The Legendary Chairman Novel - Chapter 1168
1168 Isabella’s Ambition Is Not Small
In his previous life, when Zhong Cheng met this person, he was already at the end of his career.
It was after their World Cup defeat to Lippi’s Guangdong Evergrande that the Al-Ahli veteran was retired at the age of 35 by players regarded as gods by fans in Egypt and the Arab region.
However, in that match, Abu Trika still left a deep impression on Zhong Cheng.
In Zhong Cheng’s opinion, he could still play for another two years. His body and skills could sustain his career, but he still chose to retire.
The player has attracted admiration from Robben, Zidane and others.
Arjen Robben’s Bayern Munich side played Al Ahli in a warm-up match and Abu Trika left a deep impression on him.
Robben commented: “Ahli’s number 22 surprised me. He even mistook me for Zinedine Zinedine Zidane. His skill is amazing. The only difference is that Zinedine Zidane is faster.” Despite that, he was outstanding, he was able to ignite the passion of Ahli’s team when he was on the pitch and he caused too much trouble for our defence.
It could be seen that Abu Trika surprised Robben. It was a pity that such a player did not play in Europe.
When Abu Trika retired, Zidane wrote to encourage him.
Yes, Abu Trika and Zidane have a very good relationship in private. Zidane once said: “It’s an honor that my name is associated with yours in this way. History will never forget a legend like you.”
Yes, Abu Trica is known as “Zidane Egypt”, “Zidane Africa”, “Zidane Arabia” and so on. This was truly a player with extraordinary strength!
Now, Abu Trika is 31 years old.
He was no stranger to many scouts in European football. Many scouts had found him long ago, but none of them had been able to bring him to European football.
Now that he is 31, he is no longer young and no European clubs will be interested in him.
If he were five or six years younger, there would definitely be a lot of European clubs that wanted to bring him to Europe. Unfortunately, he is now an old demon player.
Such a legendary player was later labeled an anti-government terrorist by the Egyptian government. They believed he had an affair with the Muslim Brotherhood, a terrorist organization mandated by the Egyptian government, froze all his funds and passports, and even banned him from traveling abroad!
I really didn’t expect such a god-like player to end up like this!
Back then, when he knew about this matter, Zhong Cheng also sighed endlessly.
Who would have thought that Zhong Cheng would actually hear about Abu Trica now? Zhong Cheng truly felt that it was very strange. He never expected that he would be able to establish a relationship with Abu Trica again after reviving his life. He was quite fated to do so.
Of course, Zhong Cheng still did not have any plans to go to South Africa. In his previous life, he did not have much anxiety with Abu Trika. It was just that when the two teams were fighting, he stood on the sidelines and saw and understood this person.
To tell the truth, Zhong Cheng still felt a little regretful for Abu Trica.
He was supposed to go to Europe, but unfortunately, his entire career was devoted to African football!
What would happen to him if he went out to Europe when he was young?
At this time, the European media naturally did not use too much ink on a 31-year-old veteran. Everyone’s ink was on his national team mate and another player known as Zidane.
The name of the player is Zidane, the same as Zidane’s name, so it is called “Egypt Zidane”.
The striker, who is now in the Bundesliga at Dortmund, was impressive in last year’s African Cup and scored two goals against Brazil in the Confederations Cup this year.
The 28-year-old striker is in his prime and is on the verge of reaching his peak. He is naturally receiving more media attention, and many media outlets are even operating, saying that Bundesliga’s Bayern Munich are preparing to bring in the Egyptian striker this summer.
Of course, Zhong Cheng was not optimistic about Qi Dan.
Whether it was at Werder Bremen, Hamburg or Dodmond, this fellow had never proven himself. His scoring efficiency was very low, but his speed was indeed very fast.
Zhong Cheng did not need such a player.
Zhong Cheng then flew directly to China with Julia Oliveira and Isabella George, following the news of the Confederations Cup.
In the first group, the Spanish national team was very strong, winning nine points in three matches and winning the first place in the group. Host South Africa was second in the group with four points, one win, one draw and one loss. The two teams went straight to the knockout stage and were also in the semi-finals.
The situation in the second group was extremely complicated, to the point of burning the brain.
The Brazilian national team won all three matches and won the first place in the group, directly advancing to the semi-finals. The competition for the second place in this group was extremely intense, because the remaining Egypt, Italy and the United States had the same results. They all had one win, two losses, and three points. The relationship between victory and defeat was also set. Fortunately, the United States had more net wins, so the United States team was considered lucky and directly broke out of the encirclement.
The second group was Brazil and the United States.
The 2009 Confederations Cup semi-final was Spain versus the United States and Brazil versus host South Africa.
