Fame with a ball

Lin Zhigao vented all his embarrassing anger in the game.

In the FA Cup semi-final, QPR's opponent is Charlton in League One.

If Queens Park Rangers is the biggest dark horse in the Premier League this season, then the Charlton team is the biggest dark horse in this FA Cup.Although the FA Cup has always been a non-level event, that is to say, from the Premier League to the British Championship, League One and League Two, to five, six, seven, eight and nine teams can participate, as long as you have the strength, the ninth level team can also win the FA Cup. cup champion.

However, in previous FA Cups, most of the top four teams came from the top leagues.Even the English Championship and League One teams rarely have a chance to reach the semi-finals, let alone win the championship.In the past 20 years, most of the FA Cup champions have been dominated by strong teams such as Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool, and Arsenal. Even if other teams break into the quarter-finals or semi-finals, they will still encounter rich teams, and then their ambitions will be unfulfilled. die first.

Both Queens Park Rangers and Charlton are actually dark horses in this FA Cup, but because Queens Park Rangers are already considered a Premier League team, they are not as thoroughly black as Charlton in the FA Cup.This FA Cup semi-final match was also called a "double dark horse battle" by most newspapers and media, and it was more enjoyable to watch than the other match between Manchester United and West Ham United, because the two dark horses still had a contender However, Manchester United and West Ham United were completely massacred.

But after the two matches of the semi-finals were over, all the reporters and fans were stunned.

It was originally thought by everyone that it would be a massacre of Manchester United's West Ham United, but in the end it was overturned by West Ham United and defeated the Manchester United team led by Sir Alex Ferguson 2:1. A member of the Super League who has won the FA Cup three times, once again reached the final.

It is said that the reason for Ferguson's final failure was that he caught a cold the day before the game, but insisted on participating in the game the next day. As a result, the cold made him weak at the end of the game and had to ask the assistant coach to replace him. He directed the game and went to the hospital by himself.As a result, due to Ferguson's absence in the middle, the morale of the Manchester United players was greatly reduced, coupled with the assistant coach's improper command on the spot, which eventually led to Manchester United's defeat.

After the game, about Ferguson's great influence on the Manchester United team, and his advanced age, who will become the new Manchester United coach after his retirement, aroused renewed discussions throughout the UK and even the entire Europa continent.

As for QPR's match against Charlton, it's astonishingly close to Manchester United's.What was originally considered a close match by most people turned into a massacre contest.

Queens Park Rangers defeated Charlton 5:2. Lin Zhigao once again gave full play to his reputation as a "goal machine". Dayton's goalkeeper was about to tremble.And this game also made Chinese domestic fans very hooked.

At the press conference after the game, Warnock took Lin Zhigao to attend, because he performed a hat-trick again in this game and won the best of the game.

At this time, the reason for Manchester United's faux pas in the semi-finals has been inquired by most reporters, so a reporter asked Warnock: "Because of Sir Alex Ferguson's cold, the Manchester United team missed the FA Cup final. Queens Park Rangers' opponent Are you grateful to have become West Ham United?"

Warnock stared at the reporter before saying slowly: "First of all, I want to say that West Ham United is not a weak team. They have won the FA Cup three times. Secondly, we have won the FA Cup this season. Draw them once against Manchester United, win them once, even if it is the third time against Manchester United, the QPR players are not afraid."

Warnock's answer was impeccable, and the reporter had to give up making eyeball news.

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Queens Park Rangers have reached the FA Cup final for the second time in 30 years and are well on their way to winning the title.All the Queens Park Rangers fans are going crazy, they stand outside the training ground with cheering flags every day, and spontaneously hold various activities to celebrate.

In China, the excitement of the fans is more than that of the Queen's Park Rangers fans in England.Because this is the first time in the history of Chinese football that a Chinese player has reached the finals of the top British cup, and he is the main force.

