Chapter 164: Legend No. 7

At the moment when Muhammad turned around, Zhang Xizhe did not stop the ball, and directly passed the ball back to Huang Bowen, making a simple two-by-one cooperation.

Dai Zhiwei shook off You Sufu, who had been staring at him, and quickly stepped forward from the right side, Huang Bowen glanced at it, understood, and made a feint to divide the side, and the other party really came on the field and hurriedly rushed up to force it.

Huang Bowen stepped on the ball with his right foot, followed and turned, and before the opposing defender could figure out the state, the ball had already flown out diagonally!

Dai Zhiwei seemed to have a pair of eyes behind him, and he didn't look back, the football flew just above his left shoulder, his right leg was raised high, and the arch of his foot was pushed like this, and the football shot to the left as if he had received an order!

Zhang Xizhe had been waiting on the side for a long time, and his face was full of excitement when he saw the football flying over, but the opposing fullback Saleh had already pounced on it, trying to sabotage the attack!

"Whew, it's dangerous!"

Zhang Xizhe's heart moved, his left foot pulled back, did not let go, stepped on the ball and turned around, and suddenly made a cross at the moment when he rushed to the bottom line, and the football flew through the left penalty area to the arc of the middle penalty area!

Dai Zhiwei's left leg picked up wildly, and without waiting for the football to land, his right leg swung horizontally, "Bang!" With a sudden sound, the football couldn't stand the pressure, and the football slashed out a dazzling white light, blasting towards the goal like a disarmed cannonball!

Although Syria's goalkeeper Al Ma struggled to the top left corner of the goal, the ball was too fast and instantly plunged into the net!

"The ball is in! Dai Zhiwei! Dai Zhiwei equalized for the Chinese team! Dai Zhiwei's powerful volley can be said to have mobilized the emotions of a fan of his own side, and the commentator of the Huaxia TV Sports Channel who broadcast the game live was no exception.

Dai Zhiwei burst out with passion in an instant, jumped over the billboard quickly, and the reporter next to him kept pulling the trigger, you must know that this is his first national team goal after joining the Champions League and La Liga Golden Boot, and he is definitely a well-deserved king of Asian football!

No Asian striker has reached such heights in recent years!

With Dai Zhiwei's goal, the firepower of the Chinese team was completely activated.

Yibian fought again, although the coach of the Chinese team, Lippi, did not make substitutions, but adjusted his tactics and used the three-center-back style of play.

In the 66th minute, the Chinese team sent a corner kick, Zhang Linpeng was pulled down by the opponent in the penalty area, and the referee also awarded the Chinese team a penalty opportunity.

In the 71st minute, Jiang Zhipeng delivered a low-arc cross on the left side, and Dai Zhiwei nodded the ball in front, but Gao Lin, who was outflanked at the back point, was a step slow and failed to touch the ball.

3 minutes later, it was Jiang Zhipeng who rubbed the ball to the back point, Gao Lin's header was ferried, and Dai Zhiwei volleyed near the penalty spot to score, completing the hat trick and expanding the score to 3:1!

After falling behind by two goals, the Syrian team completely gave up resistance, and Lippi began to withdraw his troops.

In the end, the Chinese team defeated the Syrian team 3:1!

After 8 rounds, the Chinese team has 4 wins, 3 draws and 1 loss, accumulating 15 points and continuing to rank second in the group.

This aspiring victory also made Huaxia a boil, and even "People's Daily" commented after the game: "From the beginning of the backwardness to the second half of the overtake, the national football team really fought, and the fans saw it." Every time you strive, every time you don't give up, you can get a reborn transformation. Chinese football, keep up the good work! ”​​​

As soon as the Chinese players got off the field, they received a good news: Qatar defeated South Korea 3:2 at home.

After the defeat, although the South Korean team still ranked third in the group with 11 points, the gap with the Chinese team in front of them has widened to 4 points.

With only 2 rounds left in the round of 12, the Chinese team has seen the 2018 World Cup finals beckoning to them!

Since 2002, Chinese football has never been so close to the World Cup!

