Lv Zheng social media screenshots.
China News Network client Beijing, May 30 (Xing Rui) A few days ago, Lu Zheng, a football player who played for Shandong Luneng and Shanghai Shenhua, announced his retirement on personal social media. What surprised the people who eat melons is that he left the field not because of injury or age, but because the club Beijing Beiti Sports Club has been owed for 5 months and the team general manager also "insulted his career." ".
Lu Zheng ’s real-name reported Beijing University Sports Club currently belongs to the Chinese League. It is worth mentioning that on February 4 this year, the Chinese Football Association has announced the full payment of the salary bonus of the coaches, athletes and staff in the 2019 China A, China B and China Crown League. One of the notes of the Beijing Sports University Club on January 15 wrote:
"Our club has fully distributed all wages and game bonuses of players Lu Zheng, Nie Tao, and Liang Xueming in 2019, and has bankrolls for the payment of wages and bonuses as evidence, which can be verified and there is no arrears."
In the salary and bonus confirmation form announced by the Football Association, the statement issued by the Beijing Sports University Club.
In Lu Zheng ’s personal statement, he rebutted the club ’s claim that “there is no arrears”, pointing directly to the club ’s fraud on the wage confirmation form: “The head of the Beijing Sports University Football Club disregards the law and The Football Association stipulates that fraudulent activities, deception of the Football Association, the news media and the masses, forgery of the salary and bonus confirmation form to the Football Association, and submission of false and untrue wage payment documents to the Football Association. "
When things developed to this point, Lv Zheng and Peking University insisted on the word, "whether the salary is paid or not" is a problem that can be seen at a glance by the bank's running water. door".
The situation of "forgery of salary and bonus confirmation form" mentioned by Lu Zheng has already been questioned by fans before. This year's Chinese team B Baoding Rongda and Chinese team A Liaozu submitted on the form, because the handwriting is the same, it is considered suspected of fraud. Looking closely at these two forms, the name of Rongda player Wang Junhao was written as "Wang Junwu", and the name of Liao football player Xu Yougang was written as "Xu Yougang".
Baoding Rongda 2019 salary bonus confirmation form.
The 2019 salary and bonus confirmation form submitted by Liaozu.
I really do n’t know if the players were careless and wrote their own names wrong, or whether these signatures were originally from others. On May 23, the Football Association issued the "Notice on Cancellation of Registration of Related Professional Football Clubs". These two clubs were disqualified for admission due to unresolved wage arrears. In this way, the fans' initial doubts seem to have been confirmed from the side.
Speaking of the issue of "wage arrears", it has already been seen in Chinese football. Looking back at history, we can easily retrieve many troubles caused by wage arrears. In 2009, there was a team in Nanjing that was deducted by FIFA for 6 league points due to salary arrears. A year later, Beijing Baxi “pays the bill” for its predecessor, Beijing Hongdeng, was also deducted 6 points.
Such chaos not only happens to local players in low-level leagues, but foreign aid at the top of the pyramid sometimes also tastes like being owed wages. In 2013, Shanghai Shenhua's unpaid "Warcraft" Drogba was in full swing, and the latter appealed to FIFA in a rage. In the end, the club not only paid Drogba 12 million euros, but also affected the image of Chinese football.
For many years now, the phenomenon of arrears of wages is still prohibitive. Tianjin Tianhai, Sichuan Longfa, Shanghai Shenxin ... More and more clubs, trapped in salary problems, eventually withdrew from the history of professional football in China.
Screenshot of Meng Yongqiang's social media.
According to previous media reports, Baoding Rong Club owner Meng Yongqiang admitted that the team did owe players wages. A player even revealed to reporters that the club asked them to sign the salary confirmation form and said: "First agree to sign and then reissue (salary)." Two players who did not sign were notified to leave the team.
The Football Association requires the submission of a salary and bonus confirmation form. The original intention is to protect the interests of players and prevent the club from arrears in player salaries. In the context of the worrying situation of small and medium clubs, this form has become a tool for "kidnapping" players.
On the one hand, if the player refuses to sign, the club may face the risk of dissolution on the spot. They all said, "The monks can't run the temple." If the temples are demolished, I am afraid that the players who are owed wages will never have the opportunity to get their hard-earned money. On the other hand, if the players sign under the "coercion and lure", it will undoubtedly promote the unhealthy practices of the clubs that owe wages.
In a dilemma, the players seem to be able to "compromise" to help the club cover up the fact that the wages are owed-because, only when the team survives, they have the opportunity to recover their salary and keep their "rice bowl."
Data Map: After transferring to Shanghai Shenhua, Lv Zheng paid tribute to Shandong fans in the field. Image source: Osports All Sports Pictures
Lv Zheng's public bombardment of the Beijing University of Sports also reflects the indisputable fact that there are still shadows in the current environment of Chinese football. With the gradual ending of the "Golden Age" of Chinese football, who once thought that the players that the team once relied on eventually fell into a "weak group" with no rights protection, becoming a cannon fodder for a "money-burning game".
According to media reports, the Chinese Football Association has accepted the arbitration proposed by Lu Zheng against the Beijing Sports University Club. At present, the incident is still being processed. In the mind of the player Lu Zheng, he still hopes that the Football Association can find out the truth and be fair. As spectators, we naturally want to see that Chinese football has a pure land.
Players who have put in labor deserve the rewards they deserve. More importantly, today a professional player is owed his salary, and tomorrow there may be 100 parents leaving the greenery with their children. Ladies and gentlemen, who does n’t expect Chinese football to get better soon? (Finish)