Italian coach Lippi has a good sense of Wan Sheng. Wan Sheng's coaching performance in Derby County and Manchester City is convincing. At the same time, the modest attitude he showed during conversation also made Lippi feel good.

Lippi believes that the young Chinese's opinions on preparations for war will be of great reference value.

So before the World Cup finals began, Lippi combined his own views and Wan Sheng's opinions and formulated a preparation plan for the last two days. In this plan, penalty kicks became the finish line. In addition, the training of the defense against French stars Zidane and Ribery also had to be repeated.

Italy used nearly half of the training penalty and also asked every player to watch the clips of Zidane and Ribery's outstanding performance in the game, which can bring some reference value to the players' defense.

After that, he handed over the defensive tasks to each player, among which central defender Matrazi shouldered the heavy responsibility, and his task was to keep a tight guard after Zidane passed the half.

In two days, Italy's preparations were in an orderly manner.

On the other hand, the French team is preparing for the game normally according to the plan. Domeneck has his own ideas. He believes in the team's offensive ability and also determines that the game between Italy and France will be decided in 90 minutes, so some small tactics have become the focus of preparation.

Of course, you should not be neglected in the training of penalty kicks. After all, this is the World Cup final. Playing more stably is more important than anything else, so it is very likely that the two teams cannot decide the winner in 90 minutes.

The French team did not consume much time and energy to train for penalty shooters. Domeneck just allowed a limited number of stars such as Zidane and Henry to participate in the penalty shooter training. Even if there was a bit of a ball battle, it would be difficult for other players to play penalty kicks. This way of preparation is still feasible.

Just as the two teams were preparing for the finals closely, Wan Sheng was not idle. He received an invitation from Xinlang Sports to explain the final match of this World Cup.

Xinlang Sports’ bid is not high. This commentary costs only 1 million yuan, which is really effective compared to Sky TV’s hundreds of thousands of euros. But Wan Sheng finally agreed, because Xinlang Sports is a Chinese online media and can watch live games for free, which allows him to reach more Chinese fans. It is very helpful for promoting fame in China.

Wan Sheng is also the first time he has served as a commentator for Chinese media, and he is still looking forward to it.

Xinlang Sports invited Wan Sheng to expand the influence of online live broadcast. In 2006, online live broadcast was only in the early stages of development. It was not very popular. More fans watched the game through TV. In order to develop online live broadcast and attract more fans to watch, Xinlang Sports needed to invite "big brands" to explain the game. Obviously, in terms of football, there are not many big names in China, such as domestic coaches or star players. It is difficult to attract the attention of domestic fans.

Wansheng is a person of different levels.

When it comes to football in China, Wan Sheng is still ahead of the famous star Hao Haidong. Because Wan Sheng goes further on the road of football. Although he is not a player, it is more difficult for football coaches to succeed than players. It doesn’t matter how many stars there are in the world and how many top-notch coaches there are? So Wan Sheng is very famous in China. Wan Sheng is a guest who is a live broadcast game, which will definitely attract many fans to watch.

Another point is that Wan Sheng does not often serve as a live broadcast guest on the competition. It should be said that this is the first time among domestic media. Even CCTV, which has a very influential influence, has never invited Wan Sheng.

Therefore, Xinlang Sports attaches great importance to this live broadcast. It started to promote it on various large websites two days ago. Many fans saw the news and were preparing to watch Xinlang Sports’ live broadcast.

This is equivalent to a chance to face Wansheng, and no loyal fans will miss it.

Even if the signal of the TV is a little faster than that of live broadcasts on the Internet, fans will choose to watch Wansheng’s commentary on the Internet. In short, this is much more interesting than the rigid commentary on the TV station.

Wan Sheng serves as the commentator, and the advertising effect is naturally very good, and it should even be described as hot.

Before the game officially started, Xinlang made statistics, and at least more than 60 million Chinese fans would watch the live broadcast.

This number is really amazing!

So Xinlang almost regarded this live broadcast as a key project of the year. Various advertising, web background, and activities in the competition were launched in a short period of time, just to satisfy the fans watching the live broadcast.

