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Chapter 6 Thirty: The sky is falling? !
The reporters also observed that when the team is training in-team, the sports equipment and training shirts used are still provided by the former sponsor Adidas.

The reporters already had drafts and planned to use this subject as the main breakthrough point to write about the Chinese team.After all, jerseys are the most indispensable part of football culture, but now China doesn't even have decent jerseys.

But the reporters had just typed up their manuscripts, and before they had time to type up and submit the articles, there was news and gossip.

It is rumored that many physical stores with the theme of the Chinese team are already selling the new jerseys of the Chinese team. Although the specific photos have not been released, it is rumored that the sponsor LOGO on the new jerseys is not the white one of Nike that has been negotiating with China. Gogou, but Puma's Thunder Leopard, and it is said that there are already Puma's stores that have already received the Chinese team's jerseys.

The reporters were dumbfounded at this moment.
On December 26, just after Boxing Day, the Chinese team held a press conference again!At the press conference, Perrin announced that the Chinese team had signed a new strategic contract with Puma Sports, a well-known German sporting goods supplier.In the next ten years, Puma will become the sponsor of the Chinese team's jerseys and sporting goods, providing [-] million yuan of financial sponsorship and equipment every year.

The news came so suddenly that no one was prepared.A few days ago, it was said that Nike was still negotiating with the national football team. It was rumored that their contract was [-] million yuan in eight years. I didn't expect a third party to step in now.

At the same time at the press conference, the staff from the Football Association also thanked the former sponsor Adidas for their cooperation over the past 35 years!

Li Zihan, Wu Lei, Zheng Zhi, goalkeeper Wang Dalei and Zeng Cheng unveiled the new jersey press conference, and at the press conference, the press officer also said that this conference was just a joint press conference between Puma Sports and the Chinese team. Teams and players have the right to refuse to answer questions other than jerseys.

Li Zihan is wearing the NO.12 home jersey, which is his club number.The color of the Chinese team's home jersey is still the main color of red, with a round neck design.There is a gold-inlaid stripe design on the collar, and then there is a gold thread on the shoulder.

On the left side of Li Zihan's jersey is the design of the team logo, on the right side is Puma's LOGO, and in the lower part of the middle is his number - NO.12!

The difference is on the side of the jersey. There is a faint image of a five-clawed golden dragon on the side. The head of this golden dragon is on the side of the chest and heart, and the tail extends all the way to the top of the ball pants.

Wu Lei is wearing a white away jersey, which also has a round neck design, but the collar and shoulders are inlaid with red instead of gold. At the same time, there is a faint impression of a five-clawed golden dragon linking the ball to the team emblem. Pants, the difference is that the color of this golden dragon is red.

The goalkeeper's jersey is similar, the only difference is that the color is different. The home goalkeeper jersey has a green theme color, and the away goalkeeper's jersey is blue.

But there is another bright spot, that is, on the back of the goalkeeper's jersey, there is a black Chinese seal script, the color is very light, and you can't really see it if you don't look carefully.

The seal character of the home jersey is "copper wall", while the away jersey is "iron wall".

It can be seen that Puma is still very careful in the design of the jersey. At least it is much better than Nike. Nike has always complained about the design of the jersey.

At the same time, smart people immediately understood that the signing of Puma and the Chinese team was definitely not a temporary idea, it must have been planned for a long time, otherwise they would not be able to go from design to sample and finally to distribution in such a short period of time. The work is done in one day.

So they must have premeditated, and at the same time, Puma gave the Chinese team a draft of the design very early.

Damn, the secrecy work is even stricter than that of the US Central Intelligence Agency.The reporters complained in their hearts.

Li Zihan was very satisfied with this jersey, and felt very relieved: John Dassler's rich second generation really did not let him down, and he had the cheek to be his lobbyist!
Not only the players of the Chinese team, but even the fans are very satisfied with this new jersey, because there are many traditional Chinese culture and symbols inside, and it looks all kinds of mighty and domineering!

In fact, the cooperation between Puma and the Chinese team was facilitated by Li Zihan. Anyway, Nike has been dragging its feet. dislike.During the period, John Dassler intentionally or unintentionally expressed the possibility of cooperation between Puma and the Chinese team to Li Zihan, and Li Zihan said to talk to the relevant person in charge.

Unexpectedly, it hit it off!

From now on, Puma has become the sponsor of the Chinese team.

The only thing fans are dissatisfied with is that Puma's popularity and international influence are not as good as Adidas and Nike.
However, the outside world has once again witnessed how good the relationship between Li Zihan and Puma is. Some media have even imagined the possibility of cooperation between Red Bull, Huawei and the Chinese team in advance.

