The world of Chinese style creates a prosperous era for girl groups

In May 2022, Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic announced its dissolution. The team was formerly known as Lifan Football Club, which won the 5 FA Cup. After several twists and turns, it was renamed Liangjiang Athletic Football Club. The team announced its dissolution on May 2000, 2022.

In January 2023, Wuhan Changjiang announced its dissolution. Wuhan Changjiang was formerly known as Wuhan Zall Football Club. It was the Wuhan Zhongbo Professional Football Club acquired by Zall Group in 1. The team announced its dissolution on January 2011, 2023.

In March 2023, Guangzhou Cheng announced its dissolution. In June 3, R&F Group acquired Pengcheng Phoenix Football Club and established Yangcheng R&F Football Club. Yangcheng R&F is an important force in Chinese football. They participated in the Asian Champions League in 2011. The team once hired Eriksson as head coach and had outstanding foreign players such as Zahavi, Davi and Mitchell. The team ceased operations in March 6.

In April 2023, the Hebei team announced its dissolution. Hebei China Fortune acquired Hebei Zhongji Football Club in 4 and established Hebei China Fortune Football Club. The team is a typical representative of the golden dollar football era. Football superstars such as Lavezzi, Mascherano, Gervinho, Mbia and others have joined. After being relegated in the Chinese Super League in the 2015 season, it announced the cancellation of its registration in 2022 and officially disbanded.

In January 2024, Dalian Professional Football Club announced its dissolution. The team was formerly known as Dalian Aerbin Football Club, the third top team in the football city of Qingqiu. After a long period of time, it finally ceased operations due to financial problems.

Then there is the current Daxiang team. Because of its inability to repay debts, the club cannot meet the entry threshold of the Chinese Football Association for the new season and cannot compete in the new season of the Chinese Football Professional League, so it can only be disbanded.

Within a few years, eight top teams announced their disbandment, including some championship teams and promoters of money-driven football. Their investment of hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars a year caused the football bubble to expand rapidly, but the bubble burst much faster than they expected.

And it wasn't just the top league clubs that were disbanded. On the same day that the Daxiang team was disbanded, teams such as Xinan Xiangtao and Cangzhou Lions were also forced to disband due to lack of funds and inability to qualify for the league.

Some fans have done statistics and found that among the 64 championship teams born in the Chinese League so far, 45 teams have been disbanded.

If we only talk about the first year of the Chinese Football Professional League, there are only three teams left out of the twelve top league clubs still struggling, while the other teams have all been disbanded and become a thing of the past. These three clubs are: Yancheng Guoan, Shencheng Shenhua, and Qilu Taishan.

However, Xia Haoyang rushed to the Guoan Club not because of the dissolution of the Daxiang team.

In the Guoan Club’s own office.

"Mr. Xia, this is Ji Hai, a former famous Chinese football player. He also played in England, for Crystal Palace and Manchester City, and was inducted into the Premier League Hall of Fame." The club's executive president Ma Li introduced the two parties. Accompanying them were first-team coach Sui Dongliang, and Dabao, who retired this season and whose farewell match Xia Haoyang also witnessed.

"Ji Hai, I know Sun from Manchester City. He was the hero who helped China's football team qualify for the World Cup in 2002. To be honest, your group was much better than the current national team players." Xia Haoyang complimented and stretched out his hand.

"Mr. Xia, you're too polite. Hey, this is how Chinese football is. Everyone is almost the same." Ji Hai said modestly.

"Ji Hai's voice is also hoarse?" Xia Haoyang asked curiously.

"Mr. Xia, you may not know that after retiring, Ji Hai has focused all his energy on youth training. Over the years, he has been deeply engaged in youth training in Western Regions and Guizhou. Not only has he invested a lot of money himself, but he has also raised tens of millions of funds to provide free football training and education for children. In addition, Ji Hai is also promoting local youth training in his hometown of Qingqiu. Now Ji Hai has been elected vice president of the Liaoning Football Association, and also serves as vice president of the Western Region Football Association." Dabao introduced kindly.

Xia Haoyang was full of respect for this kind of person who truly loved football and was serious about developing youth training, so they praised each other for a few minutes.

After a while, Xia Haoyang smiled and asked, "I wonder why Ji Hai came to the Guoan Club today and deliberately asked to see me?"

Ji Hai glanced at his former teammates Dong Liang, Da Bao and others, then turned to Xia Haoyang again and said seriously:

"The atmosphere of Chinese football is not very good nowadays. The national team's performance is poor, not to mention the abuse from the fans. In fact, all kinds of capital are fleeing Chinese football, fearing that they will be tainted by the bad reputation of football. However, President Xia has entered the Chinese football circle at this moment, and the Guoan Club is also completely new. Whether it is the fans, players, or the club's management, they are all energetic and going all out. It is obvious that the atmosphere is different from other clubs, so I asked Dabao to contact President Ma, and then asked President Ma to let me meet with President Xia."

Although his expression was serious, the whole paragraph was still praising Xia Haoyang and he didn't say anything specific.

"Ji Hai, I respect you very much. I have just said a lot of polite words. Let's just say what we want to say directly." Xia Haoyang said with a smile.

Ji Hai is doing youth training, and I am a rich man. Compared with others, I am willing to invest in the Guoan Club. So what could he want from me? Xia Haoyang guessed that Ji Hai came to me to invest in youth training.

Ji Hai thought for a moment and said, "The development of Japanese football in recent years is really something that we Chinese football players envy."

Xia Haoyang frowned but said nothing.

"More than ten years ago, when Boss Yin started to invest in football and make a lot of money, the country was known as the era of money-driven football. However, Japanese capital took a different path," Sun Jihai continued, his eyes shining.

"Japanese capital?" Xia Haoyang noticed the key point in this sentence.

"In 2018, DMM, a well-known Japanese IT company, completed the acquisition of Sint-Truiden, a well-established Belgian club. Now this club has become a must-go for Japanese players to travel to Europe. Sint-Truiden has always had at least five Japanese players since the 1819 season. In January 2018, their first signing was Takehiro Tomiyasu of Fukuoka Hornets. I believe Mr. Xia should have heard of this Japanese player who played for the famous English team Arsenal."

Xia Haoyang nodded and said nothing.