Chapter 687: Volume Six, Crimson, Really Tired

In the room on the twentieth floor of the hotel, Tang En and Allen were looking at each other. There is no one else in this standard room except the two of them, and they can talk about some very private topics. In fact, Alan Adams was definitely not looking for Tony Twain to reminisce about the old days, but to discuss business matters - there was almost no possibility of them discussing private matters.

"What you said is true?" Tang En's tone was full of doubts.

"You know I never joke, Tony." Allen shook his head and said with a serious expression, it really didn't look like he was joking.

Hearing what he said, Tang En frowned.

He had never heard of such a thing, but it was actually placed in front of him.

Allen told Tang En that due to the recent domestic football environment in China, the Chinese Football Association hopes to use this game to rebuild its image. Just now Tang En almost wrote out loud when he heard this: "Do they still have an image?" So he took Allen's words as a joke. In fact, the things about the Chinese Football Association are basically jokes. There are some nonsensical styles and some deep ones. black humor, and of course cold jokes.

It's just that what Allen said next made Tang En unable to laugh anymore: "...They hope that we can draw with the Olympic team in this game."

These words immediately made Tang En frowned.

Scheduled match results?

But technically it's not that difficult. "It's just a big rotation. I'm all on the second-tier team. The Chinese Olympic team can barely draw, right? I'll also train by the way..."

"No, Tony. If you're all on the second team, our commercial game plan is going to be crippled. Amity wants us to play as hard as we can."

"Huh?" Tang En stood up from the sofa. "Send all the main players to draw with the Chinese Olympic team? Are you insulting the strength of our team?"

Allen waved his hand and motioned him to sit down: "That's why I want to discuss with you. I understand your temper, but I hope you can cooperate once, which is very important for us to open up the Chinese market. You know, in China, regardless of Whoever cooperates can never get around the official..."

Tang En sat down again and tilted his head to look at Alan Adams opposite him: "Your understanding of China has really improved a lot...I understand you."

Seeing that Tang En didn't lose his temper, Allen continued: "You can be more skillful, make the game very exciting, and score many goals. Then... in the second half, you can start to change people, replace the main players, and try new things. Lineup, inspecting new players, didn’t you bring some youth team members here? You can take this opportunity to observe their abilities... You are the head coach, you are more professional than me, you should know how to do it. Then...Actually It didn't have any bad impact on our image, after all, it was actually the second-tier team that was tied..."

Tang En interrupted him: "Does the Chinese Olympic team know about this?"

Allen shook his head: "They won't know, what the Chinese Football Association requires of them is to work hard and carry forward..."

"Promote style, play style, study hard, sum up experience..." Tang En helped him speak out, and he would memorize this set of rhetoric.

Speaking of this, he suddenly thought of a dusty memory that had been away for ten years.

In the early days of the professionalization of Chinese football, in addition to the emerging professional leagues awakening the enthusiasm of Chinese fans for football, there is another thing that is an important witness of that era... It can even be said to be a landmark of an era.

That is the football business game that is popular in China.

From Sampdoria's visit to China in 1994, until 1997 when Maradona led Boca Youth to China for the "Great Wall Hero Tour". Chinese football has gone through a dreamlike era, and "Undefeated Gongti" was the famous slogan of that era. Sampdoria, AC Milan, Arsenal, Penarol, and Gremio all lost to Chinese teams at the Workers' Stadium. During this period of time, the victories against foreign strong teams have greatly improved the confidence and confidence of Chinese fans. Enthusiasm, which directly detonated the fiery League A in 1994 and 1995.

Many people are immersed in the joy of defeating a world-class team, and even believe that the level of Chinese football has reached such a height. But when Gremio lost to China Guoan in 1996, due to the many controversial penalties in the game that were favorable to Guoan, the victorious Scolari made an angry attack at the press conference, which completely shattered China. Fans' vision for commercial games: "I finally understand why so many strong teams lose here. If you can only watch the referee win, then I believe you will never have the chance to enter the World Cup finals, never!"

Immediately afterwards, in order to prove that Scolari was definitely not venting indiscriminately because of the loss, the England national team, which came to China with a full main lineup, defeated the Chinese national team by three goals at the Workers' Stadium, which completely made Chinese fans see clearly the essence of commercial games.

After all, the world's top teams come to China to visit for money. Who would really compete with a team from a football backward country? What's more, players playing on the court have to worry that they may be injured due to the opponent's fierce actions, and their strength will naturally be greatly reduced.

As for whether the Football Association made any deals with the teams that came to China in private, Tang En didn't know. But now, he's the first.

Under the banner of the Olympics, Tang En was not surprised at all when such a thing happened. After all, some time ago, the Olympic team and the national team had scandals one after another, and the image of Chinese football plummeted. When the Olympic Games is about to start, if it can draw with the world's top teams, it will be a good stimulus for the fans, and it will also build up some confidence for the Olympic team that is about to fight for the country.

From this aspect, it is completely understandable that the Football Association hopes that the game will be a draw. After all, these people have never regarded football as football, and the rules of football are naturally just a fart in their eyes. The football game in their minds should be able to obey their arrangements, whether it is the result or the process, whether it is the general environment or individuals such as players, coaches, and referees... all must obey them.

Seeing Tang En's sudden silence, Alan didn't continue talking, he was waiting for Tang En's answer.

Tang En withdrew from the memory, he raised his eyes and saw Alan sitting across from him.

"Okay, Alan. I will definitely give them face." Tang En winked at Alan and smiled.

Allen put down his shoulders and finally had a smile on his face.

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Nottingham Forest will only stay in China for five days, but there will be a lot of things waiting for them, and the time is very tight. The itinerary arranged by Amity and Allen for the forest team is very intensive, so that an ordinary person will unconsciously think that these people know how to do avatars?

