When Sun Hai began contacting people, most were unwilling to come. However, upon hearing the name of Boss Huang, they immediately changed their attitudes and rushed to Sun Hai's side.
Soon, they met Boss Huang, and the location was very ordinary, in the conference room of Jiangnan Group itself.
"I want the Chinese team to enter the World Cup again. Tell me, how can I achieve this idea?" Boss Huang asked directly from the start.
"..." The room was filled with silence, or rather, people looked at Boss Huang in a state of panic. It wasn't until Sun Hai quickly stood up and said, "Don't have any doubts, Mr. Huang truly wants our Chinese team to enter the World Cup. This is because Mr. Huang's child's dream is to represent China in the World Cup, and Mr. Huang will spare no expense to achieve his child's dream. Therefore, I hope everyone can pool their wisdom and contribute their ideas to help Mr. Huang realize his child's dream!"
"That's right!" Boss Huang nodded and said, "But I want to make one thing clear: I will absolutely not engage in any shady dealings or use methods like bribing opposing teams to throw matches. I want my own child and his team to qualify for the World Cup through their own strength. If there's any deception, then this endeavor will have no meaning."
"This..." Hearing Boss Huang's words, everyone's expressions immediately fell.
No shady dealings? Then this matter was absolutely impossible!
Of course, some people were very excited and immediately stood up to say, "Mr. Huang, I have actually been considering this issue for a long time, and I have already thought of a series of action plans. It's just that I know my plan is too bizarre and impossible to implement, so I haven't told anyone outside."
"But since you have this attitude now, and if you are willing to invest a large amount of funds and connections, then my plan is definitely the plan with the highest probability of success!"
"Speak quickly!" Huang He urged.
"Okay, first of all, my plan requires a relatively long time, at least 10 years, and at most 20 years!" said the former national player excitedly. "Actually, we Chinese people have every opportunity to enter the World Cup. Everyone says we have a disadvantage in terms of race, but Japanese and Korean people have the same race as us. They can enter the World Cup every year, so why can't we?"
"But we just can't get into the World Cup, especially in the last decade or so, it's gotten worse year by year. Why is that? The biggest reason is naturally our environment, all sorts of people intend to manipulate matches, turning all the players into non-players."
"But this is not the fundamental reason. The fundamental reason is that Chinese children are unwilling to play football. The returns from playing football are far less than the returns from taking exams. Those children with the same talent as Messi and Ronaldo are likely, for the most part, under pressure from their parents to study hard, doing their best to get into a good university, rather than going to sports schools to practice football."
"To be honest, the returns from playing football are simply too low. If 100 children practice football, perhaps not even one will make it. In that case, how could parents be willing to send their children to play football?"
"Also, we have too few football fields. Even a kindergarten match requires the area of four basketball courts, and a real football match requires a stadium. In today's cities where every inch of land is precious, such ground conditions are simply not available."
"At the same time, there's the issue of youth training selection, the problem of having to pay to get into youth teams, and so on. These problems are too numerous and chaotic, and they are simply not issues that can be solved by human effort!" the player sighed, even Boss Huang found it headache-inducing to listen.
Although Boss Huang was indeed wealthy, these problems were not something that money could solve, as these were problems of the entire environment.
"Therefore, I've come up with a very extreme method: to completely disregard the current environment, start from scratch, starting with the children, and spend 10-20 years independently building a powerful football team!"
"Continue! Explain it in detail!" Boss Huang urged.
"Yes, the first step of my plan is to find 1,000 children with excellent football talent!" Our vast China, with an average of about 15 million five-year-old children, and over 60 million children aged 5 to 10. Isn't it possible to find 1,000 children with football talent among them?"
"So, my plan is to search for such children nationwide, dispatch hundreds of investigation teams to go to all sports-related colleges and institutions across the country, screen all children aged 5 to 10, and finally select 1,000 children with excellent football talent to form a massive youth football training camp."
"Then, this youth football training camp will undergo five years of closed training. We will select the best football coaches and trainers worldwide, and during the golden period of these children's growth, they will train these 1,000 children."
"For the first five years, we will do nothing else, not participate in any external competitions, and even try to isolate all their external contacts. Except for holidays, they are not allowed to go home, and they will just train diligently."
