As a successful example, Shijiazhuang kung fu has set a benchmark for the operation of low-level clubs. However, whether it can move towards long-term stability depends on its own struggle is not enough. It needs the full support of all sectors of society, especially from the government level. Author Yan Zhang Bin August 13, Sunday, an ordinary summer day. The sweltering weather made Shijiazhuang, a famous rock and roll capital, lose its anger. People on the streets were in a hurry and sweating. This is also a competition day for the Chinese Super League and the Chinese high school. Shijiazhuang kung fu team will face Yanbian Longding at Yutong International Sports Center at home. One night in Qixia, how many people would come to the scene to watch such a match in the first place made me suspicious. At half past three in the afternoon, there are still about four hours before the kick-off at night. Yuan Ye’s mobile phone of Shijiazhuang kung fu soccer club rings from time to time. “Mr. Yuan, can you still leave two tickets for the evening game?” This is the sound from Yuan Ye’s mobile phone. This made Yuan Ye, who was in charge of the team’s ticketing, guilty of difficulties. He did not have enough tickets in his hands. Not to mention giving tickets, it was difficult to buy tickets on the spot. He also revealed that ding haifeng, a native of hebei province, paid more than 2,000 yuan to buy tickets in order to satisfy the wishes of relatives and friends to watch the ball on the spot. “According to our prediction on the ticketing side, the attendance rate of this game with Longding this evening will be almost 15,000 people.” When Yuan Ye introduced us the ticket sales of this competition, this number still surprised me. Before losing to Xingzhou, Jinan, Shijiazhuang kungfu just won a seven-game winning streak, but this was just an ordinary top-one game, there are almost no stars (the only one who can be called a star is Ivo, the first star of the visiting team), and it is hard to imagine that the attendance rate will exceed 10000. Yuan Ye’s words are not empty, and the popularity of Shijiazhuang ball market is eye-opening. Before the start of the competition, the main intersections around the Yutong International Sports Center had been crowded with people, and many fans wore Shijiazhuang kung fu jerseys. The entrance channel was even blocked. The phalanx organized by the fans formed a large area in the stadium, and the phalanx of the fans in the north stands was huge. The slogan “keep the taihang blue clothing, and the north of changxiao town” was also the most conspicuous. Yuan Ye said that there were more than ten fan organizations in Shijiazhuang kung fu. The number of people on the scene was basically consistent with the prediction of the club, reaching 14133. Shijiazhuang kungfu also did not disappoint the fans on the scene. He defeated Yanbian Longding 3 to 2 and just won the best player in the 7th month of the Chinese team. OGB meicai played twice. In this battle, Shijiazhuang Kung Fu still ranked fourth with 35 points, but only one point from the top team, still following closely in the Chong Chao group. A team from the dirt Shijiazhuang kungfu, formerly known as Hebei elite football club, was founded in 2009 and belongs to Hebei elite education group. The birth of this club is due to the integrity of Zhai Zhihai, the chairman of the elite group. He wanted to really do something for Chinese football, so he put forward the idea of “striving hard for the revitalization of Chinese football. Zhai Zhihai, chairman of elite group At the beginning of its establishment, burning money did not conform to the business philosophy of Hebei elite football club. Their goal was to make great efforts to cultivate young players and consolidate the reserve force for Chinese football. Since 2009, Hebei elite football club has selected young players nationwide, and then sent them to Brazil, Spain, the United States and other places for overseas travel. Among them, the men’s football team members trained and participated in the competition from December 2009 to December 2012. They do not have enough school resources, and it is difficult to screen out high-quality football seedlings nationwide. The children who stayed abroad once puzzled the coaches in Brazil. They even suggested to Chinese staff: “Can you change another batch of children?” Three years after these unoptimistic children were in Brazil, from January to October, 2013, they went to Spain again to participate in local competitions. At this time, players of the same age in China had left the green field, and they could continue to stay abroad because of the insistence of elite groups. It was such a selection team with a weak foundation that returned to china in 2014 and began to participate in the china league and the china association football cup in that year. They won the eighth place in the China-B league in the first year, and won the third place in the China-B league with the North sports university in 2019. After the co-construction with the North Sports University, the team was re-established and registered. In the name of Hebei elite Zhihai club, the team participated in the 2020 Champions League, won the fifth place and entered the China B league by supplement. In 2021, the club changed its name to hebei kung fu soccer club and won the second place in the china-B league in 2021, entering the china-a league for the first time. At the beginning of 2022, the club officially changed its name to Shijiazhuang kung fu soccer club, and won the fourth place in the league last year, only one step away from making up for the Chinese Super League this season. Many of the children who were not favored by the Brazilian coach at that time became the backbone of this Shijiazhuang kung fu, such as Zhang Xiaoliang, an Yifei, Pan Kui, GE Helen, etc. Some players such as Han Zilong and Ma Sheng have played or are playing in the Chinese Super League, so many children have been saying that if football hadn’t