Chapter 172: The first star in the Chinese sports world

After Dai Zhiwei scored, the referee of the game directly blew the whistle for the end of the game. This also means that with Dai Zhiwei's last-minute goal, the Chinese team successfully qualified for the 2018 World Cup!

It was a spectacular match that took place on August 31, 2017 at the Wuhan Sports Center, the home of the Chinese team.

Fans across the country are confidently expecting the Chinese team to win and get the chance to advance to the first round.

However, at the end of the game, the Chinese team still tied with the Uzbekistan team 2:2, and if they want to determine whether they will advance, they will have to wait for the results of tomorrow's match between the Iranian team and the South Korean team, and may even have to wait until the final round to determine the promotion place.

As the minutes ticked by, the final whistle was about to blow.

At this time, the Chinese team got a chance to attack.

At the last minute, every fan across the country, without exception, was watching live TV, even though the vast majority of them already had the psychological expectation of a home draw.

But this attack, Hao Junmin's shot was blocked, but Dai Zhiwei grabbed the landing point of the football, and half-turned his left-footed volley almost completely reproduced Zidane's "flying immortals" in the 2002 Champions League final.

At this moment, the whole country of the Chinese team held their breath.

The clock showed that 94 minutes had been played – with five minutes of stoppage time on the horizon.

In the end, Dai Zhiwei did not disappoint the Chinese team, and at this moment he succeeded in the national hero of the Chinese team, his volley penetrated the goal of the Uzbekistan team, and sent the Chinese team to the 2018 World Cup in Russia with another hat-trick of his own.

When the final whistle blew at the end of the game, all the players of the Chinese team could not hide their excitement.

Where the camera swept over, Zhao Xuyang cried, Feng Xiaoting also left a man's tears, and Wu Lei was crying while laughing......

After the referee on duty blew the whistle for the end of the game, Dai Zhiwei raised his arms and shouted, roared and roared, and then fell to his knees and beat the lawn of the court frantically.

In such a way, he vented the joy in his chest.

And hundreds of cameras and lenses are pointed at him, because they know who is the most important person in this team and who is the biggest contributor to the Chinese team's promotion to the World Cup in Russia!

After the game, reporters from Huaxia TV's sports channel were unable to break through the encirclement and rushed to Dai Zhiwei, who was surrounded by members of the Chinese team and the media, and could only retreat to interview Zheng Zhi, the captain of the team.

As soon as he walked to the field, the soon-to-be-38-year-old Zheng Zhi's tears continued to flow from his eyes, and he wiped his tears with his jersey as he walked.

Perhaps touching the scene, Zheng Zhi hid his face and wept beside the billboard, and the two reporters of Huaxia TV's sports channel could only stop the interview first.

After so many years, until this moment, perhaps Chinese fans will no longer blame the Chinese team and will no longer blame Zheng Zhi.

After waiting for two minutes, Zheng Zhi stopped crying and said frankly: "No matter when the national team needs me, I will definitely be duty-bound." At my age, I always thought that hitting the World Cup had become a luxury. Thanks to Xiaowei, even though the whole team played badly today, when we all needed a goal, he did it! ”

Lippi, who has won the World Cup, is undoubtedly the calmest person in the Chinese team, and in an interview with Huaxia TV's sports channel, he also praised Dai Zhiwei: "It all seems unbelievable, Dai Zhiwei scored that incredible volley that sent us to the World Cup." Chinese football is so eager to win this game, and Dai Zhiwei has shown that he is worthy of being the number one player in Asian football, and I think he is the best of all the players I coach. ”

So what does the man who scored the goal think of himself?

Naturally, he was ecstatic about the victory – but more for what the result meant for the team than for any personal accolades.

"The whole country is excited to pass the World Cup round of 12." Dai Zhiwei was smiling in the post-match mixed zone, "It feels even more wonderful that the match against Uzbekistan was so late to achieve this goal. The few minutes of stoppage time to make our World Cup dream come true was a stroke of fate. In 2001, the older generation allowed us to qualify for the 2002 World Cup, they were my idols, I hope to do what they used to do, and today I have achieved that dream! ”

Dai Zhiwei has already begun to dream about next year's World Cup, insisting that any future glory for the Chinese team should be based on the collective efforts of the team, rather than individual moments of brilliance.

