Chapter 417: Olympic Fever 71
"As we all know, Chen Feng is a very remarkable and accomplished athlete, and he has achieved great achievements in track and field, swimming and basketball. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info and he joined our national football team this time, our football association has placed high confidence and expectations on him from the beginning, and I believe that the majority of fans in China are the same. And Chen Feng lived up to everyone's expectations of him and helped our Huaguo team win this crucial game. This is a very good start, I believe that with the addition of Chen Feng, the strength of our national football team will be greatly improved, and we will achieve one victory after another in the future. And we should also be confident that our Chinese team will definitely qualify for the World Cup qualifiers this time. ”
Zhao Long really talked at length this time, and it took nearly twenty minutes to say it, but his excitement is also understandable, because of Chen Feng's outstanding performance in this game against Australia, he, the direct leader and responsible person who originally advocated Chen Feng to join the national football team, can also be said to have gained fame and fortune. First of all, it suddenly won a large sponsorship order from Nike, with a sponsorship fee of at least 500 million yuan per year, and the contract period was agreed for ten years. The default fee is as high as 8 billion. Because, the original sponsor of the national football team was Adidas, and the two sides were originally still in the contract period, but because of Nike's strong intervention, they expressed their willingness to help the national football team pay 400 million yuan in liquidated damages. The national football team didn't want to breach the contract at the beginning, after all, it had a bad reputation, but the national football team asked Adidas to revise the sponsorship contract and increase the sponsorship fee, but the other party was picky and searched, and after several exchanges with each other, the other party only agreed to increase the annual sponsorship fee to 200 million, far lower than the 500 million on Nike's side. What's more, Nike also took the initiative to help the national football team pay liquidated damages.
The commercial sponsorship fee that Adidas gave to the national football team before was nearly 100 million yuan per year, but the scope of this "national football" is not only the national men's football team, but also the national women's football team, in addition to the national Olympic team, the national youth team, and the national youth team. Due to the lack of spare equipment and the fear of losing the players in the process of private storage, the team's staff will recycle the equipment and manage it in a unified manner after the end of each national brand training camp. Many international players have encountered such embarrassment: when a friend comes to ask for a jersey, he does not have a shirt at hand.
Therefore, the leaders of the Football Association agreed to change the contract to Nike after holding a meeting in private, and after urgently reporting the meeting summary to the General Administration, they were not refuted or criticized. Although there was no official reply, it was tantamount to acquiescing in the default proposal from the Football Association.
Therefore, the Football Association and Nike quickly hooked up, and Nike was even more afraid of long nights and dreams, and after the two sides initialed the contract, they directly paid 100 million yuan of sponsorship to the account of the Football Association, and also brought a truckload of sporting goods to the national football team that night. Such a large amount of sponsorship and a one-time payment, of course, is the first time that the Football Association has received it. As the head of the Football Association, Zhao Long can imagine how happy he was tonight.
Of course, everyone knows that the reason why Nike is so generous and impatient is nothing more than Chen Feng's super fame and influence.
Chen Feng has now joined the national football team, and his first game has attracted the attention of the world, and hundreds of TV stations around the world broadcast it live. It is conservatively estimated that Chen Feng's ordinary group stage of the World Preliminary Tournament has attracted at least 2 billion viewers around the world. With so many people watching his game, you can imagine how this huge advertising effect is. What's more, the World Cup will be held in two years, and if Chen Feng wears their jersey on the football field, billions of people around the world will be able to see it, how much advertising and economic benefit will this bring to them?
Therefore, this time, Nike spared no expense, and was even willing to take the initiative to take any risk of default on the national football team's side, which can be said to have been earned.
Chen Feng didn't know that the national football team had defaulted with Adidas because he joined. After all, he is not omnipotent, and he didn't care about the sponsors on the national football side from the beginning. However, he knew that the jersey he was wearing before seemed to be Adidas'. Now that the national football team suddenly announced Nike's additional sponsorship and let him wear Nike's jerseys and shoes in the future, of course he couldn't imagine such twists and turns.
