Reborn fashion designer

Chapter 740 A friend in need is a friend indeed?
"Filming with Liu Qianqian?"

"Is that the fairy I saw on TV?!"

"Captain, you are not kidding, are you?"

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In Beijing, in the shabby office of the former Hengxiang Racing Team, which had only been acquired a few days ago and had not even had time to change the sign at the entrance of the club.

Whether it was the only two staff members who were part-time technicians or several main team members who were helping to pack the luggage, when they heard the captain Li Fuyu announce this, what they were doing stopped.

"What nonsense are you talking about? Would I fool you?" Li Fuyu himself didn't dare to believe it when he received the call.

I never thought that after returning to China to develop my career, things would go so smoothly.

Because of the 2-year ban.

Unable to participate in professional competitions, he chose to return to China for development. Since joining the team, he took the lead in attracting some sponsorship. After successfully registering the continental team with UCI, he never thought that he would be noticed by the famous HYS.

HYS, although not as sponsored as many extreme sports as Red Bull.

However, Li Fuyu, who often trains in Europe, is well aware of HYS's strength.

In the field of football, there is no need to mention the fact that they have just defeated Liverpool, a Premier League giant with a long history.

There is no need to say much about the high attention paid to the UTMB event.

Just take the acquisition of the AG2R team, which is closely related to his original career.

This is enough to show HYS's ambition in sports brand building.

Although the team's overall strength is relatively average and lacks riders with outstanding individual abilities, it began to emerge as a dark horse in 2008 and won runner-up in the overall standings in the Tour de France that year.

In 2009, he even took first place in the overall standings in several stages.

There were rumors that Decathlon was very interested in acquiring this French team with strong heritage.

As a result, HYS took the lead.

"Captain, can we get autographs when we go there?" asked the young player Wang Meiyin with a grin.

"it should be no problem."

Li Fuyu wasn't quite sure.

But according to the person who was responsible for contacting him, the crew not only provided them with accommodation conditions equal to those of the main actors, but also provided special vehicles to pick them up and drop them off.

The key is that participating in the filming is not free.

It is paid.

"The director from their side will come over to sign the contract with everyone. You must take the time to tidy up your appearance and don't embarrass our team."

After Li Fuyu said this, the guys in the convoy instantly felt nervous.

We need to sign a contract.
What should I do if my handwriting is ugly?
If you want to become a professional driver, you basically start professional training from a young age.

Like the youngest player in the team now, although he is only 21 years old, he already has nearly 7 years of competition experience.

"What are you afraid of? It's not like you haven't signed the contract before!" Seeing how cowardly they were, Li Fuyu was furious.

A few days ago, they were asked to sign a new contract designated by HYS.

After the acquisition, which area's treatment has changed most significantly?
Although they have not visited the new club yet, the treatment is too obvious.

Do road cyclists make money?
I'm sorry to say, but it's the same as in most sports, the income of the top players is something that the bottom athletes can only envy.

Even if they are average level riders in the Tour de France.

An annual salary of $4 to $20 plus bonus is not something that can be easily obtained.

What's more, most of the players in the Hengxiang team are still at the level of top amateur players, and their actual income in a year may not be as valuable as one of their racing cars.

we can even say.

The value of the bicycle that Xiangyang lost at the airport could have covered the original Hengxiang team's personnel expenses for a year.

The reason for this is simple.

One is that the level of training does not allow them to reach the competitive level of professional drivers, and the other is the lack of professional competition opportunities.

In addition, the club had just been established, and the huge investment in cars had made the club's finances very tight. How could it possibly offer a decent salary?
After HYS acquired the team, the first thing it did was to arrange for the coach and manager of the AG2R team to come and inspect the existing personnel of the team.

Then, it’s time to sign a professional contract.

Although in terms of structure, the AG2R-HYS team and the Hengxiang-HYS team are on the same level and are both separate clubs.

But in terms of the management of specific affairs, Hengxiang belongs to the AG2R team.

The AG2R team coordinates and participates in small professional cycling competitions around the world.

Even the top teams in the Tour de France will participate in this kind of competition specifically to train reserve riders.

Because not all drivers can step onto the biggest competitive stage.

Competitions like the Giro d'Italia and the Tour de France are often attended by the team's main riders, with each team only having 9 berths plus 3 substitutes.

But the AG2R team has 18 drivers.

On the Hengxiang team side, there are 10 people, including Li Fuyu who cannot participate.

In order to better train domestic professional riders, Xiangyang simply assigned the specific matters in this regard to the AG2R team for special management.

It's not that he's messing around.

Firstly, this can ensure that domestic players have the opportunity to participate in the competition.

After all, AG2R's substitute players participate in many competitions, so paying one registration fee is the same as paying two registration fees.

Secondly, this will allow the AG2R team coach, who is also a Tour de France team, to notice this team formed by Chinese athletes.

When competing with the second team, if Hengxiang Racing Team performs better, what does that mean?
This shows that Chinese road cyclists are capable of joining the Tour de France team and even participating in top-level competitions.

Even if he is not the main general, but only the deputy general in certain stages.

This can increase their exposure rate.

But the most important thing is to cultivate tacit understanding between the drivers of the two teams.

In a road cycling race, although the captain has great glory, without a well-coordinated team, even the most capable individuals cannot perform at their best in all stages.

