Chinese champion

Chapter 119 The First Advertisement

At the end of the game, Mallorca fell into a jubilation, but Manzano was at peace. He knew that his first coaching experience was over.

He stood up, and calmly comforted the Racing Santander players one by one. Finally, he held Ismail in his arms and comforted him softly for a long time——Ismail, who was most attached to him, was already crying I was speechless.

Aragones did not join the celebrating Mallorca players on the field, but looked at him with interest not far from Manzano.

It wasn't until Ismail, who had calmed down a little, was handed over to the assistant coach, that Manzano raised his head and met Aragones' eyes.

Aragones approached Manzano and held out his hand: "Hello."

Manzano shook his hand: "Hello, I lost today, you have a group of very good players!"

Aragones raised his eyebrows: "If you want, you can have them too!"

Manzano smiled, he naturally understood what Aragones meant.

Aragones, who has been in La Liga for many years and has become a master, can see his situation, but after thinking about it for a while, Manzano still shook his head:

"I'm sorry, I don't want to go to your place right now...I need to take a break and sort out my experience in the past six months. I appreciate your kindness."

Aragones nodded regretfully: "OK, you are right to think so, unfortunately, if you help me, I think I will be much more relaxed, I hope there will be opportunities in the future."

"There will definitely be a chance."

After Manzano said this, he let go of the hand he had been holding tightly with Aragones, and then turned and left the court.

At the post-match press conference, all the reporters concentrated on asking questions to the three representatives of the visiting team: Aragones, Nadal and Pei Wei, but left the coach of the home team, Manzano, aside. The best explanation for the idiom "defeated bandits".

When someone asked Aragones: "What is the purpose of that gesture you made after conceding the ball in the first half?"

Aragones smiled and said nothing, and the reporter turned to Pei Wei without getting an answer: "Then how did you feel when you saw the coach make such a gesture?"

Pei Wei looked at Aragones with a smile, and Aragones nodded lightly. Then Pei Wei said: "Actually, this is a secret sign that the coach agreed with us before the game, which means let's take it back." , and there is no special meaning in it.”

The reporters present all laughed, admiring Aragones' wisdom.

The press conference was over, and when all the reporters were happy for tomorrow's report, they ignored another piece of news. The head coach of Racing Santander, Manzano, officially resigned as the head coach at the press conference. On the second day, Racing Club Santander announced that the former assistant coach Massaro was temporarily acting as coach.

Back in Mallorca, the entire Mallorca team was welcomed by the citizens of Mallorca. They were all happy for the club to break the 42-year-old record.

And Mallorca breathed a sigh of relief, from the players to the coach. They couldn't relax at all in the past two months, which really made them a little unbearable. The pressure of breaking records is not so easy to bear.

After the seven-game winning streak, Mallorca's ranking has risen a lot like a rocket, from the bottom of the first three rounds to the third place in the La Liga rankings. The top two are Real Sociedad and Real madrid.

This season's La Liga can be described as a dark horse rampage. In addition to being a blockbuster from the very beginning, Real Sociedad has been unbeaten in ten consecutive rounds and has eight wins and two draws. Lorca, Atletico Madrid and Sevilla are three small and medium teams.

The rise of new forces corresponds to the sinking of old teams. Barcelona only ranks ninth, while Valencia and Deportivo, two veteran teams, only rank sixth and tenth. The traditional semi-finals of La Liga Among them, only Real Madrid is still supporting the banner of a strong team. Ball critics have lamented that La Liga has entered the Warring States Period where heroes compete for hegemony.

Under the eyes of the whole of Spain, Mallorca's winning streak finally stopped. On November 11, Mallorca hit the ball on the post three times when they had the advantage at home. Villarreal counterattacked in the No.24 second minute, and "Madman" Palermo volleyed successfully.

This is already the fourth goal Palermo scored for Mallorca in the last three encounters. However, Mallorca won one and drew one in the first two games. Palermo's goal only brought Villarreal one cent.

This time was no exception. Five minutes into the second half, Eto'o finally equalized the score with two consecutive shots after receiving a header from Delgado.

Then Mallorca launched a tidal attack, but it is undeniable that their luck seemed to run out in the seven-game winning streak. After hitting the post three more times in the second half, Mallorca reluctantly accepted that the home court was forced In spite of the fact that they are tied, their winning streak only ends at seven games.

Three days later, Mallorca went to England to challenge the most powerful opponent they have encountered so far in the UEFA Cup, the Premier League's "Young Guard" Leeds United.

Relying on high spirits as they drew 0-0 away at Leeds United and then trekked back to Spain for a trip to Deportivo, this fatigued side proved their seven-match winning streak was no fluke amidst adversity. Well, in the case of Ma Kai scoring first, Pei Wei's two assists helped Eto'o and Delgado each score a goal. Mallorca will overtake the score. If not, Mallorca can even retreat from the Riazzo Stadium (Deportivo's home court).

The Mallorca team with two consecutive draws is still ranked third, because Atletico Madrid has begun to show signs of decline, scoring only one point in the last two games, and Mallorca has stabilized its No.3 position.

After the game against Deportivo, Mallorca's players finally got a rest time, and Liu Qinglin also brought good news to Pei Wei. Sports brand "Nike" and Pei Wei signed a four-year advertising contract worth 300 million euros, which is also Pei Wei's first income outside of football.

On December 12, accompanied by Liu Qinglin, Pei Wei attended the press conference for signing with Nike.

When the reporter asked why he chose Nike instead of Adidas, Pei Wei smiled slightly and said humorously: "I'm sorry, I didn't figure out this question, because all this was done by my agent, and I also asked Pass him, guess what he said?"

