Chapter 207: Players' Tunnel
When the bus of the Dragon National Team slowly drove out of the hotel at 4:15 p.m. local time in Moscow and drove to the Luzhniki Stadium, thousands of miles away in the Dragon Country, there were hundreds of millions of fans and people who were paying attention to all this through the live broadcast of the national sports channel.
As the only TV media partner of FIFA in the Dragon Country, the national TV station has made full preparations for the live broadcast of this World Cup, not only to the front of Russia, but also to the front of Russia, a large number of experienced reporting teams composed of elite soldiers, and also set up a number of programs in the rear to cover the World Cup in an all-round way.
One of the most eye-catching programs is the "Feast of the Wealthy" hosted by Zhang Bin, the "first brother" of the National TV Sports Channel, which is broadcast at half past seven every night, which is the best interpretation of the World Cup.
This year, however, is a little different.
In recent years, all over the world, the rapid rise of new media represented by video websites has created a great impact on traditional TV media, and new media has become the first choice of young people with its convenient viewing methods and rich program content.
The live broadcast of this World Cup, Youdou Video, one of the three major video websites of the Dragon Kingdom, beat two competitors, spent a lot of money, and obtained the exclusive network broadcast right from the national station, in order to let members get a better World Cup viewing experience, Youdou Video in addition to the live broadcast of 64 World Cup games, also produced a number of programs, and carried out all-round coverage and interpretation of the World Cup.
One of them is called "This, It's the World Wave!" invited two football commentators who are most well-known to Longguo fans and former football program hosts of the National Television Sports Channel, Liu Jianhong and Duan Xuan, to serve as regular guests in each issue, forming a direct competitive relationship with the National Television's "Feast of the Giants".
However, due to the different broadcast times, fans do not need to be entangled in the trade-offs in front of these two blockbuster programs, and can choose to watch them all.
The broadcast time of "Feast of the Wealthy" is fixed at half past seven every night, "This is the World Wave!" The broadcast time is two hours before the start of the game every day.
Today's opening match started at 11 o'clock in the evening of the capital time of the Dragon Kingdom, so "This, is the world wave!" The live broadcast of the first episode of the program started at nine o'clock in the evening, and at that time the first episode of "The Feast of the Wealthy" had ended.
Although "The Feast of the Giants" is over, the National Television Sports Channel still has other programs to report on the scene before the opening game in real time.
In this regard, Youdou Video, a new media that reported on the World Cup for the first time, is far less experienced than the National Television Sports Channel, and the front reporting teams of the two are also very different.
The front reporting team of the National Television Sports Channel can track the situation at the scene from the bus of the Dragon Country Team from the hotel, and the drone in the air can follow the bus of the Dragon Country Team all the time.
In addition, at the Luzhniki Stadium, there are also a number of reporting teams of the national TV sports channel, each performing its own duties, some are responsible for interviewing fans, some are responsible for paying attention to the real-time situation of the warring parties, some are responsible for the opening ceremony before the opening game, and some are specially responsible for reporting on the dignitaries of various countries who will attend the opening ceremony and watch the opening game.
In the afternoon of Dragon Country time, it was finally confirmed that the news that the supreme leader of the Dragon Kingdom @ Sleeve would attend the opening ceremony and watch the opening match between the Dragon Country team and the host Russian team on the spot, caused a strong response in the Dragon Kingdom.
This important news, which was solemnly recommended by the "News Network" broadcast by the national station at 7 o'clock in the evening, spread all over the Dragon Country in a very short period of time, making many people who were originally not interested in the World Cup and had no plans to watch it, but also had some interest in the upcoming opening game and were ready to take a look.
The opening day of this World Cup is June 14th, which is a Thursday, but the opening game starts at 11 o'clock in the evening, which is a fairly friendly time for fans of the Dragon Kingdom, even if they have to go to work the next day, watching the whole game, it is only one o'clock in the morning, which will basically not affect the normal work and life of the next day.
This made the number of people in the Dragon Kingdom who watched the opening match far exceed the imagination of other countries.
Many people, after getting off work at five or six o'clock, have a small gathering with three or five friends in the evening, and after eating at seven or eight o'clock, they sit in front of the TV, watching the live broadcast of the national sports channel, chatting, and waiting for the opening game to begin.
It's even simpler to be alone, after work and eating, leaning comfortably on the sofa, or lying on the bed, holding your mobile phone, watching the live broadcast of Youdou Video, while waiting for the opening game to begin.
When the bus of the Dragon National Team departed from the hotel, it was still an hour and 40 minutes before the start of the game, and it took 20 minutes to arrive at the stadium from the hotel, waiting for the players to enter the locker room and change into sportswear for the warm-up, and there was still more than an hour before the game began.
This game of the Dragon Country team, because it is the opening game, before the start of the game, there is also an opening ceremony, so the pre-game warm-up of the warring sides is a little different from the previous and future games, and it cannot be carried out in the competition venue, but needs to be completed in the indoor training ground.
However, this has little impact on the players on both sides, and the adaptation to the turf of the field, which was done a day ago, is the same for the athletes at this level.
In the process of warm-up, the opening ceremony in the stadium was held as scheduled, the sound of music and the cheers of the fans on the spot, through the layers of walls, to the room where the players warmed up.
However, the vast majority of the players were unmoved, and from this time on, their attention was focused on the upcoming game.
The whole opening ceremony, only took about 20 minutes, compared to the Olympic Games, is very short, it is not the protagonist of tonight after all, everyone is more eagerly looking forward to the next opening ceremony!
The long-awaited moment finally arrived, when the players from both sides who had finished their warm-up and changed into their uniforms rushed out of their dressing rooms and lined up in two rows in the tunnel with the referees of the opening match standing in front of the queue.