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Su Bai really didn't expect that someone would actually invite him.
"…The athletes fighting on the field are all from the team. As a coach, I don't even need to go there with them. Even if they invite me, no one knows me."
Su Bai certainly knew that he had been interviewed and appeared in the previous variety show "Track and Field Idol Training Camp", but he was not a contestant in the variety show, and as a coach, he did not have many appearances. To be honest, the audience definitely did not see him very many times.
And after that variety show, he has been staying in the track and field team. He did not travel with the team to either the previous indoor competition or this Asian Championships.
With his habit of staying at home every day to participate in the activities of the track and field team, how many audiences would recognize him? What's the point of inviting him?
Liao Jie looked at Su Bai's confused expression, smiled and shook his head: "You are so young, but you live like an antique. You just don't spend enough time on the Internet. There are many people who know you now."
"Uh..." Su Bai was a little confused when he heard this: "I stayed in the track and field team and didn't go out..."
Liao Jie smiled and took out his mobile phone, clicked on a video, and handed it to Su Bai.
Su Bai took the phone in confusion, and after taking a look, he discovered that it was a video clip of himself cooking every meal in the track and field idol training camp.
This is a condensed version, which not only edited all the clips in the entire variety show, but also supplemented some of the video content of the live broadcast of the national team by the sports channel.
From the wisps of smoke from the cooking to the steaming dishes coming out of the oven, the directors of the variety show may have used their lifelong aesthetic skills when filming these cooking parts. Almost every time he raised and lowered the knife, his fingertips moved across the ingredients, or his hands held the ingredients to clean and carve them.
The mist rising from the hot soup pot seems to be the best natural filter. When the camera is slightly zoomed out to the medium ground, you can see a thin silhouette in the curling mist, treating the ingredients in his hands seriously and cooking delicious dishes meticulously.
Such videos can attract people to watch again and again, even if they cannot eat the delicious food. In the end, they don’t know whether they are watching the food or the people who make the food.
After Su Bai finished watching the video, he was still confused. He really didn't expect that his cooking on the show would be edited into such a clip.
Moreover, the video that Liao Jie showed him just now was from that popular website with barrage comments. During the video playback, Su Bai kept seeing all kinds of shameful comments.
What [prpr, I can lick Coach Su’s hands for ten thousand years! ! ! ], [Wow, why isn’t Coach Su a contestant? I also want to vote for Coach Su! ], [qvq Coach Su, please start a food show. I want to eat... No, it's okay if it's just something to watch! 】……
Apart from these that were barely acceptable, there were many others that made Su Bai feel his ears burning after seeing them.
for example……
[Ahhhhh, Coach Su, I want to give birth to a baby for you! 】
[Wow, wife, wife, marry me, I will buy you a big house, and you will cook for me, okay? 】
Su Bai used to be a person who was a little too quiet and introverted. At that time, in the S Province Track and Field Team, his only good friend was basically Qiu Wen.
Later, he became a coach, and his overly introverted personality gradually improved. Over the past year or so, Su Bai has cultivated a 'dignified' temperament for coaching athletes. Except for that idiot Qiu Wen, few people dare to act unrestrainedly in front of him.
Therefore, whether before becoming a coach or after becoming a coach, except for Qiu Wen's obviously brainless and funny behavior, no one has ever said such naked and explicit words to Su Bai in front of him.
Su Bai, who had always seemed calm, composed and reliable over the past year, suddenly felt a little confused and at a loss when he suddenly saw these.
Ever since Su Bai joined the national team, Pei Jinan and the people at the Track and Field Management Center thought it was normal no matter whether he used various provocations or ruthless methods to educate the athletes on the track and field team - only with such tactics could Su Bai be in their eyes.
Therefore, in the eyes of Pei Jinan and Liao Jie, Su Bai has always been a young, mature and reliable person.
At this moment, Su Bai's ears suddenly turned red and his face looked a little confused. Both Pei Jinan and Liao Jie were stunned for a moment and then suddenly laughed.
It was not until the two men started laughing that Su Bai covered his face with one hand and shook his head awkwardly.
"Today's netizens...are quite unrestrained."
When Liao Jie heard this, he smiled at Su Bai and said, "How can it be unrestrained? Aren't these all quite normal statements? Go get Qiu Wen to come over. If he sees these, he will just say 'prpr' back."
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Su Bai looked at Liao Jie with some confusion.
