Fame with a ball

It turned out that there were many large and small manufacturers in China, and they all took a fancy to Lin Zhigao and asked him to be their spokesperson.But because Lin Zhigao did not have a fixed contact person and contact information at that time, many endorsement contracts could not be delivered to him at all. Now that Jiang Shupeng became Lin Zhigao's agent, the negotiation conditions of those manufacturers were sent to him soon. In his hands, there are a total of more than a dozen invited endorsements from large and small well-known domestic brands to small and unknown brands.

The business direction Jiang Shupeng set for Lin Zhigao is to get as many well-known brand endorsements as possible and public welfare endorsements. It is best not to accept those endorsements that pay a lot of money but don’t know whether the brand is good or bad, because once any crisis news breaks out from those manufacturers If not, the spokesperson is often affected along with it.

However, according to Lin Zhigao's current reputation, it is not his turn to be the endorsement of a super-large and well-known multinational company. Jiang Shupeng carefully selected two endorsements from those contracts, namely Mengniu and Yili's emulsion drink brand.

As we all know, Yili prefers to invite Olympic champions to endorse its own brand, and its reputation is relatively good, but Mengniu gives more money than Yili. Jiang Shupeng hesitated between the two brands for several days before Mengniu broke brand trust. Only then did he finalize the contract: it was Yili!

On the morning of December 12th, it was the contract signing ceremony between Lin Zhigao and the Yili manufacturer. For the first time in his life, Lin Zhigao wore a suit and held a press conference with the manufacturer. After the press conference, there was an interview session with reporters.

The site was crowded with reporters before the press conference started, and there were dozens of media outlets, large and small. The representatives of the manufacturers were immediately happy when they saw this scene, and the spokespersons they invited were very popular. Publicity is very helpful.

Even if Lin Zhigao is interviewed by dozens of reporters now, he will not be stage frighted anymore, and he will not be as excited as before when he knows that he is on the newspaper news.

Some reporters gathered around and asked Lin Zhigao a few questions about his life and competition in the UK, and Lin Zhigao answered them one by one, until some discordant voices appeared: "Someone broke the news that you have not yet registered with the Football Association as an overseas player. , can you tell us the reason for this? You are not registered in China, do you want to immigrate to live abroad in the future?"

As soon as this question came up, the manufacturer and many reporters were stunned, and they thought about it carefully. Yes, it has been more than half a year and has not registered in China. Could it be that Lin Zhigao really plans to immigrate?Now that Lin Zhigao is so sought after in China, so many manufacturers seek him to endorse, isn't it all because he has added luster to China? If he is as famous as many stars, he will immigrate. Although he may develop better, he is not China. He's a man, and he's still going after him in the country!

Lin Zhigao glanced at the reporter, there was no station logo on the microphone, it was just a reporter card, and he couldn't tell where it came from.He said lightly into the microphone: "I have already submitted an application to the Football Association. This time I came back to China to register and sign, but the Football Association has not approved it. What can I do?"

"But I heard that someone inside the Football Association broke the news that you are a big name and you didn't abide by the registration regulations of the Football Association. That's why they didn't issue you a registration agreement. Do you think it's because you became famous at a young age that you are a little arrogant?"

Lin Zhigao laughed angrily: "Am I arrogant? This is the first time I've heard that!"

"Then what do you think is the reason why you haven't been recruited by the national team? Players who have successfully studied abroad in the past, like Li Tie and Dong Fangzhuo, have all entered the national team, but you haven't. Do you think it's because you are not strong enough?"

The other reporters didn't speak, and just watched the man throw out cynical questions one after another. Now they can see that someone is deliberately trying to deal with Lin Zhigao.

Lin Zhigao also figured out this result, and he directly thought of the mastermind behind the scenes—he has never dealt with the domestic media, so why would anyone deliberately embarrass him?It must have been deliberately arranged by the people he offended, and who were the people he offended?Director Li!Nothing but him!

