1BSPORTS 1B Sports June 13th CCTV Sports in-depth planning series of reports “Dialogue with Chinese Football”, the second episode “Survival”, listen to Chinese footballers telling about their living environment. In an interview with CCTV, Guo Guangqi, general manager of Yunnan Yukun, said that it is impossible to use capital to operate professional football in China.
Guo Guangqi said: “What is professional football and even professional sports? This is the key to where money comes from. If we don’t see this platform clearly, we want to use capital to operate professional football, I think it is impossible in China. But as a publicity platform, if it is built as a local business card, we should have great potential.
The local government also gave us good support. In the China League Two, there were only 13,000 people at home. In order to meet the market demand, the Yuxi Municipal Government has also invested funds to increase the stadium from 13,000 to 25,000. The ticket sales range from being able to sell 10,000 tickets to now we can sell 20,000 tickets. These are some attempts in the market.
We have really gone too fast. In the past three years, we have taken too big and walked too fast. The biggest challenge for the club in the next work is actually the issue of laying a solid foundation.”