And now Chen Feng is not only a heroic task to save Chinese football in Zhao Long's eyes, but also his lucky star and God of Wealth.
After Zhao Long's side finally finished speaking, the two foreign coaches made their own speeches. The two are more restrained, of course, they don't have much to say. In addition to the praise of Chen Feng, they are also determined to enter the World Cup this time.
After the two coaches finished speaking, it was finally the player's turn to speak. The reporters in the audience, who were already impatient, cheered up one after another.
The representatives of the players sitting on the main stage are Chen Feng and Deng Zhi. The latter was the captain of the field before, and he was also commendable in this game, and he performed well. Chen Feng motioned for him to speak first, although Chen Feng is very big, but this bit of sophistication is still needed. Not to mention that he was the captain on the field before, just that he was a senior of the national football team, and a few Chinese players who are still somewhat famous in the world, Chen Feng should let him speak on his own.
Deng Zhiqian gave in a few times, and when he saw that Chen Feng insisted, he didn't be polite anymore, so he spoke first. However, his captain's speech level is very average, and his words are a little intermittent, which generally means that the whole team of their national football team is very happy to have Chen Feng join, and they also spoke highly of Chen Feng's skills, and finally of course said with confidence that the national football team will definitely be able to qualify for the World Cup this time.
He was also self-aware, so he didn't have any tirade, but after he said what he should say, he handed over the right to speak to Chen Feng.
At this time, the reporters in the audience involuntarily rushed forward one by one, waiting for Chen Feng's speech.
"Master Zhao, the two coaches, and Captain Deng have already said it. This match against the Australian national team was just the first official football match of my career, and I am still a newcomer in football. Of course, I'm not deliberately humble or anything. I'm a newcomer to football, but I'm confident that my football is already world-class, and I believe that with my team-mates and I, we'll be able to qualify for this World Cup. And this is only the first step of our national football team's long march, and we still have a long way to go in the future. I hope that I will work together with all the Chinese people who are interested in making Chinese football rise and improve the football strength of our country to a great level. ”
Chen Feng's speech was still concise, and after he finished speaking, he signaled that he had finished his speech. Only then did the reporters in the audience react, and many domestic reporters applauded one after another.
Chen Feng's style, Zhao Long also began to get used to it, and immediately took what Chen Feng just said and said: "What Chen Feng said is very reasonable, and it is also very morale-boosting. From the current point of view, the development of football in our country is indeed only the first step of a long march, and we must all work together to develop and improve the football level of our country, so that we can have a place in the world football arena. If I said this before, I am sure that many people would have scolded me. ”
The reporters in the audience couldn't help but laugh when they heard Zhao Long suddenly laughing at himself. The fact is that at least Zhao Long has been scolded since he took office.
Zhao Long himself smiled self-deprecatingly before continuing: "But now that our national football team has such a great player as Chen Feng, we all see the hope of the future rise of our national football, so I believe it is still somewhat convincing for me to say such a thing." Personally, I am also very confident. Okay, I won't say more nonsense, and then it's time for the mention part. Journalists are invited to ask questions. ”
As soon as his words fell, the reporters who were present raised their hands in unison, and continued to squeeze forward one by one, with the result of course, being blocked by the wall formed by the security personnel.
Of course, Zhao Long was the first to click on the media reporters who cooperated with him.
This reporter also gave Zhao Long a lot of face, and the object of the question was not Chen Feng, but him, the head of the Football Association.
"As far as I know, the sponsor of the national football team should be Adidas, and it should be within the contract period, and the jerseys and shoes that the national football players said they wore before were also provided by Adidas. Now the national football team has suddenly accepted Nike's sponsorship, and it is also necessary for the national football players to wear the jerseys and uniforms provided by Nike, does this mean that the national football team has now terminated the contract with Adidas? Thank you. ”
Although this media reporter from a related household seems to give Zhao Long a lot of face, this question is also a bit acute, and it is also very newsworthy, fortunately, since Zhao Long announced the cooperation with Nike before, he has already had a draft about it. What's more, even if this reporter doesn't ask, other reporters will definitely ask.
