World Cup of Great Powers

"In other words, our women's football team is so good this time, is it all because of Coach Zeng who was behind the scenes?"

In the coffee shop, Qin Xue looked at Zeng Zheng with eyes shining.

"No, no, I didn't say that! Women's Football Team." Hearing this, Zeng Zheng almost spit out his coffee and waved his hands quickly.

My visit to the United States this time was totally fake.

Even if Wang Junsheng and the members of the women's football coaching team who participated in the competition were endorsed after the game, he would only be given the title of "staff officer" at most.

If he dares to exaggerate in front of the media that winning the game is his fault, he will definitely offend a lot of people in the football circle.

The women's football team lost 0-4 to Australia's Ma Yuan'an and swallowed it hard. The credit for this 5-0 victory naturally goes to Lao Ma!

Seeing Zeng Zheng's denial, Qin Xue's face was filled with disappointment.

Since the World Cup, she has completely become Zeng Zheng's "fan girl".

Every national championship and every achievement, as long as Zeng Zheng is in the team, she naturally feels that it should fall on Zeng Zheng.

While everyone in the country was discussing whether he could qualify for the Olympics, Zeng Zheng never showed up and disappeared.

Many people have speculated that Zeng Zheng secretly rushed to the United States to support the women's football team.

If Zeng Zheng shows up in the United States at this time, interested people will definitely connect this victory with Zeng Zheng.

"Coach Zeng, when did you come?" Qin Xue asked again eagerly.

If Zeng Zheng had come earlier, there would still be a lot of content that could be "written".

"Ah, I just came to the venue before the competition." Zeng Zheng drank the coffee and looked calm.

Not getting the expected response, Qin Xue still refused to give up.

"Coach Zeng, Coach Ma, do they know you are coming to the United States?"

"I don't know." Zeng Zheng answered decisively.

This time, Qin Xue's face was full of unwillingness, and her little mouth, which was lightly made up, couldn't help but pout.

With a woman's sixth sense, she always felt that Zeng Zheng was hiding something from her.

Ever since he was recognized by Qin Xue, Zeng Zheng's mind was spinning rapidly.

Of course, he could put on a mask, pretend that the other party recognized the wrong person, and then flee the scene in a hurry.

But in this case, things become even more unclear.

Thinking about it carefully, since I came to the United States, I have been hanging out with the women's football team. It is only a matter of time before someone with an interested party finds out my identity.

In this case, it is better to take the initiative to reveal your identity.

In this way, you can not only take the initiative to control the right to speak in your own hands, but also take this opportunity to express your position.

Seeing Qin Xue pouting while stirring the coffee, Zeng Zheng cleared his throat.

"Actually, I came here this time to support the women's football team."

"What? Support the women's football team?" Hearing this, Qin Xuemei smiled, "In other words, Coach Zeng will personally provide guidance in the next game?"

"Ah?" Zeng Zheng looked embarrassed and shook his head like a rattle, "No, no. What I mean by support is spiritual support. Coach Ma leads the team well, and the team members are also very strong.

Don’t ask me to take action!”

"Ah? That's it!" Qin Xue's expression turned visibly disappointed again, "I thought Coach Zeng was going to be the head coach of the women's football team!"

Zeng Zheng was sweating profusely after hearing this.

It is said that if you catch someone with bamboo shoes, you will use it to death, but there is no such use, right?

The National Youth and National Olympic Games have not yet settled their own affairs, and the National Football Team's Ladd is also temporarily taking over.

If I get involved with the women's football team again now, I will never be able to leave for the rest of my life!

Seeing Zeng Zheng's hasty denial, Qin Xue had no choice but to ask: "Coach Zeng, what exactly do you mean by the moral support you mentioned?"

Seeing that the other party finally took his way, Zeng Zheng immediately got off the donkey along the slope.

“Of course it’s a tournament to support women’s football!”

With that said, Zeng Zheng straightened his collar and sat upright.

Seeing this, Qin Xue also opened the recorder and handed it to Zeng Zheng.

The two are old "partners".

One hopes to use Zeng Zheng's reputation to gain higher attention and status in the Ministry of Information, and the other wants to express his views to the public through a more reliable media organization.

"For a long time, women's football has not attracted much attention from fans. Even in the World Cup, there are not many more fans paying attention to this event than the Olympic Games."

"I feel very sad about this."

"The reason why we develop the sport of football is to improve the physical fitness of the people and improve the teamwork ability of young people."

"Note that the word 'teenagers' is used here, not boys."

"So, football is a sport suitable for all people, regardless of men, women, old or young, can participate."

Qin Xue nodded while holding the recording pen.

"As a football practitioner, I certainly know how big the gap between men and women is in this sport."

"But what I want to say is that if fans, parents and friends focus more on the sport of football instead of the title, I think everything will be much better."

