The Young Lion

At the end of the interview, it is probably the norm. Huang Jianxiang hopes that Aldridge will provide suggestions for the development of Chinese football and express his views.

Aldrich bluntly said: "I will not say that the most important thing in the development of football in a country or region is the style of football. Each style of football has its own uniqueness, advantages and disadvantages. When you can interpret this style to At the extreme, the strength will also be very strong, so there is no genre and style of football that can be successful without following the example. The law of football development is the same as that of the entire human society, the competition mechanism."

Huang Jianxiang felt that interviewing this European coach today has gained a lot. In fact, what is the most controversial issue in the development of Chinese football? What kind of master are you looking for!

Learn Brazil? Learn French? Learn Italian?

Who is the key to learning from?

"Mr. Hall, can you talk about it in detail?"

Aldridge nodded: "For example, Millwall was in London last summer, and 158 young players came to take the initiative to try out. I hope to join our club. Last year, there were 223. There are 379 people this summer. We are only the fourth level in England. One of the nearly one hundred clubs in the league, it is not only that we have a complete youth training system. Manchester United’s 95 golden generation is no stranger to the entire world football. They also have huge influence and attraction in the area radiated by Manchester. Each summer, more than 5,000 young players in the professional clubs conduct trial training for survival of the fittest in the professional club. Year after year, this is the result of a layer of elections after the elimination of competition. Although the younger generation in England lacks genius, the FA Very worried, but this is also relative to the competition of the world's top national team. At this point, the Premier League has an unshirkable responsibility. More and more high-level foreign aid comes to the Premier League to let those local English players stand on top. The league is more difficult."

The England national team is going downhill, and it will even be dubbed as the European China team by Chinese fans in the future, but in fact, no matter how the world ranking of England falls, it will not fall outside the group of the general strong team, and the international competition cannot achieve good results. The reason is very complicated. Apart from the technical and tactical level, it is related to England’s own league. As Platini said, even if Bailey plays for England, he cannot be expected to perform well in the competition, and his energy is consumed in the dense schedule. Clean.

"Do you mean that China should pay attention to juvenile football? This idea was proposed by the leaders of our country a long time ago. Football should start from the baby."

"I don’t know. I only know that talking and doing are two different things. How many children of all ages are playing? How to play? Are there professional coaches? Are there courses to train them? Number of matches per week Of course, you can refute me that many countries in Africa with poor football standards do not have these, but Africa and China are different. Their football development strategy is to send talented children to the European Professional League at a very young age. Work out in China, wait for the top position, and then return to the motherland to play for the country, so the professional league level of African countries is very low, but some national teams are very strong. I noticed that China is also actively operating players to play overseas, I hope they To further improve and then contribute to the national team, I don’t want to splash cold water, but as I said before, when you send a player over 25 to Europe, there is only one thing he can do in Europe to prove himself That’s all. It’s hard to think of a substantial improvement. Experience is only a part. Without good technical ability as a guarantee, experience cannot be turned into a very intuitive strength.”

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After the interview was broadcast in mainland China, it attracted wide attention from fans. The popularity of Aldridge and Millwall Club in China has risen sharply. His views during the interview were also commented by the Chinese national team coach Milo.

Aldridge took a plane back to London the afternoon after the interview.

This trip to Asia can be described as a great success. The club made a large amount of income in addition to commercial activities such as the appearance fee of friendly matches, and the club also took away 23 commercial contracts.

The earlier this kind of work in market development, the greater the return in the future, especially in this era of media explosion.

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

He had no such idea before, because there was a labor certification system, and the age of China’s dysfunctional figures did not meet Millwall’s standards for recruitment.

It’s not that they are too old, but that their age is the type of technical ability. No matter how hard they try to improve their strength, that’s it. If you want to take a chance at Millwall, it’s harder to climb the sky. Maybe there are still some points in the Premier League downstream clubs. opportunity.

He mentioned young players during the interview, which reminded him of a person.

A young genius who is not bragging about the Chinese media and football.

A Chinese teenager who shined in the World Youth Championship next year and was listed as one of the eight new stars.

Curve wave.

To be able to participate in the World Youth Championships is definitely not old, and there is room for shaping.

Aldrich thought of this, not just for competitive considerations, but for commercial reasons.

