Chapter 15: Rise to Fame

As a player playing in Brazil, Lei Yi is too far away for too many Chinese fans, and it is a distance that prevents you from knowing any information about him in the first place. Even a former top star like Xiao Luo, after returning to play in Brazil, even if the results are still excellent, there will be many, many fewer fans watching him play.

Most of the time, fans can only get a glimpse of what he is doing in Brazil from the corners of some portals or on some football-related social media accounts. For example, his team reached the finals of the Copa Libertadores, or for example, he showed his best when he met a new star in the league, scoring a hat-trick in the game again.

Moreover, most people will just glance at the news, and even click on his goal highlights.

Sometimes it's not that you don't like it enough, it's just that it's too hard to change your habits just for the sake of one person.

So, a little Luo Du can't get Chinese fans to change their viewing habits, let alone just show his face in the Asian Cup play-offs of the World Cup qualifiers?

At this point, Lei Yi's predecessor Yue Yihuang was much luckier than him. At the age of 19, Yue Yihuang helped Torino, who had only just returned to Serie A from the second division at the time, to beat Juventus, one of the top three in northern Italy, in a local derby.

Although Chinese TV stations then spent a lot of money on the rights to broadcast the game of the Torino team, it was the Serie A league that Chinese fans are familiar with. But the situation of Thunder Wing is completely different now.

Most Chinese fans only know about the South American leagues, but they don't even know when the seasons of the major South American leagues start and end. Even, most people don't even know which league the South American teams can be called belong to. It is unrealistic to open up the broadcast of South American football just for such a young player who is just beginning to make a name for himself.

Not to mention, reopening a league broadcast not only involves the cultivation of fans' viewing habits, but also involves the system of league previews, the absorption of information, and the professional and knowledgeable commentators of the teams and players of that league.

It's a huge undertaking, and even if the choice is made to broadcast the Brazilian Primera Division, it won't happen overnight.

It was at this time that the video of the Brazilian League narrated by "Little Garrincha" Lei Yi spread far and wide, unexpectedly causing a sensation on the Internet. Accustomed to the commentary given by the football commentators of major TV stations, Lei Yi's version of "the participants of this game, he personally commentated" can almost be said to be fresh, natural, unpretentious, and unique.

Sometimes the version that Lei Yi gives the commentary will be mixed with the sound of him eating, or as soon as you listen to the commentary, you will know that this kid must have brought a football while commenting on himself, and he will play again according to his own review to find a feeling.

What did you say? You shouldn't make such a judgment based on the sound of the juggling ball alone?

Oh, take a serious look at the video of the game that Lei Yi poured out to comment, if you really hear a very loud "bang" and then a very annoyed voice from far away "Oh no!!" Not right again! Then you will come to the same conclusion as above.

With such an interesting football commentary in the Brazilian league, Lei Yi has become popular again in China. Many netizens have said that even if they don't understand the explanation of football tactics and kicking methods, or even don't understand football, they can enjoy it for a long time just listening to Lei Yi's commentary version, which is simply a classic and hilarious entertainment joke.

Is your life lacking in fun?

Do you think that entertainment variety shows that don't change the soup and don't change the medicine can no longer make you laugh?

Do you think that talk shows on TV are not funny at all, and you don't like the emphasis of the performers' words?

The blockbuster you are waiting for has not yet been reviewed and entered the cinema, and recently I have been anxious and don't know what to do?

Hurry up and listen to little Garin Charley Wing talk about him and his teammates and his opponents!!

With the increasing number of listeners and followers of Thunder Wing, a portal has made a plan to buy part of the rights of the foreign broadcast league related to the Brazilian Primera League, and invite Thunder Wing to explain the Brazilian Primera Liga where he played afterwards.

However, it is obviously difficult to contact Lei Yi, who now plays for Sao Paulo FC in Brazil, to say that this matter is obviously not easy. But fortunately, Lei Yi's parents are both in China.

A few days later, Lei Yi received a call from his parents.

"Son, recently a lot of people in China want to find you!"

"What are they looking for me?"

"That's a lot of things! There's a website that we'd like to ask you to help with the Brazilian Primera 1 matches! Bid a million! ”

"I'm going to play football very busy, I don't have time to be a commentator for them, let them find a professional!"

As soon as they heard that their son actually yawned, they didn't think much about it and refused, Lei's father and Lei's mother were anxious, they had already told the people who came to them to talk about it, and they almost agreed, their son couldn't listen to them and just say no! So Lei's mother said anxiously:

"Xiao Tsubasa, I don't let you explain every game, just let you explain the games you have played, and explain it afterwards! Just like you sent to your little friends! You think, you have to send them in the first place, and you can make more money by cooperating with the website! ”

Lei's mother has been poor for decades, and she knows how difficult it is to make money, and now that someone is coming to them with money, of course she doesn't want to let go of the opportunity so easily. She thought, her son didn't want money for the children to record, how could someone give money to him but he didn't want it.

"Mom, that's different. I only record my good friends when I have time, and I don't want to record a game or when I'm busy, I can just talk to them. But it's different after receiving the money, I have to do my duty. The coach also said two days ago, let me not focus too much on things other than football, and study more when I have time. The coach also said that there are still Nobel Prizes in literature among our players! ”

"This ......"

Lei's mother was also shaken by Lei Yi's words, thinking that her son was right. In case he was tired of commenting on the record and affected his results in the club, it would not be good, so he looked at Lei Yi's father hesitantly.