"Of course, the economic benefits of men's and women's football are also a big threshold that cannot be passed."

"Football requires investment of time, money and energy."

"Now the domestic men's football team can't do it, and they can't achieve positive profits, let alone the women's football team."

"I have an immature idea about this..."

As Zeng Zheng said, there is really no comparison between men's football and women's football.

Such as television broadcast.

Advertisements for men's football are everywhere, and companies of all sizes are lining up to show their faces in football programs.

As a result, the impression left by men's football to the world is that it is lively but impetuous.

Women’s football is just the opposite!

Just like the current Women's World Cup, it can be called the highest event in the field of women's football.

But even though the TV station broadcast the entire game live, the advertising revenue was in huge contrast with the men's football team - there was not a single TV commercial during the entire game.

Women's football naturally looks arrogant and lonely.

Of course, some people will say that the time for the women's football live broadcast is not good and they don't have time to watch it.

For example, in the Women's World Cup, the live broadcast starts at around 7 o'clock in the morning.

This happens to be the time when office workers go to work.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! But is this really the case?

In the past, for men's football matches the night before, a group of breakfast fans would gather at major breakfast shops across the country. While slowly devouring their breakfast, they looked up at the morning news and watched the replay of the clips.

But now, all that is shown on TV is the live broadcast of women's football, but there are very few viewers.

At most, I would ask about the results of the competition after get off work at noon, and then leave it alone.

How can one make money in such a women's football market?

Because of this, although the women's football project was separated from the bamboo shoes.

But all along, the women's football team has always been short of rice and food, relying on "relief" from the state to survive.

But is there really no money to be made in women’s football?

Zeng Zheng didn’t see it that way.

Not to mention anything else, Zeng Zheng discovered that a large number of fans are paying attention to women's football matches all the time due to the nascent Internet in China.

And according to what they said, even in their hometown in the countryside, there will be a group of old people guarding semiconductors and listening intently to the broadcast of the women's football team.

This group of fans definitely doesn't watch men's football as much, and there are even a large number of double fans.

But judging from the total population of the country, this group of fans may not be a potential market.

Moreover, judging from the development experience, route and direction of foreign women's football, the market for women's football cannot be said to be large, but at least it definitely exists.

Take Da Lao Mei as an example.

The market economy of the United States is very developed and it is the world leader in the sports industry.

They used their experience in promoting the NBA to also make women's football a hit.

Otherwise, with the shrewd mind of the United States, it would not be easy to host a Women's World Cup that cannot be squeezed out.

You know, this was held when most people in the beautiful country were not paying attention!

According to Zeng Zheng's field trips these days, students at Harvard and MIT, which are not far from the competition venue, have not paid attention to this event at all, and they don't even know that this event is being held in front of their homes.

If you can make money at this level, then given the country's population base, it may not be impossible to achieve positive returns.

This thing depends on your vision.

As long as you find the right target audience, you will get rich sooner or later.

What's more, for Bamboo Shoes and the higher sports bureau, if we want to comprehensively develop football at the social level, the women's football project is absolutely indispensable!

Just like a giant tree, its prosperity cannot be separated from its unknown roots.

"...Taking a step back, even if the current women's football team has no basic industry and no market charm, investing in women's football will only result in loss but no profit."

"But this does not mean that women's football will be like this in the future."

"I suggest that the women's football industry can now be used as a public welfare undertaking. I think this effect will be better than advertising."

"And this is what I have seen and heard in the United States these days..."

Zeng Zheng accidentally told the truth.

I used to say that I had just arrived in the United States, but now I say that I have been doing research here for several days.

Isn't this contradictory?

But at this moment Qin Xue was fascinated by it.

She has always felt that Zeng Zheng is just the "champion godfather" of the national football team.

But now she found that she was wrong, and how wrong she was.

Recalling the first time the two met on a plane.

Isn't that "brave but pitiful man" who kept pushing the boulder to the top of the mountain Zeng Zheng himself?

Even the women's football team attaches such importance to it, and also cares about those young women's football teams who do not have any financial benefits.

At this moment, Zeng Zheng's image in Qin Xue's heart had reached an extremely high level.

...

After a short period of processing and repair by Qin Xue and Brother Zhang, Zeng Zheng's speech was quickly spread in major domestic newspapers and on the Internet.

Only then did the fans discover that the women’s football team, which they had never cared about, had already reached the semi-finals of the World Cup!

The semi-finals, this is an unreachable height for men's football!

"Hi! Me too, aren't the men's and women's football teams all national football teams? Coach Zeng is right, from now on, Lao Wang, I will never be partial and will watch all football teams!"

