The Young Lion

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At the end of the interview, probably as a rule, Huang Jianxiang hoped that Aldrich would provide suggestions for the development of Chinese football and express his views.

Aldridge said bluntly: I would not say that the most important thing in the development of football in a country or region is football style. Each football style has its uniqueness, advantages and disadvantages. When you can interpret this style to At the extreme, the strength will be very strong, so there is no football genre and style that can be successful by absolutely imitating. The law of football development is the same as the law of the development of the entire human society, the competition mechanism.”

Huang Jianxiang felt from the bottom of his heart that today's interview with this famous European coach has yielded a lot. In fact, what is the most debated focus in the development of Chinese football? What kind of master are you looking for!

Learn from Brazil? Learn French? Learn Italian?

Is it important to learn from whom?

Mr. Hall, can you talk in detail?

Aldridge nodded and said: For example, Millwall was in London the summer before last, and 158 young players came to try out and hoped to join our club. There were 223 last year, and 379 this summer. We are only in the fourth tier of England. One of the nearly 100 clubs in the league, we are not the only ones who have a complete youth training system. Manchester United's 95 golden generation are no strangers to the entire world football. They also have huge influence and attractiveness in the areas radiated by Manchester. Every summer in England, more than 5,000 young players undergo trial training for the survival of the fittest in professional clubs. I am very worried, but this is also relative to the competition of the world's top national teams. In this regard, the Premier League bears an unshirkable responsibility. More and more high-level foreign players come to the Premier League, allowing those local English players to gain a foothold in the top. The league is more difficult.

The England national team is going downhill, and will even be dubbed the European Chinese team by Chinese fans in the future, but in fact it is. No matter how England's world ranking falls, it will not fall out of the group of strong teams in a broad sense. The reasons for the inability to achieve good results in international competitions are very complicated. Leaving aside the technical and tactical aspects, it is related to England's own league, as Platini said In that way, even if Bailey plays for England, he cannot be expected to perform well in the big competition, and his energy is exhausted in the busy schedule.

You mean that China should pay attention to youth football? This idea was proposed by our country's leaders a long time ago. Football should start with children.

I don't know. I only know that saying and doing are two different things. How many children of each age group are playing football? How to play? Are there professional coaches to guide them? Is there a court for them to train? The number of games per week ?certainly,

You can retort me that many countries in Africa with good football skills do not have these, but the situation in Africa is different from China. Their football development strategy is to send football-talented children to European professional leagues for training at a very young age. When you get ahead, you will return to your home country to play for your country. Therefore, the level of professional leagues in African countries is very low, but some national teams are very strong. I noticed that China is also actively operating players to play overseas, hoping that they will improve further and then contribute to the national team. In Europe, there is only one thing he can do in Europe, to prove himself, that’s all. It is very difficult to make a substantial improvement. Experience is only a part. Without good technical ability as a guarantee, experience cannot be turned into very intuitive Strength.

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After the interview was aired in mainland China, it attracted wide attention from fans. The popularity of Aldrich and Millwall Club in China increased sharply. His views in the interview were also commented by the Chinese national team coach Milu.

Aldrich boarded a plane back to London the afternoon after the interview.

This trip to Asia can be described as a great success. In addition to friendly match appearance fees and commercial activities, the club made a lot of money. At the same time, the club also took away 23 commercial contracts.

The sooner you do the job of developing the market, the greater the rewards in the future, especially in this era of media explosion.

Aldridge recalled the interview on the plane, and there was a topic that lingered in his mind for a long time, that is, the introduction of Chinese players.

He didn't have this idea before, because of the labor certification system, and the age of the all-powerful figures in China during this period no longer meets Millwall's signing standards.

It's not that they are too old, but their age group, their technical ability is fixed, no matter how hard they try to improve their strength, that's it. If you want to get a chance in Millwall, it's hard to beat the sky. Maybe there may be a little bit in the lower reaches of the Premier League. Chance.

In interviews he mentioned young players and it reminded him of someone.

A young genius who is not boasted by the Chinese media and football circles.

A Chinese teenager who will shine in next year's World Youth Championship and will be listed as one of the eight new stars.

Qu Bo.

To be able to participate in the World Youth Championship, you must be young, and there is still room for shaping.

Aldrich thought of this not because of purely competitive considerations, but because of commercial factors.

During this trip to Asia, many Chinese sponsors proposed that Millwall introduce Chinese players, and even they can pay transfer fees privately.

If there are Chinese players who can appear in the lineup of the strongest contemporary European clubs, can you imagine how crazy the hundreds of millions of fans in China will be?

What kind of astronomical figures will the economic benefits derived from this be?

Of course, it is impossible for Millwall to benefit directly, because maybe not even 1% of Chinese fans will buy Millwall's authentic jerseys, go to the scene to watch the game, and consume the Millwall club brand.

