Chapter 630: The Sky Has Fallen?!

Journalists also observed that the sports equipment and training shirts used in the team's in-squad training are still provided by the former sponsor Adidas.

The reporters have already had a draft and plan to use this theme as the main breakthrough point to write about the Chinese team. After all, the jersey is also the most indispensable landscape in football culture, and now China doesn't even have a decent jersey.

However, the reporters' drafts had just been typed, and before they could turn in the articles, news gossip came out.

It is rumored that many physical stores with the theme of the Chinese team have been distributing the new jerseys of the Chinese team, although the specific photos have not been released, but it is rumored that the sponsor LOGO on the new jersey is not the white hook of Nike, which has been negotiating with China, but Puma's Thunder Leopard, and it is said that there are already Puma stores that have arrived with the jerseys of the Chinese team.

The reporters were dumbfounded

On December 26, just after Boxing Day, the Chinese team held a press conference again! At the press conference, Perrin announced that the Chinese team had signed a new strategic contract with Puma Sports, a well-known German sporting goods supplier. In the next ten years, PUMA will become the jersey and sporting goods sponsor of the Chinese team, providing 100 million yuan of financial sponsorship and equipment every year.

The news came so suddenly that everyone was not prepared. A few days ago, I was still saying that Nike was still negotiating with the national football team, and it was rumored that their contract was seven hundred million for eight years, but I didn't expect that now a third party suddenly stepped in.

At the same time, at the press conference, the staff from the Football Association also thanked the former sponsor Adidas for their cooperation over the past 35 years!

Li Zihan, Wu Lei, Zheng Zhihe, goalkeeper Wang Dalei and Zeng Cheng appeared at the press conference of the new jersey, and at the press conference, the press officer also said that this press conference is only a cooperation between Puma Sports and the Chinese team.

Li Zihan is wearing the number 12 home shirt, which is his number at the club. The color of the Chinese team's home jersey is still red, with a round neck design. It has a gold-encrusted stripe design at the collar and a gold line on the shoulder.

On the left side of Li Zihan's jersey is the design of the team emblem, on the right is the PUMA logo, and in the lower middle position is his number - No. 12!

The difference is on the side of the jersey, which has a faint five-clawed dragon on the side, the head of which is on the side of the heart of the chest, and then the tail extends all the way to the top of the pants.

Wu Lei is wearing a white away jersey, which is also a round neck design, but the collar and shoulders are not gold but red, and at the same time, there is also a faint impression of a five-clawed golden dragon linked to the pants at the place of the team emblem, the difference is that the color of this golden dragon is red.

The goalkeeper's jersey is almost the same, the only thing is that the color is different, the goalkeeper's jersey at home is the theme color of green, and the away is blue.

However, there is another highlight, that is, on the back of the goalkeeper's jersey, there is a black Chinese seal font, the color is very light, and you can't really see it if you don't look carefully.

The seal of the home jersey is "copper wall", and the away jersey is "iron wall".

It can be seen that in the design of the jersey, Puma is still very attentive, at least much stronger than Nike, Nike's complaints about the jersey design have never been less.

At the same time, smart people immediately understood that the signing of Puma and the Chinese team was definitely not a temporary idea, it must have been planned for a long time, otherwise they would not have been able to complete it in such a short period of time from design to sample and finally to distribution.

So they must have been premeditated, and Puma showed the design draft to the Chinese team very early.

This Nima, the secrecy work is done more than in the United States. Central Intelligence. The newspaper office should also be tight. Reporters complained in their hearts.

Li Zihan was very satisfied with this jersey and was very relieved: John Dassler's rich second generation really lived up to his brother's cheekiness to be a lobbyist for him!

Not only the players of the Chinese team, but even the fans are very satisfied with this new jersey, because there are many traditional Chinese culture and symbols in it, and it looks all kinds of mighty and domineering!

In fact, the cooperation between Puma and the Chinese team was promoted by Li Zihan, anyway, Nike has been dragging it out, and the Chinese team is already impatient, and Nike's design has always been a "five cents" design, so Li Zihan himself doesn't like it. During this period, John Dassler intentionally or unintentionally expressed to Li Zihan the possibility of cooperation between Puma and the Chinese team, and Li Zihan said that he would go to the relevant person in charge and say.

I didn't expect it, and it hit it off!

From now on, PUMA has become a sponsor of the Chinese team.

The only thing that fans are dissatisfied with is that Puma's popularity and international influence are not as big as those of Adidas and Nike

However, the outside world has once again witnessed how good the relationship between Li Zihan and Puma is, and some media have even imagined the possibility of cooperation between Red Bull, Huawei and the Chinese team in advance.

