Coaching legend

The transfer has not been completed yet, and the players have not reported to the club, but George has already led Blackburn to start its first trip to Asia.

As the Champions League champion, Williams has received a very satisfactory appearance fee.

Blackburn's first stop is BJ, China.

Here, Blackburn will play a game with the Chinese national team.

When Blackburn just came out of the airport, the team received a huge welcome.

At BJ Airport, there were nearly 3,000 fans welcoming Blackburn.

Although Blackburn, which has won countless championships, has seen welcoming teams of 10,000 or 20,000 people, let alone 3,000 people. Even after the league championship and the Champions League championship, there were 100,000 fans accompanying the celebration ceremony.

But when they arrived in a strange China, they were surprised to see so many fans at the airport.

Even Williams, who was with the team, was smiling.

Paul and Williams were both very worried about the reaction of Asian fans. Blackburn is a new European upstart. Although it has achieved good results in the past few seasons, Blackburn is not a traditional giant like Real Madrid, Milan, and Bayern after all.

What Paul and Williams don't know is that TV broadcasting has not been promoted in Asia for a long time.

Especially the development of European football in Asia has only been 20 years.

And the last ten years have been the fastest promotion period.

Although Blackburn is not a traditional giant, it has just caught up with the time when European football was strongly promoted in Asia. Especially the time when the Premier League was strongly promoted.

Therefore, Blackburn still has a lot of fans.

Especially in China, because of Sun Jihai, Blackburn is even more well-known.

This time, the Champions League final had more than 200 million viewers in China. Of course, this is not an accurate data, but it is also a data calculated by the relevant departments. Even if there are some errors, they will not be large.

Even if there are relatively large errors, there is no problem with about 200 million.

In fact, there are definitely many games in China with more than 100 million viewers. In the Premier League, Blackburn's games, especially when Sun Jihai plays, the audience is absolutely amazing.

If it was because of Sun Jihai at the beginning, but later it was found that Blackburn had good results, and more real Blackburn fans began to appear.

Now Blackburn is the Champions League champion again, so of course there are many fans welcoming them.

Among the nearly 3,000 fans, female fans account for 60%. Needless to say, everyone knows who they are here for. They all hold up Kaka's portrait and keep shouting Kaka's name.

When they went to Japan to play the Toyota Cup two years ago, Blackburn players had already seen Kaka's popularity.

Two years later, Kaka's popularity is getting higher and higher.

Two years ago, Kaka was just a rising star in Blackburn. But now Kaka has become the best attacking midfielder in Europe. Some media have even started to build momentum, believing that Kaka should win this year's Footballer of the Year.

After all, this season is full of dark horses.

Kaka's Champions League title is definitely worth a lot of money. Therefore, whether it is the so-called real fans or those pseudo-fans who chase stars, the number of Kaka's fans has increased dramatically.

It can be said that the other players of Blackburn now are probably not as popular as Kaka.

When Kaka came out, there were bursts of screams from the fans. They were all cheers from those female fans.

At this time, Chinese fans were still very enthusiastic about football. Especially since the Chinese national team had just won the runner-up of the Asian Cup and lost to the Japanese team in the handball final. So many fans were indignant.

This time, the national team had just finished the Asian Cup and had not yet disbanded, but was going to play against Blackburn.

As the only Chinese player, Sun Jihai would play for Blackburn in the first half and for the national team in the second half. This was also the requirement on the Chinese side.

George was a Chinese in his previous life.

Therefore, he had a deep understanding of the thoughts of Chinese fans. Chinese fans are very interesting.

For example, if you beat the national team too hard. If the score was 4-0, 5-0, or 6-0, it would be a naked slap in the face. If it was really beaten like this, not only would the Football Association lose face, but even many fans would feel that Blackburn was overdoing it.

Chinese people are good at saving face.

But if you play slowly or have some negative attitude towards work, then Chinese fans will immediately criticize you for not being serious.

They will start to scold us, saying that we paid so much money to hire you, and you just treat us like this.

So when playing such commercial games in China, you can neither embarrass them nor make them feel that you are just treating them as a fool.

Therefore, if you want to play against the Chinese national team, you must make it exciting.

What is exciting?

When attacking, you should do whatever you want. Show all the performances on the training ground. The goal is to make the fans enjoy the game, and scoring goals is secondary.