Zhong Cheng had already arrived in China when the match came out.
In fact, Zhong Cheng had planned to return home this time. Because he had very important matters to attend to, he didn’t even go to the Confederation Cup this time.
Zhong Cheng’s return this time was mainly to solve the problem of the coal mine in his hands.
The reason for that was because the country was currently working on a very famous “coal mine consolidation” plan. In fact, the “coal mine consolidation” plan had already begun in the country since last year.
Last year, the shanxi government issued a document demanding that mergers and restructuring of coal mining enterprises be accelerated and that by 2010, the number of coal mines in the country be reduced to 1,500.
What is the main reason for this coal mine consolidation?
In fact, it was because China’s resources were owned by the whole people, and because back then, when China was still in the primary stage of development, there was a shortage of electricity in the country. Coal mines were not enough, so the state released a portion of the coal mining rights, allowing more private people to obtain the coal mining rights, resulting in the so-called “privatization of coal mines.”
This was a loophole in the system back then and a special method created under special circumstances.
In recent years, the incident of coal owners in China had frequently appeared in front of the public, causing countless people to feel dissatisfied. After all, China’s coal resources belonged to the whole people. Why had they become the private property of these coal owners now?
Moreover, the country had long since realized this loophole that had been left out. They had long ago begun to try to fix it and regain the mining rights.
So, a few years ago, this privately owned coal mining licensing country was already issuing, or even recycling.
This so-called coal mine consolidation is actually the closure of private small coal mines, medium-sized coal mines for technical transformation, and then sold to seven large state-owned coal mining enterprises in accordance with the standards of the national team.
In fact, this is “the country into the people out”, the state to take back the right to private coal mining.
This matter was quite big for Zhong Cheng. After all, he had a very large coal mining enterprise under him. Jinxi is now one of the first provinces to carry out coal mine consolidation. Now, it is going very fast. Since last year, many small private coal mining enterprises have been forced to shut down.
To be honest, there is no problem for the state to take back the mining rights of private coal mines. This thing really belongs to the whole people and the state, so it is normal for the state to take it back.
And there are many benefits, such as reducing the safety hazards, because many private coal mining enterprises have a lot of hidden dangers, these private small coal mines are really unprofessional, frequent accidents.
Also, it can improve the efficiency of production. After all, the team is more professional and the equipment is more advanced. These are things that private small coal mines can’t do. The efficiency will definitely be greatly improved. There is also the ability to reduce the flow of taxes and so on.
Now that the country was buying up coal mining enterprises, Zhong Cheng had to go back to deal with this matter.
Zhong Cheng was in favor of the national integration of this coal mining enterprise. After all, this was originally the national team, the whole people. Zhong Cheng is now going back to discuss with Mr. Pan An to sell the coal mine enterprise to the state as soon as possible and return it to the state.
Because of Zhong Cheng, Jinxi did not immediately consolidate Zhong Cheng’s coal mining enterprises. But Zhong Cheng won’t make things difficult for the country, and it’s not just coal miners that he owns now.
After Zhong Cheng returned to China, he immediately came to Pan An to discuss the matter with him.
The two of them reached an unanimous decision on this matter, that is, they would accept the merger and sell Zhongcheng Coal Mine to Jinxi Coking Coal Group.
Zhong Cheng had left this matter entirely to Pan An to deal with, but Zhong Cheng had not come into contact with this matter in detail.
After solving the problem of the coal mine enterprise, Zhong Cheng went directly to the capital.
After Zhong Cheng arrived in the capital, he naturally went to his own “Zhong Cheng Film Industry”. Now, Zhong Cheng was very concerned about the film and television industry. In the future, Zhong Cheng and the others would pay more attention to this area, because in the future, this was the main trend.
In the future, the entertainment industry is really very rich. You can’t say that you’ve made a good movie. A movie that invests tens of millions of dollars will earn billions at the box office.
Zhong followed Isabella George to visit Zhong Cheng Pictures.
It’s worth mentioning that “Zhong Cheng Pictures” is on the verge of becoming a leading company under Isabella George’s management. Their company has just taken a small piece of land in the capital and is preparing to build their own club’s headquarters building.
Yes, now Isabella George is looking for great architects all over the world to design the future headquarters of Zhong Cheng Pictures. She wants to make this a landmark building in the capital.
To be honest, Isabella George is really ambitious.
However, Zhong Cheng was very supportive of Isabella George. This was a good thing. He was happy to see that Isabella George had such fighting spirit.
Now Zhong Cheng was following Isabella George around every department. To tell the truth, Zhong Cheng was really unfamiliar with this place. He was really too incompetent as chairman of the board of directors.