Chapter 375: Play in Tokyo and visit in Beijing

For Asian football, the most noteworthy game this year is naturally the top ten matches of the World Cup Asian qualifiers in mid-August and late October. Especially this second stop of the gold rush trip of Leiden Oriental, China regards this top ten matches as extremely important. Before participating in the top ten matches, it naturally became the best way to exercise - the Chinese team is likely to participate in the World Cup this time. Japan and South Korea do not need to participate in the qualifiers because they are hosts. In the group, they avoided the two top ten teams Iran and Saudi Arabia, so the whole country is naturally full of confidence.

However, Leiden Oriental's first stop this time is Japan. As one of the hosts of next year's World Cup, Japan naturally attaches great importance to this World Cup. It is said that they have continuously warmed up several top national teams next year. Similarly, Leiden Oriental will also be an important opponent for their warm-up. Although it is just an ordinary friendly match, Japan has already put forward requirements, hoping that Leiden Oriental can send all the main players to play at least the full half-time game, rather than sending substitutes and second-tier players to perfunctorily.

Xiao Ming naturally agreed to this. Although he came to Asia this time to make gold, it is also very important for the team to exercise before the season. The intensive games and continuous itinerary allow players to adapt to the intensive schedule that is destined to be next season in advance.

Although he will also give all players a chance to play, he will never let the players be perfunctory in the game. After the wealthy families came to Asia in their previous lives, they made purely money-making less enthusiastic about Asian fans. Xiao Ming will not repeat their mistakes and treat the warm-up matches with a rigorous approach and a responsible attitude, which will make Leiden Oriental’s impression of Asia better.

He came to make money, but he didn't plan to make a fortune and leave - Xiao Ming was looking at the long-term.

After coming to Japan, Leiden Oriental soon felt the feeling of coming to Japan to play the Toyota Cup in the middle of last season. When picking up the plane, a large number of Japanese fans came to pick up the plane wearing Leiden Oriental jerseys and various products. At Xiao Ming's request, Leiden Oriental players were still patiently signing autographs for these fans despite traveling a long distance.

Xiao Ming doesn't like Japanese people, but he won't make money from Japanese people because of his preferences and has no good looks on them. In this world, you have to have some professional ethics to do anything.

On the first day of coming to Japan, Leiden Oriental did not start training, but had a good rest for a day. The next day, they collectively went to the store that will open on the most prosperous streets of Tokyo to support it. This is the most important part of the itinerary. The stores on the streets of Tokyo occupy a huge area. All the products are sent directly from the UK, and there is no difference between the products of Leiden Oriental fans who can be bought directly in London. In terms of price, due to tariffs, it is more expensive than buying in London. However, because Leiden Oriental's current fame and Figo, Jin Kraze, Daniel and Fanny in the team have extremely high popularity in Japanese fans, so no one thinks these products are expensive.

Xiao Ming also found it a bit incredible that Daniel has extremely high popularity in the hearts of Japanese fans. However, as a mixed-race Chinese, Daniel's achievements can be said to be no worse than any star. The two Champions League champions and becoming a regular in the English national team made his fame no worse than anyone else. The scandal with Britney, the world pop music queen, which was exposed some time ago, made him famous for his timeless reputation, and it was naturally normal to be very popular.

Seeing the store full of crowds but orderly, Xiao Ming nodded with satisfaction. He could naturally see how much profit such a store would bring every day - Schindler was responsible for these things. Obviously, his performance made Xiao Ming quite satisfied.

On the third day, Leiden East started physical training before the game, which also attracted countless fans to watch. Xiao Ming was very kind and did not charge tickets when he was training publicly like Real Madrid in later generations. He just told the Japanese side that any fan could watch Leiden East's training outside the training ground. All this is free, but no loud noises are allowed, no interference with the team's training, and no flashing cameras are allowed to affect the players...

Xiao Ming's requirements are very reasonable. Japan also arranged for extremely powerful preservation personnel to patrol the locations they train. Once someone makes a loud noise, they will be invited out politely, but such things rarely happen.

On the fourth day, it was Leiden Oriental's turn to play a warm-up match with the Japanese national team. The location of the competition was very familiar to Leiden Oriental - Tokyo National Arena...

This time, the Japanese national team attaches great importance to the friendly match with Leiden Oriental. Players like Nakada Eisu, who plays in Europe, are also in the team. All the main players who have just participated in the Federation Cup have played. The Japanese team, which has won the runner-up of the Federation Cup, is quite good. In addition to Hidesu Nakada, Junichi Inomoto and Shinoji Ono have also signed with Arsenal and Feyenoord of the Eredivisie respectively, and are about to compete in the European League.