The male reporter continued to be aggressive: "I heard that the person in charge of the national team called you out and criticized you for having a bad attitude in playing football. You have only been abroad for half a year, and you have received large-scale commercial endorsements as soon as you return to China. Do you think making money is more important than playing football?"

Jiang Shupeng has been staring at himself this morning to speak low-key and humble, but low-key and modest are too embarrassing!As soon as Lin Zhigao was angry, he directly broke through the restriction Jiang Shupeng had placed on him, and exploded his HP: "Every question you have heard or heard, who did you listen to, did you listen to your mother?"

All the reporters were stunned.

"If you want to hear about it, let me tell you two things—I just heard that if you want to register as a player, you have to invite someone to eat and sell them. Do you know where the place to invite dinner is? Beijing Hotel VIP building! A meal costs about [-] to [-] yuan. And if you want to enter the national team, you have to give gifts to people, and you can’t get it for hundreds of thousands, what do you think of what I heard?"

The reporter who asked Lin Zhigao was stunned.But some other reporters all broke out: "If you want to enter the national team, you have to give gifts? Is this news accurate?"

"Did someone ask you for a bribe, that's why you have never been recruited by the national team? Is it because you were obstructed by a special person when you failed to return to China to register as a player?"

"Lin Zhigao, are you implying to us the shady inside the Football Association? Who is the official asking you for money, and how high is it?"

Lin Zhigao smiled with the corners of his lips raised, and spread his hands: "The reporter said he heard about it, so I heard about it too... As for whether these are facts? Some people know it in their hearts."

The male reporter finally came to his senses: "Lin Zhigao, do you know the consequences of slandering officials and accepting bribes?"

Lin Zhigao raised his eyebrows and smiled: "Slander? Who said I slander? I can't have real evidence in my hand?"

After speaking, he got up and left the scene, letting the reporters throw out as many questions as bombs.Anyway, the contract has been signed, and the manufacturer sent a film crew to England to find him to shoot the advertisement. As for what kind of news will be made in China because of his remarks?He doesn't care, he feels very refreshed to be able to give those moths a heart-warming response.

After getting into the car, Jiang Shupeng said, "You're a little impulsive today."

"If I were in China, I wouldn't dare to say it. Anyway, I'm going to London to continue playing my football. The Emperor Shan Gao is far away, and they can't control me."

"Anyway, those people don't cover the sky with one hand, so you can do whatever you want..." Jiang Shupeng paused, and then said, "I just received a call from Director Li."

"Why is he calling you?"

Jiang Shupeng's voice was full of smiles: "At first he was angry and wanted to settle accounts with you, but after I insinuated that you had recorded yesterday's dinner, his attitude took a 180-degree turn, and he immediately said that he Yesterday I got drunk and talked too much, and said that we should go to the Football Association to sign in the afternoon."

"Hahahaha." Lin Zhigao laughed wantonly.

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What Lin Zhigao said in an interview with reporters at the signing ceremony, after being reproduced and released by online media and traditional media, really caused an uproar in China.

Some people accused him of speaking vulgarly, for example, the headline of a local newspaper in Beijing: "Lin Zhigao was violent at the signing meeting, bluntly greeted the reporter's mother", and there was also one that only focused on the endorsement: "Lin Zhigao's seven-figure salary for endorsement A well-known domestic brand", but the focus of more media attention was on the verbal battle between Lin Zhigao and the male reporter who appeared on the scene inexplicably.

"Lin Zhigao was chased and beaten by reporters, insinuating and accusing the senior officials of the Football Association of taking bribes" "70 footballers, 8000 registered players-what's the inside story?" ""'If you want to enter the national team, you need to pay hundreds of thousands of bribes! "Lin Zhigao said so"

"Football Association senior officials refute rumors: There is absolutely no bribery incident in Chinese football!" "The last piece of news almost made many netizens laugh out loud. Some people commented after this piece of news: Didn't the Football Association accept bribes?You might as well say you're a woman to make me believe it!