The relationship between Li Zihan, Puma Sporting Goods Company, Red Bull Beverage Group, and Huawei Group is extraordinary. Where there is one of them, the other three will intervene one after another.

With the new jersey, the Chinese team's voice on the training ground is much more cheerful.

By the time the news of the new jersey passed, it was already the end of December.The Chinese team had a day off on New Year's Day, and then on the second day, the Chinese team and a local Australian Super League team, the Brisbane Roar, played at the Chinese team's home stadium during the Asian Cup in Australia - the Brisbane Stadium played a friendly match.

The Brisbane Stadium itself is the home ground of the Brisbane Roar. Perrin came here for training, and secondly, he became more familiar with their nominal home ground.

Due to the relationship of the Asian Cup, the core Asian players of the Brisbane Roar team have all been selected for their respective national teams, so this Brisbane Roar team is basically a temporary combination of the reserve team and the first team rotation.

But it was such a impromptu patchwork team, the Chinese team did not directly defeat the opponent, but won a thrilling [-]-[-] victory.

Since the game was public, all the media and fans watched the friendly match.The media were very dissatisfied with the result of this game, which reminded them of Camacho's Chinese team before.

Camacho's China did not perform very well. In the Asian Cup qualifiers, they did not get the first or second place in the group, but got the third place in the group.Since the Asian Cup qualifiers have to select [-] teams and the [-] teams that directly advance to form the [-] teams in the finals, and the qualifiers only have [-] teams from five groups to qualify, which is one less. branch.

Therefore, the AFC stipulates that whoever has the best results and performance among the five teams in the five groups will be the last to advance.This is the so-called best team third!
The five teams that directly advanced are the host, the 2011 Asian Cup runner-up Australia, the 2011 Asian Cup champion Japan, the 2011 Asian Cup runner-up South Korea, and the 2012 AFC Challenge Cup champion North Korea. and 2014 AFC Challenge Cup champions Palestine.

China was very lucky and very unfortunate to get the third place in the best group, and took the last train of this year's Asian Cup.

From this we can see how unsatisfactory Camacho's China team is. It can be said to be the last No.1 among the [-] teams in this year's tournament.

Therefore, as soon as the game ended, the Internet was full of bad-mouthing voices, and many media also criticized the performance of the Chinese team, especially Pei Lan, who was pointed out that he relied too much on Li Zihan's personal ability, because the Chinese team scored two goals. The ball was scored by Li Zihan.

Many people call on the fans to watch the game rationally. The so-called greater hope means greater disappointment. Although the Chinese team has Li Zihan, there is only one Li Zihan, not eleven Li Zihans.
The Chinese team did not come forward to explain anything, but on the second day, Perrin announced a one-week closed training period, during which players were not allowed to leave the training base and did not accept any media interviews.

This naturally offended those "uncrowned kings".

Then the media became even more arrogant, saying that the Chinese team was not good this time.

They also showed evidence that in this year's Asian Cup grouping, the Chinese team was placed in Group B, with Saudi Arabia, North Korea, and Uzbekistan in the same group.Among them, Saudi Arabia was grouped with the Chinese team in the qualifiers, and they won the first place in the group, so the Chinese team must have a hard time facing them.As for the North Korean team in the official game, how many games has China lost against the North Korean team?so choking
All in all, the Chinese team's prospects for qualifying are worrying.

And the official match of the Asian Cup is a week later. In such a short period of time, how much can even closed training achieve?
The confidence that the Chinese team had gained against teams such as New Zealand, Paraguay, Jordan, and Honduras collapsed in an instant.
The fans are the most anxious, because they can't receive any information about the Chinese team at all, and most of them are pessimistic guesses from the media.

The fans of the Chinese team have always been the most bitter and tragic!
In this way, a week passed in the midst of panic.

On January [-], Perrin gave the team a day off, but he said that the players can rest, but they are absolutely not allowed to leave the training base, and at the same time, they cannot disclose any content of the closed training during this period to the outside world.

On the afternoon of January 18th, Perrin announced the [-]-man roster for tomorrow's World Cup opener against rival Saudi Arabia.

Among them, Li Zihan, Wu Lei, Wang Shangyuan, Gao Lin, Zheng Zhi and other main players are all there.

In the evening, Li Zihan's personal social network account said: "Heaven, it will not fall!" At the same time, the picture is an official poster given by the Chinese team. The poster is the seven main players of the Chinese team, including Li Zihan and Wu Lei. The combined photos have two blood-red Chinese characters written on the top of the poster - "Fight!"