Chapter 215 Olympic Games and World Cup

"When I was chatting with my agent on the plane today, he said that I would be charged for interviews outside of my contract in the future..." In the hotel, Zhou Yi, who was resting alone, was chatting with his friends in a group on his mobile phone.

He Ying soon replied: "Charging is the right thing to do and it is also the default rule."

"Then He Ying, do you know how much Messi charges for interviews?" Zhou Yi asked.

"I don't know..." He Ying said. Although he is a player in the Barcelona echelon, he is not familiar with Messi at all.

"One thousand euros per minute!" Zhou Yi used it to shock his friends.

"Holy shit!"

"!!"

"..."

Sure enough, Sun Pan, Guo Nu and Yang Muge all appeared one after another.

"When I learned about this, what do you think I thought of?"

"You also want to charge one thousand euros a minute?" Guo asked angrily.

"What are you thinking about, Lao Guo? I'm not a player of Messi's level."

"Messi is too dark?" Guo Nu cooperated and guessed.

"It's not illegal for a player of his level to charge this kind of money. It's just market price. He adheres to this standard and everyone abides by it, which means it's not outrageous."

"What is that?" Guo Nu couldn't guess.

"I'm thinking that when you become famous in the future, you can make a lot of money by charging for interviews, Lao Guo!" Zhou Yi said.

"..." Yang Muge was speechless.

"Hahahahaha!" Sun Pan laughed happily and once again made an expression like he was pounding the ground with laughter.

"Pfft." He Ying couldn't hold back either.

"Damn it, you're hacking me again!" Guo Nu also heard it.

"To be honest, thirty minutes for our interview is too much. Your interview may take an hour and a half." Zhou Yi said. "Calculate how much money this costs! Time is money, my friend!"

Guo Nu was attacked by Zhouyi.

All he could do was cover his face and smile bitterly.

He really couldn't defeat Zhou Yi, whether with his mouth or keyboard...

"Then what is your charging standard for Zhouyi in the end?" Kind-hearted Yang Muge changed the subject for Guo Nu.

"Well, five hundred euros per minute."

"That's a lot!" Guo Nu exclaimed. According to what Zhou Yi just said, an interview lasted for thirty minutes, Zhou Yi earned 15,000 euros from this interview.

"It's amazing..." Yang Muge said with emotion.

Sun Pan: "We have been chatting for ten minutes now. So the five thousand euros are gone. Zhou Yi, you have suffered a heavy loss."

"Having said that, I don't dare to chat with Zhou Yi anymore. I can't afford to talk..." Guo Nu made a "poor" expression.

"It's okay, I'm rich!" Zhou Yihao said angrily, "Come on, let's talk about 10,000 euros!"

Everyone rolled their eyes.

"Hey, how are you doing at the National Olympics?" Zhou Yi asked proactively when he saw that everyone was ignoring him.

When Zhou Yi went to the national team training camp to participate in the warm-up match, his four friends, He Ying, Guo Nu, Yang Muge and Sun Pan, were also recruited into the National Olympic team and followed the National Olympic team to compete in the 2012 London Olympics. Finals.

This is of course also what everyone expects.

Since Zhou Yi and Sun Pan became famous, those players who went abroad together at that time also received attention. As a player who can play the main role in the youth teams of wealthy families, joining the Olympic team is a matter of course and there is no controversy.

"Hey, it's our world!" Sun Pan became excited when he said this. Of course he must be excited, because as soon as he joined the team, he snatched the position of the main goalkeeper from Wang Dalei, which was a crushing advantage.

"Everyone performed well. It should be no problem to play as the main force." Yang Muge said so. Obviously, the main force is not a problem for them.

"Oh, I really want to play in the National Olympics..." Zhou Yi said.

"People from the national team, don't act cool here!" Guo Nu said and posted an emoticon that said, "If you don't act cool, we'll still be friends."

"Really, I just want to compete in the Olympics."

"It sounds like we wouldn't be able to make it to the Olympics without you," Sun Pan said.

"Sun Pan is right, Zhou Yi. Don't underestimate us. Although we are not in the national team yet, we will also lead the Olympic team out of Asia." He Ying said.

"Hey, I thought about it. How about this? You guys work hard to get the tickets to the Olympic finals, and I will go to London with you. And I, I will try my best to get the tickets to Brazil. Let's wait for three years. Go to Brazil!" Zhou Yi thought of a good idea.

"This idea is reliable." He Ying was the first to agree.

"Not bad, this way we can participate in both the Olympics and the World Cup!" Sun Pan was also very happy.

"Okay, let's work hard together!" Yang Muge also felt motivated.

Guo Nu said concisely: "Okay!"

For a time, everyone fell into infinite longing for the future.

What is the Olympics like, and what is the World Cup like? How will we perform and what results will we get by then? What powerful opponents will you encounter?

Everyone’s minds were open when they chatted.

Until Yang Muge suddenly realized that they had been chatting for more than twenty minutes: "It seems that it has timed out. Isn't this more than 10,000 euros?"

Zhou Yi was very generous: "It's okay, any more will be given away for free!"

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After all activities in the United States ended, it was already June 15th.

