Chapter 164 Against Osaka Sakura

On August 7, the Atlético de Madrid team took a special plane to Osaka, Japan, and started the club's planned "August Asia Tour".

Atlético de Madrid defines the "August Asia Tour" as 'promoting football culture to East Asia', but European media sees this as a 'money-gaining trip'. Atlético de Madrid just participated in a game in Japan, Appearance fee reached 3 million euros.

"With such a high appearance fee, it is no wonder that Atletico Madrid planned to go to Asia early..." "Marca" sarcastically said.

This is the first time since 2006 that Atlético de Madrid went to Asia. With the momentum of winning the La Liga championship and the Copa del Rey last season, Atlético de Madrid also started a business tour.

First stop, Osaka, Japan.

Atlético de Madrid set the destination of the first stop in Osaka. One is that the Osaka Sakura team invited Atlético de Madrid to play a friendly match, and the other is related to some publicity plans of Atlético de Madrid.

As the European media said, the 'Asia trip' is indeed a 'money-gaining trip'. In addition to the high appearance fee, Atlético de Madrid also wants to develop some business and sponsorship matters, of which the most important is Japan's Toyota Motor , This car company intends to sponsor Atlético Madrid's jersey trademark, but since Toyota requested to send young players to Madrid for training, the cooperation between the two sides has never been negotiated. Another reason is that Wansheng did not train young players for Japan. Intend.

In addition, it is very important that the club should cooperate with NIKE to open no less than four Atlético de Madrid stores in Tokyo and Osaka, which are dedicated to selling Atlético de Madrid jerseys, knee pads, footballs and other peripheral products. Profitability is not considered. , mainly to continue promoting the Atlético de Madrid brand.

This is also the main purpose, to promote Atletico Madrid and make the club more famous in Japan.

Fame cannot bring direct economic benefits, but it is very beneficial in the long run. As long as there is enough fame, the benefits will be guaranteed, and its influence and benefits will continue.

After the Atlético de Madrid team arrived in Osaka, they were warmly welcomed by Japanese fans, and many fans from Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya and other places came to Osaka in particular to welcome the arrival of Atlético de Madrid.

After arriving in Osaka, Atlético de Madrid checked into the hotel and rested for more than four hours. At around four in the afternoon, Atlético de Madrid held a press conference and a star meeting.

The atmosphere at the scene was very hot. The hottest moment was the autograph and group photo of the stars at Atlético de Madrid. 200 lucky fans were able to come to the stage to find their favorite star to sign autographs and take a group photo.

Many fans shouted, hoping to get Wan Sheng's autograph. Unfortunately, Wan Sheng did not participate in the event. After dealing with the media reporters, he did not appear at the event at all.

In addition to Wansheng, the most popular among Atletico Madrid is Ozil. Aguero left for Manchester City, and Ozil is the most famous.

In fact, it was Morris. He was over 34 years old, but as a former Golden Globe winner, he was also very popular. More than 20 fans lined up to take pictures with him.

People like J-Rodriguez, Kevin-De Bruyne, Isco, etc. are not very famous, but they can become Atletico Madrid players. They are young and handsome, and they also attract a lot of fans, especially female fans.

Of all the players standing on the stage, the only one who was left out was Wang Qiuming.

Wang Qiuming was embarrassed.

There are more than 20 players on the stage, and each of them is surrounded by several people. He is the only one who is alone. There is only one person in front of him. He is also a Chinese fan who speaks standard Chinese. In other words, there is no one at all. Japanese fans chose to ask for Wang Qiuming's autograph.

Wan Sheng was in the corner, frowning as he watched, he didn't expect Wang Qiuming to be left out in the cold.

But in fact, this is related to the Japanese propaganda. In the Japanese propaganda of Atlético de Madrid, Wang Qiuming's name rarely appears, and many Japanese fans who know Atlético de Madrid are serious, Wang Qiuming entered Madrid 'relying on connections'. Competitive.

Last season, Wang Qiuming showed little performance, and naturally he won't receive much attention.

Wang Qiuming is a Chinese, which is also one of the reasons for being ignored. The Japanese are also somewhat resistant to the Chinese.

Wansheng is welcomed by Japanese fans because his ability is recognized by the world. In contrast, Wang Qiuming is only an Atletico Madrid player, but he has not been able to prove himself at all.

Wan Sheng remembered this scene.

By the afternoon of the next day, before Atletico Madrid and Sakura Osaka had a warm-up match, Wansheng said to all the players, "I won't say much about how this game will be played. If you are going to lose to a Japanese league team. Team, we don't need to shout any slogans for the championship..."

Everyone laughed.

They still have confidence in themselves and the ability of the team.

Then Wan Sheng changed the subject and said seriously, "What I want to say is an important thing!"

"Wang Qiuming!"

