Chapter 10 Arrival in Russia

On June 10, 2018, the swearing-in meeting for the Chinese national team to compete in the World Cup in Russia will be held in BJ.

After the swearing-in meeting, the Chinese national team will fly to Russia to prepare for the game.

For this reason, this swearing-in meeting attracted the attention of a large number of reporters and fans.

The swearing-in ceremony will be held in a venue in BJ.

The national team players have not yet arrived, and the reporters who arrived at the scene are already in a panic.

Based on the performance in the last World Cup, many fans and sports reporters are paying attention to the development of this world competition.

On the Internet, a campaign to 'Cheer for Chinese players' was launched.

Fans can vote for their favorite players, and these votes will be converted into some funds to invest in the construction of China's youth training, which is quite a meaningful activity.

The swearing-in meeting will be held at 10 o'clock in the morning.

At 8 o'clock, the venue was already packed with people.

"Brother Zheng! Here!"

A young man waved to Zheng Xin.

At this time, Zheng Xin already had the image of a middle-aged fat man. During his time in China, he had received a promotion and a salary increase. He not only became the editor-in-chief of the newspaper, but also the person in charge of the sports column.

This time it is also based on the premise of the World Cup, managing activities and attendees.

Zheng Xin, with his staff ID hanging on his chest, came over huffing and puffed, pulled up his chair and sat down.

Zheng Xin was wearing a blue striped POLO shirt. He was as fat as a ball. He was fanning himself while complaining about the weather in BJ.

"Can't the air conditioner be turned up a little? With so many people here, who will be overheated to death!"

As Zheng Xin spoke, the frequency of fanning increased a lot.

The young man on the side smiled and said, "Brother Zheng, it may be that your body has too much heat."

Zheng Xin's eyes widened and he said, "I'll leave the writing work to you tonight."

The young man shrugged: "It's my job anyway, I'm not afraid!"

Zheng Xin shook his head helplessly.

Today's young people are really fearless.

In the past, when he was working, his boss would sound like it was the end of the world, which made him nervous.

But today's young people are all very ambitious.

There is also great pressure to recruit, and young people with skills are a treasure and must be provided.

This also makes these young people become "arrogant and domineering" one by one.

Zheng Xin took out a document from his briefcase, flipped through it a few times, and said, "It officially starts at 10 o'clock. Don't forget to take close-ups then."

"It's already been explained!" the young man said.

Zheng Xin nodded and then sighed, "How come I didn't win any of the three warm-up matches!"

The young man turned around and said: "I feel pretty good. Facing Spain and Croatia, the Chinese team lost the games with scores of 3:1 and 4:2 respectively. When facing the Japanese team, the Chinese team also lost 2:2. A draw! The whole game didn’t look particularly problematic.”

Zheng Xin shook his head. After three warm-up matches, one draw and two losses were really worrying.

In the noisy environment, two hours passed quickly.

At 10 o'clock sharp, the scene suddenly became quiet.

Waves of cheers came from the door.

Soon, everyone saw Lippi leading the Chinese national team members into the scene.

The next second, there was thunderous applause.

"Lucky!

Come on!

"

"Chen Man!

! "

"Kerry Liu!

! "

"Great Emperor!

Wang Yi!

"

"Chen Xiang, the pride of Hubei!

"

“Queeny! Mutali!

Son doll!

"

Amid waves of cheers, the Chinese international players walked into the scene with serious faces and sat down in the arranged seats.

Soon, under the arrangement of the host and leaders, everyone spoke one by one.

The final climax was naturally when Luc Kai, as the captain, led a group of international players to take an oath.

In the solemn oath, in the rich atmosphere, Le Kai's sonorous voice resounded throughout the audience.

"The above is the end of the oath!"

Lucky slowly lowered his hand, and fierce applause suddenly erupted from the scene.

After the oath was over, the players were ready to leave.

They almost omitted any other form of performance. Even Lippi didn't want to participate in the swearing-in ceremony, but some things still had to be coordinated.

To this end, both parties gave in and held a simple swearing-in meeting.

Le Kai and others were about to leave, when Liao Hei saw Zheng Xin in the crowd.

If the other party hadn't shown the necklace he gave him and had a similar outline, Lucai really wouldn't have recognized that the fat man was Zheng Xin.

"Brother Zheng, why have you changed like this?" Le Kai looked at Zheng Xin in surprise, and then joked, "The food given by my sister-in-law is pretty good!"

Zheng Xin waved his hand and smiled bitterly, then patted Lucai on the shoulder and said, "Come on, I will go to watch the game! Play well!"

Lucky nodded with a smile.

Due to the tight schedule, Lucky did not communicate for long and quickly left the scene and entered the bus.

The bus drives directly towards the airport.

The Chinese team had already packed their luggage before the swearing-in ceremony and prepared to go directly to the airport.

After arriving at the airport, they did not take the normal passage, but took the shuttle bus directly to the boarding area through the underground passage under the arrangement of the airport.

At 2 pm, the plane took off on time.

Since the first game of the Chinese team will be held in Nizhny Novgorod, they will go directly to the city where the game venue is located.

Fortunately, Nizhny Novgorod is the capital and has the configuration of an international airport, so they don’t have to turn over or reverse the plane.

At about 5 pm, all members of the Chinese team arrived in Russia.

When the Chinese team arrived at the airport in Nizhny Novgorod, they suddenly felt like they were back home again.

The entire airport was crowded with people, and the most important thing was that they were all Chinese.

Because Russia is close to China, Chinese fans are more enthusiastic about this World Cup than in previous years.

With the performance of the previous session as a prelude, the overall atmosphere and passion can be said to be the highest in history.

Nowadays, on the Internet, the World Cup has become the most popular topic.

Even popular individual stars and idols have to give in to the World Cup. The enthusiasm of this football carnival held every four years is like a raging fire, affecting the whole of China.

Enthusiastic Chinese fans followed them from the airport to the hotel where they stayed.

This made the players feel completely at home.

It was as if they were back in China and playing at home.

"Are our fans too awesome?"

Chen Man looked at the fans outside who had not dispersed for a long time with his eyes.

He waved his hand tentatively, and immediately attracted a wave of intense cheers.

This also made the hearts of Chinese players including Chen Man become hot.

"Stop playing! Give me your passport!"

Lekai interrupted Chen Man unhappily, took Chen Man's passport, asked for passports from other players, and then handed it to the team leader for check-in registration.

Half an hour later, everyone's check-in information was filled out, and they completed their check-in.

The hotel's facilities are still very complete.

Since it is a player hotel arranged by FIFA, the hotel also has independent spaces such as tactical rooms and conference rooms.

Their training base is also very close, and it only takes 10 minutes to walk.

The training base is equipped with indoor training grounds and other places.

And judging from the luster of the equipment, almost all of them are new.

It can be said that the Russian officials are very attentive to this World Cup.

Due to the fatigue of the journey, Lippi did not arrange any training plans on that day.

Instead, he let the players rest after dinner.

The fans gathered outside the hotel also dispersed automatically at around 7 o'clock.

They dared not affect the players' rest at all.

The next day, the Chinese players went to the training base that had been arranged for training.

The first day of training was almost all in public.

This is to better promote the World Cup.

The local official media in Russia also had exclusive interviews.

After all, this is the face of the organizer.

The Chinese team naturally sent Le Kai and Chen Man to be interviewed.

But because Chen Man was always chattering, Lippi asked Lekai to do the main conversation and Chen Man just sat aside.

For this reason, Lekai was the one who talked almost all the time, and Chen Man just served as a foil.

The host also wanted to ask Chen Man some questions, but the latter's answers were very brief and almost no useful information was obtained.