Fame with a ball

On the next day, British newspapers mostly used "Premier League, Manchester United lost and upset" as the headline for the Premier League game the day before.However, the public opinion of most commentators tends to be that this is just a small mistake of the Manchester United team. As the newly promoted Queens Park Rangers Club of the Premier League can draw with Manchester United, luck and strength are all involved, but it is not too surprising .

As for the description of Lin Zhigao's amazing performance in the game, except for the local newspaper in Fulham, where the Queen's Park Rangers Club is located, which has a detailed description, and there are many speculations about Lin Zhigao's identity, the rest of the newspapers mostly use a few lines. However, Lin Zhigao, who wanted to see himself on the headlines and became famous, was very dissatisfied.

Teammate Bosroyd told him that such a situation is actually normal.Football matches are played every day in the UK, and in many games there will be more or less bursts of competitive inspiration, but most of them are only short-lived.If he wants the national newspapers to pay attention to him, he must at least help the team get a better position in the league, the striker must be able to assign a position in the scorer list, and the midfielder must also have assists as a result.

Well, Lin Zhigao thought, becoming famous overnight seems to be his own dream.However, Lin Zhigao has confidence in himself. Sooner or later, he will attract the attention of the media all over the UK.

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When Lin Changan went out on his bicycle to go to work after breakfast, his wife Qian Hongyan had already left the house.He is an office director of a state-owned enterprise in Zhengzhou City, and Qian Hongyan is a doctor at the city's No. 1 civilian hospital. No matter in terms of work nature or time, Qian Hongyan is much busier than him.

Walking to an intersection and encountering a red light, Lin Changan stopped his bicycle to wait for time, and his eyes accidentally passed a postal kiosk.

Thinking of what his son said on the phone yesterday, Lin Changan hesitated for a while, and quickly moved his bicycle to the side of the road before the green light arrived. The boss who sold newspapers asked: "Are there any newspapers about football news? on foreign football news."

"National or local?"

"All over the country, the bigger the newspaper, the better."

The boss got up and handed Lin Changan a copy of "Sports Weekly" and "Football".

Lin Changan wanted to open the newspaper to read the news now, but thought that it was almost eight o'clock, so he hurriedly got on his bicycle and prepared to talk about it after he got to the work unit.

State-owned enterprises, and sit in an office, have always been leisurely.Except for signing in at work every day, most of the rest of the time is freely allocated by individuals.Lin Changan's old routine, after signing in, go to the pantry to make a cup of tea, then sit in front of the table and slowly read the newspaper.It's just that he used to read local newspapers, but today he changed to sports newspapers.

"Hey, when did Director Lin start caring about sports news?" A passing colleague asked him.

"It's nothing, just thinking that the unit's newspapers are not enough to read, so I bought a few copies at the newsstand to pass the time."

Colleagues left without being surprised. Lin Changan first opened "Football" and found the Premier League section, but he didn't see any news about his son. Well, this newspaper was published yesterday. The football newspaper comes out once a week, which coincides with Lin Zhigao's match day.

Seeing this, he hurriedly checked the publication date of "Sports Weekly", which was published today.Lin Changan opened the news of the Premier League, and was delighted to see the headline "The Premier League was upset, the newly promoted drew with Manchester United" on the first page.After reading the whole news word for word, Lin Changan managed to find such a description: "In this game, the most attention-getting player is Lin, a yellow player from the Premier League's newly promoted Queen's Park Rangers team. Suspected to be Chinese, but apart from the fact that the BBC commentator Coburn once said that the player is Chinese, the British side has no data report on the origin of this person’s identity. Our newspaper has sent a British reporter to the Queen’s Park Rangers Club for interviews. A later issue will bring you definite news."

After staring at the word "Lin" for a long time, Lin Changan remembered what his son said about him being the only Asian in the team. He was finally sure that this person was his son, Lin Zhigao.

