On October 28, 1988, this will be the most important day for the professionalization of Chinese football, and it can be called a milestone day.

On this night, 64 draft players from all over the world officially joined the A-League, which is less than one year old.

At the same time, naturally the other half of the frustrated soul is indispensable.

There are hundreds of rookies participating in the "Draft Conference" tonight, but only half of them can get what they want in the end.

But it doesn't mean that if you lose the draft, you can't join League A. As long as you can pass the club's trial training before the transaction deadline, you can still get a guaranteed contract for 1 to 2 years.

In fact, there is a draft rule in League A: Players over the age of 24 are not required to participate in the draft.

But today there are still so many older rookies, mainly because they do not participate in the draft, and the treatment of the undrafted players, as well as the importance of the club, cannot be compared with the selected players.

In addition, if you do not participate in the draft, the maximum contract period you can sign is only two years, and you cannot add any player options.

This is also a rule deliberately set up to encourage players to participate in the draft in the future. After all, the "draft" itself is a very gimmick, which is good for increasing the influence and attention of the League A.

As for whether there will be a counterattack from the undrafted picks, and eventually become a superstar in the A-League, and even further resound around the world?

First of all, this is definitely a scene that the Football Association itself hopes to see. Wu Jie also believes that there will definitely be such people in the future, but they must be extremely rare.

At this time, the rookies selected in each round will basically sign with the club within a week.

Although this year is only the first draft of League A, the degree of perfection of the rules is not bad. After all, the sports department and the Football Association have been preparing for this for several years.

Therefore, the degree of perfection of the rules and competition system of the League A is even more scientific and advanced than the sports leagues in Europe and the United States in some places.

This may be due to some objective factors. Many advanced systems and rules cannot be implemented yet, but they are not unprepared. As long as the time comes in the future, the speed of progress in this aspect of League A will be visible to the naked eye. .

In the first season of League A, the exact start time is the end of November.

This is a bit later than the European leagues, mainly due to factors such as the Olympics.

Next season, the start time of League A will be advanced to September, so that it will not be much different from the major European leagues.

As for the schedule, in the league, each team has to play home and away games, so each club has to play 30 games in the league, and the points adopt the world-leading "three-point system", that is, only three draws. Top 1 win.

In terms of cup competitions, there is currently only one "Fuxing Cup" funded by the "China Sports Foundation".

This year is also the first "Fuxing Cup" after its establishment. The total prize money is as high as 2 million US dollars, but for the time being, it only includes two leagues, A and B, with a total of 32 teams.

The specific competition system of the "Fuxing Cup" is not complicated, and the most common home and away system is adopted. However, in the first round, in order to avoid the strong teams meeting in advance, it is required that the A-A teams cannot meet in the first round. Therefore, in the first round, the first-tier team played against the second-tier team, and the random draw began after the top 16.

In this way, this year's A clubs have to play at least 32 games including the league and cup matches.

If you add the Asian Regional Cup resumed in 1986 and renamed the "Asian Club Champions Cup", then the team that can theoretically win the Triple Crown will have to play a full 51 games a season! (For the AFC Champions League in this plane, there are 16 teams participating at this time, 6 games for the group stage, and 5 games for the knockout round)

So many games are not easy to play, so in the following week, in addition to scrambling to report on the just-concluded draft of League A, the media from various countries began to have more and more voices to question.

These voices of doubt are mainly aimed at whether China has enough infrastructure to support a country with the third largest area in the world, and it will hold a professional league that spans more than half a year and often spans thousands of kilometers?

This is indeed a reasonable suspicion. In fact, the reason why the Ministry of Sports and the Football Association have been preparing for four or five years is largely because they are waiting for the domestic infrastructure to meet the standards.

Even if the AFC Champions League is not proposed, it is basically impossible to achieve inter-provincial competitions across China, east, west, north, south, only by railway transportation, and it must be done by air flights.

Otherwise, in the domestic league + cup competition alone, 30 to 40 games will be played each season, which was almost an impossible task five years ago.

However, this prerequisite for transportation has finally been initially met in China this year.

Of course, the XJ team still cannot have such transportation conditions in the province, so the XJ team in the next few seasons can only rent stadiums outside the province to play.

