Chapter 740 A friend in need is a friend indeed?
"Filming with Liu Qianqian?"
"Is it the fairy I saw on TV?!"
"Captain, are you kidding?"< br>
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In Beijing, just a few days after the acquisition, the original Hengxiang Racing Team's humble office had not even had time to change the sign at the club's entrance.
Whether it was the only two staff members who were part-time technicians or the several main players who were assisting in packing their luggage, their movements stopped when they heard captain Li Fuyu announce the matter.
“What nonsense are you talking about? Am I going to fool you again?” Li Fuyu himself couldn’t believe it when he received the call.
I never expected that things would go so smoothly after I returned to China to develop my career.
Because of the 2-year suspension.
Unable to participate in professional competitions, he chose to return to China for development. Since joining the team, he has taken the lead in attracting some sponsorships. After successfully registering the intercontinental team in the UCI, he never thought that he would be spotted by the famous HYS.
HYS, although not as good as Red Bull, has sponsored many extreme sports.
But Li Fuyu, who often trains in Europe, knows the strength of HYS.
It goes without saying that in the football field, a Premier League club with a long history has just won the title of Liverpool.
It goes without saying that the UTMB event has attracted much attention.
Let’s just talk about the acquisition of the AG2R team, which is closely related to his original career.
This is enough to see HYS’s ambition in sports brand building.
Although the overall strength of this team is relatively average and lacks drivers with outstanding personal abilities, it began to rise to prominence in 2008, finishing second overall in the Tour de France that year.
In 2009, he even topped the overall score in multiple stages.
It was originally rumored that Decathlon was very interested in acquiring this French team with rich heritage.
As a result, HYS was one step ahead.
"Captain, can we get an autograph when we go?" the young player Wang Meiyin asked with a grin.
"It should be no problem."
Li Fuyu is not sure.
But according to the person responsible for contacting him, the crew not only provided accommodation with the same treatment as the main actors, but also had vehicles specially responsible for transporting them.
The point is, participating in the shoot isn't free yet.
It is paid.
"Waiting for their director to come over and sign the contract with everyone, you must take the time to tidy up and don't embarrass our team."
Li Fuyu said this, everyone in the team The boys felt nervous instantly.
I need to sign a contract.
What should I do if my handwriting is ugly?
If you want to become a professional driver, you basically start professional training from a young age.
The youngest player in the team today, even though he is only 21 years old, he already has nearly 7 years of competition experience.
"What are you afraid of? It's not like you haven't signed the contract before!" Seeing them all acting cowardly, Li Fuyu was furious.
A few days ago, they just signed a new contract designated by HYS.
After being acquired, where has the treatment been most significantly changed?
Although they haven't visited the new club yet, the treatment is really obvious.
Do road cyclists make money?
I'm sorry to say, but it's the same as most sports. The income of the top players is something that the bottom athletes are disappointed with.
Even if you are an average Tour de France rider.
A salary + bonus of US$40,000-200,000 per year is by no means easily obtainable.
What's more, most of the players in Hengxiang Team are still at the level of top amateur players, and their real income may not be as valuable as one of their competition cars in a year.
It can even be said.
The value of the bicycle Xiangyang lost at the airport could cover the original personnel expenses of the Hengxiang team for a year.
The reason for this is simple.
One is that the ability caused by the level of training cannot reach the competitive level of professional drivers, and the other is the lack of professional competition opportunities.
In addition, the club has just been established, and the huge investment in cars has made the club itself financially strapped. How can it possibly give a decent salary?
After HYS acquired the team, the first thing it did was to arrange for the coaches and managers of the AG2R team to come over to inspect the existing personnel of the team.
Then, it is time to sign a professional contract.
Although in terms of structure, the AG2R-HYS team and the Hengxiang-HYS team are on the same level, they are both separate clubs.
But at the management level of specific affairs, Hengxiang belongs to the AG2R team.
Participated in small professional cycling competitions around the world, coordinated by the AG2R team.
Even the top teams in the Tour de France will participate in this kind of competition specifically to cultivate reserve drivers.
Because not all drivers can be on the biggest competitive stage.
Competitions such as the Giro d'Italia and Tour de France are often attended by the team's main drivers. Each team has only 9 people plus 3 substitutes.
But the AG2R team has 18 drivers.
Hengxiang Racing Team has 10 people including Li Fuyu who cannot compete.
In order to better train domestic professional drivers, Xiangyang simply assigned the specific affairs in this area to the AG2R team for special management.
It’s not that he was messing around.
Firstly, this can ensure the opportunity for domestic players to participate in the competition.
After all, AG2R's substitute players participate in many competitions. Paying one registration fee is also a payment, and paying two registration fees is also a payment.
Secondly, this can intuitively make the coach of the AG2R team, who is a Tour de France team, pay attention to this team formed by Chinese athletes.
Competing with the second team on the same field, if Hengxiang Racing Team performs better by then, what does that mean?
It shows that Chinese road cyclists have the ability to join the Tour de France team and even participate in top competitions.
Even if he is not the main general, he is just the deputy general in certain stages.
This can improve their appearance rate.
But the most important thing is to cultivate the tacit understanding between the two teams and the drivers.
In road cycling competitions, although the leader has great success, without a well-coordinated team, no matter how capable an individual is, he cannot achieve his best results in all stages.
It is very simple for Xiang Yang to directly designate a "parachute" to join the AG2R team, but when this team member arrives in the new team, he cannot communicate and understand the tactical coordination. What is the point?
