In the past few years, Gao Han has been calling on Chinese football to pay attention to youth training.

So far, Chinatown has built three youth training centers in China. Beijing has officially put into use for many years. Guangzhou and Shanghai have also started construction, and Chengdu and Wuhan are also planning.

In the youth training center alone, Gao Han and Chinatown have invested huge investments.

In addition to youth training, Chinatown has also organized coach training classes, which has trained a large number of coaches and youth training coaches for Chinese football. However, in recent years, there are nearly 100 Chinese coaches who have been sent to Madrid Chinatown for further study and stayed in Chinatown, or have been recommended to intern at other European clubs.

In addition, Chinatown also cooperated with the Football Association to organize outstanding referees from the four major European leagues to China to establish referee training classes, with the purpose of strengthening the law enforcement level of domestic referees.

These are all down-to-earth projects. Except for the youth training center, everything else is inconspicuous. Apart from being widely praised in the industry, some of them did not even notice it, but Gao Han and Chinatown have been insisting on it.

Not only Chinatown, but also other domestic enterprises and institutions.

For example, in 2011, the study abroad program organized by Adidas and the Football Association. More than 40 people were organized to study in Portugal at that time, but now it has come to an abrupt end.

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"Based on the reliable news I received, the main reason is that the domestic relationship is not smooth."

In the living room of Gao Han’s villa in Beijing, in the living room of Gao Han’s villa, Xiang Tianming explained to Gao Han the reasons for the failure of the plan to study in Portugal.

"It is easy to organize overseas study, but it involves whether the selection of players is fair, and whether there will be tricks and shady situations? As a leading industry institution, will this kind of cooperation with the club violate the rules? The ownership of the player belongs to the club. Now with such a large-scale draw, how can the club make up for the losses?"

Xiang Tianming shook his head, "...Wait for these issues, they are too complicated and too troublesome, and with funding issues, so after the new leadership team came to power, they decided to give up."

Gao Han nodded constantly after hearing this.

On the surface, these are things that can be solved in just one sentence, but in fact they are far from that easy.

Once the details here are not handled clearly, they will easily breed some gray areas and even turn into dark corners.

"What do you think within the Football Association now?" Gao Han asked with concern.

Xiang Tianming shook his head and smiled bitterly, "What else can you think? They are not at all interested in this matter now. The biggest trouble is the head coach of the national team, your old friend Camacho."

Camacho is indeed Gao Han’s friend. He had already met Camacho when Gao Han coached Atletico Madrid. Later, when Camacho took over the Chinese national team, he specially learned a lot about China from Gao Han.

But it turns out that contradictions arise.

It is difficult for outsiders to clear the definition of which is right or wrong in the whole process, but it is obvious that after losing to Thailand 1-5 a few days ago, the Chinese Football Association announced that Camacho was dismissed, and the next national team was led by Camacho's assistant coach.

But the problem that followed was Camacho's contract.

There are too many and complicated details involved, and it is difficult to explain clearly for a while. It involves the Football Association, Camacho, sponsors and partners, and there is no way to explain who is right and who is wrong.

But it should be said that it is a practice to unilaterally terminate the contract and the Football Association fully pay the salary stipulated in the contract.

Isn't that the case with Morati firing Cooper back then?

The same is true for Inter Milan's peak moment, and they also have three head coaches.

In this matter, it can only be said that the Chinese Football Association’s handling of the matter is not professional enough, but one learns from one’s mistakes and will learn from the lessons next time.

"Now the Brazil World Cup in 2014 is missing, and the 2015 European Cup peripheral qualifiers are also one win and one loss, and the situation is not optimistic, so the Football Association is now in a mess."

After hearing Xiang Tianming's words, Gao Han shook his head and smiled bitterly.

Isn’t this the case in most football associations?

This is true for the FA and the Spanish Football Association.

Just as Gao Han was smiling bitterly, Xiang Tianming suddenly raised his head, stared at him, and asked tentatively, "I went to the Football Association to meet a big boss today, and he asked me about you."

"Is that true?" Gao Han was not surprised.

"Didn't you say in an interview with the Chinese News not long ago that if you return to coach the national team in the future, you will only take over the Chinese national team?"

"Yes, I did say that." Gao Han admitted that this was his olive branch to the Chinese Football Association openly.

"So, the Football Association is really considering it seriously, and you will coach the Chinese national team."

Gao Han laughed after hearing this, "Then can they ask for the minimum?"

This made Xiang Tianming helpless, because Gao Han’s annual salary is too high, who can bear the one billion yuan a year?

"Since they mean, they can contact the company to pay and bear the salary as long as you want. However, with their style, the annual salary must be negotiated." Xiang Tianming laughed.

"This is not a matter of money." Gao Han replied seriously, "but what kind of power can they give me?"

"What's the meaning?"

"From Inter Milan to Bayern Munich to Manchester City to Paris Saint-Germain, I have the final say in the whole team from top to bottom. Can they give this power? Can they provide the coaching environment I want?"

Gao Han really asked Xiang Tianming what he said, because it was obviously different from the internal practices of the Football Association.

