After Hu Lai returned to China with the team, this time he did not follow Wang Guangwei, Zhang Qinghuan and the others and returned to Jincheng to continue training with Flash Star.
Instead, he stayed in Shanhai.
He wants to wait for someone here and then go to the United States together.
He didn't even leave the airport, he just waited in the airport.
Because they had agreed, he only had to wait two more hours at the airport to meet the person he was waiting for.
When Li Qingqing, who had dressed up in disguise, saw Hu Lai, who had also dressed up in disguise, at the airport, she laughed. Although most of her face was covered by a mask, Hu Lai could still see her curved pair of eyes.
Crescent moon's eyes.
"I watched the game. Although I didn't score a goal, Hu Lai, your performance was really good!"
As soon as they met, Li Qingqing praised Hu Lai's performance in the game and was also a comfort.
Hu Lai had some regrets: "If only that goal had been scored, we wouldn't have just scored one point."
He was talking about the attack in the 89th minute. His header was from a very awkward angle, but it was saved by the opponent's goalkeeper Barres.
He had played against this goalkeeper before in the Premier League.
In that game, Leeds City and West Herts drew 1:1. He did not score. Barres also performed well in the game and only conceded one goal, allowing West Herts 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 already good to get a point in an away game." Li Qingqing comforted him.
The two of them did not go from the airport to Shanhai City, but found a hotel near the airport to stay.
They would take a booked flight to the United States early the next morning.
This time they went to sign a contract with Nike.
Song Jiajia has helped them negotiate a 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.
In terms of endorsement fees alone, Li Qingqing can earn 3 million yuan in income from Nike every year. There are also bonus provisions: if Li Qingqing wins the Champions League with the team, she will also receive an additional 1 million yuan in bonuses. If she can win the Asian Football Miss,
Another reward of one million will be awarded to Miss World Football and an additional reward of five million.
Judging from these figures, the conditions Song Jiajia offered to her former classmates were very generous.
In the Chinese women's football team, it is the highest-level endorsement contract.
Looking at the national female football players, no one can sign a better endorsement contract than Li Qingqing.
Even looking at the entire Chinese football world, if it were not for Hu Lai, Li Qingqing would have the largest endorsement contract.
The reason why I say there is no Hu Lai is because the endorsement contract Hu Lai received 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, an additional reward of 1 million euros... Yes, you read that right, currency unit
It's the euro, not the yuan.
The reward of this Premier League championship alone is almost worth the principal of the endorsement fee.
In addition, if Hulay can win the European championship (one of the Champions League and Europa League), he will be rewarded with another two million euros.
At the same time, if Hu Lai can win the Asian Footballer of the Year (or the equivalent Best Overseas Player in Asia), he will be awarded 500,000 euros.
Won the European Ballon d'Or, three million euros.
World Footballer of the Year, 5 million euros.
In fact, Nike can't understand why Song Jiajia negotiated these terms with them. Although they are optimistic about Hu Lai's potential, it is really an exaggeration to say that he will win the World Footballer and the European Ballon d'Or within five years.
As for team honors such as the Premier League championship and the European Championship, 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 actually didn't care much about his competitive performance.
However, Song Jiajia emphasized that none of these clauses should be missing, and all of them must be added, otherwise there would be no need to discuss them.
And not only Hu Lai is exempted from discussion, but Li Qingqing is also exempted from discussion.
Song Jiajia directly told Nike that Hu Lai and Li Qingqing were one and the same. If they wanted to sign a contract, they should sign it together, otherwise they would not sign it at all.
The reason why he is so confident is naturally because not only Nike is interested in Hu Lai, but also his old enemy 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 that Nike will give up signing Hu Lai.
As for whether these terms can actually be honored, Song Jiajia doesn't care.
His purpose is simple: You don’t care whether 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 he be worthy of being the most famous and popular number one player in Chinese football?
What Nike thinks is that if Hu Lai doesn't get these honors anyway, 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 also willing to pay the money.
, because the success of signed players will in turn promote Nike's brand image. They originally wanted to sign those professional players who have been successful so that everyone knows that the best players on the planet will choose to join the Nike camp.
In the end, both parties reached an agreement, and 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.
It lasts about ten days.
After filming, the two of them can go directly to Europe to prepare for the new season without having to return to China.
This holiday itinerary is so packed that they can complete the achievement of circling the earth.
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After a layover in San Francisco and a flight of about fifteen hours, Hu Lai and Li Qingqing finally arrived in Portland.
At the airport, they met Song Jiajia, Yong Jun, and Li Qingqing's agent Rebecca Royea who came to greet them.
This is the first time Hu Lai has met Li Qingqing’s exclusive agent.
She has short brown hair and looks particularly capable in a professional suit.
Song Jiajia said that Li Qingqing's endorsement contract, which is the highest in Chinese football besides him, was negotiated by this female agent.
It shows how outstanding the ability is.
"Nice to meet you, Mr. Hu." After Rebecca saw Hu Lai, she took the initiative to extend her hand to him and greeted him with a smile.
"Nice to meet you too, Ms. Royeia." Hu Lai was polite.
In addition to the three people from Champion Legend Sports Agency, there was also a staff member from Nike specifically responsible for their signing, a vice president, who also came to greet them. This shows how much this world-renowned sports brand company attaches great importance to them.
"Welcome to Portland, it's been a hard journey!" The vice president shook hands with Hu Lai and Li Qingqing respectively.
