Chapter 44: An Unexpected Episode
After the match against Borussia Dortmund, the Chinese teenagers left Germany with the film crew.
Next, they will travel to England to challenge the four teams there.
And their episode in Dortmund, after two days of intense production, finally met with domestic TV viewers on Thursday.
In fact, before this, the domestic expectations for this football reality show have been reduced to the lowest, and the ratings have been declining year by year.
Originally, this program was negotiated with local satellite TV to be broadcast in prime time on Thursday night.
But by the time this episode of the show was broadcast, it had been replaced by ten o'clock on Thursday night, which is not a very good time period for a variety show like a reality show.
It can also be seen from this adjustment that the TV station is not optimistic about this program, thinking that it is a waste of resources to give them prime time, and it is better to vacate this schedule for more potential and popular programs.
Although the program production team also tried their best, their arms couldn't twist their thighs.
Since they have lost the right to speak on the broadcast time of the program, the program team has to hold back their efforts to produce the program well.
They firmly believe that anyone who watched this game will be impressed by the spirit and ability shown by the Chinese teenagers.
And their job is to amplify and highlight these shining points, and incite more people's passion and blood.
As they say on the show.
Although the game was lost, it was an "honorable defeat".
Failure also has glory?
It sounds contradictory, but it is. Failure is not unexpected because of inferior skills. But at the last moment of the battle, he fought until he was exhausted before he fell, and he stabbed the invincible opponent three times, such a defeat is enough to be awe-inspiring.
When the show first aired, the real-time ratings were not high, even lower than the previous episode, which also shows the current situation of this show - although it has only been broadcast for four episodes, it has been declining and is at the end of the road.
No matter how clever the program producer shakes in the show, it's useless, and the audience just doesn't buy it.
However, there are still viewers who insist on watching the show, some of them may be die-hard fans of He Ying, and some may be die-hard fans of football.
But in any case, for the competition part, there is actually no hope or expectation.
And when this episode of the program was produced, the focus was adjusted. In the past, when the Chinese team lost the game and was embarrassed, there was nothing to say at all, the off-field part before the game was the focus of the program, and a lot of time was spent on the interaction and games of the young players.
But this time...... Just over a third of the way through the show, it suddenly switched to the competition, which surprised the audience who watched the show in front of the TV.
But soon they figured it out - it must be that the TV station thought the show was too embarrassing, so it compressed the program time, so that the program that used to take one hour and twenty minutes must now be over in forty minutes.
Followers who like this show naturally scolded the TV station for only thinking about commercial interests and not caring about the future of Chinese football.
And those who hate this show applauded on the Internet, saying that the TV station had finally done something human......
As the game went on live, this online confrontation never stopped.
Today was particularly intense.
It was at this time that the match between the Chinese team and the Dortmund youth team began.
Before the start of the game, the program focused on the number one star of the Dortmund youth team, Gotze, and they also got a video of Gotze participating in the youth team through the resources of the club and German TV to show how good Gotze is.
Next, introduce the representative of the Chinese team, and it is naturally He Ying who appears, and only he can compete with Gotze.
This is the feature of this show, and they can do the same thing as Saint Seiya in a football game.
And Zhou Yi has never appeared in a single shot at all.
However, he soon appeared frequently on the TV screen, because he instigated a wonderful offensive of the Chinese team, which made He Ying almost score!
At this time, the audience in front of the TV felt that today's show, or today's game, was different from the ones they had watched before.
Such a sharp counterattack has never been seen in a previous game!
At this time, a close-up of Zhou Yi was played on the TV screen, as well as a brief introduction.
"Zhou Yi, 1991.2.22, height 171cm, weight 58KG, midfielder on the field, good at feet: left and right. Current team: None. Notes: Student Player. ”
Then when the first goal of the Chinese team appeared, many viewers in front of the TV even jumped.
They never expected the Chinese team to score! And they were the first to score!
The person who scored the goal was He Ying, and He Ying's fans were very excited.
But many people also noticed Zhou Yi who assisted He Ying.
