World's No.1 Football Manager

Chapter 340
The first round of the St. Paul State Championship playoffs is all over.

Upper half: Palmeiras 3:4 Sao Paulo (overtime); Santos 7:6 Corinthians (penalty);

Bottom half: DB7:0 Botafogo SP; Mirasol 3:1 Bragandino.

Sao Paulo, Santos, DB, Mirasol, advance to the semi-finals of the playoffs.

The home and away games are determined by drawing lots.The matchup situation is as follows (home team first): Sao Paulo VS Santos Mirasol VSDB
In the first round of the playoffs, Sao Paulo State fans were hooked. They scored 4 goals in regular time in 21 games, and there were two strong dialogues, which were decided through overtime and penalty kicks.

But the most surprising thing is the performance of the Young Guards DB team.

As a "junior brother" entering the playoffs for the first time, DB actually defeated the veteran Brazilian football team Botafogo SP with 7 goals.

You must know that Botafogo sp is the only team that has defeated DB in the regular season (of course, the opponents in the same group have never competed).

This shows that the DB team has grown and improved a lot compared to the regular season!

In fact, the DB team is improving at a speed that is almost visible to the naked eye.When people find the video of the DB team's first match 4 months ago, they can be surprised to find that the current DB team has a more mature style of play, more tacit cooperation, stronger execution, and the team's spirit has completely risen to a higher level.

What is more significant is the improvement of player ability.

Almost every player has noticeable improvement.These 18- and 9-year-old teenagers are not only taller, faster, stronger, and more refined in their skills, but more importantly, their ability to read the game, the timing of running and responding, their daring to fight, and their game temperament for taking responsibility. They all mushroomed like mushrooms after rain.

The team is united as one, united as one, and closely united around Yi Gaoyuan.Everything is thriving, showing extremely strong combat effectiveness and competitiveness.

The well-known Brazilian sports media "Global Sports" used a striking headline to put forward such a point of view "The myth of Kaiserslautern in Sao Paulo State?why not! "

The Brazilian media are all praising the performance of the DB teenagers, and the domestic media public opinion is even full of steam!
It is really that everyone has been suppressed for too long, and they usually have no chance to brag about Chinese football.

上一次中国足球让大家扬眉吐气，感到快乐是什么时候？是2001年10月7日的国家队打进世界杯？还是2005年在德国世青赛上大放异彩的中国国青队？或者是2013年、2015年恒大队两夺亚冠冠军？

In short, they are all too distant memories. Compared with the few happy times, pain and disappointment seem to be the eternal theme of Chinese football.

Now, this team dubbed the "National Youth Selection Team" rides the wind and waves in the football kingdom, and even slaughters opponents in the playoffs. How can it not make people happy and invigorated?

According to the statistics of authoritative organizations, the audience rating of CCTV 5 broadcasting the first game of the DB playoffs was as high as 4.01%, and about 7500 million people watched the game through CCTV Sports Channel.

According to incomplete statistics, counting the number of people watching the game on the Internet and the number of people watching the recording and broadcasting, about 1.2 million viewers watched the live broadcast or recording of this game.

This data has surpassed the ratings record created by the Evergrande team in the 2015 AFC Champions League final.

CCTV5 naturally made a lot of money, and the leaders of the TV station looked at the rising ratings index and the merchants queuing up to insert TV commercials before the game, and they couldn't help but laugh from ear to ear.

Although the domestic copyright holder of the São Paulo State Championship, "Yuanshuai Sports Consulting Co., Ltd.", has slammed CCTV and PP Sports through segmented marketing, but the money is not worth mentioning in front of the huge advertising revenue.

Both CCTV and PP Sports regard DB as a hen that can lay golden eggs, holding it in the palm of your hand for fear of flying away, and holding it in your mouth for fear of melting.By coincidence, they increased the intensity of publicity and reporting. Not only did they release a large number of promotional trailers during the prime time, but they also sent a large number of reporters to Brazil to follow up and report.

And other media were also moved after hearing the news. After DB won the first round of the playoffs, the sales volume of the special edition of "Football News" has been soaring. It was even sold out and urgently reprinted.With their in-depth coverage of the DB team, they have firmly stepped on the rival sports weekly in recent months.

Everyone has seen the huge news value and popularity of DB, and all the well-known domestic media want to catch the heat and get a share of this publicity feast.

The huge exposure has made the name of DB a household name in China. The Chinese general of the DB team has become a hot sports star in China.Many variety shows even sent out invitations, asking them to participate in the recording of domestic entertainment variety shows after the league ended.

The proud young players turned a blind eye to these invitations and dismissed them. Even Wang Zi, who was the most popular, was harassed unbearably.

But Gao Yuan, their most admired coach, is very shameless and happy to accept everything, regardless of the tense playoffs in progress.

Now the base of Taishan Sports Center in Brazil is full of chaos. Various investigation groups in the name of learning, interview teams and reporters from various media, directors of entertainment companies, brokers who came to discuss business cooperation, and second-hand dealers are all in a mess.

No way, this society is like this.No one asks you if you are poor in the downtown area, but you have distant relatives in Brazil if you are rich!Everyone gathers firewood, the flames are high, and people in flower sedan chairs carry people!

"Gao Yuan, now is such a critical time! Why are you distracted by these things, shouldn't we concentrate on playing well?"

Yan Ruyu asked worriedly.

"Hehe, your tone reminds me of my mother before the college entrance examination."

Gao Yuan slumped lazily on the large boss chair, and said cheerfully.

Yan Ruyu gave Gao Yuan a hard look, "I'm talking about business with you, don't be so hippie!"

"Hey, those who know me say that I am worried, but those who don't know me are begging for me! You don't understand, I do this for the team!"

"What for the team? Shameless for the team? Hmph, I think you just want to be famous and crazy!" Yan Ruyu said angrily.

"Cut, women, it's just that your hair is long but your knowledge is short. This is the pursuit of maximizing social benefits, understand? You don't have to worry about training and competitions. I'm here! I've already said hello, and no one can disturb you during training. But outside of training, everyone can do whatever they want. Our team's style has always been like this, free and open."

"But it's the playoffs now! The hard work of a season depends on now." Yan Ruyu was still worried.

Gao Yuan sat up straight, staring at Yan Ruyu's beautiful eyes with burning eyes, "Do you believe me or not? Believe me, just listen to me!"

Within three seconds, Yan Ruyu compromised, avoided Gao Yuan's fiery gaze, and sighed faintly.

"Hey, listen to you, who makes you be right every time!"

Gao Yuan laughed secretly in his heart, this trick was tried and tested.Miss Yan, Miss Yan, I didn't expect such a proud and strong woman like you to take this trick.

Real one thing down one thing, some tofu in brine!
However, is it easy for me to get this prestige?Not only is the face gone, but now even the hue has begun to be betrayed!

After all, prestige is not for Chinese football!

Damn, for the sake of Chinese football, I can be said to have devoted myself to death!

(End of this chapter)