Chapter 275 Sponsor Conflict
"Who are you?" Principal Tan asked puzzled when he saw several strange men standing outside the door.
The middle-aged man who took the lead asked, "May I ask, is Mr. Xiao Peng here?"
When Xiao Peng heard this, he turned his head and looked: "Brother Du, you are here so soon?"
Du Yulin looked at Xiao Peng inside and said with a smile: "It's hard to find you, can you not hurry? You know this old Jiang from the Foreign Investment Office, and this is Chairman Yang of our Huaxia Horse Association." Speaking of this, Du Yulin looked at the many people in the room: "Brother Xiao, am I delaying your errands?" It's okay, I can wait for a while. β
Xiao Peng got up: "It's okay, I'm done with things here, I should leave too, otherwise let's find a place to sit?"
Chen Liguo listened: "If you don't dislike it, come and sit in my office, the environment there is not bad, Mr. Xiao, don't you like to drink tea? I still have good tea there." β
Chen Liguo is not a fool to become the chairman of the board of directors of this school, this is a good opportunity to expand his contacts! Listen, among the people who came are the chairman of the Equine Association, the foreign investment department, these are all energetic people! It is good to be familiar, right?
Xiao Peng nodded: "Then trouble Mr. Chen." β
"Don't bother, don't bother, Principal Tan, I'll leave the rest to you. A few people, please come here, please. Chen Liguo hurriedly led the way, and his heart was still happy. A blessing in disguise!
Although there will be trouble in the future, after all, the parents of the students here are quite capable, and the expulsion in this way will definitely cause some repercussions, but so what's the matter? It's better than handing over the matter to the media and causing the city to be stormy, right? At least the school's reputation has not been irreparably affected, and now it can still expand its contacts and earn it!
In the school trustee's office, Chen Liguo made tea: "This is this year's Tieguanyin, and the taste is still good." β
Several people thanked Chen Liguo and sat down, Xiao Peng said: "Brother Du, you see that you are polite, you have to go on a trip in person, don't you just say something and I'll go to you?"
Du Yulin listened to Xiao Peng's words, and said in his heart: "It's strange that I can find you." Of course, these words can only be thought about in their hearts, but they can't be shown on their faces: "Brother Xiao, who doesn't know that you are busy." I went out and cooperated with people to hold such a big horse fair, and quietly won two championships and came back. I can't help but be amazed at your abilities. β
Xiao Peng smiled: "I'm just playing around." β
Chairman Ma Xieyang, who did not speak on the side, smiled after hearing this: "If everyone can play with Mr. Xiao's achievements, it will be the blessing of our country and the blessing of the nation." β
Xiao Peng smiled and waved his hand: "Chairman Yang praised falsely, although our country's equestrian sports started late, but no matter what the level is, it is still booming, which is inseparable from the efforts of our horse association." "Everyone carries the sedan chair, who wouldn't say it sounds?.
Chairman Yang listened to Xiao Peng's words, and laughed: "Mr. Xiao got to the point, although our national equestrian sports are very good at present, but as you said, the level is still limited, no, I came here to sincerely invite you to join the Horse Association! Here I also sincerely apologize to Mr. Xiao, in fact, when you were in Dubai, you should have invited you." But after all, you were engaged in speed racing at that time, which is not quite in line with the direction of equestrian development in our country. I didn't expect Mr. Xiao's eventing level to be so high, alas, I can only say that I am too blind. Please don't mind Mr. Xiao. β
I have to say that this Yang Hao can indeed speak, and Xiao Peng, who said a few words, was very comfortable to listen to. Look at how good people are in this posture?
Of course, it is not for nothing that Chairman Yang lowered his posture. He can't help it------ after all, Xiao Peng is not trained in the system, and he is not a student trained in a juvenile sports school, such a number one person has come out, what do you let them do? If it is cultivated by the system, then it is easy to say, just give an order, but if Xiao Peng comes out of the wild, you can't drive him into the Horse Association with a knife, right? If he doesn't join the Horse Association, there is no way to take him, you don't let him participate in domestic competitions? People are originally competing in foreign countries, okayγγγγγγ So the posture must be lowered.
Xiao Peng smiled: "Brother Du has already told me about this, I basically have no problem, but there are some small requests I want to mention." β
Chairman Yang was stunned: "I don't know what Mr. Xiao wants, can meet my best to meet it!"
Xiao Peng smiled: "First, you can't force me to participate in any messy competitions and meetings. β
Chairman Yang nodded after hearing this: "Thisγγγγγγ Yes, but I still hope that Mr. Siu will support the work of the Association by supporting the competition organized by the Association when the time is convenient. Increase the impact of the Association's events. β
Xiao Peng thought for a while: "I can't guarantee whether I will have time to participate, but Chairman Yang, you know, I have a horse farm, and some horse racing and equestrian horses, so I asked the horse farm to contact the horse association, even if I can't attend the race, the horses and riders of our horse farm will also support the horse association according to the situation." What do you think?"
Chairman Yang nodded: "That would be better." β
Xiao Peng said: "Then I'll go back and give you the phone number of the person in charge of my horse farm, and you are responsible for contacting this matter." β
Chairman Yang said, "What about other requests from the gentleman?"