In addition to traffic conditions, whether there are enough modern stadiums is also a question that many Chinese fans don't know.

Now that Chinese football is officially professionalized, the new "League A" is no longer the stand-alone "League A of Chinese Football" in the past. Those small stadiums like vegetable fields and sandy fields in the past naturally cannot satisfy professional leagues. needs?

Not to mention anything else, just for the sake of so many overseas players who come here admiringly, they must also provide enough modern stadiums.

This is not a matter of face, but a matter of professionalism.

So many people come here especially for the name, even the football leagues in Europe and America, if they can't provide enough qualified stadiums, then even Wu Jie will feel very unprofessional.

But this problem has actually been easily resolved by the Football Association.

At this time, two of the seven "Friendship" stadiums dedicated to the Middle East and East Asian countries have been built, and the rest will be built in the next two years. This allows at least seven clubs to have world-class home stadiums (the same city's clubs, may share a stadium).

The Ministry of Sports and the Football Association have not only coerced and lured Asian countries over the years. They have robbed so much foreign exchange from all over the world by selling players and collecting protection fees for so many years. It is not a small amount to convert into RMB. On to the construction of the stadium.

So by the end of this year, half of the provincial capitals have new stadiums that are more than half built, or that have just been built.

These stadiums built with their own money are naturally inferior to the seven "Friendship Stadiums" in terms of scale and modernization, but they are also enough to accommodate 30,000 to 40,000 people to watch the scene.

If most of the seats were removed and turned into standing positions, it would be no problem to accommodate 50,000 people, enough to meet the requirements of professional competitions.

At this time, including some old stadiums and stadiums, many of them can meet the requirements of modern competitions after renovation. Therefore, China's stadium infrastructure is not bad, and there will be a leap forward in two or three years.

After all, these infrastructures are not only for the establishment of the A-League, but also for the "world's first Women's World Cup" to be held in China next year.

Of course, more preparations are made for hosting the local World Cup.

Although it was too late for them to bid for the 1990 World Cup, but because they caught FIFA's pigtails in the last World Cup, they also threatened and lured them, so it is basically confirmed that the 1994 World Cup will be held in China at this time. hold.

On this point, Li Fenglou, the vice president of FIFA, and four members of the FIFA Council from China can confirm that there will be no more twists and turns in this matter.

Therefore, after the transportation and stadiums have initially met the requirements, the hardware requirements for hosting professional leagues in China have reached the standard.

As for the software requirements, there is no need to worry about this.

For example, the broadcast technology, related professionals, equipment hardware and other requirements that are difficult for most developing countries are no longer a problem for China at this time.

The first is broadcast technology. As the country that provided the "online packaging system" for the Seoul Olympics and won the most bids for the broadcast technology of the "1990 World Cup in Italy", China has benefited from Lenovo's deep technical reserves in this regard. , It can be foreseen that in the upcoming first season of League A, the whole world will see the advent of many novel broadcasting technologies that are not even available in Europe.

In this regard, China has indeed made many European countries envious. A wonderful modern football match broadcast has too many problems that cannot be solved for developing countries, including the number of seats in the stadium, the number of high-magnification cameras used, and digitalization. Software and hardware technologies such as the online packaging system and the overall quality of the broadcast team are jointly determined.

First of all, there must be enough relevant practitioners and professionals here. After all, the broadcast team needed for a game usually needs 30 to 50 people to initially meet.

But China has long planned in this regard. In fact, since the World Cup in 1982, the Ministry of Sports and the Football Association have sent a large number of technical and management personnel to Europe and the United States every year for study and exchange.

Moreover, as the first experimental field/big villain to abandon the bad habit of "top class", the Ministry of Sports has eliminated a large number of incompetent personnel who have inherited their father's career after so many years, and has reserved a huge number of talents in various related fields, and even the subordinates of the Ministry of Sports. Most of the leaders of the various sports associations have sufficient professionalism.

This also includes enough excellent referees. The Football Association even established a special "soccer referee school" for this purpose, as well as a supervision department for referees accepting bribes. The main focus is a professionalism + integrity.

These are the efforts of professionals. League A has even surpassed the European League in the pursuit of "fairness" and "technical" innovation-they have made full use of Lenovo's advanced technology and made a breakthrough on this basis. Some epoch-making innovations and changes, as well as many technological applications that set a precedent in history.

