All-round Athlete

Chapter 730 We Want Dollars

Coach Zhou is not the first to ask for money from Zhang Guan, and he will definitely not be the last.

The so-called geese have plucked their feathers. Not long ago, when Zhang Guan just returned to China, he enjoyed the warmest welcome. Of course, there were hands stretched out to ask for money. Hope to get some money out of Zhang Guan's pocket.

The $500 million bet has already been known all over the world. Everyone knows that Zhang Guan has just made $500 million from the Maria family. Naturally, too many people want to share with such a large number. Soup, even if it is the swill filtered out from the leftovers, it is good to scoop up a little bit. Besides, this is 500 million U.S. dollars, just like the meals of the emperor's house in the Forbidden City, even the leftover swill, is much better than the big meals of ordinary people's houses.

Now Zhang Guan is like a poor boy who suddenly won the first prize in the lottery. Relatives flock here, no matter they are frequent or not seen for a long time, they put up smiling faces one after another, hoping to "borrow" a little, of course This so-called "borrow" is naturally borrowed but not repaid.

And this situation is very troublesome. If you don’t use it, you will offend people. People say that you have won such a big prize and have so much money. Anyway, you can’t spend it all by yourself. So what if you spend it for you? If it is borrowing, there is trouble. The seventh aunt thinks that she should borrow more than the eighth aunt, and the eighth aunt thinks that she should borrow more than the third aunt. The third aunt said why you give the seventh aunt and eight aunt 30,000. Instead, it became 20,000? A bowl of water is not fair, and lending money to others has become an offense to others. Those who have benefited will not be grateful, and maybe they will dislike you for giving too little behind their backs.

Of course the situation is better now because money is worthless. I won the first prize in the lottery, and I'm afraid I can't even buy a decent house in a first-tier city, and I have an excuse to send my relatives away.

Such as the Athletics Association, the Tennis Association, etc., of course they will not really "borrow money". They even save the word "borrow", and they can directly use the four words "development fund" to deal with Zhang Guan. Take it out and give Zhang Guan a receipt, which can be regarded as Zhang Guan's contribution to the development of sports.

This is the so-called "repayment money".

Under the domestic system, the country trains you. When you make a lot of money, you should take out part of the "repayment money". This money can't be saved if you want to. If you save it, it is tantamount to confronting the entire system. .

Besides, Zhang Guan didn't plan to save this money, some money should be spent, the difference is just that he spent more and less.

Zhang Guan is not short of money, 500 million U.S. dollars cannot be spent in several lifetimes. There is an idiom called nine cows and one hair. If you compare it with this idiom, Zhang Guan is the kind of yak that is full of hair. Even if a handful of hair is pulled off, at most it will be bald and ugly, nothing substantial. The damage came back in a few days. Besides, Zhang Guan has been an athlete for so long, enjoys the convenience provided by the national team, and accepts the training of the national team. It is a lie to say that he has no relationship with the national team. The leaders of the national team are also good to themselves. If Zhang Guan doesn't give up anything, he will really be sorry for the country's training.

On the other hand, the development of domestic sports really needs money. As Coach Zhou said, after the Beijing Olympic Games, the funds for various projects have been reduced. Some commercialized projects, such as basketball and football, can still thrive without state funding, but the vast majority of Olympic projects have left Without the state's appropriation, development will stagnate, and even gradually fall behind. As for non-Olympic events, it is even worse.

For example, the provincial team that Zhang Guan originally belonged to, because of the training of athletes like Zhang Guan, can receive more funding from the superior every year than other teams. They can get a lot of advertising revenue, so their lives are relatively easier. They can build their own vegetable planting bases and animal husbandry bases, and the coaches' benefits are not bad. But other provincial teams didn't have so much "extra money", and after the cuts in funding, they could only start to live a hard life.

Facing Coach Zhou, the "relative" who played the autumn wind, Zhang Guan put down his chopsticks and said, "How much money is there in the team?"

"It must be about seven or eight million!" Coach Zhou looked at Zhang Guan eagerly while talking.

At the dinner table, everyone else stopped their chopsticks and looked at Zhang Guan. But Zhang Guan nodded silently, as if he was lost in thought.

Several people next to each other exchanged glances, with different expressions and different thoughts.

"Zhang Guan earns so much money a year, it shouldn't be a problem to give us seven or eight million."

"I think it's too much! It's pretty good to have five million."

