Throughout May, in addition to the game competition of "CrossFire", it was in full swing under the attention of thousands of gamers.

There is also a sports competition that attracts the attention of sports fans around the world.

The qualifiers for the 2010 South Africa World Cup have come to an end, and the qualifying teams have almost been determined.

The national football team has been as stable as ever for decades, and has been eliminated in the preliminary round early, becoming the first team in the world to prepare for the 2014 World Cup, and of course they can continue to prepare for the 2018 World Cup if they want.

Even Liu Yun couldn't help but sigh: "I was reborn, many things have changed, but the national football team is still the same." Then the question is, is there a parallel time and space where the national football team rises?"

According to the usual practice, after the national football team is eliminated, these fans' interest in the qualifiers will be greatly reduced, but recently, whether it is Weibo or portals, they have been swiped by the World Preliminaries.

Because our neighbor, North Korea, which has always been known as the mysterious lion, miraculously entered the World Cup and fell through the eyes of countless fans.

These angry national football fans have left messages on Weibo.

"The salary of the national football team, one person can be worthy of a team in North Korea, don't you blush?"

"These stinky feet, which are famous brands from salutes, clothes, and watches, should all be sent to North Korea to dig coal. ”

"Digging coal? North Koreans are not willing to accept it, a bunch of clumsy people. ”

Of course, there are also humorous messages.

"My girlfriend and I promised that if the national football team scored a goal in the World Cup, I would buy her a LV bag, and she agreed that I would stay up late to watch next year's World Cup!"

"Even if the five-star Brazil wins the national football team once, and as strong as Argentina and Germany, they can't beat the national football team in the World Cup!"

In short, netizens opened their brains, and all kinds of unexpected messages appeared.

After returning from rebirth, Liu Yun paid a lot less attention to football, and when he saw this hot search, he suddenly remembered many dusty memories.

When he first returned to this time and space, it was on the eve of the 2002 World Cup, and he won the first pot of gold in his life by relying on 13 football lottery games.

Time flies so fast, seven years in the blink of an eye, and the third World Cup is just around the corner.

This is the first World Cup to be held on the African continent and the first World Cup to be webcast.

Youyou didn't win the live broadcast copyright of the Yanjing Olympics, and this time Liu Yun didn't want to miss it again.

"Maybe there is an indissoluble bond between me and the World Cup. He thought to himself, a little self-deprecatingly.

According to the original trajectory, Shanda will inject capital into Ku6 this year, and it is Ku6 that will win the online video copyright of next year's World Cup.

The site was a little popular for a while, and its reputation reached its peak after winning the rights to the 2010 World Cup webcast.

But unfortunately, this video website did not take advantage of the popularity of the World Cup to increase the adhesion of users, but after the World Cup, the website traffic showed a plummeting state.

In 2011, Shanda fully settled in the Ku6 network, and then carried out a large-scale purge layoff, which caused the company to lose its backbone, panic, and even broke out a scandal of windfall layoffs, and the stock price on the NASDAQ fell from its peak, depreciating from $8 to less than $2.

As for Shanda, Liu Yun was happy when he thought of it.

Since the failure of testing the waters of the TV box, this former Internet hegemon seems to be cursed, except for the acquisition starting point is a relatively successful investment, the other businesses are almost one to death.

The Ku6 network, which was once comparable to Youku, embarked on the road of irreversible demise after the Shanda Department was fully stationed.

Tencent Video and iQiyi have come from behind, and among the major video websites, only Youku has endured.

In this time and space, due to the birth of Youyou, Tencent's early force, Shanda's strength has long been gone, and the legendary life of guarding an old antique has long lived up to the past scenery.

"Lao Chen's mind now is mostly thinking about how to use the prop charging model to make a big profit on "Sword Network III". Liu Yun turned the ballpoint pen in his hand and thought, "He shouldn't have any extra energy to engage in video websites." ”

But whether this is a good thing or a bad thing for Yoyo is unknown.

He thought for a while and dialed Dong Rongjie's phone.

As an independent subsidiary, Times Jiangnan's three products, Youku, Yoyo Music, and YOYO Voice, are all huge black holes that burn gold.

Since they are all big losers, they can be separated from the group company, and they can increase profits from the financial statements, Baidu at that time treated iQiyi in this way, and Liu Yun was also learned.

Today, Youku is undoubtedly the core product of Times Jiangnan, the most money-burning project, and it is also directly responsible for Dong Rongjie.

"I always thought that Youku's biggest competitor would be Tudou.com, but in recent times, Ku6.com has been in the limelight. Liu Yun said directly on the phone.

After all, some memories of the previous life were too distant and became a little blurry, and Ku6.com went out of business early, so Liu Yun had no impression.

It wasn't until I watched the news of the World Cup in South Africa this time that I remembered these dusty pasts.

After all, at that time, it was the first time I watched the World Cup through a video website, but CCTV5's sports channel, so I still remember it vividly.

"Mr. Liu, in my opinion, our biggest competitor of Youku is not Tudou, but Ku6. After a pause, Dong Rongjie explained again, "This is an analysis based on the current market situation, after all, Tencent has also started to engage in video, and now it is in the preparatory stage, what will happen in the future, I don't know?"

Liu Yun's eyes flashed, and he asked again: "Then what do you think of the strength of Ku6.com?"

