With Yang Yang's goal, the Chinese team defeated Angola 1-0 and won the first victory in the history of the World Cup!

This quickly became the focus of the world's major media that night and the next morning.

Even FIFA congratulated the Chinese team on its official website, believing that this is a memorable day and a gratifying achievement, which represents a new history of Chinese football.

FIFA President Seppat said publicly in an interview with the media that Yang Yang is bound to go down in football history because of his outstanding performance in this World Cup, and he also expects this talented player who is only 19 years old to make more outstanding contributions to the Chinese team, Asian football, and even world football.

With four goals, Yang Yang caught up with the German center Klose, who scored a brace the day before and counterattacked on the scorer list, and the two led the World Cup scorer list side by side.

However, unlike the German team that advanced to the knockout round, the Chinese team unfortunately left due to a 1-1 draw between Portugal and Mexico.

This also made countless media and fans feel sorry for Yang Yang, because everyone believed that he could have achieved better results, and even could have competed for the World Cup Golden Boot, but the weakness of the national team dragged him down.

But in an interview with the media, Yang Yang said with confidence that this World Cup has gained a lot.

"We've seen the level of the best teams in the world, Portugal, Mexico and Angola are all very good teams and it's a great asset for us to play against teams like that, win or lose."

As the captain of the team, Yang Yang said that he was proud to lead the team to win the first World Cup victory in the history of Chinese football, and he also thanked all fans across the country for their support.

"There is no doubt that Chinese football is still very weak, and there are still many problems, which require all of us to work together, especially from the support of the fans, and we work tirelessly on the pitch just to not disappoint more than a billion compatriots."

"Here, I just want to say to them that you are the hope of Chinese football!"

Regarding his regret that he was eliminated from the World Cup, Yang Yang was very calm, saying that this is normal.

"Complaining about the opponent playing tacit ball? No, it's useless at all, it's quite normal and understandable to maximize one's own interests within the limits of reasonable rules. ”

"If you really want to complain, I think we didn't play well in the first round of the group stage, we could have not lost, but there is no regret medicine in this world."

"But it doesn't matter, this session is a hard lesson for us, but the next time we come back, we will be stronger than we are now, and I believe that next time we will not just have zero breakthroughs, but will have to qualify from the group."

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Yang Yang's remarks returned to China, which greatly aroused the enthusiasm of domestic fans and sparked heated discussions on the Internet.

At the same time, foreign media are also vying to report on Yang Yang's game.

As a European supernova, Yang Yang's every move has attracted the attention of the media and fans around the world, especially now that it is still his transfer suspense period, and he scored four goals in three group games in the World Cup, tied with Klose for the top scorer, which surprised countless fans and admired them at the same time.

Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo, who claims to be competing with him, only scored a goal, or Figo conceded a penalty for him, while Yang Yang's four goals were all real goals.

Barcelona's talented youngster Lionel Messi only scored a goal, coming in Argentina's 6-0 win over Serbia and Montenegro.

It can be said that Yang Yang is better than these two competitors of the same age, both in terms of the quality of the goals and the difficulty, at least considering that the overall strength of the Chinese team is far inferior to Portugal and Argentina.

And in the heat of the media, the World Cup has also ended all the group stages.

The day after the Chinese win over Angola, they returned to Beijing from Germany.

After receiving the news in advance, thousands of fans gathered at Beijing Capital Airport to welcome the triumphant return of the national team like heroes.

Especially Yang Yang, who scored four goals, has become a hero in the eyes of all fans.

The crowd was very big and the scene was even a little chaotic at one point, but in the end order was maintained.

The national team also announced its disbandment on the spot after returning to the Xianghe base.

Yang Yang quietly returned to Beijing, and secretly flew to his hometown of Quanzhou with Su Ye the next day.

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When Yang Yang got on the flight home, an emergency video conference about him was underway at Nike's headquarters in the United States, which included Mark Parker, who became Nike's CEO in January.

In addition to several core executives of Nike headquarters present, there were also several other regional directors and core executives in the video.

There is only one reason to initiate this remote video conference, and that is Yang Yang!

"I admit that our team made a bad decision before the World Cup and caused serious damage."

Charles Danson, president of Nike's global brand marketing, looked a little solemn, and it was obvious that there was a big problem.

