Chapter 685: A Difficult Choice
Seeing Jiang Tian leave, Duan Yun suddenly fell into deep thought.
There is no doubt that the Wanrong team can indeed be regarded as a domestic giant team, and with Duan Yun's current level, it should indeed develop to a higher platform.
Although there is a big gap between the annual salary of three million and Duan Yun's expectations, such a salary is sincere enough for Duan Yun, a fledgling newcomer, and this is also the salary of a standard national football player.
In addition, the most important thing is that Duan Yun heard a bit of a threat from Jiang Tian's tone just now.
The national football coach has a lot of power, and the biggest manifestation is that he can decide which players can play.
Although Duan Yun's performance in the team is the best these days, and his ball skills are even significantly above many players of the old national football team, but even so, whether he can play in the game two days later, the decision is still firmly in Jiang Tian's hands.
It is one thing to be selected for the 23-man squad of the national football team, but it is another thing to have the opportunity to play for the country.
And if he can't play, then Duan Yun will lose a very important opportunity to prove himself, and at the same time, he will not be able to greatly increase his value.
All in all, Jiang Tian's meaning is very clear, only if Duan Yun completes him first, he will become Duan Yun!
Jiang Tian is indeed a little unkind in doing this, but it can also be seen from this that he sincerely appreciates Duan Yun!
However, after some careful consideration, Duan Yun decided not to reply to Jiang Tian for the first time, as for whether he could play in the first game, he left it to fate for the time being.
The reason is also very simple.
It is true that he was pulled into the national team by Jiang Tianhui's vision, but it was Gao Bo who really introduced Duan Yun to the road of professional players.
Today's Beiyuan Happiness Team is indeed a third-rate small team, and now that he and Jiang Tao are not there, the whole team is even more unpopular.
If you leave, the happy team will definitely fall into a major crisis, which is undoubtedly a huge disaster for Gao Bo and the whole team! The core players leave, the results are difficult to guarantee, the investors will withdraw like an avalanche, and the government will not continue to support it, and the team may still be maintained, but it will definitely collapse in the future!
In addition, what made Duan Yun a little hesitant were those fans he had in Beiyuan.
The Happiness Team is indeed a small club, but the fan base is indeed the top fanatic in the country, and until now, Duan Yun still remembers the frenzied scene of thousands of fans cheering him on when he played at home.
Duan Yun is a native of Xishan, and this is his hometown and his roots.
It is the objective law of life for people to go to high places and water to flow to low places, and the three million annual salary offered to him by Jiang Tian is indeed not low, but the attraction of these money is indeed very limited for Duan Yun, who is already worth tens of millions.
But joining the Wanrong team will indeed allow him to have a bigger stage and enjoy a higher level of competition, which is the one that attracts Jiang Tian the most.
Therefore, all things considered, it was still difficult for Duan Yun to make a final decision for a while, so he would not reply to Jiang Tian for the time being, even if he might be refrigerated in the first game of the semifinals this time!
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Two days later, the national football team finally ushered in the first game of the East Asian semifinals.
The semi-finals were held at Kyoto's largest football stadium, the Metropolitan Workers' Stadium.
Huaxia, as the host of the East Asian semi-finals, is also trying its best to create a good and warm atmosphere for this competition, under the vigorous publicity of various media, nearly 60,000 tickets were sold out a week ago, and a ticket priced at 300 ordinary tickets has even been fried by the local butter party to a sky-high price of 4,000, which shows how popular the national football game is!
In fact, there are some deep-seated reasons why the East Asian semi-finals have attracted so much attention.
On the one hand, it is because after the country began to pay attention to football, the government added fuel to the fire, and more and more people participated in football across the country.
On the other hand, with the influx of a large amount of capital into the domestic top league football teams and the purchase of a large number of stars from top European and American clubs, the level of many teams in the domestic top leagues has been greatly improved in the short term.
The strong performance of the top domestic clubs in the international arena in the past two years has made many domestic fans have an illusion, that is, with the improvement of the club's level, the national team must have made a qualitative leap, so many fans regard this East Asian semi-finals as a 'revenge battle' between the national team and the sworn rivals Japan and South Korea teams with fewer wins and more defeats.
It's just that these fans don't know that the club and the national team supported by a few strong foreign aides are completely two different concepts, and the strength of individual clubs still can't be used as a fig leaf for the national football team!
When there were still more than three hours before the game, the bus at the Xianghe base was loaded with dozens of national football team members such as Duan Yun and slowly drove in the direction of Kyoto.
Xianghe is not far from Kyoto, and the drive takes more than an hour at most, and the rest of the time is enough for the national football players to step on the field and warm up in advance.
On the bus, Jiang Tian and Duan Yun sat in the front row.
"Duan Yun, haven't you thought about the thing I told you yet?" After the car started, Jiang Tian asked Duan Yun.
"Coach Jiang, I thank you for thinking so highly of me, but I really haven't thought about it yet, give me two more days. Duan Yun said with a deep groan.
"I've given you days to think about it before. Jiang Tian was obviously not satisfied with Duan Yun's answer, so he continued: "Wanrong Club will not wait for your reply indefinitely, it is also for the sake of my face that I agree to give you such a high treatment, you have to know how to cherish the opportunity, sometimes once the opportunity is lost, it will not come back......"
I really need time to think about it. Duan Yun frowned and said.
Okay. Jiang Tian nodded when he heard this, and after a while, he turned his head to Duan Yun and said: "There is no you in the starting list of this game, mainly because the opponent is the old enemy of our national football team, the South Korean team, what I need is an old player with experience in playing against them, and it has nothing to do with what we talked about before, do you understand?"
"I understand!" Duan Yun said back when he heard this.
"In addition, I haven't decided on the starting lineup for the next game against Japan, you have a good chance, but whether you can play in the end depends entirely on your own choice......
Jiang Tian didn't say anything after speaking, just leaned his head on the chair and began to close his eyes and recuperate......