The best of the century is also being discussed on Leverkusen's training ground, especially the top 10 male athletes in football.

"Germany is definitely the greatest Beckenbauer, even in the world, Beckenbauer can also be ranked in the top ten." Ballack and Beinrich chatted about Germany's football gods.

"Gerd Muller has scored a lot of goals, but his role is nowhere near as big as that of Beckenbauer."

"This ranking is still objective."

1. Pele (Brazil)

2. Electo Maradona (Argentina)

3. Juhan Cruyff (Netherlands)

4. Franz Beckenbauer (Germany)

5. Michel Platini (France)

6. Alferedo Di Stéfano (Argentina/Spain)

7. Ferek Puskáš (Hungary/Spain)

8. George Best (Northern Ireland)

9. Marco van Masten (Netherlands)

10. Eusebio (Portugal)

"But what does this have to do with us? It's all old antiques that have been retired. ”

"It's better to look at the income."

Barak picked up a copy of Team Newspaper magazine and looked at it.

In the latest issue of the French magazine "Le Corpus", which has just been published, a survey of the income (including advertising revenue) of the world's sports stars by the global press has been published, and the top 10 highest-paid sports stars in the world have been listed.

"Walter?"

"Zheng is ranked 35th?"

Barak rubbed his eyes, thinking he had seen something wrong. It's not shocking to see Zheng Zhi's name in the Golden Ball Awards and the World Footballer of the Year, because Zheng Zhi's performance is here, but how can Zheng Zhi's income be more terrifying?

35th in the world? It's all sports!

He rubbed his eyes again and looked a few lines ahead.

"Anelka is 29th, and there doesn't seem to be a footballer's name in front of him?"

"This ...... This...... This ......"

Barak was momentarily stunned.

Top 10 highest-paid in the world:

Schumacher, racing, $48 million

O'Neal, basketball, $45 million

Hoya, boxing, $44 million

Tyson, boxing, $39 million

Woods, Golf, $35 million

Holyfield, boxing, $34 million

Fedorov, rugby, $33.5 million

Lewis, boxing, $28 million

Einhardt, Racing, $24 million

Hill, basketball, $20 million

The top 10 in the world has nothing to do with football.

The highest-paid footballer is Frenchman Anelka, who moved to Real Madrid and earns $9 million a year, ranking 29th.

The second place is Zheng Zhi!

Yes, it's Zheng Zhi, whose annual income reaches $8.8 million.

Ballack was not mistaken, Zheng Zhi is ranked 35th in the world and second in football.

In third place is David Beckham with an annual income of $8.5 million.

"Fack?"

"Little White Face's income is not as high as his? Unscientific, huh? ”

Barak's jaw dropped in complete shock, "How did he do that?" ”

"Hukou,"

"The problem of hukou." Beinrich nodded numbly, this doesn't need to think about it at all, China has a population of nearly 1.2 billion, Zheng Zhi has received so many advertisements, more than nine million dollars is a lot?

Based on his knowledge of China, Beinrich is not at all surprised, only a layman like Barak makes a fuss.

Of course, only he is not shocked, Europeans will be frightened when they see such data.

"Ah, hukou!"

"Should I have become a naturalized Chinese citizen in the first place?"

"Stefan, how old is your child? Before you can represent the German team, change your nationality to China, right? Aren't your ancestors Chinese? It should work. Barak had a flash of inspiration and gave Beinrich an idea.

"My son...... Don't like to kick a ball. ”

"It's okay to play table tennis, I heard that Chinese table tennis is very good."

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In terms of pure annual salary, Zheng Zhi's salary is not high, only more than two million US dollars, but he receives a lot of advertising income, and the domestic advertising alone is enough to make him rank among the ranking.

Although Beckham's reputation is very impressive, his potential has only just been developed, and it is normal to be suppressed for the time being.

"Zheng, come and have a look!"

Barak beckoned Zheng Zhi over.

"You're too rich!"

Zheng Zhi took it and took a closer look, but just shrugged his shoulders.

"Is this considered rich?"

"If you look at it in a few years, it will definitely scare you to death."