But this kind of attention will invisibly increase the brand value of Millwall, and it can also make other sponsors of Millwall pay more sponsorship fees to promote their brands in the Chinese market!

The King Dong introduced by Manchester United a few years later, is Xiao Dong really worth millions of pounds? Competitive value, not worth it. But commercial value. Great value!

Aldrich called Adam as soon as he got off the plane back to London. Let him contact the transfer department and the Chinese sponsors to see if they can cooperate to win Qu Bo. Such a transfer really does not need to be kept secret, but should be high-profile and create influence.

Millwall's transfer work has not yet ended, and the transfer work of three players, Joe Hart, Baines, and Johnson, has ended. Successfully joined Millwall's youth team.

But another transfer set off a huge wave in English football.

Millwall Bandits!

Lions are robbing Everton!

For the first time, Aldridge broke out with Andrew over player issues.

He rushed directly to Andrew's office with the newspaper, threw it on Andrew's desk, and said coldly, You did a good job!

The female secretary who couldn't stop Aldrich stood at the door in a panic. After Andrew got up and waved, the other party backed out and closed the door by the way.

Andrew picked up the newspaper, glanced at it twice, and then threw it away. These news have spread all over England in the past few days.

There are four parties involved.

Millwall, Everton, Lu Xiaopang, Andrew.

What happened was that Millwall wanted to dig Lu Xiaopang. When Andrew received the news, he took the initiative to recommend himself as Lu Xiaopang's manager.

The famous Andrew didn't have rhetoric, but just made a promise to Lu Xiaopang's family. Take them out of poverty and become rich, first of all they can own a house of their own instead of renting from the city government.

The Rooney family is a hardcore Everton family, but they want to live, eat, and live a more relaxed and unrestrained life, which is human nature.

Andrew easily won Rooney as an agent.

Rooney and Everton were originally on an apprenticeship contract without the guarantee of a professional contract. He was not yet old enough to sign a professional contract, but Everton placed high hopes on him.

Millwall originally planned to take his time. Rooney will only turn 15 in October and has plenty of operating time.

However, the media exposed Andrew's contact with Rooney's family, and Rooney suddenly said that Millwall was very attractive in an interview, which triggered the condemnation of Millwall from the entire English football world.

Think Millwall is using dirty tricks to seduce hopefuls from other clubs.

Players over the age of 16 are adults in the UK. They have the ability to judge independently. It is their freedom to sign a professional contract or not. When Rooney does not sign with Everton when he is 16 and chooses to leave, at best he will be punished by Everton. Dayton's condemnation, but the public felt that there was nothing to be surprised about.

However, Rooney is only 14 years old now, Millwall is interested in him, no problem, optimistic about a talent, what's wrong with that?

But Aldridge's brother appeared, and Rooney's remarks, combined, could easily become a moral issue, instigating a 14-year-old child to betray!

This has to be linked to the Everton background of the Rooney family.

Like Manchester United, Arsenal, Tottenham, and West Ham United in dire straits, their coaches have unanimously attacked Millwall, calling on the FA to introduce a young player protection mechanism as soon as possible, and severely punish Millwall!

Historically, the English Football Association has always issued a ban on the transfer of young players about ten years later, in order to prevent the giants from taking away the outstanding youth players of the weaker teams almost for free.

But Aldridge, a little butterfly, has changed a lot, especially Brazil, which introduced a policy early on that prohibits U18 players from transferring overseas to protect local interests. Now, it is possible to accelerate the reform of England's young player transfer policy.

Aldrich doesn't care what the policy is, the rules of the game are the same, and everyone is playing the same game.

What he cares about is the negative impact on the club behind this turmoil.

This is moral condemnation!

Moral condemnation is sometimes crueler than the law. You don't even have the right to argue, and you will be mentioned and talked about for a long time without a chance to stand up.

Because of this, Aldrich rarely turned his eyebrows coldly at Andrew.

Andrew has been a little too complacent recently. He went to find Rooney in person when he had nothing to do, but he got into a lot of trouble. He has been hiding in the company recently to avoid the countless reporters who want to interview him. He knows that it is useless to say anything. Avoid the limelight, the matter will soon disappear, the world outside is colorful, and fresh news is everywhere.

Sorry, all I can say is sorry.

Andrew sat behind the desk, feeling ashamed, not daring to meet Aldrich's eyes.

Aldridge pointed at him, and finally sighed, Forget it.

He really hoped that Andrew would have a quarrel with him, so that he would still have to vent, but the other party was fine and apologized directly, and Aldrich's anger disappeared in an instant.

Andrew threw a cigarette to Aldridge and said with a wry smile, I didn't think about it, what are you going to do now?

Aldridge lit a cigarette, smiled wryly and said, What else can I do? Give money to Everton. (To be continued...)