The Day I Played with Ronaldo

It was a hot summer in the southern hemisphere.

卡 Ricardo came to the beach in Rio de Janeiro and enjoyed it for a few days.

Then he came to the Botafogo Club and met with the new club executives.

虽然 Although he is the team's big boss, holding 90% of the shares, he has not held any position.

高层 Most of the high-level positions such as team chairman and football director are professional managers who have been recruited, as well as Botafogo's old people. For example, Yarzinho was invited by Ricardo to return as the team's vice chairman. With Ricardo's current status as a river and lake, Yaerzinho is still happy to sell him a face, and his salary is quite high.

Football is competitive sports, but the operation of modern football clubs is ultimately a commercial activity.

According to Ricardo's insights, using professional managers to carry out commercial development of the club can better maintain the club's financial health and sustainable development.

Although Ricardo was very young, no one dared to despise him at the meeting, at least on the surface, everyone listened carefully to his speech.

At the meeting, Ricardo proposed: "Botafogo is a club with a long history and a glorious tradition. It is one of the big names in Brazil. We must pursue results, and results are the lifeblood of the club. But we must not be too eager. To pursue achievements steadily, you must develop steadily. Too big a step will cause you eggs. "

"In the long run, the club should pay attention to the construction of youth training echelon, the construction of training facilities, the development of talents from within itself, the full development of business, the realization of profitability, and the creation of a strong team that covers the domestic and South American arenas It will remain competitive for the next one to two decades. "

"In the short term, I can invest a certain amount of money to allow the club to buy some strong players, hire a competent head coach, keep the team stable, and spend 3 to 5 years competing for one or two heavyweight titles, such as The South American Liberator Cup, the South American Common Market Cup, the league championship and the state championship. "

"I don't want the team to produce fast results, but for the stability and sustainable development of the team. In the 2008 season, I will invest 10 million US dollars to improve the club ’s infrastructure, hire youth coaches, and inject 25 million US dollars into the team Recruitment; depending on the team's record, it may invest an additional $ 8 million in the medium term. "

"Purchased players should be mainly young players under the age of 25. We need to look to the future and don't rush into quick success."

"In the 2009 season, my investment will be no less than the 2008 season. But from the 2010 season, my investment in the transfer market will gradually decrease. I will increase my investment in youth training and discover more of my team's youth training. Talent. "

"In addition, I have established cooperative relationships with many football schools and clubs in China. The clubs must take responsibility for cultivating young football talents for China. In this section, I will invest 10 million US dollars in the first period and 5-8 million yuan each year in the future. The short-term goal of the U.S. dollar is to enable Chinese players to play the main force in the club within 3 years ... "

I waited for Ricardo to finish his speech, and there was a warm applause in the conference room.

Whether he makes sense or not-he is a major shareholder, his gold owner, and he promises to invest tens of millions of dollars a year, it is worth these applause.

Although some senior officials have doubts about Ricardo's "cooperation with China" policy, Ricardo did paint a beautiful picture for them.

As long as he does put in so much money every year as promised, Botafogo will surely be a strong South American team again in 3 to 5 years.

为什么 Why are South American teams getting worse? Not exhaustive yet.

Don't look at the European giants often spend a lot of money on Brazilian teams, but Brazil has its own unique system, the ownership of many players does not all belong to the club, and most of them are in the hands of their agents.

Real Madrid spent 7 million dollars to introduce Marcelo, of which Fluminense only received more than 2 million, and the rest went into Marcelo's agent's pocket.

In another spacetime, Neymar transferred to Barcelona. Barcelona spent about $ 100 million, of which $ 63 million was the transfer fee, and the remaining tens of millions of dollars were Neymar's signature fee and his agent's commission.

这 Of the $ 63 million transfer fee, Santos only received $ 25 million, and the rest went to Neymar's agent's pocket.

巴西 In Brazil, and some other South American countries, this has become the norm.

The agent discovered an excellent football seedling, first paid a small sum of money to sign the player, bought a certain percentage of his ownership, and then recommended it to the club. If the player kicks it out, when the player transfers, the agent can follow his mouthful of oil.

A broker signs hundreds of players. As long as one or two of them are successful and the high price is transferred to Europe, the broker can get a hundred or ten times the profit.

This is a bad practice in South American football. At the meeting, Ricardo asked the club to train as many players as possible without being bought out by the agent, expand the selection range, and strengthen the scout team.

三年 In three years, he will invest 10 million US dollars in the construction of scouting networks. This money will be used to pay liquidated damages, salaries, transportation subsidies for big-name scouts, and for the club to run draft camps.

Although Ricardo hated this kind of bad habits, he started a new brokerage company, which is responsible for introducing outstanding young players selected from Chinese football schools and draft events to Botafogo. These players All signed a deed of sale with his agent company ~ www.NovelMTL.com ~ The ownership of these players usually belongs to his agent company.

李 After the meeting, Ricardo, accompanied by the club's senior management, visited the training of the clubs U18, U16, U14, U12 and other echelons.

Then he met with Chinese teenagers who recently came to the club.

The little ones were very excited to see Ricardo, and some were so nervous that they couldn't even speak.

卡 Ricardo shook hands with them affectionately, took a photo with him, put on a jersey, and personally ended up training with them.

This first batch of Chinese teenagers totaled six, the oldest being 17 and the youngest 14 years old. Three of them were junior and senior high school students selected through nationwide draft events, and three were former professional club youth echelons or football schools. Of students, because they were eager to get a chance to go abroad, they switched to Ricardo's brokerage company.

According to the head coach of the youth team, the performance of the six young players is mediocre, and they are basically in a disadvantage compared with the Brazilian young players of the same age. There is no one who can play the main force in this young echelon, and it is not particularly noteworthy. seedling.

A few months later, a few people missed their hometown very much, and they had already taken care of it.

卡 Ricardo doesn't care. This is just the first group. There will be a steady stream of Chinese teenagers coming here, and there will always be geniuses.

He instructed the hired Chinese translators and Chinese leaders to pay more attention to the mental health of these children and help them integrate into Brazil's training and life as soon as possible.

If you ca n’t stand leaving, you can send it back to China. Do n’t waste the club ’s precious resources.