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, after I took a closer look, I realized that it's really incredible! It turns out that the women's football team has won so many honors. 86, 89, 91, 93, 95, 1997 Asian Cup championship, 1993 World University Games championship, 1994

, the champion of the 1998 Asian Games, the runner-up of the 1996 Olympic Games, the quarter-finals of the 1991 World Cup, the fourth place in the 1995 World Cup... Why don’t I know? No, starting from this World Cup, I will definitely not play a game.

Pay attention to women’s football!”

"Looking at the honors listed above, I am also very moved. The girls in the women's football team have really worked hard. When our men's football team has nothing to gain, we have to rely on them to earn back the lost face for us."

"I, Hubei Zhao XX, swear that within a year after the women's football team returns to China, I will definitely go to watch at least 10 games!"

"My girl has always said she wants to play football, but I have always blocked her. But now I see that the women's football team can still bring glory to the country! From now on, I will never stop my daughter from playing football!"

"What you said upstairs is right!"

"What you said upstairs is right!"

...

On the night after the match against Norway, seeing these comments online, the women's football girls burst into tears one by one.

They didn't cry when they lost against Australia, and they didn't cry when they won against Norway.

But looking at the messages of support posted by Zeng Zhengnian, the room was filled with sobs.

Wang Junsheng and Ma Yuanan sat aside, silently watching the team members who were deeply touched.

Why don't they know how much the women's football team has suffered and suffered over the years because of lack of money?

"No matter how difficult the suffering is, I have survived it; no matter how rugged the road is, I have made it through it."

Zeng Zheng, who was in front of the computer, sighed and said slowly, "Don't worry, everyone, the treatment of the women's football team will definitely get better and better in the future."

Upon hearing this, Fan Yunjie raised his hands, stood up and shook his head.

"Coach Zeng, we don't play football for the benefits, not for the benefits..."

"Yes, Coach Zeng, you look down on us too much!" Gao Hong also stood up, patted Fan Yunjie on the shoulder, and looked at Zeng Zheng with a "complaining" look on his face.

"Coach Zeng, I really misjudged you!" Sun Wen, who had always called Zeng Zheng "Brother Zeng," now stood beside the two sisters and complained bitterly to Zeng Zheng.

Zeng Zheng looked confused.

I just want to say something to comfort you, but why are the fingers pointed at me?

As expected of an "old fox" who has been immersed in officialdom for many years, Wang Junsheng immediately stood up and coughed twice.

"What did you say?"

"Coach Zeng kindly read you fan letters. Could he mean this?"

"Xiao Fan, tell your conscience. From the Asian Games to now, after so many days of getting along with each other, is Coach Zeng the kind of person you say he is?"

Fan Yunjie choked up after being named, and shook his head quickly: "No, no, Coach Zeng is not that kind of person!"

After saying that, Fan Yunjie turned around again and bowed to Zeng Zheng, "Coach Zeng, I'm sorry, I, I didn't mean that, I, I just..."

Seeing this, Zeng Zheng stood up quickly and said, "Everyone has something to say, something easy to say!"

"I didn't say what I said just now. I apologize to everyone!" After saying that, Zeng Zheng also bowed in return.

Wang Junsheng nodded and continued at the right time: "Okay, okay, what are you young people doing to each other? You are not a group of old men like us."

"We have advanced to the semi-finals, and we still won a big victory!"

"Not only did we lose our prestige, but we also suppressed those doubts. Everyone should be happy!"

"Why are you crying all the time?"

"And what's wrong with improving benefits? Shouldn't we improve benefits? Improving benefits is the most basic, most solid, and most important project that should be implemented!"

"I, Wang Junsheng, will give you a huge pledge today!"

"All bonuses for this competition have been doubled. We will hold a meeting after returning to China to strive for a 10% increase in wages for your women's football team!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Ma Yuanan stood up at the right time.

"Why are you standing still?"

"Captain Wang has already said it, why don't you thank me quickly!"

In the hearts of the women’s football team, Zeng Zheng is not only a coach, but also a peer like them.

Naturally, you will feel aggrieved by being "misunderstood" by Zeng Zheng.

But Wang Junsheng and Zeng Zheng are different.

He is a die-hard bamboo shoes and bamboo mat.

His promises can be turned into reality!

"Thank you, Captain Wang!"

"Thank you, Captain Wang!"

At Ma Yuanan's urging, the women's football girls thanked her in unison.

Just as Zeng Zheng wiped the sweat from his forehead, a pop-up window flashed in the lower right corner of the computer, a "ding" sound was heard, and a prompt sounded.

Zeng Zheng opened the email curiously, glanced at it twice and then grinned.

"Ladies!"

"I have some good news to announce to you all!"

good news?

What good news?

The team members turned around again and looked at Zeng Zheng curiously.

With everyone looking forward to it, Zeng Zheng said word for word: "Jiulang Company heard that we have advanced to the semi-finals and is willing to sponsor 500,000 RMB to all the women's football team members, and we will cash it in when we return to China!"