This is how business is done, we have to negotiate every minute, and we can’t miss any opportunity. Of course, for Fan Zhiyi, Sun Jihai and Zhang Enhua, their endorsement fees will not be very high. Even for Fan Zhiyi, one of the top middlemen in Asia
The endorsement fee for a defender will not exceed 100,000 US dollars a year. But 100,000 US dollars is still a very high salary for them now. After all, the annual salary of domestic players in Chinese football has just exceeded one million.
In Rist's opinion, it is not high, but for a few of them, it is still a lot of money. Once Rist promotes such a cooperation, although the income is not high, it can still have a benefit of one hundred thousand US dollars. This kind of benefit
It’s not just the players who need to pay, Puma also needs to show their appreciation if they really succeed. Although the money is not a lot, especially for agents like List, whose income is getting higher and higher. But no matter how small it is, the income is in the unit of 10,000 US dollars.
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Anyway, there was nothing to do along the way, so it was appropriate to make some money by pulling a prank. The plane Riester and the others took arrived at the Abidjan International Airport, the largest city in Côte d'Ivoire, where nearly 20% of the population of Côte d'Ivoire is concentrated.
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I didn’t feel too tired, because Lister was now used to flying. Besides, flying for such a short time was child’s play for someone like Lister, who had experienced dozens of hours of train travel. I just started working as a broker.
When he was young, because he was short of money, he could only travel by train. At that time, a trip from Jilin to Dalian would take 17 or 18 hours by train. Now, Lister takes a plane.
When traveling in first class, even the first class tickets in many cases are not bought by Riester, but by the club.
Africa, finally set foot on the soil of Africa. I only know the name of African Riester. Today is the first time I have come to the land of Africa. It is also the first time I have come to Côte d'Ivoire. The Côte d'Ivoire Football Association attaches great importance to this friendly match, because it is
Promoted by their sponsor Puma. How is the economy in Côte d'Ivoire? It's really not very good.
Although Côte d'Ivoire is a relatively stable political situation in turbulent Africa and has developed relatively rapidly in recent years, it is still a very poor place compared to the European continent. Compared with their opponent the Czech Republic, the economic development is not at the same level.
Eryu. Their desire for Puma far exceeds that of the Czech Republic.
Therefore, Jacques Anouma, the full-time president of the Côte d'Ivoire Football Association, personally came to the airport to pick him up. Riester also walked down with Merkley and Jochen Leitz.
Côte d'Ivoire is a multi-ethnic country with 69 ethnic groups, each of which has its own language. The common language in most parts of the country is Diura. Unfortunately, this language can only be spoken but not written, because this language has no written characters.
.So although the Diura language is universal and almost all Ivorians can speak it, it cannot become the official language of Côte d'Ivoire. And Côte d'Ivoire was once a colony of France, and even after independence, it is inextricably linked to France.
Therefore, the official language of Côte d'Ivoire became French.
However, neither Pavel Merkli nor Jochen Leitz spoke French. Therefore, the president of the Côte d'Ivoire Football Association brought an interpreter, an interpreter who spoke German.
Jacques Anuma and Jochen Leitz knew each other, and they had negotiated after all. It was their first meeting with Merkley, the vice president of the Czech Football Association, so he warmly welcomed Merkley.
"Chairman Anuma, this is the agent of most of our Czech national team players, and it is also Liszt Czerny who facilitated this friendly match."
"Hello, Mr. Cherny. Welcome to Cote d'Ivoire."
Upon hearing Merkley's introduction, Jacques Anuma actually didn't understand why Riester came here. But he immediately stepped forward to hold Riester's hand and welcomed him warmly.
"Hello, Chairman Anuma."
Riester speaks French, so he greeted him in French. It was a simple meeting, and soon everyone followed Jacques Anouma to the resting place. After all, many Czech international players had just finished playing in the league, and this was just their rest time.
They are all very tired and need to adjust their condition quickly.
Abidjan is not the capital of Côte d'Ivoire, or it is not the political capital of Côte d'Ivoire. The political capital of Côte d'Ivoire is Yamoussoukro, but until now, the government agencies and diplomatic institutions of Côte d'Ivoire are all in Abidjan. Abidjan is the capital of Côte d'Ivoire.