changed their fate. Some children said that it is very likely to sell pork in the market with their parents now. From the moment they were selected by Hebei elites, the gear of fate began to really turn. A football club with feelings and no back pay My understanding of the Shijiazhuang kung fu club began last season, and Wang Song let the outside world know this club. Veteran Wang song has been fighting for China’s top league for many years and chose to join Shijiazhuang kung fu last year (he returned to the top league this year and joined Nantong Zhiyun). In addition to training and competition, Wang Song will introduce the team members and teammates through the TikTok account. In addition to Wang Song, this team also has a famous general like Sui Weijie, which is the famous “drinking water Brother” in the rivers and lakes “. At the beginning of this year, former international Zhao Mingjian also joined Shijiazhuang kung fu. Later, for various reasons, Zhao Mingjian left the team halfway through the season. After he officially joined the company, he conducted a live broadcast on TikTok and disclosed his monthly salary to the outside world truthfully-20,000 yuan before tax. Zhao Mingjian has worked in Shandong, Huaxia happiness, Dalian people, Shanghai Shenhua and other teams in his career, many of which are Super League giants. In the era when capital was the most expensive, Zhao Mingjian made a lot of money. It was really puzzling that he finally chose to commit a team in the middle a with a salary of lunar January. Xu xu, the general manager of shijiazhuang kung fu, is a famous chinese football, which has a deep relationship with dalian football and liaoning football and has been rooted in chinese football for many years. For Zhao Mingjian, Xu Xu has a very admirable psychology. It is an objective fact that the treatment of Shijiazhuang kung fu is not high, but the club never defaults on wages and has always been paid in accordance with the regulations of the Chinese Football Association. In addition to the basic salary, the players also have bonuses such as winning prizes. In many top-a clubs, bonuses are usually rare or even absent. In order to motivate the morale of the players, the investor Zhai Zhihai listened to the advice of the general manager Xu Wei and would give the team extra awards in important matches, this is even more rare in the league. Shijiazhuang kung fu club stressed that they always adhere to a scientific and reasonable wage structure, insist on prohibiting illegal acts such as “yin-yang contract”, do not engage in unrealistic competition, and do not follow the trend to burn money, in the past 14 years, we have always insisted on paying wages on time and in accordance with regulations, and the stability of the team has been highly recognized in the industry. Among many active players in China, Shijiazhuang kung fu team has some “alternatives”. The alternative is that the salary level of the team is not high, but the management is quite strict. Even when some Chinese Super League players heard the legend, they believed that the kung fu team had always adopted militarized management, and even did not understand the name of the kung fu team. Why is it called Kung Fu team? Don’t you practice football and kung fu? In fact, the meaning of kung fu is not just a literal meaning. The word kung fu represents Chinese traditional culture to a large extent. As an elite group that started Education, we always hope to combine the characteristics of Chinese traditional culture with Chinese football. Through the combination of practice, Chinese traditional culture such as traditional Chinese medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, martial arts, qigong and so on can really recover the players’ body, physical fitness training, tempering will plays a very direct role. The investor Zhai Zhihai and the general manager Xu Wei have a common idea, which is to let the players establish correct values and outlook on life. The first aspect of setting up professional clubs is to train children who went overseas in those years. On the other hand, it is more important to build a team that is really willing to win honor for the country and has national spirit. However, in the Kingyuan football environment in previous years, this idea is too difficult to achieve. Including at present, there will be conflicts between training talents and competitive performance, but in the future, this road still needs to stick to it. Under the current environment of Chinese football, a club with feelings and no back pay is a safe choice for the players. In addition to Zhao Mingjian, they also attracted the former international team Ding Haifeng to join with the monthly salary of 20000 yuan before the highest salary and tax this season. As a hebei player, ding haifeng has been playing hard for hebei football all these years. When he came to shijiazhuang kung fu team this time, he soon integrated into the team and became the core strength of the team. Nowadays, Ding Haifeng has only one idea, which is to hope to help the team, especially the young players in the team, realize their dream of overtaking. Low-cost operation also has the strength to surpass Shijiazhuang kungfu has always been adhering to operating clubs in a rational way. Under the circumstance that the football environment in China is getting worse and worse, they have stronger vitality like “weeds. Under the mode of burning money, the development path of many former rich clubs has become unsustainable, and some names that once shone in Chinese football have been annihilated by the long river of time. Chinese football was forced to return to rationality, which actually benefited the clubs that had been operating rationally. Such clubs have a healthy financial system and have gained good reputation in the industry. Shijiazhuang Kung Fu is an example, and it is also the key reason why they can attract famous generals such as Wang Song, Sui Weijie, Zhao Mingjian and Ding Haifeng to