Chapter 67 The Catfish Effect
Everyone turned their eyes to Xiaoxia. The majestic female hero on the court just now suddenly became shy. A red cloud was floating on his black face, and one hand was still secretly pulling the corner of his clothes.
It seems that I have been holding this for a long time and I am embarrassed to speak. I saw that the conference was about to end, so I had to say it out.
"I...I think...I don't think three foreign players are...too enough." Xiaoxia stuttered because of her nervousness and shyness.
???
Everyone looked at Xiaoxia for no reason, and her face turned redder.
She took a deep breath, adjusted her emotions and thoughts, and continued to speak: "I mean, the AFC Champions League has 3+1 foreign players. You only say that you follow the Chinese Super League, why don't you keep in line with the AFC Champions League?"
The AFC Champions League implements a 3+1 foreign aid policy, that is, 3 foreign aids with unlimited nationality + 1 Asian foreign aid.
Everyone is even more confused. Xiaoxia, what do you mean? What does +1 foreign aid mean? Looking for Asian Foreign Foreign Affairs? Are you going to find a Japanese and Korean student or a Pakistani official?
"You just mentioned three foreign players. I think... well... I should add another foreign player of the opposite sex!"
Oh, so that's it! Everyone suddenly realized, Xiaoxia, you just said you just want to play football? It's the AFC Champions League again, and it's 3+1 again. As for going around such a big circle?
"Where are you going to find foreign aid of the opposite sex?" Fatty central defender asked stupidly without thinking.
"..." Everyone looked at Fatty in silence, all with caring and mentally retarded eyes.
Gao Yuanqing coughed and advised: "Xiaoxia, stop making trouble. Your football is very good, but we are all men in the club. This time we sign up for the FA Cup. It is not appropriate for you to join!"
Xiaoxia bit her lower lip with her neatly woven teeth, lowered her head and didn't speak. Her almond eyes were watery, and she looked a little red, and she looked like she wanted to cry.
The group of rough men present looked the most shameful girl with pear blossoms and rain.
The rich and handsome guy spoke first, "Our team is called Quancheng Saturday Amateur Football Club. Without saying that, it must be a men's football club. I think that as long as you are a football enthusiast, you can join our team."
The man with kidney deficiency also said, "Xiaoxia's level is definitely enough to reach the main level. If she joins, our team's level can be improved a lot!"
The scoop that Xiaoxia had just passed by was also here to speak out, but she didn't forget to gild her face.
"The main level? I think Xiaoxia's level is enough to join the women's national team! Don't look at me, it may be even more embarrassing to replace others with defense! Join us, the team will not lose money!"
Others were also afraid that the world would not be in chaos, and said in a mess, "I heard that there is a very powerful amateur team in the city, and there are players who retired from the women's football team before, so they played well."
"Yes, we can't discriminate against sex. We should absorb all the good ones."
"A bunch of big men in our team, a little girl came in is a beautiful scenery."
"Add to join in and kick first, just try it out."
"Word with men and women is not tired"
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Gao Yuan was confused. Do these guys really admire Xiaoxia's football skills, or are they deliberately sing the opposite tune just to make trouble with him?
So this year's Player Conference has a fourth agenda: a vote on whether to absorb Xiaoxia into the team.
The final vote was only 1 vote against, and the rest were all in favor.
The only vote was Gao Yuan voted.
Looking at the one-sided vote results, Xiaoxia, who was smiling and the cheering team members, Gao Yuan once again realized Lao Wang's mood back then. He was doing something about democracy without any trouble. TMD, it would be better to be a "one-man show". Why do you feel that he was undermined...
Player recruitment is simple and easy, and troublesome.
Simple, Quancheng is the champion team on Saturday and has the FA Cup main game to play. The most important thing is that it still has money. It is simply awesome in amateur football world, and it has absolute appeal to anyone.
Talking about trouble is how to communicate with the players and the opponent's club, and how much it costs to pay, so you need to find a qualified intermediary.
Intermediaries need to be able to get in touch with all aspects, and they must be good at fooling around.
In professional football, such intermediaries are called brokers or brokerage companies. They are all qualified and registered with management agencies and are subject to relevant laws and regulations. In amateur football, there are no formal brokers, but there is no shortage of various brokers. After all, in the current society, the most lacking is middlemen who make the difference.
Gao Yuan immediately thought of a suitable candidate, his cheap cousin Li Taiquan! This guy is known as a professional fan leader and is just a football middleman.
His business scope is very wide. He contacts warm-up matches, registers with the Football Association, poaches amateur players, organizes fans to cheer, sells player signatures... As long as it is related to football, it is absolutely right to find him.
Two days ago, I found Qianqijuan to do a website and it was quite good.