"Zhang Guan probably won't give a point. After all, he came out of the team. If he doesn't give a point, it's a bit unreasonable."

Zhang Guan looked around, as if the invigilator was examining the candidates, looking at the serious and nervous faces, Zhang Guan suddenly smiled and asked, "Is seven or eight million enough?" ?”

"Ah?" Coach Zhou was stunned this time.

"I personally donated 10 million development funds to the team." Zhang Guan continued: "Come up to a whole number."

"Ten million!" Everyone looked at Zhang Guan in a different way. The next moment, Coach Zhou waved the serving chopsticks more eagerly, filling Zhang Guan's plate to the brim in a blink of an eye.

For a person, 10 million is a lot, enough for a person to be a little rich for a lifetime; but for a provincial track and field team, 10 million is not much.

Athletics has enough small events, 100 meters, 200 meters, 400 meters, 800 meters, 1500 meters, 5000 meters, 10000 meters, marathon, 110 meters hurdles, 400 meters hurdles, 3000 meters obstacles, race walking, high jump, pole vault , long jump, triple jump, shot put, discus, hammer throw, javelin, and decathlon, there must be at least eight to ten athletes for each small event, and more than a dozen athletes, more than 20 events There are two to three hundred athletes alone.

This is only for the men's events. Although the women's events are different, the hurdles are the 100-meter hurdles all-around and the heptathlon, but the number of athletes is only a lot more. There are so many men's and women's teams. If 10 million According to the head-to-head split, each athlete will have less than 20,000 yuan in funding.

What can the extra 20,000 yuan be used for? If they were all bought as beef, it would not be enough for an athlete to eat for a year. Sixty yuan a catty of cooked beef, a strong young man can easily eat two catties for a meal, athletes eat more, assuming that one day eats one hundred yuan of beef, one thousand in ten days, ten thousand in one hundred days, It will be gone in two hundred days. As a matter of fact, the vast majority of athletes in the country cannot eat beef every day. The nutritionally balanced meals provided by the cafeteria are still mainly starch and vitamins. To put it bluntly, it is steamed buns and rice with vegetables. Meat is in limited supply .

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The so-called talk about money hurts feelings, that is, the number of talks is not enough. Zhang Guan's 10 million was thrown out, and he instantly reaped the strong affection of the provincial track and field team, and the following dinner became extremely enjoyable.

A few days later, Zhang Guan, who turned into a money-scattering boy and scattered tens of millions of banknotes, finally finished off all his "relatives". At this time, some unknown people came to the door again.

Standing in front of Zhang Guan was a middle-aged man in his forties, with a thin body and silver-framed eyes, he looked quite capable.

"Hello, I'm Chen Dong, the deputy secretary-general of the Snow Association." The middle-aged man smiled and held out his hand.

"Secretary-General Chen, hello." Although Zhang Guan was vaguely puzzled, he was able to guess the intention of the other party's visit. He has never had anything to do with the ski association, and the other party hastily approached him, and most likely they came to ask for money.

"Secretary Chen, why do you want me?" Zhang Guanming asked knowingly.

"To be honest, I came to you this time because I hope you can donate a development fund to our Snow Association as a training fund for our Snow Association." Chen Dong cut to the chase. He spoke with a Northeast accent, He directly stated his intentions.

Zhang Guan nodded. A few days ago, tens of millions of dollars were distributed, which can be regarded as a solid foundation for his title of "Spreading Wealth Boy". Especially after donating 10 million to the provincial track and field team, other provinces also sent people over , looking for donations from Zhang Guan. Of course, some of them took Zhang Guan as a fool, but most of them really needed funds.

In fact, those who engage in domestic sports know each other well. Which provincial team has a good life and which provincial team has a hard life. Give more and give less, everyone knows.

For those who are really short of money, Zhang Guan will give some donations appropriately, and for those who are looking for "take advantage of", Zhang Guan will always give 100,000 to 200,000 yuan. Some people come looking for me, travel expenses and accommodation cost money, it is not always good to let them go back empty-handed. Moreover, the people who came to Zhang Guan were not the kind of unknown people, and they all had some positions, so even if they came to find the "big boss", Zhang Guan would give him a little bit, so that the other party could live with face.

Those who can get into the position are not fools. The two sides didn't know each other originally. Zhang Guan was willing to give 100,000 to 200,000 as a way of selling face, and they would not continue to force themselves to be boring.

