Chapter 274: Arrival in the United States
A month passed quickly, and the most watched national football and men's basketball teams were finally released.
The situation of the Chinese women's volleyball team in this plane is naturally a little embarrassing, although it is said that it is the revitalization of the three major balls, but the attention of football is much higher than that of basketball and volleyball combined, and the most painful thing is that even the attention of basketball is far more than volleyball, because the attention of football and basketball will overlap greatly to a certain extent.
Therefore, once football and basketball rise, the girls of the women's volleyball team will inevitably be left out in the cold, because most viewers do not have the energy to pay attention to the volleyball game while paying attention to football and basketball.
The first to be released is the 12-man roster of the Chinese men's basketball Olympics -
Head coach: Qian Chenghai.
Rueda (99): 20 years old, center power forward
Song Tao (77): 19 years old, center power forward
Huang Yunlong (81): 24 years old, power forward center
Wang Libin (79): 21 years old, power forward center
Song Yingjie (76): 19 years old, power forward
Liu Jianli (80): 28 years old, small forward, big forward
Zhang Jixian (77): 19 years old, small forward scoring guard
Daniel Zhang (82): 22 years old, shooting guard
Kuang Lubin (75): 28 years old, shooting guard
Li Yaguang (83): 26 years old, scoring guard and point guard
Sun Fengwu (78): 22 years old, point guard
Gong Luming (73): 27 years old, point guard
This lineup is naturally not comparable to the future dream team, but if you look closely, it seems that it also has the level of competition with the current NBA midstream teams.
If this team wins the NBA, as long as Ruda plays well, it is actually not without a chance to break through the first round of the playoffs, and this five-star monster with 99 ability points definitely has the ability to drag four in the playoffs.
The national football team is obviously much stronger than the men's basketball team on paper, and there are a lot of native talents that have been unearthed in the past four years.
But basketball is much more difficult to tap talents, who makes this sport just a "height" to brush down a large number of good seedlings with athletic talent, on the other hand, football has very low requirements for height, boys can play professionally as long as they are higher than 1.6 meters.
In addition, basketball also has a much higher requirement for athletic talent than football, which requires both excellent height and outstanding physical talent, which is really unfriendly to the selection of materials.
Chinese football 1984 Olympic Games 22-man squad——
Head Coach: Nian Weisi
Wu Jie (99), 21 years old, 190cm, free man
Liu Haiguang (83), 23 years old, 186cm, center
Chen Jingang (80), 25 years old, 181cm, center
Zhao Dayu (84), 23 years old, 160cm, forward winger
Gu Guangming (85), 25 years old, 169cm, winger forward
Shen Xiangfu (80), 27 years old, 173cm, winger and wingback
Ren Zhihui (77), 17 years old, 172cm, winger forward
Chen Haonan (95), 19 years old, 171cm, midfielder
Zhen Aiguo (83), 22 years old, 185cm, midfield central defender
Zuo Shusheng (78), 26 years old, 175cm, midfielder
Wu Qunli (78), 24 years old, 175cm, midfielder
Jia Xiuquan (84), 22 years old, 182cm, central defender
Wang Dongning (79), 23 years old, 183cm, central defender, full-back, central striker, midfielder
Zhu Bo (78), 24 years old, 175cm, central defender
Ji Minghua (77), 22 years old, 177cm, central defender
Cui Yonghua (75), 18 years old, 180cm, central defender and full-back
Li Junwei (83), 23 years old, 176cm, full-back
Lv Hongxiang (78), 24 years old, 178cm, full-back, full-back, full-back, winger
Jiang Wei (76), 18 years old, 175cm, full-back and full-back
Ho Fu Wah (75), 19 years old, 172cm, full-back
Lin Yaodong (94), 19 years old, 191cm, goalkeeper
Lu Jianren (79), 24 years old, 178cm, goalkeeper
Chinese football in this plane can be regarded as giving full play to the advantages of the current system, this lineup is only a little bit worse, and if some young players are given a few years of room to grow, this lineup will not be worse than any team on paper.
But even now it is a super luxurious lineup on the Olympic stage, and even the sour tone is missing when the Asian media reports, because no one dares to fight in Asia, and basically kneel directly at a glance.
The Japanese media collectively used the "Asian Dream Team" to describe this national team, believing that this is the first Asian team that can be called a star-studded team in the World Cup.
Japanese fans have admired the Chinese team with a substitute eye, and it is almost time for Chinese basketball fans to look at the American basketball dream team with the same kind of admiration in the future.