And the senior official of the Football Association who released the information to refute the rumors is tall, fat, bald, and looks like he was born in a good time in a socialist society.

Compared with the slander of Lin Zhigao by a few reporters, now that information is spreading so fast, more people believe that Lin Zhigao is innocent.Another round of online criticism of the darkness of the Chinese football world has begun. Everyone is angrily scolding those high-ranking officials for their dead bodies. While they only want to make money, they are also very curious about the senior official of the Football Association that Lin Zhigao is alluding to. who is it.

Although there are many shady scenes inside the Football Association, it is obvious that not everyone is difficult to break through, because there are many factions inside. Even if you climbed to the high position of the Football Association President, there are still countless people under you who want to pull you down, and every corrupt official who falls , can arouse the cheers and encouragement of the domestic people, expecting that the pool of water will become cleaner.

People in the country want to know who this high-ranking official who is corrupt and accepting bribes is, and those people in the Football Association system also want to know who is so careless that the name of the Football Association has been blackened by [-]%. Yes, all of a sudden, the domestic media has a lot of news discussing this matter.

The intensification of public opinion was beyond anyone's expectation, including the big-mouthed Lin Zhigao and Director Li who made Lin Zhigao look good with harsh words.Lin Zhigao started training games after he returned to London, and he didn’t pay much attention to the domestic news, but Jiang Shupeng was different. He browsed the news of major domestic portal websites every day. The length of time and the amount of news made him speechless.

Jiang Shupeng even didn't understand for a while. Everyone knows that domestic football is black. How come the public opinion has never seen them criticize them like this before. Now Lin Zhigao caused such a big incident with a few words?Lin Zhigao's current domestic influence is far inferior to that of Yao Ming and Liu Xiang, who have been famous for many years. It is impossible for those two people to say a word to create such a long-term news enthusiasm. How can Lin Zhigao?

This is a misunderstanding that Jiang Shupeng himself fell into.

Of course, Lin Zhigao's current reputation in the country cannot create that kind of grand occasion, and the current heated public opinion is caused by him, only because of Lin Zhigao's own particularity.

The weakness of Chinese football is due to institutional problems. All Chinese people know about this, and all Chinese who love football wish that a certain organization collapsed overnight.Before that institution collapses, they will never be able to eradicate football gambling, match-fixing, and black calls.

This kind of thinking rooted in the heart makes all Chinese fans disbelieve the famous players cultivated under the domestic system-if a well-known player of the national team criticizes the Football Association, a small number of people may believe him It is innocent and the Football Association is black, but the vast majority of people will definitely have such an idea: Shit, this is a dog-eat-dog discord, right?Is it because the internal distribution of spoils is uneven, so this guy wants to attack indiscriminately?

It is precisely because most football association officials and players do not believe in such an environment that domestic fans feel that players who play abroad must be much better than those in China, and there is no such shady scene in other foreign leagues.

And Lin Zhigao is not a star trained by the domestic football system at all. He is self-taught and went directly to play abroad. He has never had any interests in the country. In addition, his registered player information and the recruitment of the national team are revealed everywhere. It was weird, so when Lin Zhigao broke the news, all the fans immediately believed his words, and they became even more angry in their hearts: "Finally, a rising star in football came out of China, and you actually refused to let him enter because he didn't pay bribes." national team? !

The so-called blunders, that's all.

Director Li called Jiang Shupeng a few days after the incident, trying to flatter and threaten them, telling them not to leak the audio. As a Chinese player, it is impossible for Zhigao not to deal with the Chinese Football Association for the rest of his life.But if you obey Director Li and let this matter settle down like this, who can guarantee that Director Li will be grateful to Lin Zhigao in his heart instead of hating him even more?

