Fame with a ball

After yet another league game against West Bromwich Albion, the players took turns going to the dressing room to change before preparing to board the bus back to the club.

At this time, Warnock came to the locker room and asked Lin Zhigao to attend the post-match press conference with him.

The envious eyes of his teammates immediately focused on him, Lin Zhigao was a little surprised, "Why did you take me there?"

"You performed very well in this game, you won the best of the game, and more and more media have applied to interview you. However, these are not the main points." Warnock blinked like a trick Blinking eyes: "A lot of reporters from your home country have come, and they have applied to the club to interview you, just at the press conference in a while."

Lin Zhigao quickly changed into his own clothes and followed the head coach out of the locker room.

"Hey, buddy, you have to behave well in front of those reporters later." Bosroyd patted him on the shoulder. "Being the first and only guy on our team who gets the most media attention, don't lose face to the club!"

Lin Zhigao nodded: "Of course."

……

Following the head coach Warnock to the post-match press conference room, the head coach of West Bromwich Albion has finished interviewing reporters and is about to leave.He shook hands with Warnock in a friendly manner. West Bromwich Albion and Queens Park Rangers are neither rich teams nor have any grievances, so the two coaches are willing to show a gentleman's demeanor regardless of whether they win or lose after the game.

Lin Zhigao saw his compatriots among a group of white reporters with sharp eyes. They were three men and two women, and two of them were carrying cameras.

Lin Zhigao was agitated and wanted to wave at them, but felt that such behavior was too embarrassing, so he managed to maintain his demeanor and only put a faint smile on his face.

Warnock took Lin Zhigao to the news station, and then he himself was interviewed by the reporters first. After one or two local British reporters finished asking questions, a Chinese reporter couldn't help but raised his hand and asked Warnock: : "Are you satisfied with Lin Zhigao's performance in the team?"

Warnock smiled gently: "Very satisfied."

"So Lin Zhigao has always been able to play as the main player in the team?"

"As long as he doesn't have any injuries -- that's what he's doing at the moment."

The Chinese reporter was very satisfied, picked up a pen and quickly wrote down something in the notebook.

After the British reporter asked one or two more questions, the Chinese reporters couldn't help but raised their hands high.

Seeing this, Warnock took a step back and asked Lin Zhigao to step forward: "Go up and accept an interview with a reporter from your country."

Lin Zhigao stood shyly in front of the stage, waiting for them to ask questions.

But they asked questions that Lin Zhigao was not familiar with.

"Preparation for next year's Olympic Cup is coming soon. May I ask whether the head coach of the national team, Camacho, has recruited you into the national team? If not, what do you think is the reason?"

"As the only player in China who is still playing in the five major leagues, do you have anything to say to the motherland that nurtured you?"

"I heard that you are not yet a registered player of the Football Association. Does this mean that you are dissatisfied with the Football Association?"

"Do you think you will be selected for the national team?"

"Dong Fangzhuo, who used to play for Manchester United, has now gone to other leagues. Do you think it's a pity that he couldn't play against him in the Premier League?"

Lin Zhigao couldn't answer any of these questions.

Call him into the national team?How could he not know about this.As for why, the same sentence, how did he know?Also, what does he have to do with his motherland when he plays in the Premier League? The country did not teach him to play football, nor did he give him money to train him. Lin Zhigao is not patriotic, on the contrary, he loves his country very much. Fuck it.

And the registered players of the Football Association?What is that?Dong Fangzhuo... Well, Lin Zhigao actually doesn’t know who he is, but he should have already left the Premier League. Is it meaningful to ask him such a question? !

Lin Zhigao answered the reporters' questions honestly: "I don't know if I have been called into the national team, and I don't know that I have to register with the Football Association to play abroad. As for being selected for the national team? It's the national team manager's job to worry about, if he thinks I can get in, I'll go, if he doesn't call me up, I'll play in England."

Not a single bit of material was dug out.The reporters looked at each other and continued to ask: "I heard that your club has applied for special talent clauses for you? As we all know, with this, it doesn't make any sense whether you join the national team or not. Are you interested in the national team? The team has objections to cooperate with the club to do this? Because everyone knows that labor certification is actually easier to apply for than the special talent clause."

Lin Zhigao was a little annoyed, "No one from the national team has contacted me! I don't know anything about it! If you want to ask me this, you can go!"

The reporters were a little dumbfounded. Which of the domestic players they interviewed didn't have special respect for them to win the headlines?How come this young player is so uncooperative and loses his temper with them?

