Midfielder Ruler

Chapter 51: Signing with Nike

While the whole of Europe is reporting that Tang Zheng won the European Golden Boy Award, the Chinese media are not idle in the country. They even blow Tang Zheng to the same level as Messi who won the European Golden Globe Award this year, which is almost insane. However, Considering the situation of Chinese football in recent years, the madness of the media is understandable.

People need faith.

The same goes for football!

China is the country with the richest fan base in the world, but they don't have enough players, so Tang Zheng, who just won the European Golden Boy Award, made up for this regret.

From the moment Tang Zheng won the European Golden Boy Award, every Chinese can hold his chest up in any corner of the world.

This performance is particularly obvious for Chinese students studying abroad.

With the overwhelming coverage of the domestic media, Tang Zheng's fame in the country is unprecedentedly strong. His meager +V account has changed from hundreds of thousands before to several million now, an increase of more than ten times.

In addition, Chen Jia, who became Tang Zheng's business manager, now receives countless calls every day. The owners of these calls are all well-known companies at home and abroad, which means that these companies are queuing up to give Tang Zheng Zheng send money.

Gaining both fame and fortune is talking about the current Tang Zheng.

However, all Tang Zheng's attention is still on the 17th round of the 2009-2010 Bundesliga season against Freiburg at home. Before the game, he learned that the visiting team had a Korean international player Du Li, so he wanted to do something more, But what makes him depressed is that the game started less than ten minutes before he was replaced due to injury...

Westphalia has a fanatical game atmosphere as usual, and every fan present is using their lives to create momentum.

Nowadays, with Tang Zheng gaining a foothold in Dortmund and gaining recognition, many overseas Chinese and international students in the surrounding cities of Dortmund will choose to come to the Westfalen Stadium to cheer for Tang Zheng, so you can often see red faces in the broadcast footage. The five-star red flag is flying high in Westphalia.

In this game, in order to be able to have a pleasant holiday for nearly a month, everyone tried their best to perform well in this game and win the opponent.

Tang Zheng was even more so, he had just won the European Golden Boy Award and had to prove himself!

But what is depressing is that Tang Zheng's just crowned glory made him the most concerned Dortmund player in Freiburg, and his room for movement on the field was greatly compressed.

When the whistle sounded at the end of the first half, the score was 0:1

The home team is at the front and the visiting team is at the back.

Everyone thought that Dortmund, who played at home, would easily win Freiburg at home, but judging from the past 45 minutes, it makes sense for Freiburg to lead as a guest.

In the second half, they changed sides and fought again, Tang Zheng increased his running range.

I don't know if Tang Zheng's active running caused the Freiburg players to lack concentration. In short, their marking density on Tang Zheng is no longer as tight as it was in the first half, and his room for movement gradually increased.

However, it is a pity that he didn't seem to score a goal today. First, he hit the ball on the crossbar with a corner kick, and then a sudden cold arrow from the front of the penalty area wiped the outer edge of the post and hit the billboard.

Central 5 commentator Duan Xuan smiled wryly when Tang Zheng missed the equalizer: "The European Golden Boy Award seems to have used up all Tang Zheng's luck in 2009..."

Next, Klopp made two substitution adjustments in a row, but the effect was not obvious.

Vice-captains Kyle and Shaheen were in a bit of a slump, only Tang Zheng ran tirelessly like a perpetual motion machine, creating opportunities.

Until the end of the game, Klopp chose Gotze as a substitute when almost no one was available.

Perhaps it was because he and Tang Zheng had a natural tacit understanding, and the two of them actually played many exquisite cooperations without much running-in.

In stoppage time, it was Goetze and Tang Zheng who played 'two over one' at the front of the penalty area, and Tang Zheng was able to take the ball and cut into the penalty area.

Immediately, the long-lost passion ignited over the Westfalen Stadium.

Tang Zheng, who entered the penalty area, was very calm. He first leaned his body against the returning central defender, and then kicked a low shot from a position near the right of the penalty spot. The football passed through goalkeeper Poplin's wicket and rolled into the goal...

Dortmund at home drew with Freiburg 1:1 thanks to Tang Zheng's goal in stoppage time.

In the other three games played at the same time, Leverkusen, Werder Bremen, Bayern Munich and Schalke 04 defeated their opponents respectively. Dortmund, who drew in this campaign, retreated to fifth place in the league by two points. Leverkusen Sen became the league half-time champion with an unbeaten record of 12 wins, 5 draws and 41 points in 17 rounds.

Although Dortmund did not win the last league game before the winter break, the fans did not express any dissatisfaction. The team suffered a lot of injuries in the past two months. It is already very good to be able to bite the first group in the standings, and Much better than the same period last season, so Dortmund fans can also have a happy Christmas.

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With the end of this round of the league, the Bundesliga officially announced that it has entered a one-month winter break, and the eighteenth round of the league will officially start on January 18 next year.

