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Originally, Mark's parents planned to invite Zhou Yi to their house for Christmas, but before they called Zhou Yi, Zhou Yi received a transatlantic phone call.

Zhou Yi was a little surprised when he saw that it was a strange call from 086.

086 is the area code of a Chinese phone number, as long as there is this number in front of the number, it means that it is calling from China.

But who can make a transatlantic call to him from China...... There are only his parents, and his parents' phone numbers include the home landline number, Zhou Yi is stored on the phone, and it cannot be an unfamiliar number.

Zhou Yi hesitated, but still answered - even if it was a liar's call, it was not his own phone bill that was wasted.

After the phone was connected, a man's voice came to mind: "Is this Zhou Yi's phone?"

"Yes, I'm Zhou Yi, who are you?" Zhou Yi asked.

"Hello, Zhou Yi. I'm Gao Hongbo. ”

Hearing this, Zhou Yi was stunned for a moment.

Gao Hongbo?

Although he is far away from China, Zhou Yi, who is not far away from Chinese football, naturally cannot not know who Gao Hongbo is.

What stunned him was that the head coach of the national team called him for what he was doing?

"Hello, Director Gao......" He even greeted Gao Hongbo with doubts in his voice.

Gao Hongbo also heard Zhou Yi's doubts, so he smiled: "It's a bit abrupt to call you suddenly." Sorry, the phone number I asked for through some media relations. The Football Association doesn't have your contact information...... That's right, the national team has a training camp in Shanghai since December 22, and I'm going to recruit you into this training camp, so I want to hear your opinion now. ”

In fact, after the initial stunned, Zhou Yi already understood why Gao Hongbo suddenly called him.

Certainly not to talk to him about the weather in Dortmund.

Then there is only one explanation.

I'm going to enter the national team!

As a teenager who has loved football since childhood, the Chinese national team is indeed his dream goal, even in the worst years of Chinese football's image, he once fantasized about being a member of the national team and then leading the team to victory.

Don't he know about those shady scenes?

He knew, but he didn't care, or hadn't thought about it. Wearing a national team jersey with a national flag on the chest is more like a child's vanity.

Zhou Yi has this kind of vanity.

It's just that as a student, he just fantasized about it.

Unexpectedly, now my childhood fantasy has become a reality.

He's really going to be ...... "international"!

How many Chinese football teenagers would turn down this invitation?

Unless this invitation comes with a "benefit fee" of 300,000 behind it......

However, 2009 was a stormy year for Chinese football, and many senior officials of the Football Association were dismissed, and the former well-known golden whistle was also imprisoned. The environment for domestic football is indeed better than before.

After Zhou Yi came back to his senses, he said: "I have no opinion, I listen to Gao's guidance." ”

He replied simply.

Gao Hongbo saw that Zhou Yi replied so quickly, but explained more: "It's better to make some things clear in advance." This is just a training camp for the national team, and we will play three games, two teaching matches against local teams in Shanghai and one warm-up match against Jordan. It's just an opportunity to get to know each other, not the future, you know, Zhou Yi?"

Zhou Yi nodded: "Of course I know this." I didn't expect to be the main player of the team in a training camp, you can rest assured, high guidance, my mentality has always been very good. ”

Hearing Zhou Yi say this, Gao Hongbo smiled: "Also, you can't play in the first team of Dortmund for three months, and you are not in a hurry, and you do have a good mentality." ”

Zhou Yi scratched his head, he really didn't know if Gao Hongbo was praising him or ridiculing him.

"Alright then, you agree, I'll put your name in. The time of our training camp is 21 days, and you can arrive a day later because you are the farthest. ”

"Hey, am I the only foreign player?" asked Zhou Yi.

"Yes, you're the only one. ”

Zhou Yi thought of He Ying, Sun Pan, Yang Muge and Guo Nu.

They haven't played yet......

Maybe in the future, I can get together with the four of them in the national team?

That's a ...... It's so much fun!

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hung up the phone, Zhou Yi didn't have time to inform his parents that he had been selected for the national team, but went to book a ticket from Germany to Shanghai as soon as possible.

That's when he gets a call from Mark. On the phone, Mark invited Zhou Yi to his house for Christmas.

But Zhou Yi could only refuse politely.

"You have been selected for the national team?!" Mark exclaimed in surprise when he heard Zhou Yi's reason.

"yes......"

"Amazing, Zhou Yi, you're amazing!" Mark, cheered on the phone, as if he had been selected for the national team himself. "Mom, Dad! Zhou Yi was selected for the national team!

