The new season of the Super League has not yet begun, and there has been worrying news outside.
In the case that the salary of 16 months was in arrears, Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic players stopped training recently and pulled up slogans and banners at the gate of the club for salary: “We want to survive, we also need to support our families and pay back my hard-earned money.”
For the players and the staff of the whole club, it is a miracle that they can stick to the training competition for a long time under the condition of “no particles” and even finish the relegation last season. However, even if the team is full of feelings, it will eventually face the pressure of life.
“If you don’t pay, you can’t support your family. There is really no way to be forced to this extent. It has reached the limit.” A player said helplessly to the surging journalist.
However, on social networks, many netizens gloated over the disaster-they thought that the players all drove luxury cars to live in luxury houses, and the level was not enough and they deserved to be paid back…… The gate outside the Chongqing club is locked.
White Stripes, piles of
in January 3 this year, in a life-and-death war that must be won to be relegated, Chongqing Liangjiang competition reverses Wuhan team 2-1, completed the major cause of classified protection.
After the game, the Korean head coach Chang Woe-ryong was excited and cried, expressing his gratitude to the players. The players know what patience and persistence are behind such excitement.
A Chongqing team player told the surging news reporter that the club had a situation of back pay in 2019. Fortunately, it could be solved gradually later, but by 2020, the situation began to become more and more serious.
Up to now, after the club reissued part of the salary, it still owed one month’s salary in 2020, while the annual salary in 2021 could not be seen. Last season, the Super League led the team to guarantee the grade Chang Woe-ryong.
It is understood that the relevant management department had communicated with Chongqing team before and divided the salary: the salary from January to April of the 2021 season was the responsibility of the contemporary group, the salary from May to December is the responsibility of the party after taking over, and promises to settle the salary from May to December at the end of December 2021.
But the reality once again failed the players’ hopes. “It was originally said that at the end of last year, everyone would be able to get the money after the grade was guaranteed. After that, they went home for the new year. Later, there was no solution, and there was no mention of salary.” The players said helplessly to the surging journalist.
Since the back pay, the team’s promise has been blown over and over again: “(promise) there are also paper ends and verbal ones. We are not bad with white stripes, a bunch of them. But it is basically not realized, and it is all virtual.”
Against this background, it is not difficult to understand the excitement of Zhang wailong after the relegation last season: “He is also very difficult as a coach, you want to be able to guarantee the grade without paying everyone’s salary, which means you are doing the compulsory work completely, just relying on feelings.”
“So director Zhang would be so excited at that time. It was really not easy to keep this level under such difficult circumstances.” Players are currently defending their rights in the club.
The particles have not been accepted and have been pushed to the limit
what makes players sad is that even if they finish the important task of relegation under extremely difficult circumstances, the efforts of players and staff, still didn’t get the salary they deserved.
At the end of last December, the players were once again told that the situation was “a little difficult” and let everyone concentrate on protecting the level first. “But now there is no one and no salary. There is no voice in the past five months, and there is no specific statement for the players. It has been delayed.” The player said.
The reason why I chose to ask for salary publicly this time is because the players and the team members really can’t see the hope: “The players and the staff have been enduring until now, and they really can’t bear it, after all, some players still have mortgage loans and so on, and the loans cannot be repaid, and the House will be frozen by the bank.”
“It’s really too urgent to worry any more. The staff also have wives and children. If they don’t pay money, they can’t support their families. If they are forced to this extent, there is really no way.”
In fact, in the case of being underpaid for 16 months, the players of Chongqing team still insisted on training some time ago to prepare for the new season of Super League, and hope that the team’s back pay situation can be solved under the joint efforts of all parties, but the hope is still weak.
“I have been practicing for some time before, and I still wonder if there is a glimmer of hope, but now the competition starts immediately. I haven’t heard any hope. Instead, I have heard worse news, so everyone really can’t stick to it any more.”
“The pressure is very high. Some staff can’t sleep and can only sleep by taking medicine. The mental pressure is so high that people feel a little trance. Everyone’s emotions are placed here, and it has reached the limit.” The Chongqing team struggled to complete the relegation task last season.
“Everyone doesn’t want Chongqing team to disappear”
before the start of the 2021 season, the Chinese Football Association had asked all clubs to hand in the confirmation form of salary and bonus settlement signed and confirmed by the players, at that time, although the players didn’t get the salary of the last month of the 2020 season, they signed for the team to continue their lives and participate in the game normally.
And the whole season after that, they continued to play without collecting particles and kept the super fire for Chongqing Football. The players relied purely on their feelings for the team, and the persistence in football.
“Everyone is like this (relying on his affection for the team), and many local people in Chongqing also think like this, hoping to help the team live better, with or without money, all went to fight. It is really relying on a kind of spirit and emotion to maintain this team.” Chongqing is an important map of Chinese football.
“It’s really the limit now. Everyone doesn’t want this team to disappear. The atmosphere of Chongqing fans is also very good. If you leave this team, you will be really sad.”
However, no matter how much the persistence and dedication come from feelings, they will eventually need to face the pressure of real money in life-there is no income for a long period of back pay, which makes the players’ own lives difficult.
Just like what is written on the banner hung by the players-“worthy of Chongqing, worthy of the fans, sorry for the family”; “We want to survive, we also need to support our families and pay back my hard-earned money”.
Mortgage, children’s tuition, various expenses of life…… All kinds of overhead are stress. “We can only try our best to maintain the emotions of family members, so that they can save as much as possible. Gu everyone, Xiao Jia also needs to care, and both sides need to be maintained. It’s really hard.” The player said helplessly to the surging journalist. Chongqing team players open letter.
Retain hope fire
The player admitted to the surging journalist that he still had sufficient enthusiasm for football and hoped to continue to fight on the field in the future season, my body and competitive state have always been very good.
“I have no problem with my state, but my heart is too tired to keep baigan and my spirit can’t stand it.”
But under the current situation, players can only continue to wait in anxiety: “Wait for the management department to give us a specific statement, at least to tell us whether the team is dead or alive.”
“This year is a normal game or something, we have to give us a statement, but no one will tell us. I hope the management department can pay attention to us.”
As written in an open letter of “all the staff of Chongqing Liangjiang competitive football club”, “since the success of the overtaking in 2014, this year has been our eighth consecutive year in the Super League, although we have suffered from unpaid wages since 2019, we have never given up our hope for life and our pursuit of better results.”
“The team has created the best result in history in the 2020 season, ranking 6th in the league, but the good result has not brought any change.”
The letter revealed that under the condition of being unable to maintain life, many club employees can only use credit cards, borrow money, or take part-time jobs to subsidize their families, however, everyone still has a common hope :
“we don’t want to disappoint the Chongqing people, let alone let the flames of Chongqing football go out in our hands. Therefore, I implore all sectors of Chongqing Society to give us support. We really love this team!”
Indeed, Chongqing Football appeared in the professional league as early as the 1997 season a. Over the years, it has experienced ups and downs of performance and changes of investors, but he has never been absent on the stage of Chinese football.
The 25 years of wind and rain left fans with not only the joy of winning the FA Cup, but also the low ebb and Nirvana after years of struggle and accumulation, this team has become a conspicuous business card for Chongqing today.
If such a team full of history is “abandoned”, it will be a huge regret and loss not only for Chongqing but also for the whole Chinese football.
What the football management department needs to do most at present is to speed up the pace of equity reform, solve the economic problems of the team as soon as possible, and let the players who insist on paying and the fans who support for a long time be assured.