After the victory over Syria, China will not face Uzbekistan until August 31, and if China win that game, South Korea will be able to reach the World Cup finals again in 2002, regardless of whether they can beat Iran.

Until then, Dai Zhiwei has plenty of time to deal with his transfer issues.

However, he is not a mother-in-law, and he doesn't want to be pestered by reporters every day, so he quickly made a decision.

3 July - Less than 48 hours before the start of the Premier League's summer transfers, Manchester United's official website officially announced the signing of Dai Zhiwei to a four-year contract.

Almost at the same time, Villarreal's official website also released the same news and revealed that Dai Zhiwei left the team in the form of 110 million liquidated damages.

Manchester United's official website reads: "Manchester United and Dai Zhiwei have signed a final agreement, which will come into effect on 4 July. Dai Zhiwei will remain at Manchester United for the next four years.

At 12 noon on the same day that the two clubs announced Dai Zhiwei's transfer, Dai Zhiwei arrived in Manchester by private jet and began his career as a Manchester United player.

And his first day at Manchester United was perfectly captured on camera!

At 13 o'clock, Dai Zhiwei showed up at Moraleha Hospital, where Manchester United's medical team was waiting for a full medical examination for him, after the examination, the head of Manchester United's medical team, Dias, said: "Dai Zhiwei is in perfect physical condition, obviously he is looking forward to the new season. ”

After his medical check-up, Dai rushed to Old Trafford, where he was greeted by more than 50,000 fans.

At Old Trafford, Dai was greeted by Manchester United chief executive Woodward, who led him to his office, gave him a map of Old Trafford and gave him a brief introduction to Old Trafford.

Subsequently, Dai Zhiwei had lunch with Mourinho and Woodward and other senior executives at the hotel next to the stadium at Old Trafford, and the former coach of the team, Alex Ferguson, also came to Old Trafford, and the old man was a special guest of Dai Zhiwei's appearance today.

At 8 p.m., an hour before Tai's appearance at Old Trafford, he officially signed Manchester United owner Joel Glazer in his Old Trafford office, and Tai Zhiwei will play as a player for the next four years.

Joel Glazer's appearance shows that Manchester United attach great importance to Dai Zhiwei.

After the signing was completed, Joel Glazer presented Dai Zhiwei with a watch, a pen and a model of Old Trafford as a souvenir.

Today's climax is the debut ceremony at 21 o'clock in the evening, Manchester United's restriction on 70,000 fans can't suppress the love and expectation of Manchester United fans for Dai Zhiwei!

Accompanied by current Manchester United chairman Joel Glazer and manager Jose Mourinho, Dai Zhiwei officially met nearly 100,000 United fans at Old Trafford.

Dai Zhiwei's appearance attracted 97,500 Manchester United fans to Old Trafford, and many female fans held up Dai Zhiwei's posters or slogans to express their admiration for the Chinese superstar.

Manchester United fans are also ingenious, consisting of 30 fans each writing part of a letter on their stomachs, forming a giant "DAI" letter.

Dai Zhiwei's debut ceremony invited 65,000 fans to Old Trafford to welcome him to 500 media reporters, but in reality there were 97,500 fans and nearly 1,000 media reporters, both of which set a new record for Manchester United.

The record was held by Cristiano Ronaldo, who attracted 65,000 fans at the Bernabeu and 400 journalists.

Dai Zhiwei finally chose the No. 7 shirt - Manchester United's legendary No. 7!

At one point, he was hesitant to continue wearing Villarreal's number 10 shirt, but in the end, it was United's number 7 legend who won him over.

In world football, the number 7 of Manchester Link has been a great legacy, George Best, Bryan Robson, Cantona, David Beckham, Cristiano Ronaldo, etc. This number is the most legendary at Manchester United, it has always been synonymous with greatness, and in the new season, Dai Zhiwei will inherit this legendary Manchester United shirt.

In China, overnight, everything has changed, and with the addition of Dai Zhiwei, Chinese football seems to have become another home of the Red Devils overnight!

Dai Zhiwei's contract with Manchester United includes a base salary and image rights income of £14.55 million a year – not including his image rights in China. He receives £75,000 per start, with a £1.1 million annual signing fee.

