Seeing that Qin Xiong was going to open a nightclub, his teammates of the national team, who had a good relationship with him, decided to follow after thinking about it.

They also know in their hearts that this is Qin Xiong to help them relieve some worries, although the nightclub may not necessarily make a steady profit, but it is always a relatively prosperous industry in the current market, and the majority of the investment is Qin Xiong, plus there are other people who are also shareholders, there is always a kind of courage with more strength.

The investment side of things is really just one sentence: to participate or not to participate.

If you don't participate, you won't discuss it, and if you participate, the rest will be handled by Tang Le, anyway, Qin Xiong doesn't worry about it.

At the dinner table, Qin Xiong asked about the teammates going abroad, and they said that they had communicated with the club, and the club also had pressure from the Football Association, and the Chinese Football Association formulated a non-public strategy after the Chinese team advanced to the 2006 World Cup, that is, to let the Chinese players go to Europe to hone as much as possible.

On the one hand, the Chinese Football Association saw Qin Xiong's contribution to returning to China after making a name for himself overseas, and on the other hand, the commercial value brought by Qin Xiong also had an intuitive effect on the Chinese national team, so that the sponsors of the Chinese team were willing to sign more contracts with the Chinese team.

The reason is actually very simple, even if there is only Qin Xiong alone, the ratings of the Chinese national team are the top of the national ratings sports list on the day of the game, and it receives the greatest attention, then the exposure of the sponsor's brand advertising in the Chinese team's game will rise sharply, and the advertising benefits created will be greatly improved than before.

Then the Chinese Football Association will think, what if there are more star players?

The Super League is already a pool of stagnant water, and it has almost become a street rat that everyone shouts and beats. The youth training foundation of Chinese football cannot be improved overnight.

But China still has some good players. Like Zheng Zhi. Shao Jiayi, Zhao Junzhe, and Sun Xiang are representative players of the Mesozoic Generation, and the Chinese youth team that was crowned as the super platinum generation at the World Youth Championships in the summer, who can say that these young players do not have enough potential and strength?

The Chinese Football Association does not have the courage to govern the foundation of Chinese football, and cannot vigorously promote youth football like South Korea and Japan, and then wait for a decade or more to blossom and bear fruit.

Then make good use of the existing resources as much as possible, so that the strength of some powerful players can be further improved. It is a palliative but not a cure, and it will always magnify the immediate benefits.

After Qin Xiong understood Zheng Zhi's thoughts, he just said a word to them.

"If you want to go out, you have to rely on your own strength. Don't rely on sponsors to help, it won't do you any good, you can play in the Premier League, you can play in the Premier League, you can't play, if you can play in the second division, you can play in the second division, as long as you go to Europe, even if it's training. It will be completely different from the domestic one. ”

At this point, Sun Xiang and other teammates frequently nodded in approval.

There are living examples in front of their eyes. Li Tie and Dong Fangzhuo, these are all victims of the cooperation between the club and the sponsor to take what they need.

After dinner, Qin Xiong rested overnight in the hotel, and the next day went to the national men's football training base to meet the national team.

The last two warm-up matches of the national team, the first game has been played, and the second game is three days later, Qin Xiong will be put on the line.

This national team warm-up match was held at the home stadium of Guangzhou, and the warm-up match opponent invited was the Egyptian team.

The Chinese Football Association wants to invite strong teams from Europe or South America to come, but unfortunately the World Cup qualifiers have not been played, and no team is willing to fly halfway around the world to Asia to play a painless warm-up game at this time.

At the home stadium in Guangzhou, not only the local fans in Guangdong enthusiastically entered the stadium to cheer, but also many fans from Hong Kong and Macau rushed to cheer for the Chinese team on the spot, in fact, they came to cheer for Qin Xiong.

The atmosphere of the national team is getting more and more eccentric.

Although there are still many die-hard fans of the national team holding banners to support the national team, more and more female fans are holding up slogans to show love to Qin Xiong in the stands, making the stadium stands present a colorful landscape.

The Egyptian team is not strong, the Chinese team is at home, and Qin Xiong seems to have his own aura, as soon as the captain of the national team returns to the national team, the team atmosphere of the national team has become completely different.

From the beginning, the teammates were afraid of Qin Xiong, worried that they would be scolded by Qin Xiong in the locker room.

Later, as we played more and more games side by side, and experienced the first time for the Chinese team to win the Asian Cup, and the second time to advance to the World Cup, everyone not only recognized Qin Xiong as the captain, but also admired him from the bottom of their hearts, and wanted to keep up with his pace, and go to see the magnificent scene that countless Chinese football ancestors had never seen!

They firmly believe that the team centered on Qin Xiong can go far on the world stage.

Especially the young players, they can be said to be in the same era as Qin Xiong, in this era, it is not a four-year period, it is just a cycle, as long as they do not fall behind and can keep up with Qin Xiong's pace, then they firmly believe that it will get better and better.

Qin Xiong didn't give his best in the game, but still won the applause of the crowd with a wonderful individual performance, and the Chinese team won 2-0 at home to Egypt in Guangzhou, with Li Jinyu and Zhang Pengfei scoring all goals from Qin Xiong's assists.

Standing on the sidelines for an interview after the game, the cheers and screams that erupted in the nearby stands made Qin Xiong speechless in front of the camera for a long time, and finally calmed down before he answered the questions asked by reporters.

"Although there are still eight months left in the World Cup, there is not much time left for us to prepare, especially the national team has very little time to prepare together, we need to take every game seriously and then go to the World Cup in the best condition, no matter what the result is, I think the most important thing is that we will not regret it."

"Since you think the warm-up game is also very important, why didn't you participate in the warm-up game in September and the last one?"

In the face of this sharp question from reporters, Qin Xiong was prepared, and he naturally said: "There are two reasons, first, to prepare for the World Cup, the first is physical fitness and physical condition, I need to adjust my physical state to ensure that I will not be exhausted before I even play when I really go to the World Cup." Secondly, I'm just a player in the national team, I'm not the whole team, the national team needs to think about the whole team, not me personally, in other words, I don't play, someone takes my place and role, do you think that's not a necessary preparation? If I can't play in the World Cup next year due to injury, who will be my replacement? The national team needs to think about this, train and develop a substitute in my position, if I have been playing for the national team, then how can the substitute have the opportunity to practice? I'm not shirking the national team's game, but when I have the opportunity, the work that the national team needs to do, far from putting energy and attention on me alone, such as the current warm-up game, I think it makes sense for the manager to train a lot of new players. ”

Qin Xiong's explanation is quite acceptable, at least it sounds reasonable.

After playing at home in Guangzhou, Qin Xiong returned to London after a two-day break. (To be continued......)