It's less than 10 million dollars, so it's rich? In a few years, it will be hundreds of millions......

Barak and Beinrich: ......

"Don't look at me like that,"

"You can do it too."

"Just play your own worth."

"Especially you, Michael, you're young."

"I ...... I'm a young fart! You know, I hate it when you say it, because you're the one who is really young! ”

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China is also very shocked, football news one after another, but this news is still too crazy.

After the "Sports Weekly" reprinted this article from the "Team Daily", Chinese fans were shocked again.

The two long-time fans discussed.

"$8.8 million! One year! ”

"Equivalent to 72 million yuan!"

"Holy! No way! No way! I won't be able to earn that money for a lifetime. If it is changed to one day, it means that Zheng Zhi can earn 197,000 yuan in one day. God, I won't be able to earn it for ten years. It's terrible, is it so lucrative to play football? ”

"Old thing, what do you think, this is Zheng Zhi can earn this money, domestic players, a month's salary is less than 5,000 yuan, my relative's son is in the Sichuan reserve team, and he gets less than 1,000 yuan a month, playing football is not so easy to mix, unless you play the main team of the first team to earn money."

"Alas,"

"Originally, my relative's son was also unlucky enough, he was originally promoted from the reserve team to the bench, but he was scrapped by his teammates in a training session, and now, the club doesn't want him, so he lost 10,000 yuan, what do you say you can do with 10,000 yuan? This life is over, I didn't study at all in order to play professional football, what can I do now? ”

"Alas......"

The two old fans sighed.

"But many poor people in South America can make money by playing football, I think that if the domestic football environment is getting better and better, playing football is also a way out, you see how prosperous the A is now."

"I don't dare to say, the national conditions are different, people's football is already very complete, we are just starting out, not everyone can become Fan Zhiyi and Zheng Zhi, most people can't play professional football, I think playing professional football is a very cruel thing, the career is short, I retired in my thirties, there is no sense of security and security. Unless his talent is really awesome. But talent, who will find out? Haven't you watched Zheng Zhi's football experience? He almost retired last summer. Maxima often has, Bole does not often have. Haven't you heard that you have to stuff red envelopes when you enter a professional team? My relative's child stuffed 100,000 to get into the youth team, and then another 100,000 to get into the reserves......"

"So, playing football is something that only rich people can afford? Don't think about the poor? ”

"At the moment, I think so, and just as importantly, the poor can't afford to take that risk."

Sorrowful.

Actually, what they said makes sense.

"I heard that Zheng Zhi's football school is about to open?"

"Yes, it was prepared by Zheng Zhi and Li Yin together, and the class will officially start in mid-January next year, and I heard that thousands of people have gone to sign up."

"Is tuition expensive?"

"There is no tuition fee, saying that it only depends on talent, but you need to apply and be selected."

"That must be a big investment."

"The investment is certain, but Zheng Zhi has money, and they have the intention to contribute to Chinese football, and it is estimated that the state will also subsidize the money, as long as it is not like other sports schools, just to collect fees, and the mind is not on football at all."

"That's probably awesome, just rush Zheng Zhi's name, many children want to go there to learn football."

This is indeed the case. This summer, Zheng Zhi and Wu Di discussed the preparation of this football school, and after four months of construction, the school is now completed.

This is a thankless task, but Zheng Zhi still gritted his teeth and did it, if it weren't for the experience and memory of his previous life, he wouldn't have messed around, because in his previous life in China, whether it was Dalian, Luneng, or Xu Genbao's Chongming base, although he made a great contribution to Chinese football, it was not much success after all.

Zheng Zhi doesn't want to operate like them, he wants to operate like Vardy in his previous life. Leicester City striker Jamie Gundy Gundy's inspirational experience goes without saying, as he progressed from an amateur to a Premier League champion and represented England at the European Championships and World Cups. He started a football academy named after him, and Vardy hopes that the football academy, called V9, will unearth more amateur football talents and help them realize their dreams of professional football.