But this kind of emotion that can substitute feelings into Nigo and worship Nigo infinitely should be born out of despair for his own team and players!
As long as you have one or two Yao Ming-style stars in your own family, you won't be crazy about American stars!
On July 8, the Chinese delegation gathered in Beijing to prepare to take a direct flight from Beijing to Los Angeles that had just opened after the Spring Festival to go to the venue of the Olympic Games.
It was also the first direct flight between China and the United States, in which Wu Jie and his tools were involved.
His bid was naturally for the standard clothing of Chinese airlines, and this passed without any suspense, because the two uniforms provided by Uniqlo were more than one step ahead of their competitors in terms of elegance and atmosphere, as well as reflecting Chinese style.
Chen Haonan provided a part of the airline food, including breakfast, snacks, and drinks, which were basically covered by his "unified food".
The fact that his "unified food" has been able to develop so rapidly in two years is largely due to the good name, and this "unification" is indeed easy to arouse the favor of all walks of life.
Now "Uni-President Food" has been able to produce instant noodles, beverages, bread and cakes, puffed food, chocolate candy, roasted nuts, and drinking water products.
This time they bid for the airline's breakfast, and they basically copied a few popular bread and pastries from junk food purchased online forty years later.
But unlike those junk foods that you know are inferior ingredients with inferior flavors and fragrances, and then mixed with a large number of preservatives and unique tastes, in this era, because ordinary people can't afford these things, these foods are basically special offerings from various government departments, state-run hotels, and guest houses.
These departments spend public money, and it is not distressing to be more expensive.
Therefore, the raw materials used in the production of Tongyi food will definitely be much better, and the preservatives are added very little, which leads to the shelf life is usually only one to three months, but the taste is significantly stronger.
In addition, the snacks on board are also covered by "Unified Food", which is a variety of small packages of roasted nuts and chocolate candies, which are also made with the best raw materials and in a very advanced and innovative way compared to this era.
In the end, even non-alcoholic drinks and mineral water were also won by "Unified Food", in this regard, he plagiarized the future milk drink, that is, Wangzi milk, supplemented by lemon tea, soy milk, the style is not less, and it is completely taken in this era.
In terms of mineral water, Chen Haonan's goal is to take over all the excellent water sources in China in the eighties and nineties, but at present, Uni-President Food has only established the first drinking water factory in Wanlv Lake, Guangdong, and the products produced are directly supplied to the large and small departments under the Ministry of Body, of course, the army is also their big customer, in addition to government departments, including airlines.
In general, Chen Haonan's "unified food" has developed very rapidly, but it mainly relies on government procurement to support the initial development.
In 1984, with the advancement of policy, China officially entered the first wave of reform and opening up, and the word "going to the sea" began to appear frequently in newspapers, and Lin Yaodong's association would poach many researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and major universities every month.
But people like Wu Jie and his tool people who got rich first really rely on relationships and backgrounds, after all, in this era, they can only do public business, and it is good that ordinary people can usually consume a popsicle, everyone really can't even afford to eat instant noodles and ham sausages, and don't even think about tea and eggs, these things are really not for the people to consume at this stage.
Therefore, parents in this era are not resistant to their children engaging in high-risk sports careers, because the salary is really much higher than that of civil servants.
Most of the food, clothing, housing and transportation of the Chinese sports delegation this time were provided by Wu Jie and others' companies, but these were not free services, and the money donated by them went around in a circle, and in the end a lot of them returned to them.
But no one spoke ill of them, because the living conditions of those in circulation did improve significantly, and the money catalyzed a large number of goods and very important jobs and taxes on the way around the circle.
There are a total of 405 members of this capitalized sports delegation, of which 286 athletes will participate in a total of 18 events, and the rest are leaders, officials, and staff of the Youth League headquarters.
But even the current first brother of the sports department, that is, the head of the regiment, everyone has to have a three-day entrance rehearsal in Beijing first, which is to show the world a beautiful first meeting.
Wu Jie naturally couldn't be absent, he and a few tool people pretended to fill in the lyrics for the entrance song in the rehearsal, ready to be sung by everyone when they entered the opening ceremony.
This proposal and the lyrics written at the end have been greatly appreciated by the first brother of the body, including the bigwigs who came to condole, and they also felt that this lyric highlighted the sense of ceremony and solemnity.