Xiao Ming's words before the start of the game were very simple: "Japan requires all our main players to face them, so let them see the gap between Asian football and European football... Don't give me face, just play whatever you should."

Since the boss has spoken, the players have to execute it. In the first half of today, Xiao Ming fulfilled his promise. The main players of last season all played on the court. Goalkeepers Yass Kleinen, defenders Daniel, Ashley Cole, Hypia, Deselli, midfielders Marklele, Gerald, Jinklaze, Figo, and the forwards changed slightly. Fanny and Phillips played as a forward, and all three new players sat on the bench.

Although there was no time to get in touch before the start of this season, the lineup was already extremely skilled in cooperating last season. Leiden Oriental's tactics were not too complicated. The two sides kept putting pressure on them, and then the players in the middle formed the final blow.

Shortly after the game started, the Japanese national team was able to compete with Leiden Oriental by relying on the midfield. They have been learning the style of Brazilian football for a long time, but at least they are quite good at midfield skills and control. Leiden Oriental has been distracted for a long time and is inevitably underestimated by the opponent. For a while, they are even more comparable to the opponent in the midfield.

However, the chronic disease of the Japanese national team still exists, that is, the weak forward line. Although the forward line of Masashi Nakayama and Atsushi Yanagawa is already good in Asia, they cannot find any opportunity when facing the defense line of Leiden East.

Leighton East, who gradually adapted to the opponent's playing style, began to continuously form suppression from the two sides. Figo's sharp breakthrough and Jinklaze's exquisite extraordinary made the opponent's side miserable.

After the midfield suppression was formed, the game was the world of Leiden East.

Jinklaze first used a series of exquisite superb shaking to make the opponent's defense lineman turn over, and then his pass was caught by the agile Fanny, and a light shot shot, setting the first record for Leiden East.

Then Leiden East's number one star Figo expanded the lead to two goals with a direct free kick. The stands were thunderous, and Figo really had many fans in Japan...

In the next game, the Japanese team could only slightly compete with Leiden Oriental in the midfield. The difference between Asian football and European football is still quite large. What's more, the Japanese team did not train for a long time. After the Federation Cup, their players were on holiday. Like Leiden Oriental, they were temporarily concentrated.

Before the end of the first half, Daniel, who stepped forward to assist, inserted it and knocked the ball to Gerald. Gerald scored a long shot, three to zero.

After the start of the second half, Xiao Ming began to make frequent substitutions, and the entire main lineup was basically replaced. Klose broke through on the front line, while Ronaldo was arranged on the left and Glenshare on the right. Behind them were Djokav, Pirlo and Tovdin, Campbell and Perth played as a center back, the two full-backs were Garney and Sun Jihai, and the goalkeeper was also replaced by Paul Gerald.

This lineup is much worse than the main lineup. The three new players have never cooperated with Leiden East players. Campbell is fine, but it's just defense. Ronaldo has used his personal skills to create many opportunities after receiving the ball. Pirlo is a bit miserable. He doesn't get many balls in the midfield. If he didn't cooperate with Djokkaf, it would be like he disappeared on the court.

However, even so, Leiden East made the Japanese national team not get anything good. Glenshare broke through and helped Klose header to score. The Japanese national team only relied on a long shot from Nakada Hidesu before the end of the game to regain some face.

Japan is quite satisfied with the result of this game. Leiden Oriental's main player really played with the Japanese national team in half, and left some face for Japan in the second half. For the fans on the scene, they saw the performances of these big-name stars at close range, and their national team performed very poorly. They once suppressed the double championship, which is rare.

In fact, even if they know that during most of the game, Leiden Oriental players didn't pay much attention to the game, they didn't care much. In the friendly matches, they still put all their efforts in many cases, and they didn't have any arrogant airs when doing business activities...

That night, all the players of Leiden Oriental who had just played the game appeared in one of the best hotels in Tokyo. This is also one of the links of a series of commercial activities. For the players, such activities are quite comfortable. They are nothing more than attending well-dressed, having a buffet, and seeing the beautiful guest ladies...

Speaking of the guest ladies, the Japanese Football Association has indeed spared no effort. Fujiwara Nobuka and Utada Hikaru all appeared in the live performance, which also attracted the players of Leiden Oriental to constantly comment on the court. Of course, the topic is more about who is beautiful than Britney or these Japanese stars...

The next day, Leiden East ended its trip to Japan, set off from Narita Airport, and flew directly to Beijing, China.

Whether in his past or present life, although Xiao Ming is a standard Chinese, he rarely has any connection with China. Although he has not interrupted Chinese education when he was at home since childhood, he is still very unfamiliar with China.

