Chapter 3 O 9 The Key

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The news of Zhou Yi and Dortmund's successful contract renewal soon spread throughout Germany, Europe, and China, and domestic Dortmund fans were also relieved.

They are not only fans of Zhou Yi, but also fans of Dortmund, there are many people who like and support Dortmund before Zhou Yi joined Dortmund, and some people like Dortmund because of Zhou Yi.

Whatever kind of person it is, they don't want Zhou Yi to leave Dortmund.

Although Dortmund fans in China and in Germany are happy about Zhou Yi's successful contract renewal, not everyone thinks this is good news for Dortmund.

After all, this summer, Dortmund has lost Gotze and Lewandowski, even if Zhou Yi stays, so what's the use?

Dortmund's strength is still inevitably declining, and there is quite a bit of a decline.

On the contrary, Bayern Munich's strength has increased significantly, and they have directly dug two absolute main forces from Dortmund, and the gap between the two teams has been greatly widened.

Coupled with the joining of the famous coach Pep Guardiola next season, many people are more optimistic about Bayern Munich to complete the comeback against Dortmund next season.

There is another reason why people are not optimistic about Dortmund's prospects for the new season - after winning the Champions League, Dortmund seems to be more keen to use the name of "Champions League champion" to make money, and go around to participate in commercial activities, which is a huge burden for the team.

Zhou Yi had just successfully renewed his contract with Dortmund and boarded a plane from Germany to China with the team.

Borussia Dortmund officially started its visit to China.

The training camp for the new season also starts in China, where they will play three matches against three Chinese teams and participate in some commercial activities.

The fatigue of the journey and the intensive activity arrangement are a big interference for the team's normal training and preparation. The original training camp plan was cut into pieces, and it is really hard to say how much improvement the players can get in the training camp.

In European football, there are many examples of teams jumping off a cliff in the new season because of unscheduled summer training camps and unscientific commercial games.

In the eyes of analysts, Dortmund's choice to go to China to continue training is definitely a failure, indicating their poor results in the new season.

It's just that the results are not good at that time, and it is not clear whether it is the pot that went to China to train, or the pot that lost Gotze and Lewandowski......

In fact, Dortmund's trip to China was negotiated more than half a year ago, and Dortmund at that time did not know that they would lose important players one after another in the summer.

Zhou Yi was able to successfully renew his contract with the club, and the happiest department was not even the sports department in charge of Zorke, but the commercial department of Thomas Tresse.

If Zhou Yi also leaves the team this summer, then Dortmund's trip to China will definitely be greatly reduced. Dortmund were able to finally agree on a contract extension with Zhou Yi, and there was some pressure from their Chinese partners who wanted to see Zhou Yi return home in Dortmund's jersey, rather than paying a high price for a team that had little to do with China.

Without Zhou Yi, in terms of popularity and popularity, Dortmund is far inferior to traditional European giants such as Real Madrid, Barcelona, Manchester United, Arsenal, Bayern Munich and other traditional European giants in China......

On this trip to China, Zhou Yi is the biggest signboard and gimmick.

The news of the successful renewal of the contract was transmitted back to China as soon as possible, and it was also convenient for those partners to take action and publicize it.

In China, fans are also looking forward to Dortmund, or Zhou Yi.

Just this summer, Zhou Yi also helped the Chinese team get the right to participate in the World Cup, and his popularity in China is unparalleled. Dortmund can make a lot of money with Zhou Yi.

When the plane of the entire Dortmund team arrived at Baiyunshan Airport in Guangzhou, the fans who had been waiting outside the airport for a long time were boiling.

Although every Dortmund player who appeared in front of them would enjoy very enthusiastic cheers, all this became bleak when Zhou Yi appeared.

Grosskreutz was just as he bragged to Kuba about the cheers he had just received.

"I really didn't expect me to have so many supporters in China! They are so crazy and enthusiastic! I think, Kuba, I must have more fans in China than you ......."

Before he could finish speaking, he was drowned out by a sudden thunderous cheer.

He looked back and saw Zhou Yi walking out of the exit.

"Zhou Yi!!"

"Zhou Yi is good!!"

"Zhou Yi, I like you so much!!"

Whether male or female, only one person's name is called.

Not only Grosskreutz turned back, but other Dortmund players, coaches, and officials also looked back at Zhou Yi.

They knew that Zhou Yi was a very popular star player in China, but they also found it hard to imagine that Zhou Yi was so popular.

The reporters of the German media who came with the team saw this scene and were also shocked, they felt that the love of Dortmund fans for Zhou Yi was shocking enough, but they didn't expect the love of Chinese fans for Zhou Yi to be even more shocking!

“…… In my opinion, Zhou Yi is completely emperor in China, and he can arouse people's admiration wherever he goes......" he wrote in a report sent back to Germany. "He can't go out without any disguise, otherwise he will paralyze traffic everywhere he goes...... In the past, we always thought that China was a desert of football, and Zhou Yi was like a god who brought rain to this desert......"

"After seeing Zhou Yi's popularity in China at the airport, I think I can understand why Dortmund FC had to plan this trip to China. If I were the decision-maker at Borussia Dortmund, I would have agreed...... Thanks to Zhou Yi, the whole Dortmund team has enjoyed extraordinary treatment in China, and I bet that even if German Chancellor Angela Merkel had come, it probably wouldn't have been much better...... "Another German journalist wrote.

“…… The bus in which the entire Dortmund team left the airport, escorted by police cars along the way, and there was no obstruction everywhere they went. On both sides of the road, you can see the gathered fans at any time, wearing Dortmund jerseys, waving Chinese flags, expressing the warmest welcome to the arrival of the whole Dortmund team, and they kept shouting Zhou Yi's name to the summer bus that Dortmund was riding...... And Zhou Yi still had his trademark smile on his face in front of such crazy fans, waving to the fans, although the smile did not change, but at that moment, I felt a little strange to Zhou Yi in front of me, he really seemed to be the leader of this land......" A German journalist detailed what he saw and heard in China.

The words and photos of these journalists have opened the eyes of German fans and given them the most intuitive understanding of Zhou Yi's popularity in China.

The scene really excited Watzke and Tress, who were worried about Dortmund's lack of popularity in China before they came to China.

So much so that after winning the Champions League, they had a little confidence to come to China to make money.

But now it seems that in fact, they don't have to wait to win the Champions League at all, and they now regret that they didn't come to China two years earlier to make money, and wasted their time.

China is a market that is so big that no one can ignore it, like a treasure mountain. But not everyone and all teams can come to this treasure mountain to get a piece of the pie. If you don't have the right way, you may not even be able to enter Baoshan.

Dortmund are lucky that they have one of the best golden keys.

With Zhouyi, the Chinese market is completely open for Dortmund.

On the bus to the hotel, the two men came together head to head and were already discussing how to make money from the Chinese market - it was obviously not enough to just play the tour. They want to open Dortmund's theme store, sell Dortmund liddles, and also want to cooperate with China's domestic capital to establish Dortmund's youth academy in China, and promote Dortmund's youth training experience to China...... Even if Zhou Yi leaves Dortmund in the future, he doesn't have to worry about losing the Chinese market.

Such a bright prospect made Watzke and Tress more and more excited the more they thought about it, and they couldn't close their mouths with smiles.