champion professor

Chapter 308 Ping Pong Propaganda
When Shao Bo was a guest at Klose's home this summer, he knew that he had other sports hobbies besides football.

A German has a ping-pong table in his home. If he doesn't like to play, why should he?
Anyway, Shao Bo would not think that they would use the ping-pong table as a dining table. After all, Shao Bo and Klose had "discussed" at his home.

As one of the most popular sports in China, table tennis can also be called China's national sport.

The table tennis honors in the Olympic Games and World Championships have already made Chinese people feel aesthetically tired. As a result, foreigners have to constantly change the size of table tennis and the rules of the game in order to restrict Chinese players.

Coincidentally, Shao Bo also liked table tennis very much when he was young, and he once practiced both hands.In Arsenal's Kearney training base, a table tennis case has also been set up in their indoor stadium.

Before these Germans joined Arsenal, Shao Bo really couldn't find a suitable opponent.

It's not that the players are unwilling to play with the head coach, it's just that Shao Bo thinks they are too "cooked".

Table tennis, like modern football, was invented by the British.It's just that they don't pay much attention to it.

Although table tennis is also considered popular in Europe, basically every school will have a table tennis table, but this is mainly because table tennis facilities are relatively cheap.

In the whole of Europe, that is, Germany pays the most attention to table tennis.And Germany is also one of the few forces in the world that can barely confront the Chinese table tennis team.

Ball was also an excellent player who was able to compete with Ma Lin and Wang Liqin back then.

As for Sweden, although there are also evergreens in the table tennis world such as Waldner, Ljungberg can't play at all.

Sweden has a very high latitude and the weather is so cold. Indoor sports such as table tennis are actually very popular, but Ljungberg has never touched it.

There are actually many such people.

There is no one with comparable strength to play with Shao Bo, and he can only sigh secretly. Shao Bo feels lonely as a master in Arsenal, and there is no one-on-one enemy for such a big club.

As for other players who occasionally play two games for fun out of interest, they are not in Shao Bo's eyes at all.

Although it is said that "all Chinese know martial arts" and "all Chinese are masters of table tennis", these are extremely popular misunderstandings in Europe and the United States, but in the desert of table tennis in North London, Shao Bo can be regarded as a Dugu is undefeated.

That is, after Lahm and Schweinsteiger came, Shao Bo found a "table tennis friend" who could really keep in touch with him and play rhythm.

With common interests and hobbies, the two German teenagers are not so repulsive to the UK, and they feel very close to the head coach Shao Bo.

Although they still think of their home team and their hometown from time to time.But whether it is Lahm or Schweinsteiger, they both want to play well at Arsenal for a few years and offer high-level games to the fans here!
After Klose came here, a few of them could even form a team to play a men's doubles match.

It's not that the four of them haven't played like this before, and that time when they were paired up to play men's doubles, a few curious guys in the team also acted as spectators and watched all afternoon.

During this trip to Asia, these table tennis fans also met the real masters, who are all members of the Olympic team.

Compared with amateurs like Shao Bo, they are much more professional.

Of course, if the front is shifted to football, Shao Bo will become an authority again.

During Arsenal's visit to China this time, some itineraries were arranged by sports channels with a certain national will.

They mainly want to use the arrival of Arsenal to focus on promoting some projects.

Among them, Arsenal was arranged to play a commercial friendly match with the Chinese national team.

In BJ's largest comprehensive stadium - Workers' Stadium, Arsenal and the Chinese national team played a game that satisfied both sides.

In such a commercial competition, if you want to satisfy both parties, naturally the only option is to draw.

However, in order to appease the fans and prevent them from feeling that they had bought high-priced tickets and watched the game with full expectations, it turned out to be a tacit match that was not exciting at all!
If you want to make the game more exciting and intense, then strengthen your offense, ignore your defense, and score more goals!

Based on this principle, Shao Bo once again rarely arranged a 4-3-3 formation, and consciously let the players know that this is just an ordinary commercial game, and they should not play too much.

This is actually a requirement of the Football Association. They don't want Arsenal to win too much.

It can be seen from this that the Football Association has no confidence in its own players.