It is very simple for Xiangyang to directly designate a "parachute" to enter the AG2R team, but this team member is loyal and cannot communicate in the new team, and does not understand the tactical cooperation. What is the point?

Increase the advertising effect of the brand in the competition?

I am sorry to say that Rabbit player's tactics are also very important to the team as a whole.

Therefore, we should first solve the worry about athletes’ income, give them a guaranteed income, and then provide more competition opportunities to increase their exposure.

When the competition level is improved, their commercial value will naturally be gradually reflected. This concept of cultivating the club's brand value and its own commercial development is actually the MCO that will be widely used in the development of football clubs in the future.

What Xiangyang did was simply to apply it to the sport of cycling.

In fact, the earliest MCO can be traced back to the Pozzo family in Italy, or a company called ENIC.

However, their respective business objectives are different.

Xiangyang's approach is more similar to Red Bull, which has taken over many cross-continental clubs.

Because from a business strategy perspective, the two have very similar goals, and are more concerned with leveraging their success in the sport to benefit their brand promotion.

After all, whether it is the AG2R team, the Hengxiang team, or even the historical giants of the Premier League, in Xiangyang's view, they are all new marketing tools.

no way.

Who says HYS is more valuable than all of them combined?

Not long after, the crew members who came all the way to Beijing had not arrived yet, but the specialist of AG2R team responsible for coordinating the two clubs was the first to arrive at the club which was packing and cleaning.

Looking at the boxes piled up at the door, the team members were also professionally packing the bicycles.

He clapped his hands with the translator, "Li, come here, I have good news to share with you."

"good news?"

Li Fuyu could understand French and immediately prepared to start gathering team members.

"Your new car is arriving. I received a call before I came here."

"A new car?!"

For a moment, no one in the messy room discussed how to ask Liu Qianqian for an autograph, and everyone looked at the foreigner.

"That's right. The car you will use in the next race has the same configuration as our AR2R main team. Congratulations to you guys. This call was made by Mr. Xiang himself."

Then, he said to Li Fuyu: "I have some good news for you."

"Xiang, you said we finally got back, why don't we just rest at home and have nothing to do but ride bicycles?"

Little John pedaled easily, and even chose a pair of handsome cycling glasses while pedaling and chatting with his friends.

He heard people say that anyone who is good at riding a bike must wear a white cycling suit.

For this reason, he even chose white for his helmet.

"If you really don't have the energy to do it, I'll ask Macron to come out, and the three of us can find someone to play a football game."

"What kind of football? Are you playing football all day? Besides, I didn't even bring my cell phone with me, how can I make a call? Do you remember Macron's phone number?"

Xiangyang was also dressed in white.

The color of clothes is actually just an embellishment.

He didn't ride very fast, so he occasionally let go of the handlebars to rest his arms.

After riding for half an hour, he found that road bikes, besides causing pain in the buttocks, were also uncomfortable for the shoulders after riding for a long time.

But the professional-grade cycling equipment they were wearing looked very different to passers-by.

I've never seen anyone wearing hiking shoes while riding such a nice road bike.

For road bikes, you still need to have clipless pedals.

Especially wearing such tight cycling clothes
The reason why I came out for a ride was for only one purpose.

Xiangyang wanted to give Liu Qianqian a little surprise.

Although he originally had a cameo in "Time Traveler", he decided to move the scene to make it the first time for the two of them.

He didn't tell anyone about this except little John.

How can appearing on camera not be appearing?
Why do we have to follow Liu Xixi's ideas in everything?
Men should still have some temper.

"There's a nice cafe up ahead. Can we sit down and rest for a while?" Little John, who was riding side by side with Xiangyang, turned his head and asked.

After riding for half an hour, he was not thirsty.

After all, Xiangyang's home is fully equipped with cycling equipment.

How could there be no kettle?

But the butt hurts
"Okay, let's take a break." Xiangyang nodded, propped himself up and looked forward. He found that the coffee shop that Little John mentioned was not far away, so he pedaled hard towards it.

Little John, who was thrown away unexpectedly, shouted: "Wait for me, Xiang!"

But after taking only two steps, he discovered something.

its not right!
The back pocket of Xiangyang's cycling jersey is empty
I subconsciously searched the pocket behind me, but there was nothing.

He then remembered that after they got off the plane, they took the car arranged by the company and went directly to Xiangyang's house. They confirmed with the commissioned company that was responsible for cleaning and looking after the flowers and plants during this period that there was no problem, and then changed their clothes and came out.

It was the first time for either of them to wear such professional equipment, and neither of them noticed things like mobile phones and wallets.

"How about I slip away first?"

Little John stopped chasing and thought about Xiangyang's back.

Things like face recognition.

It’s easy to say but not nice to hear.

It's impossible to mortgage your car to someone just for two cups of coffee.

That would be a big loss.

These two bicycles can be sold for a lot of money.

In his heart, he was reluctant to part with such an expensive bicycle. When he caught up with Xiangyang who was already at the door of the coffee shop and was about to leave awkwardly, Little John said very righteously:

"Let me do the face scanning thing"

Hearing this, Xiangyang was a little moved.

There is indeed true love in this world.

This relationship is not in vain.

"Why are you being so polite to me?" Little John got off the bicycle and said, "Help me get off the bike, and give me your water bottle."

"What do you want this for?"

Xiangyang lent a hand, very curious.

"Let me ask if there is any free coffee first."

(End of this chapter)