On April 10, it was reported that a few days ago, the national football team Fan Zhiyi will coach the Liaoning Iron Man team in the Chinese League, which caused heated discussions, and General Fan had to clarify it, saying that he was only serving as the club's technical director, because there were a large number of variety shows and game commentary tasks this summer, so he could not lead the team to coach, and could only help Liaoning Football gather domestic and foreign football resources.
On April 8, Fan Zhiyi's appointment as the head of the coaching staff and technical director of the Liaoning Ironman Football Team has become a hot news in Chinese football and even in the entertainment industry. Subsequently, Fan Zhiyi himself responded on his personal social media that he participated in the incident with the attitude of helping the team build a coaching team and did not hold any actual position in the team.
However, after that, Fan Zhiyi said in an interview with Shanghai Five Star Sports that he served as the team's technical director, "Shenyang is the blessed land of Chinese football, and it is my duty to return to this heroic city and do something for this city in football." As the technical director of the team, through some of his resources at home and abroad, he can help the Liaoning team return to the top league as soon as possible to make such a contribution. ”
As for why he did not return to the team as a coach, Fan Zhiyi said that he has a lot of game commentary and variety show work to do this year, "I have a lot of tasks this year, and there will be the European Cup, the Olympic Games, and the Champions League soon, so I can only consider it from the perspective of technical director." I'm good, I'm good at the club, both sides are still very pragmatic. ”
This year is a big year for sports, with the 2024 Euro Cup and the Paris Olympics, Fan Zhiyi should have signed contracts with some video platforms to serve as a commentator, and there are also variety shows to participate, so he has no time to go out to coach.
According to the statistics of the sports industry media "Sports Big Business", in the past 10 years, Fan Zhiyi has starred in more than 20 variety shows, and made a cameo appearance in the popular TV series "Flowers" at the beginning of the year.
In this regard, netizens have said, "Lao Fan only knows how to make money every day"
"It's almost directly affecting my earnings"
"It's better to engage in variety shows and commentary, the easy effect is not bad"
"I don't have a coaching certificate, what is coaching?"
"Don't talk about tasks, talk about work. You explained that you were going to take the money. ”
"It's not necessary, it's better to get a fire certificate"
"Suffer from this crime, how good it is to shoot variety shows, and make money while playing"
"Although variety shows are simple to make money, these are all blessed by the aura of football people, and they still need to return to football from time to time to ensure traffic."