Seeing that Qin Xiong was serious about opening a nightclub, his national team teammates, who had a good relationship with him, thought about it and decided to follow him.
They also knew that Qin Xiong was helping them to remove some of their worries. Although the nightclub was not necessarily profitable, it was still a relatively popular industry in the current market. Moreover, the main investor was Qin Xiong. In addition, there were other people who also invested, so there was always a kind of courage in numbers.
In terms of investment, there was only one sentence: to participate or not to participate.
If they did not participate, then there was no discussion. If they participated, then the rest was left to Tang Le to handle. Anyway, Qin Xiong did not worry.
Next at the dinner table, Qin Xiong asked these teammates about going abroad. They said that they had communicated with the club. The club was also under pressure from the Chinese Football Association. The China Football Association formulated a non-public strategy after China's team advanced to the 2006 World Cup, which was to let China's players go to Europe to train as much as possible.
On the one hand, the China Football Association saw the contribution that Qin Xiong made when he returned to China after making a name for himself overseas. On the other hand, the commercial value that Qin Xiong brought to China's national team also had a direct impact on the China team, so that various sponsors of the team were willing to sign more contracts with the China team.
The reason was actually very simple. Even if there was only Qin Xiong, the ratings of China's national team's games would be the top of the national ratings list on the day of the game and receive the most attention. Then, the exposure of the sponsors' brand advertisements in China's games would skyrocket, and the advertising efficiency would be greatly improved than before.
Then, the China Football Association would think, what if there were more star players?
The Chinese Super League was already a pool of stagnant water, and it was about to become a street rat that everyone hated. The youth training foundation of China's football could not be improved overnight.
But China still had some good players, such as Zheng Zhi, Shao Jiayi, Zhao Junzhe, Sun Xiang, who were the representative players of the middle generation. And the China youth team that was crowned as the super platinum generation in the summer's FIFA World Youth Championship, who could say that this group of young players did not have enough potential and strength?
The China Football Association did not have the courage to manage the foundation of China's football. It could not vigorously promote youth football like South Korea and Japan, and then wait ten years or even longer for the results to blossom.
Then, it was a way to make use of the existing resources as best as possible to further improve the strength of some strong players. It was a way to treat the symptoms, but not the root cause, and always magnify the immediate benefits.
After Qin Xiong understood what Zheng Zhi and the others were thinking, he only said one sentence to them.
"If you want to go out, rely on your own strength. If you go to Europe, even the training, if you can't, if you can't, if you can't, if you can't, if you can't, you can's, if you can 'La Liga, then La La La Liga.
On this point, Sun Xiang and the other teammates nodded in agreement.
There were living examples right in front of them. Li Tie and Dong Fangzhuo were both victims of the cooperation between the club and the sponsors for what they needed.
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The national team had two warm-up games. The first one had been finished, and the second one was in three days. Qin Xiong would play.
The national team's warm-up game was held in Guangzhou, and the opponent was the Egyptian team.
The China Football Association wanted to invite a strong team from Europe or South America. Unfortunately, they had not finished their World Cup qualifiers. No team was willing to fly halfway around the world to play a friendly match in Asia.
At Guangzhou's home ground, not only did the local fans of Guangdong enter the stadium enthusiastically, but there were also many fans from Hong Kong and Macau who came to cheer for the China team … Uh, actually, for Qin Xiong.
The atmosphere of the national team's games was getting weirder and weirder.
Even though there were still many hardcore fans of the national team holding banners to support the national team, more and more female fans in the stands held up banners to express their love for Qin Xiong, and the stadium's stands presented a colorful scene.
The Egyptian team was not strong. The China team was at home, and Qin Xiong seemed to have his own aura. When the captain of the national team returned to the national team, the team atmosphere of the national team became completely different.
From the beginning, the teammates were afraid of Qin Xiong, worried that they would be scolded by Qin Xiong in the locker room.
Later, as they played more and more games together, and experienced the first AFC Asian Cup for China and the second World Cup, everyone not only recognized Qin Xiong as the captain, but also admired him from the bottom of their hearts. They wanted to keep up with him and see the magnificent scene that China's countless football ancestors had never seen!
They firmly believed that the team centered around Qin Xiong could go further on the world stage.
Especially the young players, they could be said to be in the same era as Qin Xiong. In this era, there was no four-year limit. It was just a cycle. As long as they did not fall behind and could keep up with Qin Xiong, they believed that they would get better and better.
Qin Xiong did not try his best in the game, but he still won the applause of the audience with his wonderful personal performance. The China team defeated Egypt 2: 0 at home in Guangzhou. Li Jinyu and Zhang Pengfei's goals were all assisted by Qin Xiong.
When he stood on the sidelines for an interview after the game, the cheers and screams from the nearby stands made Qin Xiong speechless in front of the camera for a long time. It was not easy to calm down before he answered the reporter's question.
"Although the World Cup is still eight months away, in fact, there is not much time left for us to prepare, especially for the national team. We need to take every game seriously and then go to the World Cup in our best condition. No matter what the result is, I think the most important thing is that we will not regret it."
"Since you think the warm-up games are also important, why didn't you participate in the warm-up games in September and the last one?"
Faced with the reporter's sharp question, Qin Xiong was already prepared. He said naturally, "There are two reasons. First, to prepare for the World Cup, first of all, physical fitness and physical condition. I need to adjust my physical condition to ensure that I will not be exhausted before the World Cup. Second, I am only a player on the national team. I am not the whole team. The national team needs to consider the whole team, not me. In other words, if I don't play, someone will replace my position and role. Don't you think this is necessary preparation? If I can't participate in the World Cup next year because of injury, who will be my replacement? The national team needs to consider this point to train and train the substitute candidate in my position. If I always attend the national team games, then how can the substitute have the chance to train? I am not shirking away from the national team games, but when there is a chance, the national team needs to do work that is far from focusing on me alone. For example, in the warm-up games now, I think it makes sense for the manager to train a lot of rookies. "
Qin Xiong's explanation was passable. At least it sounded reasonable.
After the home game in Guangzhou, Qin Xiong rested for two days before returning to London.
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