Sure enough, after hearing the call from Gao Yuan, Mrs. Li slapped her chest and said that she was known as the number one "headhunter" in Shandong football. This was a piece of cake and the cousin was able to handle it in minutes.
However, some service fees may be required, but he promised that the best price for his nephew would definitely give him the best price. He did not make any money when he opened the website last time.
Gao Yuan was too lazy to talk nonsense to him, saying that he would give him 1,000 yuan in agency fees alone, whether he wanted it or not, if he thought it was too little, we would go to find someone else. I heard that the "General" was also very familiar with those guys.
Mrs. Li thought she could make a lot of money, but when she heard Gao Yuan was going to find his old rival General, she remembered the terrible terror of Gao Yuan when he started crazy, and immediately did not dare to persevere anymore. She also played the card of family affection in order to grab the business.
"Big nephew, we are a nephew-uncle relationship, and we are a family. If the cousin doesn't help you, don't say 1,000 yuan per person, even if you don't give money, you can't watch you get in trouble, right? Don't worry, cousin loses money this time and gets publicity. I'll do this for you. If the team has any business in the future, don't be distracted. There is no need to find anyone else. Cousin will go through fire and water for you!"
This guy, Li Taiquan, usually doesn't seem reliable, but he is very straightforward when doing things. In two days, these three new players appeared on the training ground in Quancheng on Saturday.
In addition, Xiaoxia, who had been training with the team for two days, suddenly had several new faces in the team, and they were all powerful players with abilities and characteristics. Quancheng's strength increased significantly on Saturday.
The three newcomers were also a little surprised that there was a strong female player in the team, but it was just an accident. They quickly accepted this fact. Because there are retired female football players in the amateur football world, there are precedents for joining men's football clubs. Besides, Xiaoxia's ability is indeed much higher than others.
What Gao Yuan unexpectedly was that the joining of new players not only improved the team's hard strength, but also played a "catfish effect" in training.
The catfish effect refers to the fishermen putting catfish into sardines and using the catfish swimming to cause uneasiness of the sardines and prompting the sardines to swim faster, thereby avoiding sardines suffocating due to hypoxia during long-distance transportation.
These new players were catfishes who were sent to the team by Gao Yuan. Their high level in training stimulated the players of Quancheng Saturday. Everyone also held their breath and could not let these three defeated players compare themselves. Xiaoxia is even a girl. If she can't even compare with girls, she will have nowhere to put her face!
The team's sense of honor and self-esteem stimulated them to invest more energy in training and competitions, and the only remaining lazy thought was completely thrown out of the sky.
In addition, there is another thing that Gao Yuan did not expect at the beginning. Xiaoxia and "Huangmao" were both trained in professional echelons. The training methods and skills they mastered were far from comparable to Gao Yuan who was talking about it on paper.
They put forward some improvement suggestions for Gao Yuan’s training content and subjects. Gao Yuan followed suit and accepted everything, and the training effect was indeed greatly improved.
Xiaoxia became everyone's technical guidance. When she saw who had poor technical movements, she would set an example on the spot.
I have to say that Xiaoxia is worthy of being a genius with a technical value of 17. Her movements are very standard, simple and yet grand, beautiful and practical, and are simply a standard movement that can be called a "textbook" level.
Under her guidance, many of the bad habits and irregular movements that everyone develops when playing wild football have completely changed.
Whenever I see Xiaoxia guiding the players’ technical movements one-on-one in addition to training, Gao Yuan felt a little sad. TMD, who is the coach of this team? Why do I feel like I’m a manager?
However, Gao Yuan is not a jealous person, let alone the person he is jealous of is Xiaoxia! When Gao Yuan saw the team members' training progress bars soaring recently, all problems were no longer a problem.
Not to mention one-to-one technical guidance, he wished Xiaoxia could directly compile a textbook so that everyone could memorize everything in words.
Gao Yuan was not idle either. During this period, he was studying frantically, constantly absorbing new technical and tactical knowledge concepts and training methods. He listened to opinions and suggestions more carefully than everyone, observed Xiaoxia and others' standard technical movements more carefully than everyone, took notes more meticulously than everyone, and looked up literature and materials more crazily. For the foreign language materials he read online, he compared the English-Chinese dictionary and translated words one word at a time, and often stayed up until the middle of the night in order to understand a professional article with thousands of words.
During this period, Gao Yuan was the most familiar person with the nightclub women in the provincial capital at 3 a.m.
Hard work pays off. One day, when I got up, I looked in the mirror, I found that the value on my head had changed. The progress bars of tactical training and technical training were full at some point, and the value +1 reached 8! And the progress bars such as offensive training and defensive training were almost 100%, and the increase in the value was just around the corner!
Chapter completed!