"We've really terminated the contract with Adidas now. Although this is a pity, but in recent years, our national football team has not received effective sponsorship, many national football players even have only one set of sports equipment provided by sponsors for a year, so this time Nike wants to provide enough effective sponsorship for our national football team, we have no reason to refuse. We had communicated with them before terminating the contract, but unfortunately we didn't negotiate in the end. I can only express my regret for this. ”
Zhao Long's answer, of course, did not satisfy the reporters present. Everyone knows that the national football team has unilaterally breached the contract this time, and this nature is not very good. Of course, it is also true that Zhao Long said that Adidas has not been able to sponsor the national football team in recent years. After all, the previous results of the national football team were really not good. But such a unilateral breach of contract, which is not very nice to say. However, after all, a business giant like Nike is involved. You can't say that the national football team is not authentic. In business, this sponsor sponsorship is not strong, and can't let people change to a good one?
Of course, everyone wants to know the inside story of this, but Zhao Long can't all confess it. Moreover, the focus of most of the reporters on the scene is obviously not on this matter, but on Chen Feng, especially foreign reporters. Foreign readers are not at all interested in the relationship between the Chinese Football Association and the sponsors. Chen Feng is really interested.
Therefore, the next second reporter did not accidentally ask Chen Feng: "This time you played against the Australian national team, and scored a hat trick in just ten minutes on the field, and let the world see your outstanding football strength, so do you have any plans to officially become a professional player in the future? And which team do you personally admire the most? And which player do you admire and admire the most? Thank you." ”
"Football is just one of my many passions, just like I loved basketball so much but I didn't choose to join the NBA, and I didn't want to play professional football in the future. Personally, I admire the Barcelona team, I think their combination and tactical style are very good. As for the players I admire, there are more players, such as Maradona, Pele, Beckenbauer, Van Basten, etc., but if you say that I appreciate and admire the most, there is none. They are all people I learn from, but they are not role models. What I'm going to do is myself, not to imitate anyone. ”
Chen Feng's last sentence is undoubtedly very domineering, if other players or even some players who are now famous say this, everyone will definitely think that he is too arrogant. But it was Chen Feng who said this, even though he is now a football rookie and rookie, but everyone thinks that it is natural for him to say such things. Chen Feng really doesn't need to learn to imitate any of the great players before, as long as he does himself, he is destined to become a great legendary player like these king-level figures in the future.
Then two reporters asked Chen Feng questions, one of them asked whether Chen Feng would always represent the Chinese team in world competitions in the future, or whether he had considered joining the Xianggang team to participate in world competitions. Because Chen Feng is now registered in Xianggang, and many international competitions Xianggang and Huaguo teams are participating in their own teams, such as the Olympic Games and the World Cup.
This reporter's question is a bit tricky. Even if this issue has been debated in the media a long time ago, and everyone has not paid much attention to it since then, but this is still a tricky question after all, and if the answer is not good, Chen Feng is not pleasing to both sides, especially if it will affect the mood and feelings of Xianggang.
In this regard, Chen Feng didn't think about anything, but said very frankly: "I am now registered in Xianggang, so I can also say that I am from Xianggang." But everyone should know that Hunan and Hong Kong people are also Chinese. Xianggang is part of our Chinese territory. I didn't choose to represent the Xianggang team in international competitions, including the Olympic Games, and this World Cup qualifier for a very simple reason. I am a Chinese first and a Hunan Hong Kong second. I can represent the whole of China when I join the Chinese team, including Xianggang of course, but if I join the Xianggang team, I can only represent Xianggang and cannot fully represent the whole of China. This is a primary and secondary issue, and it should be well understood. (To be continued.) )