After Zhao Xuri left, Wang Ai participated in team training that afternoon. The day after tomorrow, he will accompany the team to Zurich to participate in the second round of the Champions League qualifying round. Two days ago at the Allianz Arena, Bayern defeated Bayern 2:0.
Opponent. In that game, after missing the second round due to injury, Muller was not effective in widening the wing. In the end, Wang Ai came on as a substitute at the right wing position. Robben completed a hat trick in 15 minutes and felt huge pressure.
Played well and helped the team win with every pass and shot.
Because the opponent was weak and Bayern controlled the game throughout the game, Wang Ai sat on the sidelines for 90 minutes without any playing time. At the end of training the next night, Heynckes hesitated for a moment before finding Wang Ai to do something.
He explained: "It would be unthinkable for us to be eliminated in the Champions League qualifying rounds. You saw it throughout the game, and you didn't take advantage of your opportunity."
Wang Ai nodded in agreement. He has not had in-depth exchanges with Heynckes yet. He is still fighting with the coach, and he always likes to use his tough performance on the field to "persuade" the coach to give him playing time.
Anyway, I'm not in a hurry.
Now that the second game is here, Wang Ai still can't confirm whether he has a chance to play. But his family estimates that he will have to play for dozens of minutes no matter what, otherwise everything will be impossible to explain. Bayern will not make much money from Wang Ai.
It's true, but it's not unprofitable. After all, his collective image rights are shared with Bayern, and the club also needs to use him to increase its influence in China and Asia.
Besides, even considering maintaining the top scorer status, Wang Ai cannot be truly blocked. In that case, even Heynckes would not be able to explain to the club and the fans.
On the evening of August 22, the fully prepared team landed in Zurich and headed to the hotel. At this moment, Wang Ai received a call from the Chinese Embassy in Germany, asking about Wang Ai’s recent itinerary. Wang Ai didn’t know.
So I just said it from memory: "I will return to China after the 27th. I have some matters at home for the top 20 competition, so I won't be back until mid-September."
The other party was silent for a moment after hearing this and then asked: "Dr. Wang, we would like to arrange for you to participate in an event..."
After talking for about five minutes, Wang Ai hung up the phone and went to the hotel to talk to Kang Si, who had arrived first, and made some modifications to the next itinerary.
Generally speaking, Wang Ai's work schedule is relatively simple. He makes a basic schedule based on the match time announced by the German Football Association, and then adds various other activities to it. Including national matches, invitations to Chinese overseas agencies, sponsor business activities, and club business activities.
, charity activities, etc.
Among them, national competitions are the first priority, as long as all other activities are on the sidelines. The second priority is the official activities of Chinese agencies abroad. The embassy and consulates usually arrange for Wang Ai to participate in two activities, one of which is a leadership visit.
In Wang Ai's country, Wang Ai will be a candidate to be interviewed. The other is cultural activities held with representatives of overseas Chinese students during traditional holidays. Of course, there is also a temporary activity, which Wang Ai can go to or not.
Because Wang Ai is so well-known and has such great international influence, foreign agencies do not use Wang Ai's card often, no more than ten times a year, and have little impact on Wang Ai. Therefore, Wang Ai basically has
Please come.
There are relatively many sponsor activities. Adidas holds a new product launch conference every year. Wang Ai usually participates in the host country, usually in the afternoon and evening. In the afternoon, Wang Ai goes to the event as a spokesperson star to interact with fans, and in the evening, he entertains fans.
He interacts with sponsors and other spokespersons about a dozen times a year, except during the summer and winter breaks. During these two periods, Wang Ai is often in China and has nothing to do, so domestic sponsors often use this time to intensively invite
he.
There are no regular events in the schedule during the holidays, so Wang Ai can adjust freely and there is no pressure on work.
There are even fewer club activities and charity activities. There are two main types of club activities, one is to participate in sponsor activities, and the other is charity activities, which average about once a month. Wang Ai’s personal charity activities are even less, and the R Foundation
There are no activities, generally just step-by-step investments, and there is basically no need for Wang Ai to come forward in person. The situation of Wang Fund is similar, Wang Ai only comes forward for major events.
Therefore, throughout the year, Wang Ai’s attendance at non-football public events was not intensive, which is a guarantee that his performance on the field is extremely stable. All parties who invited him to attend the event, whether they were officials or sponsors, knew that he was stable on the field.
Performance is the guarantee of the effect of attending an event, so everyone cherishes the opportunity to invite him.
This invitation is a temporary event for the overseas institution. Wang Ai agreed if it was necessary, and the embassy will make temporary arrangements.
The next morning, the whole team went to Zurich's Rozgrund Stadium to adapt to the venue, and the game started at 8:45 p.m. Wang Ai sat on the sidelines watching the game wearing a black away jersey, accompanied by "old patient" Luo
Ben, this guy got injured again after the last game for some reason. The club doesn't want him to get injured again unless necessary, so they simply put him on the sidelines as a backup.
Soon after the opening, Gomez scored a goal. Bayern's entire team continued their good form from the previous game. Muller, Ribery, and Xiaozhu all performed brilliantly, but they were all a little short in the end and failed to add to the score.
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Wang Ai wanted to play in this game. In last season's Champions League, he played too few games. In the end, he "carelessly lost Jingzhou" and lost the Champions League Golden Boot that he had controlled for five years, leaving Messi to lose in the last game.
His 13 total goals surpassed his 12.
Although Wang Ai has strategically given up on all major honors in 2011 due to various subjective and objective factors, he still wants the Champions League Golden Boot. Even if the Champions League qualifying goals are not included in the Golden Boot statistics, Wang Ai still wants to win.
Ai still needs to play more Champions League games to get the club used to it.
During the transfer negotiations, Wang Ai made this request in a subtle way with Bayern. Bayern reassured Wang Ai that they would never let him, the striker who ranks first in total goals in the Champions League, idle.
So, around 65 minutes into the game, Heynckes asked his assistant to notify Wang Ai to get up and warm up. At this time, the score was still 1:0. Bayern was in good shape today, but their luck was average and they were always far away from the goal.
The ball missed a little.
After preparations last night, Wang Ai stood on the sidelines waiting for the dead ball. At 10:08 pm local time, the 23rd minute of the second half of the game, Wang Ai and Ribery shook hands on the sidelines and then walked onto the blanket-like stadium.
Replacing Franck Ribery, Wang Ai knew without having to explain that he would play as a left winger in this game. So far he has played 4 games for Bayern, replacing Gomez in two games as a forward and one game as a right winger in place of Muller. This time
It's the left winger's turn again, and his role as Bayern's main frontcourt substitute has become more and more intense.