Originally, Tang Zheng thought that this winter would be very free, so he applied for a driving test at a driving school in Dortmund early.

He was able to keep the focus well in the races, as well as in the driving school test, where he passed the theory test after a day of rote learning.

Next, the German test is different from the driving test in other countries. Students who obtain a driver's license must receive relevant training on emergency rescue. But at this moment, he received a call from the business broker Chen Jia.

It turned out that someone sent money to the door, and the four international sports brands all wanted to sign contracts with him.

They are Adidas, Nike, Puma and Kappa.

Needless to say, Adidas and Nike are the top brands in the sports field.

It is the sports equipment sponsor of most sports on the planet. As long as they are famous athletes, they are basically the contracted athletes of these two sports brands.

Tang Zheng actually didn't know much about Puma, he only knew that this sports brand and Adidas were brothers.

He understands that Kapa originated in China. When he was studying, everyone called it back to back. In fact, the Chinese translation is Kapa, ​​and he is now Dortmund's jersey sponsor.

In terms of reputation, Adidas and Nike are undoubtedly the best. Puma and Kappa are much less famous in terms of reputation, and the prices they offer are also very shabby, so these two sports brands are automatically ignored.

Tang Zheng, who just won the European Golden Boy Award, is very in line with the signing criteria of Adidas and Nike.

Among the past six winners of the European Golden Boy Award, Nike's signing stars accounted for the majority, such as Van der Vaart, Rooney and Anderson, Adidas may not be as good as Nike in quantity, but the quality is better. Messi who just won the European Golden Globe Award It is the signing star of Adidas, and Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas is also a star of Adidas.

Considering the huge Chinese market behind Tang Zheng, these two sports brand giants are determined to win Tang Zheng.

Adidas is headquartered in Germany, and it is hoped that Tang Zheng will be signed near the water. In addition, the current sports equipment sponsor of the Chinese men's football team is Adidas.

Therefore, Adidas, which has a big business, is so confident that its attitude is a bit arrogant. They offered a price of one million euros per year, signed a five-year contract, and automatically increased by 15% every year, and even promised to help Tang Zheng convince the Chinese Football Association to let him Return to the national team.

Once the conditions were established, psychological warfare was played later on, and now that Messi was the signboard of the European Ballon d'Or movable type, he was not afraid that Tang Zheng would not sign it.

However, what they didn't expect was that Nike was very sincere. Apart from not promising Tang Zheng to return to the national team, the other conditions were to crush Adidas. The after-tax endorsement fee was 1.5 million euros per year, with an annual increase of 20%.

In addition, Yunan McLaughlin, the vice president of Nike Europe, came to the door in person and saluted the corporal, which surprised Tang Zheng.

In terms of additional conditions, Nike also agreed to Tang Zheng's global promotion.

That is to say, as long as the two parties finally sign the contract, Tang Zheng will have the opportunity to participate in an important commercial film shot by Nike. He will shoot commercials with top stars such as Cristiano Ronaldo, Rooney, Ribery and Ibrahimovic. .

Even in China and the Asia-Pacific region, he will be promoted as Nike's number one star.

So Tang Zheng nodded without any hesitation under Chen Jia's analysis.

On the night of the 21st, Tang Zheng and the vice president of Europe, Younan McLaughlin, boarded a flight to Portland International Airport in the United States at Munich International Airport.

After nearly a day's flight, it was already the evening of the 22nd when they arrived in Portland. Chen Jia and Sarah Isabella, a business executive from Nike, were waiting at the international exit of the airport early.

Sara Isabella seems to be a refined and strong woman. According to simple understanding, Tang Zheng knew that she was of American and Latin American descent. Like Chen Jia, she was a language genius, proficient in German and Spanish, and could even speak A few classic Chinese words.

Chen Jia was in charge of negotiating the specific terms of the contract with Nike yesterday.

In terms of the details of the contract, Chen Jia explained when Tang Zheng checked into the five-star hotel prepared by Nike, but Tang Zheng trusted her very much. Adjust the jet lag in your own room.

Flying for nearly a day is also very demanding on the body.

The next morning, the four had breakfast at the hotel and then drove to Nike's headquarters in Beaverton, a suburb of Portland.

The car is driving on the highway, and there are towering Nike advertising stands all the way, which are very conspicuous.

An hour later, the car arrived at Nike headquarters.

Since both parties had no objection to the contract, all that was left was for Tang Zheng to sign the contract in triplicate.

So Tang Zheng, accompanied by Yonan McLaughlin, Vice President of Nike Europe, directly came to the conference room of the McEnroe Building, which is very American modern style.

Witnessed by Chinese and foreign journalists specially invited by Nike, Tang Zheng signed his name.

Then the two parties exchanged the contract and signed it again.

In this regard, Nike announced that Tang Zheng has become another signed player under their banner.

(To be continued.)

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