Xiao Peng took a sip of tea: "Sponsor question." How can I resolve a conflict between my individual sponsor and the sponsor of an event in the Federation?"
When Chairman Yang heard this question, he frowned, this γγγγγ It's really hard to do. He really has no experience in this question! Other sports have similar experience, but in equestrian, he really hasn't heard of anything like this!
In other words, almost all sports celebrities with market appeal have encountered sponsor conflicts, especially the conflicts between individual endorsements and team endorsements. For example, the god of basketball, Mr. Joe, as we all know, Mr. Joe is the spokesperson of Nike, but the sponsor of the 92 Olympic Games Stars and Stripes National Dream Team is Reebok, requiring the players to wear Reebok clothes to appear on the stage to receive the award, and in desperation, Mr. Joe can only wear Reebok's clothes and cover the clothing trademark with the national flag.
Another example is footballer Gotze is also the face of Nike, but the sponsor of the German national team is Adidas, Gotze transferred from Dortmund to Bayern Munich, and Bayern's sponsor is also Adidas. When Gotze wore Nike clothes to various venues, Adidas was annoyed and directly demanded that Gotze lose money. Nike has a lot of money, so he let Gotze go his own way, and Nike was fined.
As for in China, there are countless such things, and the conflict of interest between individual sponsors and sponsors of events and sports teams directly affects athletes. Like Huaxia's swimming little fresh meat, he withdrew from the national team directly because of such a thing; badminton superstar Super Egg, when he participated in the Huaxia Badminton Super League, he couldn't play because of endorsement conflicts; Nike signed players such as 'Da Kongyi', who plays basketball, simply changed their shoes on the court, saying that they wanted to feed their health and protect their 'right to wear shoes'; Xiao Ding, who plays billiards, was sentenced to lose a game before kicking off, because he was suddenly told about the sponsor conflict before the game and was not allowed to playγγγγγγ
The reason for this situation, on the one hand, is the lack of experience, take basketball as an example, professional basketball is a field with brilliant personality, players must wear a variety of dazzling boots to strengthen their sense of existence, but the Basketball Association packaged the shoe rights of the entire league to a shoe manufacturer, BA has countless experience in this area, but has not learned to use it well.
Another reason is that the national conditions are different, in foreign countries, the growth of athletes is completely responsible for the individual, family and decision-making, for these 'self-employed', the sponsor has almost become their 'food and clothing', the coach's salary, whether the whole team runs smoothly, are closely related to the sponsor. Looking at the acceptance speeches of Western athletes, there will definitely be a sentence in the first three sentences of 'thank the sponsors'. Coupled with the professional team of agents who match, arrange and reconcile the two, in the vast majority of cases, sponsors and athletes, including coaches, will get along and have fun: like Phelps and Speedo, as well as Chairman Yao and Team Yao, all fall into this category.
In China, there has long been a binary relationship between management and athletes under the national system, and conflicts between the sponsors of athletes themselves and the sponsors of the management are naturally prone to problems.
It is undeniable that in today's conditions and circumstances, having sponsors favor athletes is a good thing for the athletes themselves and the sport, and they need to be respected and protected. But how to make the 'three parties' between sponsors, athletes and management is a huge problem.
Chairman Yang thought for a moment: "Well, Mr. Xiao, you already have a sponsor?"
Xiao Peng smiled slightly: "I didn't sign an endorsement contract, but I have a very good personal relationship with Prada's CEO, let's just say that, Prada now has a series of jockey uniforms specially designed and made for me." As long as it's a Prada product, I can have it as long as I want to. β
Hearing this, Chairman Yang breathed a sigh of relief: "Mr. Xiao, I want to tell you about this situation, our domestic equestrian league does not have a clothing sponsor, and the sponsor who sponsors our equestrian league is the same as the Dubai Horse Racing World Cup, it is a Longines watch, as far as I know, you participated in a Dubai Horse Racing World Cup and took almost all the Longines championship watches, this should not conflict with you, right?"
After hearing this, Xiao Peng smiled wryly, stretched out his arm directly, revealed the watch he was wearing, and said: "Armand Bourgeva, the designer and shareholder of Van Cleef & Arpels, is also my friendγγγγγγ I don't lie to you, but at the current trend, I could very well become a shareholder of Van Cleef & Arpels. The watch seems to have been a problem for meγγγγγγ β
Yang Hao was a little speechless. Looking at Du Yulin and Jiang Baiyi beside him, Jiang Baiyi nodded: "Old Yang, Brother Xiao didn't lie to you, when he was in Kangaroo Country, Mr. Xiao was indeed wearing a jockey uniform specially designed and made for him by Prada. β
Yang Hao scratched his head now, thought for a long time and sighed and said: "Mr. Xiao, your first request is acceptable, but the second one is really a bit difficult, even if you don't participate in the domestic equestrian league, you don't have to worry about endorsement conflicts, but if you want to represent the country in large-scale competitions one day, such as the Olympic Games, you will definitely face the problem of endorsement conflicts, after all, the national team has always had its own sponsors." β
Xiao Peng smiled: "It's okay, I won't make it difficult for you, it's a big deal that I will participate in the wild card tournament as a Chinese, so it's not a conflict." β
When Yang Hao heard this, his face changed: "Eh, Mr. Xiao, calm down, this is absolutely unacceptable!"