In recent years, Park Ji-sung, who has been known as the number one player in Asia, has followed Manchester United in all the top European competitions, but his upcoming Grand Slam honor lacks the shadow of the FA Cup.Korean fans once held their heads high and yelled at fans from other Asian countries: "Our country has Park Ji-sung, who do you have?"

Now, Chinese fans can also raise their heads higher than Korean fans, and then proudly say: "Your Park Ji-sung has never won the League Golden Boot, nor the highest honor of the FA Cup, but our Lin Zhigao has done it. How dare you Compare with us?"

Moreover, in the past two years, Park Ji-sung has started fewer and fewer starts in the Manchester United team because of his age, and gradually he can't even play the main team.But Lin Zhigao is still young, and his future has a broader space, which makes Chinese fans even more excited and proud.

CCTV bought out the rights to broadcast the FA Cup final a long time ago. At the beginning, because they were not sure whether Queens Park Rangers would reach the final, they didn't publicize it much on TV.But now it is a fact that Queens Park Rangers broke into the FA Cup final. The FA Cup final promotional video produced by CCTV immediately landed on the prime segments of each CCTV channel. After the promotional video was broadcast, it reminded the audience with bold black font : Is there any reason for you not to watch the highest-level cup in the UK, which is the first time for Chinese to participate?

A total of 6 people participated in the survey of netizens conducted by a certain website.Among them, 6000 people said that they would stay up late at night to watch the live broadcast of the final, 1000 people said they would watch the replay or online video the next day, and the remaining 3000 people said they would pay attention to the FA Cup final, but just to watch Online news and video clips are fine.

Almost all the netizens who participated in the survey expressed that they would definitely pay attention to watching the game, which was almost unimaginable before. The Lin Zhigao effect can be seen from this.

At the same time, the call for Lin Zhigao to enter the national team became more and more obvious, but the Chinese Football Association pretended not to hear anything from the beginning to the end.When interviewed by reporters, the spokesperson also said hypocritically: "The Asian Cup has just ended, and the World Cup will have to wait for another two years. The Chinese team in the Olympic Cup has not entered the group stage at all. There are no major international competitions recently. Even if Lin Zhigao is recruited into the national team, he has no place to shine. Moreover, he has played so many games in the Premier League. In order not to disturb his full preparation, we decided not to call him into the national team for the time being after a meeting and research. "

As for what a reporter raised: "But Lin Zhigao is currently holding a labor certificate with special treatment. Once his club refuses to spend this quota for him next season, he may not be able to stay in any club in the Premier League. Hasn’t this been considered internally? As long as Lin Zhigao returns to China to play a few friendly matches, this problem can be easily resolved.”

The spokesperson of the Football Association just smiled: "We believe in Lin Zhigao's strength. He is by far the most successful player in China who has studied abroad, and he deserves special godsend terms."

The dozens of reporters below who were waiting to ask questions all cursed in their hearts: "Talk some shit every day!"

"Lin Zhigao effect" is a new term proposed by a domestic expert, and it has been more and more quoted by various newspapers, periodicals and magazines in the past six months.The meaning of this word is the same as that of Yao Ming effect, Li Na effect and Liu Xiang effect. Phenomenon.

The term is not proposed in general, but has been actually investigated.According to the expert's survey data, before Lin Zhigao became famous, basketball was the most popular sport in the country, especially among young people, basketball is indispensable, and among their favorite basketball players, Yao Ming's Names come up often.

But from August last year to April this year, football has appeared more widely.In the past, many primary and secondary schools only paid attention to basketball games, but now they have also increased their investment in football.In the past, basketball was often seen on the streets of cities and in community playgrounds, but now more and more people are playing football.And in the questionnaire to teenagers, it was pointed out that the reason why they started to learn to play football was: "I watched Lin Zhigao's game in the Premier League and thought he was cool. And he is not older than me, and he is not even taller than me. I think I can definitely play football well.”

The effects are evident.

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There are good things and bad things. Lin Zhigao's popularity in China is getting higher and higher. In addition to increasing his endorsement net worth, there are even a batch of fake and shoddy products.

