I am the king of football

Chapter 72: Joy and Fear

Qin brought a very interesting board game called Mahjong from China. The news spread on the first day after Hull City resumed training. The reason was that Kane excitedly explained to Fryatt how rare his perfect set of seven was.

After having a general understanding of the structure and gameplay of mahjong, many team members developed a strong interest in it.

Due to the continuity of the season and the training and preparation that must be done before each game, professional players often lack daily entertainment activities. Fortunately, most people choose to take vacations during the holidays, and they rarely have the opportunity to do what they like during the season.

Therefore, many times professional players tend to go to two extremes during their rest time.

One is to become a playboy like Simpson and indulge in lust. Players who can restrain themselves will often be turned a blind eye by the head coach as long as it does not affect their performance in the game. Those who cannot restrain themselves will become like Simpson, who gradually loses self-recognition in the midst of alcohol and sex and eventually disappears from the public eye.

The second is to find a hobby of your own, such as Joe Allen who likes to raise various pets, Cech who likes to play drums, and Xavi who likes to pick mushrooms. Everyone is looking for something to make the long time of their professional career season, which may last for more than 20 years, less boring.

For young players, this hobby is mostly playing games. Some players’ game operations in live broadcasts can be said to be quite outstanding, which is inseparable from the "hard training" in their spare time.

Now, a new entertainment activity has entered the lives of Tiger City players. It can exercise the brain and socialize at the same time, and it is varied and will not make you bored. Through the crazy recommendation of Kane and others, everyone finally asked Qin Hu to quickly post the mahjong rules in the team's social group.

After daily training, everyone began to learn this recreational activity at home, and some activists have begun to purchase mahjong from China through online shopping.

Bruce doesn't care about the new hobby trend started by the team members. Everyone is here to work and earn money. As long as the players can complete the daily training targets and perform stably in the game, he doesn't want to interfere with any player's private life.

Not to mention that this smart coach has also developed a great interest in mahjong. The Hull City coaching team has already made an appointment to try playing mahjong together when they have time.

No matter how much fun they have, Hull City's strength and condition have not been affected at all.

In the 14th round of the league, Hull City went on an away game to challenge Nottingham Forest, which was ranked 19th in the league. This team, which had long lost its glory, now had almost no characteristics. Facing the aggressive Hull City, all they could do was park the bus in their home court without any ability to fight back.

In the 72nd minute of the game, Kane took advantage of a set-piece opportunity when the opponent's defenders all focused their attention on Qin Hu. He caught the ball in the penalty area and kicked it into the only goal of the game.

1-0, Hull City's winning streak continued to the th round. Although Qin Hu did not score a goal in this game, he still performed very well as the team's center forward and fulcrum, almost attracting % of Nottingham Forest's defensive energy.

However, this time, British media reporters did not report Hull City's victory on a large scale. Perhaps they had used up all the words from seven consecutive wins to the current fourteenth consecutive wins, so they simply published the news that Hull City had won fourteen consecutive games in the Championship.

In comparison, domestic sports media have not reported enough. Any time Qin Hu's team creates a further historical record, it is worth reporting on. Because there are so few Chinese players traveling in Europe nowadays, they even set up a special page for Qin Hu.

Every week, the content of Qin Hu's media interviews as a player representative after the game will be compiled and published. His statistics and performance are also constantly updated on it. Following the example of others, such posts have also been made by enthusiastic fans on major football forums on the domestic Internet.

Qin Hu naturally saw these things through Li Xiang's forwarding and guidance. Faced with the fanatical emotions of domestic fans, he was both happy and afraid.

What makes me happy is the support and attention from the fans, which is a great encouragement for any player; what I am afraid of is whether I will disappoint the fans if I don’t perform well, after all, the feelings of Chinese fans have been poured cold water again and again. The peak of domestic fans’ expectations for their own players to go to Europe was Dong Fangzhuo, who was introduced by Ferguson. At that time, everyone was talking about his performance in Manchester United. Even when he was loaned to other leagues, everyone kept following him and believed that he would have a perfect future.

But the result was really disappointing. After King Dong, who was once a teammate of Ronaldo, was gradually abandoned by Manchester United and returned home in disgrace, for a long time no one paid attention to any so-called "Chinese talented star".

Now, it is through one game after another and the positive comments from countless professional commentators and stars that Qin Hu has made everyone willing to once again believe that China is about to have a top star.

The day after the match with Nottingham Forest, Qin Hu took advantage of the team's winning holiday and came to London, the capital of England, wearing a casual suit that he and Lin Lan had carefully selected through remote video.

Qin Hu entered the building of Adidas' UK headquarters with Mendes, where he met the manager in charge of football endorsement contracts. After a pleasant greeting in the office, the two sides got down to business.

"This is the contract we prepared for you. After consulting with Mr. Mendes, we included a clause about exclusive shoes."

The income and years of service were exactly the same as what Mendes had given him before. Qin Hu focused on the terms mentioned by the other party. These terms were the implementation of the requirements Mendes had mentioned in the phone call in advance - Qin Hu needed to lead the team to successfully advance to the Premier League this season and participate in at least 15 Premier League goals next season.

Don't underestimate fifteen goals. Tevez, the Premier League's top scorer last season, only scored 20 goals. It took him thirty-one league games to achieve this achievement, which is enough to show how difficult it is to score goals in the Premier League.

Fortunately, Mendes argued for Qin Hu, and Adidas finally required participation in the contract terms, which means that assists were also counted, which made it a lot easier.

“No problem, it’s an honor to cooperate with Adidas.”

“It is our honor to cooperate with you.”

After reading it carefully, Qin Hu signed his name on the contract without any hesitation. Both parties stood up and shook hands, and the signing ceremony was officially over.

Afterwards, under the guidance of the staff, Qin Hu went to the live broadcast room full of Chinese elements specially created for Qin Hu by Adidas and started his first live broadcast event after signing the contract.

Through constant conversation with the beautiful host in front of him, Qin Hu slowly relaxed and interacted with many fans waiting in the live broadcast room.

Due to the participation of many fans from China, the final peak popularity of this live broadcast directly reached the top ten live broadcast records of Adidas' endorsed stars, which made the manager who arranged the live broadcast very happy.

"Sure enough, signing a Chinese player is a very wise decision!"

As long as Qinhu can develop steadily in the future, Adidas' development in the Chinese market will surely go smoothly.

Today's update is here! I will resume updating twice a week when I get home from my business trip tomorrow~
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