Lei Yi's father thought about it and said to Lei Yi: "Son, do you have an agent?" You're still young, and your guardian isn't around, so you can't be deceived by those foreigners, you still have to let your parents check many things, and ah, I've heard that a football player's agent can take a large part of his income from his income! Fat water can't flow into outsiders' fields, and many of the stars' agents are also their fathers or family members, I think, if you don't have an agent, you should let your father and me be the agent. ”

Lei Yi: "But...... Dad, you don't speak Portuguese. My main activity has to be in Brazil. ”

Daddy Lei: "Stinky boy! Wouldn't you and won't! ”

Lei Yi: "I...... I will. ”

Lei Dad: "It's not a half-ass, now learn and sell?" ”

Lei Yi felt that he couldn't explain to his father what was going on in Portuguese, so he could only be so vague.

In the end, Lei Yi still listened to his parents' words, and Lei Yi's father was promoted to Lei Yi's agent, and through the certification of several major Weibo platforms, he began to generously put his contact email, saying that all companies and brands that want to contact Lei Yi and find him to cooperate with can come to him first.

And, due to the improvement of the economic situation, Lei Yi's mother quit her job and planned to apply for a family visit visa to go to Brazil first, and then find a way to stay and take care of Lei Yi.

Although Lei Yi's father himself doesn't understand football and doesn't understand these twists and turns, he also began to study this aspect after becoming his son's agent. He went to inquire about the value of different stars, endorsement fees and attendance fees, as well as various treatments. Although these exact numbers will not be fully announced on the Internet, he also has to think about it carefully, and he has a good understanding of the different schedules of the major leagues, and has started a long road of learning football agents.

But those days didn't last long, and Ray Yi was about to have another day of his national team break.

Until November, Asian side China with 0.5 World Cup finals and South American side Ecuador with another 0.5 finals will meet in the final round of the World Cup qualifiers.

It will certainly be difficult for an Asian team to compete from a South American team for the other 0.5 spots needed to qualify for the World Cup finals.

China will need to play a home game before heading to South America for the second leg of the intercontinental play-offs.

This time, the Ecuadorian team can be said to know more about the secret weapon of the Chinese team than they do. There are three Ecuadorian internationals playing in Brazil alone, and both Ecuadorian national team players have played against their clubs in the Brazilian league once or twice since playing for Sao Paulo, and have a certain understanding of the superstar who plays in the same league as him.

Similarly, compared to his national team teammates, Lei Yi certainly knows more about the South American national team than his national team teammates.

If there is any advantage that the Chinese team can have against the Ecuadorian team, the answer given by the head coach of the Chinese team, Mr. Andric, is: I am a South American, and the head coach of the Ecuador team is not an Asian.

If you think about it, you can understand the frustration behind Mr. Andric's words, which at first sound very humorous.

Some people may say that although South American football is famous, they can only get 4.5 places in the round of 32 finals of the World Cup? From this point of view, the South American national team must be far worse than the European team.

But you have to know that although South America has only 4.5 World Cup finals places, excluding the situation of the host, there are only ten countries competing for these 4.5 World Cup finals places. At first glance, Europe has 13 seats, but 53 countries are vying for those 13 seats.

If you were to continue the comparison, the Asian region had 43 teams in the Asian region, which had the same 4.5 seats in South America.

With such a comparison, you can clearly understand how strong South American football is.

The popularity of football in China has plummeted after the Chinese team's defeat in the Asian Top 10 match, but when the Chinese team came back to life in the Asian play-offs, this football fever has quietly risen.

In this context, reports about the Ecuadorian team began to increase, and the recent matches of the Ecuadorian team in the South American qualifiers began to be re-broadcast on television.

If you have to talk about it, you can probably find a lot of problems with this team. For example, the formation is too loose, for example, the passing and receiving cooperation in the front court is too inflexible, and the players are not sensitive to the second and third landing points of the ball in the front court. But before you look at your opponents with such a critical eye, make sure you know yourself well enough.

A soccer ball that looked so small was constantly rising and falling in the air.

That's the secret weapon of the Chinese team, which is playing with headers as they walk.

That night, he went to the house of his club friend, Dominguez, to eat. Don't look at Dominguez, who doesn't like to talk much and doesn't smile often, but his mother is a very kind lady with a maternal aura. After learning that Lei Yi was a person who came to South America to play football away from home, she said that she welcomed Lei Yi to come to her house often in the future.

And today, Lei Yi is also cheeky to follow Domingos to his home. Since the family ran out of cheese and pepper, they went to the grocery store not far away to buy some kitchen ingredients that Dominguez's mother had ordered.

Lei Yi loves the feeling of walking on the streets of Brazil.

Because here he can always easily see the people wearing the jerseys, young, young, old. Moreover, Lei Yi can always easily hear what these people are talking about, which is related to football.

They are happy because the team they are supporting has won, and they are also sad for a long time because the team they are supporting has lost.

Here, Lei Yi can always feel that football is a part of everyone's life here.

"Domingos, did you hear me say? I said I was going to play Ecuador next week! Hello, give me a little bit of advice, and tell me what you think. ”

Even when talking to his friends, Lei Yi did not forget to continue to use his head to turn the ball, accompanied by Lei Yi's juggling ball, a very rhythmic sound, Domingos asked rhetorically after thinking for a while: "Will you have altitude sickness?" ”

"Ah...... Yes? Thunder Wing apparently didn't understand what Domingos's rhetorical question had to do with the message he was looking for.

Domingos: "Their home stadium is the second highest home stadium of the national team in the world. Quito, the capital of Ecuador, is 2,850 meters above sea level. In South America, almost all the strong teams have suffered losses at Ecuador's home turf. ”

Well, the altitude ...... 2850 meters.

So what is the concept of 2850 meters above sea level?

Lei Yi said he ...... He's never been to a place like this before, so what can I do!!