Grass roots glory

Chapter 235 The Most Popular Endorsement
However, at the end of the first half, the score was only 1:0. Perhaps some viewers with inertia of thinking and little understanding of football would be surprised to see the score when they scanned the sports channel while tuning the channel—Huh?The Chinese team actually managed to lead at halftime.

But the fans who have watched the game will think the opposite. In the first half, the Chinese team did not get a bigger lead, but they will feel very strange.

During the halftime comment, Liu Jianhong's point of view hit the point: "The main difficulty facing the Chinese team today is not the opponent, but natural factors. The ball runs irregularly on the turf in heavy rain. Such weather is obviously very abnormal. It is beneficial for the team to implement the high-guidance ground push style of play, and the opponent's physical fitness is sufficient and focused in the first half, so it is normal for the Chinese team to encounter resistance."

It sounds like the Chinese team fell behind at halftime in the past, but no one thinks it is wrong to say the same thing at this time, because it is a fact.And Liu Jianhong also mentioned a point, looking at the world football, more goals are often scored in the second half of the strong and weak games. When the strong team starts to pressurize and the weak team can't keep up, the defensive loopholes begin. gradually appeared.

But in the locker room, Gao Hongbo was a little critical of his performance in the first half: "The weather is really bad today. I understand everyone's difficulties, but when you shoot, you can be more steady. See Zhou Tiancheng send you such a What a chance, you all wasted one by one, are you worthy of him?"

Gao Hongbo pointed out his dissatisfaction. Maybe facing the reporters, he could just look at the result, 1:0 at halftime, as long as he could win, but he couldn’t tell the players behind closed doors, "As long as you can win, how can you win?" It doesn't matter if you kick." This is not the attitude of a national team coach.Moreover, the biggest role of opponents at this level in Lebanon is to allow the Chinese team to check and fill in the gaps. The target of the challenge is not them.

The progress of the second half was basically the same as Liu Jianhong's prediction during the intermission. The Chinese team continued to speed up their attack, but when the game went on for 10 minutes, the rain on the scene was a little lighter, and at this time, the Chinese team once again Extended lead.

The Bundesliga trident in the frontcourt formed an offensive cooperation. Zhou Tiancheng's oblique pass passed directly over the head of the Lebanese right back and accurately reached the feet of Chen Pengfei. Sweeping, Jiang Hao stepped back alertly and outflanked the goal. The pull of the Lebanese central defender just knocked down the center of gravity, but he has dealt with the pull of a Bundesliga defender and played against a first-class defender like Demichelis. Such intensity Jiang Hao couldn't be bothered at all, and with a light poke in front of the goal, he poked the ball directly into the dead corner.

The UAE referee's whistle was in his mouth. He was going to award a penalty kick, but when he saw the goal scored, he was stunned for a moment, and then pointed to the center circle with both hands to signal the kick-off.

At this time, Jiang Hao had already started to celebrate the goal, his first goal for the national team.

Jiang Hao's celebration was very newsworthy for reporters. He ran to the front of the media seats, lowered his head and kissed the team badge on his chest. A strip to celebrate, it seems no commemorative significance.However, if such a move is made, it is estimated that after the game, the media will write positive headlines such as "The new Bundesliga star cares about the national team, beheading the ball and finally realizing the dream", which will further enhance Jiang Hao's public image.

After taking the lead, the Chinese team chased after the victory. In No.70 two minutes, Qu Bo, who came off the bench, scored the third goal for the Chinese team.However, the referee of the United Arab Emirates did not immediately award the goal as valid, because the ball seemed to have hit the opponent and rebounded and hit Qu Bo's arm during the two sides fighting for the top.After a few minutes of negotiation with the assistant referee, it was finally determined that the goal was valid.Because of this penalty, the subsequent stoppage time was as many as 25 minutes and [-] seconds, which is the longest stoppage time record in the official game of the national team.

But in this super-long stoppage time, no fans will worry about a sudden "black few minutes". Lebanon has no fighting spirit, and they don't even bother to make a pressing action.Liu Jianhong commented in a rare and relaxed tone: "This is a common problem of West Asian teams. They can't prevent it if they play crazy, but they are also easy to collapse. The away game in West Asia has always been a nightmare for the Chinese team in the past, but I hope that the Chinese team can recover from this game. Having learned some experience, Director Gao gave up the anti-counterattack tactics in the away game today, and this is the greatest stroke of wisdom.”