It wasn't until one day later that an acquaintance Jiang Shupeng hadn't contacted for a long time called him. Jiang Shupeng asked Lin Zhigao for the audio he recorded, and then gave it to someone in China.Not long after, he heard about Director Li being invited to drink tea by the Commission for Discipline Inspection because of corruption and bribery. The domestic media made a lot of noise about it, and many people were optimistic about it. Corrupt officials, then it will be clearer, and Chinese football will have more hope.

However, only Jiang Shupeng and a small number of people understand the inside story at the moment. This is not at all that the Football Association is really going to start anti-corruption, but another reshuffle of the power distribution within the system.

It's just that this is something that will happen in the future, so I won't mention it for now.

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On the Premier League side, on the fourth day after Christmas, Queens Park Rangers ushered in their opponents in the 18th round of the league, Manchester City.Lin Zhigao got off the plane to London on the morning of the 28th. Due to jet lag, he was in a poor mental state and was unable to start the game at all. Warnock had to put him on the bench to let him rest and recover his strength. , and start again in the next round of the league.

Queens Park Rangers, without Lin Zhigao as the main striker, were brutally slaughtered when they faced the Premier League upstart Manchester City and lost 0:2.At this time, the team ranked fourth in the Premier League standings with 11 wins, 3 draws, 4 losses and 36 points. The top three were Manchester United with 44 points, Manchester City with 42 points, and Arsenal with 39 points. The fifth place is Tottenham. Chelsea has not performed well in these rounds of the league. Now it has 9 wins, 4 draws, 5 losses and 31 points, ranking only seventh in the standings.

Although the team lost at home in this game, their failure is not so unacceptable because of the opponent's strong momentum this year, Manchester City.Warnock did not reprimand them after the game, but encouraged them to strive for victory in the next game against Manchester City. Lin Zhigao's teammates did not think there was anything unacceptable about losing at home this time-after all, the opponent was Manchester City ,Is not it?

The media did not criticize the Queen's Park Rangers who lost the game. Only the "Daily Telegraph" made the following comment in the news: "Manchester City have spent a total of 2 million pounds on transfers in the past three years. Players, such a large expenditure makes them currently have a lineup of players that can be called luxurious in the whole of Europe, striker, midfielder, defender, every position has players who are famous in Europe."

"And what do Queens Park Rangers have? In the past three years, they have invested less than 1500 million in transfers. Please note that this is a three-year transfer investment! And the players sold and loaned out this summer are even more impressive. Queens Park Rangers have made a profit in player sales. The most eye-catching new star in their team, Lin, was signed without spending a penny. The Chinese striker has played for the team in half a season. As many as 18 goals, not only firmly monopolized the first position in the league scorer list, but also accounted for 80% of the total goals scored by Queens Park Rangers this season!"

"This match between Queens Park Rangers and Manchester City not only allows us to see the strength of the Manchester City club, but also the current flaws of Queens Park Rangers-the defense is a mess, and teams in the second division can do it. Scored their goals. On the front line, except for Lin, the performance of other players is very average, so it has created a strange phenomenon. As long as Lin plays, Queens Park Rangers can score goals and even win. Once Lin's state appears If there is a problem and cannot start, Queens Park Rangers will probably get a defeat."

"It often happens that the life and death of the team is placed on one player. For example, Real Madrid often rely on the occasional flashes of superstars to save the game. But if the superstar cannot play, Real Madrid has enough substitutes. And QPR, if Lin is injured and can't play for a long time, what are they going to do?"

Inspired by the news of the "Daily Telegraph", not only the team's head coach Warnock, but also the head coaches of other clubs in the Premier League. After watching the game between Queens Park Rangers and Manchester City, they suddenly felt I found that the biggest dark horse this season is not so difficult to beat. Although Manchester United and Chelsea were defeated in the QPR match, Lin was always on the court at that time, wasn't he?If you can get him out of the field, or guard him strictly...

It is foreseeable that Lin Zhigao's road to the league in the first half of 2012 will become somewhat difficult.