Chapter 106: Challenger to the Cup of Hope
After seeing that things were getting bigger and bigger, the leaders of the General Administration of Sports could only throw the people below out of the pot.
And the person who tops the pot is Li Mingde, the head coach of the national tennis team, who Li Cai said at the press conference, and some management personnel were fired, so this matter can be explained.
This also made the leaders of the General Administration of Sports look at Li Cai more and more unpleasantly. even felt that Li was a "troublemaker", who was not at ease anywhere, and he didn't know how to stay honestly, so he had to cause trouble everywhere, which made them very passive.
When Li Cai was playing Go, he was the first person in the world to play Go, and his future was limitless, allowing Huaguo Go to dominate one country, but he was not participating in the competition at will, and simply withdrew from the competition, which also led to the change of the leaders of the chess academy. After Li Cai went to tennis, he originally thought that he would play safely and steadily, but he didn't expect that at the press conference, he talked nonsense everywhere, and the head coach of the tennis team was gone, and a few people went down.
But the leaders of the General Administration of Sports also have no way to take Li Cai, Li Cai's relationship background is deep, and they can't force him to block him.
The most important thing is that Li Cai is now a free man and has his own economic team. The economic contract is not in the hands of their General Administration of Sports at all, Li Cai's huge commercial value, they can't get a penny, they feel distressed to death when they think about it, and they have wasted so much money in vain.
With the end of the Asian Games, this matter has also been slowly calmed down under official control.
And the leaders of the General Administration of Sports also asked Wang Gang, who was divided into netballs, to talk to Li Cai'an, and asked Li Cai'an to share a little, warning him not to talk everywhere, making it difficult for the leaders to do.
In this regard, Li Cai didn't bother to pay attention to it, and directly prevaricated and sent Wang Gang away.
Seeing Li Cai's indifferent appearance, Wang Gang knew that Li Cai didn't listen, so he had to say before leaving: "Li Cai! As a member of the national team, you must understand the above difficulties! Director Sun of the General Administration of Sports said that as long as you don't make trouble, we won't be looking for you trouble, and we will give you a lot of publicity, increase your commercial value, and the negative news on the Internet will also help you solve it." ”
Li Cai listened, thought about it, and felt that it was very good, the General Administration of Sports was able to make concessions, although it was based on the background relationship behind him, but it was really not easy to get to this point!
You must know that Li Cai's economic contract is in his own hands, not with them, so naturally he should not be subject to their jurisdiction and restrictions, and they will not be able to get commercial money.
In fact, these are secondary, after all, Li's father and Li's mother are rich and don't worry about money, what Li Cai values is that the official will help him manage the news, which means that Li Cai does some out-of-the-ordinary things, and they also restrict them, instead of like before, there are people everywhere on the Internet to hack themselves, and the General Administration of Sports doesn't care about it, and it doesn't matter if it's not a person at all, arbitrary rumors on the Internet make trouble, and follow the trend to make trouble.
After receiving the assurance, Wang Gang left satisfied.
In fact, after Li Cai learned that the head coach of the tennis team, Li Mingde, had nothing to say, and he just said it at the press conference. I don't really want to teach reporters, so I naturally don't take the initiative to contact reporters. Therefore, the leaders of the General Administration of Sports do not have to worry about talking nonsense everywhere.
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"The flowers are similar every year, but the people are different every year"
Time flies quickly, and the new year of 2011 is about to be ushered in.
And in December of the 10th year, the Samsung Cup and LG Cup in Go have ended, which also means that the two places to participate in the Hope Cup have come out.
The champion of the Samsung Cup, Li Cai's brother Gu Dali, that is to say, Gu Dali also obtained a qualification for the Hope Cup.
Originally, Kong Erjie, who was eliminated by Lee Sedol, also entered the final in the LG Cup, and had the opportunity to win the championship and qualify for the Hope Cup again.
However, it may be that when he played in the Hope Cup, he spent a lot of energy, and Li Shifo gained a lot of money after the competition with Li Cai, although he slipped to the peak, and the strength of Go was declining, but it was not as serious as in his previous life, and it was relatively stable.
This also made Kong Erjie miss the LG Cup championship that originally belonged to him, and also allowed Li Shifo to win the championship and obtain the qualification for the last Hope Cup.
In January, the senior brother Gu Dali and Li Shifo will have a three-round duel to determine the winner, enter the next round, and play five rounds with Lee Sedol to determine the final challenger, and Li Cai will play ten rounds, and the winner will receive a championship bonus of 50 million.
Soon, in the three-round game in January, Gu Dali fought against Li Shifo.
Senior brother Gu Dali is now at his peak, even if Li Shifo's strength is not as strong as in his previous life, he still let senior brother Gu Dali win the game 2:1 and enter the next round to compete with Lee Sedol for the final challenge.
In March, Lee Sedol and Gu Dali played five games, the score became 2:2, and in the last game left, whoever can win will get the right to challenge and compete with Li Cai for the opportunity to win 50 million prizes.
At the end of the fifth game, Lee Sedol relied on his "zombie flow" to catch a mistake by his senior brother Gu Dali, and won the game in a reversal, allowing Lee Sedol to get the final challenge.
Although he felt pity for his senior brother Gu Dali, this was also expected by Li Cai.
Although I don't like Lee Sedol and hate his arrogant and cheeky personality unique to Korean sticks, as a chess player, Lee Sedol's strength is really powerful.
However, Li Cai is not worried, anyway, it is himself who wins after all, and the gap in strength is not so simple to recover.
On the other hand, after winning the final challenge and having the opportunity to win the 50 million prize money of the Hope Cup, Lee Sedol naturally expressed his belief in winning in front of reporters.
And the South Korean media also blindly followed the trend, thinking that Lee Sedol was so confident that he must have the certainty of victory, so he naturally publicized it everywhere, making almost everyone in South Korea know about it, paying close attention to this game, and even predicting that Lee Sedol's chance of winning was as high as 90%.
As far away as the Neon Country, although there was no Neon Country chess player participating in the competition, they were also very concerned about this game.
Unlike South Korea, more than 95% of the Neon Nation people support Lee Jae in terms of the odds of Lee Jae or Lee Sedol winning, which can be said to be one-sided in favor of Lee Jae.
A few years ago, Li Cai swept the Go world and had a profound impact on the players and people of the Neon Country.
And they believe that Li Cai can sweep the Go world and win all the Go world championships, while Lee Sedol can't do this, he can only say that he is strong and can't stabilize other chess players, even if Li Cai doesn't play for a few years, it's not something that Lee Sedol can defeat.
Even if Lee Sedol is now the first person in the Go world points, in their eyes, Li Cai is the uncrowned king of the Go world, just like the "Showa Chess Saint" back then, Master Wu Qingyuan.
Especially in tennis, Li Cai showed his talent in just two years and became the world's top tennis player, which made many people in the neon country think that Li Cai is a super genius and learns everything quickly.
Therefore, even if Li Cai has not played Go for several years, but he has practiced and studied Go in private, his Go strength will not regress, and may even be even more powerful.
The most important thing is that Li Cai can be the most defender, and he is naturally confident in his own strength, otherwise, even if their family is rich, they will not let Li Cai come so messy.
After all, the 50 million prize money of Go can be said to be astronomical, which is much higher than the prize money of many popular sports.
In China, except for a small number of people who don't like Li Cai, as well as some people who are Ha Han dogs, most of them support Li Cai. After all, Li is a native of Huaguo and the pride of Huaguo Go.
In the case of such discussions among the three countries, the final of the Hope Cup, the juban game between Lee Cai and Lee Sedol, will be played on April 1.