On October 27, the 2021 Hurun Rich List was released. It is worth noting that in the top ten of the list of the richest people, there is no real estate tycoon. China's richest man, Xu Jiayin, dropped from 5th last year to 70th in 2017. In this list, Xu Jiayin's wealth evaporated by 162 billion yuan, "only" 73 billion yuan remained.
Due to the tightening of domestic real estate-related policies, many real estate companies have suffered a cold winter this year. Evergrande Group, which had previously taken too big a step, encountered extremely serious financial problems. From the end of August this year, "Observer Network", "China Real Estate News" and other media exposed Evergrande's trillions of debts, to The "thunderstorm" of Evergrande Wealth in September, its due wealth products were overdue and could not be paid, at that time, the negative news about Evergrande Group continued.
On October 22, there was news that Evergrande Group had paid interest on a DOLLAR bond that was about to mature on the 23rd, about $83.5 million, which eased the market's fear that Evergrande would default slightly. Just when the outside world thought that there was less negative news about Evergrande during this time, a message about Xu Jiayin came out again. According to Caixin, a mansion on The Hilltop Buli Trail in Hong Kong was recently mortgaged to a bank, which had previously triggered a "name change" and was linked to Xu Jiayin, chairman of the board of directors of Evergrande Group. According to the Hong Kong Land Registry, the B bungalow No. 10 Bulijing was mortgaged to China Construction Bank (Asia), this time a creditor of Evergrande's private financing, and demanded the addition of Xu's mansion as collateral.
Obviously, Evergrande's financial pressure is still there. Under such circumstances, Xu Jiayin announced evergrande's three strategic decisions to resolve risks and save itself at the special meeting on the resumption of work and production of Evergrande Group on October 22: one is to unswervingly and go all out to achieve the resumption of work and production and delivery of buildings; the second is to fully implement the sales of existing buildings and significantly reduce the scale of real estate development and construction; and the third is to achieve the transformation from the real estate industry to the new energy automobile industry within 10 years.
Of course, just like the last few meetings, Xu Jiayin did not mention the football that once made Evergrande a household name in the country. Whether it is due to Evergrande's internal environment or the current external environment of Chinese football, Evergrande has no heart to engage in football at all. If Evergrande's top management will still think of football, I am afraid that I am wondering whether the 400 million yuan adjustment fee that was handed over to the Chinese Football Association can be returned. How can I get back? When to come back?
In the recent FA Cup 32-in-16 match, Evergrande sent a youth team to compete. After the end of the first stage of the Chinese Super League, Evergrande immediately exposed various crises, in which case the Evergrande first team has not yet completed the assembly. During this period, head coach Cannavaro and his team also officially terminated their contract with Guangzhou Football Club.
Previously, people had always believed that if Cannavaro couldn't go, Zheng Zhidu would be the next guangzhou team coach. However, there was only one message about Zheng Zhi during this time, that is, Zheng Zhi went to the Guangzhou Institute of Physical Education to apply for a job and began to try classes. Now, Zheng Zhi will not lead the team in a short period of time, and the first team of the Guangzhou team has no news of assembly for the time being. At the same time, the relevant departments of Guangzhou have begun to communicate with some Chinese Super League clubs in terms of management and operation, and evergrande and Guangzhou football have broken up, I am afraid that there is only a matter of time left.
The topic returned to the FA Cup, in the 32-in-16 match, Guangzhou finally lost 0-1 to the second division team Qingdao Qingchun Island. In the past, Guangzhou's defeat to the second division team in the FA Cup was definitely a shocking one, but now people have been fully prepared for this result. However, the outside world still has a lot of curiosity about this youth army, after all, relying on the foundation of Evergrande football in the past decade, the young players of this reserve team can now be regarded as the best in the same age group in China. At the same time, people also found that the head coach of this team, Liu Zhiyu, is actually the assistant coach of the Guangzhou team and the head coach of the reserve team, and before the Guangzhou team had previously divided into the AFC Champions League, it was Liu Zhiyu who led the youth team as the head coach.
Interestingly, it is this Liu Zhiyu who also appeared on the famous blind date show "Do Not Disturb" 10 years ago, when he was a technical analyst and finally held hands with a female guest. Today, Liu Zhiyu has a professional coach certificate, and is one of the youngest coaches in China to have a professional certificate.
In 2011, the then Guangzhou Evergrande team had just been promoted from the Middle Division to the Chinese Super League. Using players such as Sun Xiang, Gao Lin and Zheng Zhi to play in the Middle Division, the Evergrande team at that time had already given people a preliminary taste of the "power" of Jinyuan football. Since then, the Chinese Super League has ushered in a full decade of golden dollar football era. Until this year, with the decline of real estate enterprises, the gold dollar bubble began to burst one by one. The future of Guangzhou Football Club will no longer be associated with local tycoon clubs, and at the moment when Guangzhou Team bids farewell to big-name coaches, the coach of "New Guangzhou Team" will most likely choose a domestic coach like Liu Zhiyu.
Officially joined Evergrande in 2010, Liu Zhiyu should be the "elder" level figure of this club, but compared with Gao Lin and Zheng Zhi who came to Guangzhou at the same time, Liu Zhiyu, who is only a small team manager, has certainly not earned as much as those professional players who have caught up with the good times in recent years, but in the past 10 years, team manager Liu Zhiyu has obtained the top coaching certificate of the AFC through continuous learning, but even so, he is afraid that he has not earned as much as those first-team players. Therefore, from the perspective of employment, if the equity and management rights of guangzhou team change in the future, he will not collect the arrears of wages like those players who take millions of annual salaries, and then turn away. In today's Chinese football scene, for the vast majority of people, having a job is better than not having a job, even if the salary is relatively largely discounted. For Liu Zhiyu, being able to lead the team to play as a head coach is an important opportunity for career development, which is also a very rare opportunity in the Chinese football world that pays attention to familiarity and does not have to be raw.
After graduating from Beijing Sports University that year, Liu Zhiyu worked as a physical education teacher and public relations, but he never gave up football. I hope that his persistence can become the wealth of Guangdong football.