Chapter 25: Are You Sure?
As soon as he saw Xu Bin, Zhang Wenlin's face was elongated all of a sudden, the regional manager in charge of Central China was the guy who poached the candidate Zhang Wenlin was looking for, and the candidate who was poached was Xiao Zhan from the Jiangsu Provincial Team, a supernova who just started to emerge this year, Lianke including Wang Zheye, Chen Feng and many other powerful generals, he and Lin Huang of the Shandong team are the most powerful players in the new generation of players, so Manager Zhang will think of inviting these two to be his candidates, In this way, this interview meeting will be nine out of ten, but I didn't expect to be intercepted by Xu Bin halfway and snatched Xiao Zhan away in advance.
However, just as the so-called willows and flowers are bright and bright in another village, just when Manager Zhang was hot-headed and didn't know what to do, Han Cang appeared in time and took the initiative to contact Zhang Wenlin, so this is the current scene: Han Cang, who has retired, did not expect to meet his former opponents and teammates in this place.
In addition to Xiao Zhan, Manager Xu Bin Xu of Central China has another hole card in his hand, that is, Xie Wenjie, the leading player from the Sichuan team. This should be regarded as a Mesozoic player, about four or five years younger than veterans like Han Cang and Chen Feng, and the time to get the results is about the same as Wang Zhe, the two of them are in the same class, but Wang Zhe is also the same generation as Han Cang in terms of age.
"You're Han Cang of the Shandong team, right? My name is Xu Bin, and I am the CEO of Central China. I saw that Xu Bin completely ignored the other managers and came up to shake hands with Han Cang directly.
Han Cang could see that this person was fake, but he was silent on the surface, and shook hands with the other party politely, who knew that when he was about to let go, the other party changed his words and suddenly said: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I forgot that you have retired just now, so you are the former badminton player of the Shandong team, Han Cang, right?" ”
This Xu Bin said that there was an obvious knife hidden in his smile, which made people very uncomfortable to listen to, not to mention Han Cang, and the other people around him felt a little embarrassed, but Xu Bin, who was cheeky, still looked complacent, as if he didn't take these people's opinions of him at all.
Xu Bin's performance in Central China is very good, since last year, he has made rapid progress, signed several large orders in a row, and made him the best of the five regional managers, coupled with young and promising, full of vitality and passion, it is not impossible to enter the company's senior management in the future, which makes Zhang Wenlin and Liu Yong work hard for more than ten years, and do it step by step The older generation of managers, can't help but feel helpless, so they have to sigh to themselves.
Although he heard Xu Bin's ridicule of himself, Han Cang still held his breath and replied quietly: "Yes, I am a retired provincial team athlete." ”
Xu Bin listened, and the corners of his mouth gradually hooked up a sneer, but at this moment, he only heard that the door of the stadium suddenly opened, it was a fully automatic door, and everyone turned around, only to see several base staff coming out of the door, as well as two high-level executives from the company's headquarters, walking in the middle was a middle-aged man in sportswear and a young woman in professional clothes.
Seeing the leaders of the company, the five regional managers hurriedly took the candidates up to greet them, Han Cang walked at the end of the line, he saw the managers greeting the company's senior management one by one, standing in the middle of the woman wearing an ivory professional suit, it seemed that the official was the largest, but she looked very young, estimated to be twenty-five or six years old.
Although she was surrounded by many people, at a certain moment, the woman's gaze inadvertently passed through the crowd, and she noticed Han Cang standing at the back, and was slightly stunned.
Han Cang was also stunned, the two looked at each other for a second, and then he first looked away and looked elsewhere.
The woman didn't seem to look at him any longer, and when she came to her senses, she turned around and led everyone into the arena.
When following the large army inside, Manager Zhang introduced the examiners of this interview meeting to Han Cang, which were composed of the company's two vice presidents, as well as the assistant to the president, and Coach Ma Luoping, specially invited from the Jiangsu Provincial Team, and the four of them formed a jury together.
The assistant to the president is the young woman who looked at Han Cang before, and her other identity is the eldest daughter of the company's president, whose name is easy to remember, called Gao Ya.
Since she is the daughter of the president, it is no wonder that she will be held in the middle by everyone, and she will represent the president in this interview.
After entering the stadium, everyone first took the elevator to the second floor, and in a private room similar to a VIP audience, Gao Ya introduced the rules of this interview meeting to everyone:
Ten candidates, in groups of two, divided into five groups, adopt a double-elimination system, the first round of intra-group competition, the five candidates who lost the game enter the lower group, and the five candidates who win the game enter the winner's group, and then the second round, the winner's group and the loser's group, the group is a round-robin knockout, but only one round-robin, the lowest points in each group will be eliminated directly, and the remaining eight candidates will be used as the top eight, each group is divided into two groups to compete, and finally two candidates are determined to enter the final round.
After listening to the introduction of the rules, Han Cang roughly calculated that if he reached the final without losing a game, then he would have to play a total of nine games, which was not a small amount, and it would be a very big test of the player's physical fitness.
As soon as the rules came out, some candidates already felt uncomfortable, even in the National Games, there was no such intensity and tight competition schedule, not to mention that they were all carefully selected, and the opponents were all top players like themselves, and no one dared to guarantee that they could win easily.
After introducing the rules, it's time to introduce the venue and equipment, after all, it is a manufacturer of professional badminton rackets, and the specifications of the venue here are completely designed with reference to international competitions, so there is no need to worry about it, including the referees on the scene are also professionals invited from the provincial team, as for the equipment used by the players, this interview will have a very clear commercial purpose after all, so just like Manager Zhang told Han Cang last night, the ten candidates will use the rackets produced by Shengli Company, Weiwei Bo 11.
Han Cang got a pair of this racket last night, although he had not used it on the court, but he felt it on the ground, and felt that the torsion resistance of this racket was very good, and the offensive power in the backcourt should be its strong point.
Speaking of grouping, it is not in the form of random draw, but drawn up by the examiners in advance, and it is a group of two candidates from the same region for the first round of competition.
This grouping arrangement can't help but confuse several regional managers, but if you think about it carefully, it is fair, each regional candidate has one to enter the loser's group, and then the other to the winner's group, so as to ensure fairness and justice, and if in this case, two candidates from the same district can finally meet in the finals, it means that the manager of this region does have two brushes, and can take this opportunity to get the appreciation and favor of the leader.
The players on the field are competing, and the managers off the field are also competing in secret.
"Now I'm going to announce the first match of the first round." Gao Ya stood in the center of the room, looked at everyone, and then said:
"Lin Huang from the Shandong Provincial Team, against former Shandong Provincial Team member Han Cang."
When he read the former Shandong Provincial Team, Gao Ya was stunned for a moment, and then looked up at Manager Zhang, as if to say: Are you sure?