China Entertainment 2000

Arsenal F.C, the Chinese translation of Arsenal Football Club, is the only football team in England that has never been relegated from the top league. The club is located in London, England.

Since the beginning of the Premier League era, Arsenal is also the only team so far that can continuously threaten the dominance of the Red Devils and Manchester United.

Under the leadership of head coach Arsene Wenger, who is not short of money at present, the double guns headed by Henry and Bergkamp continue to work hard. He has single-handedly built this English giant into a top team, and this year it is even more... There is hope of winning the double crown consisting of the Premier League title and the FA Cup title again.

While countless Arsenal fans were looking forward to a good harvest for the team this year, on April 28, the official website of Arsenal Football Club suddenly released a picture of Zhou Yi holding up Arsenal's No. 22 jersey. Join" photo shocked countless fans who follow this club.

"Who is this? The new player in the team? Asian?"

"It's not the transfer period, how can we still sign new players?"

"Wait a minute, this person seems to be a singer, the singer who sang "The lazy song"!"

"Really him?!"

"..."

Thanks to "The Lazy Song"'s outstanding performance in reaching the top spot on the British pop singles chart and staying there for four weeks, many local Arsenal fans in London soon recognized who Zhou Yi was.

No way, both the melody and the MV of that song are so magical, it's hard not to be impressed.

What's more, this song is still on the charts. Although it has slipped from the first to the fourth place, it is obviously still able to gain a sense of presence in the eyes of the British from time to time.

"What's Spike doing at Arsenal?"

"The official website introduction seems to say...he has become Arsenal's China ambassador???"

"Is he an Arsenal fan?"

"You are really an Arsenal fan. Arsenal officials released a video of Spike wearing an Arsenal jersey and playing football in school. Spike had not made his debut at that time."

"..."

When the Arsenal Club's official website, in conjunction with Warner (China) officials, announced at the scheduled time that Zhou Yi would become Arsenal's China ambassador in the next three years, it was confirmed that the entire football world was a little confused.

Immediately, the search volume and popularity of Arsenal, a Premier League club, in the country skyrocketed!

According to Baidu's own search volume statistics, on April 29, the three words "Arsenal" suddenly became the tenth most popular word searched on Baidu that day.

In this era when Serie A is still in the afterglow of the "mini World Cup", domestic pseudo-fans are relatively likely to have heard of Milan, Internazionale, Juventus, Naples, Roma and other Serie A teams.

To top it off, add Real Madrid and Barcelona from La Liga; Bayern from Bundesliga and Manchester United from Premier League.

Who is Arsenal? Really unfamiliar.

But now, just because of the official announcement of Zhou Yi becoming China's image ambassador, Arsenal Football Club's popularity in China has made great progress, and Zhou Yi's huge fan base directly began to search for relevant information.

This is undoubtedly ecstatic for Arsenal, who has been eyeing Manchester United's commercial development achievements and progress in the Asian market.

"In fact, I have to thank Chen Qiwei for this endorsement."

Singapore, inside a hotel suite.

Feeling that the world is really wonderful, Qian Jiang handed over the various search data that he had quantified to Zhou Yi with a strange expression, and said cheerfully: "Zhou Jianhui and Chen Qiwei have been busy working on your affairs, and then Chen Qiwei thought of doing it again. I'll help you find some top stars to build relationships with, just in case you need them.

"It so happens that among the top football stars currently signed by Coca-Cola, one of the first is Arsenal's ace, forward Henry, who is known as the Highbury Gunners King.

"Chen Qiwei met through Coca-Cola's relationship with Henry, who was recuperating from injury and had no match duties. Arsenal found out about this, and then people at Arsenal discovered that you often played big scores while wearing Arsenal jerseys before you debuted. ”

When he said this, the smile on Qian Jiang's face was brighter than a chrysanthemum: "You may not know that various Premier League clubs are currently actively promoting business, and the best among them is Manchester United, followed by Arsenal.

"So, in order to catch up with Manchester United's commercial development in the Asian market, Arsenal immediately met Zhou Jianhui through Chen Qiwei and negotiated a three-year contract with an endorsement fee of 6 million euros."

This price is considered high even among European football clubs.

After all, Zhou Yi is not a famous club player. The reason why he was able to obtain this price is more due to his outstanding performance and high popularity last year, plus the fame gained from conquering the American bulletin board.

Zhou Yi immediately found the current real-time exchange rate and compared it. It was about 800 yuan, which is equivalent to about 100 euros...

Earning euros is so fucking sweet!

After simply converting the exchange rate, Zhou Yi was amazed.

As expected of Arsenal who are still at Highbury Stadium, they are not short of money and have a lot of money.

"It would have been great if you had worn a Manchester United jersey in school. Manchester United has stronger commercial development and can offer more prices. Your contract may be worth seven to eight million euros."