Because it is still not sure whether this Lin is Chinese, the editor hesitated for a long time when writing the article yesterday, and decided to tell this news in a relatively flat tone, and put Lin Zhigao's main credit for scoring these two goals. Because of the proper assists from his teammates, the press release did not include a true description of Lin Zhigao's wonderful performance. Instead, it was written as if Lin Zhigao was just an ordinary Asian player in the Premier League.

Lin Changan didn't ask his son to be on the headlines of the newspaper, he just made sure that his son was indeed playing football in the club and he didn't lie to himself, so he put down the newspaper.

Lin Zhigao has never shown extraordinary athletic talent since he was a child, so Lin Changan does not believe how good his son can play football, and the influence of the media for many years, as well as the reality, makes Lin Changan feel that China Football is very bad, and few Chinese can play well when they go abroad to play football.

In fact, what Lin Chang'an didn't expect was that the coverage of the game in the physical media he saw was mediocre, but on the Internet, especially in some football forums, it had already exploded.

On football forums, online communities, Tianya, Maopu, Renren, and even Sina Weibo, there are people who took screenshots of yesterday's game video, purposely zoomed in on Lin Zhigao's clear photos, and then circulated wildly on the Internet, and asked affectionately: "Is this Asian teenager who exploded Manchester United's chrysanthemum twice in one breath, is he Chinese?"

Countless photos and video clips were circulated on the Internet, but no one knew Lin Zhigao.In fact, those people who are acquainted with Lin Zhigao are still locked in high school classrooms. How can they have time to go online to participate in such a big human flesh search?

People first placed hope on Lin Zhigao's Chinese identity, shouting "Finally a Chinese has entered the Premier League club to play as the main player!" Nowhere, so slowly a different voice came out.

Especially Manchester United fans.The Red Devils have a lot of fans in China. Without knowing that Lin Zhigao is Chinese, these fans would certainly feel unhappy when their favorite team scored two goals. After analyzing Lin Zhigao's game video, they declared : This Asian boy just has good physical fitness and strength, and his skills are still very immature.We scored two goals for Manchester United, mostly due to luck. Don't forget that Queens Park Rangers are playing at home. Both the fans and the referee will favor the home team!If these two teams meet for the second time, this kind of thing is impossible to happen!

Some media also took the initiative to echo them: As we all know, although Chinese football is stinky, the attention of Chinese fans to football has never declined.Moreover, Chinese people have full sense of national pride and self-esteem. Don’t you see that Yao Ming, who didn’t play very well in the NBA, can become a superstar in people’s eyes. Every Chinese player who goes abroad to play in Europe, such as Sun Jihai , Dong Fangzhuo, Li Tie and others have also been in everyone's attention. If China really has another overseas player who goes to play in the Premier League, then netizens and the media will not be able to dig out the old bottom. All over China? (Cough, objectively speaking, Yao Ming’s playing in the NBA is really not super-class. His Rockets have never won the highest honor in the NBA. His popularity is inseparable from the fact that the United States values ​​the vast Chinese market. )

In addition to all the Asian players who went to Europe to play football, since Hidetoshi Nakata retired in Japan, there have been no Japanese players who have enjoyed themselves in Europe.As for Chinese players, they have always paid a lot of attention, and they also sit on the bench a lot.South Korea, on the other hand, has been sending players to Europe, such as Park Ji-sung, who is still playing for Manchester United, and was even the main force of Manchester United at one time.

So there is media publicity. There are also Koreans with the surname Lin. Bao Buqi, the Lin who played with Manchester United, is a Korean. It’s just that most Europeans and Americans don’t know the difference between China and South Korea. Many people even think that South Korea is still a vassal state of China, so it is not necessarily bad.

Such remarks are actually stupid, but they have won the approval of most netizens. They think that this Lin should be a Korean. How can there be any super football stars in China?