Although Shao Bo was unhappy, David Dane also pressed him with the principle of "obedience to the overall situation and raising funds for the club". There was no other way, Shao Bo had no choice but to reluctantly agree.

He has never been an overbearing and arbitrary fool. There is no problem in solving this kind of issue that has nothing to do with principle.

As for a little depression in my heart, what is it in front of the construction of the entire new stadium?
Arsenal is currently one of the most influential teams in Europe, and the Chinese team is a local football team. Although this kind of game is not just a commercial game, it has also attracted the attention of TV broadcasters.

Therefore, the live audience of more than [-] people, and an unknown number of people in front of the TV... They are all watching the match between the two teams.

Among the fans at the scene, some wore Chinese team jerseys, while others chose Arsenal's jerseys.However, because the bright red Chinese team jersey is very similar to the red shirt and white sleeve Arsenal jersey, even if you watch it on TV from a distance, you can't tell the difference.

The players on the field also thought they were wearing their own jerseys.

So much so that both teams feel that their status has improved all of a sudden, and they want to play more seriously.

Now the season in China is not over yet. Many Chinese players have domestic league tasks. They didn't want to exhaust their energy in this kind of commercial competition at first, and then returned to the club and lost their position.

But judging from now, it seems that it is not a big deal to fight.

Because the home jerseys of the two sides are too similar, Arsenal, who came from afar away, chose the away jersey they will wear in the new season, a new jersey mainly blue with yellow trim.

Negotiations between Nike and Arsenal are continuing, but it seems that Nike does not intend to meet the conditions proposed by Arsenal.

For Arsenal, they cannot accept that they get less sponsorship than Manchester United, after all, their results are not inferior to Manchester United at all.

Except for the only black spot - so far has not won a Champions League trophy.

If it doesn't work, just shoot and break up.At present, Arsenal has also broken away from the contractual period of "no commercial negotiations with other jersey sponsors".

In addition to Nike, there are so many sports brands to choose from, and they all hope to cooperate with Arsenal to open up the British and East Asian markets.

After all, in East Asia, including China, Japan and many other countries, Arsenal is one of the most popular teams.

Nike, a newcomer who only entered the football sports product industry at the end of the 90s, regretted it if he didn't have vision!
The game played a 4:4, but the four goals of the Chinese team were all scored in the second half.

"This not only reflects the powerful attacking power of Arsenal, which is worthy of the world's top teams, but also shows the tenacity and tenacity of the Chinese players in the face of difficulties. They successfully equalized the score at the last moment, showing the world the Chinese nation... ..."

The sports channel's characterization of this game is quite long-winded, and Shao Bo is not interested in watching it all.

In short, a game that can make the fans happy, the Football Association happy, and the club profitable is enough.Even when Real Madrid played against the World Star United at their centennial celebration, didn't they tacitly draw 3:3?

Commercial competitions are meant for the joy of fans. As for winning or losing, there is no real meaning.

In addition to such commercial competitions, they will also communicate with some groups representing China's top sports power.The Chinese table tennis team, which almost monopolizes all the medals in the world, is of course this type of group. They are the most suitable example to show the development of Chinese sports to the world as the focus of publicity.

China's bid to host the Olympic Games has long been successful, and everyone is looking forward to waiting until 2008, what kind of answer sheet will China deliver?
Out of such considerations, the sports channel represents that the upper echelon hopes that the representative of the world's number one sport - the Arsenal team, and the table tennis team that has won the most honors for China will do a cross-professional program.

It was a good idea, but it was just an entertainment program anyway. Shao Bo himself was also very interested in table tennis, so he naturally agreed.

In the program arranged by the sports channel, Shao Bo brought several German players who also like table tennis.After all, other players were not very interested in this, so Shao Bo simply gave the players a holiday while he was participating in the show.

A very simple way to interact with two different sports is to let the table tennis player kick the football twice, and let the football player hit the table tennis twice.

Perhaps they had been prepared for a long time, and the representative table tennis players also kicked a few decently.Although Shao Bo's side are all table tennis enthusiasts, they are not as good as professionals after all.

Not to mention those Olympic champions and world champions!

But after Shao Bo finished the show, he was able to proudly tell people that he was able to score 11:1 with the world champion...

Anyway, I got a point.

(End of this chapter)