foreign aiders will feel that playing soccer in China is too unreliable.
