Chapter 809 A Trip to East Asia (Part 2)
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Some people may ask, Fiorentina was crowned the Triple Crown three years ago, and it was extremely popular. Moreover, it developed the Japanese football market and even the entire East Asian football market much earlier than other teams. Why did it not until now that it truly came to this area to make gold?
In fact, the senior executives of Fiorentina, led by Zhuang Mingge, have long wanted to let the team come to East Asia to make gold. Unfortunately, the two years of 1996 and 1998 were the year of major competitions, and it is not suitable for holding such commercial competitions; in 1997, the four-country invitational tournament and the Copa America, the players were exhausted, and in addition, Asia was in a financial crisis, it failed to make a fortune again.
In short, due to the comprehensive consideration of the physical condition of the players and the team's record, Zhuang Mingge and other talents did not take Fiorentina to Asia to play any commercial competition in the summers of the past few years. After all, for all European clubs, ensuring the team's performance is the most important thing. If the team's own record is not good, even if they run to faraway Asia to make gold, no one will be willing to pay attention to you.
Although Ronaldo and Robert Carlos, the two Brazilians, participated in the Copa America held in Paraguay for the previous representative of the Samba Legion, only came with the team to participate in some commercial activities this time. Heinquez did not intend to let them play, but this year is indeed the year for the first team in Fiorentina to be the most staffed during the summer training camp. Otherwise, when the European Cup starts next year, Fiorentina's trip to East Asia will be delayed indefinitely.
(Note: The time of the Copa America was quite chaotic. It is common to reschedule due to political and economic reasons. Although the Copa America was once two years since 1987, it was changed to three years in 2001. Not long after, it was changed to four years in 2007. It was a weird event... In addition, let me talk about two interesting things about the Copa America. The first is that it held two Copa America in 1959, and the second is that from 1967 to 1975, there was no Copa America in the whole twelve years!)
So, on July 26, a plane carrying Fiorentine players, coaching staff and a number of logistics staff arrived at Beijing International Airport. According to the club's arrangements, in the next week, they will need to conduct a series of commercial promotion activities in Beijing and Shanghai, and play two friendly matches with Beijing Guoan and Shanghai Shenhua, two local snakes.
As for Inter Milan and Parma, their chosen opponents are like Fiorentina, Beijing Guoan and Shanghai Shenhua. However, unlike Zi Lily, these two teams only have one game to play in China, so these games can be completely settled within a week.
In order to give Guoan and Shenhua enough time to prepare for a friendly match with European strong teams such as Fiorentina, the Football Association has made a special adjustment to the league schedule of these two teams and arranged the league to be held at other times.
Only the Celestial Football Association, which is prevalent in bureaucracy, can make way for the national league...
When the Fiorentine players walked out of Beijing Capital International Airport, they had already received news. The reporters who were waiting all night in the waiting hall rushed forward and rushed directly towards the Fiorentine players with all kinds of long guns and short cannons, intending to get first-hand news!
At that time, the players in Fiorentina were shocked by the momentum of the reporters. Although most of them had experienced the environment of being surrounded and interviewed by reporters before the competition, they did not expect that a friendly match in China would actually cause crazy scenes!
So, the next scene turned into a grand occasion where the helpless Fiorentine players were besieged by a large group of excited and flushed sports reporters!
Fortunately, since the Fiorentine players have no knowledge of Chinese, are there any translations they have prepared before, and in 1999, there are not many Chinese journalists, especially football journalists, who are proficient in English, so there are many players who cannot understand the reporters' words. Therefore, despite the sudden attack from reporters, the Fiorentine players did not reveal any shocking information during the interview.
Or, they didn't understand what these reporters asked, so they naturally couldn't answer.
The Fiorentine players were somewhat looking forward to this trip to China, because when they went to Tokyo to participate in the Toyota Cup in the past few years, the enthusiasm and madness of Japanese fans left a very deep impression on them. So in their imagination, China, which is not far from Japan, would probably get such treatment.
As the Fiorentine players expected, when the team held an open training session as planned at the Beijing Workers Stadium the next day, the capital fans expressed quite high enthusiasm for the arrival of these well-known stars, waving various slogans and posters in the stands, shouting the names of their idols.
It is not surprising that this situation will occur. After all, although Fiorentina only won one league championship last season, it cannot be denied that Purple Lily is indeed the well-deserved king of European football in recent years. A loss in just one season will not damage its reputation.
However, what made the Fiorentine players feel extremely depressed is that the most popular one in the team is not Vieri and Da Inzaghi, who claim to be unparalleled (actually quite handsome), but Sun Jihai who temporarily recalled from Ajax Club to participate in this friendly exchange match!
Looking at Inzaji and others with a depressed look, Zhuang Mingge couldn't help but feel happy, thinking that it was really rare to see these guys posing in this way: "I said, Pibo, what are you depressed about? Although your fame is indeed very good, this is Sun Jihai's motherland after all, and it must be more popular with fans."
Of course, this was once my motherland, and Zhuang Mingge secretly added a sentence in his heart.
At the same time, Zhuang Mingge was thinking in his mind that when he found time in the future, he must go back to his hometown in his previous life and take a look, and by the way, remember the city where he had lived and lived for nearly twenty years.
However, Zhuang Mingge did not intend to find his family members in his previous life, because over the years, he had already inquired through various means that there was no such person as Zhuang Mingge in this world, and even the family members and relatives in his previous life seemed to have never appeared in this world.
Chapter completed!