After half a year of careful preparation, the Yuchai first team, which is under the signature of "the strongest campus youth training", has also embarked on the new season in May.

The 2000 National Football League kicked off on May 6. The first phase of the district preliminaries were divided into four districts: Northeast China, North China, Central and Western China, and South China. The district adopts home and away round-robin matches, and the top three teams with points advanced to the second phase of the regional rematch.

Guangxi football was a hit in the Qihang Cup last year and gained a lot of attention. Therefore, fans still had high expectations for this new team before the game. The club was full of confidence. Head coach Lin Rui returned to the league after many years, and he also had many ideas in his heart. The team should have some achievements.

However, ideals are full, but reality is skinny. Yuchai, who was first involved in professional leagues, still lacked sufficient preparation for the difficulties he faced.

Although there are experienced players from the pre-League like Qin Zhen and Jiangbin, there are also young players in the 20s who have participated in various amateur competitions in the area for a long time, as well as two young players from the club, Mai Qizhao and Tian Ye.

In terms of paper strength, Yuchai, which combines old, middle-aged and young, has certain strength and can achieve something.

Yuchai was divided into South China, with rivals in the same group including Shanghai Cable, Guangzhou Baiyunshan, Guangzhou team, Guangdong Youth, and Hangzhou Green Garden.

Yuchai's schedule is well arranged, and the first game is to face Hangzhou Green Garden at home.

The team's home court, Dafuyuan Football Stadium, welcomed clubs outside the city for the first time. Yucheng citizens who felt the atmosphere of the professional league for the first time were also very enthusiastic. A thousand people flocked to the audience, filling the audience's seats closest to the stadium.

For the small city of Yucheng, it is not easy to have such a number of spectators. After all, professional football is just starting out and the fan culture is still being cultivated.

Infected by this enthusiastic home atmosphere, Yuchai also successfully won the opponent and got a good start as he wished.

Just as the team was still looking forward to achieving the next victory and laying the foundation for qualifying, the team lost one after another, and even lost 0:9 when facing the strongest Shanghai Cable. After eight consecutive losses, they barely tied the Guangdong Youth in the last round, embarrassingly ending the entire season ahead of schedule.

After 10 games, I won 1 game and 1 game, lost 8 net games, scored 6 goals, and conceded 33 goals. This is the report card of Yuchai, who participated for the first time, and deeply reflects the huge gap between the backward Guangxi football and the whole country.

At the post-match summary meeting, club boss Bai Huijun did not say much, but just encouraged the team to continue working hard next year.

However, at the group's mid-year production summary meeting, the board of directors had great opinions on the club's actions of spending more than ten million yuan after less than a year of establishment. The first team's crushing defeat in the league became a testament to their attack on Bai Huijun.

Among them, Vice President Chen Jun is still headed by Vice President Chen Jun. When the board of directors discussed allocating funds to establish a club, Vice President Chen opposed it the most. Later, due to Chairman Huang Sanping's insistence, the club finally made its way.

After nearly a year of hard work and investing more than 10 million yuan as promised, the group that originally expected to make a return was finally ushered in the news that the team had a crushing defeat in the league, which also became the fuse for the directors to get angry.

The reasons for opposition are nothing more than three things, including high investment risks, extremely low returns, and large gap in capital demand, and other back and forth basically revolve around these.

After listening to the objection, Huang Sanping nodded and expressed his approval. Afterwards, he asked Bai Huijun to speak.

Bai Huijun had already sorted out his speech ideas, and did not even have any materials to speak, so he made a generous speech.

"First of all, I am very grateful to the leaders of the board of directors for their concern for the club. As you can see, after nearly a year of continuous investment, as an adult team in the club department, I should have gained something, but unfortunately I returned in the first stage of the group stage, which really disappointed everyone's high expectations. As the representative of the club, I am very sorry that the team failed to achieve better results and are willing to take full responsibility."

A sharp voice immediately came out from the board of directors: "Responsible? How do you take responsibility? Can you take out more than 10 million yuan?"

As expected, the vice president Chen Jun was the one who came out to attack. Bai Huijun looked at him and continued to say calmly: "What I said is not to fill in these accounts immediately, but to use better results to repay the trust of the group in the future. Ten million is indeed a lot, and I can't take it out now, but when we Yuchai stands on the top league stage, we can get more than ten million in a year."

"Everyone knows that our Yucheng is a small place. How difficult it is for Yuchai Group to develop, our club is several times more difficult than this. I am not complaining to everyone here, but want to express that it takes time for a company to develop from a small to a big one, and the same is true for our club."

"Football has its own internal laws. There is no other way except to cultivate it seriously and wait for it to bloom. There was a club in Guangxi, but now it has no more. Even in developed places like Nanning, Liuzhou, Guilin and Beihai, they need money and traditions, but they still cannot create a football team."

"Why? Because they are not patient and are unwilling to calm down and do these basic tasks. They always want to do it in one go. If they spend millions this year, they will be able to easily play in the professional league next year and make a lot of money once and for all. However, this is not how football is done."

"If football wants to develop healthily in the long run, the most important thing is to solve the problem of youth training development. Only when youth training becomes truly mature and can steadily deliver qualified talents to the adult team, can the team not spend a lot of money on signings every year, and can grow healthily."

"If you ignore this rule, even the once wealthy Dalian Wanda can no longer be sustained, so you can only choose to sell equity. What is the most expensive in the 21st century? Talent. Our club's u15 has already included most of the main players in the third place in the national competition. This is a talent resource in the entire region, and it is a huge wealth!"

"As long as we train well, ten years later, the price of these elites will be worth our current year of investment, not to mention that there is more than one of us. So, I guarantee it with my own personality. It will take less than ten years, eight years to be enough. We Yuchai will definitely appear on the top stage of AA."

"If I can't do it at that time, I will raise funds in the name of the club to compensate the group for its investment over the years. I, Bai Huijun, keep my word. If everyone doesn't trust me, I can sign an agreement with you immediately."

It has been said that it is not easy for those who are criticizing it to make any more attacks. The group has indeed made a statement with the club first. After a ten-year agreement, they also foresee the situation facing today, so they set a ten-year deadline. Now it is only one year, and I can't wait to shake it when I first encounter storms. This is indeed a bit of self-defeating. Faced with the club's talkers so loudly, they can only fall into silence.

Seeing that these people's arrogant arrogance finally curbed, Bai Huijun made his final speech: "In fact, in the past year, due to the outstanding achievements of the Qihang Cup event, all levels in the whole district have paid more attention to our Yuchai than before. That day, I looked at the group's interim financial report, and its revenue increased by 9.6 percentage points compared with the same period last year, which is nearly 10% of the revenue."

"I dare not say that this is definitely due to the efforts of the club, but people talk about Yuchai more frequently than usual. When we go to play games in other places, they even played the 'Yuchai engine' logo to welcome us. This situation will be more common as our team goes to a higher level."

"After fifty years of hard work, our group has finally achieved the point of "Looking at Guangxi for diesel engines and Yucheng for Guangxi engines". Our club also hopes to achieve the great goal of "Looking at Yuchai for Guangxi football" in ten years. Therefore, I urge everyone to be more patient and give these young men some time to grow, and will definitely give you a wonderful future."

After saying that, Bai Huijun bowed deeply to everyone. This move was extremely wonderful. He was so respectful and humble that he could only make things boring if he forced the palace.
Chapter completed!