Mark even called his father and mother, as if he was afraid that not many people knew about it.

Mrs. Wagner and the elder Wagner also took the phone to congratulate Zhou Yi.

Finally, Mrs. Wagner said to Zhou Yi: "Playing for the country is indeed a more important thing than Christmas, I wish you good luck in the national team, Zhou Yi!"

"Come on Zhou Yi, I will also work hard with you as my goal!" Mark shouted on the other side of the phone.

"Then I'll wait for you, Mark!"

After ending the call with Mark's family, Zhou Yi continued to book tickets.

After the ticket was booked, he took the initiative to make two phone calls. The first call was to his parents to tell them that he had been selected for the Chinese national team.

Mom didn't react to the news, but Dad was excited.

As a veteran Chinese fan, Zhou Jianliang can be said to be heartbroken by Chinese football, but his love for Chinese football has not changed. Now that his son has also entered the national team, this is naturally his wish. Besides, if my son is in, maybe I will look forward to the results of the national team?

On the second call, Zhou Yi called his agent Shuerze.

I must notify my agent of such a big thing as being selected for the national team, first, to facilitate Schulzer's work. After all, the commercial value of international and non-international players is completely different, and Zhou Yi is still very clear about this. On the other hand, it is related to the trust of players and agents, if this kind of thing is not known to their agents, what kind of trust and cooperation can they talk about?

Schulze is very happy that Zhou Yi can be selected for the national team.

As an agent, he naturally knows better the importance of this international label.

Especially the players of the Chinese national team.

You must know that behind Zhouyi is the huge Chinese market, and this huge market potential is what all brands care about. So how to explain Zhouyi's appeal and influence in China to the brands of those Western companies?

How many people pay attention to every game he makes, and how much repercussions do he have on the Chinese Internet for every goal?

None of these are simple and effective with the sentence "he is an international player of the Chinese national team".

When Zhou Yi is a player of the Chinese national team, his commercial promotion in Europe will become much easier.

"How many games does the national team have?" Schulze asked.

"Say three, two teaching games and one warm-up game......"

"Will the warm-up game be live?"

"I don't know ......"

"Will you play?"

"I don't know ......"

"Okay. In short, it is a great pleasure to be selected for the national team. Congratulations, Zhou Yi!"

"Thank you Tino. ”

Not long after hanging up the phone, Schulze called back again: "Zhou Yi, I just checked, doesn't your national team have an Asian Cup qualifier on January 6 next year? ”

"Hey, yes? Director Gao didn't tell me. I don't know ...... very well."

"Can you play that game?"

"How do I know this......" Zhou Yi spread his hands.

"Uh, okay...... Anyway, I'll pay attention to it, don't worry about anything other than football. With that, Schulze hung up the phone in a hurry, and it was obvious that he was indeed quite busy now......

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When Zhou Yi's plane was still in the sky, in China, the media had announced the list of Gao Hongbo's national team training camp.

This training camp has attracted much attention because there are two Asian Cup qualifiers on the heels of the competition.

In fact, since taking office in May this year, Gao Hongbo has been controversial. Although he led the national team to a 1-1 draw with world champions Germany in his first game. However, in the opinion of many experts, the gold content of the friendly match is too low, and even a draw against Germany does not mean anything.

However, there are many fans who like the kind of pass-and-control football of the Gao Hongbo national team.

But in August, Gao Jiajun ushered in two unexpected draws. It was also a friendly match, and the Chinese team drew 1:1 and 0:0 with Singapore and Malaysia.

In the eyes of Chinese fans and the media, these two teams are well-deserved underdogs, let alone winning, and winning less than four goals may not be a good performance.

As a result, Gao Hongbo's team was not able to win.

In these two games, the weakness of the Chinese team's weak attack was exposed.

In the subsequent Asian Cup qualifiers, facing the Lebanese team composed of many amateur players, the Chinese team's technical flow football was almost wiped out under the high-intensity pressing of the opponent, although the two goals were won, but those two goals were considered controversial.

Then, in November, the Chinese team returned to Hangzhou and beat Lebanon by only one goal at home.

Such a performance made the headline "Gao Hongbo get out of class" appeared in the media again.

Therefore, it can be said that Gao Hongbo is under great pressure now.

In the next Asian Cup qualifiers, they will face Syria at home, and if the Chinese team can't win, they will be crushed by Syria and will not be able to win the first place in the group.

Before such a crucial game, Gao Hongbo's training camp list naturally attracted much attention.

As soon as the training list came out, everyone discovered an amazing thing!

Zhou Yi's name is impressively listed!