Then the group took several cars and went to the hotel to stay.
The next day, I went to Nike headquarters for the signing ceremony.
After signing the contract, it was time to shoot the commercial.
The itinerary is very full.
There is nothing that can be done about it, after all, they are here for business, not for sightseeing.
In addition to signing contracts and filming commercials, they also have to find time to accept interviews with Chinese and foreign media.
It can be said that except for sleeping time, which belongs to them, the rest of the time is arranged.
In the past, the leisure days of not caring about anything after playing football disappeared all of a sudden, and they still need some time to adapt.
After listening to the itinerary in the car, Li Qingqing frowned: "It's really hard to be a star..."
When they were playing football in China, they were already public figures, but the level of attention and busyness they received at that time was completely incomparable to what they are today.
She turned around and saw Hu Lai sitting next to her, and laughed again: "But if the sky falls, a tall man will hold it up. You are a tall man now, Hu Lai!"
Of the two 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 the Chinese women's football team. When Hu Lai was still playing in the Chinese League One team
When fighting for promotion, she had already represented the Chinese team in the Women's World Cup. When Hu Lai was still playing in the country, Li Qingqing became the first Chinese player after Qin Lin to go abroad and study abroad in Europe. There was not much in Hu Lai.
By the time people knew about it, Li Qingqing was already a well-known "football goddess" with many fans, able to turn away games into her home court, and her fame was endless.
Now the fame and status of the two people are reversed, Hu Lai's reputation is getting more and more popular, and it has overwhelmed Li Qingqing.
It's not that Li Qingqing has passed away, Li Qingqing's popularity is still at a very high level, but Hu Lai's popularity has risen faster, as if he was on a rocket, overtaking Li Qingqing all of a sudden.
And in terms of height, Hu Lai has really become the tallest of the two.
"Okay, I'll protect you, and you can hang out with me from now on." Hu Lai rolled his eyes at Li Qingqing and said in an elder brother's tone.
Song Jiajia, who was sitting in the passenger seat, laughed as she listened to the two classmates in the back seat joking.
The three of them have had the best relationship since high school.
However, there are many good friends from school days who gradually drifted apart after entering society, and eventually became strangers, only meeting by chance at a class reunion more than ten years later.
It's always more cherishable for three people to be reunited after leaving campus.
Hope we can continue like this...
Song Jiajia thought silently in her heart.
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"... Chinese player Hu Lai and female football player Li Qingqing officially signed a contract with Nike at the Nike headquarters in Portland, USA, and became the image spokespersons of this world-famous sports brand... It is reported that this is the first time that Nike has spent huge sums of money to sign
Chinese football players have been used as spokespersons. In the past, only Chinese basketball stars... Hu Lai and Li Qingqing, two outstanding Chinese men's and women's football players, were able to sign as Nike's image spokespersons, which caused a sensation. It is reported that the endorsement fees for the two are not
The same, but both are sky-high in their respective fields..."
The two security guards in the guard room of Dongchuan Middle School were stunned when they watched the news on TV.
They looked at each other:
"It's a sky-high price...how much is it?"
"Stop talking...it's one million, right?" the older man guessed.
"One million?" The younger one's eyes widened, "Just one million is such a huge price? What can one million do now?"
While the two were talking, they saw Li Ziqiang coming from outside.
One of them leaned half out of the window, and the other stood up and walked to the door, greeting Li Ziqiang: "Coach Li, congratulations!"
"Ah?" Li Ziqiang was confused. He didn't know what the two school security guards were congratulating him for.
"I heard that your daughter signed a huge sponsorship contract..."
Li Ziqiang knew what was going on as soon as he heard it. He waved his hand: "Oh, the media is just talking nonsense to attract attention. All the sky-high prices are just to sound good."
The two security guards were surprised: "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."
"It's really not that high?" The security guard still refused to give up.
"It is definitely higher than the annual income of ordinary working-class people, but it is also limited." After explaining, Li Ziqiang stopped chatting with them and walked straight into the campus.
The two security guards looked at his back and couldn't help but wonder how credible Li Ziqiang's words were.
"I think it's nine times out of ten that it's true. If the price is really sky-high, why is Coach Li still working as a coach in our school? Isn't it better to just retire when he has so much money?"
"Maybe they just like to be the coach of the school team? And no matter what it is, what does it have to do with us?"
"You're right. Oh, if only I could have...not to mention, one million a year!"
"Promise! Let me tell you, one million 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.
Regarding the fact that his daughter and Hu Lai signed with Nike at the same time, he knew about it much earlier than the news - he first learned about it from his daughter when she came home.
In fact, compared with how much money his daughter makes, what he cares more about is that his daughter and Hu Lai signed with Nike at the same time and appeared 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. When talking about Li Qingqing, they will definitely mention Hu Lai.
Li Ziqiang was a little frustrated, but he could only choose to accept it.
In fact, as early as when his daughter signed a contract with Song Jiajia's sports competition company and belonged to the same agency as Hu Lai, he should have known that this day would definitely come.
It's just that he didn't expect it to come so soon...
This shows what?
It shows that some things are not subject to his wishes.
When he thought of this, Li Ziqiang became even more depressed.
Whether he likes it or not, the facts are the facts.
The fact is... alas!
Li Ziqiang sighed deeply in his heart, shook his head and walked into the stadium of Dongchuan Middle School.