For a long period of time, the Chinese team seemed to lack self-confidence when dealing with international competitions. At home, they took advantage of the right time, place and people, and they all resolutely defended against counterattacks. When they went to away games, they left the familiar environment and the cheers of the fans. It's almost impossible to talk about-the whole game is almost defensive, and there is no counterattack at all.

And at least today, everyone has seen a national team full of offensive courage.Such a team, regardless of winning or losing, is at least worthy of everyone's love. No fan wants their national team to be played by the whole court, especially Chinese fans who have the feeling of a big country.It can also be seen in the comments on the domestic network.

"It's been so many years. I finally watched the national football team play a decent game. I thought about it. Zhou Tiancheng and the others would probably win, but I didn't expect to win so strongly."

"If the opponent is replaced by Iran and can win like this, I will be satisfied."

"That's right! This is like the demeanor of a great country, what shit was kicked before."

"Jiang Hao and Chen Pengfei still can't see the feeling of being against the sky in the Bundesliga... At least not as good as Zhou Tiancheng, but in the Asian arena, they are completely abused!"

"Wait and wait for the main force of Japan and South Korea!"

A hearty victory, after watching this performance, doubts about why Gao Hongbo was not called into Mingtao gradually became smaller.Some media have indeed raised such a question before, and they have called three people, why not gather four Bundesliga stars?

Could it be that in Gao Hongbo's opinion, Ming Tao is not qualified enough to be selected for the national team?
Obviously not.It turns out, at least this international match day, that it wasn't necessary.During the entire match, Yang Zhi, the goalkeeper of the Chinese team, spent most of the time alone sheltering from the rain under the goal, and was hardly threatened. At this time, everyone remembered Gao Hongbo's answer a few days ago: "Ming Tao has just played the main force, and the coaching staff After full consideration, I decided to observe him for a period of time, the current three goalkeepers in the team are enough to ensure that we win the game."

Of course, if the game was won smoothly, Gao Hongbo's statement before the game would be praised as a wise decision.

On the second day, the whole team returned to China from Beirut, and the second back-to-back game against Lebanon will be held at Hangzhou Huanglong Sports Center.

At Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport, there were still hundreds of fans holding banners to welcome the triumphant return of the national team. Zhou Tiancheng, as the number one star in the team, is naturally the most popular. In addition, Jiang Hao, who scored the first goal for the national team, is also a fan People who have asked for signatures.From the one-on-one match against Bayern against Demichelis to complete the lore, Jiang Hao has a large number of Schalke fans in China, and even a large number of Dortmund fans.

Seeing this scene, Zhou Tiancheng felt a little emotional. Last summer, he saw an essay for the college entrance examination on a domestic website, who is the cutest person.Taking the Wenchuan Earthquake in Sichuan as the background, the author praised the people's policemen, teachers, and PLA soldiers who stood up in the face of the disaster... In fact, Zhou Tiancheng always thought that the group of "cutest people" must be counted as Chinese fans .

Even though "the national football team has abused me thousands of times" and "I treat the national football team like first love", of course not everyone has this infatuation, but those who can stand here must be the most infatuated followers.

The Chinese team, which was useless before, can still receive cheers during the game, thanks to these cutest people.

While listening to the fans' praises, Zhou Tiancheng became more determined.We must really give everyone a surprise, for these fans.

The immediate victory is far from enough.

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The second game with Lebanon will have to wait until a full week later, and the AFC qualifier schedule is very loose.During this period, he received a call from Lorca, informing him that the negotiation with Sina.com's Weibo business endorsement had been basically finalized, and the next step was to contact him once.

Zhou Tiancheng did not expect that Lorca would contact him at this time. There will be a match that will determine the Chinese team's early qualification from the group. It is absolutely impossible for him to ask for leave and fly from Hangzhou to the Sina BJ headquarters to sign the contract.

After knowing the situation, Lorca said that he would explain the situation by himself.As a result, he called again the next afternoon. Sina's contract representative had already come to Hangzhou, and he hoped to meet Zhou Tiancheng as soon as possible.

Zhou Tiancheng could feel the sincerity of the other party, and he was quite moved, but he really didn't have time.