'We have to play better.' "Of course it will go down in history to be able to win the score in the last minute of today's game, but we have to play every game like that." At the World Cup, we might have super teams like Spain, Brazil and Germany, and you have to look up and look at them. We can't get up to their level, but we have to play with momentum, we can't go to the World Cup, we have to have our own goals. ”

Of course, since entering the top of football, Dai Zhiwei has earned himself some awe-inspiring admirers, and Pele is one of them.

He led Brazil to three World Cup championships in 1958, 1962 and 1970, and was the only player to win the World Cup three times.

After learning that the Chinese team had entered the 2018 World Cup, Pele exclaimed: "Dai Zhiwei is a player I have been paying attention to for a long time. If I had to vote for the best young footballer in the world today, I would vote for Dai Zhiwei. Dai Zhiwei is the most exciting and talented young player in the world. Even among all football players, he is rare to see. He can keep playing better and better. I really like him. I like the way he passes and shoots. It's wonderful. As long as the Chinese team still has Dai Zhiwei, they will certainly continue to improve. ”

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Boils!

It is most appropriate to use this word to describe the domestic media in China after the end of the Sino-Ukrainian war, but after the Chinese team broke into the 2018 World Cup in Russia, for a while, all the domestic media, large and small, turned their eyes on it.

This is an incredible moment for the Chinese team, after all, reaching the top 12 is an exciting thing for Chinese fans, not to mention now directly qualifying for the 2018 World Cup in Russia!

For Chinese fans, it is impossible to celebrate at this time!

For the Chinese media, it is not too much to praise the Chinese team and Dai Zhiwei!

What are the Chinese people paying attention to at this time?

Keeping an eye on the South Korean team that fell short?

Still eyeing possible opponents for next year's World Cup?

No, they are only paying attention to one person, a person who turned the tide in the match between the Chinese team and the Uzbekistan team, and a person who single-handedly sent the Chinese team to the main match of next year's World Cup, he is Dai Zhiwei!

If Dai Zhiwei's performance in Villarreal last season began to make the domestic people except the fans have an impression of his name, if Dai Zhiwei's wonderful performance in joining Manchester United just made the domestic sports world boil, then today's last-minute defeat of the Uzbekistan team made all the Chinese people know about him, and even football fans began to search for Dai Zhiwei's related news on the Internet.

Under the overwhelming coverage, unless it is someone who doesn't pay attention to the news or sports at all, they will inevitably hear the name Dai Zhiwei.

I have to admit that although Chinese football was notorious before, football is really the first major sport, Dai Zhiwei is undoubtedly a lucky person, and such a good stage for the Chinese team vs Uzbekistan team World Cup qualifiers seems to be built for him.

When Dai Zhiwei helped the Chinese team enter the main match of next year's World Cup, he also helped himself become popular throughout China.

On the news broadcast of Huaxia TV at seven o'clock on September 1, it took up to 2 minutes to report on yesterday's Sino-Ukrainian war, and the only personal interview picture was left for Dai Zhiwei.

Although he has not yet brought gold medals and championship honors to the country, who else is the number one superstar in Chinese sports today?

On the second day of the Sino-Ukrainian war, his agents Mendes and Jin Chang began to be busy, and Dai Zhiwei's image and his position and performance on the court made him quickly become the darling of the media and advertisers, and the number of advertisers looking for him to endorse for a time multiplied and multiplied.

First of all, Dai Zhiwei has become the global spokesperson of BMW, and the two sides signed a four-year endorsement contract with a total price of up to 15 million US dollars, in addition, BMW will also provide Dai Zhiwei with one top-of-the-line BMW X5 in China and Manchester in England every year.