Dong Rongjie was silent for a while, and replied: "It's a strong enemy, I even think that they are a greater threat to Youku than potatoes." ”

"Why?"

"The founder of this website, Li Shanyou, is a capable person, and in 2008, he received two large investments, and the traffic and influence of this video website continued to increase throughout 09 years. Their goal now is to take out the potatoes and get the second place. ”

Maybe Yoyo's strength is too strong, this guy is a lot more low-key, I remember that after the cool 6 network received a grand capital injection, the attitude of the founder is impressive.

Li Shanyou often fiddles with the Buddha bead bracelet, smiling, full of confidence, and does not take Youku and potatoes in his eyes at all. But they never expected that the above was the best result they had ever achieved. There is only one step away from the first of dreams, but it passes by.

Who would have thought that after only 2 years, he would be swept away by Chen Tianqiao, who has always been domineering and domineering.

"Isn't it always rumored that Ali is preparing to buy Tudou.com, how is it going?"

"Ali was originally going to buy potatoes, but seeing that the momentum of the rise of Ku6.com was fierce, he was waiting and watching again. ”

Ali first wanted to acquire Youku, but was pitted by Liu Yun, and now he is looking for the next target.

Liu Yun thought of another point, now that there is no Shanda, will the trajectory of Ku6.com be like in the previous life, from prosperity to decline, or embark on another trajectory, and occupy a place in the video website market where local tyrants are like clouds.

This is not something that I can predict today.

"Being able to do this step in two years with the already little-known Ku6.com is enough to prove his ability. Liu Yun said lightly, "I called you because this video site is trying to win the online rights of next year's World Cup." ”

Dong Rongjie quickly understood what the boss meant, and immediately replied: "Mr. Liu, the network copyright of the World Cup is too expensive, 30 days, 100 million US dollars, so I ......"

"Buy it!" Liu Yun didn't blink his eyes, and said categorically and directly, "I want the exclusive broadcast rights of online videos in the Huaxia Continent, money is not a problem!"

30 days, 100 million US dollars in network copyright fees, the boss is simply crazy.

"If I could, I would ask for a contract for three World Cups at once, in 2010, 2014 and 2018. Liu Yun continued to throw out a bomb, "If the 3rd session is packed, it should be cheaper, and we can do it in one step." ”

Dong Rongjie is a little big, if he does this, Times Jiangnan's loss will create a new record.

He roughly estimated that if the three World Cups were packaged, it would be between 300 million and 400 million US dollars, which is really astronomical.

"Packed for three consecutive years, I don't think there's much chance of it. Dong Rongjie analyzed it and gave a conclusion.

The World Cup is the best quality product in FIFA and the world's top sporting event, and it is not the way a smart businessman would choose to give you three times at once.

It is best to put a long line and catch big fish.

In recent years, the online market, especially in China, is developing rapidly, and the value of network copyright may double every year, and the shrewd FIFA will obviously not choose such a seemingly cost-effective solution.

"I think the opportunity is very big. Liu Yun gave an unexpected answer to Dong Rongjie, "Today's FIFA President Mr. Blatter, although he has a lot of power, he is already very old, I don't know how long I can do it, and I can make a fortune, right?"

Dong Rongjie was a little stunned, he suddenly understood what the boss meant, he wanted to take the live broadcast copyright, and the means in the open and secret should be used together.

"Mr. Liu, are you sure it's useful, these high-ranking positions can be settled with money?"

"Who doesn't love money, those who are sanctimonious and high-level in multinational organizations, love money even more. "Whether it is the Olympic Committee or FIFA, a multinational organization giant, it is headquartered in Switzerland, and they are almost not subject to the supervision of any law, and under the breeding of absolute power, how can there be no corruption?"

Dong Rongjie thought about it carefully and felt that it made sense, whether it was the Olympic Committee or FIFA in the past few years, corruption and bribery were often exposed.

Liu Yun is even more impressed by the current FIFA president Sepp Blatter.

This guy is in a high position, has been in power for more than 20 years, has experienced countless ups and downs, if he is not too greedy, when deciding the host country of the 2022 World Cup, he chose Qatar and offended the United States, this position may be able to stay longer.

At that time, in order to win the right to host the 2022 World Cup, the United States invested countless manpower and material resources in publicity, but unexpectedly lost to Qatar.

As a result, just a few days later, the FBI arrested Blatter for economic crimes, and the reason for this is obvious even to outsiders.

"He loves money and is greedy for money, and now that he is old and powerful, it is understandable that he wants to make a little more. ”

"It's just a video copyright in the Huaxia Continent, selling it three times at a time, there is no risk at all, if you can get a lot of returns before retirement, why not do this old guy. ”

The problem of corruption within FIFA has long been shocking, and it is an almost public matter. Otherwise, there would not be the 2002 World Cup, which can be called a football shame, and the referee's black whistle problem was interpreted to the extreme.

Another reason why Liu Yun did this was to take precautions.

Since 2014, CCTV has seen the huge potential of online video copyright, and will buy out the full copyright of the mainland of China from FIFA.

Now that this TV station has not realized this, Liu Yun is ready to take the lead and negotiate with FIFA to win the online video copyright alone, which will cause a tacit fact, even if CCTV has the idea of winning the full copyright after 4 years, it can only be helpless.