Jamie Vardy asked Sky Sports to make some documentaries for him to document the development of the players. The main aim is to discover the next great talent from non-professional league football and give them the opportunity to follow in Jamie Vardy's footsteps and grow into a superstar like Vardy. Behind the scenes, we look at how teaching methods, sports science, fitness methods, player talent and mental training can be done at the best. The documentary will also provide a retrospective look back at Vardy's inspirational upbringing.

Zheng Zhi also intends to do the same, he thinks that Vardy's school operation model is very good, not as complicated as the club's youth training, and can directly give enough opportunities to children with football dreams, as long as he is really talented, he will not be buried.

Of course, more importantly, Zheng Zhi has partnered with Bayer Leverkusen's academy, with dedicated German coaches and scouts stationed in his football academy to teach and mentor and mine players.

And he deliberately placed the school address in Shenyang, why? Because there are really a lot of good football seedlings here, Dalian and Shenyang in Liaoning are the places with the most football talents, but such football meccas have also declined after ten or twenty years, and he doesn't want to be the same in this life. At least, he won't let anything like that happen until he retires.

His football school is called Z10&L8 Football Academy, last month Zheng Zhi asked Wu Di to go to the person in charge of CCBV5 sports channel to discuss cooperation, did not expect to hit it off, CCBV5 promised to produce a football program specifically for his football school to promote, so as to maximize the popularization of professional football knowledge for Chinese, so that more children who like football can learn, and even participate.

When the winter break came, Zheng Zhi returned to China, and the football school was officially opened to the public. However, the first batch of students has already officially started to recruit students. "Sports Weekly" has half a page of advertising in each issue of the newspaper.

Then, it was the TV promotion of CCBV5, and in the interview with Zheng Zhi in "Football Night", a carpet report was made on his football school.

Zheng Zhi is not worried about not being able to recruit students, but the students are worried about not being able to enter! Because Zheng Zhi only planned to recruit 50 students at the beginning.

Now there are thousands of people who have signed up, and in another month, it is estimated that there will be tens of thousands, and 50 players will be screened out of tens of thousands of players? That's too much work. Therefore, the number of applicants in the first batch is limited to 3,000, and no matter how much they have, they can only wait until the second phase.

And the one who presides over the overall situation at home? Zheng Zhi had already found it, that was Xu Genbao, who had just left the Dalian team. With Xu Genbao in charge of the overall situation, Zheng Zhi was relieved.

Xu Genbao originally wanted to go back to Shanghai to build his football base, but was finally persuaded by Zheng Zhi to stay in Liaoning and run a football school with him.

These days, Xu Genbao has appeared every day on the training ground that has just been built for auditions, and he is almost exhausted.

"Ouch,"

"It's too much work."

Taking advantage of the noon break, he drank tea and moved his arms and legs.

"After so many years of football, I've never seen anything like this."

"I still remember when I was recruiting students in Shenhua, there were more than 500 people at that time."

Xu Genbao is a person from the past, and his feelings can be imagined.

"I can't do it alone, I have to find a few people to help,"

He thought that it was really impossible to select 50 players in more than a month, but he was full of energy, and he was not excited to select 50 good seedlings out of 3,000? Although not all of these 3,000 children are very talented, there must be many who meet the conditions.

The teaching assistant next to him was silent, pouring tea and water for Xu Genbao from time to time, and only then did he speak when Xu Genbao stopped talking.

"Old man,"

"It's not a way to go on like this, in fact, we can let the sports bureaus of other provinces recommend it, and each province recommends 20 players, so that our workload will be greatly reduced."

"Nonsense!"

"If that's the case, what's the difference between that and before?"

Xu Genbao's voice became louder.

"The reason why we do this is to prevent talented children from playing football."

"This is the purpose of Zheng Zhi's school."

"We can't do that!"

The teaching assistant quickly lowered his head, "I was wrong, I was wrong. ”

Originally, he still had something to say in his heart, but Xu Genbao said so, did he dare to say it? In fact, he also wanted to say that many leaders had called and wanted to arrange a few players to come in, but looking at Xu Genbao's meaning, I am afraid it is impossible at all......

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