Spring 2010.
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Shortly after the group's foray into soccer, in an internal meeting, Hui first articulated the
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Strategy for soccer.
"Our goal is to build a soccer club that can break out of Asia and compete for our country and win the AFC Champions League in three to five years, and we will do whatever it takes to achieve that."
In the same year.
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The soccer club won the championship of the Central League and was successfully promoted to the Chinese Super League.
The following year.
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With a four-round advantage to win the title early, it became the first team to win the Chinese Super League title in Guangzhou's soccer history and broke the record of promoted teams winning the title in the Chinese Super League, as well as advancing to the AFC Championship for the first time.
In just two years, Xu Jiayin brought in 3.5 million dollars for Muric, 3.2 million euros for Cleo, and 10 million dollars for Conca for the national team; and also brought outstanding players such as Zheng Zhi, Gao Lin, Sun Xiang and Zhang Linpeng to Guangzhou.
At the 2011 Chinese Super League championship celebration, a reporter asked Evergrande about the scale of its investment in the Asian Championship.
Xu Jiayin responded with bravado: "There is no limit to how much can be specifically invested, and no matter how it is invested, it will not exceed Evergrande's annual sales."
At that time, Evergrande's annual sales amounted to 80.39 billion dollars.
That year.
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Winning the Chinese Super League title for the first time, Lao Wang also re-entered the soccer world.
"I had planned to never get involved in soccer again, but after the soccer crackdown late last year, the relevant leaders approached me about the issue, hoping that wealthy private entrepreneurs would take some social responsibility and that I would take the initiative to come forward to support soccer again."
Lao Wang waved his hand and said he would put in at least five small goals over the next three years to support the revival of Chinese soccer.
A month after Wang's return, "international coach" Camacho replaced Gao Hongbo.
Camacho took office less than 20 days, the first game of the national football team, the first round of the 40, 2-1 victory over Singapore, after the opening of the door, Camacho led the national football team all the way down, 1-2 loss to Jordan, back to back against Iraq two 0-1, early start to make preparations for the 2018 World Cup.
In less than 3 months, Camacho has completed the next 3 years, and can collect an annual salary of 4.3 million euros per year, after taxes.
On February 29, 2012, the national football team beat Jordan 3-1 in the final round of the group stage of the Top 40 tournament.
The first day after the war of honor of the national football team, Evergrande held a meeting on the new season as a whole, at the meeting and after the meeting, Xu Jiayin spoke a lot.
"The level of treatment of Chinese athletes should be raised upwards, when the annual salary of Chinese athletes has been raised to 1 billion yuan, Chinese soccer will reach the European level, for sure."
"The biggest gap between Chinese athletes and European athletes, the first point, running is not active enough; the second point, scrambling is not desperate enough."
As a doctoral tutor in management, Xu Jiayin, personally took the lead, from 9 o'clock in the evening to 4 o'clock in the morning to discuss, spent a full seven hours to introduce the bonus distribution method, and then successively revised four or five times, before finalizing.
Xu Jiayin was quite proud: "A troop depends on management."
lit. with swords drawn and bows bent (idiom); fig. a state of mutual hostility
After the meeting that day, Evergrande departed for South Korea to begin preparations for the match against Jeonbuk Hyundai a week early.
Xu Jiayin said: in the AFC Champions League, you must fight for your life, not only for us
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Soccer clubs compete for glory, but also Chinese people, to play out the spirit, even if we lose the game, we have to lose with honor, as long as we are "full of wolves, blood fight against the opponent" this spirit is shown, is the winner, will be praised by the fans.
With this spirit, I believe that we will not necessarily lose the game, we have to be determined to win, desperately running, desperately stealing, especially against Jeonbuk on March 7, we have to show the spirit of "full of wolves, blood to fight against the opponent".
This is a very important game for us, and the first game of our AFC Champions League situation, we have to have this spirit, do not have pressure, according to the tactical arrangement of the coaching staff we will be successful. We have to be determined, not to mention that we can't be intimidated by them!
Finally.
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The coaching staff and all athletes swore an oath, with skipper Lee Jang-soo and captain Zheng Zhi leading the way:
make full use of
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Spirit, carry forward the
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Culture, wolfish, blood rivals, resolute tactics, fighting hard, not to dishonor the mission, for the country to fight for the glory of China's soccer rise and struggle!
After the meeting, Xu shook hands one by one to send off the whole team, he patted Gao Lin and said:
"Be careful with the kick in front of the goal, don't be indecisive and keep kicking it."
At the time, people were not optimistic about Evergrande's debut in the AFC Champions League, not to mention that the first opponent was Jeonbuk Hyundai, the insurmountable barrier of the Chinese Super League.
Zhang Linpeng was 23 years old that year, and he still loved playing Need for Speed.
Murray was 26 years old that year, and the March climate in South Korea had him screaming about the cold, and he asked if he could play in long pants during the match.
Zheng Zhi that year has 32 years old, winter training muscle strain, the game can not be on, is not quite sure.
On March 3, a warm-up match with a South Korean university team, Evergrande lost 1-2, the foreign trident Kongka, Muric, Cleo played generally, Jiang Ning strained, confirmed that no chance to play Jeonbuk.
This made Lee Jang-soo so worried that he couldn't sleep.
"As a professional coach, I have my pride and I don't want to go back to my home country and lose more in Korea than anywhere else."
Pre-match press conference, saber rattling.
