This tournament is a continuation of Shanghai Marlboro Cup International Championship, which was founded in 199 1. Now it is the eighth time, and the sponsor has been changed to Shanghai Huili Group, one of the shareholders of COSCO Huili Team. This fact can explain the desire of COSCO Huili team to challenge Shenhua's unique football authority in Shanghai beach.
COSCO has challenged Shenhua.
In fact, when the COSCO Huili team was just established, Xu Zexian, the chairman of the club, told reporters that he hoped to organize a competition between COSCO and Shenhua. "We can pay 2 million yuan to hold this competition." However, after hearing this news, Shenhua showed pride as the "boss". "We won't hit them"-a person in charge of Shenhua Club said. The day before yesterday, at the lottery ceremony of Huili Cup, when the representatives of Shenhua Club and COSCO Huili Club successively drew their teams into Group B, this head-on contest was inevitable.
Cosco Huili comes from a well-known family, with Cosco Group, one of the largest state-owned enterprises in China, behind it. The goal of the club is to become the top level in Asia. Therefore, although Shenhua has a position of less than one person and more than 10,000 people in domestic football, they are considered by COSCO Huili to be able to surpass it soon. In the past seven years, A-B clubs in Shanghai have been unable to compete with A, and their market influence has been limited to a very small corner. Its strength and determination exceed that of any A-B club in the past, and it is also determined to seize a certain share in this market. Competition between the two sides in market development, industry management and team performance is inevitable.
Competing for talents in the ball market
In fact, COSCO, which has just been born, and Shenhua, which has a history of seven years, have already quietly started the battle for the ball market and reserve talents. Although Shenhua's home tickets sold at a high price of 6.5438+million yuan, the home game market has been unsatisfactory. COSCO Huili's home attendance rate reached almost 40,000 this year, significantly exceeding Shenhua's average of less than 30,000 per game. Yangpu Wanshen Youth Team, once abandoned by Shenhua, finally joined COSCO Huili. The two companies are also fighting over the acquisition of Shanghai Cable 02 Youth Team. It is understood that COSCO Huili once wanted to set its home in hongkou football stadium to challenge Shenhua's authority face to face, but Shenhua was a shareholder in hongkou football stadium and failed to implement it.
In order to compete for Shenhua fans, COSCO Huili has made a lot of efforts, and they are confident enough to beat Shenhua in the ball market when the team plays A next year. Facing the aggressive attitude of "little brother", Shenhua didn't take it seriously. They believe that the foundation and team strength accumulated in seven years are there, and they should be confident to meet any challenge.
Now, the challenge is coming. On September 7th, cosco Huili team and Shenhua team will hold a "Derby War Preview" which is concerned by fans all over the country. In the past, Shanghai once hosted a city-wide football championship, but at that time, the two teams, Pudong and Yuyuan, were obviously not rivals of Shenhua. However, the overall strength of COSCO Huili team has been greatly improved this year. In addition, Xu Genbao, the head coach who led Shenhua to win the league championship, was in command, and Shenhua was short of three international players, so the result of the game was really hard to say.
"We will definitely do better than Shenhua!" This is what a person in charge of COSCO Huili Club has said many times. Shenhua has not paid enough attention to this game and the upcoming game. Perhaps this game can make Shenhua Club really alert, and also make the battle of brothers in the same city that Shanghai football will present next year more intense.