Godfather Of Champions

In the room on the 20th floor of the hotel, Dunn and Allen were looking at each other. There is no one else in this standard room except for the two of them, and they can talk about some very private topics. In fact, Alan Adams approached Tony Dunn not to talk about the old, but to talk about business affairs-there is almost no possibility of talking about private affairs between them.

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

"You know I never make jokes, Tony." Allen shook his head, his expression was serious, it really didn't seem to be a joke.

Hearing him say this, Dunn frowned.

He had never heard of such a thing, but it was truly before him.

Allen told Dunn that due to the recent domestic football environment in China, the Chinese Football Association hopes to use this game to re-establish its image. Just now, Dunn almost wrote out: "They still have an image?" So he took Allen's words as a joke. In fact, things about the Chinese Football Association are basically jokes. There are nonsensical styles and deep feelings. The black humor and of course cold jokes.

But then, what Allen said made Dunn unable to laugh: "...They hope we can tie the Olympic team in this game."

These words made Dunn frowned.

Schedule the result of the game?

But technically speaking, this is not difficult. "It's a big rotation. I'm all on the second team. The Chinese Olympic team can always make a draw, right? I also train by the way..."

"No, Tony. If you are on the second team, our business game plan will be hit hard. Amity hopes that we will try our best to send all the main players."

"Huh?" Dunn stood up from the sofa. "Send all the main players to tie with the Chinese Olympic team? Are you insulting our team's strength?"

Allen waved him to sit down: "That's why I have to discuss with you. I understand your temper, but I hope you can cooperate once. This is very important for us to open the Chinese market. You know, in China, no matter what Whoever cooperates is always unable to bypass the official..."

Dunn sat down again and tilted his head to look at the opposite Alan Adams: "Your understanding of China is really much better than before...I understand you."

Seeing that Dunn was not angry, Allen continued: "You can do a little bit of skill, make the game a wonderful game, you can score a lot of goals. Then...in the second half you can start substitutions, change the main players, try new Lineup, to investigate new players, didn’t you bring a few youth teams? 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 influence on our image. After all, it was the second-tier team that was tied...."

Dunn 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 the style, play the style, study hard, sum up the experience..." Dunn helped him say it, and he would recite the rhetoric.

Having said this, he suddenly thought of a dusty memory that had been far away from the present for ten years.

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

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

From Sampdoria's visit to China in 1994, it was until 1997 that Maradona led Boca youths to China for the "Great Wall Hero Tour". Chinese football has gone through a dreamlike era. "Working sports undefeated" is the famous slogan of that era. Sampdoria, AC Milan, Arsenal, Penarol, and Gremio all lost to the Chinese team at the Workers’ Stadium. This period of time has greatly improved the confidence and confidence of the Chinese fans on the success of foreign teams. Enthusiasm directly detonated the fiery A-League in 1994 and 1995.

Many people are immersed in the joy of defeating world-class teams, and even believe that the level of Chinese football has reached such a high level. But when Gremio lost to China Guoan in 1996, due to multiple controversial penalties in favor of the Guoan team in the game, the victorious Scolari made an angry attack at the press conference, which also completely crushed China. The fans’ beautiful vision of the commercial game: "I finally understand why so many strong teams lose here. If you can only see the referees win, then I believe you will never have the chance to qualify for 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, who came to China with the main lineup, defeated the Chinese national team in three goals at the Workers Stadium, thoroughly allowing Chinese fans to see the essence of the commercial game.

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

As for whether the Football Association made any private transactions with teams in China back then, Dunn doesn't know if he is a rising player. But now, he became the first.

Under the banner of the Olympics, Dunn was not surprised at all about such things. After all, some time ago, the Olympic team and the national team had successive scandals, and the image of Chinese football plummeted. When the Olympics are about to begin, if they can draw with the world's top teams, it will be a good stimulus to the fans and it will also build some confidence for the Olympic team that is about to fight for the country.

From this perspective, it is completely understandable that the Football Association hopes that the game will be a tie. After all, these people have never regarded football as football, and the laws of the football world are naturally just a **** in their eyes. The football match in their minds should be subject to their arrangements, whether it is the result or the process, whether it is the general environment or the players, coaches, referees and other individuals... they must be subject to them.

Seeing Dunn's sudden silence, Alan didn't continue to speak, he was waiting for Dunn's answer.

Dunn retreated from the memory, and he raised his eyes to see Alan sitting opposite.

"Okay, Ellen. I will definitely give them this face." Dunn blinked at Ellen and smiled.

Allen put down his shoulders and finally smiled on his face.