Liao Jie saw Su Bai's puzzled look and laughed: "Coach Su, you really should go online more often. The players on your team train every day, so they go online a lot. Take Qiu Wen, for example. If he could have a meal with you, he would want to brag about it on Weibo for ten days. Don't you know this?"
"Hey, I see your living habits are really just like an old man. The Weibo administrator of our Field Management Center also said that when I @ you on Weibo before, I never saw you repost or reply. I thought you were busy, so you didn't see them much. But it turns out that you are really busy, but you really don't post on Weibo once!"
This is true. Su Bai really doesn't have the habit of going on Weibo. Usually, if there is something to contact someone, WeChat, text messages, QQ, or phone calls, which one can't he use? In addition to leading the team in training, he also adjusts various training plans, reviews performances, communicates with nutritionists and the data group, and is currently preparing for training lectures.
In addition to these things during the day, there are systematic training courses even when I fall asleep at night. I also have to keep an eye on the test data of those simulated athletes. In addition, there is also the data of Su Qian and Clark, two athletes who are being trained since childhood, which needs to be observed.
After thinking about all these things one by one, Su Bai felt like he wished he could split every minute into two halves. He felt that there was not enough time every day, so how could he have the time to surf the Internet and check Weibo?
"I don't ask you to spend several hours online every day like Qiu Wen and others, but it's also reasonable to take three to five minutes a day to check Weibo news."
It's not that Liao Jie doesn't know that Su Bai is busy, but in this Internet information age, there are some online public opinions or Internet-related cooperation, as well as some Internet-related tasks issued by the General Administration of Sports, which even a coach cannot let go of.
Su Bai rubbed his head with a headache, then nodded. After a moment, he remembered Liao Jie saying that Qiu Wen had time to spend several hours on the Internet every day...
Liao Jie is responsible for following up on the public opinions of athletes to prevent any damage to their reputation. Su Bai guessed that Qiu Wen's online comments were probably the key monitored part by Liao Jie's staff, otherwise they would not know how unrestrained (and brainless) Qiu Wen's online comments were.
Thinking of this, Su Bai ruthlessly added a wave of training for Qiu Wen in his heart - the child is full of energy, but he has nothing to do.
After calming down, Su Bai finally looked at Liao Jie again: "Are you looking for my brand because of these cooking videos?"
Liao Jie smiled and nodded.
"Then...what brands are the ones that are looking for me?" Su Bai looked at Liao Jie hesitantly, having a bad feeling in his heart.
Sure enough, Liao Jie signaled him to continue flipping through the plans, and then he saw two food advertising plans. One of the plans was for a well-known brand of kitchen appliances, and the other was for a grain and oil brand that was also very well-known in the country.
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Well, the athletes on his team received advertisements from legitimate athlete-related brands, but he, a track and field coach, received invitations for kitchen appliances and cooking oil.
Those who know him know that he is a track and field coach, and those who don’t know…
Su Bai didn't know for a moment that if others didn't know his identity as a coach, and saw him filming these two commercials, what kind of identity would they assign to him?
"Well, I won't take the advertisement, right?"
Su Bai stared at the two advertisements in his hand and felt that there was really no need for him to accept them.
Liao Jie seemed to have known Su Bai's character for a long time. He was not surprised by Su Bai's subconscious refusal. Instead, he said to Su Bai directly: "In fact, there are many brands that want to invite you, but I think I know your character a little bit, so I stopped some unreliable ones before and didn't come to you for the time being. The reason why these two brands were handed to you is that one is because the brand is reliable, and the other is mainly because the helmsmen of these two brands have some connection with our track and field projects and have always provided a lot of support to our track and field projects in the past."
When Liao Jie said this, Su Bai straightened up and opened the project plan in his hand again.
Past...
In the past, when track and field events were not as popular as they are now, Su Bai had heard his master occasionally say that it was not easy to get sponsorship support for track and field events.
These two brands have been supporting track and field events since the past. For Su Bai, who grew up in this event and may have benefited from it to some extent, the significance of these two brands is different.
Without Liao Jie's persuasion, Su Bai nodded, indicating that he agreed to accept the invitation from the two brands.
After communicating these things, Su Bai left the office. Before leaving, Pei Jinan asked him how the content of the lecture was prepared. As the athletes are about to enter the peak period of the outdoor season, the coaches' related lectures and training work can also be officially launched at this opportunity.
In response to this inquiry, Su Bai naturally said that there was no problem at all.
After returning to the training ground, Su Bai gathered the team members together and first told them that the Track and Field Administration Center had signed an advertisement for the team members. He said that there would be steering personnel to contact each player later, and if they were dissatisfied with the terms, they could discuss them at that time.