When defending, you must not really use your heart.

You should give the Chinese national team the same opportunities to play. You must let them attack and shoot. It is best to let them score goals.

You must let Chinese fans feel that Blackburn is very attentive. And the Chinese national team is also very strong. This way everyone can be happy.

For this purpose, George let Blackburn play freely in the offense. Even defenders such as Lucio, Sun Jihai, and Riise can participate in the offense. When it comes to defense, they seem to try their best, but they just pretend.

These players are very smart.

They have also played many friendly matches in the national team. It is difficult to play for real, and it is not easy to play fake.

So at the Workers' Stadium, the two sides played very lively. You go back and forth, and even the Chinese national team has many threatening opportunities. Let the Chinese fans watch it with ecstasy.

The ticket price of the Workers' Stadium is indeed not cheap at all.

Of course, it is not as good as Real Madrid, but the cheapest ticket price is generally 150 yuan. And there are 400, 800, 1,100, and even the highest VIP price is 1,800 yuan. But even so, countless fans still flocked to the Workers' Stadium.

On the last day, many fans were unable to get tickets and waited for scalpers to sell tickets.

So much so that the media shouted before the game: Blackburn actually has the same charm as Real Madrid. Who would have thought that Blackburn would be so popular after coming to China?

In fact, this has a lot to do with the Chinese media.

Because of Sun Jihai, the Chinese media has been very hyping Blackburn. This has also led to a doubling of Blackburn fans in China.

This lively game ended with a score of 3 to 1.

Although the Chinese national team lost the game, Chinese fans are still very satisfied. The game was exciting and both sides played beautifully. The Chinese national team was not inferior, and Blackburn players also tried their best in their opinion.

Many wonderful cooperations came out.

So the Chinese fans present were very satisfied. After the game, the major media also gave a relatively positive evaluation of Blackburn. They believed that Blackburn did not deal with it because it was a commercial game.

Williams smiled almost every day in China.

Because it was too surprising.

Although George had talked to Sun Jihai about the Chinese football market when he introduced him. But after really experiencing it, Williams really believed it. Not only tens of thousands of Chinese fans, but also thousands of Chinese fans were crazy. Chinese merchants are also flocking to Blackburn players.

Especially Kaka.

Kaka is the most popular star.

Merchants here in China also favor Kaka. Blackburn stayed in China for only a few days, but Kaka has already received many large advertising contracts from Chinese companies.

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After BJ finished the game, Blackburn was unable to rest.

Because the schedule for this trip to Asia was full. Within half a month, there were five games to play and some business activities to participate in. The second game was to go to Seoul, South Korea, then Japan, followed by Hong Kong, and finally Bangkok, Thailand.

It was almost three days to fly to a country.

After arriving at a place, you can rest for a day at most, and then you have to play a game. And on the rest day, you also need to attend some other activities. After the game, you have to fly to the next country immediately.

By the time we arrived in Bangkok, all the players were exhausted. George had already felt it in the last game, and the players were exhausted.

Especially the players who participated in the European Cup.

Klose, Alonso and Campbell were already quite tired. George took good care of them in the previous few games. In these few games, they were only allowed to play symbolically. Even so, they were already too tired to run.

Even Van der Sar, as a goalkeeper, was already exhausted.

George was quite dissatisfied with this trip to Asia. After returning to England from Asia, there was no rest time at all. The new season is about to start. With the current state of the team, the results of the new season are really worrying.

After arriving in Bangkok, George no longer cared about the dissatisfaction of the Thai side.

In the game, most of the substitutes were used. Only in the last minute of the second half, some main players were allowed to play.

This made the Thai side very dissatisfied. They accused Blackburn of violating the contract.

But George didn't care about that. George let the main players play according to their requirements. Do they have to let them play a whole game?

As for the later wrangling, of course Williams will take care of it.

After half a month, Blackburn finally came back from Asia.

Paul and Williams were very happy. Because in just half a month, Blackburn made more than 10 million in Asia. In addition to the visible 10 million, there are many invisible incomes, which are countless.

It can be said that this half-month trip to Asia has basically achieved the initial goal.

But when George returned to England, he was completely gloomy.

The team was 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' physical condition is so poor, and I don't know how to play in the new season.