"Peter, can you tell them that when I finish the next game... Uh, although it sounds bad, the daily training schedule of the national team is really tight."

"I'm afraid it won't work, Zhou, I can see that they are indeed very sincere, but they are also very confident, that is to say, you don't have to be the endorser, of course you can refuse, but if you let the outside world know that you have ruined a fortune like this Signing the contract, there may be fewer and fewer people who are willing to speak for us in the future. I rely on you to make money, so please don't smash my job, Zhou, only half a day is enough, they just want to see you once noodle."

Putting down the phone, Zhou Tiancheng thought about it, and decided to ask Gao Hongbo for leave.

As for what reason to use, Zhou Tiancheng naturally couldn't tell the truth. He knew that the national team was very taboo about this. The core players of the national team asked for leave during the recruitment period to talk about endorsement for money. It's tantamount to committing suicide.

He told a little lie and found a plausible reason: his parents came to see him.

The coaching staff didn't know about Zhou Tiancheng's family situation, and thought that his parents were working in China and his child was working abroad alone.After discussing the situation with the team leader Liu Dianqiu, Gao Hongbo agreed to take Zhou Tiancheng half a day off and not to participate in the afternoon training.

Before Zhou Tiancheng mentioned the location of the hotel where the team stayed, Loka directly arranged to meet in a coffee shop less than one kilometer away.

When Zhou Tiancheng arrived, he saw a middle-aged man in a suit and leather shoes with a heroic look sitting with Luoka.

However, when this person introduced himself, Zhou Tiancheng was still taken aback. The person sitting opposite him was Cao Wei, the CEO of Sina.

"Mr. Zhou, what do you think of the agreement we reached with your agent, Mr. Loka?"

Cao Wei mainly refers to the issue of endorsement fees.The price offered by Sina was 800 million yuan a year. In fact, the original price was 500 million yuan, but then the explosive news broke out that Zhou Tiancheng won the European Golden Boy. Loka immediately doubled the price and asked for 1000 million yuan.Because he knew very well that Zhou Tiancheng would be a labeled person from now on. Why can Ronaldo and Messi get tens of millions of euros in endorsement fees from Adidas and Nike?The Golden Globe and the Champions League are the most conspicuous labels of the two, which represent that they are the best football players on the planet today.Zhou Tiancheng won the Golden Boy, and Roca has enough confidence. According to his development potential, he also has the hope of winning the Golden Ball in the future, so his endorsement, 500 million yuan, can't be won.

After consideration, Sina counter-offered to 800 million yuan, but promised to increase the endorsement period for one year.

Zhou Tiancheng smiled and replied: "Mr. Cao, to tell you the truth, I am willing to sit here and talk to you, mainly because I like the potential of your microblog software. According to my understanding, it is similar to the Twitter used by foreign people. Is it about the same?"

Cao Wei nodded with a smile: "Mr. Zhou is worthy of being young and successful, and he sees the problem straight to the point. However, our Weibo and Twitter are still somewhat different, and they are more interactive. Twitter has such a strong promotional power in European and American countries. , China's population is twice as large as that of the whole of Europe. The number of young people your age is about the same as the population of Europe. This is why we chose you to speak for you. Among the young people born in the [-]s and [-]s, there may not be any Who is more famous than Mr. Zhou."

This is also the truth, most of the people who are around the same age as Zhou Tiancheng are studying at university, either working part-time or starting a business. Those who can achieve this level of global popularity can be counted on one hand in the whole of China.

In this way, Cao Wei was very polite in his words and calm in his attitude. He did not deliberately praise Zhou Tiancheng, but discussed the facts and introduced the characteristics and advantages of Weibo.

The two parties had a pleasant chat. Cao Wei obviously came prepared. Seeing that Zhou Tiancheng had no objections, he proposed to wait two days for him to let the signing team come over, and the two parties formally signed the contract.

"Mr. Zhou, I believe this is a win-win choice. Haha!"

"It seems to be more beneficial to your group, how about a win-win situation?"

Cao Wei showed a double smile: "I promise, this is your most popular signing. After all, we are the number one portal website in China."

"I hope so." Zhou Tiancheng thought to himself, China's number one portal?

But he didn't want to care how much water the other party said, and after finalizing this matter, he continued to devote himself to the training of the national team, doing what a professional player should do.

(End of this chapter)