Chapter 9 The Golden Key to Opening the Chinese Market

The news that Zhou Yi and Dortmund successfully renewed their contract soon spread throughout Germany, Europe, and China. Dortmund fans in China also breathed a sigh of relief. Ω　Ω　ＥNovelＷｗんＷ． 』1XIAOSHUO． COM

They are both Zhouyi fans and Dortmund fans. Many people liked and supported Dortmund before Zhouyi joined Dortmund, and some people fell in love with Dortmund because of Zhouyi.

No matter who they are, they don't want Zhou Yi to leave Dortmund.

Although Dortmund fans in China and in Germany are happy with Zhou Yi's successful contract extension, not everyone thinks this is good news for Dortmund.

After all, Dortmund has lost Gotze and Lewandowski this summer. Even if Zhou Yi stays, what's the use?

Dortmund's strength is still inevitably declining, and it's declining a lot.

On the contrary, Bayern Munich's strength has been greatly enhanced. They directly poached two absolute main players from Dortmund. Under the influence of one and the other, the gap between the two teams has been greatly widened.

Coupled with the joining of famous coach Guardiola next season, many people are more optimistic about Bayern Munich completing the counterattack against Dortmund next season.

There is another reason why people are not optimistic about Dortmund's prospects in the new season - after winning the Champions League, Dortmund seems to be more interested in using the name of "UEFA Champions League" to make money, going around to participate in business activities, which is harmful to the team. Said it was a huge burden.

Zhou Yi had just successfully renewed his contract with Dortmund and boarded a plane from Germany to China with the team.

Dortmund officially begins its visit to China.

The training camp for the new season also starts in China, where they will play three games with three Chinese teams and participate in some commercial activities.

The fatigue of traveling and traveling together with the intensive activity schedule is a great interference to the team's normal training and preparations. The original training plan has been cut into pieces, and it is hard to say how much improvement the players can get in the training.

In European football, there are many examples of teams' performance in the new season falling off a cliff because of poor arrangements for summer training camps and unscientific business competitions.

In the eyes of analysts, Dortmund's choice to go to China to continue training is definitely a failure and heralds their poor performance in the new season.

It's just that the results will not be good by then.

I can’t tell whether it was the fault of going to China for training or the fault of losing Gotze and Lewandowski...

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In fact, Dortmund's trip to China was agreed upon more than half a year ago. At that time, Dortmund did not know that they would lose important players one after another in the summer.

Zhou Yi was able to successfully renew his contract with the club. The happiest department was not even the sports department in charge of Zorc, but the commercial department of Thomas Tres.

If Zhou Yi also leaves the team this summer, the effect of Dortmund's gold-making trip to China will definitely be greatly reduced. Dortmund was finally able to reach an agreement with Zhou Yi on a contract extension, but there was also some pressure from Chinese partners - they all wanted to see Zhou Yi return home wearing Dortmund's jersey, instead of paying a high price to invite a team that has nothing to do with China.

Without Zhou Yi, in terms of popularity and popularity, Dortmund would be far inferior to traditional European giants such as Real Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Manchester United, Arsenal, and Bayern Munich in China...

This trip to China, Zhouyi is the biggest sign and gimmick.

News of the successful contract renewal spread back to China as quickly as possible, making it easier for partners to take action and spread the word.

In China, fans are also looking forward to Dortmund, or Zhou Yi's arrival.

Just this summer, Zhou Yi also helped the Chinese team win the right to participate in the World Cup, and he is unparalleled in popularity in the country. Dortmund can make a lot of money from Zhouyi.

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When the plane carrying the Dortmund team arrived at Guangzhou Baiyunshan Airport, the fans who had been waiting outside the airport for a long time were excited.

Although every Dortmund player who appeared in front of them would enjoy very warm cheers, all of this became bleak when Zhou Yi appeared.

Grosskreutz happened to be showing off to Kuba the cheers he received when he just came on the field.

"I never expected that I would have so many supporters in China! They are so crazy and enthusiastic! I think, Kuba, I must have more fans in China than you..."

Before he could finish his words, he was drowned out by sudden thunderous cheers.

He looked back and saw Zhou Yi walking out of the exit.

"Book of Changes!!!!!!"

"Good news Zhou Yi!!"

"Zhou Yi, I love you so much!!"

Regardless of whether the voice is male or female, only one person's name is called.

Not only Grosskreutz looked back, but other Dortmund players, coaches, and officials also all looked back at Zhou Yi.

They knew that Zhou Yi was a very popular star player in China, but they could not imagine that Zhou Yi was so popular.

The reporters from the German media who came with the team were shocked when they saw this scene. They felt that the love of the Dortmund fans for Zhou Yi was shocking enough, but they did not expect that the love of the Chinese fans for Zhou Yi was even more shocking!

"...In my opinion, Zhou Yi is completely at the level of an emperor in China. No matter where he goes, he can arouse people's worship..." A reporter wrote in a report back to Germany. "He cannot go out unabashedly, otherwise traffic will be paralyzed wherever he goes... In the past, we always thought that China was a desert for football, and Zhouyi was like a god who brought rain to this desert..."

"After seeing Zhou Yi's popularity in China at the airport, I think I can understand why Dortmund must plan this trip to China. If I were the decision-maker of Dortmund, I would probably agree... Thanks to Zhou Yi Thanks to the blessing, the Dortmund team enjoys extraordinary treatment in China. I bet that even if German Chancellor Ms. Merkel comes, I am afraid it will not be better than this..." Another German reporter wrote .

"...The Dortmund team's bus left the airport, and police cars escorted it all the way. Everywhere it went was smooth. On both sides of the road, you can see fans gathering at any time, wearing Dortmund jerseys and waving Chinese flags. They expressed the warmest welcome to the arrival of the Dortmund team. They took the summer bus to Dortmund and kept shouting Zhou Yi's name... But Zhou Yi still had a smile on his face in front of such crazy fans. He smiled in his signature way and waved to the fans. Although his smile did not change, at that moment, I felt a little unfamiliar with Zhou Yi in front of me. He really seemed to be the leader of this land..." A German reporter detailed Describes what he saw and heard in China.

The words and photos of these reporters opened the eyes of German fans and gave them the most intuitive understanding of Zhou Yi's popularity in China.

This scene really excited Watzke and Treis. Before coming to China, they were worried that Dortmund's popularity in China was not too high.

So after winning the Champions League, they gained a little confidence to come to China to make money.

But now it seems that they actually don't have to wait to win the Champions League before coming back. They now regret not coming to China two years earlier to make money and wasting time.

China is a market so huge that no one can ignore it. It is like a treasure mountain. But not everyone and all teams can come to this treasure mountain to get a piece of the pie. If you don't have the right method, you may not even be able to enter Baoshan.

Dortmund is lucky, they have the best golden key.

With Zhou Yi, the Chinese market is completely open to Dortmund.

On the bus to the hotel, the two of them sat side by side and began to discuss how to make money from the Chinese market - just playing tour games was obviously not enough. They want to open a Dortmund theme store and sell Dortmund jerseys. They also want to cooperate with Chinese capital to establish Dortmund's youth training academy in China and promote Dortmund's youth training experience to China. If they can tap more talents in China, If more talented players like Zhou Yi are sent to Dortmund's first team, they will have a long-term meal ticket to make money in China... Even if Zhou Yi leaves Dortmund in the future, they don't have to worry about losing the Chinese market.

Such a wonderful prospect made Watzke and Tres more and more excited as they thought about it, laughing so much that they couldn't close their mouths.