3 days later, Yu Chengdong, CEO of Huawei terminals, posted on Weibo to announce the content of Huawei's signing: "I would like to announce to you that Huawei has officially signed a contract with Dai Zhiwei to serve as Huawei's global brand ambassador!" This is a new starting point for Huawei's brand building! ”

Huawei signed a three-year endorsement contract of 50 million yuan for Dai Zhiwei - this is still for the sake of domestic enterprises, and the patriotic price is played.

Mendes has been negotiating Dai Zhiwei's endorsement with Adidas, Nike and Puma before Dai Zhiwei joined Manchester United, and after Dai Zhiwei led the Chinese team to the World Cup again after 16 years, Adidas, as a sponsor of Manchester United fans, broke out of the encirclement with a sky-high endorsement and successfully signed a contract with Dai Zhiwei.

After the final bargain between the two parties, Dai Zhiwei can get a total of 15 million euros in endorsement fees from Adidas within five years, and will launch a Dai Zhiwei exclusive sneaker every year.

Adidas' endorsement contract for Dai Zhiwei is for five years, $8 million a year — a contract second only to Messi's $8.5 million among Adidas football star spokespeople.

Adidas will also make a special sneaker for Dai Zhiwei every six months, and also created his own brand for him.

The contract also stipulates that Dai Zhiwei will participate in Adidas events and advertising shoots every year, and wear Adidas clothes on high-profile occasions such as the Golden Globe Awards ceremony.

After negotiating the contract, Dai Zhiwei and the others quickly held a press conference.

After the introduction of the previous host, Dai Zhiwei walked over from the backstage, as soon as he walked over, the flash in front of him flashed violently, and this flash almost stunned him, and the smile on his face froze there.

Walking next to Dai Zhiwei, the vice president of Adidas Asia was also excited to see the crowded situation of the press conference in front of him, and it was the first time he had seen such a big battle, obviously the attention in China alone has proved the success of their spokesperson this time, not to mention Dai Zhiwei's huge appeal in England and Valencia, Spain.

After sitting down, Dai Zhiwei also began to talk pure nonsense: "I like the feeling of wearing Adidas sneakers, they provide me with good support, and I will always wear Adidas sneakers to games in the future......"

The reporters at the scene were very helpless when they heard this, and they all just wanted to take a photo of Dai Zhiwei wearing 361-degree sneakers on Dai Zhiwei's face.

Adidas' exclusive sneakers for Dai Zhiwei are not expected to be released until the end of November at the earliest, so before that, Adidas prepared ACE 17+ PureControl football boots for him to play against Manchester United for the national team, but with the addition of Dai Zhiwei's personal logo on the upper - a cursive "Dai" character written by a brush.

Although foreigners can't read Chinese cursive at all, the word "Dai" is written like a golden iron horse, which looks like a Chinese painting, free and easy and sharp!

In order to allow Dai Zhiwei to wear their specially built sneakers, Adidas hurried and hurried for the last round of 12 match between the Chinese team and Qatar.

But they didn't expect that after the qualification had been determined, Lippi started a big rotation, and a group of young players entered the national team, Zheng Zhi, Dai Zhiwei and other main players did not go to Qatar with the team at all.

Dai Zhiwei, who stayed in China, also had more time to deal with his endorsements.

In the next two days, Tissot Watches and Dai Zhiwei signed a 2-year contract of 6 million yuan.

Ray-Ban Eyewear offered Dai Zhiwei a three-year, $5 million contract......

The sum of these endorsements, plus Dai Zhiwei's original endorsements, has totaled more than 300 million yuan per year!

And the entertainment industry, which is the most popular, also found Dai Zhiwei, variety shows such as running man and extreme challenges, cameo invitations to movies and TV series, etc.

In the end, Dai Zhiwei only accepted the cameo of "The Richest Man in Xihong City", and he will play the role of Gao Ran, the star player of the Hengtai team, which can be regarded as his true colors, and he only needs to delay him for one day.

As for the other invitations, he politely declined them due to time conflicts.

Because he knows too well the urine of some keyboard warriors in China, no matter whether these activities will affect your competitive state, anyway, it's a ton of wild spraying, he can't afford to provoke it, he can always afford to hide.

(End of chapter)