On the evening of their arrival in Ningbo, the team attended a welcome dinner hosted by the municipal government, and then returned to the hotel to rest.

The next morning the team went to Ningbo Fubon Stadium for training to adapt to the venue. This training class is open to the public, but you need to buy a ticket to watch it. Ticket prices range from 50 to 300 yuan, and scalpers may push the price even higher. Because there are Beckham, Ruud van Nistelrooy, van der Vaart, George Wood, Frank Ribery...and many other stars, their attraction to fans is a tool for businessmen to make money.

After finishing the training in the morning, after changing at noon, the whole team will attend a luncheon held by a sponsor in China who sponsored this event. At the luncheon, Tang En and Allen will sign a three-year image endorsement contract with each other on behalf of the Nottingham Forest team. In the next three years, the image of the Nottingham Forest team will allow the company to conduct commercial promotion in China.

After the simple training in the afternoon, some people can go back to the hotel to rest, while others are still busy. Beckham is going to be at a promotional event for a brand he is endorsing. Tang was invited by Chinese state television to record a program about his work and life at Premier League champions Nottingham Forest. George Wood and Tony Twain will attend the signing ceremony for the completion of the Armani store located in Yihe Avenue Commercial Street, Haishu District, Ningbo. Because both of them are the image spokespersons of Armani, today is just a signing agreement. It will really have to wait until April next year to meet consumers.

Players don't have to attend any activities that night, they have one night to arrange as they please. I believe that most people will choose to go shopping together. But even so, they can't relax much, because there will be many media following along the way, and the news reporting how they consume and shop will appear on TV, newspapers, Internet and other media platforms the next day.

Tang En will follow Evan and Allen, two club executives, to attend a celebrity party. This kind of activity was what Tang En was the least good at, but he couldn't refuse.

There was no training on the morning of the third day, and all the players had to change their clothes to visit the University of Nottingham Ningbo Campus located in Ningbo Higher Education Park. On the school's court, the players will play a small game with local college students. For example, Beckham will teach free kicks, and five people will be selected to play a simple five-five match against college students...

After having a simple lunch at noon, the team returned to Fubon Stadium in the afternoon to continue the public training. Fans who bought training tickets for the previous day can enter the venue directly with the tickets, and those who lost or did not buy tickets will have to buy new tickets.

After the training, the players must immediately go to the Enmei Welfare Institute in NB City, interact with the orphans there, give gifts, and dedicate their love.

In the evening, after a simple dinner in the car, the team will rush to the TV station to record programs with the selected lucky fans. The time is about three and a half to four hours. By the time these people returned to the hotel exhausted, it was already late at night.

On the morning of the fourth day, we continued to train at Fubon Stadium, but this time the training was not open to the public. Because Twain will arrange detailed tactics for the evening game in this training session. According to the usual practice, this kind of trainer will never be made public. So Amity didn't sell this training class either.

After lunch in the afternoon, the players took a lunch break in the hotel to prepare for the evening game. And Tony Twain had to attend a press conference. This is the press conference announcing the partnership between Nottingham Forest and Greentown, a local professional football club in Zhejiang Province.

In fact, to put it bluntly, Greentown has become the satellite club of the Forest team in China.

This is a major event involving football in Zhejiang Province, and Tang En must attend.

After a simple dinner in the evening, the team will drive to Fubon Stadium, and the highlight of the trip to China finally comes—a warm-up match with the Chinese Olympic team, which has been training for several months, at the Fubon Stadium in NB City .

Since Nottingham Forest has won the Champions League for two consecutive years, this year they won the league championship and achieved a double crown. For a while, there was no difference in the limelight, and the popularity in China also soared rapidly. In addition, the other side of this game was the Chinese Olympic team, which was highly anticipated and expected by the Chinese people, and the football market was hot. Originally, the Fubon Stadium could accommodate 30,000 people, so the organizer specially added a circle of stands on the track. 40,000 tickets were sold and 35,000 were sold. In today's world where the popularity of commercial football is getting lower and lower, this result should be considered outstanding.

A few years ago, when Aide Company operated Real Madrid's second visit to China, they lost their wife and lost their troops. This time they finally made money from Nottingham Forest.

Early in the morning of the fifth day, Nottingham Forest will pack up and fly directly to Tokyo, Japan from Ningbo Lishe International Airport. It started with four days and four nights of their crazily misappropriating money in Japan.

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Just like the schedule above that you can see, these few days have never been a tough test for the players-wrong, Beckham has such an experience, so he can handle it well- —The others are much more miserable, each and every one of them is as tired as a dog.

In front of people, under the spotlight, under the lens of the camera, and under the all-round attention of the media, they faced all kinds of occasions with a smile, and the tireless fans signed autographs to meet their requirements for group photos. Be careful to maintain your image in the public mind.

When showing love in the orphanage, everyone is very serious, and no one is perfunctory because they are too tired. This was the point that Tang En was most proud of. Especially Beckham, he is simply the best role model for other teammates. No matter how many people around him pester him, no matter what requests the fans put forward, he will always try to satisfy with a smile on his face. I have never seen him before. Because of fatigue, he shows the slightest impatient expression when being paid attention to.

In the orphanage, he was the most famous and welcomed by the most children. In front of those children with abnormal intelligence and disabilities, he treated them like his own children.

George Wood was a little clumsy, but he worked hard.

The only time these players have time to eat is on the way to the TV station. But many people had no appetite to eat at all. After getting in the car, they waved to the children, fans and reporters who saw them off outside the window. When the car finally drove out of people's sight, these dedicated "actors" leaned on their seats one by one. Sleep on your back.

A few years later, let these stars recall their trip to China in the summer of 2008. What can be the only thing that remains in their minds?

Are you tired?

so tired...