Lin Zhigao didn't care about their expressions, he directly said to coach Warnock in English: "They asked me very boring questions, and I couldn't answer them."

After hearing this, Warnock immediately signaled the reporters: "Everyone, the press conference is over, we are going back to the club."

Several Chinese reporters continued to ask questions, but Lin Zhigao took a few steps ahead and got into the club's bus immediately after leaving the press hall.

Teammate McGee teased him: "How is the treatment of being a star?"

Lin Zhigao said angrily: "It's terrible!"

The teammates looked at each other, a little confused.

……

Back at the apartment, Lin Zhigao immediately called Sun Dawei: "Who are those reporters who came to interview me in China?"

Since Sun Dawei did an exclusive interview with Lin Zhigao, the two became acquainted. Sun Dawei would often give Lin Zhigao advice on how he was viewed in China. People are getting more and more familiar.

Sun Dawei was taken aback, and immediately reacted and said: "I don't know, there should be a lot of media looking for you. I heard that even CCTV sent a film crew to film some highlights of your training and games for broadcast. "

CCTV... No matter how ignorant Lin Zhigao is, the name of CCTV is still recognizable. He couldn't help thinking that he just offended a reporter from CCTV, right?!

It's okay to offend some ordinary reporters. If it's CCTV...how could Lin Zhigao be so stupid as to oppose the mouthpiece of the state apparatus? !He immediately began to think about how he could make up for what happened just now, accept another interview with them, and then have a better attitude?

Seeing that he hadn't spoken for a long time, Sun Dawei asked him, "What's wrong with you?"

"I, I seem to have offended the CCTV reporter."

Sun Dawei was surprised and said, "What's going on? Tell me about it."

Lin Zhigao told Sun Dawei what happened in the news hall after the game.

After hearing this, Sun Dawei was relieved, "The reporters of CCTV are generally quite well-behaved and don't ask those questions. What color and shape do you see their microphones?"

After Lin Zhigao described it to him, Sun Dawei reassured him: "They are not CCTV's media, but some Internet media, you don't have to worry."

Only then did Lin Zhigao feel relieved, but he still felt very strange: "In the past few months, there were not so many people who came here to interview me. At most, it was only one or two reporters. Why is there such a big battle this time?"

Sun Dawei said with a smile: "You have been playing better and better in the Premier League these days. Not only are you the main player in every game, but you are also ranked third in the scorer list. The attention paid to you in China is getting higher and higher. You don't know. You are still included in Zhou's sports news. What's more, Dong Fangzhuo, the most famous overseas player in China, has gone to the lower leagues. Now you are the best among domestic overseas players. It is not surprising that many media have interviewed you .”

"Dong Fangzhuo?" This was the second time Lin Zhigao heard this name, "Who is he?"

Sun Dawei was so frightened that he almost threw his phone away: "You don't know who Dong Fangzhuo is?! Then you should know Li Tie, right?!"

Lin Zhigao said silently: "I don't know..."

"Sun Jihai?"

"..."

"Yang Chen?"

"..."

"Well, I was defeated by you." Sun Dawei said weakly: "Let me just put it this way for you, Yao Ming, you should know, right?"

Lin Zhigao rolled his eyes and said, "Do you think I'm an idiot?"

Sun Dawei didn't say anything, but in fact he was muttering in his heart, asking if you don't know anything, you are almost the distance from an idiot!However, he still explained seriously: "As long as there are Chinese players playing abroad, they are generally called overseas players. Among them, Yao Ming and Li Na are the best. Chinese people don’t care much about this domestically. After all, tennis is not a world sport. Among all sports, basketball and football are the ones that get the most attention and are the ones that China sighs the most. Whether it’s Chinese basketball or football, the world’s There is no place in the strong team, and most of the Chinese players go abroad to play football, and they can’t even be the main force. That’s why Yao Ming, who can play the main force and play well in the Rockets, is so famous. Of course, there are other players in it. I won't tell you the reason."

"The Dong Fangzhuo and Li Tie I just told you are both overseas players in football. And football is the most popular in the country and even in the world, so any Chinese who improve in foreign leagues will make the domestic The media paid a lot of attention. Before the two of them, in fact, there were many Chinese players studying abroad, but they were just barely able to get along. Only Yang Chen and Sun Jihai, Yang Chen was the main force in the Bundesliga, but that was in the [-]s Sun Jihai is at Manchester City, and they all retired. Li Tie was originally at Sheffield United, but he couldn't get along a while ago and returned to China as a coach. He started with a high profile, was signed by Manchester United, and then loaned to other teams Dong Fangzhuo, who played football, was considered to be the best Chinese player before you appeared—unfortunately, even he has now gone to the Asian American Super League. Not to mention other things, either in the youth team or in low-level competitions Yes, it’s just you, who played well in the league’s No. [-] Premier League and are still the main force, and now that Yao Ming is about to retire, you’re the only one who’s popular, who do you think people don’t pay attention to?”