Qianjiang is quite greedy and greedy.

These Premier League clubs, which have benefited from commercial development, are spending 10 to 20 million pounds to buy a star, but they are too rich.

Although Arsenal and Manchester United are now known as the Premier League duo, they are obviously not as good as Manchester United in terms of commercial development.

"I should have worn the Real Madrid jersey!" Zhou Yi wished he could break his thigh and regretted it.

These days, in terms of commercial value, Real Madrid has to stand out, and it has full commercial exposure. Florentino, the helmsman of Real Madrid, is a master of traffic. He has begun to form a Galactico on the football field. Ronaldo and Zidane have been bought.

“Arsenal invites you to attend the Manchester United vs Arsenal match at Old Trafford in Manchester on May 8th as an ambassador.

"If Arsenal win this game, they will win the Premier League championship this season one round ahead of schedule, which is a good sign."

With that said, Qian Jiang also handed an invitation letter to Zhou Yi: "I will also arrange a photo with you at that time. Do you have a favorite star in particular?"

"No."

Zhou Yi shook his head: "What I like is coach Arsene Wenger's beautiful football philosophy."

When he was watching football in his previous life, Henry was no longer at Arsenal. Arsene Wenger, who was financially troubled by the team, also became a ridiculed four-four maniac, playing beautiful football that was ridiculed and without a championship.

Qualifying for the Champions League group is as stable as a dog, and qualifying for the world every year.

"Head coach?"

Qian Jiang glanced at Zhou Yi in surprise.

It’s rare that there are fans of the head coach in the football world?

"Oh, by the way, one more thing."

Qian Jiang, who didn't know much about football, slapped his forehead: "Arsenal attaches great importance to you as an ambassador with great influence in Asia. In order to celebrate your joining, they specially edited clips of your previous games. It’s still your new song.

"You can take a look and see if there is anything that needs to be modified."

After saying that, Qian Jiang took out a CD from his bag and put it into the DVD in the living room——

Zhou Yi took a curious glance, and the "Peking University Chinese Department" jersey he saw at first sight made him a little nervous...

Could it be possible...?

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On May 1, 2002, when China and even the whole world were caught up in the joyful atmosphere of the World Cup, spokespersons of major brands also launched their own World Cup promotional videos.

Among them, Pepsi-Cola assembled a group of football superstars to go to Japan to find sumo wrestlers to shoot an advertisement. But Pepsi-Cola’s old rival Coca-Cola jointly released a “big production” with Arsenal Club today——

Zhou Yi, who is wearing Arsenal's No. 22 jersey, can be called a superman of dimensionality reduction in the promotional video: he performed a Marseille pirouette gracefully on the court, then connected with a cross-crotch pass and a cow tail flick, and passed five people in a row. The last kick penetrated the opponent's door.

The exciting background music of "Waving Flag", the exciting editing, and the slow close-ups that always highlight Zhou Yi's figure and handsomeness have made this promotional MV very popular among the huge local Arsenal fans in London as soon as it was released. ——

Then, starting from the Arsenal fan base, it radiates to the entire London area!

In conjunction with Warner Records' extensive promotion, "Waving Flag" took the lead in gaining a high reputation among British fans five days after its release!

"I like this MV!"

"As expected of Arsenal!"

"This song is sung by Spike, and it seems that the radio station is also playing it on demand."

"I discovered one thing. In the video, the players who are often breached and passed by Spike can't see their faces, but why do they have the same words written on their backs?"

"..."

On May 2, when the promotional gift given to fans by Arsenal and Warner was broadcast on TV in the form of an advertisement, many people who saw the video fell silent.

And on Peking University BBS, the news exploded instantly!

"Chinese major! You are on your way! Distribute worldwide!"

"Although I took care of your portrait rights and didn't cut out your faces, I can guess who it is just by looking at the silhouettes!"

"Awesome, Chinese major!"

"Who would have thought that Zhou Yi, who played 13:0 in the Chinese department, would now become famous internationally..."

"..."

"Correction, Zhou Yi only scored 3 goals! The rest were scored by his teammates!"

On this day, the members of Peking University’s Chinese Department football team, who were famous among their alumni, were both sad and happy, and they kept defending themselves——

"The Hong Kong Star Team is the real team. Zhou Yi scored five goals in nine minutes! We live up to our reputation of being the best in the Nine-Fifth Five-Year Plan! At least we are better than Xie Tingfeng!"

No matter how much we, the members of the Chinese Department of Peking University, pull our hips, Zhou Yi only gets three points. Comparing the two, we win! Big win!

Xie Tingfeng, who was stuck at home and couldn't show up because of the turmoil, almost lost his temper after seeing the news.

He's like this, can he still take advantage of him? !

Besides, am I the one guarding the gate? ! I was playing forward! ! !