482 Journey to Asia
The transfer is not completely over, and the players have not reported to the club. George has already led Blackburn to start his first trip to Asia.
As the Champions League champion, Williams got a very satisfactory appearance fee.
Blackburn's first stop is Yanjing, China.
Here, Blackburn will play a game against the Chinese national team.
When Blackburn just came out of the airport, the team was very popular.
At Yanjing Airport, nearly 3,000 fans welcomed Blackburn.
Although for Blackburn, who has won countless championships, not to mention the welcome team of 3,000 people, even the welcome scene of tens of thousands and 20,000 people has been seen. Even after the league champion and the Champions League, 100,000 fans accompanied the celebration ceremony.
But when they arrived in strange China, they were surprised to see so many fans at the airport.
Even Williams, who is with the team, is smiling.
Paul and Williams are worried about the reaction of Asian fans. Blackburn is a European upstart. Although he has achieved good results in the past few seasons, Blackburn is not a traditional giant like Real Madrid, Milan and Bayern.
What Paul and Williams don't know is that the promotion time of TV broadcasting in Asia is not very long.
In particular, the development of European football in Asia has only been in the past 20 years.
And the last decade is the fastest time to promote.
Although Blackburn is not a traditional giant, it is just in time for the strong promotion of European football in Asia. Especially the timing of strong promotion in the Premier League.
Therefore, there are quite a lot of fans in Blackburn.
Especially in China, because of Sun Jihai, Blackburn's popularity is quite high.
This time, the UEFA Champions League final has more than 200 million viewers in China. Of course, this is not an accurate data, but it is also a data calculated by relevant departments. Even if there are some errors, it won't be very big.
Even if there is a relatively large error, there is no problem with about 200 million.
In fact, Blackburn's game in China has more than 100 million spectators. In the Premier League, the game of Blackburn, especially Sun Jihai, is absolutely amazing.
If it was because of Sun Jihai at the beginning, but later found that Blackburn's performance was very good, he began to have more real Blackburn fans.
Now Blackburn is the Champions League champion, so of course there are a lot of fans.
Among the nearly 3,000 fans, female fans account for 60%. Needless to say, they know who they are for. They all held up the portrait of Kaka and kept shouting Kaka's name.
When he played the Toyota Cup in Japan two years ago, Blackburn players had already seen Kaka's popularity.
Two years later, Kaka's popularity has become higher and higher.
Two years ago, Kaka was just a new star of Blackburn. But now Kaka has become the best offensive midfielder in Europe. Even the media have begun to campaign, thinking that Kaka should get this year's footballer.
After all, there are dark horses everywhere this season.
Kaka's Champions League champion is absolutely full of gold. Therefore, whether it is the so-called real fans or those pseudo-fans who chase stars, the number of Kaka's fans has soared.
It can be said that the other players of Blackburn now are not as popular as other players as others.
When Kaka came out, there were bursts of screams in the fan lineup. It was the cheers of those female fans.
At this time, Chinese fans are still very enthusiastic about football. In particular, the Chinese national team just won the runner-up in the Asian Cup and lost to our handball in the final. Therefore, many fans are indignant.
This time, the national team has just finished playing the Asian Cup, and it has not disbanded and will play against Blackburn.
Sun Jihai, as the only Chinese player, will play for Blackburn in the first half and the national team in the second half. This is also a requirement for China.
George was a Chinese in his last life.
Therefore, I still have a deep understanding of the thoughts of Chinese fans. Chinese fans are very interesting.
For example, if you play against the national team, if you beat him too hard. If there is a score of four to zero, five to zero, six to zero, it will be a naked slap in the face. If you really play like this, not only will the Football Association have no face, but even many fans will feel that Blackburn is too much.
Chinese people have a good face.
But if you play hard, or have some negative intention, then Chinese fans will immediately criticize you for not paying attention.
They will start to scold and treat you with so much money, and you will deal with us like this.
So when playing this kind of business game in China, you can't make people lose face, and you can't make people feel that you are dealing with it.
Therefore, if you want to play against the Chinese national team, you must play happily.
What is lively?
When attacking, you should do whatever you want. Take out all those performances on the training ground. The goal is to let the fans enjoy it, but the goal is secondary.
And when defending, you must not really pay attention.
