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Chapter 41 From China

When the body shook, Qi Wei took off his headphones. He knew that they and his group had set foot on the Netherlands. They were interviews and filming team sent to the Netherlands by CCTV5's "Worren Dam" column. The destination of this trip was Warren Dam, a small town in the northeast of Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands. They came to make a special film for the two Chinese young players. Due to the emergence of Zhang Jun and Yang Pan on the Dutch Super League, domestic fans' attention to them is increasing day by day. The short goal scenes in the newspapers and the short goal scenes in sports news can no longer satisfy the public's desire to understand.

As the leader of Chinese TV media, CCTV5, China's best sports channel, will be completely defeated in this news war without any action. No one wants to see the bad luck at that time, except for competitors. So the crew led by Qi Wei, the host of "Tianxia Football", was quickly formed and sent to the Netherlands. They will follow Warrendam's entire filming and interview for a week. Then in another week, the edited special topic will meet the audience in "Tianxia Football".

Qi Wei and his colleagues walked out of the airport with their carry-on luggage and some simple equipment. A colleague who arrived early had reported to the country that Zhang Jun, Yang Pan's authoritative reporter Li Yan and Wang Hua were waiting at the exit.

The cooperation between Qi Wei and Li Yan can also be regarded as the cooperation between Sports Weekly and CCTV5. Because Li Yan had received a notice from the headquarters early, he asked him to fully cooperate with and support CCTV reporters during this period. Establishing a good cooperative relationship with CCTV is also a step for the development and growth of Sports Weekly.

The two sides met and greeted each other for a while before heading straight to the point.

"Go to Warrendam!"

In the car, Li Yan introduced Warren Dam's history and recent record to CCTV5 reporters. There is no need to introduce the situation of Zhang Jun and Yang Pan. With the joint efforts of all Chinese journalists who came to the Netherlands, they made headlines almost every day and have quickly become the number one news figures in the hearts of Chinese fans.

Warren Dam has achieved good results recently. After the 11th round of the league, he temporarily left the relegation zone with four wins, two draws and six losses, with 14 points. The four wins and two draws were achieved by Zhang Jun and Yang Pan after they came on the court as first-team players. It can be seen how important these two people are to the team. Moreover, Warren Dam has also made great progress in the Cup and has entered the top 16 of the Cup. This result made the club owner very excited.

After arriving at Warrendam Club, the interview team had a simple meeting with the club owner and head coach, with Wang Hua as the translator. CCTV5 actually sent Warrendam a letter of intent to the interview before coming. After receiving a reply to agreeing to the interview, Qi Wei and the others were sent to the Netherlands. This meeting was mainly about face-to-face communication and arranged a filming plan based on the current situation of the team.

These are not problems. Horns did not expect that his club would gain such a high reputation in China because of the two Chinese. He even wanted to drive his hotel to China. He naturally cooperated strongly with the interview requirements for CCTV5.

Seeing the fat man nodding with a smile on his face and agreeing to all the requests made by the other party, Adrians found it very funny. More than a month ago, the same person scolded the two Chinese players in front of him for being "damn"...

Adriansey was not as happy as Horns. He just hoped that the crew would not affect the team's normal training and competitions. As for other shooting requirements, such as entering the locker room when no one was used during training, taking the team bus when going to the game, interviewing team personnel, following the whole process, etc., he did not refuse.

Adriansse's attitude towards reporters now has a 180-degree turn compared to before. This is all because Li Yan said to him when he asked Zhang Jun and Yang Pan: "How can the eagle learn to fly without taking it to see the blue sky? The flowers in the greenhouse will never withstand the wind and rain, and the chicks cared under the wings of the hen will never become eagles!"

Indeed, they must learn to face the media, which is also a journey they must go through when they grow up. He has no right to block their contact with the media, and in fact he has no way to block them. Nowadays, journalists are becoming more and more powerful. But he can guide them on the side to let them learn to contact the media correctly.

A Chinese journalist who came from afar taught him a lesson. Adriansai looked at Li Yan. No wonder Zhang Jun and Yang Pan trusted him so much that they even asked him to attend birthday parties. Any news was provided to him first. What he sent back to China was exclusive news and first-hand reports. It was not difficult to become a well-known sports journalist in China at once.

A very responsible journalist, a trustworthy person. This is Adrians' evaluation of this famous Chinese football reporter in the future.

Zhang Jun and Yang Pan learned a few days in advance that CCTV5 was coming to the Netherlands to interview them for follow-up interviews. They had only seen interviews with players who went abroad on TV, but they did not expect that one day they would become the subject of interviews.