At the same time, Xinlang also used this live broadcast to earn some advertising expenses, such as pop-up advertisements on the live broadcast page. A small page can be sold at a sky-high price, and the cost is almost comparable to the advertisements on CCTV's Spring Festival Gala.

Therefore, on the night before the game, in order to ensure that there will be no accidents, the salary was specially increased from 1 million yuan to 4 million yuan, and the remuneration was directly increased by four times, which also made Wan Sheng very satisfied.

At the same time, many advertisers and large companies have also seen the potential value of Wansheng.

Many people have always thought that Wan Sheng is just doing a great job in football coaching and is very famous in China, but now they find that Wan Sheng has too high potential value. The key point is that he has such a reputation, but rarely serves as endorsements and advertising.

It is clear to people who know that Wansheng has an investment company registered in the UK. Simply put, Wansheng doesn’t look down on a little money for advertising endorsements, so he doesn’t need to waste time for some income.

But big advertising contracts are not necessarily the case!

For example, Nike and Adidas have been striving to win Wansheng's endorsement contract. Wansheng's economic man Kevin Tagore did not refuse, but was waiting for a price.

In fact, Wan Sheng is not willing to sign a major sports contract now because his influence is not strong enough and the endorsement fee is difficult to compare with those football stars, such as Zidane, Beckham and others. It would be a bit more costly to sign it rashly.

When his personal influence reaches a certain level, it will be completely different. Perhaps the endorsement of sports brands alone can earn more than tens of millions of euros a year.

This is not a fantasy.

Before this World Cup, Nike had already offered a high price of nearly 4 million euros a year, which was almost close to his salary at Manchester City, but Kevin Tagore still did not agree. He was very convinced of Wan Sheng's vision, so he expected that after the World Cup, the "World Cup prediction" would make Wan Sheng's fame a higher level. By then, Nike would give out 2 or 3 million euros a year.

Everything depends on this game.

This may also be a gambling for Wansheng's personal fame.

If the game is really as predicted by Wan Sheng, Wan Sheng may be sent to the altar by fans and lottery players, otherwise his "predictive" ability will have some impact.

Wan Sheng actually didn't expect that he had just predicted a few games, and that the current situation would be in the World Cup game that had nothing to do with him. It actually involved his personal gains and losses.

But Wansheng doesn't care about the reputation of "predictions". Even without such reputation, his coaching ability will not be affected.

This is enough.

All he cares about is football.

Wan Sheng also served as a commentator in China for the first time. He also knew that there are many rules and regulations in China, and there are still many things to pay attention to in terms of public commentary, and he asked this question in particular.

The collaborative commentator reminded, “Just don’t talk about politics.”

Wansheng nodded, quite satisfied with this answer.

He hates the rules and regulations in China. This cannot be said, and that cannot be said. The competition commentator cannot be inclined. Fortunately, he is very famous and is also a live broadcast of online broadcasts with crispy people, so there are not so many concerns.

He is not a politician. He has no intention of talking about politics, and he is even too lazy to talk about Chinese football.

Then just talk about the competition.

Soon the day of the game came. As the beginning of the hour approached, Wan Sheng was already sitting in the Sina live broadcast room.

The camera also started shooting.

However, the live broadcast match was half an hour before the start of the game. Wan Sheng just chatted with the staff casually. After that, the picture was about to start, and the players of the two teams were warming up. At this time, Wan Sheng sat next to him and listened to the commentator introducing the background, history, players and so on.

Finally, it was about to begin. It was Wan Sheng's turn to speak. He began with his tendency, "I said it when the reporter of the "Kicker" newspaper interviewed. I hope the Italian team won the championship!"

"They asked me why, and I told them that my personal relationship with Marcello is better. It's not a joke, it's my inner thoughts, when your friends compete with strangers, you always want your friends to win."

Wan Sheng's words made many fans feel much closer.

Afterwards, Wan Sheng talked about his conversation with Lippi, "He hoped that I would give some advice on preparing for the game. I said something, such as training penalty shootouts seriously and paying attention to the defense of the French team Zidane and Ribery. These are all very important. I think it will become the key point in deciding the game."

"But more importantly, the two teams played on the court."

Afterwards, Wansheng talked about the two teams.

Soon time passed, the two teams were already on both sides of the court, and the game was about to begin.

