Champion!

The Chinese team won the Asian Cup!

In the early morning of the next day, major newspapers across the country published and printed them, all of which took the victory of the Asian Cup as the headline.

In an instant, the word "football" resounded all over the country. Football in China of all ages, the collective circle of fans.

Since Ou Chuliang was named the best in the Asian Cup, the covers of major newspapers also excerpted Ou Chuliang's photos. Some are flying to save, some are calmly commanding, some are celebrating victory, and some are cheering unbridledly.

Coupled with Ou Chuliang's young and handsome face, many merchants even began to consider Ou Chuliang's business status.

Among them, Adidas, a partner of the Football Association, first approached the Football Association. They want to get part of Ou Chuliang's "power", as well as Ou Chuliang's endorsement.

Although the officials of the Football Association are very backward in terms of information and means to deal with this kind of thing, they do not understand the deeper meaning of this. However, after asking Vice Chairman Xu, who was resting at home, he directly resorted to the "procrastination trick" and did not agree to it.

When more and more businessmen approached the Football Association to talk about it, the staff who received Adi at the beginning realized how dark Adi was at the beginning.

When the plane slowly landed at the Beijing Airport, Yuan Weimin and the others had been waiting for a long time.

This time, the Chinese men's football team finally raised their eyebrows, walked off the plane one by one, and accepted the love and blessings of the people to the fullest.

"Soldier, hard work!" Yuan Weimin took Wang Junsheng's hand, and the old tears were full of tears. "I really can't imagine that I can actually see a championship trophy before I go down."

"It should be, it should be." Wang Junsheng also sighed for a while, "This time the main thing is that the players play well, and the players have the most credit!" ”

"Mmmm, the credit for the players is great, and the credit for the players is the greatest." Yuan Weimin nodded immediately, he had already heard the deeper meaning of Wang Junsheng's words.

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In the streets and alleys, the word football also frequently appears in the mouths of citizens.

"Lao Zhao, have you heard? Our soccer team won the championship last night! ”

"I heard it, I heard it! Last night, Liu Laosan and their family were in an uproar, either the sound of broken dishes and chopsticks or the angry scolding of his wife. What else should I do, but this morning, our football team won the championship! Tut-tut, this is really an iron tree blooming, once in a hundred years!"

Although the Asian Cup is not as good as the Copa America and the European Cup, there is not even a single star player who plays in Europe. But some Chinese fans who are just starting out in the industry don't understand this at all, and they don't care about it.

As long as it can win against small Japan and South Korea, it will be the biggest victory for the Chinese team. Now that I've come back with another championship trophy, that's the biggest glory ever.

In this day and age, some fans are very picky and very easy to satisfy.

The Chinese fan base continues to expand with the increasing influence of football, although these people have all virtues, but as long as there is a champion, everyone can be so happy that they can't sleep for three days.

And these players who won the championship also became "heroes" in an instant.

TV interviews, newspaper reports, everywhere you go on the streets, you can see the portraits of the players, posters, etc.

Some sporting goods stores seized the opportunity and hurriedly purchased a batch of jerseys and footballs. Even so, it is in short supply.

In addition to sporting goods, the owner of the stationery store was also so anxious that he scolded his mother.

After sending off another disappointed female college student, the shopkeeper scolded and said: "It's really strange these days, it's reasonable for boys to buy football posters, why do girls buy them too?" And buy it more ruthlessly than the boys? ”

Just when the shopkeeper was puzzled, in his child's bedroom, his daughter, who had just entered high school, was happily looking at Ou Chuliang's big-headed poster that had just been pasted on the desk, with an obsessive face.

After the soccer balls were sold out at the sports shops, children chasing the ball could be seen everywhere in the playgrounds of some middle schools and in the open spaces of parks. As they kicked, they muttered the tongue twister behind the player card that the instant noodles were opened.

"Timely rain, Ma Mingyu, a long-range shot shocks the world..."

"Zhang Jihua, gourd baby, the enemy saw it and crawled to the ground..."

