America's Road to Fame

Chapter 275 World Cup

In fact, for entrepreneurs investing in football in Huaguozhong, what they care about is not necessarily football, but as a business.

And this business is not an ordinary business, just like when Boss Ma invested in the Hengda Taobao team. Sometimes the team lost nearly 10 billion Chinese yuan a year, but they still enjoy it. Why?

Because investing in football is not to make a profit here, but to gain popularity and a business card through this method.

Football is the number one sport in the world, and Chen William is very touched by this.Especially in Europe, when you are in contact with other companies, the other party may not care what company you are the owner of, or how rich you are in the world, but when the other party hears that you are the owner of Manchester United Club, their attitude will immediately change. will be different.

This is the charm and function of football.

Therefore, investing in football, these bigwigs can not only gain popularity in the country and let their companies expand their brand influence, but also when they go abroad and cooperate with Western companies, they can cooperate with the other party's top management through football. Topics to quickly pull into the relationship.

Boss Ma also did not forget to advertise his Taobao Mall, and invited William Chen’s Manchester United Club to open a store in Taobao Mall to sell authentic football shirts and other peripheral products.

At this time, Taobao Mall has not changed its name to Tmall Mall. It is a B2C platform launched by Taobao for Jingdong.

After Boss Ma's introduction, Boss Xu took the initiative to chat with William Chen. He and William Chen also had a relationship. A few years ago, Trump Group had intended to cooperate with Hengda Group and wanted to jointly bid for a landmark in Yangcheng. As a result, the building was purchased by HK's company at a lower price, and the cooperation this time ended.

Now William Chen has become the major shareholder of the Trump Group, and the TC Business Management Company, a joint venture with him, has also started to do business in China, and has made big moves in Shanghai and Yanjing.

Boss Xu said that he knew that TC Commercial Management Company was developing business in Guangdong Province, and hoped to have opportunities to cooperate with William Chen there.

With William Quan's current net worth, he is used to the extra "friendly" attitude of others towards him in these social occasions, but this scene, in the eyes of the second daughter Yang Mi, has a deeper understanding of his status at this time .

After all, these people present are all powerful figures in China. As a star, they may be glamorous enough in the eyes of ordinary people, but in front of these big shots, they are nothing more than insignificant roles.

Just like Yang Mi, at this time, if it wasn't for William Chen, as Boss Ma, it would be an honor to be able to greet her back, let alone chat with a smile like this time.

Watching the game is of course more interesting if it’s a bit of a prize. In William Chen’s box, there are Boss Ma, Shi Yuzhu, Boss Xu, William Chen and their female companions, a total of 9 people. As the host, Boss Ma proposed He holds 10% of the shares in the bar. Everyone guesses the outcome of the game, and the winner takes the shares.

This bar seems to be quite large, and 10% of the shares are several million. However, for bigwigs like Chen William, this is just a small lottery. It is already a very generous reward.

You must know that the grand prize of the earliest double-color ball was only 400 million Chinese dollars after tax.

Therefore, everyone also actively participated and reported their own predictions.

Boss Ma is obviously a fake fan. Feeling that England is famous, he directly chose England to win, and his beautiful female assistant followed him to choose England.

Shi Yuzhu also chose England at will, and naturally his girlfriend also chose England like him.

I don’t know if I think it’s meaningless for everyone to choose England, or I really have studied these two teams. Boss Xu and the female stars he brought all choose the American team to win.

When it came to Chen William, he said with a wry smile: "The England team has players from my club, and I am an American, so I am impartial. I will choose a draw. You two can choose according to your own wishes. I have no choice but to do this." .”

What he said next was naturally addressed to Yang Mi and Tang Yan.

However, these two women gave him face very much, and they chose a draw with him.

After the game started, everyone stopped chatting and focused on the game.Only 4 minutes into the game, the England team took the lead in scoring, and Gerrard scored the first goal of the field.

The opening goal of the England team made Boss Ma and Shi Yuzhu happy. They both said that they were going to win, and their female companions were also happy.

"It's just the beginning, don't be too happy."

Boss Xu said unconvinced.

At this time, Yang Mi's intelligence can be seen. After William Chen bought Manchester United, she began to learn about football on purpose.

Because she is already very familiar with the rules of football, she can participate in everyone's discussions at this time and express some opinions that will not appear too amateurish.

And while watching the game, she was also able to answer some of Tang Yan's questions.

Although the United States is known as a football desert, the strength of the American team should not be underestimated at this time, just like England's number one star and England's captain Beckham at this time, now playing in the American Major League Soccer ball.

In the case of a goal behind the England team, the United States still played very tenaciously.In the 40 minutes of the first half, Dempsey, who is currently playing for Fulham in the Premier League, equalized the score, and finally continued the tie until the end of the game.

What's interesting is that the two goals scored by England and the United States in this game were all scored by players who played in the Premier League.

According to this result, William Chen, Yang Mi, and Tang Yan who chose a draw actually won the lottery. William Chen shook his head helplessly and said, "Hey, I'm actually just a pacifist. I didn't expect to win like this. Accept it."

In Chen William's previous life, he wasn't an overly obsessed fan, he only watched football games occasionally.At the World Cup in South Africa at that time, because he had just started working, he did not watch a few games during his busy schedule. Therefore, his impression of this World Cup was only that the final champion was won by Spain.

As for this game, he really doesn't have any impression in his memory, and today's guess is really just casually said without paying attention.

If Chen William was just an ordinary person at this time, he could really use the result he remembered to buy a football lottery to make some money. Although he only remembered that the champion was Spain, but in the group stage just now, the champion was selected, and the odds were also high. It's not bad. Before the first round of the group stage, Spain's odds of winning the championship were about 5, which means that if you invest 100 yuan, you can win 500 yuan, which is already very high.

But with Chen William's current assets, there is no need to earn these things. He is now fully qualified to brag that he didn't even bother to bend over to pick up $1000 bills on the road, because picking up $1000 is a waste of money. 2 seconds is worth far more than this amount to him.

However, Yang Mi and Tang Yan were very happy. They were only chosen by William Chen, but they won the lottery in the end. Each of them was worth more than 100 million. This was a windfall.

After the game, Boss Ma and the others congratulated William Chen and the others. Boss Ma said that he would help them transfer the ownership tomorrow.

"It's not easy to divide the three people, so let's divide it between Mi Mi and the others."

Chen William's words did not surprise everyone. With their net worth, participating in this game is to make the competition more interesting, and they don't care about the value of these shares. If the other three bosses really win, they will probably be this one. manner.

Yang Mi heard Chen William's words, and happily gave him a big hug and kissed him.

With everyone watching this scene, Tang Yan felt a little embarrassed.

Normally, she should also express her gratitude to William Chen, but she and Yang Mi both came here with William Chen, and in the eyes of others, they are William Chen's girlfriends, and Yang Mi has done this, so she wants to Just thank you dryly, that scene is a bit ugly.

But I obviously don't have any close relationship with him yet, as for why I said "still"...

In the end, Tang Yan hesitated for a moment, and like Yang Mi, stepped forward to give William Chen a hug...

(End of this chapter)