Under the attention of thousands of people from all walks of life in Beijing in the specially opened welcome area at the crowded and busy Beijing Airport, the first thing that appeared on the ramp of the Air China plane that was temporarily renamed "Victory" was Yan Shiduo in a suit and tie, and then Zhang Jilong.
, then Gao Hongbo, Li Bing, Fan Zhiyi, Ou Chuliang, Chen Yang, Ma Dong.
The waves of warm applause became louder and louder. Lao Gao, who walked into the crowd and took the flowers from the hands of the Young Pioneers, and Cheng Wei, who had already returned to Beijing with the German Beauty, and the family of "Wang Ai's eldest nephew" met in the crowd.
look back.
The team members haven't come out yet. The climax will be when the team members come out.
Sure enough, when the smiling Wang Ai appeared at the door and raised his hands to greet the people below, even the "representatives from all walks of life in Beijing" composed of adults couldn't help but take a step forward.
He is a nationally famous football star who has been famous for many years. He has been the number one celebrity in Chinese society since the new century. This trip to South Africa is undoubtedly his "coronation" in terms of popularity, football and social status.
All the people in the cabin who were slapping teammates were actually slapping Wang Ai himself.
At this time, he was not complacent at all, only fearful.
Under the eager gazes of the two people in front of him, and under the gazes of thousands of people behind hundreds of cameras, Wang Ai walked down step by step in a rare and steady manner. Not far behind him, Chen Tao, Zhao Xuri, and Zheng appeared immediately.
The figures of Zhi and others were not far apart, with smiles on their faces and gold medals on their chests, waving as they walked down.
Wang Ai once thought that when he got off the plane after winning the championship, he would sit on the armrest and slide down, but he had neither the physical nor the mental energy at the moment. The road was not long, only about twenty steps, from the spacious heights to the smiling faces and
The world where flowers are flying seems to be as long as many years; the road is not short, more than twenty steps, when Wang Ai bent down to take the flowers from the Young Pioneers and looked back, it seemed like it was only a moment.
In the middle of the waiting crowd is the space reserved for the delegation, facing the small podium. On one side of the podium, Zhao Dan and Yan Zhu, who were the last to get off the plane, gently took out the Hercules Cup and placed it neatly.
, allowing reporters from all walks of life to take photos.
The deputy mayor of Beijing first stepped onto the podium in front with a smile on his face amidst applause and delivered a passionate speech. On behalf of the people of Beijing, he warmly welcomed the Chinese national team's return with honors and the great achievements the Chinese national team has won for the motherland and people.
Honor. He highly praised the team members headed by Wang Ai for their competitive spirit, superb skills and tactics and fruitful competitive results both inside and outside the field. At the same time, he praised the national team coaching staff headed by Gao Hongbo for their meticulous work and achievements.
Highlights, especially Gao Hongbo's name, saying that he spent ten years sharpening his sword, and the plum blossoms are fragrant and bitter.
Yan Shiduo then took the stage and, on behalf of the South African World Cup delegation, thanked the motherland and the people for their strong support. He also thanked the South African Embassy, Consulate General, Chinese-funded enterprises and overseas Chinese for their strong support. He also thanked the media and fans for their support.
After Yan Shiduo came down, the deputy secretary-general of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee, who acted as the host, announced: "Comrade Xiao Wanger, the player representative and captain of the national team, who is familiar to all of us, will be invited to speak on behalf of the athletes."
Amid applause, Wang Ai walked out of the queue. At the last moment when he stepped onto the podium, he turned around and bowed to representatives from all walks of life in Beijing. Then he pressed his hands on the edge of the podium and looked at the eager faces in front of him and the stage not far away.
The camera pointed at him spontaneously blurted out: "Everything we have comes from the motherland and the people; everything we have is for the motherland and the people."
Among the cheering crowd in the audience, Zhang Jilong's eyebrows jumped: You kid, you missed the script again!
Fortunately, Wang Ai then took out the speech script and began to read according to the words that everyone had polished. A few minutes later, when he reached the end, Wang Ai put down the speech script again and raised his head...
Zhang Jilong's heart...
"When we were flying over Hebei Province just now, the melody of the song "My Motherland" sounded in the cabin. I could feel that at that moment, both young comrades and old comrades in our delegation were all in a state of ups and downs.
.We never thought that one day we would be able to make meritorious deeds for our motherland. We never thought that one day we would be called heroes and meritorious officials. We know very well that we and our World Cup champions are heroic models on all fronts for our motherland.
and their great cause, it is just one that is not worth mentioning." Having said this, Wang Ai calmed down and stood under the scorching sun at noon in July in Beijing, in the breeze blowing across the wide and flat airport: "Finally,
I want to tell everyone that this is the motherland of heroes, and this is the motherland where heroes are born in large numbers! As long as you think about it, there are battlefields ahead of you to build meritorious services for the country, and there are also blueprints to write great achievements for the people."
Speaking of this, Wang Ai pointed sideways to the sparkling Hercules Cup: "Please walk with us, walk with the heroic models on all fronts across the country, walk with the heroic motherland, and walk with the heroes of the motherland, and let's bring the past together.
It’s unbelievable that it has become a normal thing for our descendants.”
Wang Ai's loud voice was drowned in the warmest applause of this event, which was purely spontaneous and uncontrollable excitement that had nothing to do with etiquette.
After boarding the departing bus and going to the Football Association for a short break, Wang Ai sat beside Yan Shiduo and Zhang Jilong and turned his head and asked slightly uneasily: "I was excited just now... Is what I said okay?"
Zhang Jilong pointed at Wang Ai: "You kid..."
Yan Shiduo chuckled: "Don't blame him. He has been like this all these years. If you ask him to read the manuscript honestly, he will feel uncomfortable all over. He has to improvise based on the situation. No matter how good the manuscript is, it is only his.
The central idea is pretty good today. He even read 75% of it to you. In fact, every speaker is like this. Since you want to use his eloquence to bring glory to our football, then you have to endure it.
He often goes off the rails and goes his own way."
Zhang Jilong couldn't hold himself any longer and patted Wang Ai on the shoulder and laughed.
Ever since the first General Administration of Sports Top Ten Athletes Conference that Wang Ai attended many years ago, Wang Ai's public speeches have always been like this. Although it always made the leaders frightened, he never caused any trouble. Basically, I support the content of his speech.
It is his thoughts, and he is a staunch communist and patriot ideologically. This ensures that as long as he speaks sincerely, no matter how unruly his words and sentences are, his content will always reach the same goal. Even because of his personality and freedom
, his speech was both grand and vivid. It made the football people get rid of the external impression of well-developed limbs and became interesting and profound.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, everyone's bus arrived at the Bird's Nest, where a cultural performance had been held for more than an hour. Because Wang Ai mentioned "My Motherland" in his speech just now, the singers here formed a temporary team and sang with many people.
, when Wang Ai and the others arrived, they were singing the climax of the ending.