"At that time, the European zone reported to us on the status of the negotiations, but we believe that with the level that Yang Yang has shown so far, it is far from reaching the standard of top players, even with the addition of the Chinese market, we can only give about 8 million euros at most, which is already about the same as Beckham, far higher than Kaka, Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi."

When Charles Danson said this, the words changed, "But the other party's agent opened his mouth and directly shouted the sky-high price of 15 million euros, which is absolutely unacceptable, which has even surpassed those players in the NBA." ”

Everyone in the meeting also nodded, obviously agreeing with this statement.

Although Nike has a lot of money, it is definitely not a Kaizi, and it is impossible to invest a lot of money in a player.

"The mistake we made was to underestimate Adidas' interest in Yang Yang, who was also determined to win after snatching Messi from us, and they have decided to invest more in football, this time sponsoring Liverpool, at a cost of £10 million a year."

"Ajax's sponsor is Adidas, and in order to avoid the loss of Yang Yang, Adidas took the initiative to let Chelsea, Liverpool, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich and other teams participate in the competition, hoping to keep Yang Yang in their camp, and even did not hesitate to express his willingness to pay part of Yang Yang's salary for this team through sponsorship."

"In addition, we have reliable information, during the World Cup, Adidas has sent people to contact Yang Yang many times, they are the sponsor of the Chinese team, and their negotiators have also had frequent contact with Yang Yang's agent, which also made Raiola's negotiation attitude change very quickly during this period of time."

Nike's original strategy was to temporarily cool Yang Yang and let Raiola take the initiative to succumb, but they obviously miscalculated the situation.

Adidas was clearly more interested in Yang Yang than they expected.

"Although the Chinese team was eliminated from the World Cup, Yang Yang shined with four goals, and his reputation has not been damaged at all, but has gone to the next level, especially in China, his prestige has reached the highest level ever, and his influence is very amazing, and we only have one year left on his contract."

This is also the most unfavorable place for Nike at present, because Yang Yang, with the support of Adidas, is entirely likely to terminate the contract early, although Nike was compensated a sum of money, but it was paid by Adidas, and Yang Yang did not suffer at all.

"Wu Nan, what do you think?" CEO Mark Parker asks one of the executives in the video.

Woonan McClavlin, an Irishman, joined Nike in '98, first as a sales director for Africa, and then became vice president of Asia Pacific in 01, and made Nike achieve rapid development in the Asia-Pacific region, and now serves as vice president of Europe, the Middle East and Africa, which can be described as Nike's prince.

What's more, he is very familiar with both the Asian and European markets.

"In the Chinese market, we have had a very painful lesson." Woonan McClavlin said lightly.

Many people present nodded, it was a tacit matter within Nike's top management, that is, Yao Giant switched from Nike to Reebok, which caused a huge loss to Nike, so that now there is no chance to make up for it.

And now, Yao Juju has also moved from the Reebok camp to the Adidas camp, giving the German company wings.

"We made another serious mistake before, we should have stabilized Yang Yang and his agent, but we took a cold attitude, which is obviously repeating the previous mistakes of Yao Giant, and now, our opponents are getting closer to them, and even I received the news that Yang Yang is likely to switch to the team under Adidas."

Everyone present had solemn faces and worried faces.

Adidas is a veteran of the football industry, working closely with FIFA and many big teams, while Nike has always wanted to outperform its opponents in football.

"According to the current market research, Yang Yang not only has amazing popularity in China, but also has a very high popularity and influence in Asia, Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia, and even has a very high attention in Europe and the United States, which shows amazing market value and potential."

"I can even say that he is an important factor in whether we can achieve our sales targets and rapid growth in China and Asia in the next few years, and whether to re-strive for it still needs to be decided by consensus."

Although Woonan McClavlin did not say it explicitly, he clearly told everyone that Yang Yang will become the core weapon of Nike and Adidas to compete for the Asian market, and the success or failure of the Asian market, especially the Chinese market, will undoubtedly determine who will become the first brother of Nike and Adidas in the future.

This is no longer an estimate, but a fact.

Yang Yang has only one, unique, it depends on who has a better chance of getting him from Nike or Adidas.

This is also a war without gunpowder!

Mark Parker, who has only been in office for half a year, has a grim face, and he begins to realize that this will be a major decision.

It may even affect his position at Nike.