in2ebook Chapter 542 Yang Yi: "We only need 2 matches!"
Chapter 542 Yang Yi: "We only need 2 matches!"
8 month 26 day.
In the afternoon, at a foreign trade company in a CBD center in Shanghai.
The manager clapped his hands to draw everyone's attention, then announced, "We have an order coming in tonight, and I need 10 people to work overtime. Anyone willing to volunteer?"
The thirty-odd employees looked at each other, and most of them lowered their heads.
"If there are no volunteers, I'll have to call names." The manager seemed a little angry and raised his voice as he spoke again.
Finally, three college students who seemed to have just started working raised their hands.
"We are still short 7 people."
Finally, four more people raised their hands, including a woman.
The manager pointed at the girl: "Xiaolin, put your hand down."
Upon hearing this, the girl immediately and happily lowered her hand.
"you you you……"
Finally, the manager seemed to casually point out a few people before returning to his office.
The person whose name was mentioned seemed a little angry, sighing and making phone calls to their family to inform them that they would have to work overtime that night.
No one in the entire office seemed to notice that all the people working overtime were men.
……
Yanjing, a four-star hotel.
"Okay, a luxurious presidential suite, it must have a TV..."
"Sir, we are in the presidential suite, so of course there will be a TV."
After hanging up the phone, the young-looking operator said with amusement, "This guy is strange. Does he stay in other four-star hotels without TVs?"
A slightly older woman next to her chuckled softly and said mysteriously, "Some people just like to watch TV while doing serious business."
The younger woman understood what she meant, so she said, "But sister, the guests said there were six people, all of them men."
"Six men?" The woman next to her covered her mouth, looking astonished. "Are they really this open about it now?"
……
Guangzhou, the university town.
"Damn, it's full again." Two college students were sitting on the hot road.
They had just come out of an internet cafe when the owner told them that all the private rooms were booked and there weren't any left.
"Next internet cafe, if there isn't one, then we'll go to a hotel."
The two walked resolutely into the last internet cafe near the school.
"Boss, do you have any private rooms? I'd like to book one for the whole night."
"Just one left, 300, 3 computers."
"Damn, so expensive? I'd rather go to a hotel."
"Then go to a hotel," the owner said nonchalantly. "Everyone's watching the World Cup tonight, and all the hotels around here are full."
……
Harbin, Central Street.
A middle-aged man driving for Didi Chuxing was watching his phone constantly displaying order notifications, but he remained unmoved, focusing solely on driving.
Finally arriving at the entrance of the Commerce Commission's Red Sausage shop, he saw a relatively short queue and immediately locked his car, got out, and stood at the back of the line.
In less than ten minutes, the man had bought a variety of cooked foods, including red sausage.
The man hummed a little tune as he returned to his car, put his things away, and then opened WeChat.
"I've bought everything, guys. Everything's ready and tidy. Meet at my house before 7 p.m. Anyone who's late will have to do a handstand and blow on their head."
I put my phone away and just started the car when a WeChat message came in.
"I'll take care of the beer. Be there on time tonight. Anyone who's late is a coward."
"You're making it sound like we can be late. I have two bottles of red wine that my American friend brought back, supposedly Harden's brand. I'll bring them over tonight."
"One last order, I'll go after I finish this one."
……
7pm.
Alanetta Stadium, Manila, Philippines.
There is only half an hour left before the Chinese men's basketball team makes its World Cup debut.
However, both CCTV Sports, a traditional live streaming platform, and Tencent Sports, an online broadcasting platform, had already started broadcasting programs by this time.
Tencent originally did not have the rights to broadcast the World Cup, but it seems that it reached some kind of agreement with CCTV, which is how it obtained the broadcasting rights.
Many people believe that Tencent Sports loosened its restriction on CCTV to broadcasting only one Brooklyn Nets game per week, which is how they secured the broadcasting rights for the World Cup and later the Olympics.
"At the pre-match press conference, Coach Guo Shiqiang said that Xiao Wang would not play tonight. Let's take a look at the situation at that time."
In the CCTV live broadcast studio, as soon as anchor Ma Fanshu finished speaking, the scene switched to the pre-match press conference.
"Xiao Wang will not be playing in tonight's match against Serbia."
"He has fully recovered, and the Nets and we have both reached a consensus on that."
"But we still decided to let Xiao Wang rest for two more days."
The scene then shifted back to the live broadcast room.
"Teacher Yang Yi, if Wang Xiucheng doesn't play today, will it be difficult for us to win?" Ma Fanshu asked, seemingly worried.
She was transferred to the Men's Basketball World Cup broadcast team, and it was her first time being in charge of broadcasting a Men's Basketball game. Of course, she didn't want the game to be lost.
Yang Yi, who appeared on CCTV Sports again after many years, nodded first before saying, "It's just a strategic abandonment."
"What do you mean?" Ma Fanshu asked somewhat anxiously.
“I talked to Xiao Wang about this before.” Yang Yi sat on the sofa, leaning back in his chair. “We played against Serbia a few days ago in Xianggang. As everyone saw, we lost, and by more than 20 points.”
"Even with Wang Xiucheng included, the gap between us and the other side is still quite large."
"And I think everyone can see that when we were in Xianggang, they were already very polite and didn't show their true abilities at all."
"Instead of fighting tooth and nail against Serbia in the first match, we should put all our energy into the next two matches."
Yang Yi changed his posture. "In fact, we only need two games."
"If we win the last two group stage matches, we will definitely make it into the round of 16."
"Our goal is to achieve the best result in Asia and qualify for the Olympics."
"To put it bluntly, in Asia, no other team besides us is qualified to enter the round of 16."
"So as long as we make it to the round of 16, we've accomplished our mission."
"To add one more thing, Australia is an Oceania team in the World Cup, so they are not competing with us for a spot."
"Instead of calculating win-loss records and point differentials with other Asian teams in the ranking matches, it would be more straightforward and convincing to directly enter the round of 16."
Ma Fanshu's eyes lit up slightly; that was indeed the case.
The mission of the Chinese men's basketball team in this World Cup is to achieve the best result in Asia.
In fact, only two games are needed to achieve this goal.
"So, do we have a chance to win the remaining two group stage matches?" Ma Fanshu asked again.
Yang Yi nodded firmly, "Of course, I have great confidence in this generation of the Chinese men's basketball team."
"We might misjudge people, but NBA teams certainly won't."
"This year's national team has six active NBA players."
"This number is second only to the United States, Canada, and Australia."
"So we are very likely to lose today's match against Serbia, or even lose badly."
"But everyone be patient, the next game will be the real us."
In Ma Fanshu's earpiece, the director was already announcing that the match would start in 3 minutes, and that commercials would begin at that time.
So Ma Fanshu smiled and looked at the camera, "The competition is about to start. Let's take a break and then go to the venue."
The scene shifts, and commercials begin playing on the television.