Zhou Yi flew back to Dortmund from the United States.

Although there are still twenty days left before the team's training report, Zhou Yi came back early. Because he still has his own training plan, he wants to continue to improve his physical fitness. Although his physical fitness has made great progress in the past season, Zhou Yi still feels that it is not enough.

Physical fitness is like money. The more the better. There is only a time when it is not enough, but there is never a time when it is useless.

After experiencing last season's Champions League and league as well as the national team's third-line battle, Zhou Yi now envies Park Ji-sung. He hopes that he can also become a person like "Park Sanfei" who can't run on the court. Only in this way can he go where he wants to go during the game.

In modern football, physical fitness is the foundation of everything. Without this foundation, no matter how good the technology and awareness are, they can only be castles in the air and unrealistic.

Zhou Yi hopes to be able to reserve more physical fitness than others before the start of the new season.

Once back in Dortmund, he threw himself into his training. He went to many places during this holiday, which was a bad torment for his body. His physical fitness will definitely not be as good as it was during last season. He must now make up for his lessons to ensure that he will not suffer from poor physical fitness during the season. At the least, he can only be replaced midway because his physical fitness cannot be maintained, or at worst, he may be injured.

While Zhou Yi was training hard in Germany, He Ying, Yang Muge, Sun Pan and Guo Nu, as the main players of the Olympic team, also participated in their first Olympic qualifying match.

The Chinese Olympic team faced the Oman Olympic team at home.

In fact, before the four returnees joined the team, this Olympic team was not optimistic. Because this Olympic team actually represents to some extent the incompetence of Chinese youth football training, the lack of talents, and the lack of real star players. If we can really count them as celebrities, there are only two people, Zhang Linpeng and Wang Dalei.

Looking at the previous Olympic teams, although they did not appear, there was no shortage of star players.

The 1992 National Olympic team included players such as Fan Zhiyi, Hao Dong, Peng Weiguo, and Li Bin. The 1996 National Olympic team included Yu Genwei, Xie Hui and Zhang Enhua, as well as Yang Chen. The 2000 National Olympics included Zheng Zhi, Sun Hai, Zhao Junzhe, Zhang Xiaorui and Li Jinyu. The 2004 National Olympics included Qu Bo, Du Wei, Zhao Xuri, Xu Liang and Sun Xiang. The 2008 Olympic team included Zhou Haibing, Gao Lin, Feng Xiaoting, Hao Junmin and Chen Tao.

But this Olympic team, let alone the core of the Olympic team, who can serve as the core of the club?

The predecessor of this Olympic team was the 89-year-old National Youth Team, which was established in 2007. There was a statistic at that time that there were only 300 registered players in the 1989 age group in the Chinese Super League, Chinese League One and Chinese League Two clubs. If some League Two players and some who were too weak were added, there would only be about a hundred players at most. There are more than 700 players in the 1989 age group in the provincial and municipal National Games teams, and like any age group team in previous years, as the players grow, the number of players is declining rapidly.

When coach Liu Chunming started to form this Olympic team, he actually lost at the starting line. Because the training players of the Chinese Youth Team are only selected from more than 400 players of the right age across the country. After several years of elimination, this number has now been reduced by nearly half. After the 2009 National Games, there were only more than 200 players in the 89-year-old age group still active in the Chinese Super League, Chinese League One and Chinese League Two. .

From such a small number of players, twenty-three were selected to compete in the competition, and one can imagine the quality. Compared with Japan and South Korea, which select suitable players from hundreds of thousands of players of appropriate age, China has already lost from the beginning. This Olympic Games is no longer about cups and cutlery. It is simply a dining table filled with all kinds of cups and cutlery...

Although the Football Association later hired the world-famous coach Blazevic to coach the Olympic team, Blazevic has only led the team to play one warm-up match so far during his tenure, and he has not been able to do anything for the team. To fully understand it, we are about to usher in a life and death battle with Oman.

Under such circumstances, reducing talents in an eclectic way has become a necessary option.

Since the players in the 89 age group are not strong enough, can we explore further?

It is precisely because of Zhou Yi and Sun Pan's outstanding performance in Europe that inspired everyone's idea.

So Sun Pan, Guo Nu, Yang Muge and He Ying were selected into the Olympic team before the game against Oman and trained with the team.

These four people did live up to people's expectations of them.

After joining the team, they showed a completely different level of strength from their teammates.

The training they received in Europe put them head and shoulders above their teammates.

The team then played two warm-up games. In these two games, due to tacit understanding issues during the running-in period, the performance of the Chinese Olympic team was actually not very good. They lost to the North Korean Olympics 1:2 and tied with the Saudi Arabian Olympics 0:0.

Now it seems the only problem is time.

There is too little time left for Blazevic's team. Four overseas players have just joined the team and will challenge the Oman Olympic team after half a month of training.

Can they get past the Oman Olympic team and advance to the group stage of the Olympic qualifying tournament?

This Olympic team gave everyone who paid attention to the Olympic team an answer at eight o'clock on the night of June 19.

They defeated the Oman Olympic team 3-0 in 90 minutes!

The suspense of the second round was completely eliminated!