For example, League A has implemented the world's only "Eagle Eye Technology", which solves the problem that it is difficult for human eyes to distinguish whether the football has crossed the goal line as a whole. Therefore, League A will no longer have "goal line fans". case".

Of course, as the "Chinese Football Association", which is advancing with the goal of being the most advanced and cleanest in the world, it is also very clear that high technology cannot overwhelm the host and ruin football.

The charm of a football game is not as simple as winning or losing. Sometimes, misjudgments on the football field are even part of the charm of football.

But this kind of charm needs to master a "degree". It is best to leave a little room for "making mistakes" in the football game on the basis of general fairness and justice, so that the game has some accidental factors, so that the football game can have Just the right amount of surprise and surprise.

Therefore, the use of "Eagle Eye" technology is also limited. The Chinese Football Association has clarified two requirements for its use: 1. It cannot interrupt the game, and 2. It gives priority to supporting referees and penalties.

To put it bluntly, the referee does not need to suspend the game or look back at the video to judge whether the goal is scored or not. Even if the judgment is wrong, the referee's judgment will be given priority.

But the corresponding new rule is that both teams in the game have the "right to challenge".

The current rules are: in each game, the coaches of both sides can use the "challenge right" once in each half when a player is shown a red card, and "whether the football has crossed the goal line as a whole", or a penalty kick is awarded for a foul in the penalty area. . (Not used in the first half, cannot be reserved for the second half)

This challenge refers to: the referee team can be forced to watch a replay of the video. If the judgment is really misjudged, the judgment can be changed, but if there is no misjudgment, the head coach must be given a yellow card. If two yellow cards are accumulated, he will be sent off and suspended for one game. .

This kind of "challenge" is obviously regarded as one of the "charms" in the game, rather than for the pursuit of absolute fairness and justice, but in this respect (fairness and justice) it is still much better than the European League.

In addition to the epoch-making progress in new rules and new technologies, League A has more advanced and unique features in the software and hardware of broadcasting.

Take the CCTV Sports Channel as an example. For every game broadcast, more than a dozen cameras basically cover the entire outside of the field. Some special bottom-line cameras are also set up, and even a miniature camera is installed on the net behind the goal.

These cameras in different positions enable the audience in front of the TV to have a better broadcast audio-visual picture, and better present local and close-up.

In addition, League A also uses the world's leading "Lenovo's third-generation online packaging system". The latest version of this system can not only provide more live images and on-field data, such as accurate calculation of distances, accurate drawing of 9.15-meter lines, And whether the human wall retreats to a distance of 9.15 meters, etc., so that the audience can understand and interpret more details on the field more clearly.

But to say that the most powerful part of this system is the ground-breaking addition of 3D virtual special effects, which can make an epoch-making 3D dynamic lineup demonstration. The embedded 3D engine provides virtual 3D pictures of some star players to the audience.

Although these 3D models are still very simple, they are definitely an unprecedented technological revolution in game broadcasting. Even if they have never seen it in this Olympic Games, they will definitely stun fans all over the world and call it a miracle!

But this is not over yet. When the "First Women's World Cup" next year, they will have higher requirements for camera positions. There will be special cameras dedicated to tracking star players.

At this moment, you can imagine that when the women's football players who are not inferior to the appearance of female stars are tracked at close range, their facial expressions and details of the movements in the game can be seen at a glance, and even the sweat splashed when they flick their hair are clear. When it is visible, what kind of shock will the audio-visual picture created from this have on the audience?

And League A has so many rules, technological innovations, and even a revolution, what kind of sensation will it cause in the world, at least in Asia?

"Hey, at least the next broadcast contract and advertising contract after the trial operation is over, it will definitely have to be doubled!"

Wu Jie is very aware of how much these innovations in rules, especially the application of new technologies, will help the commercial operations of the "League A", especially the ability to attract money, because all of these were epoch-making attractive around 1990.

As for the Chinese Football Association, which in the eyes of outsiders has contributed to all this, it should soon become a great existence that will be praised by football fans all over the world. Maybe it will be reversed by Europeans in a few years. Learned.

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