Overall, Dai Zhiwei's weekly salary is equivalent to about 301,000 pounds, which is already the top three in the Premier League.

Starting next season, Dai Zhiwei will get a bonus of 1.5 million pounds for the Premier League Golden Boot and a 1.5 million pound bonus for the Champions League Golden Boot.

If Manchester United win the Champions League, Dai Zhiwei will receive a prize of 1 million pounds; If Manchester United win the Premier League, then Dai Zhiwei will receive a prize of £500,000.

This is more than four times the more than 4 million euros that Dai Zhiwei received at Villarreal last season!

In order to avoid repeating the mistakes of Villarreal, Manchester United set a contract break fee of 1 billion euros for Dai Zhiwei, not for show-off, but for real needs.

Because Vorwood Ward learned through some channels that some Arab consortia also want to poach Dai Zhiwei from Old Trafford in a year or two, although they may not offer a crazy price of 1 billion euros, but it is completely normal to bid two or three hundred million.

Within Manchester United, Dai Zhiwei's contract repudiation clause is also referred to as the "anti-chieftain clause".

After the appearance of Dai Zhiwei, who has not talked to the media in this transfer turmoil, at Old Trafford, he finally opened the golden mouth.

'After reaching the last four of the Champions League last season, I thought about joining Manchester United. Anyway, Villarreal is a team I'm willing to work for, despite everything I've done, so I think it's time for a new challenge. ”

Dai Zhiwei's rhetoric did not express any love for the new owner, which was somewhat unexpected by Spanish reporters.

'Of course I didn't come to Manchester United for the money because PSG and Manchester City could give me more. Manchester United is a team that I have always supported as a child and Jose Mourinho is a manager that I admire so much, all I want now is to enjoy the game here and if I can get more wins, more trophies then it will be even better! ”

In fact, Woodward does not like Mendes, but for Dai Zhiwei's transfer, he raised his hands to agree.

Although United's other two striker targets, Everton's Romelu Lukaku and Real Madrid's Morat, must have a much lower transfer fee than Dai Zhiwei, they are not at all the same level as Dai Zhiwei.

It is not yet known whether Manchester United will soar in the new season because of the addition of Dai Zhiwei, but in terms of "making money", Old Trafford, who just spent 110 million euros in cash, is already destined to have a full purse!

Dai Zhiwei joined Manchester United, fans should not be happy to talk about it first, but it must be Manchester advertisers who are happy.

In the eyes of many economists, the transfer is a deal that has nothing to do with football and more like a commercial merger.

The commercial benefits brought by Dai Zhiwei are not long-term, and on the second day of Dai Zhiwei's joining, Manchester United received a huge sponsorship fee from Huaxia -

Huawei has signed a two-year global partnership agreement with Manchester United. Under the agreement, Huawei and Manchester United will work together over the next two seasons at the club's communications and promotional level. Huawei's logo will be featured on Manchester United's official shirts and training kits, as well as a lightbox ad at Old Trafford and displays in different areas of the club, allowing it to reflect its brand in a variety of ways.

Manchester United's current chest sponsor is the American car company Chevrolet, but according to the Times, Manchester United will not renew the contract with Chevrolet, but will instead choose the Chinese company Wanda or Hisense as the new sponsor.

And that's not even counting the sponsorships being negotiated – PepsiCo, Titter, CK, Audi and others are already at the table at Old Trafford!

This is why no one is responsible for his extravagant spending after Woodward made a 110 million euro purchase of Dai Zhiwei, because with the name "Dai Zhiwei" alone, Manchester United is destined not to lose money from this transfer deal!

With the official joining of Dai Zhiwei, Manchester United, which has spent 110 million euros, can no longer afford to buy top stars, and Lukaku, who Mourinho insisted on buying, also continued his Everton career in the "history", and Real Madrid's Morat instantly became a hot potato, only Chelsea and Juventus still have the intention of buying, but the bid has been reduced by more than half.

But no one will underestimate Manchester United's summer transfer this time, because the addition of Dai Zhiwei is no less than the introduction of thousands of troops.

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