Champion’s Heart

When Zhai Liying was about to prepare for the afternoon class, Zhou Yi said goodbye to his high school class teacher, put on the cap again, and came out of the office.

When he came out, he also met many students who were already playing in the corridor.

They looked at the young man coming out of the teacher's office curiously, but because Zhou Yi's disguise work was still in place, no one recognized him.

He looked back at the alumni who were a few years younger than himself. The student life is really good, but he doesn't want to come back to school again. Because a better career...

Zhou Yi left his alma mater like this.

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Zhou Yi found that no matter how homesick he was when he was in Dortmund, and no matter how good his parents were after him when he came back, any vacation that had not met for a long time and met again would go through the following process at the end:

The first few days of the holiday:

When Zhou Yi opened his eyes, he found that his parents were going to work. There was a note on the table, telling him that breakfast was in the pot, and let him reheat it to eat. Come back in the evening to bring a lot of vegetables, and then ask Zhou Yi what he wants to eat, his mother went to make him.

After the first few days of the holiday have passed:

Every day when his parents go to work, he will hear his mother's lion roar: "Also sleeping? Almost! You are a professional player! What do you feel like sleeping lazy every day! Don't you have to wake up for morning exercises?" Climb up and go to wash in sleepy sleep, and this time often does not arrive at seven o'clock.

Next, he will be urged by his mother to go out for morning practice. If he does not want to go, he will be pushed out of the door directly. Next, the anti-theft door will slam shut behind him.

In the evening, if Zhou Yi proposed to his mother that he wanted to eat twice-cooked pork, his mother would definitely stare: "What to eat? Is that something a professional player can eat! Eat white-watered chicken!"

Zhou Yi was about to cry: "Mom, where did you know these things..."

Zhou Jianliang raised her hand next to her: "It's not that I told your mother, she checked it online."

Zhou Yi had to eat his "athlete's meal" because his arms couldn't twist his thighs, but at the same time, his dad was eating fragrant twice-cooked pork. What's more annoying was that his dad deliberately chewed loudly in front of him, constantly giving praise: "My wife, you have improved your craft again! This time, the fried meat is really delicious!"

Zhou Yi said angrily: "Dad, don't eat when you eat!"

"Son, this is to exercise your willpower. On the football field, willpower is very important. If you can't even stand the test of returning to the pot, how can you win the championship?" Zhou Jianliang said with awe.

"Dad, if you can wipe your mouth full of oil before you say this, I will believe you." Zhou Yi said indifferently.

"Hehe." Zhou Jianliang smiled contemptuously, and then continued to chew.

Zhou Yi's protest was invalid, he was only able to chew humiliating white-flavored chicken with humiliation.

Where is this vacation?

This is clearly torture!

Fortunately, there are few days left on such days... Hey, this holiday really has few days left?

Although the holiday was very hard, but really had to leave, Zhou Yi was reluctant.

Every separation is for goodbye, every time goodbye will say "goodbye" again, this is really a cycle...

Zhou Yi looked up and looked at his parents, his eyes were a little wet: "Mom, if you can cook the meat for me, I will miss you more..."

In front of him, there was still a plate of white chicken nuggets, pure chicken breasts, without chewy and mouthfeel, let alone taste.

"Less nonsense, eat fast!" Li Cuiyun was unmoved.

Zhou Yi sighed, picked up a piece of chicken in his mouth with chopsticks, and then chewed mechanically slowly with an expression of irresistible expression on his face.

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Zhou Yi's "warm" holiday will not return directly to Dortmund. In fact, he will not leave China. He will fly to Kunming to participate in the national team's training and prepare for two warm-up matches.

The opponents are Uzbekistan and North Korea.

This will be the last two warm-up matches before the Chinese team participates in the 2014 Brazil World Cup Asian Qualifiers.

At the airport, Zhou Yi said goodbye to his parents.

"Dad, don't you open my box this time to see what I forgot to bring?" Zhou Yi asked.

"You have grown up now, and it is your own responsibility to forget what to bring." Zhou Jianliang's strength dumped the pot. "It's possible to pack up your own luggage..."

Li Cuiyun said to Zhou Yi: "Don't worry about me and your dad. We will find the house. You can play football outside."

"Okay, mom." Zhou Yi nodded.

Afterwards, the three people waved goodbye, without the kind of parting feeling of crying with a headache, and thus began the cycle of expecting reunion.

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When Zhou Yi arrived at Kunming Airport, his identity changed from that ordinary child who wanted to eat cooked pork back to the radiant hope of Chinese football.

The Chinese fans at the scene pulled him to welcome him to Kunming, and the reporters flashed his eyes with the flash again.

Zhou Yi realized that many celebrities appear in front of the media even if they wear sunglasses at night. There is no reason-this is to prevent dazzling!

Although Zhou Jianliang was very happy that his son was putting on the Chinese national team jersey again and launched a shock to the World Cup, when he saw his son in the news, he was still in a trance. He pointed to the TV screen and asked his wife: "Ah, you said our son and this big star are really alone?"

Li Cuiyun pouted and ignored him.

