Chapter 723: There is a long way to go
Ni Tu hadn't communicated with his poor buddies for a long time.
As Ni Tu made great strides in his football career, whether it was his classmates in China or the classmates he knew when he was a preparatory student in Kaiserslautern, everyone seemed to have reduced their communication with him, and many teammates, such as Qu Yuanliang and his teammates when he played wild football at school, had not exchanged information with each other for a long time.
Ni Tu knew that many people might have turned themselves away.
Ni Tu is not a person who looks down on people once he gains power, if he can still get along, if he can contact each other, he will also contact his former friends.
It's just that each has their own lives after all, and it's really difficult to get back to the same as usual.
Ni Tu did still think about some of his friends, just like the Niu Zhi who had a look of adoration on his face on the training ground.
Niu Zhi is indeed practicing his original ideals, but as a physical education teacher in a small county, it is too difficult to achieve the ideal of contributing to the cause of Chinese football through his own efforts.
In principle, he has two PE classes per class a week, but it is too difficult to be able to attend them all, and there will always be some teachers who come to him to discuss the lessons, who makes the students' learning tasks so heavy?
Even if there is a physical education class, there are not enough people to play football, and there are not enough sports equipment.
Ni Tu has already funded a lot of Niu Zhi's sports training equipment, including various items such as footballs, which is also thanks to him, otherwise it is conceivable that Niu Zhi wants to educate his students, so he can only buy two soccer balls with his own money on the dirt slope to fight with the children.
Ni Tu did not give Shao Jiayi a positive reply, he did not say yes, nor did he directly deny it again, so he returned to his hometown without comment.
Before returning to his hometown, he also went to the place where Niu Zhi was, and he wanted to lend a helping hand to his good friend with ideals.
What kind of aid method is it, in fact, it is nothing more than providing some equipment, of course, on the surface, but with his current influence in China, going to this small county town is actually a very famous advertising campaign.
As for Niu Zhi, although he cares more about the equipment, he must admit that Ni Tu's visit played a key role.
The local county party committee and county government know very well that they have never seemed to have any big influence in this place, and they understand that a figure like Ni Tu is not an official, but the role of a star is also extraordinary.
When the local officials found him, Ni Tu knew that he could not refuse them this time, he was here to help his friends, and of course he needed some support from local government officials.
Ni Tu gave them face and let them show their faces, and in fact, in other places, the local government will also give their friend Niu Zhi a certain "face".
To Ni Tu's surprise, when the two sides were in contact, the local leaders seemed to be very keen on the topic of football, if they didn't know the current development of football in this place, they really thought that they had put football in the top priority of the government's work!
For the county officials, the most important thing is a photo with Ni Tu, and they are preparing to take this group photo as a political achievement of government work.
Ni Tu has been coping with it, and he may have seen clearly why these officials are so interested in football, but when it comes to this aspect, it is not something he wants to go and cannot pay attention to, although under some general trend, his influence in China will also rise to an unimaginable height.
After all, it comes from the will of the country, how can an "outstanding talent who has made outstanding contributions to the cause of Chinese football" like him be silent in China?
Ni Tu remembered the unreasonable young woman she met when she and Hofnog took the train that year, and I don't know if she remembered it at this time, the person she looked down on actually had such appeal as now.
The time to meet Niu Zhi is short, and there is always a lack of passion in those youths, perhaps this is also the reason why the two of them are always accompanied by some government officials who think they are familiar with Ni Tu.
Ni Tu originally wanted to go directly to Niu Zhi's place, but the government was "intimate", and he picked Niu Zhi over without saying a word, which was very embarrassing.
Niu Zhi looked at Ni Tu stunned, he really didn't expect that the person who was with him on the field would become an international superstar now, and the contrast brought about by all this is indeed not something that can be quickly transformed.
Although Niu Zhi has been paying attention to Ni Tu, he really hopes that this friend of his can really break free from the cage and create a new world of his own, so that it has become a reality, and there is really a feeling of being in a different world.
"I really didn't expect that the school would report to the Education Bureau, and I didn't expect that the Education Bureau would immediately upload it to the county party committee and county government, making such a big move, and causing you a lot of trouble......"
Niu Zhi originally wanted to say sorry to Ni Tu, but after thinking about it carefully, Ni Tu's help to him seemed to be really impossible to express anything, so he simply didn't say anything sorry at the end.
Ni Tu actually likes this feeling very much, he helps Ni Tu, firstly, because the other party is his friend, and secondly, he knows that Niu Zhi really likes football, and he is really doing his best for the development of Chinese football, although it seems more like he is not self-sufficient.
"It's okay, it may be much easier for you to carry out your work in the future, maybe you will cultivate a genius like me in the future!"
Ni Tu made a joke to Niu Zhi in his own way, he didn't want Niu Zhi to feel indebted to him, for him, but anyone who works hard for his football dream, a friend like Niu Zhi, he can't help too much.
After all, he almost broke off his football dream because of some things, and Niu Zhi missed the most important time because he did not have the environment to engage in football since he was a child.
Ni Tu went to the place where Niu Zhi was once, in fact, he knew it in his heart, maybe it didn't have any effect at all, for Chinese football, whether it was the so-called national will of individual people, or some people's enthusiasm, it was difficult to fundamentally change the current predicament of Chinese football, to make Chinese football rise, it is indeed a systematic project with a long way to go!