Chapter 50: The Shrewd Boss Xu

On November 9, the much-anticipated second leg of the AFC Champions League final finally arrived. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

In Tianhe Stadium, fans had already crowded the entire stadium two hours in advance, and the red flag waved over Tianhe Stadium, which was quite spectacular.

The game is about to start, and the starting lists of both sides have not yet come out, which is not a rare situation.

In the media gallery, reporters were also discussing enthusiastically.

In fact, on the side of Guangzhou Evergrande, their starting list is almost fixed without guessing, except for the position of the back midfield, there is a rotation between Huang Bowen and Zhao Xuri, and other positions rarely change in important games.

On the Seoul FC side, in addition to the variable that South Korean star Cha Geun's son Cha Duri will return in this game before the game, their starting lineup is actually very stable.

Moreover, neither side has any core players injured or suspended for red and yellow cards, so it can be said that they are the strongest lineups. In the face of the menacing Seoul FC, can Guangzhou Evergrande win the championship smoothly?

In the media table, reporters from China and South Korea sat on both sides, and there was a clear distinction. The Chinese reporters sat in their seats talking and laughing, looking quite optimistic about the match, but on the South Korean reporters' side, the atmosphere was a little dull.

This was the opposite in previous meetings between China and South Korea. However, thanks to Li Qingshan's two goals on the road, Guangzhou Evergrande defeated Seoul FC 2-1 away and took a position ahead in the two-legged match, which of course also made such a difference in morale between the two sides.

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At this time, Li Qingshan's family also walked through the ticket gate and entered the stadium under the leadership of Gao Tiantian.

"Such a big stadium!" Gao Mei, who was visiting the stadium for the first time, exclaimed, "There are so many people! ”

Although Li Qingshan has been attending football school since he was a child, Gao Meili has not watched Li Qingshan's games and training when he was a child. Therefore, when I saw that the Tianhe Stadium, which can accommodate more than 50,000 people, was full of seats, and the voices were boiling, it also made Gao Meili, a non-football fan, like Grandma Liu enter the Grand View Garden, and everything is fresh.

"Wife, take a picture!" Li Xiong held up his mobile phone and shouted at Gao Meimei, who looked left and right, with a fresh face. Since he set off from Changsha, he has been taking photos excitedly with his mobile phone.

Li Qingshan went to the football school at his insistence that he could make the trip, but Li Qingshan's later experience once made him a little self-blamed, and now his son can be on a stage like the AFC Champions League final, which also allows Li Xiong to put down this mood in his heart.

While the family was busy taking pictures, above them were the seats of the commentators of the game. In addition to CCTV, Guangdong Sports Channel also arranged on-site commentary for this game. In addition to TV stations, several online live broadcasts have also obtained live broadcast rights.

Duan Xuan sat in his commentary position, doing the final debugging. From his position, you can see the whole stadium at a great view.

Two hours before the start of the game, he and his team entered the Tianhe Stadium. He needs to organize his commentary materials and debug the equipment at the same time.

He's been commentators for a few years now, and to be honest, before this season, it's really hard for him to imagine that a Chinese club can reach the final of the AFC Champions League and be the absolute favourites to win the title.

It's just that there is a faint uneasiness in his heart. He has seen too many examples of Chinese teams collapsing at critical moments. He was worried that the players of Guangzhou Evergrande could withstand this pressure and successfully lift the AFC Champions League trophy at home.

Duan Xuan's worries naturally did not exist for Xu Jiayin, the boss of Guangzhou Evergrande.

In the Tianhe Stadium, in one of the largest VIP boxes, the area with the best view in front is neatly placed with a row of tables and chairs, as well as red tablecloths and name tags with Chinese characteristics.

This is a celebrity guest invited by the team's owner Xu Jiayin.

Judging from the above names, they are all celebrities in both the political and business worlds. This also shows what a good opportunity this game is for Xu Jiayin and his Evergrande Group to show their faces.

Xu Jiayin is indeed proud now. When he first invested in football, he was ridiculed as "a stupid person with a lot of money", and when he shouted "three years of the Chinese Super League and five years of the AFC Champions League", the entire Chinese football circle was extremely sarcastic about him, a football layman.

Evergrande is destined to become a role to be watched from the moment it invests in football, and when it was still competing in the Chinese League, they recruited stars such as Gao Lin, Zheng Zhi, Muric, Sun Xiang, etc., and the salary and bonus treatment offered was staggering. After successfully surpassing the super, Evergrande's silver bullet offensive became more ferocious, successively recruiting Yang Jun, Zhang Linpeng, Jiang Ning, Yang Hao and other international players into the account, and introducing big-name striker Cleo.

In terms of team management, Guangzhou Evergrande has fully introduced the enterprise management mode of Evergrande Group and implemented the head coach responsibility system. The manager has absolute authority in the affairs of the team.

His corporate team management style and the team's reward and punishment system were regarded as outliers by football insiders, and no one in the Chinese football circle at that time would think that Evergrande Group, a football outsider, could make much waves in Chinese football.

There are even celebrities who said on Weibo: "Five million win prizes!" Three million penalties for losing! It's another rotten thing that came up with a slap on the head! Chinese football is not short of money! What is missing is respect for the industry! Learn about team management in a high-level league! Win the AFC Champions League in five years? If you don't take him as a joke, you've got your head in water!! ”

Now, Evergrande Group has only been involved in the football circle for three years, and the team's first AFC Champions League trophy is already close at hand. I don't know if the celebrities who sneered at Guangzhou Evergrande at the beginning felt a pain in their faces?

Anyway, these ridicules and sarcasm are not a topic in Xu Jiayin's opinion. He was a businessman, a good businessman. And as a businessman, his way of thinking is naturally businessman-like.

He invests in football, not because of how much he loves it, but because he sees the attention it receives in China. Despite the poor record of the Chinese team, every time the Chinese team wins, whether it wins or loses, it always attracts the attention of hundreds of millions of people. Whether they praise or scold, this at least shows the particularity of football in China.

Investing in a sport that has attracted so much attention is undoubtedly a good deal for Xu Jiayin and his Evergrande Group. Although he spent nearly a billion yuan to invest in Guangzhou Evergrande Football Club. However, because of Guangzhou Evergrande's achievements in the Chinese Super League and the AFC Champions League, the degree of attention it has received has made a good advertisement for Evergrande Group.

It can also be seen from the expansion momentum of Evergrande Group, from 2010 Evergrande Group was only a not-so-famous real estate company in Guangzhou, to now a well-known super-large real estate giant in the country. The role of Guangzhou Evergrande is not small.

Boss Xu's accounts are shrewd.

At least the fans of Guangzhou Evergrande are very happy today. Before the game even began, the singing was already resounding through the celestial bodies.

Guangzhou fans have always liked to sing Huang Jiaju's songs, and this time it is not surprising that in Tianhe Stadium, the sea and sky resounded in the sky.

Today me

Watch the snow drift by on a cold night

Drifting away with a cooled heart

Catch up in the wind and rain

I couldn't tell the trace in the fog

The sky is wide for you and me

Subject to change

Who hasn't changed

How many times

Facing cold eyes and ridicule

I have never given up on the ideals in my heart

In a moment, I was in a trance

A sense of loss

Unconsciously, it has faded

Love in the heart

Who understands me

Forgive me for my uninhibited indulgence and love of freedom in this life

I'm also afraid that one day I'll fall oh no

Anyone can turn their back on their ideals

How can I be afraid that one day only you and I will be together

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