Of course she also missed her son, but she felt that a good boy was ambivalent, and that Chengtianwo fell asleep at home three times a day, did not comb her hair, wash her face, and the sloppy sloppy boy should not be her son.

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After Zhou Yi returned to the national team, he saw many teammates from the Asian Cup, but also saw some fresh faces-coach Gao Hongbo is still constantly looking for fresh blood to supplement the team's strength.

After a week of training, the Chinese national team ushered in their first warm-up match against Uzbekistan in Kunming.

Zhou Yi made his debut and played 70 minutes to help the Chinese team defeat Uzbekistan 2-1.

Then the Chinese team moved to Guiyang to prepare for the second warm-up match with North Korea.

This game, Zhou Yi did not start, but was replaced in the 60th minute. In that game, the Chinese team and North Korea shook hands 1:1.

After the warm-up match ended, the Chinese team disbanded on the spot, Zhou Yi's domestic teammates will return to their respective clubs to continue their league journey.

And Zhou Yi? He is going to meet his agent Schulte in Shanghai, where he will participate in a business event and sign a contract with a famous domestic PC brand. This was a single endorsement contract that Shulze had negotiated for Zhou Yi while he was on vacation in Qingyang. The contract in the 1950s will bring Zhouyi 15 million yuan in revenue.

And because the computer brand itself also has a mobile phone business, Shultzer also specifically emphasized that the scope of this endorsement is limited to PCs and laptops, and does not involve mobile phone brand endorsements.

With the popularity of Apple mobile phones, smartphones are now the mainstream of mobile devices. Although there are no mobile phone manufacturers looking for athletes to speak for, it does not mean that they will not be in the future. Therefore, Schulter did not want to sell Zhou Yi's portrait rights at a low price.

He has to stay in his hands and wait for the price of smartphones to sweep over the world before selling.

Zhou Yi also agrees with his choice. Now he is not so bad. If he can make more money in the future, he will wait.

In fact, there are still many domestic brands that want to sign with Zhou Yi. After Zhou Yi won the Bundesliga championship, his reputation has skyrocketed. Everyone hopes to be able to come.

But Schulze successfully played the image of a tough German agent who did not understand human relations and did not understand China, and all refused.

He loves Zhou Yi's image very much. He doesn't sign any internationally renowned brands, and he doesn't sign any amount of money.

Because Zhou Yi takes the initiative to become a world-class star, the brand he endorses must of course match his position in football.

In addition to signing the contract in Shanghai, he participated in the press conference of the computer brand. At the press conference, the other party officially announced that Zhou Yi became their global ambassador, and Zhou Yi would stay in Shanghai for two more days to shoot advertising videos for the brand.

Zhou Yi will then go to the United States, where he will shoot a new season's promotional advertisement for Puma, this time the advertisement mainly highlights Zhou Yi's "championship core" identity.

In the United States, it’s not just about shooting ads for Puma, CK_Jeans’ new ads are waiting for him.

In addition, there is a new endorsement contract waiting for him to sign, which is also a famous international brand-Pepsi.

It stands to reason that carbonated drinks should be taboo for professional players, but on the contrary, in the field of advertising endorsements, carbonated drink giants like Pepsi and Coca-Cola like to sign contracts with athletes. Perhaps it is because the firepower displayed by athletes is what attracts teenagers to their brand.

Pepsi's contract is Schulzer's most laborious list, and he has been grinding with him for nearly half a season. It wasn't until Zhou Yi helped Dortmund to win the league title that Pepsi was completely suppressed, making them willing to pay Zhou Yi 1.5 million euros per year for the "astronomical" sponsorship fee. You know, world superstars like Henry also take two million a year at Pepsi.

This 1.5 million contract is a six-year period. In six years, Zhouyi will benefit from Pepsi-Cola’s sponsorship fee of 9 million euros. This is indeed a sky-high contract. And six years later, Zhou Yi was twenty-six years old, and his career was in a golden period. Whether it was to renew a contract with Pepsi or switch to another company, the cost would only be more than it is now.

In addition to these, Zhou Yi will also be interviewed by two media in the United States.

On the plane from Shanghai to the United States, Shultzer was discussing with Zhou Yi about interview charges.

"From now on~www.wuxiaspot.com~ except for the interviews stipulated in the contract, all other interviews will be charged." Shultzer told Zhou Yi.

"I still need money for the interview?" Zhou Yi didn't respond.

"Of course! Interviews also take up your time. You are precious every minute now. Because there will be countless people who want to come to you. If you don’t charge, then can anyone use a random one? Reason to occupy your precious time?" Shultzer said to Zhou Yi.

"Okay, okay, you are right." Zhou Yi was persuaded. "So what should I charge? Half an hour...500 euros?"

Shultzer smiled: "You really look down on yourself, Zhou Yi. Half an hour and five hundred? Do you know the price of Messi's interview?"

"According to his contract with the Barcelona club, he will attend 14 press conferences arranged by the club every season, limited interviews with local media and one international media interview. He will pay for the rest of the interviews, the fee is per minute... Thousand Euros!"

Zhou Yi opened his mouth and looked at Schulzer, and said for a long time: "This is money robbing...ah no, time is money..." (To be continued.)