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Nottingham Forest has only stayed in China for five days, but there will be a lot of things waiting for them, time is very tight. The schedule arranged by Amity and Allen for the Forest Team is very intensive, and an ordinary person will unconsciously think that these people will be able to do it?

The team attended the welcome dinner hosted by the municipal government on the evening of their arrival in Ningbo, 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 enter the venue. The fare ranges from fifty to three hundred yuan, and the scalpers may scramble the fare even higher. Because Beckham is there, as well as Van Nistelrooy and 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 morning training, the team will attend a luncheon hosted by a Chinese sponsor of this event after changing clothes at noon. At the luncheon, Dunn and Allen will represent the Nottingham Forest team and sign a three-year image endorsement contract with each other. In the next three years, the image of the Nottingham Forest team will allow this company to carry out commercial promotion in China.

After simple training in the afternoon, some people can go back to the hotel to rest, while others are still busy. Beckham wants to attend a promotional event for a brand he endorses. Tang Ze was invited by China National Television to record a show about his work and life in the Premier League champion Nottingham Forest. George Wood and Tony Dunn will attend the signing ceremony of the Armani store inauguration in Yihe Avenue Commercial Street, Haishu District, Ningbo, because both are the image spokespersons of Armani. Today is just a signing agreement for this store. Really to be completed and meet with consumers will have to wait until April next year.

Players do not need to attend any activities that night, they have one night to arrange at will. 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 about how they consume and shop will appear on TV, newspapers, Internet and other media platforms the next day.

Dunn will follow Evan and Allen to attend a celebrity gathering. This kind of activity is what Dunn is the least good at, but he can't refuse.

There was no training in the morning of the third day, and all the players had to change their clothes to visit the University of Nottingham Ningbo branch campus in Ningbo Higher Education Park. In the school court, the players will have a small game with local college students. For example, Beckham teaches free kick footwork, and selects five people and college students to play a simple five-five match...

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

After the training, the players must immediately rush to Ningbo Enmei Welfare Institute to interact with the orphans there, give gifts, and dedicate their love.

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

On the morning of the fourth day, the training continued at Fubon Stadium, but this time the training was closed to the public. Because Dunn will arrange detailed tactics for the night game in this training class. According to practice, such trainers will never make it public. So Amity did not sell this training course either.

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

In fact, to put it plainly, Greentown became the satellite club of the Forest team in China.

This is a major event involving Zhejiang football, and Dunn must attend.

After a brief dinner in the evening, the team will drive to the Fubon Stadium. The highlight of the China tour has finally arrived-at the Fubon Stadium in Ningbo City, playing a warm-up match with the Chinese Olympic team, which has been training for several months. .

As Nottingham Forest won the Champions League for two consecutive years, this year it won the league championship and achieved a double crown. For a while, the popularity in China has also soared. In addition, the other side of this game is the highly anticipated and highly anticipated Chinese Olympic team. The market is hot. Originally, Fubon Stadium could accommodate 30,000 people, and the organizers specially added a ring of stands on the runway. 40,000 tickets were sold for 35,000. Today, when the popularity of commercial football is getting lower and lower, this result should be considered outstanding.

Amity lost his wife and lost troops during the second visit to China when Real Madrid operated Real Madrid a few years ago. This time they finally made money from Nottingham Forest.

Early in the morning on the fifth day, Nottingham Forest will pack up and fly directly from Ningbo Lishe International Airport to Tokyo, Japan. At the beginning they spent four days and four nights in Japan frantically making money.

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Just like the above schedule that you have seen, these few days have never been a difficult test for the players — wrong, Beckham has such an experience, so I can handle it easily — -Others are much worse, all tired like dogs.

In front of people, under the spotlight, under the camera lens, and under the full attention of the media, they smiled and faced various occasions. The tireless fans signed their signatures to meet their requirements for a group photo. Carefully maintain your image in the eyes of the public.

When offering love in the orphanage, everyone was very serious, and no one would just do things just because they were too tired. This is what makes Dunn most proud of. In particular, Beckham is simply the best role model for other teammates. No matter how many people entangle him around him, no matter what the fans request, he will always smile and try to satisfy him. He has never seen him. Because of fatigue, he showed an expression of impatience when being noticed.

In the orphanage, the most famous he is also welcomed by the most children. In front of children with abnormal intelligence and disabilities, he treats them like his own children.

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

Only on the way to the TV station, these players have time to eat. But many people have no appetite to eat. After getting in the car, they waved to the children, fans and reporters who were seeing off outside the window. When the car finally got out of sight, these dedicated "actors" leaned on the 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 is the only thing left in their minds?

Tired?

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