In this process, the weak will be eliminated and the strong will be kept, eliminating 900 children and leaving only 100 children with the strongest overall abilities. Then, they will enter the second stage.
"In the second stage, we will do everything possible, using all means, to send these 100 children into the youth teams of mainstream leagues around the world. Not only will they receive professional football training, but they will also receive professional football matches, spending five years accumulating various match experiences."
"After that comes the third stage, where we gather all 100 children back, and from them, select the 24 strongest to form our real team. Then, as a complete team, we will participate in various competitions and training, spending 2-5 years to cultivate overall synergy."
"Then, the most difficult step, is to try our best to send all the children in this team into the national team, allowing our people to directly form the national team, and then let this team represent the national team in playing."
"I dare to guarantee that with such a team cultivated from a young age, filled with synergy, even if winning the World Cup is impossible, it will be very easy to re-enter the World Cup. Even achieving a historic group stage qualification has a probability of success!"
After this person finished explaining his plan, the entire room fell silent. Everyone looked at this person in shock, but they were even more shocked by the grand and astonishing plan he had just described.
"If this plan is executed smoothly, can we really enter the World Cup?" Huang He asked.
"Yes!" Everyone present nodded, but then they immediately shook their heads and said, "But it's too difficult. Every step in this plan is extremely difficult and impossible to achieve. This plan is simply not feasible, it's sheer fantasy!"
"Is that so?" Boss Huang thoughtfully touched his nose and said, "Since this plan can be successfully executed and lead to entering the World Cup, let's analyze this plan properly and see what the difficulties are!"
"First is the first step, nationwide selection of 1,000 children with football talent. Can this plan be implemented? What are the difficulties?" Boss Huang asked first.
"Yes, the feasibility of this first step is only fifty-fifty. Selection is not a problem, but it is very difficult to select 1,000 children with football talent. This is because there are simply too few sports colleges related to football in our country. Even if we count all the martial arts colleges, track and field colleges, and all other sports-related colleges, the number of children we can recruit is very small!"
"Old Li is right that there are 60 million children, but the number of children who can eventually participate in the selection will likely be only twenty to thirty thousand. Picking 1,000 people from this pool, their talent is unlikely to be very high. Unless we can find ways to get more children to participate in the selection, at least around 1 million children of the appropriate age, otherwise even if we select 1,000 people, most of them will be filling the ranks!" Sun Hai said.
"This is not a problem!" Boss Huang waved his hand and said, "I can first organize hundreds of selection teams, placing one in every city in the country. Also, 1,000 people is too few. We can add a re-selection round in between, with 10,000 spots for the re-selection."
"After the re-selection is completed, the children who participated in the re-selection will be gathered in one city for the final selection, and then a shortlist of 1,000 people will be chosen!"
"I will use all media resources for publicity. Any parents who bring their eligible children to participate in the selection will receive 100 yuan for travel expenses. If they can reach the re-selection stage, they will receive 10,000 yuan for travel expenses, and Jiangnan Group will be responsible for all travel expenses."
"And if they are ultimately selected for the 1,000-person shortlist, they will directly receive a bonus of 100,000 yuan… no, 200,000 yuan!" Boss Huang said without hesitation, and these figures stunned everyone.
Assuming 1 million children participate in the selection, 100 yuan for travel expenses per person would be 100 million.
10,000 people enter the re-selection, 10,000 yuan for travel expenses per person, that would be another 100 million.
And for the 1,000-person shortlist, if they are selected, they will receive a 200,000 yuan bonus, which is another 200 million. The total cost of these expenses would be 400 million.
If we also consider the salaries of hundreds of selection teams, then perhaps 600 million would not be enough!
Just to select 1,000 people, it would cost 600 million?
Everyone looked at Boss Huang with a look of bewilderment. Boss Huang said dismissively, "Don't worry about the money, it's nothing! I just want to know if, with my plan, 1 million children of the appropriate age will come to participate in the selection?"
Well, even 600 million was nothing in his eyes. Everyone could only swallow their saliva and then nod in unison, "There is absolutely no problem, 1 million children can definitely be gathered!"