This student player, who had never played a minute before and was considered to be here to make up the numbers, actually instigated the first goal of the Chinese team in Europe!
Götze then equalised for Borussia Dortmund's youth team, and the later part of the show focused on the otherworldliness of Götze's strength and the frustration of the Chinese young players, which brought the audience's mood into an underestimate, as if this was the right way to develop the game...... makes the audience think that the next thing waiting for the Chinese team must be another fiasco.
However, there are also optimistic viewers who said on the Internet that even if they lose miserably, with that goal, it will be enough to make them happy for a while.
For them, as long as there is a small shining point in Chinese football, they are satisfied.
But then, they found out where was the little flash?
It's a flash! There's more than one!
Not long after Gotze equalized for Dortmund, Zhou Yi assisted He Ying to score again, this time the cooperation was more beautiful, and many viewers in front of the TV watched the case.
The Chinese team leads for the second time!
The audience in front of the TV was stunned - is this the "lottery team" they are familiar with? Didn't they say that they would go to Europe to find the lottery? Why is the script wrong?
The script is even more wrong to come......
With the Chinese team scoring two goals, the ratings of the show began to stop falling and rising, and the viewers who had given up before knew that today's show was different through various channels, and chose to come back again, or there were new viewers to join.
Borussia Dortmund's youth team only equalised just before the end of the first half, and in the second half they took advantage of the difference in quality to score three goals in a row to seal the win.
But Zhou Yi stood up again, a chance that was not a chance, and he sent the football into the goal of the Dortmund youth team!
Liang Qiqi, who was sitting on the bench, looked shocked: "This [beep-] is okay?!"
He spoke to the hearts of many viewers in front of the TV.
5:3!
Although such a score is still a failure, the scene is much better, and the program team deliberately skipped the goal part of the German team, but the three goals of the Chinese team are particularly special, which also guides the audience's emotions to develop in a positive direction.
At the end of this episode, after the game, Gotze came up and took the initiative to exchange jerseys with Zhou Yi!
This has never been done before in previous shows!
Mario Gotze, the biggest star of the Dortmund youth team and the rising star of German football, who was highlighted by the program team before the game, came to exchange jerseys with Zhou Yi!
His action of giving Zhou Yi a thumbs up was also seen by the national audience.
After watching the show, excited viewers ran online to continue venting their emotions.
The number of visits to Tieba for "Inheritors of Green" surged after the show ended, and the number of new members who followed also increased.
"The Inheritor of Green", which has always been half-dead in the variety show post bar, suddenly became a hit.
Many people go to post and ask "Who is Zhou Yi?!"
Zhou Yi has never been the main character in the previous shows, so he is not very well-known among the audience, not to mention that many of them are watching the show for the first time today.
As a result, Zhou Yi assisted two goals in the game today and scored one goal himself.
It immediately attracted a lot of attention and curiosity.
So some old bar friends began to give newcomers the origin of science popularization.
"This Zhou Yi is a student player who has never trained in a professional football club and has never been a ...... from the national audition"
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"You see, our son still has a bit of a football talent. In front of the TV, Zhou Jianliang said proudly to his wife.
The reality show "Inheritors of Greenery" on TV has ended and commercials are airing.
"Boom!" his wife, Li Cuiyun, pouted.
Although her mouth seemed to be disappreciative of her son's performance, what came to Li Cuiyun's mind was indeed the moment when her son scored the last goal.
Obviously, he couldn't run anymore and might fall at any time, but he gritted his teeth and rushed forward, and finally grabbed such an opportunity.
As his mother, she once criticized her son mercilessly for not going all out in everything.
But on this ball, at least she saw her son's all-out side.
She suddenly didn't know whether she should be happy or depressed for such a son.
She hopes that her son will be able to give his best in his studies, but now it seems that only football can make him give it his all.
Is my son really determined to take the road of professional football this time?
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PS, because the name of the reality show in reality has been changed, the name in the novel must also be changed, from the previous "superstar successor" to "green heir", hereby explain, everyone should not be surprised to see that the name is wrong, I have also changed the previous name.
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