Chapter 9 New Season Report
Brescia was struggling with the lack of money to buy players, but for Zhang Shu, he didn't need to worry about money at all. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info On the contrary, Tinty is busy pushing the manufacturers who send him money out.
After half a successful season, Zhang Shu's commercial value has also been valued by more and more brands, although he did not succeed in the end to move to Milan so that some big-name manufacturers chose to continue to wait and see, but Tingti still receives a lot of calls and messages every day seeking business cooperation, most of which are inquiries from major Chinese brands.
Since the Chinese team successfully entered the World Cup in 2002, the choice of Chinese football players and coaches as brand ambassadors has become a popular among Chinese companies. After the World Cup qualification, the national team coach Milutinovic received more than a dozen brand endorsement advertisements, with a variety of types, including what drinks, air conditioners, DVD players, and other products that have nothing to do with football, and even peculiar types such as liquor and stomach medicine. And the players of the national team have also won a lot of commercial endorsements.
In May 2002, a TV series called "Ambition" was successfully released, this "Football Youth Idol Drama" tells the story of a young player who became famous overnight in the face of the temptation of fame and fortune, from confusion to determination, and finally became an excellent player, entered the national team, and played in the World Cup. In addition to Lu Yi and Ren Dahua, two popular movie stars in mainland China and Hong Kong, the actors who participated in the cast also participated in this TV series in addition to General Fan, Qi Hong, Shen Si, Zhu Qi, who played in the Shanghai * Shanghai team at the time, and Mi Lu, the coach of the Chinese football team at the time, and Yang Chen, the player.
With an investment of RMB800,000 per episode, the TV series set a new record for investment in a single episode of a mainland TV series, and was broadcast simultaneously on CCTV and Hong Kong's Asia Television Station, setting a precedent for the TV industry in both places.
The popularity of Chinese football in China before the 02 World Cup can be seen from this.
Although the popularity of Chinese players in China has declined after the World Cup due to the heavy defeat in the group stage of the World Cup, several players who have played overseas are still the ideal advertising spokespersons in the minds of many manufacturers.
As the most successful overseas player before Zhang Shu, Manchester City's Sun Hai has always maintained a commercial endorsement contract, while Eintracht Frankfurt's Yang Chen has the largest number of endorsement contracts among Chinese players because of his handsome appearance and the most brilliant striker. Compared with them, Zhang Shu, who has only one Lego endorsement, is much more low-key, Lego's advertising is not widely placed in China, in 03, Lego is still a very foreign brand for most Chinese, and even Zhang Shu's exposure in China is much rarer.
But the favorability of domestic fans towards Zhang Shu is the highest among all Chinese players. His achievements in Serie A can be regarded as the veritable number one in the country, and he has not participated in the 02 World Cup, and the national team's heavy defeat in the World Cup will not affect the image of Zhang Shu in the hearts of fans.
Chinese manufacturers are too aware of Zhang Shu's image value in China, relying on the domestic football boom, Zhang Shu naturally has a high enough degree of attention, and he has no black spots of other domestic players, and what is even more rare is that he is still an undeveloped virgin land in China.
What a scarce business resource!
Therefore, many Chinese manufacturers hope to reach cooperation with Zhang Shu and become the first commercial brand in the domestic media to be associated with Zhang Shu's personal image. And the previous refusal of Chinese players has also given Chinese manufacturers the illusion that as long as the money is given enough, the players will never refuse themselves.
In this case, what Tinti does the most every day is to keep his heart aching while pushing down those endorsement contracts with low brand image but high prices.
"Sorry sir, it's not about the money." He said into the phone. "My players can't endorse your products." He wiped his sweat and firmly rejected the other party. The other party's offer made him swallow his saliva, but he still rejected the other party very firmly, even if the other party only asked Zhang Shu to take their product and show a smirk to the camera.
This manufacturer has already seen the advertisement that this manufacturer asked Ronaldo to shoot, and he will never let Zhang Shu do such an image loss advertisement.