It's just that most of the people who came before were sports associations related to Zhang Guan, such as the ski association, who had nothing to do with Zhang Guan, and this was the first one.

"Secretary-General Chen, you should go to the Winter Sports Management Center for funding, right? Or the general manager, how did you find me?" Zhang Guan looked at Chen Dong with interest.

Chen Dong grinned dryly, but the smile seemed quite awkward, and then he said, "I don't know how much you know about winter sports, so let me introduce you first! Simply put, winter sports are snow and ice. , and in terms of winter sports management, we have a winter sports center. There are four associations under the center, the Skating Association, the Ice Hockey Association, the Curling Association and our ski association. So in terms of funds, the center also distributes to our four associations Yes. Among them, the Skating Association and our funds are more than the Curling Association and the Ice Hockey Association, mainly because the ice hockey and curling competitions are relatively simple, so the training costs will be less.”

Chen Dong paused, then continued: "We have many events with the Skating Association. Skating mainly includes speed skating, short track speed skating, figure skating and skeleton, and these are also carried out in the venue. And Our ski programs include alpine skiing, cross-country skiing, snowboarding, ski jumping, freestyle skiing, bobsleigh, luge, biathlon, Nordic combined..."

"I see. You mean that you have many projects, so you lack funds?" Zhang Guan interrupted Chen Dong. Chen Dong introduced a circle of projects, but Zhang Guan didn't remember a few.

"There is more knowledge about the project. All our projects are carried out outdoors. The venue is too expensive. Ice projects only need to have an ice rink, even if the air conditioner is turned on all year round, it is at most enough. They can still train in summer with some electricity bills, but we can’t! We need to find a place with snow, a formal ski resort, and a relatively large field.” Chen Dong said.

Zhang Guan nodded. Skiing does require a much larger venue than ice skating, and it is also more difficult to maintain. For an ice skating rink, turn on the refrigerator and drive a special machine around to create a qualified ice surface. However, ski resorts not only have requirements for the terrain, but also have requirements for the thickness and quality of the snow. In terms of cost, ski resorts are definitely more expensive than ice skating.

I saw Chen Dong smiled embarrassedly, and then said: "I am ashamed to say it, but we have not achieved any achievements in skiing these years, and in terms of skating, figure skating and short track speed skating are all at the international level. In terms of funds, the Winter Sports Center is more inclined to allocate funds to the Ice Association. There is only so much funds in total. If you give more to the Ice Association, you will give us less. We can only raise money by ourselves. To be honest, our life is very tense now. Originally, our training base in the Northeast has only kept two hillsides, and the rest are open to tourists. Tickets are charged to supplement our training. expenses."

Seeing that Zhang Guan listened very seriously, Chen Dong gave a detailed introduction, or he was telling how difficult skiing is.

"I heard that after you returned to China, you donated a special development fund to the Athletics Association. Later, I heard that some provincial sports bureaus also received donations from you, so I came to give it a try. Xiang never asked you for alms, Let's see if you can also donate a little to our association, at least to keep our athletes from interrupting their normal training... I really had no other choice, so I came to you." Chen Dong said honestly.

Looking at Chen Dong's slightly embarrassed but expectant eyes, Zhang Guan asked involuntarily, "How much is your funding gap?"

Chen Dong stretched out two fingers, and said at the same time: "Two million, we need two million."

Zhang Guan nodded silently, two million is not too much for him who is rich and powerful. Considering that the other party is a national organization, the funding of two million is not much. The provincial team all took 10 million from Zhang Guan, and the National Snow Association only needed 2 million. Zhang Guan even felt a little out of hand.

"It seems that the Snow Association is really difficult. But thinking about it, I have the impression that the women's short track speed skating of the national team is very good, but compared with it, skiing has never had any results, maybe* ***** It's been too long. If two million can help them tide over the difficulties, the money will not be a loss."

Thinking of this, Zhang Guan said, "Secretary-General Chen, it sounds like skiing in our country is really difficult. If what you said is true, I would like to sponsor 2 million as a special fund for skiing."

"Thank you, thank you so much!" Chen Dong seemed very excited, and then he seemed to suddenly remember a very important matter, and immediately became embarrassed again, as if hesitating to speak.

"Secretary Chen, what's wrong with you?" Zhang Guan asked.

"I forgot to mention just now, the two million I mentioned is US dollars!" Chen Dong then added: "We need US dollars!"