In this Asian trip, there are also many sponsors in China who have proposed Millwall to introduce Chinese players, and even they can pay the transfer fee in private.

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

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

Of course, Millwall is unlikely to benefit directly, because Chinese fans may not even buy 1% of Millwall's authentic jerseys, go to the field to watch the ball, and consume the Millwall club brand.

However, this kind of attention is invisibly improving the value of Millwall brand. It can jointly let Millwall other sponsors pay more sponsorship fees to promote their brands in the Chinese market!

A few years later, the "King Dong" introduced by Manchester United, is it really worth millions of pounds? Competitive value, not worth it, but commercial value, great value!

Aldrich called Adam when he got back to London and asked him to contact the transfer department and Chinese sponsors to see if he could cooperate to win the song. Such a transfer really does not need to be kept secret. Instead, it should be high-profile and create influence.

The transfer of Millwall is not over yet. The transfer of three players, Joe Hart, Baines and Johnson, is over, and he has successfully joined the Millwall youth team.

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

"Milwall Robber!"

"Crazy lion is looting Everton!"

For the first time, Aldridge broke into anger with Andrew because of player problems.

He rushed to Andrew's office with the newspaper, and fell on Andrew's desk with a cold voice: "What a good thing you did!"

The female secretary who could not stop Aldridge stood in a panic, and after Andrew got up and waved, the other party retreated and closed the door by the way.

Andrew picked up the newspaper and glanced at it before throwing it away. The news has been circulating in England these days.

There are four parties.

Millwall, Everton, Lu Chubby, Andrew.

After the incident, Millwall wanted to dig Lu Xiaofa. Andrew received the news and took the initiative to come home and recommend himself as Lu Xiaofa's agent.

The famous Andrew did not make any rhetoric, but just gave the Lu Xiaofa family a promise to take them out of poverty and become rich, first of all, they could own a house without renting the city government.

The Rooney family is a **** Everton, but it is human nature to live, eat, and live a relaxed life.

Andrew took Rooney easily as an agent.

Rooney and Everton were originally just apprenticeship contracts, and there was no guarantee of a professional contract. He was still under his age and could not sign a professional contract, but Everton had high hopes.

Millwall was originally planning to take his time. Rooney was only 15 years old in October, and the operation time was sufficient.

But the media exposed the contact between Andrew and the Rooney family, and Rooney said in an interview that Millwall was very attractive, which triggered the condemnation of Millwall in the entire English football.

It is believed that Millwall is using dirty methods to seduce the star of hope in other clubs.

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

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

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

This had to contact Everton's Everton background again.

Like Manchester United, Arsenal, Tottenham, and the fiery West Ham United, their coaches unanimously attacked Millwall, calling on the FA to introduce a young player protection mechanism as soon as possible, and fine Millwall!

In the original history, the English football team always introduced a transfer ban for young players about ten years later, in order to avoid the giants taking away the excellent young players of the weak small teams almost free of charge.

But Aldridge, this little butterfly, has changed a lot, especially Brazil has introduced a policy of U18 players banned from transferring overseas to protect local interests. Now, it is possible to accelerate the change of policy for young players in England.

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

What he cares about is the negative impact of the club behind this storm.

This is moral condemnation!

Moral condemnation is sometimes crueler than the law. You don’t even have the power to argue, and you will be raised and talked about for a long time. There is no chance of turning over.

Because of this, Aldridge rarely frowned at Andrew.

Andrew has been a bit overdone recently, so he went to find Rooney personally when he was idle, and he got into trouble. He recently hid in the company and escaped the countless reporters who wanted to interview him. He knew that it was useless as long as he said nothing. Avoid the wind and the wind, the matter will soon disappear, the outside world, fresh news everywhere.

"Sorry, I can only say sorry."

Andrew was sitting behind the desk, feeling ashamed, and dared not look directly at Aldridge's eyes.

Aldrich reached out to him and finally sighed, saying, "Forget it."

He hoped that Andrew would quarrel with him. If that was the case, the other party would be better. He apologized directly, and Aldridge's anger vanished instantly.

Andrew lost a cigarette to Aldridge and smiled bitterly: "I don't think about this matter, what are you going to do now?"

Aldridge lit a cigarette and smiled bitterly: "What else can I do? Give Everton money."