Reporter Lu Mi reported that at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics on the evening of February 4, the training photos of the chongqing Liangjiang Athletic team members were unexpectedly unveiled. For Chongqing football, this is a good thing, showing that the spirit of this team has been affirmed by the entire sports circle. Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic Team has been on holiday for more than a month, until now there is no definite time to receive the holiday, the planned arrangement is in early March, but last year's several postponements of the holiday, so that the players are a little worried about whether they can carry out training according to the plan.
Chongqing football at the Winter Olympics
"We're at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics!" The official Weibo of Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic posted a picture to express surprise and joy at this scene. At the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics on the evening of February 4, scenes of people's lives and sports around the world were shown in the form of photos, expressing the spirit of the Winter Olympics and the inclusiveness of sports, of which there were two pictures related to football, one was a picture of children playing football, and the other was a scene of player training at Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic Club, and the characters in the photo were Deng Xiaofei and Huang Xiyang. The relevant person in charge of the club told the media that it was a great honor for the photos of the team's training to be displayed at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics.
Chongqing football has been struggling to maintain since 2020. In the past 2021 season, this team has completed a difficult relegation process in the face of long-term salary arrears and personnel shortages, retaining the platform for Chongqing football in the Chinese Super League.
In this process, the efforts and efforts of all people have been unanimously recognized inside and outside the industry. The team is working so hard for relegation, and is looking forward to promoting the completion of equity reform before the start of the new season. During this holiday, players and staff go home on vacation to recuperate, and the Chongqing Municipal Sports Bureau is actively promoting the process of stock reform. However, like many Chinese Super League clubs that want to reform their shares, many of the club's original problems have once become constraints.
Ahead of the Winter Olympics, Chongqing football received good news. On January 25, the Notice of the General Office of the General Administration of Sport on the First Batch of Key Cities for National Football Development during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period wrote: In order to thoroughly implement the decision-making and deployment of the Party Central Committee and the State Council on the reform and development of football, further promote the implementation of the "Overall Plan for the Reform and Development of Chinese Football", and seek to do a solid job in the reform and development of football during the "14th Five-Year Plan", the General Administration of Sport and the Chinese Football Association jointly carried out the construction of "National Football Development Key Cities". According to the work arrangement, the General Administration of Sport and the Chinese Football Association jointly organized the material review and field inspection of the first batch of key cities for national football development, and after deliberation by the expert group and reported to the leading group for the study and approval of the national football development key cities, it was decided to determine nine cities including Shanghai, Chengdu, Wuhan, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Changchun, Chongqing, Dalian and Qingdao as the first batch of national football development key cities during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period.
The circular calls on relevant provinces and cities to further strengthen the organization and leadership of football work, accelerate the pace of reform of football work in their respective regions, increase the strength of guarantees in the field of football, adapt measures to local conditions, boldly explore, create useful experiences that can be used for reference and promotion, and jointly promote the new development of football in the mainland.
Chongqing Liangjiang Football Club has been slow to improve its stock in the past year, but it is certain that the club's share reform will continue to advance, and the club that has survived in the Chinese Super League for seven seasons will not disappear because of the problem of share reform.
Reinforcements and contract renewals are urgently needed
In January, the Contemporary Group paid the players and staff a month's salary arrears, so that the players would not lose a penny when the Year of the Tiger arrived. The players have not received the notice of the team's concentration for the time being, most of the players are training in the gym at home, and some players have returned to Chongqing in advance to train at the club base on their own.
The reporter learned that the club's initial holiday time is set for early March, and the specific date has not been determined. The location of the winter training will be selected in Guangzhou or Chongqing, and will be determined according to the financial situation.
For the planning of the new season, it has been started, only because the financial problem is not clear, the budget of the club in the new season has not yet been introduced, and there is a goal of reinforcement, but it is not yet possible to fully carry out the work, on the one hand, it is affected by its own limited funds, on the other hand, the club, like other Chinese Super League teams, is waiting for the new salary restriction policy introduced by the Chinese Football Association after the New Year.
The league only started in late April, but for Chongqing Liangjiang Athletics, the time is really not enough, the players whose contracts expire need to negotiate a renewal, only Zhang Wailong in the coaching team automatically renews his contract after relegation, and the contracts of other coaching staff also expire. The introduction of new foreign aid and the return of existing foreign aid Tursunov need to be led by the government, it is understood that the current foreign invocation has not yet begun, Tursunov has not been granted a visa to China.
Players who have previously been loaned out of the team are waiting for the latest developments of the club, such as Adrian, a foreign player who was loaned to Shanghai Shenhua last season, who expressed his attitude and wanted to return to Chongqing to continue to play, but only if the problem of unpaid wages needed to be solved. For example, Ding Jie and Jiang Zhe, after their contracts with the loan lender expire, are also waiting for the club's statement.
The promotion of the stock reform requires the cooperation of all parties in Chongqing, the speed of progress is not controlled by the club, the team's preparation for the new season is imminent, and the players look forward to a complete preparation cycle in the new season, and do not want to prepare and start the game as difficult as last season.