Some small merchants and counterfeit brands can’t afford to invite celebrities to be endorsers, and it’s impossible to invite celebrities to endorse them, so they steal some famous celebrity’s headshots on the packaging and pretend to be the endorsement effect.Just like when Jay Chou was the most popular in the past, there was a technical secondary school that deliberately found a person who was [-]% similar to Jay Chou to advertise, and sent a false message to people who saw this advertisement: Wow, this advertisement is Jay Chou made it, so this thing must be good.

According to statistics from the investigation company specially invited by Jiang Shupeng, there are about seven or eight workshop companies in China that have stolen Lin Zhigao's image for advertising.Among them, there are those who sell pants, dried tofu, and fried food. There is actually a football school that uses Lin Zhigao's name to promote it!Moreover, most of these enterprises have already established a large scale, although the scope of scale is limited to the local area, and there are countless other small supermarkets and small restaurants that use Lin Zhigao's photo as a banner.

This behavior must be avoided.One is to consider Lin Zhigao's image, and the other is to be responsible for those merchants who invite Lin Zhigao to be their endorsers, such as Yili, Li Ning and H&M.

The notification letters issued by professional lawyers were quickly sent to these companies, warning them that if they do not correct their behavior and continue to misappropriate Lin Zhigao’s image, then a court will file a lawsuit against them, either forcibly withdrawing the advertisement or paying Lin Zhigao. At least several million yuan in endorsement fees.These small companies may have an overall strength of tens of millions or even less, and they may not earn millions a year or ten years. Therefore, at the moment the lawyer's letter was delivered, all companies removed their false advertisements.

At the beginning of May, the number of fans of Lin Zhigao's official forums, fan forums, and Baidu Tieba finally broke through the tens of millions.There is no moisture in this tens of millions of fans, it is not like some Weibo celebrities who buy hundreds of thousands of zombie fans in order to create a sign of their popularity.Post bar, the forum is always in a state of explosion. The official forum posts the latest information of Lin Zhigao, and his signature is regularly given away, so every ten days and a half months, the server will be paralyzed. No matter how you brush it, you can't brush it up.

Moreover, Lin Zhigao's popularity has won the favor of many Internet giants, and the request to invite him to open Weibo or write a blog was once again handed over to Jiang Shupeng.Jiang Shupeng also hopes that Lin Zhigao can open an external communication platform. This platform does not require Lin Zhigao to go up every day. A professional team will take care of it for him. He only needs to show up occasionally and write something.

And Lin Zhigao's answer to this was: "Don't I have a forum?"

Jiang Shupeng patiently explained to him: "The nature of forums and microblogs is different. Generally speaking, because formal forums have restrictions on posting, and most of them are professional discussions, unless you are a real fan and want to know your information , very few people will register a forum account just because of you. But Weibo is different from platforms such as blogs. There are many, many celebrities on these platforms. There are also hundreds of millions of users, and they run their own Weibo or blog, while following famous people, the communication is fair and the amount of information is also rich. Many people who follow you are not willing to register your fan forum account, but if you have Weibo, they are just adding another person to follow That's all, it's good for you and them."

"Is it beneficial for me to have more people paying attention to me?"

Jiang Shupeng smiled: "Otherwise, why would a celebrity open Weibo? This is the fastest, best, and lowest-cost publicity platform. But basically most celebrities are very busy. Their Weibo and Blogs are also managed by agents. If you start a blog, I will help you with daily affairs. If you are interested, you can go up and have a look. But what I am worried about now is, what should I open for you? , Is it domestic Weibo, or Twitter and Facebook? Domestic fans are important, but your future development will mainly focus on European leagues. You can’t ignore those foreign fans, right? Sina, Sohu, and Tencent are just like this It’s not easy to negotiate, they want to sign an agreement with you, once you open Weibo somewhere, you can’t open a second one on other platforms.”