The economic capital of Côte d'Ivoire. Don't underestimate an African country. Abidjan, the economic capital of Côte d'Ivoire, has two five-star hotels and four four-star hotels.
The Czech national team stayed in one of the two five-star hotels in Abidjan.
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"Lister, what are you doing if you don't take a break at this late hour?"
Jochen Leitz went for a walk after dinner before returning to the hotel. He was accompanied by a staff member this time, but he just liked chatting with Lister. So he walked to Lister's room and found Lister.
I looked at some information there very diligently.
Riester put down the information in his hand and said to Jochen Leitz with a smile: "This is my first time in Cote d'Ivoire and my first time in Africa. So let's take a look at some information about Cote d'Ivoire, including the development of their football."
"Did you see anything?"
"There is no such thing as a free lunch. There is no such thing as pie in the sky."
Jochen Leitz paused for a moment because he didn't understand what Lister meant. So he asked Lister: "What do you mean?"
Riester handed the information to Jochen Leitz, then shook his head and said: "Look, although Côte d'Ivoire is said to be independent, many important industries are in the hands of the French, and many of the richest people in Côte d'Ivoire are French. What do you think?
It is said that the independence of Côte d'Ivoire was independent, but what's the use? Instead of driving away the French with its own armed forces, France gave charity to the independence of Côte d'Ivoire. As a result, many important things are still in the hands of the French. Now the upper class of Côte d'Ivoire
All the people are of French descent.”
Riester is not bragging at all. This is not only true for France, but also for many colonial countries. Mandela, who is hailed as a saint by the current media, is a world-renowned political figure. He did twenty-seven years of work for his ideals.
He was imprisoned for many years and was a great man with high prestige in South Africa. When he came out of prison, black people all over South Africa thought that their great savior had arrived. They believed that as long as Mandela came out, the spring of black South Africa would come. So when he
When he was released from prison, black people all over South Africa sang and danced to cheer their hero.
But what was the result? After he became president, he was unanimously praised by all the media. But he no longer had the ability and courage to implement many of the initiatives he proposed when he was young. For example, nationalizing industries such as minerals controlled by white people and eliminating
The gap between rich and poor, etc., were all his slogans back then. But after he became the president of South Africa, he did not realize any of the things he had been calling for. He did not drive away those foreigners, nor did he let black people get what they deserved.
power. On the contrary, he signed a contract with those people to legally recognize the property they owned, and those people turned back to support Mandela's coming to power. The final result was that white people are still the richest and most powerful people in South Africa.
On the first floor, there are the millions of black middle-class people who became rich along with Mandela, and below there are nearly 20 million poor people living in slums.
Lister knew that more than ten years later, the unemployment rate in South Africa was as high as 30%. South Africa's economy is developing rapidly in Africa, but unfortunately those economic results have nothing to do with the poor at the bottom. They will never have the chance to get out of the slums.
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Whose fault is this? Is it the fault of the great hero or the fault of others? Lister doesn’t understand, but Lister knows one thing. Many of these African countries took advantage of the fact that Britain and France were severely damaged after World War II and had no time to manage their colonies.
It was time for them to become independent. However, Britain and France had no choice but to follow the trend and let them become independent.
They have not used their own strength to truly drive away the forces of these countries. Therefore, even if they are independent, important industries are still in the hands of these people, and their own citizens are still second-class citizens to them.
Jochen Leitz laughed. Jochen Leitz was a member of the upper class, and he had no time to care about the happy life of the African people. So he joked: "Why, Lister, are you going to give up your life as an agent and do this?"
A revolutionary."
"No, no, no, I'm not that noble. I just have some sighs. There is no free lunch in the world. Everything requires one's own strength. To forge iron, you need to be hard-working."
Lister is just a sigh. If South Africa and other African countries had armed themselves and used their own armed forces to drive away the Europeans, then how could there be so many European rich people left in Africa now? Those rich people were all colonies.
At that time, they seized Africa's good resources. After African countries became independent, they still relied on these economic resources to control Africa's political situation. They are still the richest and most upper-class people in Africa.
"Stop worrying about the country and the people. I heard that the night in Abidjan is quite nice. How about we find a place to have a drink?"