Increase the advertising effect of the brand in the competition?
I'm sorry to say that the Rabbit player's tactics are also very important to the team as a whole.
So first solve the worries of athletes’ income, give them a guaranteed income, and then provide more competition opportunities to increase their exposure.
When the level of competition improves, their commercial value will naturally be gradually reflected. This concept of cultivating the club's brand value and its own commercial development is actually the MCO that will be widely used in the development of football clubs in the future.
The arrangement Xiang Yang made was nothing more than taking it and incorporating it into the sport of cycling.
In fact, the earliest MCO can be traced back to the Pozzo family in Italy, or a company called ENIC.
It’s just that the purposes of each business are different.
Xiang Yang’s approach is closer to Red Bull, which owns many cross-continental clubs.
Because from the perspective of business strategy, the purposes of the two are very similar. They are more considering using the success in this sport to benefit brand promotion.
After all, whether it is the AG2R team, the Hengxiang team, or even the historical giants of the Premier League, in Xiangyang's view, they are all new marketing tools.
no way.
HYS is worth more than all of them put together.
Not long after, the crew who came to the capital for the special trip had not yet arrived, and the AG2R team’s commissioner responsible for coordinating the two clubs took the lead in arriving at the club that was being packed and cleaned.
Looking at the boxes piled up at the door, there are also team members who are professionally packing bicycles.
With a translator, he clapped his hands and said, "Li, come here, I have good news to share with you."
"Good news?"
Li Fuyu understood French and was immediately ready to gather the team members.
"Your new car is coming, I received the call before coming."
"New car?!"
For a time, the messy interior was no longer there. People were discussing how to get an autograph from Liu Qianqian, and everyone looked at the foreigner.
"That's right, your next competition car will have the same configuration as our main AR2R team. Congratulations to you guys, this call was delivered personally by Mr. MR. Xiang."
Then, he turned to Li Fuyu said: "I'll tell you the good news."
"Xiang, you said we finally came back. Why do we have to ride a bicycle if we don't have a good rest at home?"
Relaxed Little John was pedaling and even chose a pair of handsome cycling glasses while complaining to his friends.
He heard people say that anyone who rides a bicycle well should wear white cycling clothes.
For this reason, he even chose white for his helmet.
"If you really have the strength and don't go out, I'll ask Macron to come out, and we can find someone to make an appointment for a football match."
"What kind of football? We play all day long. Just doing it with football? Besides, I didn’t even bring out my phone, how can I make a call?”
Xiang Yang is also dressed in white.
The color of clothes is actually an embellishment.
He was not riding very fast, so he occasionally put down the pedals to rest his arms.
After riding for half an hour, he discovered that road bicycles not only hurt the butt, but also made the shoulders uncomfortable after a long period of time.
But the professional-grade cycling equipment worn by the two looked very unusual to people passing by.
I have never seen someone riding such a good road bike wearing travel shoes.
Road bikes still need to be equipped with lock pedals.
Especially when he was wearing such a tight-fitting cycling suit
The reason why he went out for a ride was for one purpose only.
Xiang Yang wanted to give Liu Qianqian a little surprise.
Although, he originally had a cameo scene in "Space Traveler". But in order to catch up with the two of them for the first time, he decided to move the scene without permission.
No one except Little John knew about this.
Why is it on camera but not out?
Why do you have to follow Liu Qianqian’s ideas in everything?
Men still have to have a temper.
"There is a nice cafe in front. Let's sit down and have a rest?" Little John, who was riding side by side with Xiangyang, turned to ask.
After riding for half an hour, he was thirsty but not thirsty.
After all, in Xiangyang’s home, all the equipment specifically for cycling is available.
How could there not be a kettle?
But my butt hurts
"Okay, let's take a rest." Xiangyang nodded, propped himself up and looked forward, and found that the coffee shop Little John mentioned was not far away. He kicked hard.
Little John, who was thrown away off guard, shouted: "Wait for me, Xiang!"
But after two steps, he discovered.
That’s not right!
The back pocket of Xiangyang's cycling jersey was empty
Subconsciously, he dug into the pocket behind him, but there was nothing.
He then remembered that the two of them got off the plane and went directly to Xiang Yang's house in a car arranged by the company. After confirming with the entrusting company responsible for cleaning and taking care of the flowers and plants during this period that there was no problem, they changed The clothes are out.
It was the first time that they wore such professional equipment, and neither of them noticed things like mobile phones and wallets.
"How about I run away first?"
Little John, who stopped chasing, looked at Xiang Yang's back and thought about it.
Swiping your face is such a thing.
Easy to say but not nice to hear.
It's impossible to give up your car to someone just for two cups of coffee.
That would be a big loss.
These two bicycles can be sold for a lot of money.
I was actually reluctant to part with such an expensive bicycle. When I caught up with Xiang Yang who had already arrived at the door of the coffee shop and was about to leave in embarrassment, Little John said very honestly:
"Sweep your face. It’s up to me to do this kind of thing”
Hearing this, Xiang Yang was a little moved.
There is indeed true love in this world.
This relationship is not in vain.
"Why are you so polite to me?" With that, Little John got off the bicycle, "Help me get off the bike, and give me your water bottle."
"You What do you want this for?”
Xiang Yang offered his hand, curious.
“Let me ask first if there is free coffee.”
(End of this chapter)