The relationship between Li Zihan, Puma Sporting Goods Company, Red Bull Beverage Group, and Huawei Group can be described as extraordinary, and where one of them occurs, the other three have intervened one after another.

With the new jersey, the Chinese team is much happier on the training ground.

By the time the news of the new jersey passed, it was already the end of December. The Chinese team had a day off on New Year's Day, and then the next day the Chinese team played a friendly match against a local Australian Premier League team, the Brisbane Roar, at the Brisbane Stadium, the home of the Chinese team during the Asian Cup in Australia.

Brisbane Stadium itself is the home of the Brisbane Roar, and Perrin has come to practice and is more familiar with their nominal home stadium.

Due to the Asian Cup, the main core of Asian players of the Brisbane Roar team have been selected for their respective national teams, so this Brisbane Roar team is basically a temporary combination of reserve team and first team rotation.

But it was such a temporary patchwork team, and the Chinese team did not defeat the opponent directly, but won 2-1 thrillingly.

Since the match was public, all the media and fans watched the friendly match. And the media was very unhappy with the result of this match, which reminded them of Camacho's Chinese team before.

Camacho's Chinese watch was not good, not finishing first and second in the group in the Asian Cup qualifiers, but finishing third in the group. Since the Asian Cup qualifiers have to select 11 teams and the five teams that directly qualify to form the 16 teams in the finals, only five groups of 10 teams will qualify, and there is still one less.

Therefore, the AFC stipulates that whoever has the best results and table of the five teams in the five groups will be the last to qualify. This is called the best group third!

The five teams that directly qualified are the host country, the 2011 Asian Cup runner-up Australia, the 2011 Asian Cup champion Japan, the 2011 Asian Cup runner-up South Korea, and the 2012 AFC Challenge Cup champion Chao. Fresh team and 2014 AFC Challenge Cup champion Palestine.

China was fortunate and unfortunate to have won the third place in this best group and took the last train of this year's Asian Cup.

It can be seen from this that Camacho's China is not ideal, and it can be said that it is the last place among the sixteen teams in this year.

So as soon as the game ended, the Internet was full of voices of decline, and many media also criticized the Chinese team's cousin, especially Peilan, who was pointed out to rely too much on Li Zihan's personal ability, because the two goals of the Chinese team were scored by Li Zihan.

Many people call on fans to watch the game rationally, the so-called hope is greater, the greater the disappointment, although the Chinese team has Li Zihan, but there is only one Li Zihan, not eleven Li Zihan

The Chinese team did not come forward to explain anything, but the next day Perrin announced a week-long closed training session, during which the players were not allowed to leave the training base and did not accept any media interviews.

In this way, it is natural to offend those "uncrowned kings".

Then the media became even more arrogant, saying that this Chinese team is not good.

They also came up with a basis, in this year's Asian Cup grouping, the Chinese team was divided into Group B, the same group has Saudi Arabia, North Korea. Xian, and Uzbekistan. Among them, Saudi Arabia was divided with the Chinese team in the qualifiers, and they won the first place in the group, so the Chinese team must be choked when facing them. And as for the chao. Fresh team in the official match, China faced North Korea. How many games have the fresh team not won? So it's enough to choke

All in all, the prospects of the Chinese team to qualify are worrying.

And a week after the official match of the Asian Cup, in such a short period of time, how fruitful can even closed training be?

The confidence that the Chinese team had achieved against teams such as New Zealand, Paraguay, Jordan and Honduras collapsed in an instant

Fans are the most anxious, because they have not received any information about the Chinese team at all, and most of it is pessimistic speculation by the media.

Historically, the fans of the Chinese team have been the most bitter and saddest!

In this way, a week passed in the panic of the people.

On January 9, Perrin gave the team a day off, but he said that the players could rest, but they were absolutely not allowed to leave the training base, and they could not disclose any of the content of the closed training during this period to the outside world.

On the afternoon of January 9, Perrin announced the 18-man squad for tomorrow's opening match of the World Cup against arch-rival Saudi Arabia.

Among them, Li Zihan, Wu Lei, Wang Shangyuan, Gao Lin, Zheng Zhi and other main forces are all there.

In the evening, Li Zihan's personal online social account spoke: "The sky can't collapse!" At the same time, the picture is the official poster given by the Chinese team, the poster is the Chinese team's Li Zihan, Wu Lei and other seven main forces with the ball together photos, on the top of the poster written two blood-red Chinese characters - "Fight!" ”