The endorsement route planned by Tingdi for Zhang Shu is a road of internationalization with few but fine, and products like these brand images that are not high-end enough, he will not convey them to Zhang Shu at all now.
God knows if the bear kid who thought of a play would take on this kind of endorsement that damaged his own image just because he liked it. So to be on the safe side, Tinti nipped this possibility in the bud.
He hung up the phone, and the phone rang again.
Tinti looked at the +86 representing the country at the front of the caller screen, sighed, and pressed the answer button again. "Hello...
In the midst of everyone's busyness, time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it is the middle of July.
"Zhang, congratulations, your special training has ended, and you can rest from tomorrow." In the club's training room, Merricini announced the good news with a smile to Zhang Shu, who was slowly walking around to regain his strength.
"Oh yes!! It's finally over!! Zhang Shu raised his arms, but soon he bent down and looked at his knees and thighs, "It doesn't look like there's any difference." ā
Merricini patted Zhang Shu on the shoulder. "Zhang, you can't see it with your eyes, you will feel your changes in the new season. But..... He suddenly laughed evilly, "You only have three days left on your vacation, enjoy these last few days of leisure, hahahaha." ā
He laughed exaggeratedly, expecting the frustrated look on Zhang Shu's face.
But except for a little flurging, Zhang Shu basically remained calm in the face of this bad news.
For the rest of the Brescia players, they returned to Brescia with a new season of anticipation and nostalgia for the holidays. But for Zhang Shu, he didn't feel anything at all.
He was basically in the club's training room this holiday, so the concept of vacation did not penetrate into his mind at all.
Of course, he will not miss this opportunity to pretend.
"I'm used to it." Zhang Shu proudly held out two fingers to Mericini. "Whenever the winter and summer vacations are over, this kind of 'groove will start school tomorrow!' I will experience all the feelings. Twice a year! ā
"At least, now I don't have to worry about my vacation homework being unwritten."
He calmly sat up from the ground and rested for a while, he already felt better.
Mericini hadn't lied to him before, and after a while, he got used to the huge amount of exercise, and he didn't throw up again once.
Not being able to see Zhang Shu grieve over the lost vacation time, Merricini was still a little disappointed, and he shrugged his shoulders, "Okay, Zhang." I have to say that you surprise me, very few people can stick to such a large amount of training. You're great, go ahead, go home and get some rest and see you in a few days. ā
He waved his hand at Zhang Shu and turned to leave.
"Coach!"
Zhang Shu's screams stopped Merricini.
"Thank you!" Zhang Shu's voice continued to be heard behind him.
"Ha, the holiday overtime club gave me three times my salary." Mericini turned his head and smiled at Zhang Shu, squeezed his eyes, and walked out of the training room.
After three days of rest at home, the day of Brescia's official arrival has arrived.
Zhang Shu carried his shoulder bag and came to the club in Han Yu's car.
Since he still travels to and from the club during the holidays, he doesn't have much to bring with him to the dressing room, and most of the daily necessities he needs have already been put in the locker closet in advance.
The team's resumption of training has revived the enthusiasm of the fans who have been idle for more than a month, and many fans are waiting at the door of the club to welcome the "return" of the players. Every time they saw a player's vehicle pull into the club's gate, they let out a cheer.
"Zhang! Welcome back! ā
"Staying is the right choice for you!"
"Zhang, as long as you stay! The number six in Brescia will always be yours! ā
It has been several months since Zhang Shu was driven by Han Yu for training, and fans have gradually become familiar with Zhang Shu's car, and now everyone knows who is sitting in this second-hand Volkswagen car. Before, they were already mentally prepared to lose Zhang Shu, but they didn't expect that Zhang Shu stayed in Brescia for a magical reason, and the fans were very happy about this result.
They expressed their joy to Zhang Shu with shouts.
The voice got into the car from the gap in the car, Zhang Shu patted his head, he was a little depressed, how could he forget this stubble.
A strange excuse made Milan give up the idea of recruiting themselves, but it turned out to be the reason why he had to choose the number six for the new season's shirt, in fact, he didn't feel anything about the number six, he preferred the number ten.
