Gold Medal Coach

Chapter 17

Chapter 17: National Team’s Work Team

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At 10:30 p.m., Jiang Shaoyu wasn’t sleepy and Qi Heng wasn’t in a hurry to go home. Therefore, Yu Mingxiang simply took the two of them to the meeting room next door to chat and reminisce.

Sister Yu easily brewed a pot of stomach-warming Pu’er tea and said with a smile, “Ah Yu, your mouth is still so tough. A few newcomers were about to cry after being scolded by you. They probably have a headache wondering how to write a self-criticism. However, Ye Zi definitely won’t have a headache. He is skilled in this area.”

Qi Heng laughed. “Ye Qingming is used to being arrogant and only Ah Yu can handle him. As for the group of children, they have no strength to fight back at all in front of Ah Yu.”

Qi Heng actually agreed very much with Jiang Shaoyu’s concept of leading the team. If they were on the field and overwhelmed in the first game, the referee wouldn’t give them time to slowly adjust. Instead, the second game would start a few minutes later.

The talent and operation level of professional players was naturally important but psychological quality was equally important.

Jiang Shaoyu took two sips of tea before looking at Qi Heng and asking, “Vice-chairman Qi, how was this national team selected?”

Qi Heng helplessly rubbed his temples when he heard this question. “You aren’t in the country so you don’t know much about the situation here. In fact, I wanted to have a good chat with you about this. In recent years, the domestic A-grade League has been booming and major clubs are backed by capital. They receive a huge amount of income from the game.”

“The league has calculated the financial affairs. Last year, the revenue from the competition tickets and official live streams alone was enough to support most clubs. Therefore, compared to the World Series where no results have been achieved, the major clubs pay more attention to the domestic market.”

“The domestic competition is held in large cities and fans going to the scene to watch the competition will naturally generate income such as accommodation, catering, tickets and merchandise purchases. This drives the entire e-sports industry chain. The income is higher so the clubs are content with the status quo. In any case, the potential of the domestic market is huge. It is enough to feed them so why does it matter if we can’t get results in the World Series? They can just push the blame to the national team and continue to let things rot.”

Qi Heng spread out his hands helplessly. “Last year, the live stream ratings of the domestic A-grade League finals was twice as high as the ratings for the World Series.”

Jiang Shaoyu: “……”

Twice as high? It could be seen that domestic audiences had long lost confidence with the World Series. After failing to get results for five consecutive years, the e-sports fans were so disappointed with the national team that they didn’t even bother to watch the live stream of the World Series. They just looked at the results on the Internet when the match was finished and said, ‘We lost again!’

Perhaps in the subconscious minds of most people, they couldn’t beat foreign players and it was normal to lose.

Then just play at home.

The more people thought like this, the harder it would be for the national team to produce results. Even professional players would lose their motivation when ‘losing’ became natural.

It was very obvious in this year’s World Series. In the match against the United States, Coach Zhang thought ‘We can’t beat them anyway. Just send the new recruits to train them’. If they didn’t even feel there was a possibility of fighting before the match started then was it possible to win?