Jeonbuk boss Lee Heung-sil said, "Against Evergrande, Jeonbuk will 100 percent get a win."
Lee Jang-soo, on the other hand, responded, "As a head coach, he was able to say that, and I'm also a Korean coach, and I know that some Korean coaches like to talk big before matches, it's a habit of theirs."
blood-washing
At that time in Beijing to participate in the "two sessions" of Xu Jiayin, before the game specially called the team, asked "for the glory of the country", and for this set up a heavy award, every net win a goal additional bonus of 2 million yuan.
In the stands, Jeonbuk fans put up the slogan "Guangzhou, go home".
Evergrande fans hung a banner saying "Guangzhou's voice is heard internationally".
Evergrande's starting lineup was 4231, with Yang Jun in goal, four defenders Sun Xiang, Feng Xiaoting, Zheng Zhi and Zhang Linpeng, backs Zhao Xu Ri and Zhao Yuan Xi, and Gao Lin partnering Konka, Muric and Cleo up front.
In the 27th minute, Evergrande broke the deadlock firstly, Gao Lin broke the ball in front of the field and then finished the two-on-one cooperation with Cleo, and Cleo made a powerful shot to break the goal, 1-0!
In the 41st minute, Evergrande made a further progress, Kim Sang-Shik fouled Gao Lin in front of the penalty area, Evergrande got a free kick opportunity in an excellent position, Kongka punished the free kick, Zhao Xu-Ri dodged and left a gap, the ball went through the wall in front of the goal landing rebound drilled into the net, the side of the field, Lee Jang-soo waved his fist and roared in celebration, the end of the first half of the Evergrande 2-0 lead.
In the 69th minute of the second half, Conca got the ball in the penalty area and started to pump and pass, Cleo alertly padded, 3-0, and Cleo also made a trademark domineering celebration.
Jeonbuk pulled a goal back in the 70th minute, but Evergrande added another three minutes later.
In the 73rd minute, Conca stunned Jeonbuk with a skillful international wave to make it 4-1 and leave the South Korean TV commentators speechless.
This is not the end, the 75th minute, Muric killed into the penalty area a shot, Jeonbuk goalkeeper pounced on the ball, but still can not stop the soccer into the net, 5-1, Muric to participate in the side, stand on the stands, accept the site of the Guangzhou fans applauded.
5-1, Evergrande gave Jeonbuk a shameful battle, but also created a record of the largest score of our team visiting South Korea to win the game.
According to Korean media, Jeonbuk's overall players collectively knelt in the locker room after that game, while Jeonbuk manager Lee Heung-sil, who said before the game that he was 100 percent winning, apologized to the fans.
After the match, Li Zhangsu said, "Because the Chinese team did not reach the top ten of the World Qualification, many people in the domestic industry, including fans, put the expectations of Chinese soccer on the Evergrande team, we feel the great responsibility, and it also gives the players a lot of motivation."
Talking about the boss's concern before the match, Li Zhangsu said, "The boss's concern is the biggest encouragement for us, he personally called before the match and told us that we represent not only Guangzhou, but also China, and I am very grateful to him."
For that game, Xu Kayin handed out 14 million in prize money, setting a record for a single win in Chinese soccer at the time.
Lee Jang-soo split over $1.1 million for that game, and the starting 11 players each got close to $1 million.
That year, the "two sessions", Xu Jiayin became a "red man", he called Liu Jianhong soccer night, said:
Many delegates hounded him to comment on the game and asked where they could watch the video of the game.
afterwards
That night, Li Wei Feng, who was playing for Tianjin Teda at the time, said after the 0-0 draw at home with the Australian Premier League's Center Coast Mariners: foreign aid this thing, a penny a penny a good thing, can't hope that everyone is Muric, Cleo.
"I think the foreigners that Evergrande brought in were well worth the money they spent."
Huang Jianxiang said: "Some people say that rich people should take money to do something practical, do not engage in soccer. I think that taking their own money to buy and send happiness to hundreds of millions of fans in China is also a practical thing to save the suffering. Boss Xu's buying private jets and wearing Hermes belts is nothing to talk about. He has invested in the team, and is 10,000 times more powerful than the man who sends his mistresses to the team but owes the players' salaries! If he brings in Lippi, he'll be even more awesome."
After returning to the hotel that night, Gao Lin said, "This success can give encouragement and hope to our countrymen.
That game really gave many people hope for Chinese soccer.
The day after the game, the CFA held a "Journalists' Home" party in Beijing, then head of the federation Wei Di said:
"Evergrande's success proves that Chinese soccer is still promising as long as it is determined and resolute in its grasp."
Lin Xiaohua, then vice chairman of the Football Association, believed that: one flower alone is not spring, a hundred flowers alone spring garden, the rise of Chinese soccer still need to pay more time and effort.
That game was a "milestone" for Xu Jiayin in leading China's "gold dollar soccer".
5-1, brought Chinese fans happy, let the soccer industry to see the hope, but also let Xu Jiayin "fame and fortune".
Later, after leading Evergrande to a thrilling group exit, Lee Jang-soo was relieved of his military powers on his return to Guangzhou, and Evergrande did bring in Lippi.
Hui said:
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Either you do it or you do it best.
Unfortunately, that year Evergrande was not able to reach the top of Asia and compete for the country.
But that classic 5-1, left a joy that continues to this day.
After all, Chinese soccer brings so little joy to Chinese fans.