"Wu Chengying, the star in the sky, the left side of the national football team is Baoan Ning..."

"Ou Chuliang, he is strong, he carries the beam at a young age..."

Merchants are also attentive, and in the 20-man squad for the Asian Cup, Sun Jihai and Xie Hui are the two easiest ones. Through this "violent" means, the popularity of the two quickly started in the hearts of fans. And this is also in line with the desire of the Football Association to focus on the development of the two.

There are the easiest cards to win, and there are the hardest to win.

Ou Chuliang, who wore the No. 20 purple robe, was the most difficult.

Since the first half of the year, Ou Chuliang has been a "hit" in the football industry, and has become well-known among the people through friendly matches and the Olympic Games. So this time Ou Chuliang didn't need to increase his popularity, so the rarity naturally increased.

Because of the means of merchants, these young fans not only collect star cards, but also collect instant noodle packaging.

200 instant noodle packages can be exchanged for a star card book, and such an activity has led to all elementary school students across the country walking on the street to rummage through the trash cans on the street to see if there are any instant noodle packages that others have thrown away.

Even some elementary school students with a lot of pocket money use all their pocket money to buy instant noodles, and they give away the noodles or even throw them away after buying, so that the star card inside is the outer packaging.

This has also led to some people who have a card album and only Ou Chuliang is missing from collecting all the cards, and they have become "stars" in the eyes of everyone. But even so, it is not as good as the person who issued the No. 20 Ou Chuliang "God Card".

It is no exaggeration to say that as long as there is a single card of Ou Chuliang, he can boast among his peers for at least six years!

According to the merchant's statement in an interview later, Ou Chuliang's winning rate was as high as 1 in 30,000. And on top of that, there is a more special "gold card"! This is specially made by the manufacturer for Ou Chuliang, and it is randomly packaged in instant noodles sent to the whole country.

In fact, two of the cards were saved by the leaders of the manufacturer themselves at the beginning, and only eight were actually issued. And these gold cards scattered among the people, after many years, only five fell into the hands of fans, and the remaining three disappeared without news.

At an auction 20 years later, a senior fan surnamed Huang spent 1.7 million yuan to auction the remaining six when he had a gold card, and tore them up on the spot at the auction.

In an instant, the last remaining 96-year-old Ou Chuliang gold card in Huang Fuhao's hand directly increased in value several times. It is said that someone later spent 5 million to buy, but he did not sell it.

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Influenced by the championship, the good sales of instant noodles are just a microcosm, and they are also huge in other fields. Especially the attitude of the people towards football, this championship directly set off a wave of football fever.

Football has also become the most popular form of entertainment among young people and adults.

Fortunately, the universities have their own football fields; And those wild teams that want to play football but have nowhere to play have also proposed to the county, city, and province to expand the football field through their own connections.

Since most of the members of these wild teams are successful owners or managers in various regions, they together represent the backbone of a regional business. Therefore, their suggestions were also taken very seriously by leaders at all levels, and the documents were rushed out overnight and uploaded layer by layer.

Finally, at the end of 96, *** issued a red-headed document. The central government allocated funds, and the Football Association took the lead, to screen venues in areas above the prefecture-level cities across the country, and build 10 national stadiums and 90 civilian football fields.

After the construction team selected the site and started excavation, it caused a chain reaction.

Seeing that football stadiums began to be built in the city, local businessmen and bosses in some small county towns and prefecture-level cities also collectively contributed funds, and those who had money contributed money, those who had land came out, and some people came out. I circled a field, set up a goal, and pounced on the fake grass.

Although the conditions of these football fields are very rudimentary, there are no stands and no night lights. But as soon as the sun rises, there are people running on the field with the ball, rain or shine.

Many years later, when foreign scholars came to China to learn from the experience of the Chinese Super League and summarize Chinese football, they came to a unified conclusion: the Asian Cup championship won by the Chinese team in 1996 was a turning point in the history of Chinese football.