Fox in the Penalty Area

After Hu Lai returned to China with the team, this time he did not return to Jincheng with Wang Guangwei and Zhang Qinghuan, and continued to train with Shining Star.

Instead, they stayed in the mountains and seas.

He wants to wait for someone here, and then go to the United States together.

He didn't even leave the airport, just waited in the airport.

Because they agreed, he only needs to wait two more hours at the airport before he can meet the person he is waiting for.

When Li Qingqing, who had been dressed in disguise, saw Hu Lai who had also been dressed in disguise at the pick-up port, she laughed—although most of her face was covered by a mask, Hu Lai could still see her curved eyes. Crescent eyes.

"I watched the game, although you didn't score, but Hu Lai, your performance is really good!"

As soon as they met, Li Qingqing praised Hu Lai's performance in the game, which was also a kind of comfort.

Hu Lai had some regrets: "It would be great if that goal was scored, and we won't just score one point."

What he was talking about was the attack in the 89th minute. His header was shot at a tricky angle, but it was still saved by the opponent's goalkeeper Barres.

This goalkeeper had confronted him in the Premier League.

Leeds City drew 1-1 with West Hertz in that game, he didn't score, Barres was also very good in the game, conceding only one goal, allowing West Hertz to draw with Leeds at home city.

"No matter how good you are, you can't guarantee that you will score every goal. It's pretty good to get a point in an away game." Li Qingqing comforted him.

The two of them did not go to Shanhai city from the airport, but found a hotel near the airport to stay.

Early the next morning they were going to the United States on a plane with booked tickets.

This time they went to sign with Nike.

Song Jiajia has already helped them negotiate the sponsorship contract.

The two of them officially signed with Nike and became the spokespersons of the Nike brand.

The two parties signed a five-year contract.

Li Qingqing earns 3 million RMB from Nike every year just for the endorsement fee.

In addition, there are reward terms: if Li Qingqing wins the Champions League with the team, he will also receive an additional one million RMB bonus. If she can win Miss Asian Football, she will be rewarded another one million, and if she wins Miss World Football, she will be rewarded an additional five million.

Judging from these figures, the conditions that Song Jiajia talked about to her former classmates are very generous.

In the Chinese women's football team, it is the highest-level endorsement contract.

Looking at the national women's football players, no one can sign a better endorsement contract than Li Qingqing.

Even looking at the entire Chinese football world, if there is no Hu Lai, Li Qingqing will be the biggest endorsement contract.

The reason why there is no Hu Lai is because Hu Lai's endorsement contract is even more exaggerated.

It is also a five-year endorsement contract, but the annual endorsement fee is as high as 8 million yuan. There is also a reward clause. If Hu Lai wins the Premier League championship, he will be rewarded with an additional one million euros... Yes, you read that right, the currency unit is euros, not renminbi.

The reward of this Premier League championship alone is almost worth the principal of the endorsement fee.

In addition, if Hu Lai can win the European Championship (one of the Champions League and the Europa League), another two million euros will be rewarded.

At the same time, if Hu Lai can get the Asian Footballer (or the equivalent Asian best overseas player), he will be rewarded with 500,000 euros.

Won the European Golden Globe Award, three million euros.

World Footballer, five million euros.

In fact, Nike can't understand why Song Jiajia wants to negotiate these terms with them. Although they are optimistic about Hu Lai's potential, it is too exaggerated to say that they will win the World Footballer and the European Ballon d'Or within five years.

As for team honors such as Premier League champions and European champions, as long as he is still in Leeds City, I am afraid it will be difficult.

They signed Hu Lai mainly because they were optimistic about his appeal in the Chinese market, and they didn't really care much about his athletic performance.

But Song Jiajia emphasized that one of these clauses must be included, and all of them must be added, otherwise the discussion will be avoided.

And not only Hu Lai was exempted from the discussion, but Li Qingqing was also exempted from the discussion.

Song Jiajia directly told Nike that Hu Lai and Li Qingqing were one, and if they wanted to sign a contract, they should sign together, otherwise they would not sign at all.

The reason why he is so confident is naturally because not only Nike is interested in Hu Lai, but also his old rival Adidas.