Lin Zhigao scratched his head, "I used to say that when I was bored, I started a Twitter for fun. Robin, Campbell, they all use this or Facebook, I can't open a domestic Weibo, and then Go and add them? Add to this."

Jiang Shupeng thought about it, and then said: "Then you can use Twitter and Facebook. Anyway, there are various forums and post bars in China, and you still need to contact others when you are abroad. These two tools are also convenient. There are not many contacts in Europe, and there are too many things that I can’t help you with. If you show up on this kind of platform more often, it can be regarded as an advertisement for yourself-now there are foreign manufacturers contacting me. It also has a certain influence abroad.”

"That's fine."

"By the way, there is one more important thing I want to discuss with you."

"what?"

"In the past few days, the transfer managers of Arsenal, Manchester United, Borussia Dortmund, and CSKA Moscow have contacted me. They want to inquire about your intention to transfer next season."

Regarding the transfer of players, not all clubs will first quote the player's club, and then let the player transfer directly after the two clubs agree on the price.There are many clubs who like to contact the players first, and then discuss with the club after obtaining the player's consent. The advantage of this is that firstly, there will be no situation where the club agrees to release the player but the player himself is unwilling, and secondly, the player can also rely on the player's own opinion. Willingness, bargain with the club and buy the player at a lower price.

Lin Zhigao was a little silent.Jiang Shupeng knew what Lin Zhigao was thinking, so he didn't ask any more questions, but continued: "Arsenal's offer is a weekly salary of 4 euros and a transfer fee of 1200 million euros. Manchester United's weekly salary is 5 euros and a transfer fee of 1000 million euros. Dortmund has a weekly salary of 4 euros and a transfer fee of 1500 million euros. Then CSKA Moscow gives you the highest, they are willing to give you a weekly salary of 6 euros and a transfer fee of 1500 million euros."

"Have they contacted the club?"

"I heard that the offer has been given to Fox, the transfer manager of Queens Park Rangers, but his attitude is very ambiguous, so these clubs choose to contact you first. I personally think that the current weekly salary of 6 is the most suitable for you. After all, you are about to win the League Golden Boot. But if you have to choose, I don’t recommend you to choose CSKA. The Russian Super League is not the top European competition, and it is far away from the five major leagues. It is difficult for players to play there to win the mainstream media and fans. s concern."

Lin Zhigao also has a fledgling mentality. The first club he played for was Queens Park Rangers, and he got along so well with his teammates and the manager. If it was only the environment, he would not want to leave.However, it is an unchanging law of development that people go to high places and water flows to low places. It is impossible for Lin Zhigao to give up his ambition for the sake of the team.

Finally, he asked: "You try to talk to the club about my salary increase."

This is a temptation.If the club agrees to raise Lin Zhigao's salary without hesitation, it means that they are willing to keep Lin Zhigao.If they procrastinate and don't want to agree, it means that the club's top management may have regarded Lin Zhigao as a commodity, marked a high price and waited for the most suitable time to sell.

If it is the former, Lin Zhigao will feel that the club is very human no matter whether he leaves in the end.But if the higher-ups choose the latter... that's pretty chilling.

Lin Zhigao's current weekly salary of [-] euros makes Jiang Shupeng feel dissatisfied. This level does not even reach the average weekly salary of Premier League players!But Queens Park Rangers have never talked to Lin Zhigao about salary increase. Jiang Shupeng originally proposed to talk to the club for Lin Zhigao at Christmas, but Lin Zhigao stopped him at that time, so now, Jiang Shupeng is very happy. Ask happily: "How much did you talk about?"

"Forty thousand euros."

Jiang Shupeng frowned: "This figure is completely incomparable to your results! If you joined a team like Chelsea in the first place, you can get a weekly salary of [-] now!"

"I just want to see if the club really wants to keep me, if not..." Lin Zhigao said with some annoyance: "They shouldn't blame me for finding a better place!" Although he was really reluctant Those lovely teammates, and the manager Warnock.

"No problem, leave it to me."