All the reporters in the audience stretched out their ears and listened. Pei Wei continued, imitating Liu Qinglin's tone vividly: "Who wants you to play football without working hard? What can I do if Nike finds you?"

The reporters burst into laughter, and the press conference ended in a happy atmosphere.

"Tomorrow you are going to participate in the shooting of an advertisement, and the location is in Barcelona, ​​Spain. There shouldn't be any problem, right?" Liu Qinglin said to Pei Wei after the press conference.

"Isn't it?" Pei Wei was a little surprised: "There was an advertisement shooting just after signing the contract? It's not so fast, is it?"

"Haha!" Liu Qinglin laughed, "You're lucky, Nike just happened to be preparing an advertisement, which gathered nearly ten world football superstars, and there was a shortage of someone who could open up the Chinese market, so you just signed a contract with them." Yue, who can I find if I don’t want you?”

"Oh." Pei Wei suddenly realized, and then he became worried: "Advertisement? I've never shot it...won't it blow up?"

"Don't worry." Liu Qinglin said: "Football players' commercials are usually just playing your old job, just do some fancy moves. I've read the script and it's interesting. Also, you signed it After this advertisement, I finally have income, otherwise I will go bankrupt!" Liu Qinglin looked aggrieved.

"Hahaha!" Pei Wei laughed loudly. He knew that he, Zhu Jun, and others did not get any benefits from the transfer of Liu Qinglin, and before they transferred, Liu Qinglin could not collect commissions from them. It can also be said that this It's a long-term investment.

It was not until the shooting scene that Pei Wei understood what Liu Qinglin meant by "interesting".

The shooting site of the commercial is a skyscraper, and the whole script is similar to the Hollywood blockbuster "The Trap", in which a group of players with unique skills want to steal a football from this heavily guarded building, and then kill it in the guarded robot. The whole process of escaping from the building is very thrilling.

The cast is very strong, all of them are international players, including Spanish international, former Barcelona spiritual leader Pep Guardiola, Portuguese international Luis Figo, French international Thuram, former German international Bierhoff, Netherlands International footballer Davis, Italian national footballer Totti, England international footballer Andy Cole and Japanese international footballer Nakata Hidetoshi and so on.

After a reminder from the director, Pei Wei finally understood what he was going to do.

In fact, the whole process is very simple. First of all, their group of stars first came downstairs in a large truck, and then the coach they led—that is, the world-class coach, the Dutch coach of Barcelona Van Gaal showed them A photo of the target of their operation - a football with the Nike logo.

Davis asked: "It's just a ball."

"No!" Van Gaal said with a serious expression, "It's more round!"

More than a dozen big-name football stars all made surprised expressions. Pei Wei sat at the end and almost burst out laughing when he heard this sentence. Fortunately, he was not included in the photo, otherwise it would have to be re-shot.

The next thing was simple, the thieves took out their own equipment one after another: a pair of Nike sneakers and a Nike football.

With the help of the straps on the football, the thieves with extraordinary skills climbed to the highest floor of the building like Spiderman - of course, the real climbers on the wall are professional stuntmen under Nike.

In a vast hall, a football is placed alone on a pillar in the middle of the hall like a rare treasure. Davis, who ran first, put on his world-famous glasses and found the seemingly empty hall There are countless infrared warnings in the middle.

Davis winked at Thuram who was coming back, and Thuram nodded knowingly, and then shook the pillar with a beautiful falling shovel, the ball fell down, and then Thuram used With a light pad of the foot, the ball flew to Davis.

When Davis stopped the ball beautifully, he couldn't die, his long hair as famous as his glasses touched an infrared ray, and the alarm bells rang throughout the hall, and countless robot guards came from all directions .

Then the stars started a chase with the robot in the building. The stars kept using their football skills to get rid of the opponent's pursuit, and finally sent the ball out of the building.

There is only one shot of Pei Wei in this ad, that is in a corridor, when Guardiola passes the ball to him, he uses his trick "cloud mountain mist cover" to pick the ball over the opponent's head, and then the ball goes far away Pass it far to the next teammate.

Even so, Pei Wei crashed once because he was a little nervous. When he took the first shot, he didn't raise the arc of the ball so high that the ball happened to be on the opponent's head. It was not until the second shot.

He is not very familiar with other players, only Figo and him have played against each other, and in the next round, Mallorca's opponent happens to be Real Madrid, so during the filming interval, Pei Wei had a brief conversation with the number one Portuguese star A few words.

"I'm going to play against you again this weekend, I'm really happy!" Pei Wei said.

There was a slight smile on the stern face of the Portuguese. He has always had a good impression of the Chinese, which may be because he has a stepbrother of Chinese descent: "I am also very happy, but the bald French man is probably the happiest. You were injured in the second round of last season's confrontation, he was very sorry, I hope we can play a high-level game this time!"

The conversation ended quickly, as filming was about to start again, and the two said their goodbyes and got back into filming.

What they didn't expect was that after a few years, when they met again, they had already become teammates of the same team, which of course was not mentioned later.

The day passed quickly, and the filming ended smoothly. All the stars left here one after another, and returned to their clubs to prepare for the game.

Pei Wei also returned to Mallorca, he is still excited about his first commercial in his life.

"Shooting commercials is actually quite interesting."

Half a month later, this ad was first broadcast in Europe. Although Pei Wei only had one shot, it still made this ad very popular in China.

What Nike executives did not expect was that it was because of such an ordinary advertisement that their old rival Adidas recruited a large number of world-class stars such as Zidane, Beckham, Ballack and Vieira as spokespersons. At that time, it was not at a disadvantage, and the sports brand in the Chinese market has almost become the world of Nike.

In any case, Pei Wei's first commercial is memorable.

(End of this chapter)