Maybe they will pay less than Nike... No, now that Adidas is gradually being replaced by Nike in the Chinese market, maybe they will be willing to spend more money to sign Hu Lai and seize the Chinese market share.

Therefore, Song Jiajia is not worried at all that Nike will give up signing Hu Lai.

As for whether these terms can really be fulfilled, Song Jiajia doesn't care.

His purpose is simple: don't care if I use it or not, you have to have it!

This is a symbol of status and status.

If these things are not included in the endorsement contract, how can it be worthy of being the most famous and popular top card in Chinese football?

What Nike thinks is, anyway, if Hu Lai doesn't get these honors, we don't have to pay a penny, and there is actually no loss. And if Hu Lai really gets these honors, then Nike is willing to pay the money, because the success of the signed players will in turn promote Nike's brand image. They would have liked to sign those successful pros and let everyone know that the best players on the planet would choose to join the Nike camp.

In the end, the two parties reached an agreement. Hu Lai and Li Qingqing were notified to go to the Nike headquarters in Portland, USA to sign a contract. After signing the contract, they shot the advertising video there.

for about ten days.

After filming, the two of them can go directly to Europe to prepare for the new season without returning to China.

The itinerary of this holiday is so full, so they can complete the achievement of circling the earth.

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After transiting in San Francisco, after about fifteen hours of flying, Hu Lai and Li Qingqing finally arrived in Portland.

At the airport, they met Song Jiajia, Yong Jun who came to greet them, and Li Qingqing's manager Rebecca Royeia.

This was the first time that Hu Lai met Li Qingqing's exclusive manager.

She has short brown hair and looks particularly capable with a professional suit.

Song Jiajia said that Li Qingqing's endorsement contract, which is the top endorsement contract in Chinese football besides him, was negotiated by this female agent.

It can be seen how outstanding the ability is.

"Nice to meet you, Mr. Hu." When Rebecca saw Hu Lai, she reached out to him and greeted him with a smile.

"It's nice to meet you too, Ms. Royeia." Hu Lai was polite.

In addition to these three people from Champion Legend Sports Agency, they were also greeted by Nike's staff in charge of their signing, a vice president, which shows how much this world-renowned sports brand company attaches importance to them.

"Welcome to Portland, the journey has been hard!" The vice president shook hands with Hu Lai and Li Qingqing respectively.

Then the group took several cars to go to the hotel to stay.

The next day, I went to Nike headquarters for the signing ceremony.

After signing the contract, it was commercial shooting.

The itinerary is very full.

There is no way to do this, after all, they are all here for business, not for sightseeing.

In addition to signing contracts and shooting commercials, they have to find time to accept interviews with Chinese and foreign media.

It can be said that, except for the sleeping time, which belongs to them, other time has been arranged.

In the past, the leisure days of not caring about anything after playing football disappeared all of a sudden, and they still need to get used to it a little bit.

After listening to the itinerary in the car, Li Qingqing frowned: "It's really hard to be a star..."

When they played football in China before, they were already public figures, but the degree of attention and busyness at that time was completely incomparable with today's.

She turned her head and saw Hu Lai who was sitting next to her, and laughed again: "But when the sky fell, there was a tall man holding it up. You are tall now, Hu Lai!"

Of Li Qingqing and Hu Lai, of course Li Qingqing was more famous in the past. When Hu Lai was still playing in the high school team, Li Qingqing had become the youngest international player in the history of Chinese women's football. When Hu Lai was still fighting for promotion in the Chinese A team, he had already represented the Chinese team in the Women's World Cup. When Hu Lai was still in the country, Li Qingqing became the first Chinese player to go abroad after Qin Lin to study abroad in Europe. When Hu Lai was not known to many people, Li Qingqing was already well-known as the "Goddess of Football" with many fans, and she was able to turn the away game into her home game.

Now the fame and status of the two are reversed, and Hu Lai's reputation is getting stronger and stronger, and has already overwhelmed Li Qingqing.

It's not that Li Qingqing has lost his temper, Li Qingqing's popularity is still at a very high level, it's just that Hu Lai's popularity has risen faster, as if he was on a rocket, surpassing Li Qingqing all at once.