Although Su Bai had warned them before leaving and told them about the advertisement after returning, the team members did not make any noise about it. They all knew that Su Bai's warning was for their improvement, so they just responded seriously and continued training.
It should be said that after sending out the invitations, these brands were much more anxious than the track and field team. After all, the Asian Championships had just ended and the popularity about the athletes was still at its peak.
If you can take this opportunity to promote it, it will be the best time for advertising.
What about after the Asian Championships?
Now is the peak period for various outdoor events, including the World Athletics Challenge, Diamond League, and a series of European training competitions.
The popularity of the Asian Championships is so high. Then, after the athletes break out of Asia and enter global competitions, as long as they achieve results, can the popularity be lower than it is now?
Not to mention the World Athletics Championships in late September and early October!
It takes time to send out invitations now, sign contracts, shoot advertisements, and go through a series of other processes. In addition, there is also the editing of commercials, the placement and delivery of TV commercials, large-screen advertisements in shopping malls, and store advertisements.
If we don’t hurry up, we will not only miss the peak of the Asian Championships, but also if players like Zhang Ziyi and Cui Luoheng directly qualify for the Tokyo Olympics in the later competitions, or win the championship in some international competitions by defeating black and white people...
If their advertisement hasn't been released by then, wouldn't that be a waste of attention?
Therefore, after confirming the athletes' consent, these brands all chased after Liao Jie, intending to urge Liao Jie to sign the brand promotion or endorsement contracts with them immediately.
Who would have known that Liao Jie would cut their brand endorsement time again - this time, the contracts these brands gave to the athletes, including two brands that gave Su Bai, were all long-term contracts of two years.
For some celebrity artists, it is a very happy thing to be able to sign a two-year contract directly for long-term cooperation. Although the athletes of the track and field team have gained a certain degree of fame, there is still a gap when compared with some well-known stars.
If ordinary people look at it from their perspective, signing a two-year contract and getting long-term cooperation guarantees is really a good thing.
However, after these two-year contracts were handed to Liao Jie, they were ruthlessly cut into one-year contracts by Liao Jie and his think tank team. If they insisted on two years, they would be rejected by Liao Jie again.
Director's Office, Field Management Center
Liao Jie sat in Jiang Wentao's office to hide away, and while hiding away he kept talking to Jiang Wentao: "Oh, these brands are all commercially minded, they just want to make more money and get more benefits."
Jiang Wentao, who was standing by, also laughed when he heard what he said: "Okay, you're also thinking about making more money, aren't you?"
When Liao Jie heard this, he shook his head unhappily: "Isn't it just to gain more benefits for our team members?"
"These brands are very smart. They sign two-year contracts in April and May. Our track and field team is very popular now, and there will be the World Championships this year. Who knows, there will be another peak then.
What about next year? In February, the World Indoor Championships will be held in China, which will inevitably be another hot topic. In April and May, the Olympic Games will start to warm up. After the Olympics, if any of our athletes who have signed a contract with them unexpectedly wins a medal in the Olympics, it will be incredible. We can take advantage of the current cheap signing price and directly sign the contract until the end of the Olympics. When the Olympic fever is over in 2021, the contract will expire..."
At this point, Liao Jie snorted, "How flattering! If they want to sign a contract with our players and cooperate well, then they can sign a year-by-year contract. This year's price is this. Before the Olympics next year, we can directly write the players' performance and bonus coefficients in the contract. This way, if our players win medals unexpectedly, they won't lose anything!"
Jiang Wentao listened to Liao Jie's nagging and smiled as he drank tea from a cup.
He and Liao Jie are old brothers and partners. It has become a habit for him to listen to Liao Jie's angry words from time to time. When Liao Jie leaves his office and faces those brand people, he acts like a good guy again, and is absolutely gentle and kind, so that the brand people cannot see the complaints in his heart at all.
It’s true that in the past few years, some provincial track and field teams in some regions did not have enough funding, and Liao Jie contributed a lot to this and helped some of the track and field teams find sponsors.
For many provincial teams, Liao Jie is like the God of Wealth.
When the two are together, in addition to complaining about the twists and turns of the brand-side businessmen in the interest circles, they occasionally express their feelings about the changes in track and field events over the past year or so.
"Su Bai... this is really amazing."
When Liao Jie mentioned Su Bai, his face was full of admiration: "Our track and field team is lucky to have such a talent."