Wu Zhengsong, the deputy head of the regiment, and Ye Yuqi, the deputy secretary-general official, are naturally full of glory.
In the past few days, the entire delegation has gathered together, Chen Haonan, Lu Da, Lin Yaodong, Shen Lang, Qin Jian, these people who can be called exemplars and models inside and outside the sport, are all looking forward to Wu Jiema, it is obvious that their son has become the leading big brother among these outstanding young people.
On July 12, the Chinese delegation boarded the plane to Los Angeles in batches, and the last plane to arrive in Los Angeles was the most high-profile Wu Jie and the national football team led by him, which was already the 20th.
Americans are very concerned about this Chinese football team, but mainly because of Wu Jie.
He may not know how famous he is in the United States, but in the 20th century, when the Internet was not popular, you only had to look at the sales of his albums or records.
Wu Jie's two English albums, one released on Christmas '81 and one on Christmas '83, have sold a total of 35 million copies worldwide.
What is this concept?
Michael Jackson can be used as a comparison, the black superstar also reached the peak of his singing career last year, but he only tied with Wu Jie in record sales on his North American home field, and his global sales are much lower than Wu Jie.
In the last 36 weeks, Wu Jie's new album has won 24 weekly titles on the "American Album Chart", the other 10 times by Michael Jackson, and only twice by other artists' albums.
If the current American pop music scene is divided between Wu Jie and Michael Jackson, there is absolutely no problem in terms of record and album sales.
But if you zoom in to the last 96 weeks, then Wu Jie's two albums together have reached the top 49 times, almost occupying half of the American music scene.
In addition, you must know that Wu Jie himself has hardly been to the United States to promote, and his record sales are almost entirely supported by Polygram's unilateral promotion in North America and the quality of the album itself.
This is a bit of a plane where Jobs didn't come to China once, but Apple's products sold like crazy in China, and Jobs was also deified by the Chinese media and consumers.
Wu Jie likes this taste very much, so he will not come to the United States to promote it in the future, so don't buy it if you have the ability!
After the flight landed, almost all the well-known big media in the United States were present, and the goal was naturally to interview Wu Jie.
However, neither the national football team nor other athletes were interviewed, and Wu Zhengsong, as a representative, left a message for the American media that they would be interviewed in the hotel two days later.
Wu Jie just waved his hand to the large group of American reporters when he walked out of the airport, at this time he was not a football king, nor a popular superstar who was popular all over the world, nor a hidden big capitalist, but an ordinary Chinese football player, even the kind that he carried his own bag.
After the national football team arrived in the United States, it was jet lag in the hotel for two days, and finally under the organization of Wu Zhengsong, the deputy head of the regiment + the football leader, the **** was sent to accept an interview with the American media.
"American journalists are very hateful, but they may think I am even more hateful, you have to be careful!"
Before being interviewed, Wu Jie also chatted with Luda from the same hotel for a while.
The cargo took the men's basketball team on its first flight, arriving in Los Angeles four days ago.
In addition to the Americans' interest in Wu Jie and the Chinese football team, the Chinese men's basketball team, which has beaten the American team several times, is also the target they are most interested in.
Of course, most of the emotions here are negative, who made Ruda despise the NBA three or four times, this product obviously looks down on American basketball.
Ruda doesn't deny this, so when the Los Angeles Times asked him what he thinks of his pride in the city, "Skyhook" Abdul-Jabbar and "Magic" Johnson, Ruda's answer was: "Who are they?" “
This answer made all American reporters very unhappy, but the reporter of the "Los Angeles Times" still introduced these two people to him, and then reminded him that the Bayi team played against the Lakers two years ago, you won't really forget it, right? No way? No way?
Luda seemed to think about it at this time, and replied after patting his head: "Oh, the memory of the Sprinkle family is not very good, but how can the Sprinkle family remember a defeated general?" As for the evaluation, it is even more difficult to sprinkle the family, because the sprinkler family really has no impression of them. ”
This can make the American reporter half angry, and the vertical son dares to humiliate my big American basketball like this?!
The Los Angeles Times reporter laughed angrily and reminded again: "The last time we played against Bayi, the Lakers were only a semi-main lineup. ”
Luda also smiled when he heard this, but he still didn't leave the other party the slightest affection, and said bluntly: "Maybe, but the winner will never have anything to say about the loser." ”
This can be regarded as completely offending the American media, where did the American reporters present at the time suffer such grievances, how can this stall give up, and must fight to the death with this bastard!