The Chinese national team should be given the same opportunity. Anyway, they have to be able to attack and shoot. It's better to let them score goals.
You have to make Chinese fans feel that Blackburn is very attentive. And the Chinese national team is also very strong. Only in this way can everyone be happy.
For this purpose, George let Blackburn play casually in the attack. Even defenders such as Lucio, Sun Jihai and Riese can participate in the attack. When it comes to defense, it seems that you can do your best.
These players are very smart.
They have also played many friendly matches in the national team. It's really hard to play, but it's not easy to play fake.
So at the Workers' Stadium, the two sides played very lively. You come and go, even the Chinese national team has many threats. What Chinese fans see is ecstatic.
Industrial sports, the ticket price is really not cheap at all.
Of course, it is not as good as Real Madrid, but the cheapest ticket price is usually 150 yuan. In the past four hundred, eight hundred, one thousand, one hundred, and even the highest VIP price is 1,800 yuan. But even so, there are still countless fans pouring into the industrial sports.
On the last day, many fans couldn't even get the tickets, waiting for the scalpers to count the votes.
So much so that the pre-match media shouted: Blackburn actually has the same charm as Real Madrid. Who would have thought that Black would be so popular after he went to China.
In fact, this has a lot to do with the Chinese media.
Because of Sun Jihai, the Chinese media has a lot of praise for Blackburn. It has also led to an exponential increase in Blackburn's fans in China.
This lively game was finally fixed at 3 to 1.
Although the Chinese national team lost the game, the Chinese fans are still very satisfied. The game was wonderful, and the two sides played beautifully. The Chinese national team is not at a low end, and Blackburn players are doing their best in their opinion.
A lot of wonderful cooperation has come out.
So the Chinese fans present were very satisfied. After the game, the major media's comments on Blackburn were also relatively positive. They think Blackburn didn't deal with it because it was a business game.
Williams smiles almost every day in China.
Because I was so surprised.
Although when George introduced Sun Jihai, he had already talked to him about the Chinese football market. But after really experiencing it, Williams really believed it. Not only tens of thousands of Chinese fans, but also crazy. There are also Chinese businesses that are eager for Blackburn players.
Especially Kaka.
Kaka is the most popular star.
Merchants in China also like cards very much. Blackburn stayed in China for only a few days, but Kaka has received many large advertising contracts from Chinese companies.
............After finishing the game in Yanjing, Blackburn couldn't rest.
Because of this trip to Asia, the itinerary is full. Within half a month, you have to play five games and participate in some commercial activities. The second scene is Seoul, South Korea, followed by Japan, followed by Hong Kong, and finally Bangkok, Thailand.
It's almost three days to fly to a country.
After arriving at a place, you can rest for a day at most and have to play the game. On the day of the break, you also need to attend some other activities. After the game, we will fly to the next country immediately.
When I arrived in Bangkok, all the players were exhausted. George felt in the last game that the players were exhausted.
Especially the players who participated in the European Cup.
Clozes, Alonso and Campbell are already quite tired. George took good care of them in the first few games. In these games, it's just a symbol of their surname to let them play. Even so, they are too tired to run.
Even Van der Sar, as a goalkeeper, is already exhausted.
George is quite dissatisfied with this trip to Asia. When I returned to England from Asia, there was no rest time at all. It is about to enter the new season. With the current state of the team, the results of the new season are really worrying.
After arriving in Bangkok, George no longer cares about the dissatisfaction of Thailand.
Most of the substitutes were used in the game. Just at the last moment of the second half, let some main players play.
This makes the Thai side very dissatisfied. Accused Blackburn of violating the contract.
But George doesn't care about that. George made all the main players look embarrassed according to their requirements. Do you still want them to finish the game?
As for the back, of course, Williams will take care of it.
In half a month, Blackburn finally came back from Asia.
Paul and Williams are very happy. Because in just half a month, Blackburn has rolled more than 10 million in Asia. And in addition to the visible 10 million, there is a lot of invisible income, which is even more than countless.
It can be said that this half-month trip to Asia has basically achieved the initial goal.
But when George returned to England, his face was completely gloomy.
The team is too tired.
A trip to Asia completely disrupted Blackburn's summer preparations. Looking at the exhausted players, George could only sigh in his heart. It's really not easy to make money.
Now the players are in such a bad physical condition that they don't know how to play in the new season.
(To be continued)