As the head of the marketing and events department, he is responsible for communication with TV stations such as sports channels and integration of network-related information. The final content will be organized on his desk.
Ever since Su Bai joined the national team, Liao Jie can be said to have watched Su Bai's name appear in front of him step by step with a larger data base and more frequent appearances.
At the beginning, most of the discussions on the Internet were about Su Bai's cooking methods and the like among track and field enthusiasts. Later, the performance of Su Bai's team, Su Bai's "Su's Prophecy" during the Asian Games, the huge circle of cross-sport athletes led by Su Bai... and his cooking skills, and the level of fans and attention he attracted in variety shows.
All this information was transformed into data and appeared on his desk.
From Su Bai, to the 400-meter event he coached, and then to the athletes in various events he coached, the circle of influence formed by the name Su Bai not only radiates into a huge range within the track and field team, but also forms a discussion spectacle on the Internet.
Liao Jie has seen it personally. After the Asian Championships, many self-media outlets on the Internet wrote articles specifically discussing Su Bai. The content of the discussion was: how many of Su Bai's disciples achieved excellent results in this Asian Athletics Championships?
Not only that, he also made an intuitive data fluctuation table of these people's past achievements and their performance fluctuations over the years, and then compared the improvement in their performance after they came to Su Bai's hands.
Although this topic is actually a cliché, as long as you publish it, you won’t have to worry about no one reading it!
After all, this kind of talented coach, who seems to have come out of a novel or TV show in real life, will make anyone who sees him marvel.
Coupled with that kind of——【Shock! He turned out to be the biggest winner of the Asian Championships! 】 and other titles, netizens and track and field fans on the Internet really love this kind of thing.
Netizens on the Internet all know Su Bai's ability and importance, and the Athletics Management Center and the national team naturally have a clearer idea of the situation.
There are various comprehensive analyses about the achievements of Su Bai and the players he coached, as well as a copy for every leader of the Athletics Management Center and the national team.
For such talents, we just need to provide them with good services, never hinder them if we can help them, and never be harsh on them if we can coax them.
Fortunately, Su Bai himself is a solid track and field athlete, and this realization made everyone in the Athletics Management Center feel relieved - Su Bai was worried that his teammates would lose their minds because of fame and fortune. In fact, the Athletics Management Center also had this worry about Su Bai.
Moreover, compared with the team members, Su Bai is a talent who can bring improvement to most of the track and field team. He is what makes the Athletics Management Center more anxious and irreplaceable.
As for the national team, Su Bai was unaware of the Athletics Administration Center's evaluation and concerns about him. He was currently discussing the future schedule and his mental condition with Cui Luoheng in the dormitory.
"Like I said before, from now on, the team will basically not arrange domestic or Asian-level competitions for you. Unless there are specific competition tasks, your future competitions will mainly be international competitions."
Su Bai pointed to the schedule in his hand and told Cui Luoheng about the upcoming events: "On May 4, there will be an IAAF Track and Field Challenge in Jamaica. There will be many talented 110-meter hurdlers in this challenge. You can experience the atmosphere of the world's top 110-meter hurdles in this competition."
Cui Luoheng nodded when he heard this, but he frowned again as if he was thinking about something.
"What's wrong?" Su Bai looked up at him and said, "Are you worried that you will be too nervous and won't perform well?"
Cui Luoheng pursed his lips and said, "Xiaobai, can you accompany me to the competition?"
Hearing this request, Su Bai smiled and shook his head, then said seriously: "A Luo, you need to adjust your psychological problem of being easily nervous and collapsing before the game. You know, there are so many players in the team, and everyone has a different schedule and destination. In addition to coaching, I also have other coaching work to do."
"Even if I can go with you to this competition, what about the future?"
"I can't be with you in every game."
Su Bai sincerely felt that Cui Luoheng was good in every way, except that perhaps the few games after he was promoted to the next group had too great an impact on him, and this problem of psychological endurance really needed to be adjusted.
Cui Luoheng looked at Su Bai eagerly. He was a big boy over 1.9 meters tall, but when he looked at Su Bai, he seemed very aggrieved.
"Then...can I call you, Xiaobai, before my game?"
Looking at Cui Luoheng's pitiful and cautious appearance, Su Bai finally didn't say what he wanted Cui Luoheng to do to stop the habit of making phone calls before the game, which he had wanted to do since they discussed the schedule.
Su Bai raised his hand, rubbed Cui Luoheng's head, smiled and nodded: "Okay."
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