Both teams sent all their main players to play.

Nesta is the only main force absent from both teams. He missed all games in the knockout stage due to a groin injury. French substitute forward Saha was suspended for accumulating yellow cards, while Italian midfielder De Rossi ended four games and sat on the bench.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that this is Cannavaro's 100th appearance for the national team. He became the third Italian international to enter the "Hundred Games Hall of Fame" after Maldini and Zov.

The commentator began to introduce the history of the two teams' confrontation. "In the previous 32 matches between the two teams, Italy won 17 wins, 8 draws and 7 losses, scored 75 goals and conceded 44 goals, and won the first two games in four World Cup confrontations. However, the 0-2 loss in the January 8 final in 1986 was a watershed. It was Italy's last loss in the World Cup knockout stage within 90 minutes. Since then, France has remained unbeaten against Italy in all competitions, and France won the penalty shootout in the quarter-finals of the 1998 World Cup."

"The last time the two teams met in the finals was in the 2000 European Cup. Italy had only 17 seconds left to win, Vertod tied the score, and Trezeguet won the "golden ball" in overtime."

As the commentator continued to introduce, Wan Sheng also felt the attention of the game. More than 70,000 fans flocked to the Olympic Stadium in this game, and the number of live TV viewers exceeded 1 billion.

French President Chirac, Italian President Napolitano, German Chancellor Angela, UN Secretary-General Annan, South African President Mbeki, Austrian Prime Minister Xuser, Monaco Prince Albert and other political leaders all came to watch the battle.

These made Wan Sheng feel a little respectful. Although he led the team to win the Premier League championship in a row, he had never had the experience of leading the team to stand on such a big stage.

Compared to such a big stage, the Premier League is a little bit of a small fight

"There will be a chance." He thought firmly.

The game began soon.

At the beginning of the game, France was a little nervous, but Italy found an opportunity. Pirlo made a diagonal pass to Toti and the Roman prince shot into the net.

1:0.

Italy scored a goal in the first five minutes!

This goal made all Italian and supportive fans shout.

Wan Sheng was a little surprised by this goal. The Italian game seemed to be more smooth than expected. He also shouted twice, but then he carefully analyzed the goal. "Pirlo's pass is very accurate. He has the world's top level in this regard. Toti's shot was also sudden, which was unexpected."

But what was unexpected was that Italy seemed to be unable to find the direction after scoring the goal. They made a careless mistake for a while, and the French team scored two consecutive goals between the 25th and 33rd minutes of the game.

"The ball has entered! 2:1, France overtakes the score!"

The last goal was a penalty kick, Ribery passed the free kick with a long pass, Henry headed the ball near the left sideline, Maluda turned around and cut into the penalty area on the left rib, broke through Cannavaro and Matrazi's double-team, and slightly contacted Matrazi's raised left leg and fell to the ground.

Argentina referee Elissondo pointed to the penalty spot!

Zidane calmly shot with a spoon, and the football hit the lower edge of the right crossbar and bounced into the goal line. Then he hit the crossbar and was obtained by goalkeeper Buffon.

But the ball has crossed the goal line before!

2:1.

The French team scored two consecutive goals, which shocked many people. The series of analysis before the game was not important at this moment. The French team performed so well during this period. They seized the opportunity, which was more important than saying that everything came.

"The Italian team should not make such a mistake, they should pay attention to the defense." Seeing the French team scored two goals in a row, Wan Sheng analyzed rationally.

Now he has been fully committed to the exciting game.

While commenting on the French team's two goals, he was considering what he should do if it was Lippi.

At this time, the French team's offense was sharp and full of fighting spirit. Even if they were not bad, they would definitely not be worth the loss when fighting hard. Then the only choice was to stabilize the defense and stabilize the situation first.

Just like Wan Sheng thought, Italy then stabilized its defense and stopped rashly in the offense, and the game also entered a stable stage.

Half of the second half passed, and the two teams did not score any more goals. At this time, Wan Sheng thought in his heart that his little butterfly would change history. In his memory, Italy won the World Cup championship, but now the French team is the one who has the advantage.

He had a kind of secret excitement, and he had the worries that he would no longer hold on to the future.
To be continued...