join. Although the youth army once sent to Brazil to stay abroad had a weak foundation, it still produced rich fruits after careful and scientific cultivation. Many years later, many of these children gained a foothold in the industry league, and most of them became the pillars of Shijiazhuang kung fu. The importance of foreign aid to a top-ranking team is self-evident. Ogab, who has played for the competition in Wuhan three towns and Shaanxi Chang’an, has scored 14 goals for Shijiazhuang kungfu this season, ranking first in the list of top-ranking players, in the recent eight victories of the Shijiazhuang kung fu team, OGB scored goals and was undisputed elected as the best player in the 7th month of the league. “Don’t choose expensive ones, just choose the right ones” has become the criterion for selecting foreign aid for many chinese and a clubs. Zhou Lin, the new head coach of Shijiazhuang Kung Fu, also contributed. After the transformation of the former “Super Platinum generation” main defender into a coach, he has been struggling in the low-level league for many years. After he took over halfway this season, he led the team to a wave of five-game winning streak. The result in the last seven games was six wins and one loss, zhou Lin also won the title of the best coach in the 7th month of the league. Chong Chao, for the current Shijiazhuang Kung Fu, it is not the impossible dream. Although their investment is not high, the rational operation concept attracts many solid football players, plus “easy to use, not expensive” foreign aid, supplemented by the backbone strength they cultivate, shijiazhuang kung fu has found the fulcrum that can move the bigger dream. The proper support of the city can give the club wings to take off. Nowadays, the biggest dilemma of football clubs is the lack of self-hematopoietic ability. The era of burning money has passed. The Chinese Super League and the Chinese club are all returning to rationality, but they have not solved the dilemma of survival. Insiders revealed that even so, if a Chinese club wants to guarantee the grade smoothly, the investment also needs to reach 30 million-50 million. Besides the salary of the players and the normal investment of the club, the stadium rental fee, security expenses and daily training expenses are expensive expenses, and the home ticket income of many teams is not enough to cover the stadium rental fees and security expenses. Shijiazhuang kungfu now rents 5,000 yuan for every training course, which is also a big cost after the whole season. Even though the investment has been significantly reduced compared with that year, the revenue has not been significantly improved. In addition to the ticket income, broadcasting rights + commercial dividends are a drop in the bucket for club A, compared with the investment, the club’s own investment income can be ignored. Almost all football clubs mainly rely on the parent company’s blood production. How long can the enthusiasm of investors last? There needs to be a big question mark. From this perspective, even the success of Shijiazhuang’s kung fu is difficult to continue, because it is necessary to constantly test the nerves of investors. In fact, it is not that there is no way to break the situation. Financial support from local governments can have an immediate effect. Take a Chinese club’s own investment of 50 million as an example. If there is another 10 millions or 20 millions support from the government, the club is very hopeful to achieve the goal of overtaking and even to take root in the Super League. In this process, if the youth training system can keep up with it, the club is expected to gradually realize self-hematopoietic in the future, so as to get rid of the dependence on government support. Now this stage is also an excellent time for the government to support football clubs. As mentioned earlier, it is now possible to spend a small amount of money to do big things. And because of the neutral name policy, the club is deeply tied to the city. Taking Shijiazhuang kung fu as an example, the purpose of changing its name is to take root in Shijiazhuang, a Rock City. The football atmosphere here is strong and has a broad fan base. The atmosphere of the football market is even not inferior to the gold medal markets such as Xi’an. A few days ago, Shijiazhuang government wants to build a rock city and a football city, which is of great benefit to the city to break the circle and enrich the amateur cultural life of local people. This also provides an excellent opportunity for the development of shijiazhuang kung fu. Shijiazhuang kung fu will be the best business card in the football city and a window to attract fans from all over the country. With the performance of the kung fu team going up all the way, especially the hot atmosphere created by the home fans, the city of shijiazhuang has once again attracted widespread attention in domestic football because of the kung fu soccer and the china league. The survival situation of the football club has indeed reached the most dangerous time, but it is organic in danger and a small amount of support can achieve the maximum effect. This is not only effective for Shijiazhuang kung fu, but also for most clubs struggling on the survival line. The current situation is that all sectors of society can help the club out of the desperate situation with a little help, while turning a deaf ear to watching one club after another die out. As a successful example, Shijiazhuang kung fu has set a benchmark for the operation of low-level clubs. However, whether it can move towards long-term stability depends on its own struggle is not enough. It needs the full support of all sectors of society, especially from the government level. For Shijiazhuang, a provincial-level city with a weak sense of presence, if local relevant departments or enterprises can help kung fu clubs in time at present, it will undoubtedly achieve twice the result with half the effort in the publicity of the city image.