The leader likes the most is his subordinate who is both obedient and capable, but Gao Han is obviously a master who is extremely capable, especially since he has such a great influence at home and abroad. He can respond to his calls on Weibo. Who can control him?

"Today, I no longer care about money. What I want is a coaching environment that can display my talents. When will they give such chips? Let alone negotiate salary, I will do it if I don't pay."

Xiang Tianming smiled helplessly.

From Gao Han's words, he had no doubt about Gao Han's feelings for his motherland and his love for Chinese football. But the problem is that the Football Association cannot give such conditions at all. Even if it can be given now, it is difficult to guarantee when will it go back on its word in the future.

"Don't worry, take your time, I have time now." Gao Han laughed.

After dealing with the Football Association in recent years, Xiang Tianming is also very clear about the ideas of these leaders. It is probably unlikely that they can make such a compromise and ensure that Gao Han can get the coaching environment he wants, unless...

"I won't talk about these bad things, but talk about the youth training center." Gao Han quickly changed the topic.

When it comes to the Youth Training Center, Xiang Tianming gets excited.

Since the opening of the Beijing Chinatown Youth Training Center, Xiang Tianming has been promoting cooperation between China and Spain in youth training according to Gao Han’s ideas. The first thing to do is to use Chinatown as a link.

According to Gao Han's intention, in the first step, he hopes that Chinatown will cooperate with the Chinese Football Association to build Madrid's Chinatown Youth Training Center into the first overseas youth training center of the Chinese Football Association. Chinatown will provide high-quality teaching and training resources for Chinese youth players, becoming the first step for Chinese football to go global.

It should be said that this first step is not difficult to take.

Chinatown Youth Invitational Tournament is now in its third year, and it is held in Beijing for the second time. Coupled with Gao Han’s relationship and Chinatown’s special background, it makes it clear that young players can adapt to it when they arrive in Madrid.

The next second step is to arrange domestic youth teams to participate in low-level leagues in Spain, which is also the practice of many Japanese and Korean teams, and they have been making arrangements over the years.

But to achieve this step, the Chinese and Spanish governments and the Football Association need to negotiate with each other, and Gao Han plucked the needle.

As for going further, we can copy the same overseas study model to other countries, such as Germany, France, the Netherlands, and Portugal, and other countries with excellent youth training. Gao Han is confident that he still has some connections and influence in European football, so he can help with the help.

But the premise is that the first two steps must be taken well.

"We have a lot of cooperation with the Football Association, from coach training to referee training, and have established very good cooperative relationships in the past few years. The Football Association is also very interested in the plans we have proposed. You know, when it comes to youth training in European football, Chinatown is definitely the second best."

When Xiang Tianming said this, he was also quite proud.

"They are a little busy these days, but next they will organize an inspection team to go to Europe for on-site inspections, and further negotiate specific cooperation details with Chinatown, and actively contact the Spanish Football Association and the government."

Gao Han nodded, it was also very necessary.

After all, they are also responsible for the players who have gone abroad in China.

"Then I will start preparing immediately after I return to Europe." Gao Han was also very happy about this.

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After talking to Xiang Tianming for a while, the two began to focus on the development of Chinatown Youth Training Center.

Gao Han's attitude has always been very clear, not seeking rapid expansion, but seeking stable development. Therefore, Chinatown's youth training center in China has not developed rapidly, and only Beijing is the only one that is truly launched.

But it’s just Beijing’s youth training center, and the teams of every age are invincible in China.

This made Gao Han happy and deeply helpless, especially a market survey submitted to him by Xiang Tianming.

There are too few youth training players in China.

Chinatown once cooperated with the Football Association to hold a football forum, inviting many seniors from the domestic football industry to participate, express their opinions, summarize past experiences and lessons, and provide advice for the future development of Chinese football.

Many people believe that the biggest regret is that Chinese football missed an excellent period of development, which was to enter the World Cup in 2002. That time the whole country was jubilant, which should have been an excellent opportunity to take this opportunity to vigorously develop Chinese football.

But unfortunately, for various reasons, Chinese football has experienced a long-term downturn since then.

"What we need most now is to once again ignite the enthusiasm of the people of the whole country for football, and recreate the grand occasion of the whole country in 2002, and take this opportunity to vigorously promote the comprehensive reform of Chinese football with the full support of the government."

But for many years, the national football team has been weak and has been unable to bear such a burden.

Although Gao Han made a name for himself in Europe, he could not do this alone.

Gao Han also deeply regrets that he missed the opportunity in 2002.

But since I missed it, I missed it. Regrets and regrets are useless. I can only work hard to change the status quo and work hard to do my best.

The first thing is to do is to do a good job in youth training.

With the experience of the first Chinatown Youth Invitational Tournament two years ago, the preparations for this year's third Invitational Tournament were also carried out more in an orderly manner, and Gao Han's father-in-law Lin Guoping was personally responsible for the preparation.

After Gao Han returned to China, he immediately inspected the preparations for this event, which is very reassuring.
Chapter completed!