It's not that the Chinese fans are too unconfident and love to push outstanding players away, but that Chinese football has indeed stink to the point where everyone shouts and beats them.Except for Yang Chen, there are no Chinese players who study abroad. Most of the clubs want Chinese players because they are aiming at the huge market in China.

In 03, a fleet of Real Madrid Galactica came to China to make money. The income made many European clubs greedy.

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Lin Zhigao, who was far away in London, England, didn't know that the Internet in China was already arguing about him, and he didn't know that in a small office building in a certain part of London, a reporter was facing a task sent by the editor-in-chief Scratching his ears and cheeks, he didn't know how to find his trace.

At this moment, Lin Zhigao was immersed in joy.Not long after he arrived at the training ground in the morning, he signed a contract with the club for a period of five years.

Weekly salary of 20 euros after tax, with an annual increase of [-]%.This kind of salary is actually in the middle and lower reaches of the Premier League clubs. Most of the Premier League clubs pay more than this, not to mention those football superstars with a weekly salary of more than [-] to [-] yuan.

However, even such a weekly salary was earned by Warnock for Lin Zhigao.Once Lin Zhigao signs a contract with the club, his income is considered to be in the middle of the team.

If someone wants to ask, is the Queens Park Rangers Club, the newly promoted Premier League this season, really so stingy?Shouldn't general clubs spend a lot of money to buy players for promotion, and strive to stay in the Premier League and never be relegated?

Then the head coach Warnock will tell you bluntly, yes, the club is so stingy.Since the club changed owners, the Malaysian is more budget-conscious than the former Italian owner. He directly told the head coach Warnock that during his ownership of the team, he would not lose money every year. He must make the club profitable.

But in the current European football, especially after the financial crisis in 08, most football clubs are in a state of negative profit and loss, and few football clubs are profitable every year.Similar to Chelsea, Real Madrid, relying on their wealth and wealth, does not care about winning money or losing money, not to mention the giants that invest a lot of money in transfers every year, even Juventus, Inter Milan, the former European champions, are in financial terms. In the case of making ends meet, you have to grit your teeth to get money, buy players, and improve the treatment for players.

If you want to ask why?It's very simple. To make a profit, the club relies on selling jerseys, selling tickets, and reaping bonuses from major leagues.And if the club wants to win money, it must maintain enough combat power to be able to defeat the enemy, even if it has to adapt to the poor ghost period for a few years first.Otherwise, if you don’t buy players to save money, don’t improve the strength of the team, if others are advancing and you stay where you are, then you will fall behind, and sooner or later you will lose in the game. there is none left.

So the experience club is an endless loop. The more you win, the richer you are, and the more you lose, the less money you have.If you spend a lot of money to buy players every year, if you want to earn more, you can only train star players and sell them to other clubs at a high price.Manchester United with Sir Alex Ferguson is such a good example. Cristiano Ronaldo, who transferred from Manchester United to Real Madrid, created the world's first transfer fee record of 9400 million euros.

But now the owner of the club, that nasty Malaysian, doesn't even know how to run the club, and only wants to make money without spending money. Is this a joke?The owner of Chelsea, the Russian billionaire Arachemovich, has invested hundreds of millions of dollars every year for several consecutive years after purchasing Chelsea, so that Chelsea slowly regained its former glory.

The boss is a pig, and Warnock can only find a way to make the team live well.He didn't have money to buy players, and he didn't have money to improve the team's treatment. He was worried about the player's job-hopping, and he insisted on arguing with the club manager. He doubled the team's assists and goal bonuses, so he was a little satisfied.

Fortunately, pigs have a bit of a brain. The club chairman still knows that scoring goals and winning goals can make money for the club. He readily agreed to the suggestion to increase the goal award.

After the dust settled on the contract, Queens Park Rangers soon ushered in another game of theirs.

In the FA Cup one-on-one knockout match, Queens Park Rangers challenged Birmingham away.

Lin Zhigao's professional football career has just begun.