Lin Zhigao's heart was greatly satisfied by Sun Dawei's words, but he was still puzzled: "What is Yameichao?"

Sun Dawei smiled bitterly: "It's the Armenian Super League, have you heard of it?"

"……No."

"So you know how miserable those Chinese overseas players are?"

"If you can't get along abroad, go back to your country. It's better to play football at home than abroad, after all, it's your hometown."

"..." Sun Dawei is now sure that the person on the phone with him is the real idiot Lin Zhigao. You say he is a professional player, why is he so off the road and doesn't understand the situation! ! !

The current Sun Dawei has completely forgotten the fact that Lin Zhigao is only 17 years old and has never played football in China before. He is a little dizzy: "In short, you just need to know that it is actually more difficult to play in China. Also, No matter what others say, you must not go back to China to play football, you know? As long as you can still play abroad, you must not go back!"

"why?"

"Don't ask so many why!!!" Sun Dawei roared.

Lin Zhigao trembled, "Okay, okay, I won't ask any more."

After answering all the questions of Hundred Thousand Why Lin in detail, Sun Dawei hung up the phone.Where Lin Zhigao couldn't see, he sighed silently, and sighed in a low voice: "You are not allowed to return to China to play football, because you are afraid that you will be abolished after returning to China..."

How many originally talented and promising players were completely ruined because of black calls, black balls, and black hands. As a sports reporter, Sun Dawei has seen too many such things in China, and he even feels a little discouraged about football. Feeling cold—this is why he volunteered to come to a foreign country as a foreign correspondent.

If he didn't edify himself in such an environment, Sun Dawei was afraid that he would not know what pure football is in the future.And Lin Zhigao, this young man who took the road of professional football by accident, is surprisingly suitable for this road. As a Chinese, and as a reporter who understands Lin Zhigao's character, what Sun Dawei can do is to The newspapers tried their best to protect him, and hoped that Lin Zhigao could go further and achieve achievements that the Chinese people could not create before.

……

Lin Zhigao, who was talking to Sun Dawei about the CCTV reporter on the phone at the last moment, soon saw them.

Different from those non-governmental media and online media, as a state media, CCTV easily obtained Lin Zhigao's mailing address and contact information from the club. After other places, CCTV's seven-member reporter group easily stopped Lin Zhigao at his home.

Lin Zhigao had just finished dinner at that time, and was holding a football to go to the stadium to make contact, but he ran into these guests from CCTV before leaving the house.

There are seven CCTV reporters, five men and two women, all of whom are not too old. The oldest one is the team leader, who looks only about the size of Lin Zhigao's father.

Seeing them, Lin Zhigao was very restrained and shy, but not lacking in politeness.His attitude made the seven reporters smile, and they quickly developed a good impression of Lin Zhigao in their hearts.

The team leader expressed their intention to Lin Zhigao. It turned out that they were reporters from the five sports channels of CCTV and wanted to shoot some videos of Lin Zhigao's life and training, and broadcast them to people all over the country as sideshows and news clips.

Lin Zhigao readily agreed to these requests, and asked when they would start. The team leader said that starting tomorrow, after a whole day of filming, they would fly home the day after tomorrow.

Lin Zhigao felt a little pity after hearing this: "You don't want to watch my game anymore?"

The team leader asked him: "Who is your opponent in the next game?"

"It's Chelsea."

The eyes of the seven reporters lit up quickly, but quickly dimmed again: "The job date we applied for is only three days. Your next match will not be until next weekend, right? We can't wait for that time."

"it's a pity."

"It's a pity." The team leader quickly smiled and comforted Lin Zhigao: "When you become more famous in the future, maybe we can apply for more vacations from Taili?"

They also agreed with Lin Zhigao that the filming would start tomorrow morning, and asked Lin Zhigao to inform them when he packed up and went to the club for training. They rushed over from the hotel, and Lin Zhigao agreed.

After the CCTV reporter left, Lin Zhigao grabbed the phone very excitedly, dialed the number at home, and before the other party could speak, he shouted: "Dad, Mom, a reporter from CCTV is here to interview me!"