Of course, the number 10 is Baggio's number, and he can't and doesn't want to snatch the captain's number, so in the new season he originally wanted the number 18 shirt that Baggio once wore in Italy.
But at present, it seems that he has no chance to choose, and he will come back with tears in his lies. Brescia's no.6 was previously owned by full-back Seric and returned to Verona on loan at the end of last season, with the number six currently vacant. Zhang Shu has no other options this season, and the No. 6 jersey will accompany him for a long career.
In addition to the fans, there were also journalists watching at the gate of the club.
In addition to a small number of Italian journalists, more are Zhang Shu's old acquaintances. They can't rest during a long vacation. Originally based in Milan, they could not have stayed in Brescia, so they returned to Milan and searched for various Serie A transfer rumours from major media, translated them into Chinese and sent them back home as their reports.
Speaking of which, it was actually their job to be a copyist in Milan, but it was only with Zhang Shu's fame that the newspaper let them focus their work on tracking and reporting on Zhang Shu.
When they are accustomed to being serious Brescia reporters, when they return to their old jobs, many people are still a little unaccustomed to it. In the past, in Italy, their grandmother didn't love their uncle and didn't love them, and they had to kneel to eat, but one day a Zhang Shu suddenly appeared and asked them to stand up, and it was difficult to make them kneel down again.
Thankfully, with Brescia back to training, they were finally able to work as journalists who could write their own stories.
The doorman knew Han Yu's car, Han Yu drove the car to the parking lot all the way unimpeded, Zhang Shu got out of the car with his bag on his back, and walked into the training building quickly.
He pushed open the locker room door and shouted hello to his teammates. "Hello everyone~~~ I want to kill you!!"
He was greeted by a hug from Pep Guardiola. "Welcome back! Sheet! He patted Zhang Shu's back vigorously and whispered to Zhang Shu, "Thank you, Zhang." ā
Zhang Shu's stay at Brescia was a big surprise for Pep Guardiola, and his tactical experiments were finally able to continue. And his own drug ban turmoil was subsided because the team sold Zhang Shu, so he originally felt a little guilty about Zhang Shu, but now that Zhang Shu stayed in Brescia, he felt that his heart could finally be calm.
Under the complicated emotions, Guardiola showed a rare seriousness and did not rub Shu's head.
"Eh, eh?" Zhang Shuyi struggled out of Guardiola's embrace. "Who are you? Why is it disguised as Pep? ā
"You stinky boy!" Guardiola suddenly felt that he couldn't be too gentle with Zhang Shu, so he grabbed Zhang Shu and grabbed his head with his arm, and rubbed his hair vigorously. "It's a little nicer to you, you're not used to it, are you?"
Other teammates were repaired by Guardiola after watching Zhang Shu's daily work die. The scene was reassuring to them ā the mood in the dressing room hadn't changed with a holiday.
"I was wrong, I was wrong~~~" Zhang Shu begged for mercy while trying to break away from Guardiola's restraint, "I was wrong, I was wrong~~" He said as he slowly moved towards Guardiola in small steps.
"That's right, you actually broke away, and your body is a lot stronger." Guardiola didn't continue to arrest him, he looked at Zhang Shu's small body with satisfaction and praised. It seems that Zhang's training effect this holiday is not bad, and the tactics he designed for him in the new season have added a guarantee of success.
Zhang Shu had slowly rubbed half a meter in front of Guardiola, and he suddenly jumped up with lightning speed, accurately grabbed a slightly longer hair on the top of Guardiola's head, and pulled it hard with his upward momentum.
After a slight "pop", Guardiola's short hair has been pulled out of his hand.
Zhang Shu's movements and sudden subtle pain made Guardiola stunned.
Zhang Shu looked at the hair on his hands, as if talking to himself, but the voice was so loud that the entire locker room could hear it.
"Hair falls out so easily, it looks like this is really Pep...
He looked up and saw Guardiola lunging towards him.
"You bastard boy! You're dead! (To be continued.) )