And in terms of height, Hu Lai is now the tallest of the two.

"All right, I'll cover you, and you'll hang out with me from now on." Hu Lai gave Li Qingqing a white look, and said in a big brother's tone.

Song Jiajia, who was sitting in the co-pilot, listened to the jokes of the two classmates in the back seat, and laughed.

The three of them have had the best relationship since high school.

But there are many good friends from the student days, after entering the society, they gradually drifted away, and eventually became strangers, only met by chance at the class reunion more than ten years later.

It is always more cherished that the three of them can be reunited after they leave the campus like now.

Hope we can keep going like this...

Song Jiajia said silently in her heart.

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"...Hu Lai, a Chinese player, and Li Qingqing, a female football player, officially signed a contract with Nike at the headquarters of Nike in Portland, USA, and became the image spokespersons of this world-renowned sports brand... It is reported that this is the first time that Nike has spent a huge amount of money to sign a contract with Nike. With Chinese football players as spokespersons, there were only Chinese basketball stars in the past...Hu Lai and Li Qingqing, two outstanding Chinese football men and women, were able to sign a contract to become the image spokesperson of Nike, which caused a sensation. It is reported that the endorsement fees of the two are not Same, but sky-high prices in their respective fields..."

The two security guards in the guard room of Dongchuan Middle School watched the news on TV and were stunned.

They looked at each other:

"The sky-high price... How much should it be?"

"Let's talk...a million, right?" the older man guessed.

"One million?" The younger one's eyes widened. "A million dollars is a sky-high price? What is one million worth now?"

While the two were talking, they saw Li Ziqiang walking from the outside.

One of them leaned out half of the body directly from the window, and the other got up and walked to the door, saying hello to Li Ziqiang: "Coach Li, congratulations!"

"Ah?" Li Ziqiang was at a loss, not knowing what the two school security guards were doing to congratulate him.

"I heard that your daughter signed a sky-high sponsorship contract..."

Li Ziqiang knew what was going on as soon as he heard it, and he waved his hand: "Oh, the media is talking nonsense to attract attention. The sky-high price is all blown out for the sake of it."

The two security guards were taken aback: "Ah, fake?"

"What commercial value can women's football have?" Li Ziqiang spread his hands, "Don't listen to the media's nonsense, they dare to say anything to attract attention."

"Really not high?" The security guard still didn't give up.

"It must be higher than the annual income of ordinary salaried workers, but it is also limited." After Li Ziqiang explained, he stopped chatting with them and walked straight into the campus.

Looking at his back, the two security guards couldn't help wondering how credible Li Ziqiang's words were.

"I think it's true in all likelihood. If it's really expensive, why is Coach Li still working as a coach in our school? Isn't it good to retire with so much money?"

"Maybe he just likes to be the school team coach? And whatever it is, what does it have to do with us?"

"That's right. Oh, if I can have it too... don't say too much, one million a year would be great!"

"Promise! Let me tell you that a million dollars is nothing now, what can you buy..."

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Li Ziqiang didn't know what the security guards were talking about him behind his back, and he didn't care about that issue either.

He knew about the fact that his daughter and Hu Lai signed with Nike at the same time much earlier than the news - he learned about it from her when she came home the earliest.

In fact, compared with how much money his daughter makes, he cares more about his daughter and Hu Lai signing with Nike at the same time and appearing in the news at the same time.

This is equivalent to binding the images of the two people together again.

When many people talk about Hu Lai, they will mention Li Qingqing. On the other hand, when Li Qingqing was mentioned, Hu Lai would definitely be mentioned.

Li Ziqiang was a little depressed, but he could only choose to accept it.

In fact, as early as his daughter signed a contract with Song Jiajia's sports company and belonged to the same brokerage company as Hu Lai, he should have known that this day would definitely come.

It's just that he didn't expect to come so soon...

This shows what?

Explain that some things are independent of his wishes.

Thinking of this, Li Ziqiang became even more depressed.

Whether he likes it or not, facts are facts.

The truth is... alas!

Li Ziqiang sighed in his heart, shook his head and walked into the stadium of Dongchuan Middle School.