However, after hearing the news, their first reaction was not excitement, nervousness, doubt, or expectation. They just shouted, and then after the training, they rushed back to the apartment to clean the house and cleaned it. All the dirty clothes were washed and hung up, the bed sheets and quilt covers were replaced, the sneakers were neatly placed in the shoe cabinet, the messy table was spotless, the glass was wiped, and the floor was mopped.

When Kozel came to chat with them, he thought he had entered the wrong door. After knowing the reason, he laughed so hard that he was distorted. The next day during training, he patted Zhang Jun on the shoulder and said solemnly: "I think the coach should let you accept this kind of interview more, so that you can save the cost of hiring cleaners, and also exercise your self-care ability, which is also an additional physical training. How great!"

Qi Wei and Li Yan carefully studied the shooting plan in the hotel and decided to start the interview the next day, starting with their daily training. Then, while they were training, they entered the locker room and showed the audience the wardrobe and some equipment to satisfy the audience's desire to snoop.

During this period, interviews with some players, coaches, other staff members and small town residents and fans will be interspersed, and the two Chinese players will be viewed from the Dutch's perspective.

Then they will enter the two people's apartment to photograph their life after training.

The game is an important part, and the film crew must follow it all. They even received special permission to enter the locker room to shoot before the game and during the halftime break. This is a very tolerant interview attitude. For many teams, the locker room is a penalty area, which contains the absolute privacy of players and coaches, and outsiders are not allowed to enter.

After studying the shooting plan, Qi Wei yawned and said to Li Yan: "When will they start training tomorrow morning?"

"Ten o'clock."

"Then we will go and put the machine on the half past nine and set off at nine o'clock. Let's go and rest early!" Qi Wei yawned again. It seemed that he really couldn't hold on anymore. He was busy with work even though he was not overwhelmed by the jet lag. He was also a dedicated and responsible person.

The next day, the group of CCTV5 arrived at the training ground at less than 9:30. The morning in the Netherlands was sunny, but it was almost winter and the temperature was a little low.

"It's nothing! It's snowing in Beijing at this time!" Qi Wei directed everyone to hurry up and set up the machine while saying to Li Yan beside him. But when he turned his head, he saw three figures running around on the training ground.

"Hey?" Qi Wei looked carefully and found that two of them were Zhang Jun and Yang Pan, while the other was Seth Kozer, the main midfielder in the team. Qi Wei raised his wrist and looked at his watch. It was only 9:30 now.

"They, are they always so early?" Qi Wei asked Li Yan.

Li Yan nodded: "It's almost every day."

Qi Wei was as excited as if he had discovered the treasure. He pulled a cameraman over and said, "Hurry! Take a picture on the training ground, work is starting!"

So, in the camera, two Chinese teenagers and a Dutch young man jogged side by side, and they talked a few times from time to time, very close.

Qi Wei started the report with the microphone. He first stood in front of the camera and introduced to the audience that he was now on the training ground of Warrendam Club: "Dear spectators, I am now outside the training ground of Warrendam Club in the Netherlands. The green field and two small buildings that you see are Warrendam's training base. It can be seen that the training base is not grand, but the environment is very good."

The cameraman gave a panoramic view of the training ground, and then moved the camera in turn with Qi Wei's commentary: "This white two-story building is the office building of Warrendam Club. The club chairman Mr. Horns and head coach Adriansey's office are both inside the building. The orange and white three-story building next to the office building is the team's comprehensive building, which contains a physical therapy room, a massage room, an indoor football field, a gym and other rooms. It can be seen that although the sparrow is small, it is complete with all the internal organs, Warrendam has the facilities that a professional club should have."

Then Qi Wei flashed to the side and pointed the camera at the training ground.

"Our film crew arrived here at 9:30 and did the preparations before the shooting, but unexpectedly saw this scene. Now just after 9:30, the team's training began at 10:00. But, everyone, what did you see?"

As the camera advances, two close-ups of Zhang Jun and Yang Pan appear in the camera respectively. The camera is pulled out again, and the medium shot is there, and three people wearing Warren Dam's sports suits are warming up on the training ground.

"Many people know that Zhang Jun and Yang Pan have very good performances in the Netherlands. In terms of goals and assists, the two ranked first in the team. Some people say that they are genius prodigy in Chinese football, but everyone has seen it. According to Li Yan, a reporter from Sports Weekly who specifically tracks and interviews them, their early training phenomenon is almost every day! Genius is one percent talent and ninety-nine percent sweat. The performance of Zhang Jun and Yang Pan interprets this statement very well for us."

"The other is Kozeel, the main midfielder who lives next to them. He was loaned from the Ajax Youth Team this season, with a loan period of one year. Seeing the three people chatting and laughing on the court, we can know that they have integrated into the team very well. They should have passed the language and are sincerely happy for them."

