Vol 6 Chapter 5: Times (five)

  At night, Wang Ai invited reporters from the Sports Department of Xinhua News Agency to have a potluck at home, and naturally talked a lot about it. Wang Ai believes in each other's cooperative relationship and trusts the discipline of the National News Agency more. Apart from personal emotional issues, there are no other taboos.
  If the national news agency does not trust, who else can be trusted? If the National News Agency gives bad reports, it must not be the will of the National News Agency itself, but the superiors are going to beat Wang Ai.
   Resting at home for a day, Wang Ai appeared at the Beijing Workers’ Stadium with Huang Xin and others on June 13 to watch the 15th "Fool Cup" finals. Today's idiot cup is no longer a matter for the two provinces of Sichuan and Liaoning. Since 2008, it has expanded rapidly and has now been joined by more than a dozen provinces and cities. If it weren't for the organizing committee's fear of expanding too quickly, the bottom is going to change, there can be more.
The   Idiot Cup, like the Liao Women’s League, is also played in a fairly small gap. When there was no impact, the parties concerned treated each other coldly, relying on Wang Ai's influence to barely get stumbling. But once the impact came out, they immediately rallied. Zhang Lu said to Wang Ai privately that the local education bureau must not be involved, as soon as it comes in, it will be a bad thing.
  It’s not that they are sincere and bad, but that once their power is activated, they tend to link football performance with honor. Once linked to the school, they must be eager for quick success and quick gain, and once they are eager for quick success and quick profit, there is no future. Therefore, when the Idiot Cup Organizing Committee reviews the joining requirements of various provinces and cities, they will clearly negotiate with each other: We welcome participation, but your governments at all levels should not give bonuses or force schools to participate. Everything is based on interest. We are one Pure and pure amateur student competition.
  We don’t want to go up!
  In order to reduce the heat, the organizing committee rejected a lot of media interviews. For example, the CCTV Sports Channel of today's finals only sent a filming team, not even a reporter, so it was prepared to mention such a sentence on the next football night. Also to reduce the heat, Wang Ai has barely appeared in the fool cup in the past few years.
Nowadays, the foundation of Chinese football is still so weak. Wang Ai has to do things like a mini-sculptor. It can’t be light, heavy, more can’t, less can’t be done, a little bit of sculpture portraying, leaving the fire of hope live.
The competition system of more than a dozen provinces and cities is still a close match between the provinces, cities, and counties, until the final finals. Today is still a total of four finals in two groups of junior and high schools plus men’s and women’s football. The champion is still 3000 yuan plus a set of commemorative jerseys and training equipment for each person. The runner-up is 1,000 yuan plus commemorative jerseys and training equipment. Of course, the organizing committee will cover the travel expenses and board and lodging expenses.
  After watching the four finals all day, Wang Ai never went down and stayed in the stands. At most, he stood up and waved when the students called him. The award-giving guest Wang Ai invited Jin Zhiyang and Chen Tao to make them both responsible.
  After one day of the game, it was dinner in the hotel where the eight teams were stationed in the evening. Wang Ai did not show up in public but took a secret look. This group of children played a game all over the world, and may never see it again in their lives, so the atmosphere is very good.
After watching it, Wang Ai was also infected by the slight sadness among the children. When he went out and got on the car, he shook his head: "What am I? I can't make it. The children didn't earn anything, and the dumb company didn't earn anything. It seems that Chinese football has not made much."
Huang Xin, who was accompanying him, glanced at Wang Ai and lowered his head to coax the son in his arms: "It's a summer camp. Give the kids a football dream. No matter what they do in the future, this past is worth remembering, isn't it? "
Seeing Wang Ai nodded, Huang Xin said again: "As for the fool company, we are not going to be a big fan. It is nothing to spend a little money. Anyway, fools have high profits and are public welfare enterprises. You don’t have to spend money here. Donations. Moreover, how can I say that this is an almost nationwide and nationally high amateur tournament for school students. The positive significance for Idiot’s company is not a temporary breakthrough, but a lasting positive impact."
Wang Aishu took a sigh of relief and nodded: "The scale is very important. This thing is really wonderful. One-point increase will be too long, one-point reduction will be too short, powder will be too white, and Shi Zhu will be too red. You must stick to this policy. Tell the organizing committee well, you must not rush for quick success."
  Huang Xin nodded earnestly: "I will emphasize it again with them."
  "A single spark can start a prairie fire, whether it is for Chinese football or for the dumb company." Wang Ai raised his head and made a summary.
  In the following days, Wang Ai squatted at the Beyond Entertainment Company in the northern suburbs of Beijing, dealing with various sponsors. According to the assumption at the beginning of the year, his advertising revenue this year may exceed 2 billion yuan. The two renewed Adi and Coca-Cola in the first half of the year reached more than 800 million, and other odds and ends also reached two to three billion. The annual "task" should be relatively easy. The popularity of winning the World Cup last summer rose again this summer, and as expected, it was scattered from the national team to the individual. Not only Wang Ai made a lot of money, but other teammates also doubled.
To put it vividly, Wang Ai got top-level orders mostly from multinational companies, while Chen Tao and Lao Bai got sub-large orders from small and medium-sized multinational companies and domestic companies. Generally, the main force they got was small and medium-sized enterprises from various countries. The national team’s substitutes received a list of provincial-level enterprises.
There is of course a clear gap in income. For example, Wang Ai’s annual income is expected to reach 2 billion, and Chen Tao, who is second only to him, can only have an annual income of about 200 million. Generally, the main force is reduced by an order of magnitude, about 30 million. They are even less, and the annual income of an endorsement is only hundreds of thousands. But they can "make up for their weaknesses with diligence." When the top Wang Ai, the second Chen Tao, and Lao Bai are busy, and the other is more image-focused, they can go around and make up for the show fee. Therefore, the substitutes must be diligent and earn money Can break through ten million.
In the midst of this busy schedule, on the afternoon of June 15th, Wang Ai was surpassing entertainment to shoot Haier's electrical appliance advertisement. Kang Si happily walked into the studio, just after a period of filming ended, Wang Ai went from the sofa of "home" He stood up and put the TV remote control in his hand, turned around and saw "Time" in Kang Si's hand.
  Looking from a distance, the cover is big red, which made Wang Ai frown. When he took it in his hand, he realized that this red piece was the national flag. Wang Ai's head was in front of the national flag, facing the camera with a smile on his face. It's just that he is not the white shirt in the interview, but the dark red Bayern jersey.