Hearing Wan Sheng calling out his name, Wang Qiuming was stunned and immediately stood up.

"Today's game, you are the core!"

"Ah?" Wang Qiuming was a little confused, and the others looked at each other, not understanding what it meant.

"You should all remember yesterday's autograph session, when each of you was surrounded by a few fans to sign, except... Wang Qiuming, this was discrimination by Japanese fans, or they just didn't believe in Qiuming's ability! Qiuming! A player from Atlético de Madrid, a teammate for all of you, looking down on Tyu Ming is looking down on our entire team!"

"So, in today's game, you can pass it to Tyu Ming when you have a chance, and let the damn Japanese see if they are blind... Also, try to score as many goals as possible, don't be merciless, I don't want to be at the end of the game. , see the score counted by one hand!"

Wan Sheng's face was a little grim.

"Yes……"

"Yes!"

"no problem!"

"OK!"

Wan Sheng's expression made everyone feel a little bit, but they all figured out what it meant.

Many people have heard that there is hatred between the Chinese and the Japanese before, but now they understand it. Just by looking at the coach, you can see how dissatisfied he is with those Japanese fans.

Yesterday's autograph meeting, in fact, also explained some problems - no Japanese fans asked Wang Qiuming to sign.

Maybe it's because he's Chinese? But anyway, the boss is angry! The boss is angry, of course, let those Japanese know how powerful it is!

Now is the best time to please the boss!

When walking out of the locker room, many teammates patted Wang Qiuming on the shoulder and said with a smile, "Wang, come on!"

"Wang, score more goals!"

"Wang, I'll pass it on to you when I get the chance! Don't worry!"

"..."

Wang Qiuming walked at the end of the team and felt very excited. He didn't expect Wansheng to tell others to pass more balls for himself, meaning that he would play and let those Japanese who don't value him know how powerful he is.

Can you do it yourself?

It definitely works!

Thinking of the embarrassment at the signing ceremony yesterday, he couldn't wait to appear in the game!

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The Osaka Sakura Club was founded in 1957.

In 1994, Osaka Sakura won the JFL (Japan Football Second League) championship and was promoted to the J1 league in 1995. In 2001 and 2006, Osaka Sakura's performance was not satisfactory, and he was dropped from the J2 league twice. In the 2009 season, he was promoted back to the J1 league with the second place.

On December 04, 2010, the Osaka Sakura team beat Iwata Joy 6-2 at home, and finally successfully reversed the unfavorable situation of the league points, surpassing the Kashima Antlers, the overlord of the Japanese Professional League, and won the 2011 Asian Championship with the third place in the league. The admission ticket to the league created another miracle of a newly promoted team.

The history of Osaka Sakura Club is not glorious, but they have enough investors. The club's economic situation has always been very good. Japan has always been committed to the development of football, and major companies are willing to spend a lot of money to invest in football development. middle.

Osaka Sakura is one of the clubs that benefited.

With enough funds to operate, it can maintain enough strength, and Osaka Sakura has gradually become a well-known club in Asia.

This time is also an invitation from Osaka Sakura, hoping to be the first stop of Atlético de Madrid's "Asian Tour" plan.

The Osaka Sakura Club has worked hard for this, and the Osaka Sakura Team has been preparing for the game. They hope that the European teams can see the strength of the Japanese team, and they also hope to see the gap between the team and the strong European teams in the game.

For this friendly match, the Osaka Sakura Club has done a lot of publicity work, so on this day, the Osaka Mayor's Land Arena was overcrowded, and nearly 50,000 seats were emptied.

It is said that there are more than ten times of fans who have not been able to buy tickets and can only watch the game through TV broadcasts.

As the fans entered the stadium, the atmosphere in the stadium heated up.

On the radio music, Atlético de Madrid and Osaka Sakura's players played together.

This is just a friendly match, or a commercial match. Naturally, there are not so many mandatory rules. The players of the two teams are still very relaxed. On the field, the captains of the two teams guessed coins and ended, as well as the players of Sakura Osaka, who knew each other. The Atlético de Madrid star said hello and asked to take a group photo together after the game.

The atmosphere of 'friendship' between the two teams is not bad.

But when the game really started, whether it was Sakura Osaka or Atlético de Madrid, every player was seriously involved in the game, and the atmosphere at the scene became hot with the game.

Atlético de Madrid only regards the game as a pre-season warm-up. The players in the team have little experience with Asian teams, but in fact, Japanese football has always imitated European football, and there are no surprising characteristics.

Comparing the strengths of the two sides, Osaka Sakura has a big gap with Atletico Madrid in terms of the individual ability of the players on the field, the team's overall technical and tactical ability, and the most basic physical fitness.

The game scene can be imagined.

Some Atletico Madrid players have not even entered the game state, but Atletico Madrid only played simple tactics and completely suppressed Osaka Sakura. (To be continued ~^~)