While jogging, Kozel glanced at the reporters on the sidelines: "Tsk tsk, big scene! Hey! Zhang Jun, teach me a greeting Chinese? I'll go up and say hello later."

Zhang Jun remembered that Aochu kept pestering him some time ago and insisted on learning Chinese. Zhang Jun was annoyed by him, so he taught him a few words so that he could show off his skills when he saw Chinese journalists.

He remembered that Kozel was still laughing at them yesterday, so he came up with a plan. He looked at Kozel with a sincere "smile": "Okay, I'll give you the simplest and most commonly used greeting. What I taught Ochu that day was fake, and this was the right one..."

The cameraman is still working, and Qi Wei has already started chatting with Li Yan and the others: "Look at what they are talking about? I'm so happy, look at Yang Pan laughing!"

"Haha, I don't know, I can't hear it. But this kind of scene can be seen everywhere. Warren Dam is a young team with many young people, and they are easy to get along with. Zhang Jun and the others have come to a good place!" Li Yan sighed.

"Two excellent coaches, one relaxing environment, and a group of excellent teammates. No wonder these two can succeed so easily."

"Excellent coach?" Li Yan remembered Qiu Suhui, who had been a assistant here for a while ago, a name that once represented Chinese football. However, the first meeting between the two was not pleasant. He took the initiative to shake hands with Qiu Suhui, after all, he was once his fan. As a result, the other party ignored him and turned around and left, which made him very embarrassed.

He followed Zhang Jun and Yang Pan, and also witnessed with his own eyes how Qiu Suhui arranged training and how he trained two fledgling Chinese teenagers to become popular stars of He Chao now. "He is indeed an excellent coach, but I don't like it very much..." Li Yan muttered in his heart.

The team members came one after another, and they seemed to be accustomed to Zhang Jun and the others in advance training, and were not surprised at all.

The team's live treasure Ochu came and jumped. As soon as he saw so many Chinese journalists, he rushed to the cameraman who was working, opened his mouth wide, and said in Chinese: "Your uncle!"

As soon as these words came out, all the crew members present were stunned. Then Ochu asked the staff with a smile: "How is it? How is my Chinese?" Regardless of whether they could understand his half-baked Dutch.

At this moment, Kozel also walked up and pulled Ochu away: "Zhang Jun said, what you said is wrong, I am the correct Chinese!" Then he coughed: "Yeah!" He spoke out the "greetings" that Zhang Jun taught him just now in awkward but clear Chinese: "Yeah----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

All the Chinese present should know what this means. The faces of the crew have changed, but they suddenly heard a burst of laughter.

Li Yan and Wang Hua squatted on the ground with their stomachs covering their stomachs, while Zhang Jun and Yang Pan were also laughing so hard that they couldn't breathe.

Kozel didn't understand what was going on, so he had to laugh with the others.

Qi Wei, who was unknown, pulled Li Yan up and asked him: "What's going on?"

Li Yan wiped his tears: "Haha! That's it, this. Some time ago, Aochu always pestered Zhang Jun and wanted to learn Chinese. Zhang Jun couldn't stand it anymore, so he taught him a casual swearing word and told him that this was a common greeting in China, which was equivalent to the English 'Hello!' Aochu learned it. When he saw Chinese journalists, he would say this. Wang Hua and I also asked him to greet him like this, ha!"

"Then... what happened to 'Yes'?"

Li Yan smiled and said, "Didn't you see the three of them 'talking and laughing' together just now? You said you saw Yang Pan laughing...haha!"

Only then did Qi Wei and his group understand. Qi Wei shook his head and smiled, "This troublemaker!" He gave Kozeel a thumbs up and replied, "Verygood! Very good, so proud!"

Others also "greetings" Kozel: "Your uncle, your uncle!"

Zhang Jun and Yang Pan smiled even more happily, but later Kozel, who knew the truth, fought with Zhang Jun in training. The fierce confrontation made the Chinese journalists who came from afar sweat. Only Li Yan watched the game as if nothing had happened, and he also applauded Zhang Jun's dodge and Kozel's steals from time to time. He had seen such training a lot.

Adriansey was the last to come to the training ground, and then the team started the formal training one morning. The players stopped joking, but followed them seriously.

Qi Wei and the others were busy again. One camera always followed Zhang Jun and Yang Pan, and the other filmed the performance of other team members and coaches. Now that Li Yan is not doing anything, he just sat by the side of the field and looked quietly at the training ground.

Zhang Jun and Yang Pan have been fully integrated into the team and performed well and stably on the court. Now even CCTV5 has sent a special crew to interview them and give them special topics. Their names will surely resound throughout China, and in the future, Li Yan seems to have seen these two names resounding throughout the world.
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