Xiao Ming's hometown is a coastal town in Fujian. He still speaks a few Minnan dialect that most Chinese people cannot understand. However, this is the second time he has come to China except for the last time because he wanted to introduce Sun Jihai.

Beijing and the Chinese Football Association also attach great importance to the double champion Leiden Oriental coming to China to play commercial competitions. The Walthamsto area where Leiden Oriental is located is part of the Greater London area, while London and Beijing are friendly cities. After Hong Kong returned to China three years ago, the relationship between the United Kingdom and China was in a good atmosphere. Leiden Oriental was also very popular after coming to Beijing.

In the past few days after coming to China, Leiden East has been experiencing the scenery of Beijing. You should know that even Xiao Ming has never been to these places. Perhaps the one who is most familiar to Beijing by the whole team is Sun Jihai.

So in the past few days, Sun Jihai basically assumed the responsibility of a tour guide, leading the whole team to play wildly in Beijing, the Great Wall, the Forbidden City, the Summer Palace, the Thirteen Tombs... For these emperors, empires, the greatest buildings, etc., the players of Leiden Oriental have shown great enthusiasm. They wore ordinary T-shirts, sunglasses and hats, and appeared in major attractions in Beijing all day. Fortunately, foreigners visiting Beijing every day, and the players of Leiden Oriental have also covered themselves well, so that the fans did not discover it and watched them.

On the way these days, Xiao Ming also found that many Beijing fans were wearing Leiden Oriental jerseys. After all, it was summer now, and many people were wearing jerseys on the streets. In addition to most fans wearing Chinese national team jerseys and Beijing Guoan jerseys, Leiden Oriental also occupies a considerable share of the jerseys of foreign clubs.

However, Xiao Ming just smiled bitterly at this. Leiden Oriental's specialty store in Beijing has not yet opened. Where did these jerseys come from...

The worst thing is that when I passed by a certain audio and video store, there was a commemorative album of Leiden Oriental's championship. This album has only been released in England for less than a month and has not been released in mainland China at all. When Xiao Ming took it, he found that it was still "official" produced...

Fortunately, Xiao Ming opened a specialty store in mainland China just to ensure that he could guarantee his capital and make a promotional purpose, otherwise he would have to be so depressed that he vomited blood.

But then again, Chinese fans are not yet able to form a genuine consciousness to a certain extent, and they have no way to buy these genuine fan supplies. You should know that after online shopping and major clubs opened regular stores in China, the business of these stores was quite good. More fans were complaining about the lack of goods in these stores. They ran all the way to buy the items they like...

After all, the Chinese fan market is quite huge. Even if only one-tenth of people buy genuine products, the profit margin is very large. A genuine scarf is dozens of times large and the cost is less than one-third, and countless fans are still flocking to it.

The development of the Internet has also played a huge role in it. In various fan communities, there are always many fans showing their authentic products. With such people, more people will also attract to buy these products - in fact, college students and white-collar workers are the main force in purchasing these products.

After playing comfortably for three days, Leiden Oriental began its own training. This training was the same as in Japan. Xiao Ming also made three requirements - no fan watched Leiden Oriental's open training outside the training ground, but no noise, no impact on Leiden Oriental's training, and no camera with flash lights to interfere with the players' training. However, after a day of training, the rational performance of Chinese fans also surprised Xiao Ming. He almost did not make noise, and there were not many fans taking photos.

Later, Xiao Ming learned that the fans who watched Leiden Oriental training at that time had been screened. They basically applied in advance and signed and agreed before they were allowed to enter the venue to watch Leiden Oriental training. This answer made Xiao Ming speechless.

Two days before the match against the Chinese national team, Schindler found Xiao Ming.

"Boss, China Central Television's Sports Channel hopes to invite you, Daniel and Sun Jihai to participate in the recording of a program, the name is "Double Crown in China."

"Why don't you say it in advance? The itinerary should have been arranged in advance." Xiao Ming asked a little strangely.

Schindler shrugged.

"How did I know? There was no such statement before... But it's nothing to participate in a program. It's just a part of the host's questioning and interaction with fans. If you perform well, with the coverage of CCTV, we may be able to make our reputation bigger without any loss... but there is no appearance fee."

"The last time I invited me to do a show, I had a show fee. We also made a lot of money in Japan a few days ago. Could it be that these guys think that asking us to do a show is to give us face? The arrogant and stupid x, I really think of me as a country bumpkin."

Xiao Ming cursed, then nodded: "Okay, I will bring Daniel and Sun to attend then."

Schindler laughed, saying that he was also dissatisfied with the practice of not applying for the Sports Channel in advance and requesting it temporarily. However, using the Sports Channel carrier is indeed more beneficial to the promotion of Leiden Oriental, which is an indisputable fact.
Chapter completed!